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Wegmans Coffee Shop employee who has worked multiple shifts over the past two weeks has tested positive for COVID-19, the Tompkins County Health Department has announced. The health department is advising that anyone who “had close contact with any employee of the Wegmans Coffee Shop between Monday, March 23 and Saturday, April 4” get tested at the Cayuga Health Sampling Site in the Ithaca Mall parking lot, self quarantine in your home for 14 days since the last time you shopped at Wegmans Coffee Shop, and continue that quarantine even if you test negative. Also, monitor your health. People can register for testing at cayugahealth.org or by calling the registration line at (607) 319-5708. The Wegmans Coffee Shop is currently closed and thorough disinfection of the area has been completed. Wegmans management is in the process of instituting additional measures for employees including distributing masks, temperature checks and screening for other symptoms prior to each shift. It appears now that the store is allowing all employees to wear masks after previously not allowing them to do so. “We are working closely with Wegmans management to ensure the safety of all employees and patrons,” said Frank Kruppa, Public Health Director. “Grocery stores are essential businesses, and it is important that they are able to continue to serve our community.” Staff R eports

Cover: Photo: “Keep Your Rent” graffiti mark found spray-painted on a building on Cayuga Street. (Photo by Casey Martin)

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Landlords face uncertain market while renters struggle to make ends meet and students have vacated the town (Photo Marshall Hopkins)

R ent Freeze

Local calls for rent suspension continue to grow

ast night’s Common Council meeting marked the latest in a string of public calls for rent relief for tenants and landlords after the City of Ithaca endorsed a resolution asking for action by the state. The resolution, passed

▶ How to Help - As mentioned in our rundown, Cayuga Medical Center Foundation has now established a list of needed materials for their hospitals in Tompkins County and Schuyler County, which can be found online at cayugahealthsystem.

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unanimously, called on state representatives to implement a law that would stop rent payments for 90 days in response to the coronavirus outbreak, which has basically destroyed the economy and job market, putting plenty of people in dire financial straits. Local

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renters have been mounting a widespread effort to push local politicians to protect them from going broke paying their rent. “The Common Council of the City of Ithaca hereby

at Cayuga Medical Center, Trumansburg Fire Station or Bartels Hall at Cornell University. In Schuyler County, drop-offs can be made at the Tops Friendly Markets in Watkins Glen, the Dandy Mini Marts in Odessa, and the Glen Motor Inn in Watkins Glen.

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ompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) has announced that they will extend their no-fare policy which went into effect last month in order to continue to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The policy was introduced to eliminate contact at the farebox for riders and drivers. The policy will now be in effect until May 23 after a vote by the transit agency’s Board of Directors. It was originally set to expire on Thursday, April 9. The move is also designed to remove barriers to riding for people who might have lost jobs or been impacted financially by the ongoing public health crisis. TCAT also went on to state that they’d like people to only ride the bus if it is necessary, such as if they are essential workers or are doing something like picking up food or medicine. To promote social distancing, each bus has a 20-rider limit and, while in transit, riders are asked to sit as far apart as possible. “As this pandemic persists, it remains critical that we continue to do everything we can to protect not only our passengers, but also TCAT drivers and other front-line employees who are fulfilling an essential service,” said TCAT General Manager Scot Vanderpool. “This is probably the first time in history that transit agencies all over the globe are asking their riders to stay home.’’ Once again, TCAT reiterated how low their ridership has fallen as a result of the

TCAT Executive Director, Scot Vanderpool (Photo: Casey Martin)

stay-at-home directive, as they are currently carrying about 90 percent less riders than normal. Cornell University, TCAT’s largest ridership base, Ithaca College and TC3 asked their students to finish out their spring semester remotely, while local businesses and organizations are asking their employees to work from home. In the meantime, restaurants are only offering take out, while gyms, theaters and other entertain-

ment centers have closed. Due to lower demand and to provide more flexible schedules for bus operators, TCAT adjusted its spring service twice last month to provide what is now about 65 percent of normal service. In early March, TCAT implemented precautions to include stepped up efforts for disinfecting buses and facilities used by employees and riders. Staff R eports

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Cornell students create new site to match quarantined students

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hree Cornell University juniors are trying to help their fellow students stay connected during the coronavirus outbreak as the vast majority have had to return to their hometowns after the school decided to hold online classes and told students they could no longer live in on-campus housing without a special waiver. Jordyn Goldzweig, Alisa Lai and Sam Brickman started the project earlier this year as coronavirus began to take a firm hold around the country and force people away from campus and into isolation. It’s a spinoff of an earlier app they developed, called Zing, which would help students with similar interests find each other during the first few weeks of school, when it can be tough to 8–14,

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make friends in a new environment. While Zing deals with the natural isolation nearly everyone feels when surrounded by a new group of people, Quarantine Buddy is grappling with the loneliness of isolation and separation from one’s friends in a stressful time. “Since the matching algorithm for Quarantine Buddy is similar to the one we use for Zing, we were able to build it fairly quickly,” Brickman said. “We wanted to launch Quarantine Buddy as fast as we could in order to help people immediately. All in all, after many cups of coffee and very little sleep, we were able to get the site up and running in about two days total.” continued on page 11

Jordyn Goldzweig, Alisa Lai and Sam Brickman are Cornell students and the developers of Quarantine Buddy. (Photo provided)

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District Attorney’s office navigating criminal justice system during COVID-19

