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Supreme Court vacancy “as a contextual point in this debate.” The court could be important should a federal district judge’s ruling overturning Bureau of Land Management policy banning fracking come to the highest court. Clinton continued to say that her mother supports drilling depth regulations and “banning the chemicals that are most dangerous.” “She supports working with communities where it seems to be safe, where it’s never harmed anything, like Nebraska,” Clinton said, “which is much different land than New York. The EPA should always have the first and last word.” “I don’t understand what we have to

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New Round of Tests: Like Mom, Chelsea Lead Levels Still High Waffles on Fracking ast week the Tompkins County Health Department (TCHD) and the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) released results from two rounds of testing for lead in the water at Caroline and Enfield elementary schools. In early March one week apart TCHD and ICSD each did a round of testing at the two schools. Both rounds of testing took samples from the “first draw,” after water had been sitting in the pipes for six or more hours, and then another sample after a full flush. Between six and 12 locations were tested at each school. At Enfield, the highest first draw sample was 2,420 parts per billion (ppb) of lead in Room A12; after flushing, the same fixture tested at just over 26 ppb. All of the first draw samples in both rounds of testing at Enfield came back with lead levels above the federal action level of 15 ppb. At Caroline, seven places in the TCHD’s first draw tested above the action level of 15 parts per billion. The highest was 30.6 ppb, in the music room sink that was tested earlier by W20 Operators of Cortland and showed lead levels at 940 ppb in February. That round of testing, which returned particularly high contamination results, has been questioned by school and county officials—especially at Caroline, where the water system was depressurized overnight before testing due to a leak. Only four fixtures at Caroline tested above the action level in the second round of first draw testing, none higher than 22 ppb, though a sink in Room 27 replaced in January tested above action level after it was flushed as well. A drinking fountain at Caroline and an unspecified fixture at Enfield were also replaced in January, according to the reports. It was noted in both reports that changing the fixtures was “not effective in reducing lead concentrations below the action level” and more information is needed. At their April 12 meeting, Ithaca’s school board approved a contract with LaBella Associates up to $155,000 in work on remediating lead contamination. Part of that work will involve developing a “plumbing profile” of the schools. The full reports are available online at tompkinscountyny.gov/health.

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helsea Clinton, once and perhaps future First Daughter, appeared at Coltivare in downtown Ithaca on Monday, April 18 to campaign for her mom, Hillary Clinton, a day before New York’s 2016 primary election. Protesters stood up as a group at the beginning of her appearance, which attracted a roomful of about 150 people. “Judging by the people who showed up to protest today, we don’t live in a single-issue country,” Clinton said later while addressing the issue of Supreme Court appointments and her “mom’s Democratic opponent’s” focus on money in politics. “It’s hard to think anyone cares more about overturning Citizens United than my mom does,” Clinton said. Chelsea Clinton at Coltivare on Monday (Photo: Josh Brokaw) “Citizens United was set up in 2007 with literally one mission: to destroy her 2008 presidential lose by taking a stronger position on this,” candidacy.” Stein replied. “To say methane is not a The younger Clinton called for the problem doesn’t make sense scientifically Senate to “do its job” and hold a vote ...” on President Obama’s Supreme Court “Mom has said we should put a ban nominee Merrick Garland. She stressed on methane, ” Clinton replied. the importance of the Supreme Court, “But fracking is methane,” Stein given their role in upholding recent rejoined, before inviting Clinton to executive actions from Obama on coalmeet with Robert Howarth of Cornell, a fired power plants and immigration. prominent voice in the anti-fracking fight. Asked by Irene Stein, chair of Clinton concluded her comments the Tompkins County Democratic on fracking by saying that her mother’s Committee, about her mother’s position on fracking, Clinton referred back to the continued on page 4

▶ Sex Education, Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes has announced a new peer education program called Teen Council kicking off this spring in Ithaca. The Teen Council program provides a group of teen leaders from all over the Ithaca area comprehensive and medically-accurate sexual health training, thereby allowing them to become non-judgmental resources to their peers through both formal classroom presentations and informal social interactions. Teen Council members make presentations to their peers on a variety of issues, including STDs, healthy relationships, contraception, and

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he Tompkins County Municipal Courts Task Force reached an informal consensus in favor of instituting a special court to handle defendants charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI) but were still split on other matters at a meeting April 13. The task force is charged with examining the village court system in Tompkins County and ultimately providing recommendations to the county that would increase efficiencies. All members appeared to be in agreement that a separate DWI court, presided over by a superior judge, is a good idea, though they differed on reasons why. Ithaca City Court Judge Scott Miller said that he was ordered to create the first DWI court in the city of Ithaca, an idea that he originally opposed. “I am now a convert,” he said. “I would not want to see DWI cases go back on the regular docket.” He said it makes sense to have a separate court for DWI offenders because no matter how different the people may be, their offenses are essentially the same. Watching the court sentence second and third-time offenders is an effective deterrent for people facing the court for the first time, he said. Tompkins County District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson agreed with creating a “DWI part” of the Tompkins County District Court. “I don’t agree with the reasons given, but I agree it should be done,” she said, declining to elaborate further. Miller estimated that the DWI court would have to handle about 200 cases per year, and the task force has yet to iron out how the county would pay the additional expenses. “You can’t ignore the costs and mechanics of this,” agreed Ray Schlather, task force chair. “That’s got to be a part of the argument.” Moving past the DWI decision, Schlather steered the discussion into the contentious issue of creating a separate part that would handle all misdemeanors countywide. This would basically create a new criminal district court wherein defendants would be heard by a lawyer judge rather than a local town or village justice. Schlather said that after listening to testimony he’s concerned with the uneven way justice seems to be meted out in municipal courts. Town and village justices are in most cases elected to their positions, and their formal training and education on the law varies widely. “We’re not talking about different judgments from people who are equally trained,” Schalther said. “We’re talking about some serious deficits in the understanding of the justice system

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coming from some of our courts.” He acknowledged that a change in the courts is probably not feasible in the short term. “I think that if not a recommendation, it should be an aspiration because I think that’s where we need to be going,” he said. “How many courts are we going to have before we decide we need to buck up and have a central district court that handles everything?” wondered Jason Leifer, task force member and a member of the defense bar. “People are demanding changes, and they just don’t know how to make it happen because they look at Albany, and they see a city that thrives on inertia. Unless we come out of this with a clear plan to make things better, I don’t know what we’ve been doing for almost a year.” Several of the task force members disagreed with creating a centralized court. “We’re not saving any money at chelseaclinton contin u ed from page 3

position is “listening to what the scientists say,” a position which, she said, is also that of the EPA and the National Science Foundation. Clinton also addressed Sen. Sanders’ free college tuition proposal, questioning its reliance on whether states could or would raise the money she claimed was needed for its implementation. Asked by a Cornell student how he should tell his friends to vote, Clinton called for further civic engagement. “I’d encourage them to vote in local elections, too,” Clinton said, before relating a story about talking with a lady on the subway who complained about “the president” shutting down New York City recycling. “There are important countylevel issues, like fracking, and city issues like recycling ... The woman protesting the

all by doing this. We’re just creating this big bureaucracy and pulling further away from the local jurisdictions,” said Glenn Galbreath, Village of Cayuga Heights justice and member of the task force. He said that in the course of the task force’s research it “scared the hell” out of him to learn that it’s likely someone would be kept in jail overnight because to appear in a district court the next morning. “Local justices go out in the middle of the night,” he said. “I was shocked.” Noting a lack of consensus, the board agreed to deliberate further at its next meeting on April 27. The final report is scheduled for presentation to the Council of Governments on or about June 1. – Jaime Cone southreporter@flcn.org

Iraq War, I hope she’ll consider running for Congress or Senate. The only way change is achieved on issues you care most about is by running and holding political office.” “I hope my children feel about me like I do toward my mom,” Clinton, who is pregnant with her second child*, said in her concluding remarks. “I couldn’t imagine a better grandmother to my children than my mom. And I couldn’t imagine a better president for all the children than my mom.” Later, in the media corral, Clinton was asked what she did in her brief stop in Ithaca. Other than going to sleep, she said she made a stop at “an old ice cream shop.” “I had vanilla; it was good,” Clinton said. “Yes, I’m that pregnant person who likes vanilla ice cream.” – Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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▶ Green Guy, Ian Shapiro, founder of Taitem Engineering, was honored as Green Building Advocate of the Year during the 2016 New York State Green Building Conference held in Syracuse in April. The award is presented to an individual actively involved in green building and its supporting disciplines, either in a professional or volunteer capacity, and prominent in promoting the need to reduce the overall impact of the built environment on humans and the natural environment.

rom his first presentation to the Town of Ithaca planning committee members on Feb. 18, architect Murphy Antoine, a principal at Torti Gallas and Partners, Silver Spring, Maryland, has noted that the existing graduate studenthousing complex at Maplewood is divorced from the fabric of the surrounding town and city neighborhoods. “Our challenge,” he said, “is to integrate [the new development] into those neighborhoods.” The neighbors who have attended the town public meetings have agreed, expressing their worries about the scale of the proposed buildings and the associated traffic. The Maplewood housing complex stretches over 13 acres between Maple Avenue on the north and Mitchell Street on the south. Originally built in 1989, the structures are now regarded—after only 26 years—as too dilapidated to renovate. They replaced housing constructed for veterans in the late 1940s, when they flocked to Cornell with their families after World War II. The only trace of that era is the name of the central thoroughfare “Veterans’ Place.” The present development, due to be torn down in November 2016, consists of 170 one-story apartments, equivalent to 375 bedrooms. The proposed project will have 500 to 600 units, equivalent to 850 to 950 bedrooms. Unlike the existing community, the new buildings will be structurally varied, consisting of two- and threestory townhouses and several three- to four-story apartment buildings. Antoine noted that in addition to building taller structures, Torti Gallas would fit more residents into the parcel because the existing plan was an inefficient use of the land. The path of the East Ithaca Recreation Way runs between Maplewood and the ends of Miller and Worth streets. Antoine’s design would link the two neighborhoods “spatially” without putting actual roads across the recreation path. “Park spaces,” he said, “would form a connection, reinforcing pedestrian and bicycle tranportation.” A point of contention raised by a neighbor at the February meeting focused on the initial plan’s placement of four-story apartment buildings on Mitchell Street. Antoine responded that high buildings were not placed far back from the street in that neighborhood, citing the Cornell laboratory at 901 Mitchell and buildings like Fairview Apartments off Maple Avenue. Residents of Walnut Street, the new neighborhood (Belle Sherman Cottages) adjacent to the recreation path north of

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The Maplewood development, built in 1989, is falling apart and will be rebuilt. (Photo: Diane Duthie)

Mitchell Street, noted that residents of the tall buildings would be looking down into their backyards. Another audience member suggested moving them to the side of the parcel that borders the East Lawn Cemetery. At the March 15 planning board meeting, Antoine had moved two buildings there, but tall buildings still faced Mitchell Street. In February planning committee and town board member Rich DePaolo asked Jeremy Thomas, senior director of Cornell Real Estate, if the growth of the development represented a planned increase in the student population. Thomas said he expected graduate students to elect to live at Maplewood. Cornell is actively trying to house a larger percentage of their graduate students in university-owned units. At the March planning board meeting John Gutenberger, director of Cornell’s Office of Community Relations, said that Cornell provided housing for a smaller percentage of its graduate and professional students compared to its peer institutions. The new Maplewood complex would boost the percentage from 7 to 13 percent. • • • Murphy presented a sketch plan of the proposed development at the March 15 planning board meeting. The layout was now arranged in blocks like those of the adjacent neighborhoods. This is a change from the existing blocks of housing strung along a single winding central thoroughfare. The present “headin” parking will be replaced with parallel parking along narrower streets. The taller apartment buildings along Maple Avenue were placed “to meet the fabric of the city,” which takes the form of a Cornell office building, the Coal Yard apartments, and the Fairview Apartments. Planning board member Joe Haefele was still concerned about the tall apartment buildings on Mitchell Street. “I don’t want it to be fortress-like,” he said. Antoine

▶ Big Red Coach, Brian Earl, who helped the Princeton program return to national prominence during nine seasons as an assistant and associate head coach, has been named the Robert E. Gallagher ‘44 Head Coach of Cornell Men’s Basketball by Andy Noel, the Meakem Smith Director of Athletics and Physical Education. Earl becomes the 22nd head coach in school history and replaces Bill Courtney, whose contract was not renewed after six seasons directing the Big Red program.

countered that he had looked at the Cornell Master Plan, which showed the proposed re-development of East Hill Plaza as a more walkable place with taller buildings. In other words, that part of the town was headed toward a less suburban plan and he wanted his development to fit into that. In addition to qualms about planning, both the board and residents took issue with Cornell’s plan to employ EdR to manage the property. Jeffrey Resetco, EdR’s vice president of real estate development and reconstruction, explained his company’s partnership with Cornell, a first for the university. “We have the expertise,” he said. “The university realized that we can deliver on this faster and more economically that if they do it themselves.” EdR is negotiating a 50-year lease with Cornell, which will retain ownership of the property. This bothered Ithaca officials and residents. At present the development is tax-exempt because it is owned and managed by the university. But having a for-profit own and manage the buildings changed matters. Resetco said that the tax status was “not yet determined.” Planning board members made it clear that if EdR were involved they believed the property should be taxed. However, they have no authority in the matter. Board member Laurie Collins asked Resetco about the cost of rent: would it be market rate? “The rates are set by the developer,” said the vice president. “That will include a discussion with Cornell.” But it was his understanding that the rates would be the same as existing Maplewood rates, which are below market. Board members heard from graduate students, town residents and non-resident activists at the public hearing on March 15. Grad student Katherine Hurlman said she would prefer a focus on sustainability over luxury. Cornell stipends range from

▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of April 13-19 include: 1) Letter | Pragmatist for Bernie 2) Covert Man Indicted for Attempted Murder 3) Chelsea Clinton Visits Ithaca 4) Ithaca and the Presidency 5) Dining | Something Never Change and That’s Good For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Rural Land for Housing? O ur local housing conversation is typically centered on the city of Ithaca. As the only city in our county, and the county seat, that makes sense. The city is also one of the municipalities most impacted by the housing cost escalation associated with rising student rental rates. However, Tompkins County’s population is not overwhelmingly concentrated in the city, and even the student rental market extends Krys Cail into the surrounding towns and villages. So, we should also look at the rural parts of the county. Tompkins County’s population is most easily conceptualized by breaking it into three parts. Those parts are concentric circles geographically: the city of Ithaca, surrounded by the town of Ithaca, surrounded by the rural towns and villages. Population is distributed between those parts as per the following graph. Approximately one-half of the county’s population lives in the rural towns and villages; the other half lives in either the city or town of Ithaca. It is safe to say that most, but not all, of the 21,904 Cornell students and 6,769 Ithaca College students live among the almost 50,000 residents in the city/town of Ithaca. We might estimate that for every

