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Reconnecting With The Waters Of Fall Creek

City Hall Sees Two Big Promotions

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hether it was a disappointing return in the 2016 elections or a renewed faith in the democratic process, something seemed to have energized voters across New York State this November.

Despite it being an “off-year” for state and federal politics, nationally, voter turnout saw substantial boosts in engagement over numbers seen in 2015 and 2013 in what some analysts had dubbed “the blue wave;” a Democratic-party fronted backlash of voter participation in the wake of the election of Donald Trump.

Though the mythology of a Democratic takeover may have been overstated in New York (multiple areas in Upstate New York saw Republicans retake seats they hadn’t held in years, including a Republican sweep in the Chemung County legislature race), voter engagement, particularly in places where races were contested, was up from previous years.

On the whole, statewide turnout did not change all too much: 3.57 million people across the state voted this past year out of 12.46 million registered voters (29 percent turnout), up significantly from the 3.28 million who voted four years ago (28 percent turnout), according to figures from the New York State Board of Elections.

However, among the 3,000plus local races run this year, a small political effort begun by former State Senate candidate Leslie Danks Burke last winter, Trailblazers PAC, saw its first hints of success.

Boasting a 58 percent candidate success rate in the past election, according to a news release from the PAC, voter turnout was higher in areas with Trailblazers PAC-backed candidates, the organization’s post-election day research finding that the elections with Trailblazers PAC candidates continued on page 17

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Tompkins County

Exploring Names Along Fall Creek

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o us, Fall Creek’s presence might be one we take for granted.

In our minds, it may be a great fishing spot, or a nice place to cool off on a hot summer day.

It may be a friendly companion along the way down Route 366, shimmering in the sunlight from the edge of Groton all the way into the City of Ithaca, where it cascades down into what is arguably the City of Ithaca’s most breathtaking waterfalls. But Fall Creek isn’t our defining feature, nor do we often consider it our most important. It’s something, for many of us, that’s simply just there, an immovable part of our

Ithaca Falls Mills is pictured in this photo from roughly mid-late 19th century. Located in the village of Fall Creek, the village did not become part of the City of Ithaca until a rash of development connected it to downtown in the 1870s and 1880s.

(Photo: The History Center Of Tompkins County)

geography. seminal 2004 local history text But Fall Creek means more “The Placenames Of Tompkins to our history and our way of life County,” a deep dive into the histhan many of us will immediately tory and etymology of even the acknowledge. In the infancy of county’s most obscure streets and Tompkins County, Fall Creek hamlets. (That project has since was t he source been taken over by “We all love and f rom which life, Bruce Estes, manappreciate Fall settlement and our ag i ng ed itor a nd modern day eco- Creek but maybe, general manager of we take it for nomic prowess was The Ithaca Journal granted as part of from 1996 to 2015 sprung.

Just how t hat the landscape and who now devotes our history.” is, local historian his spare time to Patricia Longoria various historical said, remains ours to decode. efforts around the county.)

One year ago, Longoria – then This research formed the basis the Deputy Historian for the Vil- for a new exhibit – opening Frilage of Cayuga Heights – was day, Dec. 1 at the History Center recruited by Tompkins County of Tompkins County – on the Historian Carol Kammen to work on a bicentennial update of the continued on page 14

T a k e ▶ A bunch of Ithaca holiday events are coming up soon! The Downtown Ithaca Winterfest, with its chili cook-off and pretty awesome ice bar, will be returning to the Commmons starting Thursday, Dec. 7. Can’t make it? Get downtown this Saturday for the annual spectacle of Santa Claus rappelling down from the roof of Center Ithaca onto the Commons. (Get there at 11 a.m. to catch all of the festivities in their entirety.)

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▶ December 1 is National AIDS Day. To mark the day, Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes (PPSFL), in collaboration with the Tompkins County Health Department, is hosting a free viewing of a documentary about the history of HIV/AIDS activism ‘How to Survive a Plague’ at Cinemapolis on Thursday November 30th at 7 p.m. Donations are welcome in support of PPSFL’s Transgender Health Fund.

▶ Trumansburg Winterfest turns 22 this weekend. The three-hour festival – happening from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. this Saturday – brings together area businesses, organizations, and community members, providing winter activities for kids, adults, and entire families. It is a time when we can celebrate and reflect on what makes the Trumansburg community a place that is truly special.

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City Of Ithaca

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PHOTOGRAPHER Two Familiar Faces Step Up In City Hall

By C a se y Mar tin

What’s your favorite holiday movie?

“Love Actually, or White Christmas with Bing Crosby.” ­—Robin Mazer

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he Planning Department will be filling a pair of vacant high-level spots in the coming months with two familiar faces to those who monitor development in the area.

Tom Knipe, a senior planner with Tompkins County, has been hired to take over for the retired Philly DeSarno as the Deputy Director of Economic Development. Meanwhile, Lisa Nicholas, a senior planner in the Planning Department, has been promoted to fill the longvacant role of Deputy Director of Planning. Both will report to JoAnn Cornish, who remains the city’s Director of Planning and Development, and she said a new entry-level planner will be hired by the department.

Nicholas will take over imme-

diately, while Knipe will start with the department at the end of January. Nicholas has been with the city for 12 years, while Knipe has worked with Tompkins County since 2011 and is currently the Principal Planner and Tourism Program Director for the county. He also runs local programs funded by grants from the room tax.

DeSarno left the city in July after 12 years with the Planning Department, and the search for her replacement had taken several months to complete. Cornish said Knipe brings a blend of enthusiasm and familiarity with analytics that she thinks will help him transition to the new position. continued on page 12

Improvements Coming To Rt. 13?

Lisa Nicholas (Photo Provided)

Tom Knipe (File Photo)

Tompkins County

“The Muppet Christmas Carol.” ­— Quinn Bernegger

A Groton Tradition

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“National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.” ­—Kyle Panche

“It’s a Wonderful Life (at The State Theatre!)” ­—Martha Gioumousis

e got lucky today.

It was the day after T ha n k sg iv i ng , t he sky was clear and, heavy from a dense lunch, piled in two cars headed down State Route 222.

My uncle, Steve – a retired officer with the New York City Police Department – had brought two shotguns with him and, his 6’5 frame wedged in a small window booth at Doug’s Fish Fry, had practically been bursting all morning.

Steve, now a private security officer for some high-powered New York business type, was always excited for an excuse to come upstate. Not just for the chance to see the family (though in this family, that drives a lot of these shuttle runs between Cortland and Nassau County) but for the chance to visit what, in clipped New York City English, would have you going for the greatest place this side of heaven: the Groton Rod and Gun Club.

We pulled into the lot at 2 p.m.

– the first people there – with 100 rounds in a grocery bag, placing the guns on a stand outside and walking in to pay up.

The typical echo of gunfire behind it absent, this small stone and mortar building has been

The sign outside the Groton Rod And Gun Club (Photo: Casey Martin)

something of an institution since 1948 when, on the commission of club members displaced by a farmer who’d booted them of his property, a family of masons set to work to build a clubhouse that would become the common room for farmers and employees of the Smith Corona factory alike. But there’s much more to the story of this building than its modest facade and hand-painted sign will have you know.

Unless you ask around. Then, people would love to talk to you.

At the end of the long wooden bar, Bill Conner – 16 years old at the time the place was built – remembers vividly hauling the rocks that built this place off

the old stone piles from the surrounding state land, loading up the trucks to haul the stones back to this field hidden in a grove of trees off Salt Road. Mr. Paul and his two sons – a family of masons from Binghamton – were very particular with the stones they wanted, so he had to be careful.

The crew had no right to complain at the time he said, even working without pay. The dozens of volunteers, who’d been shooting together since ‘42, had gotten their start for free on a loaned field near the present day home of Roman Village Bar, basing their activities out of a small wooden

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ompkins County officials will soon be looking into a way to make your commute into the City of Ithaca a little less painful.

On Monday morning, the Tompkins County Legislature’s Transportation Committee met to propose a study group on Route 13 to begin working on a proposal that could potentially, lead to improvements on the often congested, slow-moving thoroughfare. The brainstorming session – the committee’s first on the issue – stems from the denial of an appeal for a study by the New York State Department of Transportation which, while interested in the matter, lacked the necessary funds to conduct such a study.

Focusing largely on how they would compose a pitch for federal transportation funding, the committee placed most of its attention on what objectives they would hope to accomplish with such a study, in order to piece together the strongest proposal possible to qualify for one of the grants.

The grants, which account for an amount between $250,000 and $500,000 each, have a deadline of Oct. 1, 2018 to apply with final approval coming the following June.

Fernando de Aragón, Executive Director of the Ithaca-Tompk ins County Transportation Council, suggested that any successful proposal would likely need to be divided into three separate components – a “divide and conquer” approach, he said – in order to be successful. The three components would be prioritized based on traffic volume, and include the stretch of Route 13 from Dryden to Cortland, the stretch through the city – which “behaves differently”than the rest of the highway – and the rural stretch to the south which, de Aragón said, may be the lowest priority stretch of the three.

Aiming for the lower end of the funding spectrum, the study should likely be akin to a planning study, working to identify problems with the highway from efforts like a traffic signal analy-

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Higher Education

Park Downtown? Get Ready To Pay More Cornell Students Conceive Tech S Approach To Boost Church Attendance trapping on a FitBit and eyeing that nearly mythical 10,000 step goal is daunting. It might become less so for downtown employees commuting into the city in the coming months, who might be walking more than normal if proposed changes to parking garage regulations are approved by the Board of Public Works.

The City Of Ithaca is currently looking to increase rates at all of its parking garages by double digit percentages next yea r, prompt ing sig nif ica nt outcry from residents and the downtown business community.

While there was initially a vote scheduled for Monday’s BPW meeting, Superintendent of Public Works Mike Thorne motioned to postpone the vote after receiving a flurry of emails about the changes. Some of the backlash stemmed from the public meeting agenda’s version of the actual parking fees proposal being inaccurate; now that those numbers have been corrected, it’s thought this will be the proposal’s final form but with the confusion Thorne wanted to take a cautious approach.

Dryden Road Garage is going to feel the changes most: Across the board, Collegetown’s pri-

mary public parking garage will see its rates jump at least 20 percent. As for downtown parking garages, full access passes to Seneca, Green and Cayuga Street Garages will all slightly increase, though the latter will remain far cheaper than its counterparts. It’s part of a wider strategy to f lush drivers to the underutilized Cayuga Street Garage, away from the other crowded garages downtown.

Perhaps the most brazen tactic the city will take toward this goal is eliminating all worker specials for Seneca and Green Street Garages. Previously, parkers had been able to pay $78 a month to park in either garage for 10 hours a day from MondayFriday, perfect for most workers commuting into the city who need a place to stow their car.

Those drivers will have to turn to Cayuga Street Garage for that now, though at a discounted $58 price per month. Overnight Only parking and Part time Special parking have both also been moved to Cayuga Garage.

The new fees, if approved

by BPW, will take effect Jan. 1. It seems as if street parkers will avoid any increases in their continued on page 15

Tompkins County

County Honors Outgoing Administrator

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ast week, the Tompkins County Legislature met for just the second time in recent memory without retiring County Administrator Joe Mareane on Tuesday night, its first order of business putting to the floor a lengthy resolution honoring him for his nine years of service.

Decked in orange (a nod to the Syracuse-alum’s rabid fandom of his alma mater’s athletic teams), Tompkins County Legislators, members of the community and county staff were in attendance to both honor his service and share memories of their time working with Mareane as he battles an illness that prompted an announcement he would retire early several weeks ago. Going around the table, each member of the legislature, some with emo-

tion, read each whereas on the resolution – printed, notably, on orange paper – and mused upon the impact he had made upon them and his office throughout his nine years of service to the county as Mareane watched the livestream from his home “We t houg ht it m ig ht be appropriate tonight to remember Joe, who could not be here tonight but believe is watching us,” joked the legislature chairman, Michael Lane.

The resolution itself, part biography and part laundry list of his many accomplishments, was an extensive one, taking up two sheets of paper with accomplishments both legislative and interpersonally. Interim Administrator Paula Younger, continued on page 13

▶ To Us, And Our Ups And Downs Section as one reader wrote in to comment on the style with which we write this section.

Here’s what he had to say:

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hen just another freshman at Cornell University, Peter Cetale ‘19, noticed a problem.

Peter Cetale A devout Catholic his entire (Photo Provided) life, Cetale – a student in the ILR school at Cornell, President of the Cornell Entrepreneurfor years, and integrate it into ship Club and current Vice Pres- the social fabric of a church that ident of the Cornell Marketing for centuries, has been slow to Organization – was well-aware adapt to the rapidly changing that Christianity, not just as a world around it. religion but an institution, was “In the 1950s, churches were having issues: Attendance was a place to network and make dropping. Budgets were growing friends,” Cetale said. “But over tighter. Community connections time, mass has really just turned were growing strained. Accord- into a place where community ing to research he had pulled stops at saying ‘peace be with from the Pew Research Center, you;’ there’s no additional comthe longevity of his church was munication.” at risk. Membership in churches The pair’s new platform, Relihad seen a 20 percent decrease gio, is intended to do just that, a mong Ch r ist ia ns attempting to serve in recent years and, “We’re in a as a logical vehicle for among a generation religion’s role in the time right with an increasing digital age. People’s now where l ives, Ceta le sa id, reliance on technolwe need to have grown increasog y, 80 percent of Catholics now leave ingly incompatible establish the church by the age w it h t he chu rch ’s new of 23. r e l a t i ve l y i n f l e x“We realize this leadership.” ible social structure, is an issue,” Cetale their lives oftentimes said on a recent afternoon in too busy to allow them the time Cornell’s Stocking Hall. “This is to engage with the church as a real thing that’s happening [...] wholly as they were once able there’s a lack of community in to. This, he said, is not the fault the church.” of technology – which he said is A budding entrepreneur (he often the source of blame for a had already started his first com- drop in church attendance over pany, a mobile food delivery the past 20 years – but a sympcompany, at 16) and an involved tom of societal change: Citing volunteer at his church in San his research, he notes that while Diego, Cetale spent his first year church attendance might have with his business partner, Albert dropped significantly over the Caldarelli, developing software past several years compared to for churches that could help the ‘60s or ‘70s, people’s faith – them tabulate week ly collec- their belief in God or heaven, tions: a much easier process than for example – have largely gone the tedium of accounting check unchanged. after hastily scrawled check each “[Millennials] are open to Sunday. aspects of faith,” said Cetale.