Cayuga Health System - has established a new online resource and several physical donation centers around the area where people can drop off donations for healthcare workers who are working during the COVID-19 outbreak. Ithaca College and Cornell University -both announced last week that they were implementing hiring freezes and would not honor wage increases that were scheduled to kick in on July 1 for the 2019-2020 academic year. The move comes as the schools both face a significantly murky short-term future due to transitioning all of their classes to online lessons for the remainder of the semester and questions looming about how fall semester will be impacted. As of Tuesday afternoon, there are 103 positive COVID-19 cases. 69 people have recovered and three remain currently hospitalized.

he Tompkins County Courthouse, which houses District Attorney Matt Van Houten’s office, is far emptier (and perhaps cleaner) than normal as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, and Van Houten has been vigilant to make sure his office is playing some part in the effort to control the outbreak among his staff, law enforcement officials and those interacting with police and court staff. Most of his staff has been sent to work from home, a lucky stroke considering in late March announcements began to come in rapid succession that three court officers, employed by the New York State Office of Court Administration, had tested positive for coronavirus and that the court was undergoing a deep cleaning and disinfection process. “We are operating with a skeleton crew,” Van Houten said. “All of the courts have significantly restricted what activities are being heard, from local to county courts. Only what are deemed essential activities are being heard. We’ve gotten several memorandums restricting what cases they want to be before the court. Things that are non-violent or minor offenses are probably not going to be heard for the foreseeable future, probably not until May.” More serious offenses, like sex offenses or violent crimes are being heard, but under different deadlines for discovery and other such timeline-related matters. Any court appearance going forward, Van Houten said in an interview the last week of March, will be held via Skype or Zoom video conferencing. The last live in-court appearance, Van Houten said, took place on Monday, March 23, a result of the arrests of three individuals in connection

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The Tompkins County Courthouse has been the site of three positive COVID-19 cases, but the District Attorney’s office continues modified operations. (Photo by Casey Martin)

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with a stabbing of a Cornell University student the previous night. “It has definitely lessened the number of cases that are coming in, and we’ve encouraged the police to consult with us and think about whether it’s important to file charges initially,” Van Houten. “If it’s a petit larceny or something lowlevel, is that a good idea at this point? We’ve been doing that since the beginning of the year and before, but now it’s really more of a triage scenario where we’re really only trying to prosecute the cases that need to be prosecuted because of what’s going on in the world.” Van Houten also said he has been trying to monitor the Tompkins County jail’s population, both in numbers and the content of the crimes for which

people are being placed in the jail for, to try to keep the jail’s numbers as low as possible. One of the major fears that has arisen in the criminal justice system since the outbreak took hold is the dangers posed to inmates who are forced to live in close quarters and a contained environment that would theoretically place them and guards at a high risk if a positive case was found. “I looked at the jail roster and I asked the Assistant DA’s to look at the jail roster and identify anybody that could be released,” Van Houten said. “Like if they were non-violent, if it was a pre-trial situation where there’s no risk to the community or of flight, or if they were nearing the end of their sentence. [...] We’ve done that with probably half a dozen or more people who were

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incarcerated in the jail over the last couple weeks.” A concern that had been broached by the Tompkins County Legislature focused on people who were jailed before trial, but were facing longer wait times imprisoned because their hearings and appearances were being delayed by the outbreak. Van Houten said he’s been wary of that and does not believe it applies to anyone in the Tompkins County Jail currently. “I can say with complete confidence that there isn’t anybody in that situation, nobody’s sitting in jail waiting for a hearing that would otherwise be getting out if they had that hearing,” Van Houten said. “That would be a concern if we weren’t trying to address that.”

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Coronavirus & Climate Change The Time to Act is Now

The Suck-It List

By Jor da n L e s se r , c a n di dat e for 1 2 5t h A s se m bly D ist r ict & form e r l e gisl at i v e c ou n se l for A s se m bly wom a n Ba r ba r a L i f t on wildfires ravaged forests in the he spread of coroWest. Here at home, increased navirus has left few, frequency of extreme weather if any, communities caused flooding in our comuntouched. Amid growmunities in Central New York. ing numbers of infections, The world was surprised by deaths, frozen economic the emergence of a new disactivity and a tanking stock ease with global impacts, but market, governments both climate change is not new. The national and local have had risk is real and the risk is now. to react quickly. Emergency However, with the public’s distancing measures have attention focused on coronabeen put in place, workers virus, the Trump administrahave been ordered to stay tion recently implemented at home and relief packages Jordan Lesser a national waiver on enviare beginning to flow. This ronmental rules, allowing is what government action industry to decide for themlooks like in a time of disselves if they can meet air and ruption. And this newfound water pollution requirements. Federal sense of rapid mobilization and response fuel efficiency standards were also rolled provides a powerful lesson for the next back, leading to higher costs for drivers crisis we know is coming: climate change. and increased greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, climate change is already here. Last year was the second warmest year on We must keep the pressure on for strong record, large amounts of rainfall caused widespread devastation of farmland, and continued on page 7