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six residents of the city/town area, three are students. If the pressure of increasing numbers of students who are willing to pay higher rents is less pronounced in the rural areas, it is easy to see how there might be outward pressure for the surrounding rural towns and villages to accommodate more of the need for housing our permanent residents. However, there is a concern that such a pattern of growth is not environmentally friendly (work commutes increase, and there is more automobile reliance for other purposes, as well). It is also inconvenient for people who would prefer an urban lifestyle to be shunted by the market into more rural and far-flung suburban locations. Particular concern is raised for those who are the least well off, for whom proximity to jobs, shopping and services within walking distance—ideally, flat walking distance—is particularly important. Let’s consider how the housing crunch, which is most intense in the city of Ithaca, impacts the low-income population of the county. To do so, we need to take out of the picture a few preconceptions born of generalizations about U.S. poverty. It is accurate to claim continued on page 7

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arch is officially Women’s History Month in the U.S. This month I’ve had occasion to think about two prominent women from upstate New York, Toshi Seeger and Teresa Grady, in relation to one another in modern American history. Toshi Seeger was a filmmaker and producer, community organizer and political activist, concert promoter and businesswoman: highly accomplished, although not famous to the degree of her husband, musician Pete Seeger, to whom she was married from 1943 until her death, at age 91, in 2013. Pete Seeger did not live long without her. He died six months later, at age 94. In private conversation and in public statements, I heard Pete say he owed everything he was to Toshi. Certainly it was true of his career. Toshi salvaged Pete’s career when he was blackballed by the entertainment industry for his leftist politics. When radio and TV banned him and big venues would not have him, Toshi cobbled together a performance schedule for him at small clubs, independent shows, and community events. It was arduous work for her, even to find such venues in that unwired era, then to arrange contracts and itineraries with only mail and telephone. Generally she was dealing with novices or unprofessionals. Often there were limited funds. Sometimes, no doubt, there weren’t any, when it came time for the check. In 1957, Pete was indicted for contempt of Congress, and entered a state of legal limbo. Now Toshi was arranging work Pete might or might not meet. There was a trial, a conviction, an appeal, and endless legal planning. When Pete missed a gig for legal necessities, it was Toshi who called to explain and apologize and ask, perhaps, for another shot. Toshi dealt with the loss of time, the lack of money, and their children. In the end Pete was found innocent, but the battles

and hardships lasted years. Was Toshi a saint? Not entirely, Pete said. More than once she told him that the next time he got into trouble like this, he was just going to jail. I thought of this earlier this month when Teresa Grady died, at age 88. Throughout her life, Teresa was a hugely important political and religious activist and community organizer. She lived most of her adult life here in Ithaca, with the five children she had with her husband, John Grady. John was a noted scholar (indeed, a Fulbright scholar), but noted most for his activism against the war in Vietnam. In the early 1970s he was arrested for destroying military draft records as part of a group which was ultimately infiltrated by the FBI. The group went to trial as the Camden 28. In his book, Peace Warriors: The Story of the Camden 28, Edward McGowan quotes Supreme Court Justice William Brennan saying, “I think Camden was one of the great trials of the 20th century.” The group sought innocence through jury nullification of improper government charges against citizens with no intent to commit a crime, but to expose and oppose the government’s own malfeasance. The strategy was successful and the defendants were exonerated. As in Seeger’s trial, it ended well, but after a long crucible. The Seegers and the Gradys had young children at the time of their trials. Seeger faced, most likely, a maximum year in jail, while Grady faced many more, on felony charges. I asked Teresa about this once. “Teresa,” I said. “You were looking at your husband being locked up for years. You had five kids. No job. No job market for women at that time. And for a woman with five kids to raise? Impossible, right? What continued on page 7

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Commending BOCES Evolutionary Ability

Working for an organization that has developed a strong partnership with TST BOCES, we know just how important it is for the students in Tompkins County and the entire community. As the article (“What BOCES is now,” by Michael Nocella) in the April 5-12 issue of the Ithaca Times points out, TST BOCES has ensured that students in our area school districts will have more opportunity for success after graduation by evolving with the times. That necessity is something we at Challenge Workforce 6

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Solutions know well—and we know it’s no easy task. A perfect example of that evolution is the choice to build a second greenhouse on the TST BOCES campus, with an eye on the continued growth of the farm-to-table movement. By investing in creating such a program, our students will have a leg up on others interested in that industry. We know it will make a difference for those students, because we know the impact our Finger continued on page 10

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hether you look at downtown Ithaca, downtown Syracuse, downtown Detroit, or downtown Fort Worth, there is a major urban trend that is sweeping our country: center-city living. When I grew up, residents were fleeing downtowns, concerned that urban crime and grime contributed to a poor quality of life that could best be remedied by moving to the suburbs. For 50 years, downtown living was little more than a novelty, or, for those who could not afford to move, an act of endurance. Today, that characterization of downtown living is history. Urban centercity living has become a national obsession. From our largest to our smallest cities people are seeking out urban living. No longer just a novelty, downtown living has become a popular movement that shows no sign of slowing. In New York State, who would have imagined that people would want to return from the suburbs to live in places like downtown Syracuse, Buffalo, Utica, and Albany? Across upstate New York, many regions struggle to retain their population base. But their downtowns—they are showing growth. Here in Ithaca, we are also part of this exciting urban trend. Why live downtown, especially when housing prices are so reasonable at the periphery? Isn’t the urban core dirty and noisy? “I have no yard;” “I have no privacy.” What motivates someone to want to live downtown? In collaboration with Way2Go, a local alternative transportation advocacy organization, the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA) undertook a survey of downtown residents this past fall to better understand who lives in our downtown. We held receptions at the major residential buildings of downtown, meeting with several hundred residents. Over 100 took an extensive survey to help us better characterize their motivations and behaviors. What we learned was that people moved downtown because they could. Folks consciously chose downtown over some other location. They liked the walkability of downtown Ithaca. With a Walk Score of 97 out of 100, downtown Ithaca is indeed a walker’s paradise. They liked the amenities that downtown living offered; coffee shops, bakeries, specialty stores, restaurants and bars, movies and entertainment, and the public library were all cited as valued attractions. They liked urban living. Some folks moved here from more urban settings and sought out our community’s most urban neighborhood. Some folks simply wanted a change from suburban or rural living. Still others were interested in reducing their carbon footprint and saw downtown living as

one real and meaningful way to make a contribution to the fight against climate change. Downtown residents were more racially and ethnically diverse than the general population. They spanned the economic spectrum. They tended to have one or, in many cases, no household car. They relied on TCAT, Ithaca Carshare, and other forms of transportation. They liked their apartments, typically had few concerns about noise, and found downtown Ithaca to be safe and clean. They were young adults and young professionals. They were empty-nesters and baby boomers seeking a dynamic and stimulating lifestyle without the headaches of homeownership. There were also senior citizens seeking independent living arrangements that would put them close to most of their daily needs. Young seamlessly lived next to old. Within buildings most people knew their neighbors, although beyond their buildings, that familiarity appeared to drop off. In 2000 there were 429 units of downtown housing in the core business improvement district. Today, the number of units stands at 669 and will grow to 790 in several years as projects in the development pipeline are built. The 2020 Downtown Strategic Plan called for 1,500 new units to be built in the urban core in and around downtown. In that same plan we identify some two dozen possible places where infill development can occur and mixed-use projects with housing might be built. In the downtown and in the walkable surrounding areas, including the Chain Works project, it is indeed possible to meet this urban development goal. The DIA has engaged the Danter Company, a national housing market research firm, to undertake a downtown housing market demand study to better understand the breadth and scope of the downtown residential marketplace. Over the past five years greater downtown has emerged as the city’s fastest growing neighborhood. National trends suggest this growth will continue. A new Danter study will help us define and plan for this anticipated growth. To many people, downtown living remains an enigma. What do these properties and units look like? Downtown living units represent a wide spectrum of types, sizes, and layouts. New projects seek to provide variety and offer amenities that differentiate themselves from their competitors. Each spring, the DIA has organized a self-guided tour of downtown living spaces. This year the tour is scheduled for Saturday, April 23 from noon to 4 p.m. People can visit up to 10 different units, learning about downtown living and becoming acquainted with some of

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the amenities that residents routinely use. The Downtown Living Tour starts on the Commons at the Downtown Visitor Center, where folks buy $5 tickets and get a lanyard that enables them to see any or all of the showcased properties. From the brand new micro-units in the Carey Building to renovated Commons units in the building that houses Mia, even the large luxury units in Gateway Commons, this is a once-ayear opportunity to learn more about this national trend that has become a key part of Ithaca. To learn more about the Downtown Living Tour, visit downtownithaca.com. •

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that cities in the U.S. are often filled with many areas of concentrated poverty— including nearby cities in our region such as Syracuse and Rochester, where child poverty rates top 50 percent. But, the city of Ithaca is not this kind of city. Poverty within our county is not concentrated in the city. In fact, the percentage of both families and individuals living below the poverty level in our county is actually lower in the city than it is in many of the other municipalities. Data from a 2003 special tabulation that Tompkins County Planning had prepared, which removed college students from the tabulation, documents the percentage of poor residents is higher in many towns outside the city. Although figures are somewhat old, removing the college students from the mix shows a much more accurate picture, and this is the latest date for which that special tabulation is available. Arguably, displacement of the poor to the rural areas has increased since this point in time. Both the viability of local farming and agriculture, as well as the county’s greenhouse gas emission goals, are supported by urban densification versus rural and suburban sprawl. And rural towns do not need to “shoulder more of the burden” of affordable housing, as they are already doing their fair share. Increasing student populations are acting like a centrifuge, flinging further from the center people who have the most need of a walkable urban environment. What can be done? Changes to neighborhood character are often resisted, in all neighborhoods. Rural or undeveloped land is therefore more attractive to build on than “teardowns” in existing neighborhoods. But if we look at our housing situation from a systems point of view and integrate our goals for climate protection, walkable neighborhoods, and affordable housing, we must conclude that the least dense, least developed parts of the urbanized area of the county—the city and town of Ithaca—should be targeted for further development first. To provide a specific example, there are currently three golf courses of many acres each within this urbanized area, in prime locations. The city owns one, and Cornell owns another. How many country clubs are needed inside an urbanized area that is desperate for housing, in an era in which fewer people even play golf? Before we consider more building in our rural townships, let’s develop open lands in the current urbanized area. •

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$24,000 to $28,000 per year. To pay 33 percent of that in rent entails a monthly payment of $660 to $770, while 40 percent would be $800 to $900. Joe Wilson, Brian Eaton and Kay Wagner all urged the board to consider alternative energy sources rather than the planned natural-gas heat and air conditioning. Wagner argued for “net zero” housing and use of local labor at a living wage. Kevin Miller, an Ithaca High School senior argued for use of nonimpervious surfaces. Adam Stein had heard no discussion of pedestrian safety, which bothered him. David Marsh, who represented 230 tradesmen at Cornell, said he and his colleagues had built the existing Maplewood, were embarrassed by the poor building materials used by the university, and that they had not been asked to be part of the new construction. Katherine Russell of the Tompkins County Workers Center asked EdR to work with the building trades council. Brian Crandall, who frequently writes about local development, urged Cornell not to sacrifice local workers to pursue unsustainable development goals. Liaison to the development team Scott Whitham noted that it was assumed the project would have an environmental impact and EIS would be done. In addition, community meetings are planned and their dates, times, and locations posted at maplewoodithaca.com. • – Bill Chaisson editor@ithacatimes.com IthacaNotes contin u ed from page 6

on earth were you going to do if he was found guilty?” I could ask her things like this because she was like family to me. I knew her well enough; and I knew her well enough to see, in a flicker of her eyes, the pain and worry of those years. But that look quickly passed. And then I saw another: a wan smile, with a solid gaze. And that look told me two things. One, that Teresa had bravery, strength, and faith beyond any persecution. Two, that if she had ever been asked this question before, about her own life in those years, it hadn’t been often enough. The world’s notice went to Peter and T

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This is the last in a series on sustainable development organized by Sustainable Tompkins as background to a community conversation on housing for Earth Day, April 23, 12-3 at The Space@GreenStar. Visit sustainabletompkins.org for details. /

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Going Up Again Property values jump in Collegetown

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nless Cornell closes its market this fall, when the Fontanas’ new doors, the students will building on Eddy (56 beds), Pat Kraft’s continue to return to Dryden South (40 beds), and Josh Lower’s Collegetown, year after year. Collegetown Crossing (96 beds, plus a “It’s like the rise and GreenStar grocery store) are complete. fall of the Nile,” said Christopher Anagnost, Other developments in the pipeline include whose family has owned property in Cornell’s Maplewood rebuild, an 850-bed Collegetown since 1949. “They bring all this project (in the town of Ithaca), along with wealth to Collegetown, leave in the summer a five-story, 76-bedroom building from and come back in the fall.” Todd Fox that’s in the planning approval All of those stages and the students need “Like many places in Tompkins 102-bedroom somewhere to live. Avenue 102, a County, Collegetown properties project on the 300 While Cornell’s student population saw a significant change in their block of College has slowly grown assessments this year, averaging Avenue from over the last a 15-percent increase in the Avramis Real Estate. decade, so has the The last phase neighborhood. That can later of Collegetown number of beds lead to higher rents, if tax rates Terrace is under on its campus. The most recent aren’t lowered in line with the construction, a dormitories 344-bed building increased valuation.” opened in 2008 that will bring along Stewart Avenue on West Campus, the total number of rooms there to 1,245, housing nearly 2,000 residents in six total, about 600 more than were available buildings. in the buildings on the property before “Against the 22,000-some student body construction started in 2012. at Cornell, a couple of hundred more seems Developers are putting a high value on like it’s meaningless,” said John Novarr, land in the center of Collegetown, a trend developer of Collegetown Terrace, “but that “will continue until there are enough when 150 or 250 beds translates down to apartments in those locations to house all where people live and you see what it takes who want to live there,” said Jason Fane. to get an apartment building up in this According to Anagnost, Fane was the community, a couple hundred beds either developer who “showed the way” in the way is meaningful.” 1970s to focusing on central locations. Nearly 200 new bedrooms in Right now, according to other developers, Collegetown are scheduled to be on the Novarr is setting the market. A limited 8

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Th r e e k i n d s o f s t u d e n t h o u s i n g : a pa r t m e n t b l o c k , 2 1 5 c o l l e g e Av e n u e a n d t h e G r a n dv i e w ( P h o t o s : J o s h B r o k aw) liability corporation called several properties have “215 CA Associates” also changed hands in the paid $5.3 million for 215 last couple years. With no College Avenue last July 30, parking spot requirements the same day that Cookanymore in the center of Coll LLC took out a new Collegetown, developers mortage with Tompkins can build more costTrust Company on 202, effective buildings that 204, 206, and 210 College maximize the number of Avenue, along with a units they put on a parcel property on Cook Street, of land. for $5.25 million. Both of In the larger financial those LLCs have the same context, real estate monies address as Novarr-Mackesy. have been flowing into Both Anagnost and college towns across the Chr istopher David Beer, whose family country since the crash of A n ag n o s t owns the Grandview, ( P h o t o : J o s h B r o k aw) 2008. Low interest rates a renovated stick-built encourage financing large apartment building next projects. door to 215 College Avenue, called the $5.3 “The market stability of investing in a million price “eye-popping.” college town has been broadcast over the “It sets the level for the next guy’s sale,” past six years nationwide,” Anagnost said. Anagnost said. “The people that bought “Investors are told by bankers if you want it know exactly what they’re doing. They a secure investment, buy a property near a know the value to them of that unique major university.” location.” “If you compare student housing to Part of the building boom comes from shopping malls, when the economy goes the city’s Collegetown form-zoning changes south, [malls] suffer,” Novarr said. “The two years ago; that allows developers to put economics of retail in America change so fast that it can be hard to keep up … it’s in mixed-use buildings up to 70 feet on the 200 and 300 blocks of College Avenue, with possible in real estate to find niches that are less risky than others. I would suggest residential buildings up to 45 feet allowed student housing is one of those areas.” on the 100 block of College Avenue, where