But C et a le wa nted to go “They’re just not 100 percent sure even further. He wanted to take what direction to go. Churches technology, something that the church had been slow to adopt continued on page 13 Nove m b e r

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Greetings – a Thumbs Down to your writer of the “Ups and Downs” column, who needs to write more professionally and not like a stoner. The Ithaca Times has become the area’s newspaper of record, and all your articles should show a high degree of professionalism.

“Lame,” “sucks,” “cool,” “awesome,” “like,” etc. might be appropriate in a seventh grader’s Facebook page or High Times magazine, but not in your paper.

Bummer, man. But... sustained. We’ll attempt to introduce levity into our columns in a more respectable manner.

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, write upsanddowns@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “U&D.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Hudson Street has had a rough time lately. An alleged arson last week (the suspect later died in jail), and a SWAT team response to a domestic dispute this week (that was solved peacefully, luckily.)

We hope things stay calm from here on out. ▶ The top stories on Ithaca.com this week are...

1) Jim Carrey film may have been too risky 2) Takeaways from last week’s congressional forum 3) Hudson Street fire displaces seven 4) A look at women artists in Ithaca who work with wood 5) Library candidates finish presentations

question OF THE WEEK

Would proposed rate changes in the parking garages influence you to park elsewhere?

Please respond at the Ithaca Times Web site www.ithacatimes.com.

L ast Week ’s Q uestion : B lack Friday or C yber M onday ?

78.6 percent of respondents answered “Cyber Monday” and 21.4 percent answered “Black Friday.”

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How A Net Neutrality Repeal Hurts News Albany On $174 A Day M a s si v e disru p t ion s i n t h e i n du st ry h av e l e f t n ews v u l n e r a bl e .

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hile scrolling through your Facebook feed last week, you may have noticed a few of your friends shared articles on a potential rollback of rules protecting net neutrality.

Net neutrality is the basic principle that prohibits the nation’s major internet service providers (like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon) from picking and choosing what content gets sped up, what they slow down or what can be blocked, including any type of content, applications or websites you want to use. A term coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, this principle serves as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier, which in legalese describes the impartial role telephone systems must play to its customers.

Naturally, this proposal elicited quite a response from people, especially considering 287 million people in the United States – approximately 88 percent of the population – use the internet every day. The World Wide Web has become an essential utility for many, one that has become their primary portal to their neighbors, their families and even their jobs as society has adapted to its presence. For better or worse, the internet has shaped a whole new world we now live in, influencing some aspect of almost every piece of our lives.

It is the degree to which the internet has impacted our industry in particular – the newsgathering business – that has us feeling the need to appeal you to join the fight against this repeal.

It is no secret that the publishing industry – once a rigid and immovable piece of our lives for centuries before the advent of computers

– has become a volatile one in the digital age.

Ad revenues became unpredictable as circulation numbers gave way to unique visitors and engagement time. The classifieds, the only truly viable subsidy we got from the public (trust us, it’s NOT subscriptions paying for top editors and reporters) went the way of Craigslist and, later, the Facebook for-sale pages. Kicking and screaming, the business has worked to adjust in order to continue serving its mission. We’ve gone online, finding our following once again in the internet age and, even though we’re a free publication, our web presence has allowed us to connect to new audiences and, realistically, give our sales staff a stronger product to sell our advertisers. (Thanks, by the way, for allowing me to continue to write for a living.)

The Internet took a lot away from the industry, true. But it’s also forced us to adjust our sails, playing to the paradigm of this weird, new world where money seemingly comes from nowhere other than exposure. All of which is expected for free. Now, the government wants to take away all we have left, which we contend – given this new paradigm – is not only an indirect violation of the First Amendment, but an assault on local media itself. Here’s why...

The Internet Has Taken Advertising Revenues From Newspapers, Limiting Income Streams To Online Advertising As we mentioned before, people do not use print like they used to. They don’t look in the paper for jobs; they use Indeed, Monster, Careerbuilder.com, Craigslist. They don’t pay for advertisements to sell their contin u ed on page 7

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ews item: While New York State lawmakers make an annual salary of $79,500 plus stipends for various leadership positions, those from outside the Albany area also receive mileage reimbursement and a per diem payment of $174 when they travel to Albany to cover lodging, meals and incidentals. In 2016, lawmakers claimed a total of $2 million in per diem payments. At least two dozen current or former state lawmakers have purchased a house or condo in the Albany area and use the per diem payments to help cover the costs. When the property is sold, they keep the proceeds. (USA Today, November 23, 2017) Greetings, New York State Legislator: As part of your orientation packet, the State Liaison Office for Bureaucracy would like to address some FAQs about making your per diem payments work for you.

First, you are entitled to a non-taxable payment of $174 per day to cover lodging, food and incidentals for every

day you are in Albany on legislative ‘business’. What follows are some tips for making the most of that money: Lodging: The Econo Lodge at 1630 Central Avenue in Albany charges $51 a night for a room with a queen size bed.

No pets. Discreet staff.

Food: If you’re not in the mood for the hotel’s free continental breakfast, there’s a Golden Corral Restaurant just up the road. All you can eat for $8.99.

Lunch and dinner may require a little finesse, though you shouldn’t over-think it. Sure, there are lobbying “rules”. Like, there’s a “rule” that says you may only accept modest items of food and refreshment offered other than as part of a meal. So, avoid using words like “lunch” or “entrée”. Instead of “sandwich”, it’s a “multi-layered non-meal comestible”.

Fusilli with creamed leeks and a couple Myer Farm martinis? You’re talking about a “pasta-based honorarium and sample New York State distilled agricontin u ed on page 7

Community Connections

A Calling To Care

By M a rjor i e O l d s

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lizabeth Bicknell knew she wanted to help others in the career she would choose. Special ed, psychology, physical therapy were all fields she considered. After lengthy discussions w it h he r mot he r in high school, she de c ide d O c c upational Therapy was the perfect blend.

OTs support people of all ages participate in the activities that matter to them Bicknell with as much independence as possible.

Ithaca College was one of the top schools which offered a five-year combined B.S. and M.S. program in Occupational Therapy. Fortunately, Elizabeth selected IC, and will soon be graduating with everything in place to help others as an Occupational Therapist. She has only good things to report for her academics,

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fieldwork, social environment.

Occupational Therapists seek the “big picture” and may coordinate with medical staff, physical and speech therapists, and families/caregivers to help deliver client-centered care (Looking at the issues from the patient’s perspective).

OTs work with patients so they can participate in their daily activities, whatever they may be.

This past summer Elizabeth completed a 12-week internship in a top medical center in NJ, close to her home.

In an acute care setting, patients are often admitted following an unexpected decline in health; a stroke, a fall, or an accident. One patient Elizabeth has known since childhood has lived for many years in comprehensive senior residence in Columbus, Ohio. In this type of program meals and opportunities for health and socialization are provided (classes, community outings, recreational and exercise opportunities, events). Seniors who require no daily

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assistance can live independently in apartments (Independent living). When those seniors need more support they often move within the facility to Assisted Living, where they can receive help with medication, house cleaning, shopping, bathing, dressing. If a residents’ medical status or abilities diminish, they can move to another part of their building and receive either short or long-term Skilled Nursing care. Comprehensive senior residences help seniors age in place, maintaining familiar surroundings, staff and neighbors.

“Although the facility reported the Skilled Nursing unit had a great nursing staff to meet the needs of my loved one, when she most needed immediate medical attention, she did not receive it. I was so alarmed.” Her speech was “off ”. She had weakness on one side of her body, along with a facial droop – all indications of a possible stroke. She had difficulty gripping a doorknob or toothbrush. She couldn’t feed herself; and with these sudden changes Elizabeth’s friend was frightened. No one took prompt action when Elizabeth’s elderly friend demonstrated all those signs of a stroke. And timing is everything. Sometimes medication administered by a physician immediately following a stroke can minimize the long-term damage.

Elizabeth advocated by contacting the facility, asking questions and requesting a speech and occupational therapy evaluation. To avoid choking which can lead to pneumonia, a swallowing evaluation was performed, and Elizabeth’s friend was put on a specialized diet. Her food and liquid consistencies were thickened to prevent aspiration. With the efforts

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of a multidisciplinary team, she slowly began to regain her abilities. Eventually the occupational therapist assisted Elizabeth’s friend in regaining her ability to comb her hair, dress, and safely get out of bed.

When Elizabeth works with patients, she also introduces them to assistive devices. Some examples include utensils with built up handles that are easier to grip and spill-proof cups for feeding. If a patient has had orthopedic surgery, they might need to learn how to move and dress while avoiding movements that cause further damage. Devices for dressing may include a sock aid, a long-handled shoehorn, and a “reacher” which helps people to dress themselves safely and independently.

OTs are sought after to assist in acute care, residential care and in community settings. In the community occupational therapists may work with a young child learning to hold a pencil, an adolescent experiencing difficulty communicating, or an adult regaining skills to manage at home.

Occupational Therapists have proven how effective advocacy for patients to regain independence can make a difference to the patient, the patient’s family, and to taxpayers. Most patients and families report that having someone knowledgeable in their corner, motivating them to get back in the game, is essential. For the patients who have the good fortune to work with Elizabeth Bicknell she has made all the difference in the world.

Marjorie Olds is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. Her column, Community Connections, appears monthly.

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lawnmowers; they use the online marketplace. You don’t even need to pay for an obituary anymore: you can pay your respects in a heartfelt Facebook status which can be updated – for free – with the date of the funeral.

Printing a newspaper, as not too many realize, works on an economy of scale. As a free paper to begin with and with the loss of these valuable classified revenues, the amount of money we have to physically print the paper while still paying staff becomes limited. The Ithaca Times, due, once again, to great sponsors that really buy into the system, has been fairly lucky. But across the nation, circulations are falling, and falling fast. Among dailies, according to a 2017 Pew Research Center analysis, total weekday circulation for U.S. daily newspapers – both print and digital – fell 8 percent in 2016. Among weeklies, the average circulation among the nation’s top 20 papers fell from a peak average of 87,000 in 2012 to a current average of 61,600. (We at The Times print about 18,000 a week) As revenues continue to fall, so must the number of papers we print. And this is a problem we discuss with...

The Inadvertent Demolition Of The Industry Has Eliminated Any Subsidy For Print, Leaving Those Without The Internet Few Alternatives For News The beautiful thing about outlets like the Ithaca Times is we print for free. The other free outlets in town – WHCU, The Ithaca Voice – each have their own business models, one of which faces an existential threat to its audience with the repeal of net neutrality while the other, does not.

You could argue that, without the internet, those among us who can’t afford the internet in an unregulated market would instead turn to another outlet for news. That, of course, relies on the rest of us not only continuing to produce the news, but to do a comprehensive job as well. This, in our experience, is an impossible task for one outlet.

Why is that? Well...

The Internet Has Changed The Mission Of Journalism As It Began To Cater To An Online Audience There once was a golden age of the news where everything worked like it was supposed to. Everyone subscribed to The Ithaca Journal, classified sections were vibrant and essential to daily life and businesses – with no email lists or pages to follow – had no means of amplifying their message other than the medium offered by the local publisher. With the money, it was once possible to have an outlet that could offer comprehensive coverage of a city. Local newspapers could invest in reporters to cover schools, reporters to cover courts, towns and City Hall. They had men and women to cover the police, the occasional fire in the city, even the occasional investigative piece that can take weeks to months to produce.

Today, no news outlet is comprehensive. We say ‘no’ more than we’d like. We take too long to return calls. With little resources to rely on, we look to our competition to cover the areas we don’t while we seek the spaces they don’t have time to go. And in the age of the internet, nobody goes hungry. If the Ithaca Times doesn’t have a story on a fire, you can check the Ithaca Voice. If the Ithaca Voice’s analysis of the Dryden budget leaves you wanting, you can check the Dryden Courier. The broadsheet has gotten slimmer over the years, it’s true, and only broadband remains. The same thing that happened to the thick Sunday edition is bound to happen here.

Weaker protections on the internet will only equal a weaker local news scene. Please take the time to visit savetheinternet.com/action sometime this week, to find out how you can speak up.

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News Quick Hits Legislature Talks Needs Of Homeless In a report from in her role on the County’s Health And Human Services Committee, Anna Kelles – Legislator for the City of Ithaca – brought to the floor of the legislature the struggles facing the elderly and the homeless in Tompkins County.

Particularly, a revelation initially reported by The Ithaca Times that the city’s homeless – due to pressure from New York State – now have to pay to stay in the city’s homeless shelter.

Enforced by a law drafted in the mid’90s but ignored by Tompkins County for decades, few obvious solutions beyond lobbying the state exist for lawmakers to take immediate action. A seemingly obvious fix – like using tax money to pay the fee – would make little sense, Kelles said, because it’s essentially a regressive tax and would also make the county’s homeless population ineligible for a number of programs and social services already in place.

“It leaves us between a rock and a hard place,” said Kelles.

Discussions on the topic will likely continue at the committee level.

Saturday’s Town-Gown Awards to feature region’s three new higher- ed presidents The seventh annual Cornell University Town-Gown Awards (TOGO) will be held Saturday, Dec. 2, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Ithaca High School’s Kulp Auditorium. The TOGO Awards celebrate the connections between Cornell and local communities and highlight the achievements of local leaders who have left or are leaving high-profile positions.

The event is free and open to the public.

This year’s TOGO awards are being billed as a “special edition,” with Tompkins County’s three new higher-education presidents – Cornell President Martha E. Pollack; Shirley M. Collado, Ithaca College; and Orinthia T. Montague, Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) – providing remarks. The recognition program begins at 10 a.m. sharp.

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A Century Under The Stars

Cornell’s Fuertes Observatory Marked Its 100th Anniversary This Month.

By Nick Reynolds

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thaca has long had a legacy defined by its relationship with the night sky.

Its streets, from the Northside to the Commons, are marked by concrete structures on the solar system, an educational tool named for one of Ithaca’s most famous residents, astrophysicist Carl Sagan. Its lights at night, notoriously dim, are purposefully low at night as a means to hinder light pollution so typical of other cities, as a means to allow the city’s residents to see the night sky as clear as one 8 T

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would from the countryside.

It’s for this reason that, though not the university’s first – or last – observatory, Cornell’s Fuertes Observatory might be one of the most important buildings on campus.

For a century as of this month, this structure has served as an important public outreach tool on campus, one of the most vital bridges between the general public and the depths of our galaxy. On Friday nights for the past 100 years, this handsome building on a knoll north of Beebe Lake has opened its

doors to the public to gaze through its lens, residents and students alike lining its main hall for lectures explaining the night sky and somehow, bringing them closer to what has seemed so mystifying and out of reach for eons of humankind.

