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VOL.X X XVIII / NO. 47 / July 18, 2018 Serving 47,125 readers week ly

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Activists Challenge Emissions Rules Around Lansing Power Plant

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ocal environmentalists are gearing up to speak out against proposed rule changes to New York State law that could potentially pave the way for the coal-fired Cayuga Power Plant in Lansing to transition to natural gas, a proposal that could potentially save dozens of jobs and ease a strained tax base already battered by the world market’s movements away from coal. Focusing largely on the environmental impacts of the proposal, activists with the local chapter of the anti-fracking environmental group, Mothers Out Front, gathered in the Borg Warner Room of the Tompkins County Public Library to host a talk centered on the future of the power plant, as well as organizing a coalition of supporters to speak at a public meeting regarding the rule changes later this month at the regional New York State Department of Environmental Conservation office in Avon, New York – one of three public hearings being held this month around the rule changes. The proposed regulations will tighten the state’s CO2 Performance Standards around major power plants by establishing new emission rate requirements, ensuring “the state’s remaining coal fired power plants transition to cleaner, alternative sources of energy or shut down by 2020,” according to the DEC. Though considered as part of a larger goal by the administration of Governor Andrew Cuomo to lower statewide emissions by 2030, some locals fear the repowering to natural gas – a cleaner-burning, but still burning – form of energy could offset any good intentions the governor may have and might actually disincentivize any cause to push for clean, renewable energy in the short-term, adding that the new emissions standards set by the state don’t go far enough. continued on page 10

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he smell at 225 Tulip Tree Road, where the Cornell Teaching Dairy Barn hosts a fleet of cows for milking, feeding and veterinarian student studying, could peel the enamel from someone’s teeth. It could stop even the most vile skunk in its tracks. But maybe most importantly, it could help to keep Ithaca’s water clean. Cornell recently installed a “state-of-the-art” system at the barn which will take advantage of the copious amount of manure produced from the facility’s bovine tenancy, while also using a more sustainable bedding material, in sand. Once separated from the sand, energy from the

manure’s gases is repurposed and will be used to help power portions of the Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility, which cleans the water and returns it to Cayuga Lake. The cows, nearly 200 of which are housed at the facility, appear more than happy to provide ample waste product to justify a nearly constant collection cycle which then periodically dumps the load into an adjacent basin. That device then separates any excess sand – which surrounds the cows and serves as their bedding – and the manure. Water is added to liquify the manure and sand, a mixture which is then separated out using a filter

T a k e ▶▶ GrassRoots Festival. Probably the most obvious choice, but what the heck. The annual Trumansburg celebration kicks off Thursday at 1 p.m. with a full day of music, followed by two more days of the same before wrapping up with the GrassRoots Happiness Parade on Sunday at 2 p.m. All the stages look like they’ll be packed with good acts, so

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and cyclone system. After being separated, the sand is thoroughly cleaned, dried and recycled for further use with the cows. Meanwhile, the manure remains liquified and is stored until a truck from the City of Ithaca picks it up and bring it to the city’s Wastewater Treatment Facility. The farm’s total fecal contributions amount to about 40,000-50,000 gallons per week. “The big picture idea is it gets scraped into the reception pit, we pump it out of the reception pit, through the separation system and it goes into the separated manure tank,” said Paul Jennette, the director of biocontainment at the veterinary college. “Then we pump it out into the truck, and the truck hauls it down to the continued on page 14

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don’t miss out. ▶▶ Cortland County Airfest. Of course, if you do want to miss out for a little while, you can pop on up to the Cortland County Airfest. It’s a bit of a trek, but for the whole day Saturday people of all ages can go to the Cortland County Airport in Cortland from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and learn, watch and

ride helicopters, airplanes and warbirds. Raffle winners will be able to ride on a C-47 plane, the type of aircraft used to deliver paratroopers during the D-Day invasion in World War II. A group of women pilots called The 99’s will have a display and field questions, and several other displays of vehicles both landand air-bound will be present.

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City Of Ithaca

Future Of Ithaca’s Backyard Chicken Community Discussed

thacan chickens are safe for the foreseeable future, even though a resolution couldn’t be reached by city officials last Wednesday regarding the extension of a city ordinance allowing backyard chicken coops. A pilot program facilitating the ordinance – approved in the summer of 2016 – allowed for up to 20 chicken permits to be distributed to city residents. However, that program sunsetted on May 1 of this year, leaving the next steps for the city’s Planning and Economic Development Committee (PEDC) to consider. While chickens have technically been illegal since then, the city will not enforce the rule prohibiting them or, in the words of PEDC Chairperson Seph Murtagh, “nobody’s going to be going around tearing down coops because this is expired.” The legislation could be up for permanent approval once it returns to the committee after staff is finished reviewing it. “If we can keep the status quo

until a point when we can make a definitive decision, we’re not going to be penalizing people who are making their best effort to comply,” Committee member and Alderperson Cynthia Brock said. “I would support, instead of changing or extending the pilot, just actually adopting it as legislation.” Results from the pilot period have seemed fairly positive. City Clerk Julie Holcomb said the city government had issued 13 permits, with approval of one still pending, since the institution of the law. The 2016 legislation contains several tenets meant to ensure the chickens don’t become a neighborhood nuisance for nearby residents and required protections to ensure they don’t become a midnight snack for nearby animals. Violations of these and other parts of the law result in escalating fines and the potential revocation of the permit. “It’s a relatively easy program to implement,” Holcomb said.

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After Long Gap, Enfield Pantry Re-Opens, Better Than Ever

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fter a pest infestation shut down a vital resource in for one of Tompkins County’s most impoverished communities, the Enfield Food Pantry has re-opened better than before, ready to serve the hundreds of people in the community who have come to rely on its services. Relied on by many here in Enfield, the pantry has limited hours on Sundays and Mondays, where 160 to 170 families pick up food for their weeks. 500 to 600 people rely on the food pantry’s service yet, for almost all the month of June, all have had to find other means to fill their cupboards. Many of the clients who depend of Enfield Food Distribution are individuals and families who do not have reliable access to phone or internet services and some were not able to find out about the closing and reopening of the pantry, according to Jean

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Owens, the director of Enfield Food Distribution. Fliers and notices were distributed and posted at various shops and stores, but mainly the news of the pantry reopening was spread by word of mouth.

“We issued the first 10 permits in 2016, two in 2017, we’ve issued one this year with another pending [...] We’ve only had one neighbor complaint [...] Which had to do with smells and odors on the especially hot days.” Monika Roth, an agricultural specialist at the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE), has effectively taken the lead on monitoring the success of the program and investigating complaints that may come through. According to the pilot legislation, CCE could assist rehoming the chickens once the pilot program ended. At the behest of Murtagh, she’ll also be involved in any tweaking that needs to be done for when the law is introduced for permanent approval. It appears, though, the only significant changes that will be discussed concern minimum lot size to secure a permit: Committee member and Alderperson Steve Smith suggested, with Brock’s agreement, that the minimum lot size requirement be eliminated in favor of a setback rule that would ensure a coop doesn’t encroach too close to a neighboring property. Holcomb did say she was pretty certain there were still people in the city operating outside of the pilot program, keeping chickens while not permitted to do so. Murtagh asked if that was

because of the ordinance’s restrictions, like lot size, but Holcomb said it was probably more likely that people just don’t know about the chicken ordinance and aren’t aware, or perhaps would rather not understand, that they need a permit to do so. Amanda Zerilli, who along with her husband were the first recipients of a chicken permit after running afoul of the law before it was enacted, spoke in support of allowing the ordinance to continue. She said her neighbors have taken very well to the chickens, and that keeping them around not only entertains her elderly mother, but provides the family with extra food without many, if any, negative drawbacks. “People know what they’re getting into, because it is a daily commitment,” Zerilli said. “They’ve really been a pleasure to have [...] It’s clear that there are only certain people who want to put in the commitment, but for those of us who do it’s a really nice way to get some of our food and I’d certainly encourage you to continue the program.”

To compensate for the lack of access to food for folks in need in Enfield, different organizations in the area extended a helping hand. Clients were directed toward food banks located in downtown Ithaca, Newfield, and Trumansburg, as well as mobile food pantry trucks in the region. Churches and religious organizations also sponsored fundraising, and a GoFundMe page was established for the cause, which ultimately racked up $22,000 in costs. Throughout the past month, the staff here at Enfield Food Distribution – an affiliate of the Food Bank of the Southern Tier – has been hard at work on a laundry list of issues, working on renovations to the space including the installment of new shelving, a walk in freezer, as well as routine maintenance and painting. The Town of Enfield helped the cause provided external repairs at an additional expense. “This was an opportunity for us to get the pantry in top notch, running order so we can continue to address the growing need in our community,” said Owens. The pantry reopened its doors on July 1. Transportation and logistical issues come up when the Enfield

Food Distribution is in normal operation, so with the recent closing, those issues were heightened, according to Owens. Enfield Food Distribution volunteers are available by appointment to provide folks without transportation In efforts to make sure people who depend on the services are able to access food, Enfield Food Distribution arranged measures for people in need whose schedules may conflict with pantry schedules or are unable to access transportation. Now that the pantry has reopened its doors, operations are back to normal, and clients are able to access food at the pantry, and the renovations have provided an environment that is cleaner, newer, and more welcoming for those in need. “The renovations have really allowed the pantry to be more functional and better able to serve our clients,” said Owens. “We are very happy that that has taken place. Ultimately the client paid, through personal suffering of not receiving the food, however, because of these renovations, we can now better serve our clients.”

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Election 2018

Miller Running For First Elected Term As City Court Judge

unning unopposed for a second term on the Ithaca City Court (albeit, the first time where he has had to run for elected office), Scott Miller has had a lot of explaining to do. Unanimously endorsed by the Ithaca City Democratic Committee and with more than 500 doors knocked on so far, Miller said some express surprise when they learn it’s an Ithaca City Court Judge knocking on their door asking for their signature. Then again, the elected judge – an institution in only seven of the 50 states – is something even people like Miller took some time coming around to understanding. “I actually started not knowing I was going to become an elected judge,” he said. “When I started in January of 2013, the judgeship that I occupied was a six-year, half-time, appointed position. New York State has a really convoluted and confusing judiciary… as a young attorney, it took me a while to figure out the different courts.” It was after a judicial census in 2014, when the City of Ithaca was upgraded from one elected judge and one appointee to two fulltime elected judges that Miller, for the first time, learned he had to run for his own job once his six-year appointment was up. This November, he will be seeking his first term as an elected judge, a term that lasts 10 years. Since early June, when he first started his campaign in earnest, the Cornell Law School graduate and longtime Tompkins County resident has been going door-todoor selling his neighbors not only on why he’s good for the job he’s held for years, but what the courts actually have the power to do as well. Though in New York, where judges of Miller’s stature can ascend to the bench after practicing law for a period of ten years, the qualifications for an elected position can be broad. The position and the workload involved requires someone with a calm demeanor in the courtroom, the compassion to work with members of all levels of society, and a readiness to spend hour after hour on the nuanced and consistent application of the law over the estimated 7,500 to 11,000 cases heard by the court each and every year. The Ithaca City

Court, presided over by Miller and Judge Rick Wallace, handles everything from evictions to traffic tickets, misdemeanors to felonies, small claims to search warrants, and requires each judge to be conscientious of the community’s ideals of justice. A City Court Judge, Miller said, is the judge who determines what the release status of anyone to commit a crime in the City of Ithaca will be, be it setting bail, releasing them on their own recognizance, or choosing to incarcerate them until trial – a pretty weighty responsibility with numerous

Ithaca, he acknowledges. Under Miller’s watch, a specialty DWI court was created – the first in Tompkins County – as a means to bring DWI offenders to court all at once to see each other’s sentencing and be reminded of the consequences of their actions repeatedly, as a deterrent. “Since 2015, with the several hundred DWI cases we’ve handled, we’ve had less than 5 percent of those cases result in re-arrests,” he said. Miller has also successfully lobbied for the addition of a fulltime re-entry counselor through the County Mental Health Department, and currently sits on the Criminal Justice Alternatives To Incarceration board at the county level. “If you just dump people on the street after a jail sentence, they’re just going to end up back in jail,” he said. “I can think of a

Judge Scott Miller. (Photo Provided)

intangibles at play. “It’s important who your judge is because your judge needs to reflect the values of your community, but they also need to listen,” said Miller. “The judge can’t be the largest personality in the room. They need to listen. My reputation shows that I am a good listener.” One of those values entails a policy of numerous alternatives to incarceration as a regular device of the criminal justice system, something Miller has been a long proponent of. Since taking the bench in 2013, he and Judge Wallace have worked to grow the misdemeanor-level drug treatment court from 12 participants at one time to 40 – partly an indication of a growing drug problem in the City of

couple people who were having outbursts in the community several times a week. Now these are people who have gone six months without an arrest. One of them has even found stable housing. That’s success.” There’s also the need for City Court Judges to be dependable, there to help ensure the speedy administration of the law where and when it’s needed – at the arraignment stage of criminal proceedings. Miller is used to this: after reforms to the justice system at the state level created an after-hours arraignment model – requiring judges to be on-call for emergency, late-night proceedings – Miller has been on-call 26 weeks a year to appear in court at any hour of the day to do what needs to be done.