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ard to believe that it’s been less than a month since we were directed, on nine minutes’ notice, to stay home and practice social distancing. Granted, we’re not hiding in the annex from the Nazis, and we’re not staying inside because radioactive ash from Chernobyl is gently falling from the sky, but it has been a period of adjustment for just about everyone. It is well known that in the Basque language, the word for “coronavirus quarantine” is the same as the word for “opportunity.” [Note: this is patently untrue.] Being a relentlessly optimistic person, I am using forced confinement to check some things off my Bucket List. Here’s the log to date: Monday, March 16: Due to travel and social distance restrictions, the following Bucket List items are deferred to a later date: bathing in the Ganges, running with the bulls, lunch with Svante Myrick, joining the Mile High Club, being on Jeopardy, a hot air balloon ride and a night in Bram Stoker’s castle. Decided to launch into the List tomorrow. Tuesday, March 17: St. Patrick’s Day. Too busy celebrating—no time to begin a project. Resolve to start for real tomorrow. Saturday, March 21: Wednesday a recovery day. Thursday, the first day of Spring, so… celebration. Yesterday, another recovery day. Saw a Facebook post that said it’s a good idea to keep treating Saturday and Sunday like a weekend, so Project Bucket List starts Monday! Monday, March 23: Added “boycott Hobby Lobby” to the List. Mission accomplished! Tuesday, March 24: Binge-watched “Tiger King” and ran out of time. Tomorrow’s project: solve a Rubik’s Cube. Wednesday, March 25: Re-watched “Tiger King” to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating. Carole definitely fed her husband to a tiger. Tomorrow is Cube Day. Monday, March 30: Last week kind of

got away from me. And then the weekend. Apparently we’re going back to work on Easter, so not sure how much of the List I’ll be able to get to. Watched videos of people solving Rubik’s Cubes. Research first. Tuesday, March 31: Three Zoom meetings in succession. Who knew you could have so little fun in your underpants and a decent shirt? Watched Governor Cuomo and then President Trump. I guess the president didn’t mean Easter of this year after all. Trip to Northside in my beekeeper’s hat and a turtleneck pulled up over my face like Bazooka Joe. Nobody batted an eye. Tomorrow’s a new month and a fresh start on the Bucket List. Wednesday, April 1: Got the white side of the cube done! Monday, April 6: Four days of rain, plus it was the weekend. My vindication as a germaphobe is lost on other members of the household. I have no ability to guess which of six listed concerts any of my Facebook friends did not attend. Starting to see Einstein’s point about time being relative. Rubik’s Cube project stalled at one side, so I’m suspending operations and moving to the next item: learn French! Wednesday, April 8: French harder than I remember, besides, am I going to be appointed ambassador to France? The French already think Americans are rude and oafish, so even achieving fluency would be a pyrrhic victory at best. You don’t need to conjugate irregular verbs to ask where the bathroom is. Pretty sure there are a million apps that translate. And, as I understand the concept, a Bucket List is more aspirational than an actual to-do list. I’m doing the Hobby Lobby thing, and that counts as a victory on the quarantine T-chart. I’ll send an email and see if the mayor is free for lunch when this is all over.

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environmental protections at the state and federal levels, despite the coronavirus crisis. I encourage you to support NYS bill A.1424(Simon)/S.5013(Parker), which would allow for citizens to directly challenge alleged violations of many state environmental laws, providing important oversight of polluting industries. The most inspiring response to coronavirus has been the sense, and actions, of mutual aid from person to person and community to community. We understand, more than any time in recent memory, that we share a common societal bond. What is good for you is good for me, and the solution must be reached together. Once coronavirus is vanquished (and it will end), our shared response to the pandemic must inform us how to move ahead and confront climate change. Governments, including New York State, have an upfront example of the widespread mobilization required to reform the status quo. If we can use private industry to produce ventilators and protective equipment in a time of need, why can’t we use the same strategy to build renewable energy capacity and battery storage, in

quick order, to transition our electricity sector over from fossil fuel generation? If we were able to take swift action to construct emergency hospitals across the state during this pandemic, NYS can similarly make use of trained professionals to weatherize, insulate and install heat pumps in homes and buildings to reduce our energy demand. The risk to our lives, our homes, our jobs calls for an urgent, all-out response. Strong environmental leadership in New York State has never been more important. During coronavirus, governments are willing to spend ample amounts of money to react to and minimize the harm. With climate change, the federal and state government must also be willing to spend, and must include emissions reduction measures in any future bailout package or budget. Airlines must be required to reduce emissions, subsidies to fossil fuel companies must end, renewable energy tax incentives must be renewed, state and local build-out of electric vehicle charging stations must not be halted in uncertain economic times. What we do now will prevent a known, looming disaster in which we all lose. Coronavirus taught us a lesson in government and social action. The time to act is now!

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urges our state representatives to support legislation that for a 90-day period would suspend the rent payments of residential tenants and small business commercial tenants who have suffered a loss of income as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, and suspend mortgage payments for the same period for property owners facing financial hardship as a result of non-payment of rent,” the resolution stated. Continuing, it also appealed for relief for landlords who would be in turn impacted by a rent suspension. It stated that the “City of Ithaca urges our state and federal representatives to pair any suspension of rent due to COVID-19 hardship with additional relief to help unemployed workers and emergency funding to assist landlords who are facing financial hardship due to non-payment of rent.” The resolution was introduced by Second Ward Alderperson Seph Murtagh, and came after a campaign organized by the Ithaca Tenants Union and other local organizations demanding that Common Council and Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick enact local action that would institute a city wide rent suspension, which would essentially be an extension of New York State’s moratorium on evictions. Myrick, though, has steadfastly said that any legislation like that wouldn’t hold up legally and that any rent suspension action would need to be taken at the state or federal level. “In addressing the economic downturn, consideration to all affected parties is a

necessary and important step,” responded the Landlords Association of Tompkins County in a statement. “Any measure that fails to adequately consider all affected parties will have a devastating impact on the people and institutions who rely on us. We may be unable to make our mortgage payments. We may be unable to pay our tax bills that will become due in a few short months, and we have many other expenses including utility bills, insurance and sidewalk fees. Our local governments will be impacted. We ask that our local governments defer to the state legislature; and that the state legislature forbear from enacting any legislation that does not consider the following issues.” The LATC then went on to argue that any legislation should “focus narrowly on tenants who will have lost income as a result of the COVID-19 economic downturn,” denounces an across-the-board rent payment stoppage for all tenants, and tries to make the case that any landlords are running, through their real estate renting, a small business and will naturally be impacted regardless of any mitigation implemented by the government. “Landlords must - like all of us - bear some of the pain,” they wrote. “Most landlords are willing to work through re-arranging payments and foregoing some income - but they are no more in a position to bear the brunt of this crisis than any other small business owner in our community.” M att Butler