Though the observatory’s scientific usefulness has long since come and gone as astronomy’s purpose has shifted over the years, the facility is still an important tradition on Cornell’s campus.

“There’s quite a long history of people associated with the university coming up here and remembering it,” Phillip Nicholson, a professor of astronomy at the university said in an interview a week before Thanksgiving, hours before he was to give a presentation to celebrate the observatory’s opening all those years ago. “When we have alumni weekends or something on campus, it’s kind of fun to see people turning up who remember coming up to the observatory in ‘41 or something when they were an undergrad, or remembering bringing their girlfriend here on their first date. In that respect, it’s kind of nice having something 100 years old.”

Cornell founded in 1865, the history of a formal astronomy program at Cornell actually begins in 1873 with Andrew Dickson White’s hiring of Prof. Estevan Antonio Fuertes, the Dean and first professor of Civil Engineering at Cornell and, according to university accounts, a “devotee of practical, laboratory-based learning.” Though a weighty scientific discipline since the days of Copernicus, the study of astronomy was actually uncommon in those days, the study more suited to trade schools and not the Ivy-covered walls of more pretentious universities dedicated to the arts. Cornell, as a land grant institution, was however more accepting of the study, incorporating it into its civil engineering curriculum not as a high-minded study of the cosmos, but as an important teaching tool to teach large scale, surveying techniques meant for accurate topographical studies of New York State – a manual study learned on the job or in trade schools in the days before satellites.

The field at Cornell was focused largely on the use of astronomical instruments in the field, to measure altitudes of stars to get Th e I rv i n g Porter latitudes and the timChu rch ing of when the sun R e f r ac t o r i n or the moon would be 1 9 2 3 , (Photo: overhead, in order to C o rnell establish longitudes.

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“It was pretty important for engineers who would be trained to go out and become surveyors, which was quite a bit of what civil engineers did in those days,” Nicholson said. “They really had to be able to be semi-professional astronomers their own right out in the field.”

The program truly picked up in 1876, when a small, primitive wooden observatory was constructed near the north end of Goldwin Smith Hall. Noting the inadequacy of the facility, another observatory was built near present-day Lincoln Hall and later, another observatory – a small, tin-roofed structure – was constructed near Stimson Hall in 1885.

However within a few years, the site was to be abandoned; rendered impractical by the rumblings of the nearby electric railroad. However the facilities in those days, moved around quite often, weren’t the sophisticated structures we’ve become so accustomed to today.

“In the early days, they weren’t thinking of astronomy the way we do now,” Nicholson said. “It wasn’t about studying the stars or planets for their own interest or understanding the physics of how stars worked. They were using astronomy as a tool for navigational purposes. For that, the students needed to be trained in making accurate, quantitative observations

in positions and timing of stars. And for that, they needed some kind of observatory, some type of telescope.”

Murmurs for a formal, dedicated observatory were first heard in the spring of 1896 when the possibility of a new, brick structure past the veterinary school was mentioned in the fall term, however the plans were later scrapped until November 12, 1900, when Professor Fuertes announced a new observatory was assured to be built on a small hill the present site of Barton Hall, a previously proposed site past the veterinary college abandoned to make way for a new anatomical school.

The plans, as drawn up, called for a building “90 feet by 48 feet, extending from east to west facing the green in front of the Veterinary college.” There was to be a large equatorial dome 20 feet in diameter and two smaller domes – 18 feet and 12 feet in diameter respectively – and was said to be anticipated as fully equipped, and one of “the most beautiful” structures on Campus. According to the Cornell Daily Sun at the time, it was to be equipped with two transit instruments, two zenith telescopes, two altazimuths, one prime vertical instrument, mean time clocks, chronometers, barometers, sextants, artificial horizons and chronographs, all the scientific instruments

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typically found in a modern observatory.

However, with the start of Barton Hall’s construction in 1915 displacing the facility, abandoned due to considerable light pollution now affecting the facility’s effectiveness, the school needed to look elsewhere for a place to gaze upon the night sky unencumbered.

The following March, a new $15,000 facility was announced for the knoll north of Beebe Lake, to be ready for use the following September. The plans called for a structure eighteen feet wide by 87 feet long concrete structure finished in stucco, a 24-foot dome located in the center able to accommodate a telescope 12 inches in diameter to replace the modest five-inch instrument already in the university’s possession. Completed in 1917 (some inaccurate accounts from the ‘70s place its completion at 1921), it would be some time until the facility was truly up to snuff: Though the lens in the university’s possession at the time – an $18,000 objective 12-inches in diameter by famed Belgian lens maker John Brashear and gifted by 1873 graduate and professor Irving Porter Church – had been in storage since 1919, the structure – initially constructed primarily for architectural beauty – was absolutely inadequate for scientific purpose upon completion. According to an

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article from the February 20, 1920 issue of the Cornell Daily Sun, even the observatory at Hobart College, in Geneva, had more advanced equipment at the time.

It wasn’t until 1922, when the university’s board of trustees set aside $8,500 to mount the new telescope (as well as an additional $5,000 to equip the facility with a spectroscope and micrometer) was the structure was able to reap its full benefit as a serious scientific facility. The Daily Sun, that November 14, called the telescope “one of the finest sets of astronomical Instruments in the United States,”

surpassed only by those in use by the largest of telescopes in use by the government.

The facility was immediately popular; the following spring in March, 1923 at one of the first documented nighttime lectures at the facility, more than 250 people were in attendance to hear a lecture entitled the “Movements of the Earth and Moon,” by professor and 1908 alum S. L. Boothroyd, one of the Cornell’s professors of astronomy (and the department’s only professor, Nicholson said, for about 30 years). The observatory had some notable bright spots of importance – in the ‘40s,

the building was especially important for junior officers preparing for enlistment in the United States Navy – but, as the importance of astronomy changed directions nationally, so too did the relevance of Fuertes Observatory.

A half century later and facing the realities of a world where man had proven itself capable of walking on the same moon it used to observe, the university began a new department of astronomy in 1959, beginning to look longingly past its current facilities and the bright lights of Cornell’s dorms that, once again, polluted

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the sky far too much for practical study and the infrared astronomy that had come into practical use at the time, making optical astronomy all but obsolete. In 1973, Professor James R. Houck, naming the need to prepare his astronomy students for work on bigger telescopes, called for the construction of a new facility, one able to host what would, at the time, have been one of the largest telescopes in New York State – a 24” in diameter monster similar in size to ones already in use at the University of Rochester and at Harvard. (This, however, was child’s play to the Crimson: Their largest telescope – at 60 inches across – was then the largest on the entire eastern seaboard.) Though support from the department was enthusiastic and the need, great, the university had only given $9,000 toward the construction of the observatory on nearby Mount Pleasant, leaving the department to find a donor to construct the dome. The university’s machine shop, Houck said at the time, would fabricate the pieces for a new telescope, valued then at around $70,000.

Nearly another half century later, the Astronomy Department at Cornell has evolved, its students now using the Dryden facility primarily as a training ground for larger, more sophisticated research facilities around the continent.

And though the department now has access to much larger observatories – one, the Arecibo Observatory located in Puerto Rico and the other, the 200-inch lens-equipped telescope at the Palomar Observatory in Southern California – the Hartung-Boothroyd is now the primary graduate teaching facility on campus, leaving the Fuertes Observatory the important role as a shorter, but vital bridge between the public and the stars. Fuertes today is an undergraduate teaching facility by day, important public outreach tool by night. But its presence on campus serves as a valuable reminder of Cornell’s legacy as the city’s chief envoy between the earth and the universe waiting beyond the nearest stars.

“The main thing is to learn how to use the telescope so successive generations can learn how to use it,” Nicholson said.

“It’s kind of a passing on from one generation to the next. The faculty don’t get too involved in it, but it’s really the older students teaching the younger students how to use the observatory and be responsible with what is getting to be pretty ancient equipment.”

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Bright Horizons On The Hardwood For IHS

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f you hear a guy between the ages of 15 and 55 say, “I played basketball for Coach Stone at Ithaca High,” you might ask “Which Coach Stone? Which stint?”

John Stone coached the Little Red for many years (from 1982-93), and his son, Brian, followed suit (assuming the helm in 2002).

After putting in a decade’s worth of service, Brian took some time off before returning last season. And what a season it was...

Ithaca went 20-2 and won their first STAC championship in a very long time. Brian Stone told me, “That was big. We hadn’t won the league title in 45 years.” The Little Red stumbled in the Sectionals - cutting the stellar season shorter than they had hoped for – but Stone looks back on last year with a lot of pride. “After that Sectional loss I told the kids they had a great year,” he offered. “I am very proud of the way they played, and they brought a lot of interest back to the program.”

Stone also knows that any coach needs the right raw material to mold a championship

team, and he said “We had some very good players last year,” and he added, “and in fact, two of them are playing at the next level.”

Cole Eells is now suiting up for the Alfred Saxons, and Jordan Ayers plays for Canton.

“I streamed one of Jordan’s games last week,” the apparently tech-savvy Stone said, “and he played very well against Cortland and against Ithaca College. I’m happy for him.”

I asked Coach Stone if having players taking their game to the collegiate level has a positive effect on the locker room, and he stated, “The kids know what a great opportunity it is to play in college, and some of the guys on our roster this year have the potential to do so as well.”

I asked Brian what this year’s version of the Little Red will look like, and he said Jordanny Cuevas - Marte is back, and he was the Player of the Year last season. Max Milton, their senior point guard, returns too, and a number of quality juniors are coming up. “We’re not as deep as we were last year,” he said, but that will change, as there is some good talent there

and “we always want to see them make the adjustments necessary to move up.”

Stone also has high hopes for Isaac Butler, who, at 6’3 can help the team considerably.

“Isaac has a lot of skill,” Stone said, “and we want to see him become more physical.”

Another returnee with a lot of experience is senior Zach Peacock, a 6’2 power forward “with a nice outside touch and the ability to get some blocks.”

Also mentioned were senior guards Louis Marte and Jamar Nembhard. Stone said “Both of those guys will help us, and Ben Jordan – another senior – will see some court time as well.” I asked if the upperclassmen were pleased that their time has arrived, and Stone offered a qualifier: “Yes, but they’ll have to earn it like everyone else.”

Coach Stone also appreciates the long term connection he has with his assistant coach, Tim Little. “Tim and I have been coaching together for a long time,” Brian said. “He helped me with the J.V. team for 9 years, and

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Stone knows that while it’s difficult to say goodbye to elite players like Ayers and Eells, such is life in high school athletics. “You don’t want to empty the shelf,” he stated, “and having balance down the roster is good. We have a sophomore – Jeff Clark – and he has grown 2 or 3 inches in the past year.”

As we were wrapping up, Brian said, “Wait… I can’t forget my other longtime assistant, Ato Holly. He’s important to our program too.”

The Little Red will open up on the road against Union-Endicott on December 11.

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“I think he brings a lot of knowledge, excitement and energy to the position,” Cornish said. “He’s a data driven guy, so he understands statistics and data, and I think having both of those skills is unusual. I think he’s going to be a good fit for the city and I’m excited about the direction this will go in.”

Knipe said he has some background in economic development already, including some experience academically at Cornell University. Prior to that, he was involved in sports marketing in Portland, Oregon and said skills he had picked up there, like building relationships with businesses large and small around, could also translate well to the city’s goals. Early in his tenure, at least, he said the city’s predetermined goals will dictate the bulk of his actions as he becomes more familiar with the position.

“My job’s definitely about economic development, tourism is an important industry here, so part of what I do certainly carries over in a very direct way,” Knipe said. “I’m really excited to develop some new skills around economic development [...] and to dive in a little bit more deeply with business retention and expansion activities.”

Knipe said he has spoken to DeSarno a bit throughout the hiring process and that she may offer some guidance when he starts the job in 2018. He said his concept of economic development is that it should be a set of tools that helps the community achieve broader goals, with equal access to the opportunities it creates. In terms of specific spots of the city that could be ripe for development, he sees a wealth of opportunity on the waterfront and in the West End, along with downtown and in southwest Ithaca.

“We’ve seen the cranes downtown,” he said. “There is a lot of opportunity involved in helping the community figure out where we go from here in terms of economic development.”

As for Nicholas, she becomes the first Deputy Director of Planning since Cornish was promoted from the position. With the department’s shuffling going on, Nicholas said she views it as a good time for them to improve upon some aspects of their operations if needed.

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to identifying pinch points and effective techniques for traffic alleviation. And because the highway runs through the city, Ithaca city officials will be a natural ally in as the group moves forward. Key focuses will likely look to help the city balance its own priorities, like traffic-slowing measures to increase pedestrian traffic, and the unique challenges in its terrain, such as a rail line preventing the addition of any new lanes, in order to best manage traffic flow in the area.

The committee will meet again to discuss the issue Wednesday, Dec. 20 at 10 a.m.

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“There’s a lot of change going on, and it’s a great opportunity to look at what we are supposed to accomplish and think about the most efficient and realistic way to meet our goals and the community’s goals,” Nicholas said, who defines those goals as “facilitating and implementing a community vision for growth.”

More specifically, Nicholas said working on Phase II of the city’s Comprehensive Plan will be a large piece of her focus, particularly with the recently published Downtown and Collegetown Design Guidelines having sparked interest in similar plans from other areas around the city, like the Southside neighborhood in the West End and South Hill near Ithaca College.

Nicholas said because the position has been empty for so long, there might be some f lexibility for her to affect some change within the department, but that her primary purpose is to continue the path already set by the city. As might be guessed, some of the work Nicholas will be doing now are things she is either already familiar with or was already doing because there was no official Deputy Director; she’s already often seen at city Planning or Zoning body meetings.

Nicholas’ personal goals for the job include increasing public access to information from the Planning Department, as well as maintaining a work environment that is not only beneficial for Ithaca but is an attractive place for others with planning experience to work.

“My job really needs to ensure that we continue to hire and retain our staff, because they have so much expertise and such a great work ethic,” she said. “It’s all about making sure that we have the best staff available, and they are motivated and happy to work.”

Cornish said Nicholas’ institutional knowledge, having been a senior planner for over five years and deeply familiar with the sometimes lengthy Ithaca planning process.

“She’s a really valuable resource for the city,” said Cornish. “She’s incredibly smart and hardworking. To have someone like Lisa, with her knowledge, there’s no lag time, she can hit the ground running. She’s going to be really helpful to me and the department as a whole.”

–Matt Butler

moving closer to fruition.