N i c k L a m b r o u o n E d dy S t r e e t ( P h o t o : D i a n e D u t h i e) Like many places in Tompkins County, Lambrou said he’s still got a couple Collegetown properties saw a significant apartments for rent he’s “never had at this change in their assessments this year, stage of the game,” but he’s unworried about averaging a 15 percent increase in the the future of his family enterprise, which neighborhood. That can later lead to higher focuses on smaller “boutique” buildings. rents, if tax rates aren’t lowered in line with More units available “will be good the increased valuation. for tenants as far as living conditions and “One would think if assessments choices go,” Lambrou said. “The jury is went up 10 percent, the [tax] rate would out whether it will impact rents … What drop 10 percent. If we’re lucky there will I think people may not understand is new be a three or four percent drop in the tax buildings are not inexpensive to construct. burden,” Novarr said. “It’s pretty unusual Perhaps these new buildings coming online for the general assessment to grow eight or will help rents in the long-term, but it’s hard 10 percent in a year. That doesn’t make it to predict the long-term.” wrong.” “Some of the crappier stuff – there’s “The landlord is the ultimate and not as much of it left anymore – those may easiest scapegoat because it’s one person suffer a bit,” Lambrou continued. “And they who everyone can just point to and say may ask for a lot more rent due to location look at that, they keep raising the rents,” and may still get it.” said Nick Lambrou. “One Anagnost and Lambrou place you can go to and try both praised the city’s to fight the number is the building inspectors for assessment office, but their getting tougher on the hands are tied: they base much-feared “fire traps” of it on value. You can go to Collegetown. Those houses the boards, to Common that still “look worn” are not Council, and ask they not necessarily the landlords’ spend so much, but there fault, Lambrou suggested. are thousands of hands “They’re great kids, involved in that process.” but if they go mountain With more units on the biking in a storm and come market, there has been talk upstairs or flush toilet paper going round that the rental down the drain, that’s got market is a bit slower than nothing to do with the in recent years – though landlord,” Lambrou said. Anagnost remembers Anagnost suggested J o h n N ova r r a time in the ‘60s when that students might prefer ( F i l e p h o t o) students lined up to rent the older-style housing, rooms in boarding houses rather than going “from a where the landlord “didn’t dorm to something that have to do boo.” feels like a dorm.” “We had a couple vacancies last year “If they’re more cost-conscious, if it’s we haven’t seen in the past,” Beer said. “I got heat, hot water, and no rodents they have heard from other landlords that think don’t much care,” Anagnost said. “But if things are a little softer, but that’s kind of they’re paying $1,000 a month, they’ll be anecdotal.” expecting more.” Fane put it flatly, via email: “Overall “If you’re a developer, the cost to add demand is up, but less than the increase in amenities is relatively low compared to the supply, so less competitive landlords will cost of the whole project,” Beer said. “It’s a suffer vacancy.” balancing act, but percentage-wise if you

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f o n ta n a p r o j e c t o n E d dy s t r e e t ( P h o t o : J o s h B r o k aw) can get more rent for a fancy place than for a cheaper place, why not put in the amenities.” “We’ve got no problem renting our more affordable places in older houses,” Beer added. “I think they rent easier than the higher-end ones.” Beer’s family renovated Grandview since purchasing it in 1999 and earned a historic preservation designation a couple years back. He’s not the biggest fan of the new zoning, envisioning his property surrounded by a “bunch of 70-foot tall modernish concrete and glass buildings” once 215 and other properties are redeveloped. Lambrou’s operation completed a couple of new buildings last year, and are considering a couple more in a “very embryonic stage.” “We don’t want to do that 150-bed sized place. We’d rather design something more boutique, for different settings and let the big shots do the cookie cutters,” Lambrou said. “That’s basically the same apartment repeated over and over, which you can do because of cost.” Over the decades, it’s Anagnost’s T

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belief that cost aside, the quality of student housing has improved since the days when most boarding houses had a family or a widow occupying one of the apartments. “There’s more money reinvested in properties than I’ve ever seen here in Ithaca,” Anagnost said. “This class of landlords appreciate maintenance is important to compete with other properties.” Whether the current building Collegetown building boom was the right decision for individual developers, only time will tell. What they’re betting on is a trend line that says the students will return, and they will pay rent. “About the only thing I can say for sure in a general way, doing this for 35 years, is I don’t ever remember rents going down,” Novarr said. “There will be a blip, where an apartment you were able to rent successfully one year didn’t get moved in till two weeks before and you’re anxious to get someone in and take less money. That doesn’t happen year after year. It’s a fluke. In general real estate is a very solid investment in Ithaca … and there’s more for sale that I can ever remember.” • /

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Making Breaktaking Descents Local whitewater kayaker appears in film By Ste ve L aw re nc e

ountain Mind Collective is a West Coast-based video production company that focuses on whitewater kayaking, and their films—featuring some of the world’s most elite paddlers on some of the world’s wildest rivers, shot and edited with stateof-the-art equipment—are nothing short of breathtaking. Sounds cool, right? But how, you might ask, is this related to life here in Ithaca? I will answer that with a two-part response … One: Mountain Mind Collective’s latest film will be shown next week at the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA). Two: One of the featured athletes is Galen Volckhausen, a 21-year-old Ithaca native who is among the sport’s youngest world-class paddlers. I cannot wait to see it. I wrote a story about Galen a few years ago when he was rising through the ranks of his extreme sport, and I recalled seeing him as a 7-year-old, riding his mountain bike several miles through 4 inches of snow with his father to get to the EAC Montessori School. While most kids would be relieved to get off their bike in such cold weather, Galen would turn to his dad, Jim, who was an instructor in Cornell’s outdoor education program, and say, “Dad, may I just blow off school and spend the day riding?” That adventurous spirit served Galen well as a snowboarder, a mountain biker, a skateboarder, and in a few other

drops [he was the second person to go over the 113-foot Big Banana Falls in Mexico], and disappearing into the foam for a few seconds before popping back up. How do you sleep at night?” Jim offered, “He’s definitely a thrill seeker—and he got some of that from me—but he learned a lot about safety from some great teachers at COE [Cornell Outdoor Education], and the people in the paddling community really balance each other out and take care of each other.” Todd Wells and his brother Brendan are partners in the Mountain Mind Collective, and he told me they have been working on this film for the past 18

endeavors, but whitewater kayaking is his passion. I have been following Galen on Facebook for a few years, and I have been astounded at some of the breathtaking descents, the huge waterfall drops, and the helmet-mounted hidef cameras he has used put the viewer right into the experience. I asked Jim Volckhausen (who now works at the Team and Leadership Center at Cornell) how Galen’s career has been evolving, and he told me, “Thanks to sponsorships from, among others, Dagger, Airborne Athletics, Northwest River Supplies, and Mountain Mind Collective, Galen has Ithacan Galen Volckhausen (left) in his element at an early age. (Photo provided) been able to travel to Ecuador, Chile, Canada, Colombia, New Zealand, months. They are rolling it out via some and Iceland.” Jim added, “He has done a smaller venues (like CSMA), and they lot of whitewater competitions, but what will be putting forth an effort to get it into he really cares about is getting to remote some of the more relevant film festivals. rivers to get firsts descents. He does a Todd told me, “There are seven or blend of working different jobs, and he’s eight featured paddlers, and Galen is now getting more into video editing.” definitely one of the stars of the film.” The I asked Jim a father-to-father extreme athlete and filmmaker said he question, saying, “Jim, I have seen the remembered meeting Galen when he was incredible footage of Galen getting sucked downstream in a raging river, doing insane about 16, and he recalled, “He was really

young, and full of heart and fire, and I remember thinking he was this wild and crazy guy without much direction, but he was a really talented paddler.” Todd added, “Over time, I have watched him mature, and my respect for him has really grown, as has my trust in him. It has been very cool to watch him grow up and mature into one of the most progressive paddlers in the world.” • Mountain Mind Collective’s new feature-length film For the Love will be shown on Tuesday, April 26 at 8 p.m. at the Community School of Music and Arts (330 E State St.). Youropinions contin u ed from page 6

Lakes Fresh Food Hub has had for adults interested in that world. The misconception of the general public that BOCES is simply a trade school is unfortunate, because it really is a place for students to gain not just a high quality education, but also the ability for increased options once they graduate. It’s clear to us at Challenge how much of a difference TST BOCES makes in our region—largely because their approach is much like ours in helping people with disabilities and other barriers to employment gain the skills they need to find the jobs they deserve. Our community is better because of the work BOCES does every day. –Joe Sammons, Executive Director, Challenge Workforce Solutions, Ithaca

Ithaca: Keep Away

Local planners say that Ithaca has a severe housing shortage and very low vacancy rates. Given this, why are the Chamber of Commerce and the city working so hard to promote Ithaca and bring in still more people? Instead of promoting Ithaca -- for example, as the “Best of ...this or that,” shouldn’t we be putting out ads such as, “Ithaca, NY: Second worst climate in the country, after the top of Mt. Washington” (even if it isn’t really true)? – Betsy Darlington, Ithaca

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Bringing Women Into the Trades Hammerstone teaches carpentry to those who did not grow up with it By Bi l l Ch a i s s o n

here are two Klemperer Johnson had parts to Hambeen thinking about teachmerstone: a caring carpentry to woman, pentry school but in the winter of 2012-13 for women and a friend proposed a project a contracting business. that crystallized the curricu“As the school grows,” lum in her mind: build a tiny said founder Maria Klemhouse. perer Johnson, “I have growInitially she only offered ing need for teachers, but the classes on Saturdays, there aren’t that many woman when she wasn’t working on carpenters and even fewer contracting jobs. She taught who are advanced enough to in a three-side Morton buildbe good teachers. Plus I need ing, which she described as a TA [teaching assistant]. I’m a “one-and-a-half season looking for people to step into barn.” Now she offers classes those roles. year round and holds them “If I didn’t have the in Gordie Gallup’s barn at carpentry business,” she Silver Queen Farm during continued, “it would be hard the colder months. to go find someone to teach. “Classes filled quickly,” Contracting is a continuation she said, “so we expanded.” of the education model; I hire She starts her students out women for the crews, either with a two-day basic skills my students or others.” course, which she offers Klemperer Johnson said once a month. At $300 it is she couldn’t have the school the least expensive class she Maria Klemperer Johnson, at right, with a basic carpentry skills class. They start with hand tools and progress to power tools. (Photo: Diane Duthie) without the contracting busioffers, and there is a constant ness, but she could have the demand for it. contracting business without “We cover the fundamen“The community college in Seattle has creative.” the school. tals,” Klemperer Johnson said, courses in carpentry, woodworking, and It was 2001 and she was 27 years Her own trajectory into the trades “what tools to carry, measuring, marking, boatbuilding, ” Klemperer Johnson said. old. She got her first professional job in began when she was building things in her cutting. We start out with hand tools and carpentry at the Red Barn Cabinet Shop in progress to using power tools. And then father’s hobbyist wood shop. She then took “I had taken those and then Cornell fell in my lap.” She had applied to and been Brooktondale. Eight years later she stared shop in high school and bought books we get into fastening, use of screws and accepted by the Department of Earth and Hammerstone, specializing in traditional while she was in college so that she could nails.” In this class the students build saw Atmospheric Sciences to study structural timberframe and strawbale construction. build Shaker-style tables. horses, a project that is simple, but will be geology, a subdisciplines that includes a lot Klemperer Johnson distinguished timbeShe got her bachelor’s degree in of continuing practical use to the beginner frame from post-and-beam construction, computer programming and went to work of field work. carpenters. She moved to Ithaca to attend Cornell, noting that the latter used metal connecin the field out in Seattle. But she hated Graduates of the basic skills class are but found that academic life was not for tions in the joinery, while timberframe sitting in a cubicle in a climate-controlled eligible to take Intro to Woodworking joints are made entirely of wood. Hambuilding; she wanted a job that would take her. “Was using my body and my mind merstone makes all its joinery by hand her outside where she could work with her in geology,” the carpenter said, “but there continued on page 15 was no creative aspect to it. Building is rather than having it made in a factory. whole body. COMMUNITY

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Four Decades of Craft Handwork made the cooperative model work By Bill Chaisson

andwork Cooperative is ready to celebrate their 40th anniversary in June. From their beginnings as an effort to regularly get the crafts of 12 different artists in front of larger audience, the coop has grown to have over 40 members and hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales per year. According to David Kingsbury, a potter and long-time member, the founders were members of area communes (it was the ‘70s, man). Carol Schmoock joined Handwork in 1979, four years after the founding, and became the manager of the coop in 1987. She began compiling an institutional history of Handwork, which has recently been finished by Bruce Calnek, a woodworker and member since 2000. “We thought there ought to be a history,” said Calnek. “I wrote one for my department at Cornell, which no longer exists.” Calnek was chair of the Department of Avian and Aquatics Veterinary Medicine for 20 years. Calnek went through the meeting notes of the executive committee to reconstruct who had been a member and when.

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But Van Doren remembers the professor), which was accepted by the experience fondly. “We had ‘barter day,’” cooperative. He and two other emeriti no he recalled. “[Customers] would brings longer have to work his shifts, and they thing in and we’d given them something allow the coop to take a larger percentage from the shop. I remember this guy of their sales. brought in the biggest crescent wrench I’ve “Every time you introduce a new ever seen—I still have it on the wall in my item,” said Szabo, “it has to be accepted.” shop—and we gave him something for it.” Szabo, who often tires of making the same Van Doren said there were other thing over and over, has to have each craft outlets before Handwork, including new idea juried. Customers, she said, Fantasy Fair on State often request a specific Street and the Hubbard item. She is happy Hill commune in to do commissioned Candor, but Handwork work, but some other has endured. They members are not, opened for business because it is relatively in June 1976 in three time-consuming. Some rooms above what is members make their now Viva Tacqueria. living entirely by selling In 1980 they moved to crafts, while others like 106 West State Street, Szabo, who teaches at which is now part of TST BOCES, treat it as the existing store. They supplementary income. moved to the corner She said people space in 1984, expanded remain members of the into the adjacent space cooperative as long in 1991 and then into as the money they June Szabo, member of the executive committee and their old space at 106 make is greater than secretary. (Photo: Bill Chaisson) West State. In 2001 or equal to the cost they bought the whole of the time they have three-story building. to work each month. According to the history prepared by That is not the only reason to remain a Schmoock and Calnek, sales were $10,000 member, however. to $12,000 for the first two years. By 2000 “I like it because I try out new ideas,” sales had topped $600,000. In 1990 the she said. “I have a group of people that I executive committee was formed and the can get answers from.” One of the other manager’s position was made full-time. members is a chemical engineer, and The cooperative was in sound enough Szabo quizzed him on finishes for her financial condition to make extensive metal work. repairs to the old building and weather “We hope that you’re going to want exile from the space for several months to participate,” she said. “We want your after a fire in January 2008. After 2014 opinion, your feedback. We hope that you business and operations/finance manager don’t just work in the store. What people position were created to replace the like is to interact with other artists.” general manager role. § One of the founding members, artisan blacksmith Durand Van Doren, On June 3 and 4 Handwork will have remained in the coop for 10 years. “The having a 20-percent-off sale on everything meeting and the group decision making,” in the store. On gallery night they will he said, “that wasn’t that important to me. adding some special features, including I was going out of town to find work, so artist demonstrations and “other fun keeping up with stock was hard. I would things.” get commissions that would make that difficult.”