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Using the Stimulus for the Community

he government is sending us $2,400 to help us get through the coronavirus crisis. For many people this aid is critical while also inadequate, but we are retired and on a pension and Social Security, our income has not been reduced. So we are donating our $2,400 to The Robin Fund to help those who are facing financial calamity from this pandemic. The Robin Fund is administered by GIAC and provides emergency grants to people in need. Unlike many programs with narrow focus and rigid qualifications, The Robin Fund provides flexible funds to help a person or family out of crisis. It may fund a car repair, rental deposit, plumbing repair, or whatever is needed just to keep going a little longer. While each grant or loan is small, no more than $500, the impact is large for the family who receives it. Donations can be made by mail (Robin Fund, c/o Carl Feuer, 310 1st Street, Ithaca NY 14850 ) or online at https://www.givegab.com/nonprofits/robin-fund-giac. 100% of donations go out in grants to those in need. We know that many people are facing financial disaster, but many others have not lost any income because they are retired or have jobs and paychecks that are continuing uninterrupted. We encourage such people to pass on their federal relief checks to others who are suffering, either through The Robin Fund or whatever other charity or organization they think is providing the help that is needed in these difficult times. Tim Joseph and Leni Hochman City of Ithaca

The Myopia of Humanity

ometimes what seems natural and normal is actually a privilege and an entitlement. Sometimes what is seen as deserved or earned personally is actually a basic human right. Before I was repeatedly abused and neglected in mental institutions, I did not care about folks with mental complexities. Before I was no longer able to maintain a middle-class life, I did not care about folks who had fewer materials than me. Truthfully, I was beyond not caring. I didn’t see them. And, when I became mentally ill and poor, a lot of folks didn’t see me. Going from visible to invisible is a very soul scraping journey. I was angry and depressed for a long time about this downward cycle. Sometimes, I just wanted to end it all. One day while locked in solitary, I was A p ri l

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so angry that I had an epiphany. I was not alone in this suffering. I was surrounded by others, companions in this painful ride. So, I started doing little things to serve those in need—getting cups of water for those who coughed, blankets for those who were shaking, and tissues for those who wept. This small bit of service awoke some of the others, and we started seeing each other, protecting each other, working with each other. In a space where we weren’t allowed to touch each other, they couldn’t stop us from reaching out to each other. I have since learned that my ableist and classist lenses not only led to the myopia of others’ humanity but of my own humanity. So, I tell you this story to show that I understand why you weren’t here before a month ago. I tell you this story to show that even small things done with great intention and love are so meaningful and needed. I hope the current conversations about rent freezes become lasting conversations about housing being a human right. I hope the current conversations about immediate food needs become lasting conversations about food equity. I hope so much in these times when most folks are scared and isolated. Your new and renewed bravery, wisdom, and willingness bring me hope. Thank you. Veronica Haunami Fitzhugh Brooktondale, NY

In response to “Wegmans employee tests positive, customers told to get tested” “That is why even food order to go still have risk of people who handle the food [getting] virus and transmit to customer. So cook at home, eat at home is highly recommended, physical social distance need to follow.” Le Kimberly-Isabella, via Facebook

In response to “TCAT extends no-fare policy until May 23” “One option, utilized at least in DC, is that the back door is used as the main entrance (unless the person has a specific need for a wheelchair access or dropped access at the front door). This helps keep people away from the driver.” Marianne Drowne, via Facebook