Chairperson of the Dryden Rail Trail Task Force Bob Beck said on Monday that 28 to 30 pledges of the 38 easements needed have been fulfilled, and that the trail is now open between Dryden and Freeville, largely to the credit of people like Freeville contractor Bruno Schickel.

Though a stretch of the former railroad line between Etna and Freeville has remained difficult to close on, Beck said in the coming weeks, he is expecting an easement on Game Farm Road – a 2,600 foot stretch, he said – to be closed very soon.

As the trail inches closer to completion, Beck said he is currently turning his attention to the crossing across Route 13 near NYSEG which, because of its high traffic volume, is a hazard to cyclists and pedestrians.

–Nick Reynolds

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The software itself seeks to, Cetale said, allow people the f lexibility of interacting with their church community in a format different than the traditional models that, for some people, may be difficult to keep up with. Where you may have had a parish council

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So far, the effort has attracted some attention. The product is already operating in a pilot capacity at 12 churches in San Diego and New York and soon, Cetale said, he hopes to produce versions for other denominations of the Christian faith beyond Catholicism.

But the web platform itself, he hints, could be a part of a new evolution for the church. Six months ago, Cetale founded an organization called Iv y League Catholic, an Ivy League-wide institution intended to develop the next generation of leadership for the church and, Cetale hopes, revolutionize the role of the church in the digital age. The idea has picked up some enthusiasm, to put it mildly: Cetale already estimates 800 individuals will be attending Sonnette™ Cellular Roller Shades the group’s inaugural conference this Sonnette™ Cellular Roller Shades feature an innovative curved shape spring. feature an innovative curved shape They “We’re inthat a gently timediffuses rightlight. now where thatagently diffuses light.

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report to the legislature later that evening, likened her role as stepping into “massive shoes” and throughout the evening, members of county staff stepped up to acknowledge his outsized presence in office: Jay Franklin, the head of Tompkins County’s assessment office, thanked him for his role working with their departments and, in Franklin’s case, for gifting him an old, beat-up Chevy Impala.

Lisa Holmes, of the Office of the Aging, took time to joke about his entertaining powerpoint presentations, Irene Weiser – a Town of Caroline legislator on the Tompkins County Council Of Governments – mused on his enthusiasm and passion for what he did, and the level of care and interest he brought to the job every day. Aryeal Jackson, a local journalist, took the microphone to thank Mareane for his accessibility to local journalists and his ability to explain even the most complicated fiscal policy and legislation with clarity.

“Any of us who want to learn how to be an effective leader should study what you have done for this county,” said Mike Hall, the manager of the Ithaca Regional Airport.

A self-professed “numbers guy,” Mareane – a Hoosier by birth – came to the state of New York as a graduate student, earning his master’s degree in Public Administration from the Syracuse University Maxwell School in 1979. After a career with stints both in public service and, briefly, in the private sector, Mareane left his role as Chief Fiscal Officer for Onondaga County in 2008, taking

the helm of Tompkins County’s highest fiscal office at the start of the Great Recession. It was he, the resolution states, who steeled the county government from the layoffs that had so critically hit many other local governments throughout the United States.

He was a renowned figure across New York State, a fixture at conferences of the New York State Association of Counties and in Albany as a public advocate for the county, and his tireless days and relentless work schedule was the stuff of legend around 125 E. Court St. As leader of Tompkins County’s hundreds of employees, Mareane was a popular figure at the helm, known for his monthly coffee chats with county employees and his personal notes for people’s birthdays or other life milestones. He created sustainable funding models for the county’s transit system, was heavily

involved with the county’s efforts to mark its bicentennial and has spearheaded numerous efforts for a better Tompkins County, from combatting Hydrilla in Cayuga Lake to building shared service models copied by communities throughout the State of New York.

As the legislature concluded their comments, Mareane – forever attuned to county business – confirmed he was, in fact, paying attention to every word.

“This is unbelievably nice,” Mareane typed in a text message to Dryden Legislator Martha Robertson, which she read aloud to the room. “Please let everyone know how touched I am by this. Will never forget this.”

The measure passed, of course, to a standing ovation.

–Nick Reynolds

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placenames and history of Fall Creek, a flowing display of the history and significance of the creek to the development of the county.

“Carol wanted, basically, to take what was done, reframe it, and look at placenames thematically,” Longoria said. “[...] instead of looking at placenames alphabetically or by municipality, she wanted instead to look at all the names across Tompkins County that are family names, to see what patterns in history we can pull from that.”

Using their expertise, Longoria wanted to take more than 200 years of obscure knowledge of all these small places, find some defining feature they had in common and connect their histories in a coherent narrative in a way that would leave us with some sort of theory on the county’s maturation. The obvious point of focus, Longoria said, was Fall Creek, what can be considered the defining natural feature of the county’s most prominent communities from the “ghost town” of Groton City to Cayuga Lake.

“We thought it was really inspiring to look through the concept of one thing that ties all these communities together,” said Longoria.

“It spans hundreds of years of history that we can explore. We all love and appreciate Fall Creek but maybe, we take it for granted as part of the landscape and our history.”

Once she began to piece together the histories of each of these places that seemed to have sprung up along the creek’s shore, Longoria began to notice a pattern.

Some of the communities that had grown had similar identities early on, some with profound cultural impacts that persist to some degree in present day. Fall Creek village (once separate from the present day City of Ithaca until the 1880s) was a mill town, resembling communities like Etna and Free Hollow (now Forest Home). There is also the question of how the economy of Ithaca and its significance as a tourism destination was born of Fall Creek, dating back to when a Cornell faculty member built a gorge walk along Ithaca Falls in the late-19th century that he advertised to school and church groups throughout the region, spurring the city’s significance as a tourist town along the same creek where Ezra Cornell – just another miller on Fall Creek in the days before founding Cornell – had begun to find the footing that would soon lead to fortune and influence.

But, for all the creek meant to the communities it birthed, times have indeed changed.

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Electricity from natural gas and other sources have rendered the water power that once ran the mills and machine shops along the creek obsolete. Changes in transportation – from long-distance trucking to refrigeration – have decimated the need to stay in one place, globalization handling the rest as these once independent villages and towns have all but transformed into bedroom communities. It’s clear today that, though these communities started similarly, each have evolved in ways drastically different from each other.

For historians like Longoria, the question now becomes beyond the creek connecting them, what similarities have remained? What is the permanent impression this waterway has made on each of the communities on this creek that culturally, continues to bind and connect us to each other?

“I think you see that transformation over the course of 200 years,” she said. “It’s interesting to see these communities’ distinct identity develop over time, as transportation changes and electricity comes along you still see the creek being a vital part of these communities, but used in a different way.”

Though the exhibit is one reminding us of our heritage and our legacy, Longoria hopes it serves as the foundation for future dialogue not just on the creek, but how numerous features of our landscape define us both culturally and sociologically. To further this discussion, History Center Director Rod Howe recruited Walter Pullman, an Ithaca native and professor at the University of Vermont specializing in Ecological History, to bring his expertise in place-based analysis – the study of how a place’s natural capital; it’s trees, geology and more, impacts our way of life – to find how the land has affected the development of our communities.

With Pullman’s (and local GIS expert Karen Edelstein’s) help, researchers expect to unearth information about ourselves to find not only who we are, but why we are who we are, from our foundations in the Revolutionary War to immigration and how it influenced our towns and the populations that inhabit them. And it all starts, Longoria said, with fundamental understanding of the place we live.

“Maybe people think of placename history as just trivia,” said Longoria. “Like ‘oh, Etna was named for the volcano Mt. Etna, big deal.’ But we’re really trying to take a deep dive down into the history of these places and what makes them unique, what led to their development and how they’re connected to these bigger, broader historical movements.”

–Nick Reynolds

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cit y w ide, as t here are no schedu led raises to metered parking rates.

“Even just talking about raising the rates brings a lot of loud voices from the business community,” Thorne said. “Where it is now is where we think it will end up, but I think it still needs a lot of discussion.”

Those voices, namely in the form of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA), have already affected one impactful change: daily maximum parking prices would have

climbed from $7 to $12 in Seneca, Green and Cayuga Parking Garages, but Parking Director Frank Nagy said he reconsidered and the price will remain capped at $7. After the modifications to the proposal, DIA Executive Director Gary Ferguson said his organization is much more favorable to the new parking strategy now that they believe it has achieved a balance between catering to short- and long-term customers.

“We are hopeful that this approach will effective in the long-run. create the needed shifting of vehicles to Nagy posited that four years ago, the the Cayuga Garage without causing other Dryden Road Garage was charging $247 impact that could be associated with major per month but was barely filling half its rate increases,” he wrote in an email. “We spots (under the new regulations, it would a lways want patrons and customers of cost $200 per month). However recently, downtown businesses, offices and even City occupancy in the garage has ballooned Hall to be able to f ind a as the volume of drivers parking space when they in the area has increased.

“If you want to visit downtown.” get Cayuga Street He said people are going A s w a s d i s c u s s e d at be upset either way: if to stop costing us to Monday’s meeting, Ithaca’s t he rates stay t he sa me money, we have to the occupancy would prelong-term goals include a get people to park sumably stay at around 97 gradual move away from motorization, finding ways percent at Dryden Garage there. How else t o m a k e t h e c it y m or e and complaints of overare we going to walkable and incentivizing fill would persist, while if get people to park rates rise occupancy would citizens to ride bikes, buses there other than or wa lk instead of drivdrop and students would ing individually. Thorne look elsewhere for parking. rates?” acknowledged that objecOptimal parking garage tive, difficult enough on its occupancy, Nagy said, is own, is hardened by unavoidable facts of closer to 80 or 85 percent. the city and county, such as the area’s hilly “It’s a good problem to have, but it’s a geography and the struggles of Tompkins problem,” Nagy said. “If you want to get Consolidated Area Transportation (TCAT) Cayuga Street to stop costing us money, we to efficiently reach people in the farther have to get people to park there. And how throws of Tompkins County. else are we going to get people to park there Until then, the city has renewed efforts other than rates?” to free up a few more spots at its central The parking fees will be finalized intergarages. For several years there has been nally before being presented at the next an effort to nudge citizens and visitors to BPW meeting, tentatively scheduled for Ithaca’s newest parking garage, keeping Dec. 11. prices lower than other garages. But the process of shifting driver’s interest a bit far–Matt Butler ther out of downtown is going to have to be a bit painful for some, Nagy said, for it to be

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building that today, sits on their new property. Now homeless, the group held raffles at church and at the factory to raise the money they needed to buy some land and build a new place, the kindness of the community leaving margins thin enough to require everyone’s help. But among those for which it was built, they’ve certainly cared for it.

Other than Conner and another man, stocking the fridge with cheap beer, the room was quiet: no adornments beyond

some yellowed newspaper clips (one, from the Lansing Star, on lead pollution from spent shotgun shells) and a few taxidermied animals blankly staring from the wall.

We paid for four rounds, only a couple of bucks between the four of us there, and went outside. With two guns, we could only go two at a time, so we set up on the concrete block with the chamber open.

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You’ll find very quickly from the guys around the bar that the building means a lot to them. 200 members strong, a ha lf-dozen of them work “You don’t have to drive more than 20, maybe 25 miles to shoot somewhere.”

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Their income mostly comes from catering events for Pall Trinity Micro, the Groton Fire Department and alumni of Groton High School.

But they’re not in it for the money, really. The club is only open three days a week as to not interfere with the hours of other clubs.

“You don’t have to drive more than 20, maybe 25 miles to shoot somewhere,” Conner said.

They don’t pander either: the club gave up rifle shooting a few years ago because it was “too much of a mess,” one man said, and is more bent on keeping the sport accessible to whoever wants to get into it, keeping a tradition of Tompkins County’s older generations alive for another one to step into.

And as 3:00 p.m. rolled around, we looked on at a few unpaid smiling faces and knew for some people, this old place was paradise.

–Nick Reynolds

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scaled up 2017 voter turnout by 14 percent, totaling approximately 346 more voters per district, data Danks Burke said reassures the PAC its political philosophy has promise.

The Story Of Voter Engagement

Voter turnout, despite initial analyses of races across the state, did not increase for everyone. But, in places Democrats or Republicans had not traditionally won, voter turnout – according to Trailblazers data – saw increases in voter engagement as a general rule.

“There’s a little bit of a myth out there that voter turnout among Democrats is up everywhere,” said Danks Burke. “And that’s not really true. In places where elections were not contested, it really didn’t go up. Like for example, in New York City, voter turnout was abysmal; there was a contested race for mayor but there really wasn’t any sense that any opponent to Bill DeBlasio had any traction.”

Yet, in that race, there was a sense people in New York City responded similarly to the promise of a contested race as many across the state did: one of DeBlasio’s Republican opponents, Nicole Malliotakis, while only winning about 28 percent of the vote, historically outperformed other candidates to run on the Republican line in the heavily liberal city in recent years. But it could be said, in that example, that Malliotakis – a heavily Conservative Assemblywoman representing more right-leaning neighborhoods like Bay Ridge and the borough of Staten Island – capitulated on the general unpopularity of DeBlasio (and distaste for his liberal policies, like sanctuary city legislation) citywide in order to motivate her base to get to the polls.

While voter turnout was down overall (DeBlasio, winning handily with 66 percent of the vote, did so with about 70,000 fewer votes than he received in 2013), voters opposing his policies showed up in greater force than they did four years ago, giving Malliotakis approximately 60,000 more votes than they did Joe Lhota in 2013, even with voter turnout down two percent from a previous record low turnout of 24 percent set that year.

Taking that data, Trailblazers looked at districts where it had run candidates, averaged out the information, and found that voter turnout in districts where the PAC had run candidates increased at far greater rates than the rest of New York State. As an example, Danks Burke named the typically Republican-dominated Rensselaer County Executive race – one in which Trailblazers did not participate – and the Otsego County Legislature races, which Trailblazers ran several candidates in. While the Democratic candidate lost a tight race in Rensselaer (that eventually came down to absentee ballots to decide), voter turnout in Otsego County was significantly higher, something Danks Burke attributes to the campaign style she and her staff had cultivated with their PAC. “The style of campaign Trailblazers candidates ran, from start to finish, was designed to engage voters regardless of which political party they came from,” she said. “I think the traditional campaign methodology is to raise money from wherever you can get it – usu-

ally outside the district – and then spend it turning out your base… what we’ve done at Trailblazers is turn that on its head to say ‘no, engage voters in your district and raise money from them – make it an inward cycle so that the people you’re engaging are the same people you’re raising dollars from.”