(Miller, going a step further, was part of a team that worked with the local assigned counsel program to recruit defense attorneys to serve in this capacity, on-call at least one day a month.) This program, he said, has greatly decreased unnecessary detention in the local criminal justice system while helping position those accused of crimes in a position to defend themselves on even footing. “I have found that defense counsel speaking on behalf of clients are much more persuasive in convincing judges bail or pretrial detention isn’t necessary,” said Miller. “They need a calm, detached professional explaining that to a judge rather than a defendant who may have never been in front of a judge before and might be incredibly nervous, even a slightly intoxicated defendant who might not be collected or sober enough to remember a sober friend or spouse who can pick them up. We don’t want people sitting in jail who are merely accused of a crime. That’s not a good use of our jail.” Ultimately, Miller said his main guide on the bench is a belief in the concept of restorative justice, going beyond the usual prongs of rehabilitation and punishment and looking toward ensuring all voices have an opportunity to be heard, particularly in sensitive cases like domestic violence cases or sex abuse cases. “The courtroom can be very empowering,” he said. “Too often in the courts, a victim’s voice isn’t heard and if it is heard, it’s often dismissed, quickly. When someone is convicted of a crime like that, the community wants a judge who understands the court can be a real powerful place where the victim can start the healing process and start getting empowered again. If on the last day in court, they leave without any source of empowerment, that victim may potentially become a lifelong victim.” A long-time attorney, Miller said he’s seen “too many” judges over the years ignore or forget victims of violent crime. In this community, he said, he wants to ensure that never happens again. “A judge can play a really key role not just in making sure there’s fair trials and that the process works,” Miller said. “A judge has a really important role to play for victims. That’s the moment victims can stop being a victim and become empowered again. You need a judge to be able to do that.”

UPS&DOWNS

▶▶ Thumbs Up: To our fearless leader Nick Reynolds, who is moving on to the greener (beige, maybe?) pastures of Casper, Wyoming, to take a position covering state politics with the Casper Star-Tribune. Nick’s done inspiring and, at times, award-winning work on the environment, the NY-23rd Congressional race, agriculture, education and a litany of other topics, and supplied a doggedness in his reporting befitting a community that he valued as deeply as Tompkins County. We’ll miss his leadership, perseverance, capability and questionable taste in memes. We are better off for having had him here, and worse now that he’s leaving, but it helps to know he’ll only be a short 1,783.3 miles due west. Cheers, and good luck! ▶▶ Heard & Seen After several years and a lot of effort, the local environmental activist community notched a victory against natural gas proliferation last week after the the notorious Crestwood storage facility proposal was rejected by New York State. The facility was slated to be built under Seneca Lake, which environmentalists had argued could hurt the structural integrity of the sub-lake caverns there. That, among a few other factors, was enough to convince the state that the project did not deserve to advance. ▶▶ Top Stories On Ithaca.com This Week Are... 1. NY23 Reports: Man charged after stealing Reed campaign signs 2. Beware the Giant Hogweed Plant 3. Civic ensemble lands powerful blow 4. Back to our Roots: What to expect at GrassRoots this year 5. Libertarian candidate for Governor Larry Sharpe visits Tompkins County

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Revenge, Served Ice Cold

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ust about the time I was expecting Sarah to arrive at my downtown psychotherapy office, the phone rang. It was Sarah. I knew she was distraught when she had called earlier. Now she was hysterical. She was sobbing so much it took a bit to figure out what she was saying. She had been riding her regular bus from Cornell to see me. A minute after she stepped off the bus at her stop at the bottom of State Street Hill, she abruptly realized that she had forgotten her purse. She must have left it on the seat next to her. “That has everything in it!” She wailed. This was a final straw. As she had been hospitalized multiple times for suicidal attempts before she began to see me, I was worried. I calmed her down and told her to just come in and we’d call the TCAT office together. “They’ll find it, and they’ll have it down there. The money will probably still

be in it. I can give you a ride.” As an Ithacan, I know that’s how they do things at TCAT. Sarah was from New Jersey. She was just here for graduate school. I knew she didn’t believe me. But a few minutes later she showed up in my office, holding her purse tightly to her side. “I don’t believe this!” She said, shaking her head. “That bus driver headed off to the bus garage when he said he saw the purse and knew it was mine. He remembered me! I ride everyday. So he turned the bus around and went back around the Commons and up Green Street slowly until he spotted me by the drugstore. He stopped, opened the bus door, and reached an arm out and handed me my purse.” In my office, she was no longer suicidal. Was that continued on page 7

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managed to get my paws on a couple of pages of the script for the FOX biopic TRUMP: A LIFE. This is apparently the obligatory montage of scenes from earlier life, establishing the rich psychological soup from which the hero emerges… SCENE: 1951. The cafeteria in the Kew-Forest School in Queens, New York. First-grader Billy Stamp is stuffing the 13th of 17 snow peas into his nose, a school record, while the crowd is chanting “STAMP! STAMP! STAMP! STAMP!” DONALD: (to himself) That should be me! Someday… DISSOLVE TO SCENE: 1954. A third-grade classroom in the Kew-Forest School. Teacher Enid Cornstarch is quizzing the students on the subject of primary colors. Young DONALD raises his hand. DONALD: Orange is the best primary color! When I grow up, I’m going to be orange! MRS. C: Donald, haven’t you been paying attention? Orange is most certainly not one of the primary colors. Donald’s classmates laugh, jeer and point.

DISSOLVE TO SCENE: 1957. A spelling bee at the same school. Contestant DONALD is in the first round and the word is “environment”. DONALD: E-N-V-I-R-O-M-E… (Buzzer sounds) JUDGE: I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. Next! DONALD: (Knocking over microphone stand) You suck! I hate the environment anyway! DISSOLVE TO SCENE: 1964. A Trump Organization apartment house in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens. 17-year-old summer employee DONALD knocks on the door of apartment 3-E, then occupied by the Villas, a family newly arrived from Puerto Rico. The apartment pipes have burst, and the place is a dripping mess. DONALD is struggling to hold an armload of paper towels. HECTOR VILLA opens the door. DONALD: I’m here to give you these. VILLA: Paper towels? We’re under water! Everything is ruined! Where is continued on page 7

YOUR LETTERS Divining The Truth Of The Subdivision

he Ithaca Times has provided a great service to its readers with its pieces that accurately describe what is a watershed moment for the future of our city. When Ithaca’s Planning Department encouraged a developer to build a substantial duplex in the backyard of two adjacent rental houses on First Street --10 feet from a neighbor’s property line--they were signaling to other developers that backyards were fair game. This plan was encouraged by the Planning Department and given the green light by the City Planning Board. If this project is allowed to go through, here’s what it could mean for Ithaca neighborhoods. 1) Right now over 70% of the city’s housing stock is rental. I would guess that most city residents live next to, in or near a rental property. Now imagine a two or three story duplex in the back-

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yard of that property. This is legal under current zoning law for Ithaca’s medium density neighborhoods and means that landlords get a downtown building lot for free when they purchase a rental property with a backyard. 2) Constructing duplexes in the backyards of rental houses eliminates forever the possibility of owner occupancy. Some homeowners can only afford to live in Ithaca by buying a duplex, relying on a rental income to help with the city’s high taxes and a mortgage. Urban planners elsewhere encourage owner occupancy, considering it a benefit to neighborhoods and thus a positive contribution to the municipality itself. There’s got to be a better solution to Ithaca’s affordable housing problem than opening the floodgates to high density housing in neighborhoods zoned for medium density. This has created a crisis and subsequent building continued on page 7

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Directly in front of him in line is CARMELITA ESPOSITO, holding her infant daughter. CARMEN,

the plumber? DONALD: No plumber. Just these. (VILLA slams the door) DISSOLVE TO

formerly a maid to the Somoza family in Nicaragua, has fled with her child to the United States, seeking asylum from the reprisals of the Sandanista

SCENE: 1973. DONALD is on a blind date with Yale Law graduate HILLARY RODHAM at a Manhattan restaurant.

regime in her home country.

RODHAM: So, what’s your opinion on Roe versus Wade? DONALD: Well, that would depend on how deep the water is.

(ESPOSITO shrugs apologetically)

(RODHAM excuses herself to go to the bathroom and never returns) DISSOLVE TO SCENE: 1979. DONALD is standing in line in Schnitzer’s Bakery.

CLERK: I’m sorry, sir. That lady just got the last loaf of marbled rye.

DONALD: What? Her? She’s not even a citizen! This isn’t over…

Charley Githler is a columnist with The Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears biweekly.)

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because she was seeing a psychotherapist? The answer to this is no. She was not suicidal because she had encountered an Ithaca bus driver. And not only had she encountered a driver who remembered her, but clearly he knew that under the correct conditions, he was permitted to be compassionate. Try that in New Jersey! There is, or course, more than this one interaction in this story of extending care to a stranger. Early last September, Laura excused herself from our usual bunch of regulars at Gimme Cayuga Street and headed off to work at Cornell. “I have to be at the bus early this week,” she explained, finishing off her coffee. “This is the week I show the new students how to thank the bus driver.” I am going to suggest in this column that way we do things here is more than the silliness of an eastern Portlandia. (I confess to finding this show too close to home to watch.) I intend to tell stories about the myriad ways in which living in Ithaca increases health and well-being. There is a little-known sea of scientific research on this phenomenon that I am going to talk about. Ithaca, I think, is one of the last remaining places in our country in which a local cultural life still flourishes. We are like the apple orchards in the county that keep heritage apples alive. Or maybe like a seed vault. We have been keeping something alive in our “centrally isolated” valley “surrounded by reality,” which you cannot reach on a superhighway. Perhaps we are growing and nurturing something

“...And not only had she encountered a driver who remembered her, but clearly he knew that under the correct conditions, he was permitted to be compassionate. Try that in New Jersey!”

essential and rare in a hard time. Maybe someday, like a heritage apple orchard, we can help others remember what was once common. Maybe our our flourishing cultural habits can be rootstock from which the country could someday be replanted. David B. Schwartz, Ph.D. lives and practices in Fall Creek. You can learn more about him at sidewalkpsychotherapist.com

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moratorium on South Hill and is now affecting Fall Creek. To encourage the building of duplexes in backyards of our neighborhoods is a bad idea supported and encouraged by the city’s Planning Department and Planning Board.

–Ashley Miller City Of Ithaca

Environmental Racism and the Ultimate Losers of the We Are Seneca Lake Victory

fter nearly 9 years of intrepid opposition waged by environmental activists, business owners, and concerned citizens throughout the Finger Lakes region, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration has finally rejected a long pending plan to store propane gas in salt caverns on Seneca Lake’s western shore. By all accounts, this was an extraordinary achievement for a grassroots movement that began with a few individuals holding signs and linking arms. Over the past 8 1/2 years, it took hundreds of demonstrations, countless letters to the editor, petition after petition, giant caravans to Albany, and remarkable acts of civil disobedience. In the end, the people prevailed. Yet, I could not help but wonder if this outcome would have been different if it were not primarily organized by white, middle and upper class individuals. A January 21, 2016, New York Times article by John Elgin asked a very provocative question about environmental racism and the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Elgin wrote: “If Flint were rich and mostly white, would Michigan’s state government have responded more quickly and aggressively to complaints about its lead-polluted water?” After months on the ground, Kathleen Falk, President Obama’s point person to examine the crisis (as a U.S. Health and Human Services Regional Director), answered Elgin’s question directly. “The water was not safe. They knew that it was not safe and they let them drink it…When asked if environmental racism was a factor, I came up with an unreserved and undeniable yes.” With Flint as our symbol, what if an Ithaca, Rochester, or Syracuse contingent of the Black Lives Matter movement made Seneca Lake a rallying point for environmental racism and injustice? What if young black students were lined up at the gates of the gas storage facility rather than retired white teachers and wealthy winery owners? Would their trespassing charges have been dropped so easily? Would they have been treated with the same care and respect by the state troopers and local police officers? Would they have been tolerated to the same degree by the managers and employees of the gas industry? And what about the mainstream media? Would they have covered the movement with the same tone of seriousness, accurate representation, and sympathy?

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Reed Repeats Call For End to Mueller Probe Republican Congressman Tom Reed has joined a growing chorus of GOP lawmakers and candidates in calling for an end of special investigator Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian tampering in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections. In a statement late Monday afternoon, Reed – a close ally of President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill – said that the more than yearlong investigation, which has so far resulted in charges against 32 separate individuals, should be ended, adding that it has so far failed to produce any evidence of collusion between Russian intelligence officials and an American citizen, particularly one affiliated with the Trump campaign. “Russia is not our friend, and I have no doubt they have, and are trying to, meddle in our elections,” he said. “However, there is no evidence of collusion with any American, and it is time for the Mueller probe to come to a close. By completing the investigation, we will restore faith in our democratic electoral process.” The statement, very much in line with one issued by fellow New York Congressman Chris Collins earlier this week, came hours before a telephone town hall and several after the conclusion of a bizarre press conference between President Trump and the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in Helsinki where Trump, at one point, noted the Russian President had offered the Kremlin’s help in investigating the charges levied by Mueller against its own spies. The Mueller investigation, at 14 months old, is still quite young compared to other monumental investigations in American history, including inquiries into the Iran-Contra scandal (19 months) and Watergate (more than two years). Yet, numerous Republicans in the president’s corner have, in, recent months, begun calling for it to end. On the hill, Reed has maintained his opinion on the matter, saying last month that the investigation “should not be something that’s open-ended for years to come.” “We need to close it down,” he told Spectrum News at the time. Similar calls to end the investigation were made by the likes of House Oversight Committee chairman Trey Gowdy, a Republican, whose party members on the committee concluded that, while Russia had interfered with the election, the Russians had not favored Trump’s candidacy. On the legislative side, Republican Congressman Todd Rokita introduced a bill to end the investigation that counted eight co-sponsors, however, it has seen little action.