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go outside and hike or learn in nature; one day, the school ofast week, Aryeal fered virtual tours of the San Jackson’s two sons Diego Zoo, the Houston Zoo virtually visited or the Smithsonian Zoo, prothe San Diego Zoo vided by the zoos, that students and the Smithsocould experience right from nian Zoo -- one of many maketheir computers. shift and often creative efforts Everywhere in the county, among area schools to bridge educators and students have the gap for students learning at had to make substantial adjusthome during the Coronovirus ments to continue their teachshutdown. ing and learning. Ithaca City The effects of the COSchool District, for example, VID-19 outbreak have been sent out a letter to parents last widespread and profound, as week announcing their “Disnearly everyone in the country tance Learning 2.0” protocols, has had to change their behavwhich will go into effect on ior in some way. In Tompkins Monday, April 13. County and elsewhere, one The new strategy, which of the most impacted populawas put into place in case of tions has been one of the most an extended closure, lays out vulnerable: kids, who were schedules and curriculum for forced out of classrooms last students at each age range gomonth with schools, teachers ing forward: and administrators scramPre-kindergarten and first bling to bridge as many gaps as graders will have assignments they can while districts remain and materials delivered to closed. their homes, potentially with On Monday, Governor An“supplemental digital resources drew Cuomo announced that as well.” Students will be learnthe “Pause” plan for New York ing for between 60-90 minState would continue until utes per day, with daily contact April 29, meaning schools and with teachers via phone, email non-essential businesses would or “digitially as appropriate,” remain closed until at least that as well as weekly office hours date. Tompkins County schools hosted by the Master Educators had previously been closed of Inclusion, a group of seven until April 13, announced on people who are each responsiMarch 13. ble for monitoring two schools Jackson, who runs a local and answering questions and house-cleaning business and concerns students might have. whose two sons go to ElizaSecond- to fifth-graders will beth Anne Clune Montessori be delivered Chromebooks School, said she’s been happy and print materials as the to hear her children’s teachers younger students were, talking to them about the onthough they will additionL e f t : L u c a a n d At l a s J ac k s o n , s t u d e n t s at E l i z a b e t h A n n e C l u n e M o n t e s s o r i going global situation while ally be using softward to S c h o o l i n It h ac a . A b ov e : Th e e m p t y pa r k i n g l o t at It h ac a R e i d a n d J u l i e t t e they can log on to Zoom and learn. Their classes will last C o m p e t i l l o , s t u d e n t s at G r o t o n E l e m e n ta ry S c h o o l ( P h o t o s : P r ov i d e d) see some familiar faces, of 90-150 minutes per day, the their peers and of their teachsame aforementioned daily ers, for a bit. important.” they nap. [...] If you don’t maintain that contact with teachers and “The reason I’m having my kids atJackson emphasized that a routine, relative rhythm of their life, they just turn weekly office hours. tend those particular meetings is because even one that’s severely different from into impossible creatures.” For grades 6-8, they will mostly use of the verbal approach that the teachers their norms, can be very helpful in keepIn order to strike a balance, Jackson Chromebooks and Google Classroom, take,” Jackson said. Her two sons, Luca and ing her kids engaged. That’s why EAC’s has been putting her sons through three learning between 2.5 and 3 hours a day Atlas, are eight and six respectively. “Like set schedule, laid out early on during the days of “intentional learning,” which more and connecting with a teacher at least they’ll be asking them ‘How are you feelschool closings and continuing now. closely resembles what they would be dotwice per week during office hours or via ing? There’s a lot going on, are you pick“More for their psychological welling on a normal school day as they watch direct video lessons. The directions are the ing up any of the adults’ angst?’ Which is being, it’s essential,” Jackson said. “Even the classes being broadcast via Zoom in same for 9-12 graders, though their hours fantastic. And also just to see their teachfrom when kids are relatively small, there’s the dining-room/day-time classroom of are bumped up to four per day. Presumers, maintaining that relationship is really a routine. They get up, they play, they eat, Jackson’s house. Other days, they might continued on page 15

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Lansing Mayor Hartill closes parks to prevent spread of COVID-19

n a letter issued to the Village of Lansing community on March 31, Mayor Donald Hartill announced that the village parks will be closed for the purpose of halting the spread of COVID-19. “It was very difficult for me to do because I know how much people enjoy being outside and enjoying the playground equipment and the game fields,” Hartill wrote. “But as Mayor, I am responsible for carefully guarding the health and welfare of our citizens, especially our younger ones.” Hartill also wrote that the Board of Trustees will be holding a teleconference in the near future to discuss the upcoming budget. He also mentioned in the letter some steps the village is taking to protect the health of its municipal staff. “We are trying to continue to provide all Village services in a manner that is safe for our staff by limiting personnel to one person at the garage and one person in the office on a rotating basis,” he wrote. “For emergencies, the [Department of Public Works] DPW will carefully observe the 6 ft rule along with any contractors that may

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“Healthcare Heroes” on their way to NYC to help COVID response

borne has offered to assist with the procession through Ithaca and the Ithaca Fire Department will hoist the flag in a short send-off ceremony at Cayuga Medical Center while representatives from nearby Watkins Glen International will follow the procession in the NASCAR official pace

wo buses of doctors, nurses and other medical professionals from the Cayuga Health System will be departing Ithaca Wednesday morning, heading to New York City to assist with the response to the New York City COVID-19 pandemic. Cayuga Health was encouraging members of the community to show up and support the Community members are encouraged to cheer and hold up posters along the route out of town in support of the Cayuga Health staff, as they embark on their medical mission. Cornell University is providing two buses for the transportation, leaving from CMC Wednesday at 8:30 in the morning and going to New York Presbyterian Hospital. “We are proud to be sending such outstanding medical professionals and true ‘Healthcare Heroes’ to assist hard hit New York City in fighting this COVID-19 pandemic,” said Martin Stallone, President & CEO of Cayuga Health, in a press release. “We are encouraging our community to hold up signs and cheer on our professionals as they head

car through Ithaca on its way out of town. Cayuga Health also provided send-off signs for people interested in saying farewell to the medical professionals as they

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Zoom, Skype and other video streaming platforms are good for keeping in touch with people that are already connected, Brickman explained, but Quarantine Buddy is aimed at introducing two strangers. “While these platforms are great for staying connected to people you already know, our platform is about introducing people who don’t already know each other,” Brickman said. “If one doesn’t have anyone to reach out to or is feeling lonely, these platforms won’t solve their problem as they are not conducive to meeting new people.” In that way, it’s almost closer akin to Tinder or Hinge, though this is more meant to guide people through the quarantine with supporters instead of romantic partners. The site explains that its matching algorithm will take a person’s test answers and compare them to others that have been received from other participants. It will then match two people together who the algorithm determines are a good fit for each other, and send the two a text message introduction, forming the “quaranteam.” The site lists some common purposes for a quarantine buddy as someone to do Zoom yoga with via video, someone to talk to in

times of need or just someone to rant to about the persistent boredom. “Get to know your quaranteammate,” the site touts. “You two will make it through this uncertain time together.” The school announced that it would be moving classes online for students in midMarch, progressively increasing restrictions until it moved up its timeline and told students they’d have to leave their oncampus housing. They were soon joined by Ithaca College, Tompkins Cortland Community College and dozens of others across the country as the nation essentially shut down to avoid spreading the disease. But even after all this has passed, the team behind Quarantine Buddy intends to keep the app going while potentially slightly pivoting its target audience. “We are confident that introductions are shifting to completely online, and that this period of time is just exposing and emphasizing that,” Brickman said. “When this is all said and done, we plan on using QB to introduce people all around the world. Some long term use cases include matching together patients who are diagnosed with the same disease, academics who study similar topics, or two people who both want to pick up the same skill.”