And that strategy of strict grassroots-style fundraising, Danks Burke theorizes, is what compelled voters to show up to the polls: by spurring not only monetary investment in a campaign, but personal investment as well.

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l l t hat stood in the way was Harvard.”

It ’s a ph r a se written word-forword only once in Forever Faithful: Celebrating the Greatest Moments of Cornell Hockey, but it could have been written plenty more as author Jim Roberts recounts a small handful of the most memorable Cornell hockey games throughout the years.

Harvard held the advantage in Cornell’s early years, reigning victorious by scores of 18-0 and 13-0 in 1958-59. As Roberts writes, the tables were turned, live chickens were literally tied up and Lynah Rink, with all the fish thrown on the ice throughout the years, became a seaman’s wharf as the two Iv y League institutions began to rival each other in men’s hockey.

There was the 2-1 Cornell win in February 1962 — “the first real experience of Lynah Faithful,” according to goaltender Laing Kennedy ’63.

Then the wins in March 1990 that sent the Big Red to the ECAC semifinals; really all the highlighted games in the 1990s were Harvard.

Roberts and classmate Arthur Mintz, the voice of Lynah since 1987, paint these rival games and others with nostalgia in Forever Faithful, the 280-page hardcover published last month by Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press ($24.95). Ken Dryden wrote the foreword and while the book briefly touches on the rink, the fans and the rivalries – don’t forget Boston University – it focuses mainly on the memorable games.

A 1971 Cornell alumnus who never saw the Big Red lose at home in Lynah – the team had a 63-game home win streak that started in 1967 – Roberts researched newspaper accounts and interviewed more than 50 coaches and players for the

book. The living room–table special celebrates 24 individual men’s and women’s games wrapped up with season accounts, though Roberts doesn’t waste any pages to tell readers the memory banks weren’t emptied for the writing of this novel. “[These games] were selected to provide an overview of different aspects of the Cornell program’s history,” he writes in the prologue, “but they are not the complete story, which is far too deep and rich for a single volume. You probably have vivid memories of other games. I hope you do.”

The men’s team, founded in 1900, receives top billing with a look back at its start – it played all three of its first-season games in Philadelphia – to milestones such as playing and practicing on Beebe Lake and holding a heated rivalry against Boston University.

There’s history on the start of Red Hot Hockey at Madison Square Gardens and the longest game in Lynah history … … which the women’s team broke in less than 24 hours when it defeated Boston University 8-7 with 10 seconds remaining in the third overtime period of an NCAA quarterfinal March 10, 2012.

The women’s team came along in 1971 thanks to the determination of Regina Baker, a recent Lansing High School graduate who recruited Lansing teacher Gail Murphy to help the summer before her freshman year at Cornell. As the culture was in the early 1970s, “Cornell’s athletics administration was reluctant at first – hockey was too dangerous for women, some believed,” Roberts wrote.

The team borrowed equipment and paid $40 an hour to use Lynah, playing its first games in

By Cassandra Negley

Above: The Big Red women celebrate their third ECAC Tournament championship in four years. They would add another in 2014. (Photo: Ned Dykes) Top Left: The all-sophomore line of (left to right) Brian Cornell, Pete Tufford, and Bob McGuinn made a crucial contribution to the Big Red’s success in the 1966–67 season.

(Photo: Cornell Athletic Communications) Bottom Left: Mike Schafer’s infant son, John, celebrates his father’s big win.

(Photo: Nancie Battaglia) Bottom Right: The 2009–10 season, which featured sophomore forward Kendice Ogilvie (4), the hero of the ECAC championship game against Clarkson.

(Photo: Cornell Athletic Communications)

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1971-72. It was a tough early go in the days before Title to the university, the alumni and the town. Former Cor- for the women’s team as well. Though the pages devoted IX, but it was Cornell that won the first ever Ivy League nell player Brad Chartrand, in a look back at a November to them are limited — and to be fair, the women’s team is women’s ice hockey championship in 1976 with a 3-2 vic- 1995 win over Harvard in which he had a hat trick, might less than half as old as the men’s — they get their fair due tory over Brown University, where Roberts picks up the have been the most notable to say so. The center played in the 2010s as the team started to take off behind names women’s greatest games timeline. five years in the NHL. such as Brianne Jenner and Laura Fortino. The book They won the first six, concluding with a shared title “Two moments stand out to me – and number one was closes with their accomplishments in the 2013 season, in with Brown in 1981 when the teams played to a 4-4 three- scoring that hat trick against Harvard,” Chartrand told which Cornell defeated Colgate in a best-of-three quarterovertime tie but then were not allowed to continue.

Roberts. “The other was scoring the game-winning goal finals by scores of 3-2 and 5-4.

“We were disgusted because they wouldn’t let us finish [for the Los Angeles Kings] against Patrick Roy in game “Somehow,” Roberts writes, “they had managed to the game,” Diane Dillon ’83 told Robwin both games while leading for only one erts. “As an athlete, I felt cheated. There second.” was some thought, I guess, that women They defeated none other than Harvard, couldn’t handle it. It was ridiculous.

2-1, at Lynah for the ECAC championship It gives you an idea of where women’s and NCAA Tournament berth. sports were at the time. They would The downside to Forever Faithful is the never do anything like that today.” stories unable to be told. Compiling a book The book then fittingly closes with a of this type means there has to be a cutoff, beaming group of women posing on the and for Roberts it was the end of the 2013 ice next to the 2013 ECAC championship season. Yet Cornell hockey isn’t in a lull. As trophy, Cornell’s third ECAC tournaof Nov. 27, 2017, the men’s team (9-1-0) is ment title in four years. ranked No. 5 in the nation and the women’s Forever Faithful is full of photos, team (7-3-1) is ranked No. 7. There have some filling rows of pages to tell the already been numerous games on each side story and others dating back to 1907 that are worthy of inclusion and would on Beebe Lake. There’s championship make incredible reads. smiles, celebration pics, game action and Give it some time and we may have a an appearance by men’s head coach and Part II to add to our coffee tables since alumnus Mike Shafer’s son, John, when the faith does last forever. And even then he was an infant celebrating the 1997 will Harvard likely still be standing in the ECAC championship. His No. 1 motion Assistant captain Laura Fortino enjoyed the moment, displaying the championship trophy to the Lynah way. • Faithful. (Photo: Patrick Shanahan) with his finger says it all.

Wonder what year the men’s team was The full-page photos alone make it a first ranked No. 1 in the nation? Or the year good coffee table book for company, whether they’re a 6 of the Stanley Cup playoffs. But I rank the Harvard hat the women and men won ECAC titles in the same year?

Faithful fanatic or not. It’s an easy read on Cornell hockey trick above that, because I’m still good friends with the (Well, you might remember that one; it was fairly recent.) history by looking at some of what Roberts and company players on that team and it meant so much to the pro- How about what teams played the first game at Lynah? (It feel are the top-notch moments. gram. It really was the top moment in my hockey career.” wasn’t Cornell.)

It’s also chock full of quotes, memories and game As it was for many, whether their career ends in Lynah We can’t give it all away. Forever Faithful is available at recaps that show what Lynah and Cornell hockey means or continues to professional three-star lights. That goes cornellpress.cornell.edu.

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A Play of Hope, of Brilliance Kitchen Theatre’s play both fun and inspiring

By Ros s Ha ars ta d Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan MacMillan with Jonny Donahoe, Kitchen Theatre through Dec. 10

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ope’ is the thing with feathers — / That perches in the soul —” wrote the poet Emily Dickinson.

In Every Brilliant Thing, now playing at the Kitchen Theatre, hope is a thing written on post-it notes, napkins, scraps of paper and liner things. It is a catalog of the things that make life worthwhile, begun by a 7-year old boy who wishes to give his suicidal mom reasons to keep on. Thing number one: “Ice cream.”

This boy’s story, as enacted by the brilliant Karl Gregory under the gentle yet astute direction of his long-time colleague Wendy Dann, is the Kitchen’s holiday offering, a flawless gem of a production that strikes straight to the heart.

Thing number two: “water fights.”

Macmillan is an eclectic playwright, recently on Broadway with his adaptation of 1984, and previously seen at the Kitchen in the fascinating but convoluted Lungs.

Macmillan spun this play out of one of his short stories, testing and refining it in collaboration with its original performer Jonny Donahoe (later adapted for HBO.) The trick to the play is that the audience joins the actor on stage in telling the story.

We are given the slips of paper, and shout out the thing (number three: “staying up past your bedtime and being allowed to watch TV”) when the actor playing the narrator calls our number. Audience members also volunteer to play the child, his dad, a veterinarian, a school counselor, Sam (the love of his life) and others in sharply observed scenes open to the whim of the moment.

Outside of magic shows and improv comedy, I have an allergy to most attempts at audience interaction; they so often feel forced in execution and extraneous to the core of the drama. But this play is the exception to the rule, in this case we are invited to share in constructing the story, and encouraged to bring our imaginations into full play. It’s not unlike that fatal moment in Peter Pan, where he breaks the wall and asks the spectators, “do you believe in fairies?”

Dann and scenic and lighting designer Steve TenEyck throw us in contact not just with Gregory but each other, creating a narrow cozy alley of space with audience on either side, fully lit (there are subtle shifts in light, but the audience is never put in the dark. New Artistic Director Bevin O’Gara already evinced a delight in radical re-thinkings of the auditorium space.) Gregory starts onstage as the audience is filtering in, handing out slips of paper and finding volunteers, building the necessary rapport.

Number four: “The color yellow.”

Gregory of course is a past master of the one-person show, a comic chameleon of precision and high energy. This role allows him to shift down a gear from the manic verve of so many of those past appearances. This is a performance of startling grace and economy.

Much as the Stage Manager in Our Town, he is tasked with creating the rules of our time together, with bridging stage and audience.

Given the unpredictability of the audience, Gregory at times has to steer us gently (and often hilariously) back into the story. The generosity of shared presence that usually is developed over rehearsals must be generated in seconds with each volunteer.

These tasks the actor accomplishes deftly.

But he also burrows into the reality of a young boy (and his father), a teenager, and a young man with intense focus. His work is kind but not sentimental, controlled but open, it never stoops to showing off. He (with invisibly, behind him, the detailed work of director Dann) inveigles us to surrender our hearts and returns them, lightened with a

Actor Karl Gregory in “Every Brilliant Thing” (Photo: Lesley Greene)

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An Unusual performance of Beethoven, Schubert

By Jane D ie ckm ann NYS Baroque presents fortepianist David and recording the Mozart violin sonatas with Breitman in a concert called Bagatelles & Wallfisch, as well as an upcoming album of Impromptus on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 7:30 p.m. Beethoven cello sonatas with Jaap ter Linden. in Ithaca’s Unitarian Church.

He continued to concertize on the “big” The program comprises late works by piano, playing Beethoven’s 4th Piano Contwo masters of the Viennese classical period certo and Choral Fantasy at the Carmel Bach — Bagatelles, Opus 126, and the Sonata in E Festival in California, but the occasions for major, Opus 109, by Ludwig van Beethoven, such performances are less frequent now. On and Four Impromptus, Opus 90, by Franz top of performing and teaching, Breitman is Schubert — to be played on an authentic working on a book called “Time-Travel for instrument of the period. A pre-concert talk Pianists: How Today’s Players Can Learn

by NYS Baroque’s artistic director, Deborah from Yesterday’s Instruments.”

Fox, begins at 6:45 p.m.

The concert presents works of two great David Breitman has made his name as composers residing in the same city, during a performer on two the same time period, different kinds of piaand at the same time in nos. Coming from their lives — Beethoven a musical family, he with a few years left, began studying the Schubert, with just a modern grand piano few months. Breitman with his grandmother wanted a program that at age 4. He didn’t would throw into relief really concentrate the points of communalon it, however, until ity, as well as the differafter he graduated ences between the two. from MIT in 1967, He feels that Beethoven and went on to earn is interested in a “kind a MM degree at the of rigor,” and “appealing New England Con- Musicians from the New York State Baroque to the head a lot,” while servatory in 1981. He Schubert provides more (Photo provided) became interested in direct communication the earlier version of with music he says is the modern piano — the smaller and lighter “mostly for the heart.” The titles are remarkfortepiano, popular in the late 18th and early able, and suggest similar ideas. The six pieces 19th centuries — that could provide a histori- of Beethoven’s Bagatelles, Opus 126, are the cally accurate sound. Naturally, he came to last of three sets. The French term means Cornell to work with the leading proponent “trifle,” implying something small, perhaps of the instrument worldwide, Malcolm Bil- superfluous. The irony here is that the music son. Following his studies here between 1987 clearly has consequence, with dramatic and 1990 (he earned his DMA in Historical sudden starts and starts, abrupt changes in Performance Practice in 1992), Breitman dynamics, tempos and moods. It’s music to went on to the Oberlin Conservatory, where think about. Schubert wrote two sets of four today he is director of the Historical Perfor- Impromptus, Opus 90 being the first. Here, mance program and teaches a “rare combi- the term implies improvisation, something nation”— both applied keyboard students unprepared, offhand. But here again, these and academic classes. works are carefully structured.

For more than thirty years, Breitman has No. 1 is based principally on a single played both the modern piano and forte- haunting theme, repeated and transformed; piano in collaboration with famed baritone no. 2 implies a practice session for scales with Sanford Sylvan, involving several hundred a dark, intense middle section; no. 3 is an recitals and four CDs, one in French, one in intimate song with lyrical, flowing accomGerman (Schubert’s “Die schöne Müllerin”), paniment; no. 4 seems improvised, starting and two in English, including most recently with exercise-like arpeggios, followed by “The Glass Hammer,” a major song cycle by chords in various keys, but its dark middle Cuban American composer Jorge Martin. section goes far deeper.