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The mortgage interest deduction lets homeowners deduct the interest on home mortgage loans valued at $1 million or less. This deduction is especially helpful in the first few years of a mortgage, when the monthly payment goes largely toward interest. Property taxes Everyone knows that being a homeowner means paying taxes on your property to local government, whether that’s the city, county or local school district. What you might not know is that these taxes are entirely deductible from your federal income tax. That’s good news for homeowners, and it’s another tax advantage that renters don’t enjoy. Mortgage insurance premium deduction Federal Housing Administration and others offer an attractive low-downpayment option, but FHA also requires the purchase of mortgage insurance on all loans. Sometimes with a conventional loan, if you put down less than 20%, a lender will also require mortgage insurance. The good news is that you can deduct mortgage insurance from your federal income taxes as an itemized deduction up to an adjusted gross income of $109,000 ($54,500 if married filing separately), provided other conditions are met. That’s no small thing. Home sellers If you sell your property for more than you purchased it because you have made improvements or the market has improved, then the capital gains are free from federal income tax, up to $250,000 for individuals and $500,000 for joint

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On March 7 Stephen S. Romaine, president and chief executive officer of Tompkins Financial Corporation headquartered in Ithaca, was elected by his peers to chair the New York Bankers Association (NYBA) for the 2016 one-year term. “A healthy banking industry is a fundamental component of a healthy economy,” said Romaine. “NYBA’s primary mission is to ensure that our industry works collaboratively with government toward our mutual goal of prosperity for all New Yorkers. Our members care deeply about the well-being of the communities they serve.” The New York Banking Association (NYBA) was formed in 1894 as an association of banks and financial

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culpture has a complicated, qualified place in Ithaca’s art world. Although frequently shown as public outdoor art, it is rarely the focus of a compelling exhibition. Shown indoors alongside paintings and other wallhung work, it often feels like an afterthought, indifferently placed. (To be sure, this may be less a matter of curatorial laziness than a difficulty inherent in presenting threedimensional work in indifferent architectural settings.) And as with any other form of visual art, most of it is mediocre at best. Whether evoking past-its-prime hippie spiritualism or

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the canned “radical” gestures of academic conceptualism, it can be difficult to find work that goes beyond cultural parochialism—work that strives to enrapture the viewer with its expressive physical presence. On-view this month through May 1 at the State of the Art Gallery, “Prophetic Thunder: Sculpture by Gurdon Brewster” is filled with work that does just that. A long-time member of the cooperative gallery, Brewster’s cast bronze work is unique in local art. His

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Kipling’s classic bursts onto Hollywood By Br yan VanC ampe n The Jungle Book, directed by Jon Favreau; Midnight Special, written and directed by Jeff Nichols, both playing at Regal Stadium 14.

to admit while watching Jon Favreau’s take on The Jungle Book that it probably looks great in 3-D. I will try to see it in that format while it’s here. Favreau’s version is that good. The 1967 Disney ‘toon version may have been the most slapdash effort to date, but it certainly wasn’t Kipling; Walt

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Opting for a grittier realism, the orphaned “man-cub” Mowgli has cuts, bruises, and scars from his life among the animals. Sethi is so good, so tuned into relating with the other animal characters, that you’d swear he’s really talking to his wise panther mentor (Ben Kingsley); the goofy, goldbricking bear Baloo (Bill Murray); or the hissing, duplicitous snake Kaa (Scarlett Johansson), when he was probably looking at tennis balls on sticks. In the midst of all the painterly “circle of life” mayhem, Favreau finds a verisimilitude that’s thrilling. The only odd aspect of the film is that it brings back the old Sherman brothers songs in full force; at first Murray sings “The Bear Necessities” in a kind of improvised, off-the-cuff fashion, which is charming as all get-out, but then we get the full-on Dixieland arrangement from the cartoon, and the effect is a little incongruous. Christopher Walken reprises the ape role of Louie, and also does the ape number from the cartoon; again, it doesn’t quite fit tonally with the rest of Favreau’s vision. This Jungle Book either needed more music or no music at all. • • • On the heels of 10 Cloverfield Lane comes Midnight Special, Jeff Nichols’ first studio film and his first real brush with science fiction and A-list visual effects. Like 10 Cloverfield Lane, the less you know, the more it will rock you. Midnight Special feels like Nichols’ version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind or Firestarter, but with a low-to-the-ground intensity unique to itself. We open on the road and on the move. Frequent Nichols collaborator Michael Shannon and Joel Edgerton are blazing across Texas, headlights off and wearing infrared goggles. They have somewhere to be in a few days, and they are risking their lives to protect an 8-year-old boy (Jaeden Lieberher) with amazing powers and abilities. Needless to say, authorities of various types, including Adam Driver as an NSA agent, are in pursuit. Rarely have I experienced such an intense build-up, even in these types of genre chase vehicles; the pacing is so powerful and relentless that I had actual knots in my stomach from the very beginning. You know you’re in good storytelling hands, and that all this movement and action is leading to something amazing, and Midnight Special—no, you won’t hear the Creedence Clearwater Revival song—does not disappoint. •

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out of as natural materials as possible. “This is not just a hippie concept,” contin u ed from page 11 she said. “Straw bales make great insulation, and we want to avoid the use of foam where they will learn about framing, trim because we want to eliminate the use of carpentry and build bookcases. [fossil] carbon.” “Our courses are short form or à la Klemperer Johnson said that the carte,” she said, “rather than a semester global warming potential of the building long. You can’t go out and become a carmaterials themselves is greater than the penter after you take one. Most carpenters energy performance of the house. learn on the job. You could become an “Even if we build a conventional house apprentice after taking the two-day class.” with low-carbon materials, it’s going to The woodworking class is four-days have a high impact when it comes to fightlong. “Rough Framing -Build a Tiny ing global warming,” she said. “And we House” is a week-long and will be offered also take into consideration the toxicity of in June. Klemperer Johnson is not a zealthe materials for the residents of the house ous booster of tiny houses as a solution to and for the builders.” the housing shortages or a sustainability The members of Hammerstone crews exercise. “They work great for classes,” she said. are largely made up of women of childbearing age. That, Klemperer Johnson said, “You have all the conventions of building, has made her think about this subject a bit but on a smaller scale and you can build more than her male counterparts are likely to do. So far Hammerstone Builders has focused on doing additions and renovations. For example, they did a wholesale gut and rebuilding of the former Trumansburg Miniature Golf building in order to turn it into the new home of the Lakshmi yoga studio. “We’ve also built up a reputation for rot remediation,” Klemperer Johnson said. “Rot is often caused by poor window installation.” Her crews redesign and rebuild the framing and install new windows. Hammerstone has one parttime and two full-time employees—Miwa Oseki Robbins, Liz Pickard, and Elisabeth Harrod— with another full-time worker due to return from a hiatus soon. They built a timberframe barn last year and Klemper Johnson is looking for an opportunity to build a house according to her principles from the ground up. Klemperer Johnson pointing out a fundamental: measure twice; A well designed house in cut once. (Photo: Diane Duthie) the Hammerstone mold would maximize southern window exposure and shade them with overhangs one in a shorter amount of time.” in order to minimize heating in the sumHammerstone students have built mer. Solar panels would provide heat three tiny houses thus far, including one and electricity with an air-source heat build for someone on contract. pump serving as a supplement. The latter Klemperer Johnson pointed out that system uses a refrigerant system involving a lot of resources are consumed in order a compressor and a condenser to absorb to build a home for just one person. The heat at one place and release it at another. expensive components of a home, like the insulation, the kitchen trim, are a relatively “It’s basically an air conditioner in reverse,” said Klemperer Johnson. large portion of the whole. While she can This summer Hammerstone will begin build a conventionally sized home for $200 to offer mixed-gender classes for the first per square foot, the tiny houses cost closer time. This came largely at the behest of the to $300 per square foot. transgender community. Some members “Everyone should build smaller,” she of this community did not acquire carpensaid, “not necessarily tiny. Extremes aren’t try skills growing up because as women for everyone.” they were discouraged from doing so. In addition to teaching basic carpen“We want everyone to feel welcome,” try skills to women as a cause, Hammersaid the Hammerstone founder, “and to be stone and Klemperer Johnson are also on able to learn at their own pace.” § a mission to build well insulated buildings

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By Chr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton “Futuristic Landscapes,” John Harris and Lindsey Glover, eye Gallery, through April 30.

ong ago, while traveling across the country on a Greyhound bus, I saw the future. Recently—this past Sunday along the Mass Pike, to be precise—I realized it had caught up with me. The future was greenish, and I could recall the maddening depths of unknown distances that had appeared before me so long ago: it was the world of a dreamer within a swirling vortex. A lot has changed in the past 16 years. The air is thinner now, the color of the sky more luminous, and the landscape wider, yet still narrowing—a paradox that circles around us each and every step of the way. We hover gingerly within two sections of dimensional being, barely inclined on either front. Eye Gallery’s newest exhibit “Futuristic Landscapes” certainly takes into account these two distinct quadrants: the physical shape and its angles, shadows, heights, and highways; and the immaterial dimension that exits in between—unknowing and all encompassing—the aspect that gives shape to the elements of life. Both quadrants are equally relevant, hopeful, non-exclusive, and dependent on one another, and both shine furtively in this new exhibit. Composed of two graphic artists working in metaphorical abstraction and fantastic imagery, the exhibit bottles a dense charm and hidden complexity. One thing that definitely works in the exhibit is the juxtaposition of the two bodies of artwork. One section, by the British fantasy realist artist John Harris—whose work has graced the covers of Orson Scott Card, Arthur C. Clarke, and Isaac Asimov novels—revels in a sort of abstract-realistic pastoral haze: merging the dynamic angles and elliptical magnetism made uberpopular by George Lucas and company. Comprised of a number of small painterly illustrations of industrial out-worlds and planetary realms beyond our solar system, the work has a distinct honesty and hopeful grace to it that beams mightily within each small fragment. The images often blur the line between idea and nightmare. This is due in part to the illusion the artist creates with a highly expressionistic approach to forms. Mostly, the work is physical, representing our dreams without bending to any maxim. The other grouping—larger, reflexive, and counterpoint—is by Trumansburg artist Lindsey Glover. Her work features three large prints done in archival inkjet, each with detailed circular mini-verses (circles) as their apex. Glover’s section is a realm of distinct abstraction. Her three

prints bring to mind a Stephen Hawking metaphor explaining Isaac Newton’s premise that there is no absolute position in space. Hawking uses a Ping-Pong ball to illustrate that the object clearly bounces and moves relative to one’s position—namely, that of being inside the train next to the ping-pong ball, and that of being outside the train, watching the ball and train pass laterally. Likewise, the circular masses that inhabit each of Glover’s three prints live within their own particular relative positioning, each morphing particular to a changing state of being. Like the Ping-Ping ball on the speeding train, Glover’s prints capture us with their simple imagery and offer a clear glimpse into the dynamic and complex

Lindsey Glover’s “Satellite No. 1 (Photo Provided))

state of logistics and philosophies despite their rather straightforward appearance. The circle in its three forms represents the changing dimensions within our mind, the immaterial nexus that shapes our form. Satellite No.1, Glover’s strongest print, is representative of the reflection of the inner-self; the sequence of its morphs is a nod to the evolution of the self. The circle represents all life. The two artists of “Futuristic Landscapes” complement each other precisely. The exhibit is certainly well curated, and fits with Eye Gallery’s vibe: that of graphic lightness and sharp vision. On the gallery’s oblong wooden floor it often feels as if you’re shifting; the space has a homey feel, and also one that’s slightly inclusive. The space is certainly small, which is ideal for an exhibit of this size. And while generally an excellent exhibition, “Futuristic Landscapes” feels slightly conservative in parts, like there’s something missing—some three-dimensional quadrant unaccounted for. Still, this is a super-awesome show worth checking out, and it won’t be up forever, so grab your moonboots. •

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The Inner Life of Inner Calm One-man assault is sure to awaken the senses By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Scab Addict, Limbs Bin mini-tour kick off with Deceiver, What Nerve; Thursday, April 21, 9 p.m.; Tompkins County Workers’ Center

he madness comes at you twentyfold. The extreme forms of insanity will change within milliseconds. You’ll be swept away into abstraction—a joyful serenity will envelop you—only to be pummeled so deep into the dark earth that you’ll be having lunch with Kalki in Shambhala. This is the multiverse that is Limbs Bin: a one-man behemoth of noise, power-violence, grind, electronics, and swirling avant-garde overture. Josh Landes, the man behind the magic, is one prolific artist. Currently based in New York City, he has produced a plethora of varying and mind-pummeling recordings, including classics like For A Car, Summertime Blues EP, Total Anguish, and Every Breath, in a relatively short space of time. Limbs Bin is playing the Worker’s Center this Thursday, April 21, and coming back to Ithaca for One Fest in July. I caught up with Landes recently, and we talked about some things. Ithaca Times: Limbs Bin’s sound is

infinitely varied. I would assume you start from somewhat of a blank slate for every composition? Or do you have a basic formula and solid system you always use? Josh Landes: Limbs Bin is an ecstatic expression. I build a sound around lyrics that I translate from the emotional ether, taking an idea or a feeling or a moment that I want to explore and armoring it with texture and pulse and distortion. Then it’s all about the sold-out shows, press, and merchandising, which is really the core of the experience for me. IT: Does humor play an important role in your approach to Limbs Bin? Do you think noise in general demands an open and creative mind, not only when creating it, but also when listening to it? JL: Joyless dogmatism or an inability to laugh at yourself are so, so boring. Existing just for shtick is just as agonizing a waste of time. Limbs Bin isn’t a joke, but it can joke. It’s earnest, but self-aware—only way to keep it honest. To answer the second part of your question, I think everything demands an open and creative mind. Noise is an experience and a practice like any other, and like any experience or practice, you

need to meet it halfway and make an honest effort to listen closely and let it take you somewhere. Noise resonates with me, because life isn’t neatly composed into verses and choruses and chords and resolution. It’s chaotic, and moves in swells and zigzags and revelations and dead ends. When you watch a tree’s leaves blow in the wind, each one is connected but moving entirely separately from the others— but it’s all one organism. United, but completely at Josh Landes performing as Limbs Bin (Photo Walter Wlodarczyk) odds with itself. Noise and life have that in common. It is the most compelling reflection of now, but it was useful at times to get fully moment-to-moment existence that I have into the performance aspect of Limbs Bin. experienced. Plus, read enough Spiderman when you’re IT: Was there any particular a kid and worship MF Doom enough when inspiration behind Summertime Blues EP? you’re in high school and you’ll want to It’s so clean and rigid compared to most of wear a mask at some point. Try it out; could your work. be good for you. Gets you out of your head. JL: I got into a fight with my thenpartner, stalked off to the community radio Mask therapy. IT: What do you think is unique and station in Florence, Massachusetts that I inspiring about the underground noise was using as a studio in 2013, and wrote scene? and recorded Summertime Blues in two JL: Noise encourages people to do hours. It was a manic episode cut straight to daring, absurd, and challenging things. a digital recorder with no overdubs and no This is a good thing. It’s also made me very editing. It came out fully formed and I felt famous and wealthy, and I think that’s good no need to revisit it. On that day, I needed too. to have something finished in my hands to Read the whole interview with Landes hold on to. at Ithaca.com IT: Does environment influence your For more Limbs Bin, visit limbsbin. decision to wear the mask? You sometimes tumblr.com or limbsbin.bandcamp.com • wear it, and sometimes don’t. JL: I’ve retired the mask for some years