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THE BALLET AT BUT TERMILK

The Beer League That Brings Us Back To Simpler Times By Richie Shallcross Jr.

f you hop in your car and take the scenic 2 1/2 hour drive east of here through Whitney Point, across the mighty Susquehanna, and up 88 North, you’ll land yourself in a famous little village called Cooperstown. It’s a beautiful small town resting on the end of Otsego Lake, offering a quaint and charming Main Street lined with cafes, restaurants, and a few dozen stores dedicated to all things baseball. 8 T

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On the outskirts of the downtown proper, you will find properties hosting centuries old houses and farmland that’s almost frustrating for how perfectly manicured it is, looking as if it could have served as inspiration for landscape painter Thomas Cole at one point. If you follow the street lamps down the main drag, you will eventually run into the National Baseball Hall of Fame: baseball’s Mecca. Cooperstown has been the home for archiving the history of the game since 1939. It seems random but the reason it lies in the middle of upstate New York is 18–25,

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because in the 18th century, it was also the home to a man named Abner Doubleday, a dude who, at one point in history, was given credit for inventing the game of baseball in a cow pasture somewhere around Cooperstown. This claim is widely discounted by historians, but history wants to know it’s actors, and there had to be a story to explain how something so beautiful like the game of baseball could have come about. Whether you believe one explanation or not isn’t relevant to our purposes here, but what Mr. Doubleday might

not have known is that 100 or so years later he would also be tied to the invention of another game, much like the one he probably didn’t invent himself. It’s a game where efforts of balance and grace do not separate the cream from the crop; where raw talent and athleticism become powers of no use, and where errors are commonplace. One where no matter rain or shine, hundreds gather on Sunday afternoons to drink from an everlasting fountain of youth on a journey through pitfalls and disaster, home runs and strikeouts, heartbreak and pure bliss. A

game whose name explains itself. The ballet in the dirt: Kickball. Ithaca, many cities all across the country, has its own league where, right around 4 o’clock in a field past Buttermilk Falls on Route 13, the people start to roll in, each wearing their respective logoed colored jersey t-shirts and sporting an advertisement for the league’s main sponsor – The Westy – on the back. We gather in troves, just like we all did at recess when we were 9-years-old. Many in the congregation are familiar with each other, if not yet friends. Some of us have been here since the league’s inception seven years ago, in the days when there were only 10 teams where names like The Canooligans, The Half Boners, and my team – The Smokin’ Bunts – became things of legend. Now, 20 different teams meet here at two separate time slots for this battle royale that, while certainly something short of epic, will nevertheless leave one team of the top of a mountain come the end of the 7th inning. Teams like Pitch Please, The Alcoballics, Drunk and Looking to Score, and Let’s Go Kicks! now fill the spaces between the white lines. One of the most beautiful parts about this gathering is that it brings together people from all walks of life – all ages, all skill sets – all wanting for a taste of recreational beer-league glory. More importantly, it’s a time for play. A moment where we can have a break from the rest of life’s spinning madness and breathe some air together. It’s an afternoon where we turn off the chaos and immerse ourselves in another world, where the daily burdens are washed away pitch by pitch, and inning by inning. Scott Rougeau, a friend of mine and Captain of Let’s Go Kicks! once said, “Rich, life rolls by like an army of steamrollers. It’s filled with responsibilities, deadlines, and bills. But play reveals our true selves. This ball, this game, it’s part of our past. It reminds us of all that was once fun and could be again.” I love that quote, because it defines the true nature of why we play. It’s the reason we find ourselves out there chasing each other around the field, diving, crawling, and sliding. Because the need for play is within us all, and life can easily cause one lose sight of that from time to time. But not during the ballet at Buttermilk. The season starts the first weekend in June, continuing on until the second weekend in August. Each game takes

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about an hour, and in that hour the sound and fury of competition can be heard all over the park. When that big red beautiful ball rolls in, your stomach might turn over and your eyes might get so big they hurt. Without fail, you’ll lose control of yourself and swing your leg as hard as you can, with hopes the ball will go sailing over the hill and into Treman Park. (Note: this never happens.) Someone in the field might catch it, or it might bounce off their chest, perhaps starting what looks like a life-size pinball game. It may take four or five people to get it under control, a couple beverages may be spilled, and the laughter will pour out from all corners of the diamond. Then, the throw. You’ll wield your arm back as if you could throw a laser across to your teammate. To the chagrin of every single person who’s tried this, it remains a futile effort. The ball goes sailing, falls short, or does something you had entirely not planned on at all. And so, the merry-goround begins. Sprinting around the bases in search for the ever-elusive home plate. Score more than the other team and you go home a winner. Squander too many runners on the base and you spend the next six days waiting for another day in the sun. There is, of course, some success rate here, and you can be “good” to a degree. But even the finest “athlete” out here will admit that failure is always a part of the recipe for victory. After all, not a single one of us out there is going to end up in Cooperstown beyond a few hours’ drive through the hills and down the interstate. And this is how it goes each and every Sunday. We sweat, we yell, we laugh, we cry, we win, we lose, but no matter what, we have fun. We play for fun, for the spirit of the league lies in that word alone: Fun. It’s what it’s all about and should always be about. Maybe that should be the title of this story: Kickball – the game for fun. I’ll leave you all with a quote from a classic baseball movie, and one of my all-time favorites: Bull Durham, edited somewhat for clarity. “A good friend of mine used to say, ‘This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you kick the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.’ Think about that for a while.” 2 0 1 8

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They argued the truck traffic generated by the needs for natural gas at the site – an estimated 25-60 but, according to one estimate by Cornell University Professor Tony Ingraffea, potentially up to 100 compressed natural gas-carrying trucks each day – introducing new emissions to the communities they pass through, and added that the exclusion of methane gas standards in the new rules could allow the repowered plant a loophole to pollute the air while remaining within state standards. There was also some concern expressed last week that some of the gas could be brought into New York State that was acquired via fracking, which was outlawed in New York State several years ago after a concerted statewide push that, notably, counted some of its origins in Dryden. “It is all somewhat speculative because we have not been told all the details,” said Karen Edelstein, a Lansing resident and a statewide coordinator with the FracTracker Alliance advocacy group. “It may not even be worked out yet where that gas is going to be supplied from. There has been gas that has been brought from Pennsylvania to Little Falls, New York.” Edelstein also raised the concern that some of the trucks could be subject to spills and other accidents, citing several examples of this happening, a point which has been refuted on numerous occasions by an advocate for the plant’s repowering: County Legislator Mike Sigler, who was in attendance. “Opponents want to paint this as a dangerous solution,” Sigler, who represents Lansing, wrote in a column for Tompkins Weekly on the topic several weeks ago. “To believe that, you’d have to believe the state and federal government is putting unsafe vehicles on the roadways, trucks that have a good chance of exploding; these trucks do not.” “Depending on the market, Cayuga estimates the number of trucks transporting CNG to the facility could be anywhere between 25 and 60 a day,” he added. “Furthermore, the trucks transporting the compressed natural gas are fueled by CNG themselves. The federal government says these trucks are much safer and cleaner than gasoline or diesel.” THE RULE CHANGES While the DEC will be mulling over several rules changes this month – the repeal and replacement of parts of the Transport Rule NOx Ozone Season Trading Program, the Transport Rule NOx Annual Trading

Program and the Transport Rule SO2 Annual Group 1 Trading Program – several revisions planned for the general provisions of Title 6 under state law regarding CO2 Performance Standards for major electric generating facilities, will have the most consequence locally. Though the regulations – meant to work with Governor Andrew Cuomo’s goals to decrease the state’s CO2 emissions 40 percent by 2030 – being proposed and discussed apply statewide, two major coal-fired facilities in particular, in Niagara and Tompkins Counties, will be most affected by the changes. (Note: Under the proposed emissions standards, all non-modified fossil-fuel fired facilities would be required to meet a number of new standards, including a 12-month carbon dioxides emission standard as well as a dayto-day emissions limit of either 1,800 lbs/ MW-hr gross electrical output (the outputbased limit) or 180 lbs/mmBtu of input (the input-based limit), among other regulatory requirements around other byproducts of fossil fuelled power generation, like sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxide. (Both units in the plant have scrubbers for sulfur dioxide with removal rates of 90 and 94 percent according to a database maintained by SourceWatch, an advocacy journalism outfit operated by the left-leaning Center for Media and Democracy.) Under these regulations, affected power plants – including the one in Lansing – would be subject to any standard operating expenses associated with operating permit requirements, according to the DEC, including “provisions for recordkeeping, monitoring and reporting necessary to demonstrate compliance with this rule.” However, critics – including activists with Mothers Out Front – see these plans as a non-starter, arguing they do not go far enough. “They allow dangerous, polluting coal plants to switch to burn fracked gas or biomass, and they don’t account for methane impacts on global warming at all,” the group wrote on a call-to-action on an event page for a bus trip organizers have been planning to the Avon meeting. If the rule changes do not make it through to enactment, the DEC has proposed three alternative actions it could take, including: • Doing nothing • Increasing CO2 allowance prices under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, making it less economically feasible for the most carbon intensive electric generating facilities to continue to operate – which is irrelevant,

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THE FUTURE OF THE CAYUGA PLANT The DEC will be considering the rules in the context of a 2015 plan drafted by the plant operators to repower with natural gas, with one of the units retaining the capability to fire coal as a backup fuel. In a jobs and economic impact analysis drafted by the DEC around the proposed changes, the power plant’s operators estimate 118 construction jobs and 30 permanent jobs would be created under a proposed repowering plan, despite the fact the coal-fired backup included in the plan would not comply with DEC regulations. The company also projected indirect employment benefits of 60 jobs in the region though, under this plan, Cayuga Power estimated decreased tax revenues that would result in a decrease of more than 7 percent to the local budget and a nearly 12 percent decrease to the budget of the Lansing School District, which they say would resulting in the loss of 15 teacher positions and various programmatic cuts, all while increasing the average homeowner’s tax bills by about $600 per year. “The communities surrounding the Cayuga and Somerset facilities could incur significant employment and tax implications if the facilities cease operations,” the report reads. However, the DEC does suggest that the coal-fired option included in the plan could fly with New York State if its emissions fall below the new standards imposed by the state. In order to meet the proposed CO2 emission standard, the DEC wrote, coal-fired major electric generating units without carbon capture and sequestration or other advanced emissions reduction technologies will need to repower to a cleaner fuel or cease operations by December 31, 2020. However, the DEC added, it is anticipated that such a retrofit “would be cost prohibitive,” particularly given the age of the 63-year-old plant. “It is estimated that retrofitting CCS is unlikely for plants older than ten to twelve years, as total CCS cost would be at least 30 percent higher compared to new power plants (for same scale plants), and possibly much

more, depending on the specific case,” the DEC writes. “There are two exceptions when the retrofit cost penalty could be significantly lower. The first is for very young (less than five to seven years), and very efficient coal power plants. If the plant was built as ‘capture ready,’ and the retrofit planned to minimize downtime, the additional costs could be 10 percent or even lower.” Then there are fears the plant’s ownership, Riesling Power LLC, could face similar problems to that faced by one other facility: a coal-powered plant in Dunkirk, New York which was proposed for a similar transition to natural gas earlier this year. Last week, the plan to repower the plant was abandoned by the plant’s ownership, NRG, largely due to various difficulties with the scheduling and financing of the estimated $114 million in upgrades – well beyond the $5 million to $45 million anticipated, according to the Buffalo News. Hearings on the proposed rule changes will take place on the following dates: Date: 7/16/2018 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: NYS DEC 625 Broadway, Public Assembly Room 129A/B Albany, NY 12233 Date: 7/18/2018 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: NYS DEC - Region 2 Office 1 Hunter’s Point Plaza 47-40 21st Street, Room 834 NYSDOT Long Island City, NY 11101 Date: 7/24/2018 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: NYS DEC - Region 8 Office 6274 Avon-Lima Road (Rtes. 5 and 20), Conference Room Avon, NY 14414-9516 Want to comment on the plan? Written comments on the proposed rule may be submitted until 5 p.m.on July 29, 2018, and should be directed to: Laura Stevens NYSDEC Division of Air Resources 625 Broadway Albany, NY 12233-3250 Phone (518) 402-8396 Email: air.regs@dec.ny.gov

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BusinessTimes Dandy Mart Takes Over THE REGIONAL GROCERY CHAIN MOVES IN ON ITHACA By Matt Butler

wo of Ithaca’s most recognizable convenience stores have changed hands and will become Dandy Mini-Marts in the near future, as the regional chain expands its influence into Ithaca’s city limits for the first time. Rogan’s Corner, a favorite among Ithaca College students, and Pete’s Grocery, a favorite among longtime Ithacans, are both changing over to the Dandy brand, though officials from the chain say the most popular aspects of the two stores will remain the same. Namely for each, Rogan’s Corner’s pizza will stay, as will the deli at Pete’s, with the suppliers for both remaining the same as well. Pete’s will be adding a pizza oven and corresponding menu options. For now, it appears just the uniforms and signs will change, according to Dandy’s Marketing Director Bill Bustin. Ithaca is a community known for some weariness to embrace chain operations over more familiar, local companies, and Bustin said that was something the company kept in mind while deciding to enter the market by taking over two well-known establishments with an already healthy customer base. “Absolutely, and it still is, especially with the way we’ve chosen to maintain the stores and their operations,” Bustin said. “We are a family owned company, and we are in certain markets for the simple reason that we want to service rural communities, hire locally and maintain the small-business family run ethos even as we grow [...] We’re not going to come in and completely change up everything on day one.” Bustin said as of now, there are no intentions to make any changes to the menus of either establishment, and that doing so

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permanently is the goal. Dandy, he said, realizes that the two businesses had been successful in their own right before the acquisition, and would not be looking to change that formula substantially. The Dandy Mini-Mart name won’t sound too foreign to Ithaca residents, particularly those who have traversed Tompkins County regularly. It most recently reinforced its presence in the county by establishing a store on Mecklenburg Road in Ithaca in 2012, which was preceded by locations in Slaterville Springs and Freeville, both of which came to be earlier

in the 2000s. Bustin said the company acknowledges that Ithaca is a slightly different market than the company is accustomed to, but that the same goals to keep things “local and family-oriented” would not be changing. Dandy General Manager Duane Phillips said the company had found a suitable opportunity to venture into the city after years of maintaining operations just outside. “Our stores are located throughout the Twin Tiers and we’ve operated three locations in Tompkins County for several years,” Phillips wrote in an email. “The opportunity presented itself for us to come into Ithaca so it was a natural move. The Dandy team is happy to be here and we’re excited to serve the community.”