During the early 1990s he was one of the six The program’s other work is Beethoven’s pianists who, with Bilson, performed and Opus 109 sonata, also something of an improrecorded the complete Beethoven sonatas on visation, featuring a highly unconventional fortepiano. He joined two prominent early last movement with its gentle theme dramainstrumentalists – cellist Jaap ter Linden and tized by the variations. It returns at end, it’s violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch – to play trios the same, and it has been transformed. on historical instruments, something he This is special music. It will be performed described to me as “one of the greatest experi- in an unusual order, and on an authentic 6 ences ever.” These collaborations led to CDs ½-octave fortepiano built in Vienna in the of the Beethoven violin sonatas (two boxes) early 1830s by Joseph Simon. • 22 T

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Curiosity Toward History

Handwerker explores preservation, objects time

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his month at Ithaca College’s labeled jars are stacked atop one another, Handwerker Gallery, there exists cluttering shelves with anything from an eclectic mixture of objects, all starfish to frogs to embalmed pig fetuses; varying in textures, materials and curi- an examination of the process of forming osities. From hand-embroidered quilts to life. Dried f lowers and leaves, carefully photographic prints produced via plant- attached to sheets of paper, line two walls, based emulsion, to preserved insects and some obtained in the 1990s or 2000s and animals all laid out on display, the three some, dating back to 1959. There’s a lot to shows jointly exhibited are quite a col- take in. lection, delving into concepts of time and For me, personally, it was a bit overpreservation. whelming. But the collection of everything The first show of the three is Another together pays heed to the complexity of the Time, work by artist Anna Von Mertens. natural world and all it contains, and to Seven different black quilts are pinned to the decades and centuries of its scientific the walls in an oddly study. It’s nice calming section of the to see somegallery, each embroithing different, dered carefully with such as this, in most ly white t hread a gallery space, in exploration of the blurring the line cosmos a nd specif ic between art and instances in history. In science. When Jupiter Rising, January it comes down 7, 1610, Paduo, Italy, Von to it, both are all Mertens refers to the about curiosity. night Galileo, according Tucked away to his journal, discovin the back ered Jupiter’s moons, corner is t he thus finding proof that final and third not all objects revolve e x h i bi t i on o f around the Earth. The the three, titled quilt is grayish, handObjects & Appadyed to create a lighterritions, by Ithaca colored gradient at its artist and CorAnasazi 12th century migration, 2013 bottom portion. Stitched nell Photography (Art: Anna Von Mertens) lines burst in diagonal Professor Chrisacross the dark surface in streams of starry tine Elfman. Composed of photographic light. It’s difficult to say how accurate the work of bird specimens and classical depiction is to the night it refers to — the sculptures, the focus of the work is more sky that Galileo witnessed — but the idea on its process than its depiction. Printed is fascinating. The quilt refers back in time, using the anthotype process, each print alluding to circularity and the vastness of was made by creating an emulsion from a stars that connects us all, to each other and series of flower petals that are crushed into to then and now. light-sensitive pigments. The images are The other pieces in the show do the then developed with sunlight. same, referencing specific periods of the These photographic works document past. While one quilt looks to the Bat- pieces of history, objects that are themtle of the Bulge in 1944, others present selves historic and documentations of stitched tree rings, examining moments another time. But like the objects, the of drought and passing time during the images too are temporary. They are still Roman Empire. sensitive to light, and through light they Stay Awhile is the second show, pre- will slowly and eventually fade, erased senting a cabinet of curiosities of biologi- through the same method through which cal specimens in celebration of the 60th they came into being. The human desire anniversary of Ithaca College’s Depart- to archive the past battles with Time’s ment of Biology. Of all three shows in the ability to progress and the process of cregallery, this is the collection that demands ation and deterioration that subsequently your attention the most, despite not being occurs. For now, however, we have these an “art” show, per se. There are piles of remnants. animal bones and specimens, a display of Challenging, curious, and philosophivarious birds from cardinals to blue jays cal, the Handwerker Gallery yet again all set out for study, and shadow boxes brings forth a collection of shows that that contain anything from various types cause you to think outside of present time, of bumblebees, to moths, to the skel- into past life and events and the evidence etal structure of a bird’s wings. Countless and pieces left behind. •

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owntown Ithaca’s Pizza Aroma is vegetarian or chicken and vegetable fillings a Salvadoran restaurant masquer- and we opted for the latter; three pasteles ading as a pizza joint that took arrived with curtido and dipping sauce for a left at Mexico City, but no matter which the princely sum of six bucks. I suppose cuisine you choose, or if you go for a little of nearly every region’s cuisine has meal that each, the owners, the Rosas, will take good can be packed into a lunch pail and taken out care of you. into the field. At first bite, the pasteles seemed We ventured forth for a sampler last week: like a mild-flavored marriage between a a humongous slice of “meat pie” and an pakora and a knish, but at second bite, they equally hefty slice of “spinach pie,” accom- were a little sweeter, a bit more exotic. panied by an order of pupusas, a big honking The Rosa’s will happily make you a 12-inch bean-filled tamale, a trio of chicken pasteles, gluten-free pizza — plain, pepperoni, mushand a crunchy, vividly colorful Greek salad room or other veggie — or introduce you to a with lots of creamy feta (yes, it really was panoply of Italian-meets-Greek-meets-whycreamy), tomatoes, didn’t-I-think-of-that red onions, black pizzas: pepperoni and olives, cucumbers, hamburger; hamburger peppers and lots of and bacon; barbecued fashionable-again chicken and red peppers, crisp iceberg lettuce mushrooms, bacon, or with red wine vinfresh tomatoes; pesto egar and oil dressing. with artichokes, chicken, The place is mixed vegetables, or brightly lighted and tomato; Mediterranean clean, with seating pizza (olive oil, feta, fresh inside and out, and, tomatoes, and basil with in the warm weather a choice of additional of w h ic h we a re vegetables); and, getting recently bereft, it is even deeper into pizza a favored peopleexotica, potato pizza Mauricio Rosa (Photo: Casey Martin) watching hangout (with bacon, mozzarella, on the busy corner of cheddar, and scallions); Cayuga and Green. creamy fresh mozzaThere you sit at the hub of pathways, with rella pizza; spicy chicken fajita pizza; seafood Ithacans headed off to fight City Hall, lin- pizza (shrimp, crabmeat, fresh dill, and buting up for computer time at the Tompkins ter); roasted eggplant pizza; black bean pizza County Public Library, headed for a Rotary (mozzarella, feta, avocado, and tomato); even meeting at Coltivare, stopping for a quick bite the dreaded ham and pineapple pizza — sufbefore heading to the popcorn line at Cin- fice it to say, with a menu listing 48 different emapolis, or dashing over to Life’s So Sweet kinds of pizza, you’re bound to find somefor a light dessert of luscious dark-chocolate- thing to tempt you. Or sample several by the dipped crystallized ginger. slice, to home in on your favorites. Pies come And while the people-watching is defi- in 20” and 16” varieties, but go on, order the nitely a plus, the food is the greater draw. 20” — you know you’ll be delighted to find it Here’s the rundown on our recent Pizza in your fridge for breakfast. Large pizzas will Aroma treats. run you between $16 for a plain cheese pie to A slice of meat pie was just as we remem- $27.50 for the double-crusted meat, spinach bered it, a double-crusted beauty stuffed with or salad pie. Pizza crusts are of the NYC hamburger, pepperoni, sausage, ham and thick-enough-to-hold-up, thin-enough-tomozzarella, topped with bits of crisp bacon, fold-up variety. a meal in itself. The spinach pie received our Staggering under the weight of our samhealthful eating award, with a protein hit of pler, we vowed to try some of the platos tipimozzarella, parmesan, and feta, plus onions, cos at a future date. Posted on a white board, mushrooms and enough garlic to stave off a the dinner dishes change from day to day, vexation of vampires. offering a choice of Salvadorian meat prepaA pair of pupusas, traditional Salvadoran rations or a chili relleno with rice, beans, and street food, were stick-to-your-ribs cornmeal choice of tortilla or garlic bread, a bellyful for (masa harina) cakes stuffed with minced a reasonable $10.99. They’re open seven days pork and cheese, and served with a relatively a week, and you can order online for delivmild dipping sauce and a side of curtido, a ery (if you live within city limits) or call for cross between a vinegary cole slaw and sauer- pickup. Or you can grab a table, bask in Pizza kraut. The tamale was a huge steamed tube of Aroma’s blues-battling bright light, and sate sweet cornmeal stuffed with spicy black bean your hunger for a little something different. • filling, all wrapped in a green banana leaf. Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are based on The deep-fried pasteles came with a choice of unannounced, anonymous visits.

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Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, November 29, 17 | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | (Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing) Jesse Douglas Collins Quartet with Zack Knewstub | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, November 29, 17 | Monks on the Commons, 120 S.Aurora St, Ithaca | (Jazz) Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, November 29, 17 | Varying Locations, , | Refer to Damodar Das Kirtan on Facebook for location schedule.

Moon Hooch, Gnomedad | 9:00 PM-11:59 PM, Wednesday, November 29, 17 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Jazz, Funk) Lespecial, The Schleem Team | 9:00 PM-, Wednesday, November 29, 17 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Psychedelic, Metal) The Crucial Reggae Social Club | 9:00 PM-, Wednesday, November 29, 17 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Reggae)

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Dino Losito, Brian Murphy, Terry Light | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Thursday, November 30, 17 | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | (Jazz) Mike Titlebaum Quintet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Thursday, November 30, 17 | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | (Jazz, Swing)

12/01 Friday

The Hilltoppers | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, 1771 Dryden Rd, Freeville | (Bluegrass) Dr K | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | Ithaca Bakery, 400 N Meadow St, Ithaca | Long John and the Tights, Steve Arkin | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | Felicia’s Atomic Brewhouse and Bakery, 45 E Main St, Trumansburg | (Old Time, Folk) Arthur B and the Planetary Mix | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | (R&B, New school, Old school) Acid Raindance | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Indie, Jazz, Rock) Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad,Aaron Lipp & The Slack Tones | 8:00 PM-11:59 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Rock) Tenzin Chopak, Bess Greenberg | 9:00 PM-, Friday, December 1, 17 | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St, Ithaca | (Acoustic) Stone Cold Miracle | 9:00 PM-11:00 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | Atlas Bowl, 61 W. Main St, Trumansburg | (Soul)

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12/02 Saturday

12/05 Tuesday

Selfie Outta Control, CC Ryder | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | (Covers, Acoustic) The Purple Valley | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | (Blues, Swing, Rock) Gabe Stillman & The Billtown Giants | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Blues, Funk) Root Shock | 9:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Reggae)

12/03 Sunday

Jaclyn Marie | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, December 3, 17 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, December 3, 17 | Mix Kitchen and Bar, 205 Elmira Road, Ithaca | All jazz and blues instrumentalists and vocalists welcome. Hosted

by Dennis Winge Trio.

Cornell University Jazz Combos Showcase | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Sunday, December 3, 17 | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Cornell University Jazz Combos Showcase; Paul Merrill, director.

After Funk | 8:00 PM, Sunday, December 3, 17 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca |

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Violin studio recital | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday, December 4, 17 | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Studio Recital featuring violin students of Ariana Kim.

Cornell Chorale and Symphony Orchestra | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell Chorale and Cornell Symphony Orchestra perform Vivaldi’s Gloria; Stephen Spinelli, conductor.

Beatles vs. Stones | 8:00 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | The two greatest rock and roll bands of all time face off as the State Theatre of Ithaca hosts tributes to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Renowned tribute bands Abbey Road and Satisfaction.

The International Rolling Stones Show engage in a musical showdown of the hits.

and Lasso, along with 20th- and 21st-century works by Francis Poulenc, Francis Pott, and Frank LaRocca.

Salsa and Merengue | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM, Friday, December 1, 17 | Big Red Barn , , Ithaca | Latin music concert and dance party with Grupo Calle Uno, from Rochester. Two live music sets. DJ between sets. Arrive early for dance lesson, more dance space and more concert and party.

12/02 Saturday

IU: Speedy Ortiz,Suzi Analogue, Xenia Rubinos, Sammus, Izzy True, Escuela, Howlo, KNEW, Zero Mean, Seeming, Morbs, Difficult, WackGenius, Dirty Bandaid | 12:00 PM-, Saturday, December 2, 17 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Ithaca

Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM, Tuesday, December 5, 17 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday) Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, December 5, 17 | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | (Jazz) I-Town Jazz Jam | 9:00 PM-11:59 PM, Tuesday, December 5, 17 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Local jazz jams, improv) concert

11/29 Wednesday

Midday Music for Organ | 12:30 PM, Wednesday, November 29, 17 | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Annette Richards, Music for Advent and Christmas.

11/30 Thursday

Midday Music in Lincoln | 12:30 PM, Thursday, November 30, 17 | Lincoln Hall Rm B20, Cornell, Ithaca | Elizabeth Lyon, cello, performs solo works for cello by Richard Wernick, George Crumb, and Domenico Gabrieli.

Andy Sheng | 8:00 PM, Thursday, November 30, 17 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Andy Sheng presents a conducting recital.

On exhibition at Lot 10 is a series of illustrations by Marika Chew. Her exhibition will begin Dec. 1 during First Friday Gallery Night and will be on display until Dec. 31. (Art: Marika Chew) Cayuga Vocal Ensemble | 8:00 P-, Friday, December 1, 17 | First Presbyterian Church, 315 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | The Ithaca community’s premiere chamber choir will perform Christmas Ancient and Modern.

The program will include a cappella choral works for the season by master composers of the Renaissance period including Palestrina, Hassler, Victoria,

Undergound’s end-of-year celebration show: BIG DAY IN. The Binghamton University Symphony | 3:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton | The Binghamton University Symphony is a 70-piece symphonic orchestra composed of music majors, minors and dedicated non-majors drawn from

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NYS Baroque presents Bagatelles & Impromptus | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | First Unitarian Society, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | David Breitman, fortepiano. Masterworks from the 1820s by Beethoven and Schubert, performed on an instrument of the period. The program includes Beethoven’s Bagatelles, op. 126 as well as his Sonata in E major, op. 109; plus Schubert’s Impromptus op. 90.

Pre-concert talk at 6:45 p.m.

Cornell University Jazz Ensemble | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell University Jazz Ensemble; Paul Merrill, director.

Eloise & Co. | 8:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | Morgan Opera House, Main, Aurora | The brainchild of accordionist Rachel Bell and fiddler Becky Tracy and features guitarist Andrew Van Norstrand as this year’s Zabriskie Folk Series Concert. Eloise & Co. features the combined creative force of three of the country’s most sought-after acoustic folk musicians: Andrew VanNorstrand, Becky Tracy, and Rachel Bell.

Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Studio Recital featuring piano students of Xak Bjerken.

Mosaic Foundation, Cozmic Theo, and Roots Relic: Benefit for Nicaragua | 6:30 PM, Sunday, December 3, 17 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Music, poetry, raffles and more. All proceeds go directly toward improving health conditions in indigenous communities in Nicaragua. Every January, TC3 travels to Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua in order to learn and collaborate with our Nicaraguan partners.

Sage Chapel Christmas Vespers | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Sunday, December 3, 17 | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Sage Chapel Christmas Vespers: A Lessons and Carols service sung by the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club, interspersed with audience carols and traditional readings by members of the Cornell community, with conductor Robert Isaacs and organist Michael Plagerman. Note: doors will not open until 6:45 p.m.