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his weekend, Savoyards Musical gender. These issues played for Victorian Theatre, Ltd. will present two England, and they play now. performances of Gilbert and “It’s totally fascinating,” Jackson Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, paired with Act II added. “Once you hear a woman saying of Engaged, W.S. Gilbert’s 1878 farce on lines that were meant for a man, and you Victorian marriage. In the interest of full find yourself reacting in a specific way, disclosure, I directed Trial by Jury for the and you’re like, ‘Why am I uncomfortable Savoyards in 2004, so I think I know it with this? Why do I think that women pretty well. should be like this?’ And with men, Trial by Jury is a one-act comic it’s always interesting to challenge the opera first produced in 1875, at London’s stereotypes of masculinity.” Royalty Theatre, where it initially ran for Jackson was familiar with some 131 performances and was considered Gilbert and Sullivan, and had even a hit. The story concerns a “breach of promise of marriage” lawsuit in which the judge and legal system are the objects of lighthearted satire. It’s also very silly. Backstage, we called our version of the opera Monty Python’s Law and Order. This new production commemorates the 140th anniversary of Trial by Jury, Gilbert and Sullivan’s first successful collaboration, and the 130th anniversary of the Cornell Law School. In a sweet example of Part of the crew of Trial and Jury (Photo Provided) verisimilitude, both performances will happen in actual courtrooms, first on Saturday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the performed some, but she hadn’t heard of Moot Courtroom at Cornell Law School, Trial by Jury before landing the directing and Sunday, April 24, at 2 p.m. in the job. “The whole experience has been Tompkins County Courthouse (320 N. completely enlightening in terms of who Tioga St.). Gilbert and Sullivan were,” she said, The new Trial will also differ in “and what they were trying to achieve another way. The Savoyards had been in their collaboration. They were far thinking about reversing the genders in more progressive—and subversive—than casting; Ellen Jackson, a 2015 graduate most people realize. Their challenge of in vocal performance from the Ithaca conventional marriage and critique of College School of Music, took the idea law and ethics will shock and delight and ran with it for her directorial debut, contemporary audiences.” joining the Savoyards for the first time. Trial by Jury features Lilia Farris One of the great theatrical experiences as Edwin, Andrew Hudson-Sabens as of my life was a Kitchen Theatre Angelina, Lisa Frank as the Learned production of The Taming of the Shrew Judge, Doug Mathews as Counsel for where the women played the men, and the Plaintiff, Anna O’Connell as the vice versa. It’s always an intriguing way Usher, and Nick Roscoe as the Foreman to see something fairly established and of the Jury. Maggi Chauby, Nicolette traditional from a new and provocative Nordmark, and Judelle White shimmy angle. as the Jury Girls. Chad Dumont, Pete “The Savoyards wanted a fresh take Magnus, and Ryan Mewhorter swagger on the piece, and that was one of the as the Groomsmen. The Chorus includes suggestions they had put forth in their Ashley Dickson, Jim Hedlund, Ellie notice for directors,” said Jackson. “When Hobbie, Wendy Kimble-Dugan, Betsy I thought about it, Gilbert and Sullivan Schermerhorn, and Chantel Torrey. The were all about creating this topsy-turvy same actors appear in Engaged. Albert environment in which to examine realQuizon provides accompaniment. world issues, and issues of relationships Tickets at the door are $15 for and things like that. So why not push that adults, $10 for students, or e-mail further and reverse the genders? And savoyardsithaca@gmail.com for a while we’re examining issues of love and reservation. • the law, [the play] also examines issues of

Music bars/clubs/cafés

4/20 Wednesday Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz. Folk ‘n Kava | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Nate Marshall and Friends play Traditional and Original Folk, Jazz, and Gospel Music, featuring Angie Beeler, Travis Knapp, Leon Arguello, and Special Guest Stars. Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org. Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | With The Crucial Reggae Social Club. Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www. DamodarDas.com. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser

4/21 Thursday Ithaca Bottom Boys, Sonny Baker, Mr. Boneless | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Indie Rock, Freak-Folk, Alternative Rock, Punk.

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4/23 Saturday Arthur B and the Planetary Mix | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W

4/24 Sunday Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Technicolor Trailer Park. Dead Night with Planet Jr. | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Grateful Dead Covers, Rock, Progressive Rock, Blues, Folk, Psychedelic, Jam. Hot Biscuits | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM | Idol Ridge Winery, 9059 NY-414, Lodi | Folk, Country, Pop, Swing, Jazz, including songs of James Taylor, Ry Cooder, The Beatles, John Prine, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, and many more.

4/21 Thursday Joy of Singing All Ages Class | 5:00 PM | Acting Out New York, The Commons, Ithaca | Miss Angie and Elisa Sciscioli team up to offer uplifting multicultural songs with simple harmonies. Percussion instruments and movement games enhance rhythmic connection and steady beat! www. mumotion.com

4/25 Monday

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Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm.

Choro de La pra Ca | 8:00 PM | Klarman Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Features choro, a cherished and revived 20th-century Brazilian popular music.

4/23 Saturday Joel Mabus | 8:00 PM | 165 McGraw Hall, Cornell Arts Quad, Ithaca | Cornell Folk Song Society hosts.

4/24 Sunday Cornell Gamelan Ensemble | 1:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Christopher J. Miller, director, with guests: Peni Candra Rini, Danis Sugiyanto. The gamelan performs with guest Javanese musicians. Shadow Ballads | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Features a multi-media collaboration combining Appalachian crankies with Balinese shadow puppets, and American old-time with its Indonesian equivalent, kroncong. Violin Studio Recital | 6:00 PM | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Features students of Jory Fankuchen and Nanae Iwata, from the studio of Ariana Kim, performing in the Hayloft of the Carriage House Cafe.

concerts

4/20 Wednesday Cornell University Middle Eastern Music Ensemble Spring Concert | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Live Middle Eastern Music and Belly Dance from CUMEME with June Seaney, Kira Starfire, and Selenya. Midday Music for Organ: Matthew J. Hall | 12:30 PM | Sage Chapel,

4/25 Monday Continuum | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Features a program of new music, including the premieres of Roberto Sierra’s Sonata for Viola and Piano and a work by doctoral composer Can Bilir.

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Ithaca New Music Collective | 7:00 PM | Bar Argos, 408 E State St., Ithaca | The Ithaca New Music Collective is a group of local musicians in dedicated to performing works written by composers from Ithaca College, Cornell University, and the Ithaca Community.

Film Fix It: Health Care at the Tipping Point | 6:30 PM-, 4/25 Monday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | This film examines U.S. health care from a businessman’s perspective and discusses the current health care crisis, runaway health care costs and an alternative method of healthcare financing and payment. Panel includes 6 distinguished presenters, and will encourage audience questions. The Good Dinosaur | 2:00 PM, 4/25 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | At 11 a.m., the Library will offer a screening especially for children with sensory integration challenges. Sensory tools such as weighted lap pads and noisecanceling headphones will be available. Lights will remain on and children will be encouraged to make themselves comfortable by moving around and making noise. A second screening, open to all families, will be held at 2 p.m. The Good Dinosaur follows Arlo the Apatosaurus as he forges an unlikely

Hello My Name is Doris | A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker. | 95 mins PG-13 | Everybody Wants Some | A group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood. | 117 mins R | The Interior | A listless young man, upon learning he is ill, leaves his job, girlfriend and city behind, and ventures alone into the British Columbia interior, bringing his fears and anxieties with him. | 80 mins PG-13 |

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Eye In The Sky | Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare. | 102 mins R | City of Gold | A documentary portrait that takes us into Jonathan Gold’s universe to tell the improbable story of a revolution inspired by the pen, but driven by the palate. | 90 mins R |

The Lathanide Series | An experimental documentary, The Lanthanide Series examines the materiality of the digital world, combining approaches of non-fiction narrative essay, abstract visual and sound exploration, and the history of black mirrors. | 70 mins NR | Aferim! | Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate

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Miles Ahead | An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis. |100 mins R |

friendship with a human. It is rated PG and most appropriate for children seven and older. For more information, contact the Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275. Offbeat Films with Ron Krieg | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 4/26 Tuesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | This is a series of 12 films that evoke a director’s independent vision and fearless exploration of eccentric or mysterious subject matter. Included are Frankenheimer’s, Seconds, Altman’s, Three Women, Scorsese’s, King of Comedy, Weir’s Picnic, at Hanging Rock, Strick’s, Tropic of Cancer, and 7 more unique films. More info at www. tclifelong.org

Ithaca Bakery (Triphammer Mall), Thursday, Aprl 21, 4:00 p.m. There’s a meet the artist reception on the eve of Earth Day up at Triphammer Mall. Jay Hart and Patty Porter explore different perspectives of the earth’s surface in their new exhibit. Jay is exhibiting metal prints that use geographic data to show broad sweeps of the earth, and Patty’s oil paintings show an up-close and intimate interpretation of landscapes. Check it out and have a bagel!

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after having an affair with his wife. | 100 mins NR | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Three decades after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, a new threat arises. The First Order attempts to rule the galaxy and only a ragtag group of heroes can stop them, along with the help of the Resistance. | 136 mins PG-13 | Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art | A trio of NYC artists abandon the cutthroat commodification of the gallery scene in the late 60s and early 70s for the American southwest to work the largest canvas of all: the Earth. Crump examines the outsized legacy of pioneering land artists Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria and Michael Heizer, with archival footage and dizzying helicopter cinematography.| 72 mins NR | Censored Voices | The 1967 ‘Six-Day’ war ended with Israel’s decisive victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed, to this day, as a righteous undertaking - a radiant emblem of Jewish pride. One week after the war, a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The recording revealed an honest look at the moment Israel turned from David to Goliath. The Israeli army censored the recordings,

The Firebird | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Ithaca Ballet presents the Ithaca Premiere of The Firebird, choreographed by Lavinia Reid, music by Igor Stravinsky. To bring the 2015-16 season to a close, there will be two performances of The Firebird ballet on April 23, a matinee at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the State Theatre. Tickets available at www. stateofithaca.com Trial by Jury | Saturday, April 23, 7:30 PM in the Moot Courtroom at Cornell Law School, and Sunday, April 24, 2:00 PM in the Tompkins County Courthouse (320 North Tioga Street, Ithaca). | This special production honors both the 140th anniversary of Trial by Jury, Gilbert and Sullivan’s first successful collaboration, and the 130th anniversary of the Cornell Law School. Paired with Act II of Engaged, W.S. Gilbert’s 1878 farce on Victorian marriage, it deconstructs law and love in one topsy-turvy entertainment. The show contrasts traditional and reverse-gender casting, and features a dynamic cast of characters including a heartbroken groom, a feisty dominatrix bride, and even a group of Las Vegas chorus girls. Tickets at the door or e-mail savoyardsithaca@gmail.com for a reservation.

Notices Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM-, 4/20 Wednesday | Taste of Thai Express, 209 S Meadow St, Ithaca | RSVP joyceannewhite@icloud.com Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 4/20 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 4/20 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information:

https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ Coalition for Families Monthly Meeting | 8:30 PM-10:00 PM, 4/21 Thursday | Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, 615 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Watch here for more information, or get in touch with Anna, ams69@cornell. http:// ccetompkins.org/, http://www.frct. org/, http://www.human.cornell.edu/ pam/outreach/parenting/programs/ parentingskillsworkshopseries.cfm Easy Square and Contra Dance | 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, 4/22 Friday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | No experience or partner needed. Must be Lifelong members. For more information call 273-1511. Fish Fry | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 4/22 Friday | Candor American Legion, 90 Spencer Road, Candor | Second and fourth Friday of every month till April. Hill to Hollow: Earth Day Odyssey: A Car-free Wilderness Adventure | 5:30 PM-, 4/22 Friday | Help us demonstrate that you don’t need to drive a car to have a fulfilling Wilderness adventure! Space is limited so sign up for the guided trip immediately (or get directions from us to do it on your own).5:30 pm, April 22 through 7:30 pm April 23, 2016. 10 miles over 2 days - (more than half along the Finger Lakes Trail in Hammond Hill and Robinson Hollow State Forests) place-odyssey.com/ POTrips-NY2009[HillandHollow].htm Or e-mail walk.fingerlakes@gmail.com Tioga Downs Antique Center And General Marketplace | 9:00 AM-, 4/22 Friday | Indoor marketplace and outdoor flea and farmers market. Antiques, collectibles, furniture and more! Open every Friday 12 noon-5 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9 am-5 pm thru November 1, 2015. Cayuga Bird Club Field Trip | 7:00 AM-, 4/23 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | All field trips are open to the public, both experienced birders and beginners. For Information and updates, contact Gladys at gjb5@ cornell.edu or refer to the bird club’s website: http://www.cayugabirdclub. org/ Downtown Ithaca Six Mile Creek Cleanup | 11:00 AM-, 4/23 Saturday | Six Mile Creek, Downtown, Ithaca | In celebration of Earth Day, there will be a trash cleanup along the banks of Six Mile Creek in downtown Ithaca starting at 11:00 am at the Cayuga Street bridge and proceeding west to Route 13.

John Stetch Trio,

Carriage House, Friday, April 22, 8:00 p.m. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, John Stetch was exposed to the sounds of jazz at an early age. His father always tuned in to the local jazz radio station in the car, had a large jazz record collection, and taught Stetch the basics of clarinet. Stetch was born with jazz in his blood, as two of his uncles were also performers and founding fathers of the Yardbird Suite, now one of the most successful jazz clubs in Canada. By his second year of college, he dropped everything to go from casual ‘horn-player’s piano’ to full-time piano studies. He hasn’t looked back since. On this night he’s bringing his NYC trio.