The new Dandy Mart, formerly Pete’s Grocery, on Ithaca’s West End. (Photo: Casey Martin)

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Although they are soon to change, both stores retain quite a bit of name recognition in the community. Mark Zaharis, whose family owned Pete’s Grocery up until 2014 (first through his father and then through Mark), said people had been coming into the adjacent Pete’s Wine and Liquor store he still owns all week asking him about why the Pete’s Grocery staff were wearing different shirts. Zaharis, who owned the store for 34 years until selling it to local developer Tim Ciaschi after his father had initially purchased it and named it after himself in 1953, said there was clearly still an emotional connection to the store considering how many people reached out to him once they began to notice the subtle changes that have taken place since the beginning of the month. Though some of the family ties were distant, the store has been bouncing around Zaharis’ family for over 100 years. “My phone was ringing constantly,” Zaharis said, laughing. “People were coming into the liquor store looking for me, trying to figure out what happened.” Zaharis said he completely understands the decision of the current owner, Ciaschi, to sell the business, although he did say he would be sorry to see the traditional Pete’s name disappear. He recalled some of the ups and downs of his decades of owning the establishment, including times that threatened to kill the store, like having to move to its current location during largescale roadway construction in the area in 1995. Even though Dandy has stated its intention of keeping the stores largely the same, Zaharis said he was a bit sorry to see another small, Ithaca-based, privatelyowned business be bought up by a larger chain. But such is the way it goes, he said, particularly in a city like Ithaca that is experiencing something of a surge in interest and economic development. “We were probably one of the last of the small, privately owned convenience stores in town,” Zaharis said, mentioning Rogan’s Corner as well. “I don’t know what to say, the personal aspect of it is changing [...] But I do appreciate all our customers, and people do care and support us. It’s very important that people know we’re still here and privately owned.”

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Local Battery Company Looks To Electrify Business World BY MATT BUTLER

ne of the rare constants in the seemingly constant modern technological evolution era is the battery as the need to store and transport power efficiently and reliably has arguably never been greater. Georgia@ithacatimes.com 607-277-7000 x220 With such a great reliance placed on Newspaper: batteries, and particularly alongside the popularization of lithium ion batteries, local start-up Conamix has spent the last four years of its existence researching and developing ways to modify lithium ion batteries to improve their performance and quality, all without inflating the cost. While hesitant to discuss the actual technological work involved, it’s clear they’re on to something that has tech-types excited: the company, helped by clean energy

accelerator Nexus-NY, recently received an $8 million boost in funding via an investment from Volta Energy Technologies and Hegemon Group International. “We’re working on high-energy, lowcost materials that we think will make a big difference in lowering the cost and improving the energy of lithium ion batteries around the world,” Conamix Chief Executive Officer Charles Hamilton said. Lithium ion battery packs, while seeing a significant priceClient: decrease that is expected to continue, can still be cost-prohibitive for some people. Hamilton said the goal of Conamix’s work is to create technology that can be applied to lithium ion batteries to make them both more cost-effective for every-day consumers to be used in common items like car batteries while also remaining just as capable of handling the needs of said consumer. “The world really needs lower cost

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lows Conamix, Hamilton said, to grow from six current employees to between 10 and 15, which he said will allow them to expand their focus to a global scale. He said the company began to pick up momentum about two years ago when they received their initial seed investment, which greatly enhanced its ability to “prove out” some of Conamix’s technology in more depth. Since that investment, though, interest has been easy to come by when Conamix tries, even if the team doesn’t necessarily push itself out. They’ve been The Conamix staff. From left: Charles Hamilton, Skye Clarke, helped not only by NexusVanessa Wikel, Timothy Ma & Stephen Burkhardt. NY, but also the McGovern Center incubator at Cornell University. materials for lithium ion batteries that can Hamilton’s reserved with still meet high-energy demand that every- specifics, but one of the more specific aims body needs for all different kinds of uses,” is clear: to decrease the need for cobalt’s Hamilton said. “The world is really movinvolvement with lithium-ion battering toward broader adoption of lithium ies. The phrase “lithium-ion” is a bit of a ion batteries, and we make something misnomer; though lithium is an essential that will lower the cost and improve the element involved in the battery, cobalt is energy density of those batteries [...] So it also a very important part of the battery can hopefully have a dramatic impact on due to its capacity for high energy density. people’s cost for battery packs in their cars The interest in avoiding cobalt lies in cost, or lots of other applications.” as the material can be fairly expensive. The sizable investment from Volta al-

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GreenStar Gets Its Tax Abatement

BY MATT BUTLER

reenStar’s impending move and expansion project in the West End will help the company stay alive and grow its membership, according to the co-operative grocery store’s management, and will have enough community benefit to justify a sizable tax abatement on the new construction, according to the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency. Last week’s vote to award the abatement was unanimous among the TCIDA members. In total, the project will receive $625,227 in estimated tax exemptions over the seven year life of the abatement, while GreenStar will pay just over $130,000 during that same time period, satisfying the remaining property tax bills. According to GreenStar General Manager Brandon

Kane, the project’s total cost is $14.7 million, with GreenStar itself covering about $6 million of that. As of now, Kane anticipates the building on Cascadilla Street, which will about double the size of GreenStar’s current facility on Buffalo Street, to be open by December 2019. According to GreenStar ownership, the new facility will create 40 new permanent jobs. While the mere mention of tax exemption can rile up some anger among community members, GreenStar’s is far smaller than the normal figures that have been handed out to housing projects throughout downtown Ithaca over the last several years, some of them stretching to estimated tax breaks of nearly $10 million, in cases like that of the City Centre development downtown. The grocery store project is different than most of the previous projects seen under the abatement incentivization program, since it doesn’t

A rendering of Greenstar’s exterior.

include stories upon stories of housing and doesn’t forward the city’s density housing goals at all. Its total cost is also lower than other cases: City Centre, for instance, was projected to cost $52.7 million during its abatement application. According to GreenStar’s appeal for financial help from the TCIDA, the project and the received abatement are both crucial to the future survival of the wellknown organic-focused store, which also has a location in DeWitt Mall. The abatement, Kane said, will save the company about $300,000 total off the project, which will prove significant when reporting back

to its owner-members. “Without the abatement, GreenStar would be posting unacceptable financial ratios to our lenders and to our membership, we would go from posting one year of net income loss of about $850,000 to two years of losses totaling just over $1.1 million,” Kane said. “Essentially, without the abatements, we’re at risk of financial jeopardy.” The company’s application reflected the same sentiment, even saying the new location is “critical to keep the company in business.” Additionally, the new project would have faced some difficulty in applying for tax funding since it’s focused so heavily on retail space instead of other uses, but because it falls in a “highly distressed zone” (as defined by New York State) and creates enough jobs, the project is eligible. “The constraints of its current West End store location prevent GreenStar from reaching its true capacity and indeed threaten the solvency of the entire business if it were not able to size up its operations in the near future,” the application said. “While our sales are not insignificant, our operating expenses are also substantial, with our net income typically budgeted at less than one percent of sales.” Perhaps predictably, this tax abatement effort did not rattle much controversy out of local residents. That could have been due to the good will GreenStar’s built up continued on page 15

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“The market is growing so fast, and there’s a real price crunch particularly around the material called cobalt, which we don’t have any of,” Hamilton said. “So our material accomplishes something really great, without using any cobalt, and that has generated a lot of interest as well.” The average start-up can sometimes take on very similar public forms as others, with flashy marketing campaigns to try manufacturing both excitement among the public as well as funding interest from potential generous benefactors. Conamix isn’t that. In fact, it might be fair to say it’s the diametric opposite. Hamilton describes their approach as conservative, preferring to let their work and technology speak for itself instead of boastfully touting themselves and their product. Within

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plant.” From there, the manure is put through a process at the wastewater facility and releases methane, along with other organic materials, which are harvested by the facility’s anaerobic digester. The yielded methane gas, as well as the heat that results from the process, is then utilized to spin turbines at the facility that are used to power other operations at the wastewater treatment center in the West End. In a press release from the school, C.J. Kilgore, the chief operator of the city’s wastewater treatment facility, presented the new process as a win all around for energy conservation. “Literally, the manure helps us to run the anaerobic digester and provide power for our facility,” said Kilgore, who could not be reached for further comment. “We’re creating electricity and extra heat while we’re reducing our electric load.” The farm’s primary function is actually a mix between dairy production and a training space for students in the veterinarian program. The ‘poop to power’ program, as it’s being colloquialized, is merely an ancillary benefit. Jennette said the school pays the city for pickups per week. Beyond providing some energy for the city to use to help clean water, the choice of sand over wood-chips, hay or

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the battery game, he said, there isn’t a lot of room for bluster; either a company is producing useful technology, or it is getting left behind. That approach stems both from Hamilton’s own experience with startups, as he’s been involved with four previously to varying degrees of success, as well as the Nexus-NY start-up culture, which Hamilton said places a higher priority on quality than flash and a focus on science. When there’s something absolutely solid, and provable through results, then Conamix will start to talk more. For now, though, Conamix appears comfortable staying relatively quiet, at least compared to other young companies. “I would much rather be data-driven than hype-driven [...] We try to focus on data and proof, and we work in a very tough industry,” Hamilton said. “It’s something that needs to be done at a very, very high scale and work in a very complex system. Just because something works the first time you try it in a lab, doesn’t mean it’s going to work when you start dropping it into thousands and thousands of batteries.”

other similar materials makes the bedding easier to clean and cycle back into use, reducing the amount of total deliveries needed to keep the cows happy from the former order of about 30 tons per week (especially because Jennette said the sand is generally more comfortable for the animals than the alternatives anyway, while also discouraging bacterial growth). Jennette said for most dairy farms, the majority of which are far larger than Cornell’s 200-cow program, the manure disposal process would look much the same as Cornell’s for the first half or so, but it would be stored in a lagoon or pit of sorts. Sometimes instead of removing it entirely, a farm will simply store the manure over winter and use it as fertilizer in the spring. It amounts to a beneficial scenario for all involved, as the vet school gets to keep its cows comfier and happier while also finding a more efficient way to rid themselves of a lot of poop, and the city can get even a bit more sustainable in an unexpected way. “In order to make milk, you have to manage manure,” Jennette said. “A dairy farm is as much a milk production operation as it is a manure management operation. So all this is just about managing manure better, and in a more environmentally safer way.”

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Business Briefs Tompkins Trust Company Honors Community Volunteers Donates $12,000 to Local Nonprofits Tompkins Trust Company honored six individuals and two groups with “James J. Byrnes Awards for Excellence” for their outstanding volunteer service to the community. Twelve thousand dollars was donated to local charitable organizations from the bank’s endowment fund through the Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County. The honorees each designated their $1,500 award to not-for-profit organizations of their choice. This year’s honorees are the Dyson Cares Initiative, Habitat for Humanity Weekday Warriors, Pamela Markham, Myrth Guest, Susie Hatch, Michael & Rocky Baughman, Cassandre Pierre Joseph and Thomas Butler. Tompkins Trust Company President and CEO Greg Hartz and Legacy Foundation President James Brown presented the awards at a reception at the bank’s new headquarters at 118 East Seneca Street. “I look forward to these awards every year; this is what being a community bank is about,” said Hartz. “The Trust Company, through the Legacy Foundation, is proud to honor and support the work of this year’s recipients. Their dedication to improving our community through volunteerism promoting the arts, culture, education, and simply helping those in need is truly extraordinary, and demonstrates the mission of the Foundation by improving the quality of life for so many in Tompkins County.” A capsule look at this year’s recipients: Dyson Cares Initiative, for serving local communities in Tompkins County by applying their research and teaching to positively support their local non-profits. • Myrth Guest, for her tireless work volunteering with Trinity Lutheran Church and the surrounding neighborhood.