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nowing how many health clubs, yoga studios and other “traditional” exercise facilities are temporarily closed, I reached out to my friend Ian Golden to discuss the shifts this health crisis has brought to our community’s collective exercise habits and to ask him for his take on the alternatives to “traditional” exercise people are seeking. He said, in a Facebook message, “As I type this, my daughter and I are just getting back in the car after being asked to leave the skate park by the police. Does that count as 607-277-7000 having a tough Georgia@ithacatimes.com x220 time finding alternatives?” Newspaper:I chose Golden as a resource knowing that he is plugged into a wide network of trail runners—for whom exercising in isolation is not a new concept—and that through his business (Finger Lakes Running Company) Ian is well-connected to many athletes. “I look at a lot of posts in my ‘bubble,’ and a lot of my friends and teammates are used to running on trails with nobody on them, and now there are so many people

that they actually make an effort to keep their distance,” Ian said. “It’s a reflection of where we’re at. It’s amazing.” Ian is relying on intel from his fellow trail runners because his own routine, like so many others, has changed a lot. He stated, “My wife and I are juggling childcare, as she is an essential worker and I am with the kids until about 3 p.m. Then, from 3 p.m. until midnight, or 2 a.m., I am filling internet orders. I just don’t have my normal window to work out.” While it may seem I implied that trail runners are by nature solitary creatures, that is not necessarily the case. They do enjoy training in Client: groups—the after-race gatherings, the opportunity to be together, to align with a larger community of runners—but there are ways to do that and still be mindful of keeping one’s distance. He spoke of the “virtual last person standing race,” an online event that drew over 2,500 participants from 65 countries. Some ran solo, some ran on treadmills, and each participant, Ian explained, “Put in 4.16 miles per hour until there was one

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person standing.” Local runners Ellie Pell and Amelia Kaufman took part, and each ran about 42 miles over a 10-hour period. Ian and I agreed that we are fortunate

to live in a time when what he called “virtual group workout models” are available. He stated, “I recently did a delivery to (local business) Blackbird Yoga, and they are doing the virtual sessions, giving people the Get a Virtual Estimate from feeling of connection and motivation.” He Get a Get Virtual Estimate from thethe added, “It’s incredible to see the athletic a Virtual Estimate from boom still there. People are running, biking, walking. They’re staying happy. Maybe it’s not possible to get to the gyms now, but it’s still possible for people to be working m the at one of the things they can still do.” by Betsy Schermerhorn Looking forward, Golden said, “It will be interesting to see how much of Director, Marketing and Admissions this sticks… Are people staying isolated because they to be, or will they still Phoit?” toHe sneed Upload U Phpoltooa sdchoose added, “If we are followA PRECIOUS GIFT Uplo ad P hortos withfrom Youw ith Yoingurthe line we are being served, we’ll be The best gifts are the ones that surGet a Virtual Estimate the with Your it for some time. It makes me so much It can be difficult to come up with prise us. Thoughtful gifting doesn’t Smartphone in more aware of how much our lives are a meaningful gift to give, but often- have to mean spending extra money intertwined through concerts, events and times one is at your fingertips without or concocting an elaborate rendezgatherings. So much of our economy is vous. It’s actually the seemingly you even knowing it. Chances are, Ph o t o s based on monetizing these gatherings, and simple action of being in sync with you have a plant that has moved with the virtual option only goes so far.” r

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ith the goal of raising money for people struggling with food security, over 20 local DJs have joined forces to support a variety of organizations through twice-weekly online parties meant to entertain, raise money and unite. Organizer Ben Ortiz, who performs as DJ ha-MEEN, said 25 DJs have agreed to perform in total so far, and that considering the amount of interest he’s had from DJs elsewhere in central New York the number could grow. There will be three DJs each Sunday evening from 6 p.m. until midnight, and three DJs each Wednesday evening from 6 p.m. until midnight. “We’ll keep this up until things return to some semblance of normal,” Ortiz said. “During this time of social distancing, we DJs all suddenly find ourselves out of work. With no other way to perform our craft, nearly every DJ on the planet has taken to live-streaming

on the internet (the most famous example these past few weeks has been NYC’s DJ DNice). This gives us an outlet... but it’s obviously not nearly as impactful as moving a room of people through a shared experience together.” The idea was borne out of Ortiz’s frustration that he had to postpone this year’s Ithaca DJ Festival, which he founded, due to the public gathering rules implemented by the state. The event was slated to be held March 28, in association with the Finger Lakes Thaw Festival. Ortiz has long espoused that the true value of DJing lies in bringing people together, thus despite the postponement he wanted to be able to carry out that mission during a time of crisis for plenty of people. So instead of holding one large virtual replacement for the DJ Festival, which was his initial thought, he decided to pivot to an ongoing event with the hopes of rescheduling an in-person DJ Festival later. The title of the events, “Social Persistencing,” comes from that mentality: if social distancing is a necessity, this is how to make the most of it, from a DJ’s perspective. Ortiz said he’s received help organizing from other local music figures DJ Goud, DJ Tuggle, Proper Philty, DJ DarkGreenMarine, DJ Rockmon and DJ J-Sun. The shows will be broadcast via popular video streaming platform Twitch, and audiences can tune in by visiting IthacaDJFestival.