Anyone who would like to participate is welcome. Please bring work gloves if you have them. Trash bags and hauling will be provided. Contact 272-0017 or harold.mills@gmail.com for further information. 4-H Color Splash Run | 9:00 AM, 4/24 Sunday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | Join nearly 1,000 other runners and walkers of all ages and abilities for this colorful 3K and 5K event which kicks off the festivities for the 4-H Rubber Duck Race, now in its 16th year! Registration: the 3K Family Fun Run starts at 9:00am, and 5K Fun Run waves start at 10:00am. Register online at: http://duckrace.peaksmaker. com/5krun-2/ Mural Tour on Bikes | 1:00 PM-, 4/24 Sunday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Who painted them? What are the stories behind each mural? Bring your bike. Invite family and friends. All welcome! calebrthomas@ gmail.com 607-273-5242 Sunday Square Dancing | 7:00 PM, 4/24 Sunday | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Square Dancing is a low-impact aerobic activity that stimulates both mind and body. Easy and fun for people of any age. Sunday Squares is free and open to all. We dance to a wide variety of popular music, and learn dance steps used all over the world. Come alone or with a partner. No special dancing skills required. The Candor Community Services Corporation honoring of Skip and Jeanne Jackson | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 4/24 Sunday | Candor Fire Hall, 74 Owego Rd., Candor | The Candor Community Services Corporation is pleased to announce that we will be honoring Skip and Jeanne Jackson this year as citizens of the year. Melvin Foster, 659-4785, candorite@gmail.com CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM-, 4/26 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga. Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA | 9:30 AM-2:00 PM, 4/26 Tuesday | Ymca, Graham Rd W, Ithaca | Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA. Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9:30 am – 2:00 pm The Ultimate Purpose: Free Speech Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM,

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4/26 Tuesday | The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 The Commons, Ithaca | Please join us for tea, cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future. Every Tuesday Night at 7 O’Clock. Tree Planting in Memory of Fred Quinlan | 11:00 AM, 4/26 Tuesday | Hull Park, Main Street, Candor | In Memory of Frederick (Fred) Quinlan, there will be a special Tree Planting Ceremony. The public is invited to attend the ceremony. For more information contact Yarrington at: 607-659-7153.

Learning Violets of the Finger Lakes | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 4/20 Wednesday | Unitarian Church Annex, 208 E Buffalo St, Ithaca | The Finger Lakes Native Plant Society presents a slide show & talk by Michael Hough, SUNY Cortland. Which Vegetables to Grow? | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 4/20 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | What vegetables are the best food crops for you to grow? Which vegetables give the highest economic value per square foot, grow best given your space and light conditions, are easiest to maintain, and require the least effort to store for winter consumption? Call (607) 272-2292 to pre-register. Questions? Contact Chrys at cab69@cornell.edu For more information or to register online, go to www.ccetompkins/events Yoga Mind and Body Meditation Series | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 4/20 Wednesday | WSH Art Gallery, 136 Ho Plaza, Ithaca | In this class we will explore yoga through movement, breath work, and meditation. We will awaken and invigorate the body & mind through breathing techniques and a sequence of gentle active postures and soothing stretches. Then we will move towards more passive postures and meditation to relax and rejuvenate the body and mind. This class is open to all levels and all bodies. Community Solar Farms: No Roof Needed! | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 4/21 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | New laws have made solar more accessible than ever before – now all homeowners, businesses, and renters can make the switch to solar, roof no longer required. Join Amanda Postma of Renovus Solar, for this talk on how community solar farms work, including information about the new GreenStar

Solar Farm. Registration required sign up online at greenstar.coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392 Denis Johnson | 4:30 PM, 4/21 Thursday | Klarman Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series presents: A talk with writer Denis Johnson. Akhil Reed Amar: The US Constitution and the 2016 Presidential Election | 7:30 PM-, 4/22 Friday | Alice Statler Auditorium, 7, E Rd, Cornell University, Ithaca | 2016 Olin Lecture. Event is free, but ensure a seat by getting tickets at Buffalo Street Books or by calling 607-255-5417 Back to the Past: A Prehistoric Puzzlehunt | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 4/23 Saturday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Interactive event that will have you solving puzzles around the Museum of the Earth on a quest through time. Compete against other teams in solving puzzles of all kinds: code-breaking, word, number, visual puzzles, and everything in between! The winning team will get a prize of prehistoric proportions, so start getting your puzzle-solving team together! Puzzles are complex and appropriate for high-school/college age or older. Check our website for an example puzzle and make sure to register your team early, as space is limited. priweb.org/puzzlehunt Birds of Prey: Cornell Raptor Program | 3:00 PM-, 4/24 Sunday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Student presenters will provide a fun-filled, educational program. Through informative presentations, students will introduce a variety of live birds, including hawks and vultures, and inspire children to learn about birds of prey, the natural world and global and local conservation issues impacting bird habitats. For more information, contact the Library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275. Alone in this Remote Place: The Pioneering Women Biologists of New York’s Raptor Recovery Programs | 7:30 PM-, 4/25 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Speaker: Darryl McGrath, journalist & author. Contact: (800) 843-2473, cornellbirds@ cornell.edu Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point: Film Screening & Panel Discussion | 6:30 PM-, 4/25 Monday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca

| This new film looks at U. S. health care from a businessman’s perspective, delves deeply into the current health care crisis, runaway healthcare COSTS, and economic impact, and discusses an alternative method of healthcare financing. Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture by Harvard Professor Kenneth R. Feinberg | 4:30 PM-, 4/25 Monday | 105 Ives Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Unconventional Responses to Unique Catastrophes: Tailoring the Law to Meet the Challenges. Easy, Light and Fun Yoga | 5:45 PM-, 4/26 Tuesday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Each class combines gentle yoga: beneficial breathing, easy stretching and deep rest. We minimize transitions from standing to the floor, and stay clear of poses and exercises that could inflame injuries or trouble sore joints. Class designed to create a safe and supportive environment to meet the needs of those who don’t wish to practice more strenuous styles of yoga. More info at www.YogaFarm. us

Special Events Paint Nite Ithaca | 7:00 PM, 4/20 Wednesday | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Grab a drink, Grab a brush, and Drink Creatively with Paint Nite Ithaca. Stories from the Sixties: A Reading | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 4/20 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Return with us to the days of yesteryear, the 1960’s. A diverse group of writers will be reading their stories, both fiction, and non-fiction about those days. Join us as we share a part of the past. The readers are Eric Acree, Yvonne Fisher, Nina Miller, Sue Perlgut, Sara Robbins, Carol Santucci, Jackie Milton Scott, Deirdre Silverman, Mark Silverman, Marty Blue Waters, and Zee Zahava. For more information contact Lifelong at 273-1511 or http://www. tclifelong.org. Caring for Our Common Home: Putting the Encyclical into Action | 5:00 PM-, 4/21 Thursday | Immaculate Conception Church, 320 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Ithaca’s Interfaith Climate Action Network presents. Doors open at 5pm, potluck supper at 5:30pm (please bring a dish to pass) and the program starts at 6pm. For more information contact Laurie Konwinski at 607-272-5062 ext. 12 or LKonwinski@ dor.org

Peter Ostrum: Charlie Bucket from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory | 6:00 PM-, 4/21 Thursday | Gould Hotel, 108 Fall St, Seneca Falls | This year marks the 45th anniversary of the1971 film, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Meet Peter Ostrum, who portrayed Charlie Bucket in the film. Doors will open at 6pm, and attendees will be invited to enjoy a chocolate buffet donated by local businesses. Peter Ostrum will give a presentation followed by a brief question and answer session, after which he will be available for autographs and photos. Ostrum’s appearance will kickoff SCP’s upcoming Auction Theater event of May 13, when all roles for the musical production of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka scheduled to be presented July 15-17, will be auctioned. Info: contact Susie Cornett at 315-967-3SCP. Or visit Facebook Seneca Pints for Paws | 4:00 PM-9:00 PM, 4/21 Thursday | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Featuring Jamie Lee Potter from 6 pm to 9 pm. A portion of the proceeds benefits The Humane Society of Schuyler County. STEAM Night | 6:00 PM-, 4/21 Thursday | Caroline Elementary School, 2439 Slaterville Springs Rd, Ithaca | STEAM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, arts, and math and was developed by the National Science Foundation (STEM) and the Rhode Island School of Design (+A) to promote STEAM education for earlier grades. During the Family STEAM Night at Caroline, parents and children will move from station to station, participating in different activities geared towards teaching STEAM principles. For more information, please contact Kelly White - ckellywhite@gmail.com, 646-248-1442 Climate Solutions Fair: We Can Fix This & It Will Be Fun | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 4/23 Saturday | Press Bay Alley, , Ithaca | Like a science fair for climate action, the Climate Solutions Fair will bring together people who are passionate about solar power, wind power, electric bikes, tiny houses, local foods and other ways to save the planet and have fun doing it. Kids will enjoy family bike games, a hula hoop contest, Climate the Clown, and an energy expo by the Physics Bus. For more information, or if you’d like to participate, contact info@boxybikes. com and see https://www.facebook. com/PressBayAlley/ Earth Day Yoga Retreat | 10:00

AM-6:00 PM, 4/23 Saturday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | For everyone who loves the earth and could use a day of personal renewal! This Earth Day, Yoga for the Earth, an initiative to use the power of yoga to help people take creative steps toward climate action, will be hosting a day-long retreat on the beautiful grounds of the Yoga Farm in Lansing, NY. For more information and to register please go to: http://yogafarm. us/earthday/ Register by Wednesday, April 20th. GIAC Amatuer Boxing | 4:00 PM-, 4/23 Saturday | GIAC, 301 N Albany St, Ithaca | Brought to you through the support of a local family foundation this USA Boxing sanctioned event will feature boxers from Ithaca, Cortland, Syracuse, and Rochester. Bouts begin at 4:00 pm, with 14 scheduled bouts. For more information please contact; Michael Thomas at GIAC, 301 W Court St., Ithaca, NY or (607) 272-3622 Downtown Living Tour | 12:00 PM, 4/23 Saturday | Downtown Ithaca | A self-guided open house of urban apartments and attractions hosted by the Downtown Ithaca Allaiance. Contact: 607-277-8679 or email info@downtownithaca.com with any questions. The RED Event | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 4/23 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Fundraiser for the Hangar Theatre professional theatre artist and youth programming. Tickets: http://www.hangartheatre. org/events/RedEvent_ACES.html 16th Annual Cascadilla Duck Race and Color Splash Run Race | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 4/24 Sunday | Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Tompkins County 4-H along with CCETC Compost Fair prepare for the 16th Annual Cascadilla Duck Race and Color Splash Run Race. Walkers, runners, strollers, kids are all welcome to participate. Earth Day Hike | 1:00 PM, 4/24 Sunday | With the Cayuga Trails Club on the Cayuga Trail. This hike will be led by Tom Reimers. Start time at 1 PM. For further information regarding this hike please visit our website at www. cayugatrailsclub.org Spring Break Camp | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 4/25 Monday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Join us as we celebrate spring with a week-long camp full of fun and games to usher in a season of new growth. We’ll get our hands dirty planting for pollinators, go scouting for early birds,

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Amateur boxing in Ithaca is making a comeback. The Greater Ithaca Activities Center’s (GIAC) Chester “Chet” Cashman Boxing Program is a long-standing program dating back to the mid 1960’s. The late Rev. Louis Cunningham introduced boxing at the Southside Community Center. The Program will joined forces with Ultimate Athletics Gym at the Shops at Ithaca Mall, for a night of boxing. This USA Boxing sanctioned event will feature boxers from Ithaca, Cortland, Syracuse, and Rochester. Bouts begin at 4:00 pm, with 14 scheduled fights.

The highly anticipated Ithaca premiere of The Firebird, with choreography by Lavinia Reid, has finally reached its day. The ballet, which is based on a classic Russian folk tale, is set to an amazing score by Igor Stravinsky. Guest artist and Ithaca Ballet alumnus Peter Doll returns to Ithaca to dance the role of Prince Ivan. Company soloist Keara Soloway will dance the title role and company principal Rachel Myers will dance the lead role of Princess.

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and explore diverse habitats for signs of awakening wildlife! Come enjoy the spirit of spring. Runs 4/25/20164/29/2016 (M-F) priweb.org/naturecenter Tarot Salon Ithaca | 7:30 PM-, 4/25 Monday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Tarot Salon Ithaca is a co-manifested space for all who are drawn to, enchanted by, and create with Tarot. Come share your insights, engage in discussion, exchange readings, and explore Tarot in a supportive community setting. Every last Monday of the month, beginning March 28, 2016.

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Rap legends hit up Ithaca by Christopher J. Harrington Blackalicious, Friday, April 22, 8:00 p.m., The Haunt Forging an unmistakable combination of deft and multisyllabic raps with artfully sufficed beats, the rap duo Blackalicious, consisting of rapper/ lyricist Gift of Gab and DJ/Producer Chief Xcel, have created some of hip hop’s greatest and most memorable songs. Since their debut record Nia in 2000, the group have weaved imaginatively sanguine rap-forms that have varied heavily from their contemporaries. Blackalicious was instrumental in paving the way for an alternative form of hiphop. They fused an inspiring salad of modernism that burst with bright and soulful funk, hard-hitting experimental beats, and raps that showcased an unheralded syntax, flow, and dizzying hue. The roots of Blackalicious come from familiar zones though. The groundwork, the inner-soul, and the foundation of everything they ever created, was, and always has been, based on the straight up essence of rap: battling MC’s and representing one’s turf. “I’ve been rapping since I was 12 years old,” Gift of Gab told me on a recent morning. “Rapping was always about the cultural aspect, the battling aspect. I wanted to be the best MC in my building,

Meetings Rental Housing Advisory Commission (RHAC) | 5:15 PM, 4/20 Wednesday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | RHAC recommends to Common Council new steps to be taken to improve the accessibility, affordability, and quality of rental housing in the City of Ithaca. City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM-, 4/25 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Planning and Development Board | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, 4/26 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | The Board reviews Site Plan Review applications, proposed Subdivision applications, proposed City ordinance revisions, zoning appeals, and other matters it is charged with reviewing. Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 4/26 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca |

in time from 1976 to a life of slavery in antebellum Maryland. Club participation is available online and in-person. For more information or to register, contact Adult Services Librarian Teresa Vadakin at (607) 272-4557 extension 272 or tvadakin@ tcpl.org.

Books Ithaca College New Voices Literary Festival | 5:30 PM-, 4/20 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Featuring authors Austin Bunn, Angelina Mirabella, Kristen-Paige Madonia, Ladan Osman, SJ Naude, Aisha Sabotini Sloan, and Anna Ziegler who will all do micro readings from their work. ithacanewvoicesfestival. com Kindred: 4 Seasons Book Club Discussion | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 4/21 Thursday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This riveting best-seller combines elements of memoir, fantasy and historical fiction to tell the story of Dana, an African American woman who is transported

then my block, and then my city. This was the payment: to be respected in the community, and to be the best rapper out there.” Many years removed from his beginnings, the colorful rapper has left a trail through the rap lexicon that’s influenced innumerable artists; detailing the subtlety of an ever-evolving mind that’s always stayed true to the essentials of hip hop: humor, punk, competition, abstraction, and the merging of diverse musical forms. Rap can be about anything: the streets, gangsta-life, ice-cream cones, drugs, inequality, relationships; you name it. As long as it stays true to an artist’s inner construction and it’s real, the essence of the jams will shine through. “I would say Blackalicious is positive, but I hate to pin our form against another form; like say gangstarap, because this is not the case,” Gift of Gab mused. “My belief is that art is about being honest; telling your side of the story the way you see it. If you don’t live a gangsta-style life but you rap about it, it’ll come through that way in the music. Art’s not about right or wrong, it’s about being honest.” After a ten-year hiatus in between recordings, Blackalicious released Imani Vol. 1, in September of 2015. Per usual, the album crushes it. The duo hasn’t lost a step, introducing contemporary electronic influences, hard hitting slams, social and political musings, and wideranging variations; all the while still fronting that classic Blackalicious sound. There were some different angles this time around though: something Gift of Gab confessed was a slight change to their usual approach. “We’re older and wiser now,” he

museum.cornell.edu Jay Hart and Patty Porter: Geographic Contrasts: Extensive and Intimate | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, 4/21 Thursday | Ithaca Bakery, Triphammer Marker Place, Ithaca | Meet the artist reception on the eve of Earth Day. Jay Hart and Patty Porter explore different perspectives of the earth’s surface. Jay is exhibiting metal prints that use geographic data to show broad sweeps of the earth. Patty’s oil paintings show an up-close and intimate interpretation of landscapes. Patty L. Porter, plporter4@gmail.com, Jay Hart, jhart@ lightlink.com

Art Andy Warhol’s Photography | 5:15 PM, 4/21 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Author William Ganis, Indiana State University, will discuss why Andy Warhol made and hoarded collections of tens of thousands of his own photographs, and share insights into Warhol’s anticipation of today’s ubiquitous digital photography. The Museum is open tonight until 8PM. Free. 607-255-6464.