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Habitat for Humanity “Weekday Warriors”, who generously donate their time two full days a week (sometimes more) to help construct Habitat for Humanity homes. Thomas Butler, for committing to making Lifelong the very best it can be and helping achieve their mission to Enhance the Lives of Older Adults in Tompkins County. Mike & Rocky Baughman, for their 20 years of volunteer coaching and coordination of the many sports organizations in Tompkins and Cortland Counties, specifically for the Special Olympics. Cassandre Pierre Joseph, for her major contributions diversifying the professional culture of Tompkins County through her organization and coordination of “First Fridays of Ithaca.” Susie Hatch, for playing a major role in Tompkins County advocating for children of all ages, by volunteering her time with the ‘Parents Apart’ advisory committee for many years. Pamela Markham, who has donated her time, expertise and resources (as a member of Tompkins County 4-H Plant and Environmental Science Team) working with youth in the clubs, county workshops, 4-H Youth Fair and 4-H After School programs

Tompkins Insurance Agencies Welcomes Kevin Delaney as Insurance Account Executive Tompkins Insurance Agencies is pleased to announce the hire of Kevin Delaney to the position of Vice President, Commercial Insurance Account Executive. He serves the greater Syracuse area from the company’s Fayetteville location at 6872 East Genesee Street. Delaney works with commercial clients to structure risk management programs that improve their businesses and help them remain successful. Delaney has extensive knowledge in his field, with 35 years’ experience in insurance, 19 years’ experience in claim

management, and 16 years as an agent. Delaney joins Tompkins from insurance brokerage firm Marsh & McLennan Companies, where he spent the past four years as Vice President and Client Manager. Prior to that, Delaney was Regional Vice President and Director of Insurance at First Niagara Risk Management from 2012 to 2014, and before that he was Vice President of Commercial Accounts at Brown & Brown Empire State from 2002 to 2011. In addition to his professional positions, Delaney served as director of the Independent Insurance Agents of Central New York from 2002 to 2015, and as president of the organization from 2008 to 2009. He has also served his community on the board the local March for Dimes from 2011 to 2014, and of the Boy Scouts of America, Hiawatha Council, from 2012 to 2018.

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Tompkins Trust Company Promotes Brannan Karg Tompkins Trust Company has promoted Brannan Karg to Vice President, Commercial Lending Officer. Karg has been with Tompkins Trust Company since November of 2017. In his position as VP, Commercial Lending Officer he is responsible for providing existing and prospective clients with commercial lending and deposit solutions that help businesses grow and find success in their specific industries. He is based at the bank’s Financial Center in Lyndon Corners and reports to Brian Bisaccio, Syracuse Market Leader. Karg came to Tompkins Trust Company with 13 years of experience in the finance/banking industry, holds his BS in Business Administration from Le Moyne College and lives in Jamesville with his wife and two daughters.

over its time in the area, or because of the relatively low tax exemption ask. The only objection, really, came from Ithacan Theresa Alt at the required public hearing allowing for feedback on the tax abatement, where she dinged the store for not meeting living wage thresholds for its part-time workers. Other than that, however, there was minimal rancor to speak of. Technically, the project’s location lies outside of the traditional boundaries for CIITAP eligibility, but recent legislation expanded those geographic limitations to include the new Waterfront district. More information about GreenStar’s projections as a result of the move became clearer during the abatement process as well. GreenStar’s General Manager Brandon Kane said the co-op hopes to build its membership numbers by about 1,700 people after the move, which would signify an increase of 8.6 percent, bringing the group’s total to 14,000 members. He added that the store would still be attempting to make around a quarter of its sales from local products (defined as originating within 100 miles of Ithaca), which would hopefully grow the economic value of those sales to around $9 million per year. Throughout the process at the city level, there was never much question about whether or not the large new location was an overestimation of GreenStar’s market demand, presumably due to the research GreenStar included in its proposal submission and the store’s apparently long-held ambitions of moving away from its current location. “Several independent market studies commission by GreenStar over the years have clearly indicated that the potential market for GreenStar co-op in Ithaca is much larger than the current West End store location can facilitate,” it said. “GreenStar has actively sought to relocate its West End store for at least 15 years until the sites at 750/770 Cascadilla Street were presented as an option by Organic Waterfront.”

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Racker’s Rivals Game A Time For Generations To Bridge Together By Ste ve L aw re nc e

hen Duanne Moeser’s name was announced at Saturday night’s Racker Rivals Big Red hockey game at Lynah Rink, I winced and groaned a bit. As the crowd stood, applauding the stellar rosters on both sides, a longtime Cornell hockey fan standing next to me said “I thought you and Moeser are buddies… Aren’t you glad he’s here?” I replied, “As you may know, after playing at Cornell, Beemer had an 18-year Hall of Fame pro career in Germany, he is now an executive for the Augsburger Panther – the team for whom he played – and most importantly, he married a German woman, they have two kids and he is now a German citizen. I’m glad he’s here, I just don’t want to stand for three national anthems! Two is quite enough.” Truth be told, I would have gladly stood for a third anthem, but as usual, 16 T

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they capped it at two (U.S. and Canada, with the Star Spangled Banner performed brilliantly by John Schafer). The event truly represents a stroke of public relations genius, as hockey fans of all ages in this hockey-obsessed town are treated to a wonderful mix of stars. Older fans were transported to the days of yore as they saw Cornell’s head coach Mike Schafer – a la 1986 – feed a nice pass to Moeser, who buried it in the net with a trademark slap shot. The younger fans got a glimpse of why Moeser (rhymes with Laser) was known as “Beemer” (as in Laser Beam), and they got another up-close look at the man who wore the #25 jersey that now hangs in the rafters at Lynah Rink. Joe Nieuwendyk was there again, as was Mike Richter, and the two Hall of Famers have four Stanley Cups between them. Joe won with the Flames, the Stars and the Devils, 18–25,

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Richter won his with the N.Y. Rangers in 1994, and he was described as “the greatest U.S.-born goalie ever to play the game.” Younger fans enjoy seeing the current (and recent) NHL players – like Brian Gionta, Alex Tuch, Joakim Ryan, Brad Chartrand – and a special round of applause went out for Anthony Angello, who suited up for the Big Red last season and is now a part of the Pittsburgh Penguins organization. This was the fourth such exhibition game, and while the players in red won the first three, the Racker team came out with the proverbial fire in the belly. With players like Tuch (a Syracuse native who played in the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals for the Las Vegas Golden Knights) and Amanda Mazzotta (the Big Red alum who is now an assistant coach at Quinnipiac) in goal, the skaters in white made it clear that they wanted to wrest the trophy from Schafer’s tiny hands. The Big Red team had Wayne Mahar in goal, and the Racker scorers rained goals down upon the Chief Meteorologist. The drama was high during the final shootout, and the crowd gasped when the Big Red’s #3 took the puck down the ice at astonishing speed. The crowd then laughed when the jersey came off and it was revealed that it was Gionta – one of the fastest skaters in the NHL – and not Schafer after all. When the final buzzer sounded, the Racker squad prevailed,

Cina Moeser loving the old photos of her dad, Duanne. (With Joe Nieuwendyk)

and a new era had begun. Racker’s Team Captain Greg Hartz hoisted the trophy proudly, as Schafer watched through squinted eyes, his sharp (some would say diabolical) coaching mind already making adjustments for the 2019 contest. At the after-party, old friends got together and Moeser’s 18 year-old daughter, Sina, laughed as she held old photos of her father. One featured him posing with Nieuwendyk many years ago, and the two friends looked like they could still play at a world-class level… perhaps for a few minutes. For those unable to make the game, please visit Racker’s website (www.rackercenters.org) to learn how you can still donate to this wonderful organization, whose programs and services reach hundreds of people with disabilities in Tompkins, Cortland and Tioga Counties. Again, hats off the organizers for once again bringing such a great event to our region. Coming out of Lynah Rink and walking to my car without freezing half to death is always a great experience.

A Look At Two Ithaca Shakespeare Productions

By Barbara Adams

mong the outdoor opportunities summer affords is our very own Shakespeare in the Park. This season Ithaca Shakespeare Company presents two popular comedies in repertory, “As You Like It” and “The Taming of the Shrew,” both shaped by artistic director Stephen Ponton. Swaying trees, lake backdrop, and lolling on the grass at the marine park just behind the Hangar are always tempting, and so far the weather has respectfully held fine. Romance and happy couplings are celebrated in both plays, but social justice is equally valued. In “As You Like It,” where exiled aristocracy roam the Forest of Arden, the fair Rosalind (handsomely rendered by Kylie Heyman) has disguised herself as a man, accompanied by her dear friend Celia (a vivid Emma Green), whose father, the duke (a formidable Rick Mertens) has caused all the trouble by having banished his sibling, Rosalind’s parent. Director Ponton provides a nice gender switch – Frederick has ousted his sister the duchess, who’s set up an informal and “natural” court in the forest. Judith Andrew shines in this role that’s always just but now most gracious and joyous as well. Meanwhile familial feuding has divided yet another household, as Oliver (a cruel Cameron Mitchell) seeks to disinherit his younger brother, Orlando, even if it means getting him

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killed in a wrestling match. Fleeing to the forest, Orlando (a handsome and well-spoken Justin Shondeck) takes care of his devoted servant, the aged Adam (an admirably weary David Romm), soon joining the duchess’s party. Having seen the courtly Rosalind earlier, Orlando’s smitten, carving her name into trees and posting gushing poetry. Meeting him as a man, Rosalind (now Ganymede) pretends to cure him of his love by having him woo her/him for practice. Meanwhile Phoebe (a spunky Andrea D’Arco) loves Ganymede, shepherd Silvius (a moony Colin McKechnie) loves Phoebe, and Rosalind’s court fool Touchstone (an exceptionally antic Holly Adams) woos Audrey (Beth Harris). Mark Whitmore’s malcontent Jaques delivers the famous “All the world’s a stage” speech, but he’s too mild, modern and insufficiently sour for the part. Love’s misdirected web eventually unravels, all couples united, order restored to the court and forest, with song and dance sealing the harmony. Marital and social harmony are the themes of “The Taming of the Shrew” as well, with Cameron Mitchell as dowry-seeking Petruchio and Beth Harris as ill-tempered Katharine, the elder sister who must be wed before her father’s favorite, Bianca (Emma Green). Bianca’s other suitors (well played by Dave Dietrich and Bob Arco) are defeated ultimately by young Lucentio (McKechnie, with falteringly paced delivery). As his servant Tranio, Dhruv Iyengar is an irresistible stand-in for his master. Mitchell and Harris don’t look like romantic leads, but they deliver their roles convincingly (and explosively), grounding their play – as Heyman and Shondek did theirs. Ponton has interestingly retained the framing story here, with a lord (AJ Sage) playing a trick on a drunken commoner (a suitably boorish Elias Husiak) to make him think he’s a lord, providing him with servants, a wife (a delightfully fed-up Shon-

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deck), and entertainment – the “Shrew” play they watch from their balcony above. In the play-within-the-play, a chastened and compliant Kate delivers the famous serve-thylord-and-master speech, but Ponton’s direction makes it clear she and Petruchio are loving equals. There’s also a final song delivered by all eight ladies, assuring that “women shall wear the breeches,” and a witty closing dance of both sexes, a mock battle in disguise. During opening week, there was some hesitation and self-conscious “we’re acting” delivery, with curious pauses; hopefully this will smooth out. Despite strong lead couples, neither production sparkled or quite cohered as much as previous company productions have, especially the tragedies. Elizabeth Kitney’s Elizabethan costumes served, especially in “Shrew,” but Dave Dietrich’s poorly painted set was unfortunately amateurish. Minimal is always fine, but 30 varieties of plastic flowers should be forever banished from the stage. Both comedies offer amusing sight gags, although the Bianca-Lucentio sex scene was over-the-top unfunny; happily Petruchio’s outrageous wedding get-up (“a very monster in apparel”) was spot on. The (uncredited) sound design was good; all can be heard. Whether in life or onstage, familiar woes resolved are always welcome – overall, satisfying light entertainment for summer’s eve. William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” and “The Taming of the Shrew,” directed by Stephen Ponton. Ithaca Shakespeare Company at the Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, through July 29. Tickets at ithacashakespeare.org. Barbara Adams, a regional theatre and arts writer, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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n the interest of full disclosure, you should know that I never voluntarily choose to eat lunch or dinner at a motel restaurant. Breakfast? Yes, if it’s included on the room bill where I’m staying overnight. But opting to eat at a motel for lunch or dinner? Not a chance… until… my persuasive editor called me and said, “You know, Henry, we haven’t reviewed the restaurant in the Meadow Court Motel in ages and I think our readers would be interested. Would you please do it.” Since A) I had never eaten there and thought it would be interesting, and B) he’s my boss, I immediately agreed. One of the obvious advantages of eat-