12/03 Sunday

Sage Chapel Christmas Vespers | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Monday, December 4, 17 | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | University Chorus and

Piano studio recital | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, December 3, 17 | Barnes

12/04 Monday

Glee Club, interspersed with audience carols and traditional readings by members of the Cornell community, with conductor Robert Isaacs and organist Michael Plagerman. Note: doors will not open until 6:45 p.m.

Oxford University Wind Orchestra | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Monday, December 4, 17 | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | The Oxford University Wind Orchestra joins the Cornell Wind Symphony for a collaborative performance featuring British band classics and holiday selections.

12/05 Tuesday

Chamber Music Recital | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, December 5, 17 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Student Chamber Music Recital.

Cornell Gamelan Ensemble | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, December 5, 17 | Lincoln Hall Rm B20, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell Gamelan Ensemble; Christopher J. Miller, director Organ recital | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, December 5, 17 | Anabel Taylor Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Anna Steppler presents a visual and sonic exploration of the Anabel Taylor Hall organ.

Film

The Big Lebowski | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Thursday, November 30, 17 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | The Dude Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it. Jeff Bridges and John Goodman star.

Movie starts at 7 with trivia for prizes during intermission.

Wild & Scenic Film Festival | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, December 3, 17 | Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green Street, Ithaca | Experience the adrenaline of the wildest rivers, climbing the highest peaks and trekking across the globe with adventure films from around the world. Explore the issues and movements with leading environmental activists and professionals, filmmakers and celebrities. Led by a group of students and teachers from Notre Dame High School in Elmira.

They are going on an Environmental Mission/Expedition (citizen science) through EarthWatch.

The Big Sick | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Monday, December 4, 17 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Based on comedian Kumail Nanjiani’s real-life relationship, this romantic comedy stars Nanjiani as a PakistaniAmerican stand-up comedian who falls for someone against his parents’ wishes, and must deal with the cultural

Friday, 12/01 to Thursday, 12/05. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes and for Fantastik Film Screening times Novitate | Set in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, the changing church and sexuality. | 123 mins R Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter’s murder when they fail to catch the culprit. | 115 mins R Lady Bird | The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year. | 93 mins R | Wonderstruck | The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection. | 116 mins PG The Florida Project | Set over one summer, the film follows precocious 6-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Disney World. | 111 mins R Loving Vincent | In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and ends up investigating his final days there. | 94 mins PG-13 Last Flag Flying | Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry “Doc” Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.| 124 mins R Another Wolfcop| Alcoholic werewolf cop Lou Garou springs into action when an eccentric businessman with evil intentions seduces Woodhaven’s residents with a new brewery and hockey team in this outrageous horror-comedy sequel. | 82 mins Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle | For fifty years, former U.S.

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Wednesday, 11/29 , to Tuesday, 12/05. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes Coco | Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family’s ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to work out the mystery. | 109 mins PG He’s Out There | On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath.

Howl’s Moving Castle | When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle. | 119 mins PG Roman J. Israel, Esq. | Denzel Washington stars as Roman Israel, a driven, idealistic defense attorney who, through a tumultuous series of events, finds himself in a crisis that leads to extreme action.| 129 mins PG-13 Thor Ragnarok | Imprisoned, the mighty Thor finds himself in a lethal gladiatorial contest against the Hulk, his former ally. Thor must fight for survival and race against time to prevent the all-powerful Hela from destroying his home and the Asgardian civilization.| 130 mins PG-13 Wonder | Based on the New York Times bestseller, WONDER tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time. | 113 mins PG Murder on the Orient Express | A lavish train ride unfolds into a stylish & suspenseful mystery. From the

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The Haunt Friday, Dec. 1, 8 p.m.

The Ithaca Garden Club will host its annual event, “Innkeeper’s Holiday Gala.” At the event, guests will explore the seasonally decorated elegant main building and the rustic barn, all done with fresh greens and flowers. To purchase tickets, visit http://www. ithacagardenclub.org/gala-tickets/.

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Attorney General Ramsey Clark has challenged the abuses of U.S. power and championed the causes of human rights. | All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone | A look at the life and work of American journalist, I.F. Stone, who leads a one-man crusade against government deception. | 91 mins

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novel by Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express tells of thirteen stranded strangers & one man’s race to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again. | 114 mins PG-13 A Bad Mom’s Christmas | A Bad Moms Christmas follows our three under-appreciated and over-burdened women as they rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for moms: Christmas. | 104 mins R Justice League| Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. | 121 mins PG-13 The Star | A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the first Christmas. | 86 mins PG

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Root Shock will be performing 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, at The Range. Their music has reggae undertones, bringing soul and funk with each measure. (Photo provided) Mini Locally Grown Dance | 7:30 PM, Thursday, November 30, 17 | Class of ‘56 Dance Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, 430 College Avenue, Ithaca | Mini Locally Grown Dance will hold its annual performance on Nov. 30 to Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Class of ‘56 Dance Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Drag Show with Cassanova’s Royal Court | 9:00 PM, Thursday, November 30, 17 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Cassanova’s Royal Court’s bi-weekly drag show.

Climates of Change | 7:30 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Cornell students combined scholarly research with these diverse narratives to craft a unique multimedia performance that highlights climate changes impact on the Finger Lakes.

Beatles vs. Stones: A Musical Showdown | 8:00 PM-9:30 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 West State St, Ithaca | Beatles vs. Stones: two of the greatest bands of all time face off in a high-energy, adrenaline-pumping musical showdown. The Fab Four, represented by tribute band Abbey Road will

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Middle Eastern Music and Dance Night | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Wednesday, November 29, 17 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | The Cornell University Middle Eastern Music Ensemble hosts this event the last Wednesday of every month. All are welcome to dance, play instruments or just sit and relax.

Open Mic @ Kilpatricks Publick House | 9:00 PM-11:55 PM, Wednesday, November 29, 17 | Kilpatricks Publick House, 130 E Seneca St, Ithaca, NY 14850, Ithaca | Songwriter, Instrumentalists, Poets, Storytellers, Comedians, Magicians, Creators alike. Come to Kilpatricks Wednesdays this winter and join your host Cozmic Theo in sharing your gift with the world.

Every Brilliant Thing | Thursday, November 30, 17 | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | In Every Brilliant Thing, a young boy attempts to ease his mother’s depression by creating a list of everything worth living for. Through adulthood, as the list grows, he learns the deep significance it has on his own life. Every Brilliant Thing is a new play about the lengths we go to for those we love. It is an immersive experience, as members of the audience are called upon to help tell the story.

Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, Thursday, November 30, 17 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv, Stand up. Hosted by Comedy FLOPs)

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Little Women | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | Dowd Fine Arts Center, SUNY Cortland , Cortland | A contemporary musical, based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, Little Women is equal parts an account of romance and a quest for adventure.

Notices Salsa Night at Agava | 10:00 PM-1:00 AM, Wednesday, November 29, 17 | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Arrive early, 10pm, for introductory Salsa dance lesson and workshops.

20th Anniversary Holiday Gift Shop | Friday, December 1, 17 | Earlville Opera House, 22 E Main St, Earlville | Come shop the best-selling artists of the past with the new and exciting work of first-time participants.

The Clay School Member Pottery Sale | 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | The Clay School, South Hill Business Campus, 950 Danby Rd, Suite 28, Ithaca | Ithaca’s community pottery studio will host it’s annual pottery sale. Potters will be set up

just outside the studio in the hallway.

You’ll find us inside the red employee entrance at the rear parking lot of the South Hill Business Campus, next to the North Loading Dock.

Square Dance and Other Dancing | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Everyone Welcome (members and non-members). No experience or partner needed. For more information call 273-1511 Full Moon Fire Ceremony | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Come sit, sing and drum around a sacred fire. At this Community Fire ceremony we explore The Power and Tolerance of Love in activities and song.

The event is free and open to all.

Skate n Shout | 6:30 PM-7:45 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | J.M. McDonald Sports Complex, 4292 Fairgrounds Dr, Cortland | Rock n Skate | 8:00 PM-9:30 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | J.M. McDonald Sports Complex, 4292 Fairgrounds Dr, Cortland | Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every

Clay School Member Pottery sale

The Clay School of Ithaca Friday, Dec.1, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The Clay School celebrates the holidays with an annual sale. The Clay School’s potters will have a chance to show off what they’ve been working on throughout the year, and guests will be able to purchase some of the artistic works for holiday gift giving.

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Saturday and Sunday morning, starting at 8:30 a.m., sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/calendar OA Music Booster Holiday Craft Fair | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | Owego Elementary School, Sheldon Guile Blvd, Owego | Crafters displaying their wares for your home and holiday ideas. Concessions supporting the OA Music Boosters are available in the cafeteria. Visit for a fun day and get your Christmas shopping done too.

Cookie Walk and Holiday Bazaar | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Crafters and Vendors wanted for the Cookie Walk and Holiday Bazaar. Contact the Seneca Falls Library at (315) 568-8265 for more information!

13th Annual Interdenominational Women’s Holiday Retreat | 8:30 PM-2:30 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | Danby Community Center Church, 1859 Main Street, Danby | The Christian Women’s Ministries of Newfield will host a one day Women’s Interdenominational Holiday Retreat at the Danby Community Church.

Rock n Skate | 8:30 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | J.M. McDonald Sports Complex, 4292 Fairgrounds Dr, Cortland | Ithaca Red Tent | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, Sunday, December 3, 17 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | The tent will discuss positive strategies in dealing with the sometimes difficult holiday season.

Will also plan future red tents so please begin to think of how you would like to lead tent and what wisdom you have to share.

Ithaca Folk Song Swap | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, December 3, 17 | Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | An open forum to trade folk songs and collaborate.

Skate n Shout | 4:30 PM-5:45 PM, Sunday, December 3, 17 | J.M. McDonald Sports Complex, 4292 Fairgrounds Dr, Cortland | Holiday Shopping at the History Center | 11:00 AM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, December 5, 17 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | There will be a 15-60 percent off sale on over 40 titles of local history books, photographs, images, postcards, the

Ithaca Kitty and our three dolls (Bessie Coleman, Harriet Tubman and Amelia Earhart).

Paris Texas | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Tuesday, December 5, 17 | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Part of the Chicken Fried Fundraiser. A portion of the proceeds go to the Friends of Stewart Park.

Special Events Santa’s Arrival | Saturday, December 2, 17 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Santa’s coming to Ithaca! He’ll be arriving Dec. 2, bringing his toys and joy— and if you’re a bad kid — his coal.

Holiday Photos in Santa’s Winter Wonderland | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Santa’s favorite photo spot returns for a third year with a beautiful winter wonderland display, complimentary refreshments and activities for the kids.

2017 Holiday Bazaar | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | 2017 Holiday Bazaar, Cayuga Ridge Health & Residential Community, 1229 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | The Cayuga Ridge Health & Residential Community’s holiday bazaar.

Trumansburg Winterfest | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | Felicia’s Atomic Brewhouse and Bakery, 45 E Main St, Trumansburg | Main Street in Trumansburg will light up with holiday decor, Santa will arrive on a horse-drawn sleigh, live bands will play rock-n-roll and carols, and every local business will join in the festivities. At Felicia’s, kids can decorate their own gingerbread person, and grownups and can enjoy flights of our house-brewed beer.

Professional Christmas Photos at Mirbeau Inn & Spa | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, December 3, 17 | Mirbeau Inn & Spa, 851 W Genesee Street Rd, Skaneateles | The public is invited to have professional photos taken alongside the exquisitely decorated Mirbeau Christmas Tree and antique Currier & Ives cutter sleigh. The event is free and open to the public and also include hot cocoa and holiday cookies.

Reservations are not necessary.

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Climates of Change: A Living Newspaper

Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University Friday, Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m.

Climates of Change follows Zola Richard, a recent college graduate and highly sought-after chemical engineer originally from Tompkins County. She returns home to find the family farm faces foreclosure after several poor growing seasons caused by extreme weather.

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Girls Who Code | Wednesday, November 29, 17 | Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden | The club is part of a nationwide effort that is designed to address the gender gap in computer science and technology related careers.

Several students in the Women in Cornell Computing group will provide leadership and instruction for the club.

Finding Flow: Dance and Somatics Class | 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Wednesday, November 29, 17 | Fine Spirit Studio, 201 Dey Street, Ithaca | Delve into the many dimensions of fluid physicality, embody the capacity for dynamic change and heighten your readiness to respond through your reflexes.

To register please send your $50 deposit: Cynthia Stevens, 226 Valley Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, FFI: info@ insitudance.org.

Every Artist Insured | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, November 29, 17 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | This free workshop will help you understand Obamacare and the proposed changes, provide you with clear guidance on what all your options are and answer your burning questions.

Renata Marinaro, the National Director of Health Services from the Artists Health Insurance Resource Center (Actors Fund) will be presenting.

Raising Chickens Sustainably | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, Thursday, November 30, 17 | CCE Tompkins, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | For three years Sean and Sasha of Edible Acres have been raising chickens for nearly no cost. Inspired by the Vermont Composting Company, which has been using chickens to help generate tremendous amounts of compost, they have been sourcing local food scraps, bartering for whole grain and collecting leaf bags and wood chips to create multiple wheelbarrow loads of compost per week while raising 50 chickens in a front yard.

Open Art Hive pop-up at the Ithaca ReUse Center | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | Ithaca ReUse Center, 214 Elmira Road, Ithaca, NY, Ithaca | A variety of materials will be available for creative exploration as well as these featured projects: Ornament making, Luminaries, Burlap garland and stockings, Holiday art cards and envelope making, and Upcycled beaded and leather jewelry.

Therapeutic Writing Workshop | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Facilitated by veteran educator Ellen

Heads Up Fresh Artists

by Christie Citranglo

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tate of the Art Gallery kicks off First Friday festivities a bit early this month with the soft open of the juried exhibition. Sixtythree artists will have their paintings, drawings, mosaic, prints, sculpture and digital work on display beginning Wednesday, Nov. 29, and concluding Saturday, Dec. 30.

This is one of the only exhibitions at State of the Art that doesn’t feature any of the member artists’ works.

Instead of in-house pieces, this exhibition showcases regional artists from the Finger Lakes — both new and seasoned — who submitted work to the gallery.

Once the pieces were received, each work went through a jurying process and the top picks will be on display at the gallery.

This show marks the seventh juried

Schmidt, this workshop will offer writing exercises designed to help participants develop insights about themselves, others, and the world around us. Schmidt has been teaching for 25 years and is known for her writing workshops, held in Ithaca and offered each semester at Cornell University.