com to watch or listen. That site is also where people can make donations. “Our opening week’s fundraising goal is to raise $500 for the Collegetown Bagels ‘Pay It Forward’ meal program for vulnerable members of our community here in Ithaca,” Ortiz said. “Our second week will have the goal of raising $500 for the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, which obviously has a much wider geographic impact. The stated mission of this fundraiser series is to raise money for causes all across our region, not just Ithaca/Tompkins County.” The inaugural event was held on Sunday, April 5, from 6 p.m. to midnight. Ortiz said concurrent viewership reached over 250 people at one point during the night, and that he hopes those numbers will climb higher. With higher viewer numbers, he said, the organizers would look to raise their fundraising goals past $500 each week. The first DJ-thon already nearly hit $500 fundraised, Ortiz said, and they hope to double the goal by the end of Wednesday’s event. “Not that we are hoping to, but I think we can keep this going indefinitely, given the number of DJ’s who want to be involved… and more importantly, the amount of people in need out there right now,” Ortiz said.

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In Defense of Local Art Reviewing By Ar thur W hit m an

n ordinary times, Ithaca’s downtown-centered gallery scene remains fairly vital. Inevitably, there are high and low tides: both socially and in the art itself. Keeping things going is the main priority. Putting on exhibitions is hard work and galleries and “art houses” demand a monthly-or-so changeover. Drawing on a mainly local pool of artists—intensely varied in style and medium as well as ambition and accomplishment— there’s a constant tension between innovation and inertia, creativity and commerce, good art and not-so. Those of us approaching visual art out of deep personal necessity are often disappointed. Local artists of real discernment make art but fail to show here for years while mediocre or stagnating ones re-cycle. Strong, diverse work is out there but often hard to find. Even discerning eyes underestimate what the community has to offer. Clearly, these are no ordinary times. Independent galleries announced indefinite closures last month. (So too did Cornell’s Johnson Museum and Ithaca College’s Handwerker Gallery.) Artists appear to be hunkering down in their homes and studios, uncertain as to what might appear on the other side of the tunnel. Still, art is a tenacious human habit,

dating back tens of thousands of years or more and appearing around the globe in myriad forms—witness to our ever-evolving but always relatable minds. In more recent times, artists and movements have not only survived but seemingly thrived upon rapid disruption and change. I have been reviewing local exhibitions for the Ithaca Times regularly for most of the past fourteen years. I come to criticism from a studio art background: having grown up in Ithaca and studied, mostly painting and drawing, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in Boston. Returning to the area in 2005, I had the idea that I might wed my talents as a writer to my visual knowledge. I would work in the sphere of journalism but in league with artists, acting as a translator, trying to advance their general cause, if not always their narrow aims. It has always been the art itself that interested me the most as a writer. I don’t prescribe to style, genre, medium or “subject matter”—nor do I celebrate pluralism for pluralism’s sake. Rather, I’ve sought work that engages deeply with tradition; work that knows where it’s coming from and where it’s going. There is little serious public discussion of visual art in Ithaca and it is difficult to tell what most people think of my writing

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is a tendency to underestimate the quality or significance of local art. I’ve tried to address that above, but I think my back pages here offer the best evidence for its strength and its capacity to sustain me as a “serious” writer. The second issue concerns a lack of appreciation for reviewing—or better, criticism—as a genre of writing with its own history and aims. Though hardly incontrovertible, the philosopher of art Noël Carroll offers a common-sensical but rigorously elaborated definition of criticism as the reasoned evaluation of works of art. In his 2009 book “On Criticism,” he anatomizes the various elements of the mode: from description and contextualization to interpretation and evaluation. These inflect and support each other but find their ultimate aim in assessments of value. Crucially, Carroll emphasizes “evaluation in light of artistic categories” over “political or ideological” ones—not to deny art’s public significance but to uphold its inherent consideration. This is a tradition in which I do most of my writing, and I maintain that it’s an important one. What I do may not be for everyone, not even for artists or those engaged with the visual arts. Still, I’ve rarely felt that I was wasting my time or that of the sort of reader that I’ve tried to cultivate. Here’s hoping that Ithaca’s independent art scene is able to recover its vigor. It would be a poorer community without it.