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ing at a motel restaurant is the easy and plentiful off-street parking. And upon entering the Royal Court, I was happy to note the interior was bright with woodtype paneling and a large window that lets in lots of light and a view of traffic making its way north on Meadow Street. It seemed spacious and quiet the evenings I went for dinner, perhaps because my companion and I constituted about half the patronage. Lunch time, on the other hand, was more active. At one dinner I ordered “Delmonico Steak” for $18.95. It arrived on the table cooked as ordered, medium rare. “Delmonico” can refer to different parts of the animal, so using that term gives restaurateurs plenty of leeway. The portion I received was generous in size, however there were significant quantities of gristle from one end to the other. During another dinner, the special was Calves Liver with Bacon and Onions. This too was a generous portion, and the meat was delivered medium rare as ordered. Although tender, it was quite salty. At $12.95, I thought it was a good value. (Speaking of value, there is a small salad bar that is available to accompany all entrees at the dinner service.) Royal Court offers popular specials: 18 T

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Thursdays, a burger or wings with various sauces; a Friday beer battered fish fry; and a Saturday Prime Rib. At lunchtime, the menu includes about a half-dozen burgers and a similar amount of salads, sandwiches, and omelets. The variety of omelets and sandwiches from $5.95 to $6.95 strikes me as good value. The Reuben was excellent and authentic with corned beef, swiss cheese and sauerkraut served on pumpernickel. I opted for homemade coleslaw instead of French fries and was pleased with its taste and texture. Breakfasts are popular here both with motel guests and local regulars who meet for coffee and conversation. The breakfast menu though unexceptional, is extensive. Our servers were pleasant and cooperative, although I thought that after working there for many years, one for decades, they should have known more about the menu items than they did. For example: the wine menu is barely operational – no vintages, brand names, countries of origin information, or even prices are noted. When I asked if “Riesling” was dry, semidry or sweet, one server was confused and couldn’t reply, while at another meal with a different server, when I inquired about the country where the “Cabernet Sauvignon” was produced, she too had no idea and had to leave us to consult with the bartender. When a restaurant owner lists the generic variety of wine without informing customers the brand name or year it was bottled, it gives her tremendous flexibility to move different wines in and out depending on market conditions. However, as a customer, it’s not my preferred way of selecting a wine. Although wine is not available by the bottle here, half carafes and full carafes can be ordered. You won’t find the prices for wines, beers, or desserts on the menu, so let me save you the trouble of asking your server: the eight wines are offered by the glass at $6; ½ carafes are $17; carafes are $34; and desserts, with one exception, are $4.95. My takeaway from eating more than a few meals here is that The Royal Court is a pleasant destination for a meal from time-to-time. There is a reason it has been in business for almost five decades.

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Ithaca Metal Digest

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ost Ithacans are aware of the substantial and diverse music scene held within the heart of this little city. But Ithaca has a harder edge to its music scene lurking in the

You can also catch rock bands – hardrock, metal, hardcore, counterculture, underground, and more – outside of the mainstream on WVBR’s The Last Exit for the Lost, Ithaca’s metal show since ‘94 but

Wilson. “There are new bands coming up like Oppressor Oppressor doing big things, so it should be a bright future for the heavy music scene.” “I wouldn’t say Ithaca has a huge metal/ hardcore scene, but there are a lot of people who enjoy and consume that kind of music and have taken that influence to make new paths forward in terms of genre,” added Chris Knight, from Robot Detective. “There are some rock-inspired bands that are doing cool things like BRIAN!... Monolith is a devastating black metal band with really great long form arrangements, Escuela is great but they have since moved away. There is a younger punk band called Oppressor Oppressor which is up and coming.”

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underground in the likes of noise projects like Scab Addict, power violence groups Oppressor Oppressor and Escuela, doom rock group Water Bears, and sludge metal four piece group Monolith. The hardcore metal scene might not have the strongest presence, nor is it always visible, but according to those in the local scene, it’s making a comeback after years of absence. You can find these shows in the upstairs loft of the Chanticleer or at The Haunt, but mostly, according to frontman Toby Whitener from Oppressor Oppressor, the scene comes to full bore at house shows dotting the city. “When I was 14 or 15, I saw Escuela at the Ithaca Festival at their first show ever and completely fell in love with that music,” said Whitener. “We were like damn, we need to do something like this too. We don’t want to say we copied them, but we did. We’ve played with them a lot.” While there are not a lot of metal and hardcore bands in the Ithaca scene – mostly punk, grunge, and a number of avantgarde rock and noise projects such as experimental math-rock and avant-garde BRIAN! And Robot Detective – there exists lots of great cross-scene interaction according to Jason Eldridge, guitar and vocals for both Monolith and Escuela. You’ll also see a lot of the same guys playing in a variety of bands and across genres like Mike Amadeo with Water Bears – who also plays for noise project Scab Addict and Lady D and the Shadow Spirits – and father and son combo Ken and Toby Whitener, who play with a handful of local groups including Monolith, Oppressor Oppressor, Revisionist, and Casas.

Food, Wine, Craft Beer with roots back in ‘85, airing from 11:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. on Saturday nights and the live band recordings on Last Exit for the Lost’s YouTube channel. Now in their third building, moving with the station, the show has come a long way from the early days where some of the bands who would play live on the show were saddled with playing in the studio’s hallway. “Last Exit; anything that isn’t mainstream…. Hardcore, metal… we don’t play stuff you’re going to hear everywhere else,” said host Seriah Azkath. “Metal is the core, but I don’t have any problem going into goth or punk or whatever is interesting.” The music ranges from Ithaca’s psychedelic grunge rock three-piece Spazzare to heavier, harder-hitting tunes from the likes of head banging rock metal group Ire Clad, who keep it local playing their shows in and around the Ithaca area. “There used to be A LOT of Metal bands in Ithaca years ago, now it’s more Punk, Experimental, etc.,” added Azkath, “Ithaca’s heavy music scene goes through cycles like anything else, but it’s also so much smaller than Rochester or Syracuse. The Rochester / Buffalo area has always had a plethora of heavy bands, but Ithaca morphs, and has always been home to some stranger combination of styles.” The hardcore scene isn’t jam-packed with bands, but has a strong community presence. This past monday night, about 30 filed in to the upper floor of the Chanticleer to hear Syracuse’s Moon Machine, Ithaca’s own Water Bears and Monolith, among other hard-rock groups. It was a head banging and eardrum blowing good time. “It seems like the metal scene here is kind of in a rebuilding stage... I think Ithaca is getting there, but it’ll take time,” said Monolith’s guitarist and vocalist Colin

An eclectic mix of local rock bands Zero Mean, White Crime, and Nancy Babich will be performing with What Cheer? Brigade at The Haunt on July 29. None of these are hardcore or metal, but have touches of heavy sound – Zero Mean offers a psychedelic drone shoegaze sound and White Crime is a hardcore crust punk anti-fascist three piece. “There are some really cool people in this town that are doing some really cool things that fall outside of traditional rock music and it’s great,” said Jessica Eustace, lead vocalist and guitarist for experimental post punk rock n’ roll group Nancy Babich. Alexis Boytsov is also on vocals and on bass and current full time drummer is Em Ludek and Tyler Rodkey, a local hardcore musician, has also collaborated with them as well. “There’s definitely a community,” Fidget Illy, Zero Mean bassist and vocalist and Food Pill noise project lead, said. “There are people I see at every show. Going to shows is definitely the best way to join the scene; it has such a diverse grouping of people.” Little known in the Ithaca community outside of its hardcore, hard rock, metal scene is the Finger Lakes Metal Festival held each Spring before Memorial Day weekend since 2006 in Clyde NY. The festival is dedicated to promoting the local metal scene and takes submissions to perform between October - June. The metal fest has seen a few local Ithaca bands but would definitely like to have more in the upcoming years. If you missed this year’s FLMF, another metal festival, The end of Summer Metal Meltdown, will be held on Sunday, September 8, in Clyde, NY, featuring 12 bands including Ithaca’s Ire Clad.

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ewsies, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, book by Harvey Fierstein; based on the Disney film written by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White; directed by Mark Reynolds; choreography by Matthew Couvillon; music direction by Joel Gelpe; scenic design by Shelley Barish; costume design by Jimmy Johansmeyer. At CRT through July 28. I had never seen the 1992 Disney film musical Newsies, but when I saw that CRT was producing the stage version this summer, I saw the film so that I could spot any differences in structure between the two versions. Having seen the film, I get the cult following that it’s accumulated over the years. Fun fact: the film, about news vendors going on strike against publisher Joseph Pulitzer in New York City circa 1899, was not originally pitched as a musical, but became a musical during pre-production. Even more than CRT’s previous show Saturday Night Fever, Newsies is an even sturdier vehicle, boasting at least five well-

known songs - “Santa Fe”, “Carrying the Banner”, “The World Will Know”, “Seize the Day” and “King of New York”. All of the new songs added by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman feel of a piece with what the film established, and in at least one instance, the plot has been strengthened and improved. Once again, CRT makes creative and efficient use of its performing space. Utilizing table-top platforms on wheels along with evocative building corners, set designer Shelley Barish is able to suggest many different turn-of-century locales that feel very Industrial Revolution. Jack Kelly (Zack Zaromatidis), the best peddler of “papes” in town, acts as an unofficial father figure to the rest of the newsies, bringing Davey (Braden Phillips) and his little brother Les (Jack Duranceau) into the fold just as Pulitzer (Woody Minshew) and his bean-counting minions decide to raise the price of papers for the peddlers. Aided by music hall performer Medda Larkin (Kennedy Salters) and reporter Katherine Plumber (Katie Luke), Jack and Davey

plan a strike by the newsies gang. In the film, only the newsies and the reporter (played by Bill Pullman) sing, but here. Of course, everyone sings. The key difference - and frankly, an improvement is the changing of the reporter from male to female and - another twist that adds lots of drama and conflict - is making

Katherine Plumber the daughter of Pulitzer. Harvey Fierstein is responsible for the new book here, and while I wasn’t crazy about the changes he made to NBC’s live version of “The Wiz”, all the changes here make good dramatic sense and feels like an advance. The show opens with a sweet pre-dawn prologue with Zaromatidis singing the wistful “Santa Fe” and then the Newsies ensemble open the show with a bang and “Carrying the Banner. The action ranges from the boys’ lodging house and “Newsies Square” to Medda Larkin’s theater, Pulitzer’s office, a local deli and various cellars, hide-outs and rooftops. Scenic transitions are, as always, imaginative and efficient. Matthew Couvillon’s choreography suggests the athleticism of the film’s sequences, while incorporating bits of ballet, acrobatics and gymnastics. The Newsie gang - including one newsie girl played by Abby McGrath - attack each scene with vigor and fine voice. Each performer in turn gets their own bow in the curtain calls which surely triggered the afternoon’s standing ovation at the end - well deserved.

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of the elements that helped form LACS, and inspiration to “continue developing innovative, student-centered, communitybased, neo-progressive secondary schools,” writes Lehman. To help, Lehman concludes each chapter with discussion questions that ask the reader to consider every aspect of what one would encounter when forming an alternative education school, from logistics, to local and state support, to teaching methods. And as references, he compiles a bibliography of resources that give the reader extensive reading on alternative schools. Through Lehman’s descriptions of the way LACS formed, its core principles, and how it has developed over the years, A Principal’s Notebook serves as a model for alternative educators across the world, written by the leader of one of the first schools to adopt the pedagogical style. And while Lehman acknowledges that the country’s current political direction has created a difficult climate for alternative schools, he believes that a commitment to democratic education will help promote national democratic processes, and hopes that the book can serve as a manual in doing so.

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Inside The Mind Of A Principal A Look Into The Mind Of LACS Principal David Lehman By Au s tin L amb

uring his three decades-long tenure at Alternative Community School (ACS), founding principal Dave Lehman kept a notebook. It was three-quarter sized and leather-bound, with three rings and loose-leaf paper. The cover has been replaced several times, but he still uses it today. Inside the notebook, Lehman, in his small handwriting, filled the pages with information pertaining to the school later named in honor of him. He included day-to-day happenings, drew student curriculum schedule calendars, took notes at the weekly school and district meeting (as well as meticulous recaps of various alternative education conferences), re-

corded book and article titles to read for later, and wrote down people he wished to contact. Lehman carried the book everywhere, and now it has provided the basis for his book published last June, A Principal’s Notebook: Lessons for Today from a Pioneering Public School. Through various experiences as a young adult, Lehman realized the importance of personal relationships to him, his desire to work with young people, and the role of schools to counter biases and prejudices. In the 152 pages of A Principal’s Notebook, Lehman recounts his efforts to implement these values as both an ACS principal and teacher, from working with 65 students in the 1970s at the school’s downtown predecessor, the New Junior High Program,

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to roughly 300 at the current location on Ithaca’s West Hill. Accompanied by anecdotes spanning his time at the school, Lehman’s account describes every aspect of the school and its curriculum, gives a thorough history of its evolution, and details how the school established its mission and goals as a community academic institution. Although recording an overview of LACS’s history is one of Lehman’s goals, the other is to provide a guidebook for those interested in forming their own alternative school. A Principal’s Notebook gives educators a detailed description

Lehman, now retired, lives in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area with his wife, Judy. A Principal’s Notebook: Lessons for Today from a Pioneering Public School became available on Amazon on June 1.