Needle Felting Demonstration with Linda Schwab | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | SewGreen Ithaca, 112 N. Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Stop by LocalFiber to learn how to do needle felting with Linda Schwab.

She will be demonstrating needle felting techniques, and needle felting kits will be available for those who are interested.

Names on the Land | 2:00 PM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Municipal historians and local history enthusiasts from around the county will share how place names offer an approach to telling local history.

Beginner Belly Dance | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Monday, December 4, 17 | Finger Lakes Fitness Center Incorporated, 171 E State

show in State of the Art’s history. The juried show is typically the last exhibition for the calendar year, closing the season with fresh voices, ready to step into a new year of art and creativity.

The official opening will join the many other galleries and shops in Downtown Ithaca Dec. 1 during First Friday Gallery Night. From 5-8 p.m.,

St Ste 115, Ithaca | Experience the fun and expressive art of belly dance.

All are welcome and no experience is necessary.

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Essential Oils for Better Health | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Wednesday, November 29, 17 | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn how to improve sleep or energy with Certified Aromatherapist Luciana Camy. Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Sign up online at greenstar.coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous Weekly Meeting | 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Saturday, December 2, 17 | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W. State Street, Ithaca | Twelve-step recovery program for those who can’t control their eating. No dues, fees, or weigh-ins. Long-term help for overeaters, undereaters and bulimics.

Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM-11:15 AM, Sunday, December 3, 17 | Yoga Farm, 404

State of the Art will host a reception for the public, allowing Ithacans to get exposure to the regional artists who have never appeared at State of the Art. Many of the artists will be at the reception, and locals will have the chance to meet and chat with them as they explore the workss.

In addition to the reception, the

Conlon Rd, Lansing | Sacred Sundays Community at Yoga Farm. All are Welcome.Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest HumanityPray. Move. Sit. Connect.

Open Meditation | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Sunday, December 3, 17 | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | All are welcome to meditate according to their own practice.

Art First Friday Gallery Night | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Take a walk down all of Downtown Ithaca and explore what local artists have been working on. Many small businesses will display the work for the remainder of the month.

Seventh December Juried Show | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | More than 60 artists from the area will display paintings, drawings, mosaic, prints, sculpture and digital work. Show dates: November

“Figure” by Chase Lurgio. She is a featured artist in the exhibition. (Art: Chase Lurgio) gallery will also hold an awards ceremony for the artists beginning at 6:30 p.m. Many of the pieces on display will also be for sale — just in time for the holiday season. •

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Leanora Mims | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | New Roots Charter School, 116 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Leanora Mims’ pieces depict African-American history and the black experience in the present day.

LocalFiber Gallery Local Fiber Launch Party | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | SewGreen Ithaca, 112 N. Cayuga Street, Ithaca | The pop-up will host nine local fiber farmers from around the Finger Lake region, and here you can purchase their goods, come in for a fiber-y demonstration, or just come in and chat with other fiber enthusiasts who love and support local and sustainable.

Cortland First Friday | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | Downtown Cortland, , Cortland | Participating galleries, studios, artists, interested businesses, music and performing arts venues will be open to the public to spotlight the arts.

The Many Names of Fall Creek | 6:00 PM, Friday, December 1, 17 | History Center, 401 E State St,

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Santa’s Arrival

Center Ithaca Saturday, Dec. 2, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

First Presbyterian Church, Ithaca Friday, Dec. 1, 8 p.m.

Santa Claus is making a trip to Downtown Ithaca to say hello to the children of Ithaca. He’ll come down from Center Ithaca, ready to bring the holiday spirit to The Commons.

The Next Jennaration and Fall Creek Brass Band will perform a few songs leading up to Santa’s arrival later in the afternoon.

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The program will include a cappella choral works for the season by composers of the Renaissance period including Palestrina, Hassler, Victoria and Lasso, along with 20th- and 21st-century works by Francis Poulenc, Francis Pott, and Frank LaRocca.

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Ithaca | The exhibit traces the path of Fall Creek from Groton City to Cayuga Lake, pausing at its small towns and tucked-away places to explore more than 200 years of Tompkins County history through photographs and maps. Each place name tells a story of the people who have shaped and been shaped by Fall Creek. Local historians will discuss place names in the hamlet of Forest Home and follow the romantic names on the earliest tourist trail along Ithaca Gorge.

Something to hold on to | Monday, December 4, 17 | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Featuring submitted work from local artists.

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Confidential Secretary to the County Attorney

Schuyler County is seeking to fill the position of Confidential Secretary to the County Attorney. No Civil Service exam is required for this position. Successful candidates will have either and Associate’s Degree in paralegal studies, business administration, political science, criminal justice or a closely related field AND 2 years of full-time paid legal clerical experience; or 4 years’ work experience described above. Annual salary is $38,000-$43,000 with excellent benefits.

Applications must be received by 4:30pm on December 7, 2017. For further details on the qualifications, position duties, and how to apply, go to www.schuylercounty. us or Schuyler County Civil Service, 105 Ninth St., Unit 21, Watkins Glen, NY 14891 607-535-8190

STOW, MA needs 3 temporary workers 1/2/2018 to 7/2/2018, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return t their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.38 per hr. or applicable piece rate. Applicants apply at, North Central Career Center, 100 Erdman Way, Leominster, MA 01453 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #9744266. May perform any combination of tasks relating to planting cultivating, and processing of flowers and vegetable crops including, but not limited to, driving, operating adjust and maintain farm machines, preparing soil, filling containers, planting pruning, weeding, shoveling, thinning, irrigating, mowing, splitting wood, harvesting, grading cleaning greenhouse walls and floors, filling customers orders, spraying and handling of pesticides under the direct supervision of a certified applicator, installing plastic covers on 20’ greenhouses. May use had tools such as shovel, pruning saw, ax, screwdrivers, hand jack and hoses. Must be able to end, lift and carry 50lbs. Thirty days experience in all jobs listed above.

Elementary Principal

Southern Cayuga Central School seeks an enthusiastic, proven educational leader for its elementary school of approximately 400 students, grades preK-6. The successful candidate will be a student-oriented educator with a background of quality teaching and administrative experience. The ability to develop a collaborative and constructive school culture with a climate of excellence for students, faculty and staff is essential.

We seek a knowledgeable and inspiring educator, committed to excellence and the belief that all students can succeed.

Starting salary $85,000. Please submit SCCS application (www.southerncayuga. org), letter of interest, resume & credentials, copies of administrative certification & transcripts by December 12,2017, to Patrick Jensen, Superintendent, Southern Cayuga Schools, 2384 State Route 34B, Aurora NY 13026. adminassist@ southerncayuga.org SCCS EOE

Food Service Helpers

Southern Cayuga Central School District announces an opening for a 1.0 FTE Food Service Helper, five (5) days per week, there (3) hours per day, minimum starting rate $10.51 per hour, also seeking Substitute Food Service Helpers, $10.00 to $10.40 per hour. Apply online with the Support Staff Application Go to southerncayuga.org/644, use application in the right column; Southern Cayuga Central School, 2384 Route 34B,Aurora NY 13026, SCCS EOE

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I need someone to help with my daily needs: cleaning, errands, appointments.

Call for interview 607-844-3191 and leave message. Must go through Finger Lakes Independence Center

employment

services

The City of Ithaca

Four Seasons Landscaping Inc.

is accepting applications for the following: Housing Inspector: Currently, there are three vacancies. Min Quals: Visit website Salary: $46,307. Exam: At a later date. Applications accepted until position is filled. My Brother’s Keeper Mentoring Outreach Specialist: Currently, one vacancy with Ithaca Youth Bureau.

Part-time - 10 hrs/wk. Salary: $15.11/ hr. Duration: Jan. 2018-June 2018. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 E. Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607)274-6539 www. cityofithaca.org. The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce

The Finer Lakes Independence Center

Administrative Assistant Position has an opening for a full-time Administrative Assistant with excellent customer service skills, familiarity with computer programs and database entry. The ideal candidate is a person who is motivated and an independent problem solver with the ability to multitask. Experience with disability is a plus. An Associate’s Degree in a relevant field is preferred or the minimum of High School degree and a minimum of two years’ experience and education.

Please send your resume and cover letter to jan@fliconline.org

520/Adoptions Wanted

services

607.272.1504 Lawn maintenance, spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning, patios, retaining walls, + walkways, landscape design + installation. Drainage.

Snow Removal. Dumpster rentals. Find us on Facebook!

Handy Man

Stone Walls, Walks, Repointing, Gardens, Weeds, Carpentry, George: 793-4312 - Save Number!

Vocalist/Musician

I am looking to join or start a band. I am an experienced singer in mostly Country and Rock & Roll! I live in Ithaca. Please contact me at 607-262-1818 or even text me. Butch Perfetti

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PREGNANT?

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Choose adoptive family of your choice.

Call 24/7. 877-362-2401. (AAN CAN)

Join Our Team !!

Digital Marketing Coordinator Position #1785 OraLine, Inc. is seeking a Digital Marketing Coordinator responsible for supporting the execution, reporting and analysis of all direct-to-customer digital, social, and e-mail programs. This position will also support website optimization and new website functionality projects; support the Brand Manager in overseeing, scheduling and executing social media postings across all social channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter and YouTube; support the setup and execution of additional digital programs, including but not limited to: paid search, SEM (including but not limited to SEO, keyboard search, etc.), affiliate and partnership marketing, re-targeting, digital display, social media advertising, and 3rd party marketplaces.

Duties also include performing standard and ad-hoc reporting for digital, e-mail and social campaigns; analyze program results and develop written summaries and recommendations. Requirements: 4 year college degree with a major in Business, Marketing, or Communications or equivalent; 2 years of hands-on marketing experience with basic HTML/CSS knowledge and/or social media management a plus. Desired 5 years Marketing and Social Media experience. Send application/resume referencing Position Title/Number to: HR Dept., 823 Rte. 13, Cortland, NY 13045, e-mail: hr@jmmurray.com; or visit us at www.jmmurray.com Comprehensive salary/benefits package provided. OraLine offers comprehensive benefits packages. OralLine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

610/Apartments Lower Collegetown

1 Bedroom,, Furnished, Spacious, Large Rooms, Hardwood Floor, Quiet Building, eat Included, Reasonable Rent, Walk to Central Campus or Downtown, Tracey 607-379-2776

Ithaca’s only

hometown electrical distributor Your one Stop Shop

805/Business Services

Since 1984 802 W. Seneca St. Ithaca 607-272-1711 fax: 607-272-3102 www.fingerlakeselectric.com

Airport Storage

at Hillcrest and Warren Rds. in Lansing.

Convenient Storage, no hassles. Call 607-277-6961

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Television Services. Now Over 190 channels for ONLY $49.99/mo! HBOFREE for one year. FREE Installation, FREE Streaming, FREE HD. Add Internet for $14.95 a month. 1-800-373-6508.

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LINK Multimedia

North Star Art Gallery

607-277-8888

743 Snyder Hill Rd, Ithaca

Audio-Video System Design

www.NorthStarArtGallery.com

Services & Sales Web/Network, Multimedia Production, Acoustics

Friday-Saturday 11-4 and by appt

4 Seasons Landscaping Inc.

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Holiday Show: Ithaca and Italy

722 S. Meadow (near Tops)

PEACE & JOY Start with 30 days of UNLIMITED Yoga for $30!

The perfect antidote to holiday stress

Get unbiased funeral planning information

Artist Brian Keeler

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607-272-1504

Love dogs?

lawn maintenance

LPs 45s 78s ROCK JAZZ BLUES

spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning

PUNK REGGAE ETC

Check out Cayuga Dog Rescue!

patios, retaining walls, + walkways

Angry Mom Records

Adopt! Foster! Volunteer! Donate for vet care!

landscape design + installation

115 The Commons Basement

www.cayugadogrescue.org

drainage

319-4953 angrymomrecords@gmail.com

www.facebook.com/CayugaDogRescue

snow removal “CLEAR IT OUT”

Luna offers $5.00 OFF

Basements, Barns, Garages & etc.

(minimum order $20.) with

Reliable and Affordable

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310 Stewart Ave / 113 N. Aurora

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256-5862, 269-6139

Get Qualified for the

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for over 20 years

dumpster rentals Find us on Facebook! $5.00 off any purchase with Greenback Coupon at DiBella’s Subs 222 Elmira Rd. 254-2432

AAM ALL ABOUT MACS Macintosh Consulting

Health Care Training:

Fur & Leather repair, zipper repair.

Phlebotomy Technician Oct. 2-Jan 4

Same Day Service Available

Pharmacy Technician Oct.17-Dec.14

John’s Tailor Shop

Medical Admin. Assistant Oct.17-Dec.14

http://www.allaboutmacs.com

John Serferlis - Tailor

Call 607-844-6586 or

(607) 280-4729

102 The Commons

email: biz@tompkinscortland.edu

Affordable Acupuncture

273-3192

Full range of effective care for a full

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range of human ailments

RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL

STRESS REDUCTION

Peaceful Spirit Acupuncture

Janitorial Service * Floor/Carpet

at Island Health & Fitness

Anthony Fazio, L.Ac., C.A.

High Dusting * Windows/Awnings

in partnership with Cayuga Medical Center

www.peacefulspiritacupuncture.com

24/7 CLEANING Services

New Sessions Start in Early January

607-272-0114

607-227-3025

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MIGHTY YOGA Voted Best of Ithaca Visit www.mightyyoga.com 272-0682

Protect Your Home with a Camera Surveillance System Latest Technology. Affordable

Les - 607-272-9175 Radiance Course Ignite Your Life 5-Month Course starts January Intro Workshop: “Intuition, Discover Your Inner Voice” Saturday 11/25, 3-5pm at Yoga Farm in Lansing www.RadianceCourse.com Save 10% on Total Check with Greenback Coupon at

Poke`land 308 E. Seneca / 206B Dryden Rd.

The Lansing-Ithaca Rotary fundraiser for the Lansing Food Bank.

We are selling raffle tickets for our Annual Grocery Store Run which will take place Sunday, Dec. 17 at 6pm at Lansing Market.

Tickets sold at Lansing Market on the weekends. Thurs. thru Sun 4-7pm

WANTED !!

Old Motorcycles, Parts and Memorabilia Top $$ Paid!

607-564-1808 WORLD CLASS MARTIAL ARTS Self Defense & Kick Boxing Private & Group Classes 401 E. State St. Ithaca 227-6932

Holiday TribuTe ConCerT To

THe King #1 elvis TribuTe aCT in THe CounTry!

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