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ably, explicitly stating that students will be reached by a variety of ways is meant to help students who live without broadband internet access, something that impacts plenty of people in Tompkins County, particularly in the more rural parts of the county. ICSD Superintendent Luvelle Brown, after Cuomo’s announcement, confirmed that ICSD would be moving forward with Distance Learning 2.0. He wrote to parents that the goal of the new policy was to “to provide our students with a truly engaging and empowering academic distance learning experience; to ensure our students have access to appropriate social & emotional content, skills, and strategies; to support our educators so that they have the ability to manage their own lives while planning and teaching through a distance learning approach.” Among each other, many teachers have seemed to take a similar approach fueled by a core set of values: engagement, adaptability and meeting the kids where they are without demanding too much during a strange, stressful time for students and their families. “I think just maintaining relationships is the most important thing,” DeWitt Middle School teacher Liz Quadrozzi wrote in an email. “Academics take a back seat, though I want to keep kiddos engaged and thinking. It’s clear we are not going to be able to meet every learning standard the way we would in regular school, but that’s okay. We have to be flexible and allow our kiddos to be flexible. I’ve been hosting video chats with my students, and recording videos of demonstrations.” Flexibility is clearly a crucial element for teachers. Danielle Angie, of New Roots Charter School, echoed the sentiment, saying that educators needed to come to grips with the reality that their students may have something more significant going on in their lives as a result of the outbreak that would outweigh something more trivial, like handing in an assignment on time. Empathy is an important part of teaching children, but particularly when there’s such extenuating circumstances as there are currently. New Roots’ teaching philosophy is somewhat project-focused, Angie said, which has inspired her to try to turn the ongoing outbreak experience into one that the kids can learn from -- or at the very least, to help them process what’s going on

around them day by day. “It was the perfect opportunity to do that because we are experiencing this crazy phenomenon of a pandemic,” Angie said. “The students who are engaged, they’re coming up with some very cool, authentic ideas for their projects [...] A lot of students are keeping personal journals and writing entries every day about things like ‘What is it like to be a teenager during a pandemic?’” Angie said that project has opened up some avenues for them to explore in terms of the differences between primary- and secondary-source documents, in that the students are literally creating their own primary-source documents in real time. That project might lead them to a joint effort with the History Center of Tompkins Center, Angie said, which is also searching for people to help them compile an archive of pandemic materials from the current day. “We have been offering a regular schedule Monday through Thursday, and then on Fridays teachers are available for office hours,” Angie said. Hour-long sessions are held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. “I feel like we’ve been chained to our computers, that’s been a little challenging with all these Zoom meetings and Google Hangouts [...] It’s been so necessary to maintain that connection, between myself and the students but just to them to maintain that connection.” No amount of planning and forethought can protect from the full number of pitfalls that could arise in the coming weeks, but Angie said New Roots is sending out feedback surveys to determine what their current programming’s strengths and weaknesses are so that hopefully they can address them as the closings of the physical school buildings stretches nearer and nearer to the end of the school year. “Just so we can assess how everything is going, what is going to be the best course of action to maintain student engagement throughout the rest of this school year,” Angie said. “I mean, there’s a good chance we’re not going back to the building. I don’t really know, but it’s hard to believe that by May [...] it’s just hard to believe that’s going to happen. So we’re constantly trying to find best practices and take into account all the different perspectives.”

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hristmas of 1979 leading into 1980 was a pivotal moment for me. I saw Steven Spielberg’s “1941” and did not like it. I resolved to publish some kind of film review newsletter that would warn people about bad movies. Inspired by Siskel & Ebert’ “At the Movies” on PBS, the idea of a newsletter evolved into “Ithaca Flicks,” my first public-access movie show, created with my friend and co-host Ken Miller. From January through May, Ken and I saw just about every movie that played on Ithaca’s (then) eight screens. Ken went back to his life, but I knew I’d found my passion, and I knew I was just getting started, one way or another. Back before everything closed down, Regal, Fandango and TCM were planning 40th anniversary screenings of 1980 classics like “The Shining,” “The Blues Brothers” and “Airplane!” If you have these DVDs in your collection, why wait? You can have your own celebration at home. Here are some other 1980 movies that deserve to be enjoyed again and again. ● ● ●

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Michael Apted was best known for the “Up” documentaries when he filmed the Loretta Lynn story, “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” It deserves to be mentioned when great bio-pics are discussed. Lynn’s rags-to-riches tale feels utterly real thanks to Apted’s documentary background. As a guitar player and singer, I can usually tell when people are playing and singing… and when they’re really not. Oscar winner Sissy Spacek as Lynn is really doing it all, and doing it perfectly. She and Tommy Lee Jones, playing Lynn’s husband, are terrific together; there’s a sweet scene where he takes her first publicity photo, using a bedsheet as a backdrop, and then barnstorming the country trying to get her record played on the radio. ● ● ●

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style movie interruption of “Flash Gordon” a few years ago, but you only roast the ones you love. I must have seen it three times in its theatrical run here in Ithaca at Christmas time. “Flash Gordon” is a big, colorful, campy, sexy and very funny comic-book romp; the kind you don’t even see in this modern age of Marvel and DC movies. Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson and Chaim Topol lead a terrific international cast of stars in this fast-moving space opera, including Timothy Dalton, Richard O’Brien {“The Rocky Horror Picture Show”), the immortal Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan, and my favorite Max Von Sydow performance as Ming the Merciless. Oh, yeah, and it has a score by Queen that still rocks. (“FLASH! Ah-ah!”) ● ● ●

I was a huge Robin Williams fan when “Popeye” opened at the holidays in 1980. At the time I was kind of stumped by what I saw. Here was what seemed to be a big, sloppy epic where Popeye, played by Williams, mumbled in a way that made him hard to understand. In fact, the entire cast mumbled. The songs were by some guy I had never heard of called Harry Nilsson. It’s only in retrospect that I get it now, but “Popeye” was the first Robert Altman film I had ever seen. The story follow’s E.C. Segar’s title sailor as he lands on the island of Sweethaven in search of his father. (Actually, the whole thing plays like a remake of Altman’s “McCabe and Mrs. Miller”, if you think about it.) Shelley Duvall is inspired casting as Olive Oyl, and the film is packed with sly scene stealers like Paul Dooley, Bill Irwin and Ray Walston. Tune in next week for part two!

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