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JULY 19–28 Kate Hamill’s fresh new take on the Jane Austen classic brings great verve to the story of the Bennet sisters. Like most women of the regency period, the Bennet girls know that to win the game of life, they must land the right husband. A variety of mishaps and miscommunications, however, derail budding romances as the sisters learn the complicated rules of mating rituals. Follow Liz, Jane, Bingley, and Darcy as they traverse the trials of societal expectations in this witty adaptation by Ithaca native and IC alum Kate Hamill, fresh from its extended New York run.

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| Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | | $26-$66 Phil Lesh and the Terrapin Family Band | 6:30 PM, 7/21 Saturday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | With Twiddle and Midnight North | $25-$85 Lady Antebellum | 7:00 PM, 7/21 Saturday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center |

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Diana Leigh & Jesse Collins w/Oliver Scott | 5:00 PM, | Red Newt Cellars Inc, Hector

Hamilton Leithauser with Caveman | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $20-$25

7/18 Wednesday CFCU Summer Concert Series: Taj Weekes & Adowa | 6:00 PM, | Bernie Milton Pavilion, Ithaca Djug Django | 6:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca Bodhi Mountain | 7:00 PM, | Stonecat Cafe, Hector Concerts In the Park: Basin Street Jazz Band | 7:00 PM, | Hickories Park, Owego Grassroots Kick-Off Show W/ Bob Roberts’ Calamity | 7:00 PM, | Silver Line Tap Room, Trumansburg | Donations Open Mic with Marty Flynn and his Good Time Band | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca Reggae Night w/ the Crucial Reggae Social Club & DJ Mike Judah | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5

7/19 Thursday Off the Rails | 6:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca

Cortland Main St. Music Series | 5:30 PM | Dana Twigg, Genitor, Dracula Jones Garden Concert Series:The Backtalk Band | 6:00 PM, | Treleaven Wines, King Ferry Masterpiece | 6:00 PM, | Boatyard Grill, Ithaca Under Construction | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken The Electric Basement Brothers Outdoor Concert | 6:30 PM, | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, Ovid Jon Dretto | 7:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus Kip and Richy | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca Pub Sing | 7:00 PM, | Colonial Inn, Watkins Glen The Destination | 7:00 PM, | Buttonwood Grove Winery, Romulus | $3 Josh & Marty of Kitestring | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

7/21 Saturday 10th Annual Rock Stock | 1:00 PM, | Rock Stream Vineyards, Rock Stream The Ende Brothers | 1:30 PM, | Buttonwood Grove Winery, Romulus

Sound Over Seneca | 6:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett | Rich Evans & Tom Dunbar

Minna Choi, Sebastian Ruth, and Eliko Akahori | 3:30 PM, | Red Newt Bistro, Hector

2018 Myers Park Summer Concert

IthaCats | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

Series : Bad Alibi | 6:30 PM, | Myers Park, Lansing

Yazoo Station | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

7/22 Sunday Kip & Richy | 12:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca Meg Gehman and The Influence | 1:00 PM, | Toro Run Winery, Ovid

Ithaca Concert Band | 7:00 PM, 7/19 Thursday | Horizon Villages, |

Mary Ott Band | 4:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

Binghamton Philharmonic: Pops on the River | 8:00 PM, 7/19 Thursday | At the Chenango Riverwalk Promenade, Downtown Binghamton. For the first time in 25 years, Pops on the River makes its triumphant return! Join us for an unforgettable night of music, theatrics, and visuals that will drum up the magic of summertime in the Southern Tier!

Rob Ervin | 5:00 PM, | Wolffys Grill And Marina, Seneca Falls Bound for Glory: John O’Connor | 8:00 PM, | Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca Open Mic | 9:00 PM, | The Nines, Ithaca

Island Swamp Band | 7:00 PM, | East Side Park, Norwich

Taughannock Falls State Park Summer Concert Series : The Fall Creek Brass

Tuesday Bluesday with Danny P & friends | 6:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

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Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM, | Mix Kitchen and Bar, Ithaca

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Diana Leigh & Jesse Collins w/Molly MacMillan | 2:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca

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Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival of Music and Arts | All Day 7/19 Thursday thru 7/22, Sunday| Trumansburg Fairgrounds, 2150 Trumansburg Road, Trumansburg | Featuring four stages, which run ridiculously long hours to accommodate the 80+ bands that play the festival. | $65-$125

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The Magpie Salute | 8:00 PM, 7/19 Thursday | del Lago Resort and Casino, 1133 NY-414, Waterloo | The eclectic band features three former members from the now-defunct The Black Crowes (Rich Robinson, Marc Ford and Sven Pipien) and British vocalist John Hogg, among other members. El Rumbon | 7:00 PM, 7/20 Friday | Cornell Arts Quad , Central Campus , | El Rumbon delivers dance music in the styles of salsa, mambo, plena, merengue, cumbia, and cha-cha from artists such as Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Manny Oquendo, Johnny Pacheco, and more. The band features a full rhythm section of congas, timbales, bongos, piano, and bass to hold down the classic Afro-Latin beat. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit with Brandi Carlisle | 7:00 PM, 7/20 Friday

KROCKATHON | 8:00 PM, 7/21 Saturday | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | †Ft. Avenge Sevenfold, Rise Against, and HO99O9† | $30-$150 Seneca Summer Music Festival Orchestra | 3:00 PM, 7/22 Sunday | South Seneca High School, 7263 Main St., Ovid | A concert that with feature Beethovenís 6th Symphony, Pastoral. KROCKATHON - DAY 2 | 7:00 PM, 7/22 Sunday | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | Featuring Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson | $30-$150 Kesha & Macklemore | 7:00 PM, 7/22 Sunday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center | Godsmack & Shinedown | 7:00 PM, 7/24 Tuesday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center | Paul Merrill Quartet | 7:30 PM, 7/24 Tuesday | Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall , 232 East Ave. , Ithaca | Celebrated trumpeter, composer, and educator Paul Merrill delivers dazzling jazz performances. Merrill has collaborated with Grammy-nominated ensembles and big bands around the country and is the Gussman Director of Jazz Ensembles at Cornell University.

Stage Anne of Green Gables | Merry-GoRound Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Contact theater for showtimes. Show runs through 7/25. | $58-$60 Newsies | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Contact theater for showtimes. Runs through 7/28. As You Like It | 6:00 PM, 7/19 Thursday & 7/21 Saturday| Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, 805 Taughannock Blvd. (Rt 89), Ithaca | ! Fast Blood | 6:00 PM, 7/19 Thursday thru 7/21, Saturday; 4:00PM on 7/22, Sunday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 402 Chestnut Street, Ithaca | | $20 Pride and Prejudice | Contact theatre for showtimes.| Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Drag Show with The House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, 7/19 Thursday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | The Taming of the Shrew | 6:00 PM, 7/20 Friday & 7/22, Sunday | Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, 805 Taughannock Blvd. (Rt 89), Ithaca | Oliver! The Musical | 7:00 PM, 7/20 Friday & 7/21, Saturday; 2:00PM, 7/22 Sunday| Homer High School, 80 S West St., Homer | Presented by Center Players & Homer Education Foundation. Terribly Tricky Trouble in Transylvania | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | Hilarious Interactive Musical Melodrama! Shows thru 7/29 - Fri&Sat at 7pm; Sun at 2pm A Night of Comedy Covfefe | 8:00 PM, 7/21 Saturday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Madelein Smith returns to the APT Stage to headline another night of comedy covfefe! She will be joined by Kelsey Claire Hagen, Sam Morrison, and Auburn’s own Beth Beer Cuddy. | $15-$17

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The First Ithaca One-Minute Play Festival | 8:00 PM, 7/21 Saturday; 3:00PM & 7:00PM, 7/22, Sunday| Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | The evening of 50+ brand new one-minute plays, written by many of Ithaca’s established and emerging playwrights and highlighting the zeitgeist of the local community, will play for three performances only.†Proceeds from the event will support the development of new work at the Kitchen. | $20

Art Reflexion | Printmakers of Atelier de gravure de la Villedieu | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Ongoing exhibit featuring work from a community studio located outside of Paris, exhibiting the work by great contemporary French and International printmakers.

the witch epidemics that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands. Spirit, Dreams, Invention | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Featuring the work of Mary Ann Bowman, sculpture; Stan Bowman, abstract artworks; and Jan Kather, installation. Hours: Wed.-Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm. Info: 607277-1626 and www.soagithaca.org

Films Cinemapolis Friday, July 20, 2018 through Thursday, July 26, 2018. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. Sorry To Bother You | In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre universe. | 105 mins R

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their lives, and what they’ve discovered about why they were separated. | 96 mins PG-13 RBG | A look at the life and work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. | 98 mins PG Leave No Trace | A father and his thirteen year-old daughter are living in an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon, when a small mistake derails their lives forever. | 109 mins PG

Regal Ithaca Wednesday, 7/18 through Tuesday, 7/24. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation | While on a vacation with his family, Count Dracula makes a romantic connection. | 97 mins PG Skyscraper | A father goes to great lengths to save his family from a burning skyscraper. | 102 mins PG-13 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | In this sequel to Mamma Mia!, Sophie learns about her mother’s past while pregnant herself. | PG-13 114 mins

Paint Nite | 6:00 PM, 7/18 Wednesday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Discover a new kind of night out with painting and drinks. | $45

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? |An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children’s television host, Fred Rogers. | 94 mins PG-13

The World Bewitchíd: Visions of Witchcraft from the Cornell Collections | Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | Ongoing exhibit features rare and unique books and documents and examines themes such as gendered stereotypes, belief in night flying, shapeshifting, demonic pacts, and

Hearts Beat Loud | A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college. | 97 mins PG-13

Sicario: Day of the Soldado | The drug war on the US-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the U.S. border. To fight the war, federal agent Matt Graver re-teams with the mercurial Alejandro. | 122 mins R

Three Identical Strangers | In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted discover that they are triplets who were separated at birth. They describe

The Equalizer 2 | Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves? | R

Taste for Community Action | 5:00 PM, 7/19 Thursday | Holiday Inn, 75 North St, Auburn | Live music, silent auction, and tastings from dozens of participating local food and beverage vendors. Funds raised from this event help thousands of individuals and families experiencing hardship in Cayuga and Seneca Counties. Live music by The Rounds and John Lerner. | 1 Taste ticket $30.00 or Buy 5 get 1 free $155.00 Convention Days 2018 | Begins 7/20 Friday | Women’s Rights National Historical Park, 136 Fall Street, Seneca Falls | This three-day event (July 20-22, 2018) commemorates the United States’ first women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY. This event is free and includes family-friendly activities, ranger-led programs, living history programs, art displays, and much more.

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Taste of Summer Series with Red Tail Ridge Winery | 4:00 PM, 7/18 Wednesday | Aurora Inn, 391 Main Street, Aurora | “We specialize in limited production wines because we believe that quality is more important than quantity.” -Red Tail Ridge

Ocean’s 8 | Debbie Ocean gathers an all-female crew to attempt an impossible heist at NYC’s annual Met Gala. | 110 mins PG-13 Uncle Drew | Uncle Drew is convinced to return to the court one more time to help Dax. The two men embark on a road trip to round up Drew’s old squad and prove that a group of septuagenarians cans still win the big one. | 103 mins PG-13 Incredibles 2 | Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) is left to care for Jack-Jack while Helen (Elastigirl) is out saving the world. | 118 mins PG Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. | 128 mins PG-13 Ant Man and the Wasp | Hope VanDyne and Dr. Hank Pym present an urgent new mission to Ant Man that leads him to fighting alongside The Wasp as they uncover secrets from their past. | 118 mins PG-13 The First Purge | A prequel story detailing the events that lead to the very first purge. | 97 mins R

Special Events Seneca County Fair | All Day 7/18 Wednesday thru 7/21, Saturday | Seneca

Downtown Ithaca Architectural Walking Tour | 4:00 PM, 7/20 Friday | See how preservationists and developers have worked together to save these key components of Ithaca’s past. Meet at the trolley circle near Center Ithaca on The Commons. Sterling Renaissance Festival | All Day 7/21 Saturday & 7/22 Sunday| Sterling Renaissance Festival, 15385 Fraden Rd, Sterling | Each weekend through 8/19. Wine Country Classic Boat Show | All Day 7/21 Saturday & 7/22 Sunday,| Depot Park, Hammondsport | The event features handicapped accessibility to a display of antique and classic boats featuring Classic Wooden and Fiberglass boats on beautiful Keuka Lake. This year’s boat show will feature lapstrake boats. There will be a judged show and parade of boats Saturday. An additional feature will be a great display of “Woodie Cars”. FBM Bike Co. Open House | 11:00 AM, 7/21 Saturday | FBM Bike Co, 478 Lower Creek Rd., ITHACA | An afternoon, of Fun and Bicycle Mayhem (we will be doing a demonstration on how bike frames are built as well as an FBM team BMX demo!), art, new gear, and a history of FBM display. Garden Tours- Cornell Botanic Gardens | 11:00 AM, 7/21 Saturday | Cornell Botanic Gardens- Nevin Welcome Center, 124 Comstock Knoll Dr., Ithaca | Take a relaxing stroll with a Garden Guide through the gardens around the Nevin Welcome Center and discover the beauty and di-

Downtown Ithaca Food Tour | 11:30 AM, 7/21 Saturday | Various locations, Ithaca | Enjoy local cuisine on a guided walking tour of Ithaca’s unique restaurants. During a three-hour culinary adventure, satisfy your appetite for inventive and delicious food while getting a taste for our town’s history, culture, and architecture. Call 607-272-4830. | $57 Classic Car Show & 21st Anniversary Celebration | 12:00 PM, 7/21 Saturday | Goose Watch Winery, 5480 State Rte 89, Romulus | Enjoy the beauty of classic cars along the lake view vineyards in addition to live music, lawn games, and a special sale on select wines. Classic cars can register early or the day of the event. For vendor and car information, visit www. GooseWatch.com. Broome County Fair | All Day 7/24 Tuesday | Broome County Fairgrounds, Whitney Point | Tractor pulls, carnival rides, trapeze performer, demolition derbies and so much more! Grapehound Wine Tour 2018 | All Day 7/24 Tuesday | Atwater Estate Vineyards, 5055 State Route 414, Burdett | Featuring about thirty wineries, brew pubs, and distilleries, with wine tasting, music, lakes, waterfalls, and a huge vendor tent filled with vendors from a dozen states.