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Dark and speedy grind plus some wicked hardcore menace is what pushes Providence, R.I.’s F***ing Invincible to the edge and beyond. Smashing depths and pummeling arrangements will have eating your lungs for dessert as the band pursues a new meaning to the word aggressive. Also on the bill are Ithaca doom pursuers Twin Lords, Binghamton grinders Street Feet, and Moravia metal punkers Rabid. Bring your best head-banging gear and rage the Chanti-Loft Saturday night. It’s going to rule!!!

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“Alphabet Aerobics”: probably the most difficult and amazing rap song ever written. A little while back the song was actually recited live on the Tonight Show by Daniel Radcliffe. On youtube there’s over 57 million hits on the video—very weird— but not surprising. “Yeah that came out of nowhere,” Gift of Gab told me. “Questlove (Roots drummer) actually texted me and told me to watch The Tonight Show that night. It was pretty awesome you know. Much respect to Daniel Radcliffe; it’s only been a positive thing.” Powerful art is universal. The essence of its sacredness is eternal. Blackalicious reign hard, and always will. •

undeniable. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Ave., Ithaca | Revealed: WPA Murals from Roosevelt Island - January 30-May 29 | The fire is gone but we have the light: Rirkrit Tiravanija and Korakrit Arunanondchai - January 23-May 29 | Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation in East Asian Art January 23-June 12 | Works from the Johnson’s collection explore how Chinese cultural images and artistic styles were adopted and adapted in Korea and Japan. | www.museu cornell.edu The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | I See You, IC/ CU: The Ink Shop is pleased to host the first joint show of prints by faculty and students of two strong printmaking programs at Ithaca College and Cornell University. These works are richly

diverse with unique approaches using traditional methods, ranging from beginner to advanced practitioners | 607-277-3884 | www.ink-shop.org Ithaca Bakery | Triphammer Market Place, 2255 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Jay Hart and Patty Porter. “Geographic Contrasts: Extensive and Intimate.” Jay is exhibiting metal prints that use geographic data to show broad sweeps of the earth. Patty’s oil paintings show an up-close and intimate interpretation of landscapes.

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relayed. “It’s cool to have some other people writing some sections and collaborating with us now, but it’s Blackalicious, so no one will ever write my verses.” One of the songs on the new album “The Sun” features the musician Imani Copploa on it. It’s one of the album’s highlights: stunningly original, visionary, and so damn uplifting, you’ll be jamming it all day long. “Imani wrote the hook on that song, and it’s great. I think we’re more open for people to come into the fold now; the different energy is something unique.” It’s pretty freaking awesome the group is coming to Ithaca this Friday. I mean these are the guys that wrote

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Cooperative Extension Education Center, Sunday, April 24, 10:00 a.m. Tompkins County 4-H along with CCETC Compost Fair prepare for the 16th Annual Cascadilla Duck Race and Color Splash Run Race. Walkers, runners, strollers, and kids are all welcome to participate. It’s a chance to grab the whole family and stretch the old legs out and do something positive for yourself. It’s going to be a great day!!

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the civil rights movement, and the Bible— among other sources. (A numbered sheet identifying each accompanies the exhibit.) The artist stressed the importance of both personal honesty and social mission. “I believe as artists we’ve got to keep searching for our inner core,” he explained after describing an incident where he was almost led astray by a well-intentioned compliment from a studio visitor. At the same time, he keeps “trying to make connections with the outside world,” a goal in keeping with his religious practice. Brewster also discussed the technical aspects of his art, what he described as “a very exciting process.” He uses what is known as the lost wax method, a technique dating back to ancient times and only “somewhat perfected” since. For his casting, he works with Lynn Hayes, who runs a one-woman foundry north of Hammondsport. His King piece was cast using “four or five different moulds” and then welded together—a process which the artist said took a year to complete. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. has a rich—if slightly awkward—physical presence to complement its symbolism. The piece has been mounted on a varnished wood block sitting on top of a short pedestal. The bottom of the sculpture takes the form of a traditional portrait bust, albeit hollowed out in the center like a cave. King’s head leans forward, his brow furrowed and his mouth open in a suggestion of his fiery oratory. He wears a preacher’s robe, the cloth loosely draped over his right arm, which he holds out to us, bent with his hand raised. Rising several feet above him, nearly to the gallery ceiling, is a twisted, intricate formation loosely resembling a flame. It bears a dizzying panoply of figures and scenes—all jumbled together like the contents of a chaotic memory or dream.

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the fused bodies, which seem to merge into inchoate matter. Several figurines portray mothers with their babies or young children: a classic humanist subject, which in Brewster’s treatment avoids cloyingness—more or less. In Life a woman holds a baby while an older child stands behind her. They fuse into a single mass with a roughly worked texture that suggests tree bark. A few pieces are explicitly religious. The most interesting of these is St. Francis, whom Brewster has chosen to portray at the moment of renouncing his worldly life. Having removed his clothes, he stands naked. His body is stiff with his arms at his side but his head is raised with an upward gaze—suggesting he has found a higher calling. He holds a final piece of cloth. Unlike most of the work here, the piece is a full narrative tableaux. Beside the saint rests a pile of clothes and shoes. Mounted to a wooden cross and hung from the wall, the miniature Lord of the Dance is a most unusual crucifixion. Improbably, the Christ figure seems to be leaping into the air—only his feet remain attached to the cross. A version of the piece is installed at the Episcopal Church in Cornell’s Annabel Taylor Hall where Brewster used to be pastor. In his talk, Brewster said that he rejects “art for art’s sake,” citing left-wing playwright Bertolt Brecht’s maxim that “Art is not a mirror to reflect reality but a hammer with which to shape it.” This critic is notoriously skeptical of the capacity for gallery art to effect real world social change—after all the preaching to the choir factor does seem to be pretty high. I don’t embrace “art for art’s sake” exactly but it would be fair to say that art is my politics and perhaps my religion as well. Still, the earnestness behind this work is refreshing in our age of reflexive irony. And there’s no denying the skill and intensity of effort that the artist brings to his work as well as the range of invention that he brings to this often conservative discipline. •

bodies. Some of them If King projects represent characters himself out from the Bible, towards us, these others universalizing fragments fill out a allegorical figures. relatively flattened Their smaller-than-life background size realization gives space almost like them a greater sense relief. Arranged of remove—they don’t at a diagonal to a invade our space like back corner of the the Dr. King piece gallery, it has been does. lit dramatically, Most of the casting a sculptures rest on mesmerizing pedestals of variable shadow behind. height. Like the King I can hardly piece, bronze bases describe everything have been attached to going on in the larger wooden ones, piece but some which range from plain key elements are blocks to somewhat worth mentioning. more elaborate designs. Among the Brewster and his crowning wife Martha spent two fragments at the years in India during top are the North the early sixties. His Star—symbol Gurdon Brewster’s “Welcome Home” (Photo Provided) experience of poverty of freedom and hunger there for runaway informs a pair of slaves—and the figures depicting emaciated naked children. figure of “Daddy King,” preaching with his Shown at the front of the gallery, Boy and arms raised. Other individuals portrayed Girl face each other with their large heads include moral leaders ranging from and their skeletal chests. The former figure Harriett Tubman and Gandhi to members of the King family. Victims include the likes stands stiffly upright with her hands by her side. The latter holds a more dynamic of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers, while personifications of a corrupt system include pose, his belly stuck out and his tube-like arms limbs bent in diagonals. Also nearby the KKK and J. Edgar Hoover. Flanking is a Dog, similarly starved but graceful elements include a line of police dogs as well as—providing a sort of moral as well as nonetheless. Relatively bulky, Lion also shows off visual balance—a banner bearing the notes Brewster’s expressive affinity for animals. for “We Shall Overcome.” It is one of the most interestingly in-theThe rest of Brewster’s pieces in the round pieces in the show—notable for its SOAG exhibit stand apart from King in extravagant mane, broken back limbs, and more ways than one. Domestic in scale, bone-like tail. suitable for a table or shelf, they lack the Particularly Rodin-like, Welcome centerpiece’s extroverted presence as Home portrays a couple embracing. The well as its portrait quality and specific difference in height implies a man and a iconography. Most pieces represent single woman. Enveloping arms give definition to figures while others show intertwined 305740

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Cayuga Heights Home

Realty USA

305759

710 Hancock Street Ithaca, NY 14850

Centrally Located!

2333 Triphammer Road Ithaca, NY 14850

(607) 257-0800 #1 Real Estate Company in Central New York for the 6th Straight Year!

Ithaca

Dennis Mogil

$259,000

View of Cayuga Lake! 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath home, updated kitchen & bath, wood-burning fireplace, Florida rm, French doors, 2 stone patios, hardwoods & trim. Conveniently located.

Lic Assoc. R.E. Broker

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Realty USA

Cayuga Heights

$318,000

Ovid

Spacious ranch, 3 bdrms; 1.5 baths; eat-in kitchen, huge LR/DR, hardwoods. Rent out a generous 1-bdrm apartment or don’t & have extra family space! sizable deck & verdant back yard.

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Brian DeYoung Lic Assoc. R.E. Broker

Realty USA

$89,900

About 30 minutes to Ithaca, Auburn, Geneva and Watkins Glen. Deep lot, garage & add’l parking. Hardwoods downstairs. Delightful front porch long enough for a table and chairs.

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Classifieds In Print | On Line | 10 Newspapers | 59,200 Readers

277-7000 Phone: Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm Fax: 277-1012 (24 Hrs Daily)

automotive

Internet: www.ithaca.com Mail: Ithaca Times Classified Dept PO Box 27 Ithaca NY 14850 In Person: Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm 109 North Cayuga Street

buy sell

automotive

270/Pets 2009 Ford Focus

Beautiful goldendoodle

Silver, Sedan, Manual Transmission, One Owner, Excellent Condition, 83,082 miles. $4,150. Call 607-532-4891

100/Automotive

(flb—3/4 poodle, 1/4 golden retriever) copper-colored female, 18 weeks old, all shots. Extremely gentle, loving, playful, intelligent. Great with children. House trained. Perfect pet in every way. $1000. (607)227-1009

Donate your car to Wheels For Wishes, benefiting Make-A-Wish. We offer free towing and your donation is 100% tax deductible. Call:315-400-0797 Today! (NYSCAN)

CARS FOR CASH!!

Any Car/Truck 2000-2015, Running or Not! Top Dollar For Used/Damaged. Free Nationwide Towing! Call Now: 1-888-420-3808 (AAN CAN)

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250/Merchandise

2005 Suzuki Vitara Sport

Automatic & many extras. Needs nothing! PA Inspected! $4000/obo. 570268-0906

Scuba Diving Certification

2009 21 Ft Gulf Stream Camper

Classes at your convenience. www.marchallsscubatraining.com (607)387-7321

Like New - Walk-around Queen bed, Full bath $7000. Call 387-3048 OR 275-6131

320/Bulletin Board

CUSTOM WINDOWS

Looking for Chidren

$199 Installed! White, double hung, tilt-ins. BBB Accredited Member with A+ Rating. Family owned since 1975! Call Chris at 1-866-272-7533. www.uscustomwindowsdoors.com (NYSCAN) SAWMILLS from only $4397.00 - MAKE & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmillcut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info /DVD: www. NorwoodSawmills.com 1-800-578-1363 Ext. 300N (NYSCAN)

Are you looking for a fulfilling career? If so, you could find a rewarding future with Ithaca, NY. based Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit, Inc., (TCAT, Inc.), which is recognized by its peers as being the best transit agency of its size in North America. TCAT, Inc. is looking for Full-Time Bus Operators to be responsible for driving a transit bus on fixed routes in the TCAT service area. Must be 21 years of age, have a high level of customer service skills, a professional attitude and a Commercial Drivers’ License (CDL). So, you don’t have a CDL? No problem. All you need is the willingness to learn and a strong desire to be part of a team that constantly strives for excellence. TCAT will train for passenger endorsement. TCAT is also looking for Diesel Mechanics to join our 3rd shift team. The mechanic position requires the ability to perform routine servicing and preventive maintenance with diesel and heavy vehicle experience preferred, and a Commercial Drivers’ License (CDL) with air brake endorsement or a willingness to obtain. Fully qualified Mechanics that join our winning team will receive a sign on bonus of $2,500 to be paid out over a one year period. Background check and pre-employment drug testing are required for all positions. EOE

Recruitment

The Arc of Delaware County seeks dynamic professionals to lead our nationally recognized organization in supporting people with I/DD in living personally fulfilling lives. Positions include: Chief Services Officer/ Speech Pathologist Supervisor/ Life Coach 10/ Assistant Director of Residential Services House Manager. Apply: www.delarc.org (NYSCAN)

(607) 277-9388 or apply on-line at

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The Lansing-Ithaca Rotary Club

The Lansing Lions, and the Lansing Faculty are holding their annual Chix BBQ on Wednesday, April 20, 4pm-7pm at Lansing High School. the prices will be $9 for half-chicken dinner, $7 for a quarter-chicken dinner, and $7 for a half-chicken only (not a dinner). We welcome take-outs, but would love to have you stay and talk in the cafeteria. The proceeds will go to the Rotary Exchange Program, Lansing Faculty scholarships, and charity programs of the Lions’ choosing.

400/Employment

Contact Human Resources at

A son named Travis age 28, originally from Cortland and a Daughter whom I have never met and is from the area. Please contact with any info (call or text) Earland Perfetti (Butch) 607-339-6842 or on Facebook

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410/Business Opportunity

Gideon Porth deb Atlas Farm

AIRLINE CAREERS

NEW YEAR, NEW AIRLINE CAREERS. Get trained as FAA Certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call AIM for free information 866-2967093. (NYSCAN)

HELP WANTED

Entry Level Heavy Equipment Operator Career. Get Trained - Get Certified - Get Hired! Bulldozers, backhoes & Excavators. Immediate. Lifetime Job Placement. VA Benefits. National Average $18.00 - $22.00, 1-866-362-6497. (NYSCAN)

430/General Brooksby Farm

Peabody, MA needs 3 temporary workers 5/1/2016 to 12/15/2016, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to 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. $11.74 per hr. Applicants apply at, North Shore Career Center of Salem, 70 Washington St., Salem, MA 01970, 978-825-7200 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #6962394. May perform any combination of tasks related to the planting, cultivating, and processing of apple, fruit and vegetable crops. Including, but not limited to driving, operating, adjusting and maintaining farm machines, preparing soil, planting,pruning, weeding, thinning, spraying, irrigating, mowing, harvesting, grading and packing. May use hand tools such as shovel, pruning saw, hoe. 1 month experience in duties listed required.

Clearview Farm

Sterling, MAneeds 2 temporary workers 5/8/2016 to 10/15/2016, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to 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. $11.74 per hr. Applicants apply at North Central career Center, 978-534-1481 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #7052917. Harvest Workers may perform any combination of tasks related to the cultivation, maintenance and especially Harvesting of fruit trees. Duties include, preparing soil, pruning, and pulling brush, picking rocks, weeding, and hand thinning. Harvesting carefully and selectively, grading, packing, and loading of fruit. May use hand tools such as shovels, rakes, hoes and pruning saws and shears, hammers, ladders and picking buckets. May use saws, hammers and other equipment to repair bulk harvest containers. May be asked to help operate, adjust and maintain farm machinery. One month’s experience in duties listed is require

Cornell Study

pays $30 for 2 hours, involves decision tasks, questionnaires, physiological tracking. HealthyAgingLab@gmail.com 607-255-2457

Deerfield, MA needs 5 temporary workers 5/1/2016 to 12/31/2016, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to 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. $11.74 per hr. Applicants apply at, Franklin/Hampshire Career Center, (413)586-6506 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #7021481. Growing vegetables crops including planting, weeding, harvesting and packing. Applicants must be able to lift 50 lb. boxes for extended periods of time and work while crouching or kneeling on the round for extended periods of time. One month experience required in duties listed. NEW YEAR, NEW AIRLINE CAREERS begin here - Get started by training as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN) PAID IN ADVANCE! Make $1000 A Week Mailing Brochures From Home. Helping home workers since 2001! Genuine Opportunity. No Experience Required. Start Immediately! www. ThelncomeHub.com (AAN CAN)

Part Time Summer Help

Applications are now being accepted for Part Time Summer Help for the Village of Candor. Duties include park and lawn maintenance with a aximum of 20 hours a week at minimum wage. Must have valid & clean NYS drivers license and be 18 years of age. Obtain application from Candor Village Clerk, 128 Main Street, Candor NY during regular office hours: Tues 11-5pm; Wed 1-6pm; and Thurs 8-2pm. Applications accepted only until April 28, 2016 at 2pm.

Peachblow Farm

Charlestown, NH needs 3 temporary workers 5/1/2016 to 10/31/2016, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to 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. $11.74 per hr. Applicants to apply contact Scott Koblich, NH Employment Security at 603-229-4407. Or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #119720. May perform any combination of tasks related tot he planting, cultivating, and processing of fruit and vegetables for sale including, but not limited to, preparing soil, planting, pruning, weeding, thinning, spraying, mowing, harvesting, grading, packing. Perform general farm labor such as picking rocks, hoeing weeds, pruning. May use hand tools such as shovel, pruning saw, and hoe. Work is performed out of doors sometimes under extreme conditions of heat, cold and rain. 1 months agricultural experience required.

employment School Nurse (RN) 10-Month

F/T, 10-Month School Nurse(RN) position available ASAP with T-S-T BOCES Detailed job posting with requirements listed on the BOCES Web Site: www. tstboces.org and careerbulder.com Apply online at: www.tompkinscountyny. gov/personnel Apply by 4/22/16 to: TST BOCES, 555 Warren Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850, Phone (607)257-1551, Fax: (607)697-8273, Email: hr@tstboces.org

Stillman Greenhouse & Farm Stand

New Braintree, MA needs 3 temporary workers 5/1/2016 to 12/1/2016, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to 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. $11.74 per hr. Applicants apply at, North Central Career Center, 25 Main St., Gardner, MA 01440 , 978-632-5050 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #6962420. Diversified fruit and vegetable farm. General duties include: seeding, transplanting, writing labels for transplants, weeding, cultivating and pruning, less than 15% of the season; planting 15% of the season; harvesting, picking and packing by hand various crops such as legumes, squash, corn, berries, apples, root crops and potatoes 70% of the season. Other duties include weeding, cutting, and arranging cut-flowers, use of hand tools, setting up, operating and/or repairing farm machinery and fencing. Ability to withstand prolonged exposure to variable weather conditions; also required to bend, stoop or stand for extended periods and lift and carry 50 pounds on a frequent basis. 1 month experience required in work listed. The %’s listed are estimates. Workers may spend 0-100% of their time performing any of the activities listed.

Teachers

Southern Cayuga Schools anticipates the following openings for the 2016/17 school year, effective September 1. Math(Algebra); Agriculture or Living Environment Science; LTS Secondary Social Studies, Elementary. Deadline May 2, 2016. Applicants must apply through the OLAS system and include OLAS application, letter of interest, resume, certification, transcripts, fingerprint clearance & three references. Superintendent, Southern Cayuga CSD, 2384 Route 34B, Aurora NY 13026, 315-364-7211; AdminAssist@southerncayuga.org. SCCS EOE.

The City of Ithaca

is accepting applications for the following position: Deputy Greater Ithaca Activities Center Director: Currently, there is one vacancy GIAC. Minimum Quals & Special Reqs: visit the City of Ithaca website. Salary: $75,112. Residency: Applicants must be residents of Tompkins County within one year of appointment. Application Deadline: May 4, 2016. City of Ithaca HR ept., 108 East Green Street, 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 City of Ithaca

is accepting applications for the following positions until April 27, 2016: Parking Lot Attendant: Currently, there are three vacancies in the Parking Division. One Permanent position, One Seasonal full time position, and one Part Time temporary position. Minimum Quals & Special Reqs: visit the City of Ithaca website. Application Deadline: April 27, 2016. Custodial Worker: Temporary position. Minimum Quals: None. Salary: $14/hour. Application Deadline: April 27, 2016. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 E. Green Street, 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.

adoptions

rentals

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Near Commons

520/Adoptions Wanted ADOPT

A loving family is ready to grow! A lifetime of love awaits your baby. Allowable expenses paid. Please call Alana & Michael: 1-855-840-3066. www. alanaAndMichaelAdopt.net (NYSCAN) PREGNANT? THINKING OF ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families Nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions. 866-413-6293. (AAN CAN)

610/Apartments Lower Collegetown

Available Now Downtown 1 Bedroom in Historic Building. Intercom/Security/DW. Carpeted, Furnished. Bus near by. Heat Included. Carol, CSP Management, 277-6961. CSP Management.com

American Legion Post 770 is accepting sealed bids for Lawn Mowing 2016. PO Box 456,Trumansburg, NY 14886

You’re Sure to Find

Are you in BIG trouble with the IRS? Stop wage & bank levies, liens & audits, unfiled tax returns, payroll issues, & resolve tax debt FAST. Call 844-7531317 (AAN CAN)

the place that’s right for you with Conifer. Linderman Creek 269-1000, Cayuga View 269-1000, The Meadows 2571861, Poets Landing 288-4165

Studio, Fall Occupancy,Furnished, Spacious, Large Rooms, Hardwood Floor, Quiet Building, Heat Included,

Reasonable Rent, Walk to Central Campus or Downtown. Available August 1st. Carol, CSP Management, 277-6961. CSP Management.com

720/Rooms Wanted ALL AREAS - ROOMMATES.COM. Lonely? Bored? Broke? Find the perfect roommate to complement your personality and lifestyle at Roommates .com! (AAN CAN)

SPECIAL EDUCATION SUMMER SCHOOL OCM BOCES has the need for the following summer school staff from 7/07/16 to 8/19/16:

SCHOOL NURSES Sites are at various locations through Onondaga and Cortland County. Interested applicants apply online by 05/02/16 at: www.olasjobs.org/central. For more information regarding this Summer School posting, please visit our website at: www.ocmboces.org EOE

Hunting

Our hunters will pay Top $$$ to hunt your land. Call for a Free Base Camp Leasing info packet & Quote. 1-866-309-1507. www.BaseCampLeasing.com (NYSCAN)

1040/Land for Sale

New Homes: Sussex and Kent counties

Four Seasons Landscaping Inc. 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!

Builders.net (NYSCAN)

A Mouse in the House Kennel

offers individualized care & daily companionship in clean, comfortable, and spacious accommodations for dogs of all sizes, including private and social fenced-in outdoor spaces on the beautiful Wixom Farm in Mecklenburg, NY.

Get funding now for your small business - up to $2 million in as little as 2 days. Minimum 2 years in business. Call BFS Capital: 888-732-6298 or apply online www.bfscapital.com/nyp (NYSCAN)

850/Mind Body & Spirit

There is a place just hours away where you can find abundant natural beauty, clean air and space. Located in Virginia 90 miles south of Ocean City. Lots are 3 to 22 acres and priced $60,000 to $98,000. All are near the shoreline, some with excellent water views. Amenities include community dock and sandy beach. Low taxes and a mild climate. Call (757) 442-2171 or email: oceanandtrust@yahoo.com, website http:// waverlylots.com (NYSCAN)

from $169,000, 9 communities close to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Bay (Bower’s Beach), or Nanticoke River (Seaford). 302-653-7700, www.Lenape-

Try a little

PIANOS

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• Rebuilt • Reconditioned • Bought• Sold • Moved • Tuned • Rented

AUTHORIZED DEALER New Teles and Strats from $599 Squiers from $179 Amps from $59 Only At:

Complete rebuilding services. No job too big or too small. Call us.

There’s no time like your time Hypnotherapy with Peter Fortunato, (607) 2736637; www.peterfortunato.wordpress. com

Ithaca Piano Rebuilders

REPLACEMENT WINDOWS

(607) 272-6547

REPLACEMENT A FULL LINE OF VINYL Manufacture To Install272-2602 WINDOWS REPLACEMENT WINDOWS We DoREPLACEMENT It forAll Call Free Estimate & www.guitarworks.com DeWitt Mall 215 N. Cayuga St

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Romulus, NY 315-585-6050 or Toll Free at 866-585-6050

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OCM BOCES

hometown electrical distributor Your one Stop Shop

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

EOE

866-585-6050

950 Danby Rd., Suite 26

South Hill Business Campus, Ithaca, NY

Ithaca’s only

www.SouthSenecaWindows.com Romulus, NY

Adult and Family Literacy dept. has the need for a part-time (20-25 hrs/week) Special Education Teacher located at the Cortland County Jail in Cortland, NY. Successful candidate will work with incarcerated adults and youth. Work hours are 12:30-4:30pm Monday –Friday. The teacher must be able to: Instruct students in a small group setting, have strong math skills, the ability to teach with technology and focus on testing and evaluation. Salary range is $1920/hour. NYS Special Education certification required with dual secondary certification preferred. To apply, forward cover letter and resume to: OCM BOCES, Adult Education Dept. 1710 NYS Route 13, Cortland, NY 13045 by 4/29/16. EOE

NATURAL UNSPOILED COASTAL PROPERTY

Delaware

ELIMINATE CELLULITE and Inches in weeks! All natural. Odor free. Works for men or woman. Free month supply on select packages. Order now! 844-2447149 (M-F 9am-8pm central) (AAN CAN)

Money to Lend

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real estate

PRINCIPAL INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Penfield Central School District seeks an experienced elementary administrator to be the next K-5 principal of Indian Landing Elementary School. Interested candidates must be NYS certified as a school administrator and have administrative experience at the elementary level. Please visit www.penfield.edu, click on the Job Opportunities and follow directions to apply.

Open House Sunday Apr 24 12-2p.m. 1859 Slaterville Rd Ithaca Charming, well-built Cape Cod, lovely deck overlooking parklike setting. Only four miles to Cornell and Downtown on bus route. $247,000 • For Sale by owner - brokers protected Contact: Judy Epstein 607-277-4205 judysueep@gmail.com

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L&T MASONRY Brick, Block, Concrete, new or repair Sidewalks, pads, chimneys, waterproofing, Excavating. Fully Insured. References. 30 yrs Experience. Free Estimates. 279-5671

Love dogs? Check out Cayuga Dog Rescue!

4 Seasons

* BUYING RECORDS *

Landscaping Inc.

LPs 45s 78s ROCK JAZZ BLUES

www.cayugadogrescue.org

PUNK REGGAE ETC

www.facebook.com/CayugaDogRescue

607-272-1504

Adopt! Foster! Volunteer! Donate for vet care!

Angry Mom Records

lawn maintenance

(Autumn Leaves Basement)

spring + fall clean up + gutter cleaning

LPS MASONRY

319-4953 angrymomrecords@gmail.com

Brick, Block, Concrete Work

patios, retaining walls, + walkways

New Block Foundations “CLEAR IT OUT”

landscape design + installation drainage

Driveways & Pads

Reliable and Affordable

Brick Vaneer, Block & Brick Chimneys

Richard F. Vogt

Waterproofing, Fully Insured

A NYS Certified

Call 387-4190 water1945@live.com

Free Estimates

Women’s Business Enterprise

387-4783

FREE Quotes

Find us on Facebook! Dive in deep!

AAM

ANATOMY SERIES:

Massage is like exercise

NECK & SHOULDERS

for people who don’t like to move.

ALL ABOUT MACS

Yoga & anatomy Workshop * All levels

Macintosh Consulting

Saturday, April 30 * 1:30-4pm

http://www.allaboutmacs.com

Save $5 before 4/22; $30 after

(607) 280-4729

MIGHTY YOGA www.mightyyoga.com, 272-0682

ABC Clean Community Cash Deals

Full line of Vinyl Replacement Windows

Huge Discounts each month!

Free Estimates

Please go to www.abcclean.com to

South Seneca Vinyl

download your monthly coupon!

315-585-6050, 866-585-6050

JOLLY BUDDHA MASSAGE

Peaceful Spirit Tai Chi

103 W. Seneca St., Suite 302, Downtown

Pay for one month($50)

jollybuddha.us/booknow Men’s and Women’s Alterations for over 20 years Fur & Leather repair, zipper repair. Same Day Service Available

John’s Tailor Shop

RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL Janitorial Service * Floor/Carpet

MIMI’S ATTIC

24/7 CLEANING Services

Day!

607-227-3025 or 607-697-3294

Honor a Life like no other with ceremonies like no other. Steve@reallifeceremonies.com

We deﬁne local as products or services that are produced or owned within 100 miles of Ithaca. I

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The Yoga School Ashtanga * Vinyasa *Semester Pass $300

www.greenstar.coop h e

607-272-0114

*YA registered school * 200 hr TT

like pasta sauce from Mama Giuseppa

Sunrise Yoga in downtown Ithaca

273-3192

This week at GreenStar we have 4,002 local products...

and the second month is free Tuesday evenings, 7:30 to 8:30

102 The Commons

Real Life Ceremonies

High Dusting * Windows/Awnings

430 W. State St. (607)882-9038 Open Every

607-273-1502

Spring Offer:

Independence Cleaners Corp

FURNITURE & DECOR

From Business Cards, to Window Lettering

Do your workout with us.

John Serferlis - Tailor Buy, Sell & Consign Previously-enjoyed

Signorama of Ithaca Your Full Service Sign Center

Basements, Barns, Garages & etc.

snow removal dumpster rentals

Concrete Floors, Sidewalks

*Yoga Philosophy * Ayurveda *Cooking & Tea Classes *Gentle Vinyasa *Over 15 years experience www.yogaschoolithaca.com

LOCATED

33 miles

from GREENSTAR