Books “Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage” | 7:00 PM, 7/18 Wednesday | Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Drawing on her recently released book, coauthored with Susan Goodier, Pastorello will discuss how women in New York State struggled for more than six decades to win the right to vote. She will highlight the grassroots activism of rural, urban, African American, Jewish, immigrant, and native-born women who formed a loose coalition aimed at attaining full suffrage for women. Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM, 7/19 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | A night of competitive storytelling where the public is invited to share their tall tales. Contestants will be given three minutes to share their stories and enter for a chance to be crowned the† Trampoline Story Champ. American Folktales | 7:00 PM, 7/24 Tuesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden |

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Horizon Villages, located off North Triphammer Road | The Ithaca Concert Band, the city’s only concert band, will wind up the summer season within the next week. Catch them this Thursday at Horizon Villages, a crowd-pleasing venue that provides a grass slope for concert-goers to place their chairs on with the band at the bottom of the slope. Rick Eleck will be on the bandstand and music will include favorite marches, show tunes, and many more delightful pieces for the audience to enjoy.

NYS Fairgrounds, Syracuse | This is the big one for all the gearheads out there. The biggest car show in the Northeast sets up its annual extravaganza at the State Fairgrounds this weekend. Over the course of three days, car aficionados can take in everything from the traditional gasoline alley to tech seminars, an “ol skool round-up”, the wall of death and even a “mini-nationals”!

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Amazing Physics | 2:00 PM, 7/21 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Check out demonstrations and hands-on activities about physics. Join students from CLASSE for make-and-take physics activities.

Summer Reading Program: Libraries Rock! | 9:30 AM, 7/18 Wednesday | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | Games and activities each week. Kids register to read this summer and earn a FREE cone from Cayuga Creamery. Sponsored by Ford Library in Ovid.

Fables and Tales: Fantasy Writing and Gaming Camp for Teens | Begins 9:30 AM, 7/23 Monday and runs all week.| Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | An opportunity for teens interested in RPGs and tabletop games to explore their writing, gaming, and STEAM skills. Each day of the camp will consist of writing exercises and prompts to inspire participants to build worlds from their own imaginations and incorporate them into a favorite gaming system or one of their own creation. Campers will also make props and other items to be used in their games.

Rock & Roll with Topher Holt | 10:00 AM, 7/18 Wednesday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | This show is bound to have you moving, singing, shaking a maraca, or beating a drum! Topher has a unique way of engaging the whole family musically through a highlyanimated experience! Don’t miss it! Free. Science Together | 10:30 AM, 7/18 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Engage with your little ones as you investigate sciences processes through hands-on activities.

Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM, 7/23 Monday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Early literacy education thru reading, writing, talking, singing and playing, combined with a healthy snack and a quick hello to our resident turtle Ted, prepare your child for success in school.

Family Expedition Cruise | 12:30 PM | Allen H. Treman State Marine Park, Ithaca | With a lively narration and optional handson activities, including water quality monitoring and looking at plankton under our microscopes, an expedition with us will please everyone in the family. Cruises every day until 9/12/18. | $80 for a family Summer Teen Writing Workshop | 1:30 PM, 7/18 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | In this workshop, teens will discover how to use poetry and creative writing to craft a meaningful life and shape their futures. Dr. Barbara Regenspan will inspire writers by sharing and analyzing a poem or paragraph from contemporary fiction to determine how the author accomplished their work of art. Participants will then use what they have discovered to spark their own literary journey. Writers will have the opportunity to share and workshop pieces with their peers, as well as receiving feedback from Dr. Regenspan. Summer Movie Nights at the Fire Station | 7:00 PM, 7/18 Wednesday | Cayuga Heights Fire Station, 194 Pleasant Grove Road, | 7/18 Rogue One (outside at dusk) Bring lawn chairs and blankets to sit on. There will be free popcorn and lots of fun things for kids! Dorothy Meets Alice, or The Wizard of Wonderland | Contact theatre for showtimes.| Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | When a young student puts off his book report until the last minute, he suddenly finds himself in a strange place somewhere between Oz and Wonderland! | $7 Creative Dance Class | 10:30 AM, 7/19 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Amanda Moretti will lead this creative dance program, intended for all families with children ages 3 to 10. This weekly program is suitable for all experience levels and abilities.This

Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 7/24 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun. There is a different theme each week. Kids’ Club: Super Science Tuesdays | 12:30 PM, 7/24 Tuesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden |

MYERS PARK SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: BAD ALIBI Thursday, July 19 at 6:30 | Myers Park, Lansing| Bad Alibi will have you dancing the night away with all of your favorite classic rock from the 70’s and 80’s! The Myers Park Summer Concert Series also features Mega Moos Ice Cream Truck, Momo’s Traveling Café, and Salt Point Brewery Company. Join your friends and neighbors for a great summer evening of music and fun by the lake. is a drop-in class, but space is limited, and online registration is requested. Food and Fun | 12:30 PM, 7/19 Thursday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Game On! | 3:00 PM, 7/19 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | At this weekly drop-in gaming program, kids and teens meet for board games, tabletop RPGs, card games, and more. Participants can hone their skills with their old favorites, learn something new, and make new friends. Lego Literacy | 3:00 PM, 7/19 Thursday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | A fun weekly event combining literacy and a fun lego project! Older children read for younger children, modeling success for their peers. Build a fun project out of one of our 1,000-piece kits while you have a snack.

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Newfield Schools Board of Education | 6:30 PM, 7/19 Thursday | Weaver Room, 2nd Floor in Newfield Elementary School Building, Main St. Interlaken Board of Trustees | 7:00 PM, 7/19 Thursday | Interlaken Village Office, 8369 Main Street, Interlaken | Ithaca Town Council | 4:30 PM, 7/23 Monday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | Work session; no voting by council. Cayuga Heights Planning Board Meeting | 7:00 PM, 7/23 Monday | Cayuga Heights Village Office, 836 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca | Dryden Schools Board of Education | 7:00 PM, 7/23 Monday | Dryden Middle/ High School, 118 Freeville Rd., Dryden | Meets in the Middle School Library. Spencer Town Board Meeting | 7:00 PM, 7/23 Monday | Spencer Municipal Building, 79 E. Tioga St., Spencer | † City Planning & Development Board | 6:00 PM, 7/24 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Includes a privilege of the floor interval where the public may speak. ICSD BOE Monthly Discussion and Voting Meeting - | 6:00 PM, 7/24 Tuesday | ICSD Administration Building, 400 Lake St., Ithaca | Meetings held in Board room. Candor Village Board of Trustees | 7:00 PM, 7/24 Tuesday | 138 Main Street, Candor

Didgeridoo Down Under | 6:30 PM, 7/24 Tuesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | Australia-themed show combines music, culture, science, comedy, character building and audience participation.

Science Together | 10:30 AM, 7/20 Friday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Engage with your little ones as you investigate sciences processes through hands-on activities.

Ulysses Town Council | 7:00 PM, 7/24 Tuesday | Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm Street, Trumansburg | Includes a privilege of the floor interval when public may speak. Second meeting of the month is a working session (no voting by the council).

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Comic Creation Workshop Series for Teens | 4:15 PM, 7/20 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Teens will learn to use the skills they already have to tell stories with art. Attendance at all classes is not required, but each week participants will learn new techniques to build upon. Family Storytime | 11:00 AM, 7/21 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to celebrate reading and build their early-literacy skills.

Treleaven Winery, 658 Lake Road, King Ferry | The ride will kick off at 8am with a choice of three different routes: 30, 50 and 70 miles. These breathtaking routes will travel through the gorgeous wine regions of New York State alongside Owasco and Cayuga Lakes. Immediately after completing the course, riders and observers alike are welcome to spend the afternoon relaxing at the venue sampling local wines and craft beers on tap, indulging in delicious food and more! The Ride for Heart Health is a family friendly event with all proceeds benefiting the Cayuga Heart Institute.

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Sing-Along Matinee | 3:00 PM, 7/19 Thursday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Beauty and the Beast

Didgeridoo Down Under | 2:00 PM, 7/24 Tuesday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Come to the Seneca Falls Library to learn about Australian music and culture.

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Tompkins County Planning, Energy and Environmental Quality Committee | 3:00 PM, 7/18 Wednesday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | City Administration Committee | 6:00 PM, 7/18 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Lansing Town Council | 6:30 PM, 7/18 Wednesday | Town Hall, 29 Auburn Road, Lansing, NY.

Ithaca Rotary Luncheon | 12:15 PM, 7/18 Wednesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Christine (CJ) Del Vecchio, president, NYS Association of Realtors: “Behind the Door of the Realtor World”. The public is welcome to attend and learn more about Rotary. | $15 Pollinators in the Garden | 2:00 PM, 7/18 Wednesday | Cornell Botanic Gardens, 124 Comstock Knoll Dr., Ithaca | Those beautiful, fragrant flowers in your garden are not just there for your enjoyment; they are also essential for plant reproduction, and provide important food sources for

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15385 Farden Road, Sterling, New York | While any weekend in the summer is a great one to step back in time at the annual Renaissance Festival, this weekend happens to be “Ale Fest Weekend”! Come celebrate the oldest beverage in human history! Attend a rollicking “Pub Crawl” with festival characters to Festival Pubs and take part in the madcap antics, contests and songs with all your favorite characters. They’ll be sober, but you will be merry! (Drink responsibly.) And of course, the SRF has many family-friendly activities and attractions, as well. If you have never been, this should be your year. We all need a little break from our present-day reality once in a while.

pollinators such as bees, butterflies, moths and hummingbirds. Join staff botanist Robert Wesley for a stroll through our gardens to observe this ancient symbiotic relationship at work. Pre-registration required. | $8 Members; $12 nonmembers Weeding Wednesdays with Cornell Botanic Gardens | 4:00 PM, 7/18 Wednesday | Cornell Botanic Gardens, 124 Comstock Knoll Dr., Ithaca | Wednesdays are drop-in volunteer nights this summer at Cornell Botanic Gardens! Stop by and unwind from your day with some evening weeding therapy. Meet new people, learn about plants and gardening from a knowledgeable staff horticulturist, and help keep our gardens looking beautiful. Wear comfortable clothes and bring your own garden gloves, if you have them. Open to ages 15 and older. Cancelled in the event of rain. Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 7/18 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 Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 7/18 Wednesday | Commando’s, 3 Commando Ave., Cortland | Dinner at Commando’s Cortland. Hosts: Margie P. and Jill H., RSVP: map10@cornell.edu or jholl9435@ gmail.com Men’s Group | 6:00 PM, 7/18 Wednesday | The LGBTQ Center, 73 Main Street, Cortland | Men’s Group is a group for gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and straight ally men to get together to support one another. This group meets the third Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m. Sunset Cruise | 7:00 PM, | Allen H. Treman State Marine Park, Ithaca | Daily two-hour cruises aboard the MV Teal, that feature a light narration and a chance to chat informally with our crew. Feel free to bring your own refreshments. On Mondays, we host Club Cayuga with discounted fares and local DJs on board (DJ Hameen and DJ Mike Judah) to liven up the mood and possibly inspire a dance party! | $40 regular fare Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, 7/18 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. Candor Farmer’s Market | 3:30 PM, 7/19 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Rd, Candor | Fresh local garden produce, cheeses, meats, eggs, baked goods, handcrafts and more Ithaca Heritage’s Unveiling Ithaca’s Living Past Tour | 4:00 PM, 7/20 Friday | Meet at the trolley circle on the Ithaca Commons in front of Center Ithaca.

Open Mic Night | 7:00 PM, 7/20 Friday | Dryden Community Center Cafe, 1 W Main St, Dryden | Come share your songs, stories, poems and enjoy your favorite coffee or tea and delicious homemade baked goods. Contact Arron Bound: (607) 8441500 or† email at manager@1westmain@ gmail.com. Finger Lakes National Forest Outdoor Openhouse | 10:00 AM, 7/21 Saturday | Backbone Horse Camp, Picnic Area Rd, Burdett | Our goal is to provide an opportunity for you to learn first hand about what is happening on Your National Forest, as well as the great work that many of our partners are involved with. Please dress appropriately for the weather and hiking. Gardens & Arboretum Tours Hikes | 10:00 AM, 7/21 Saturday | Cornell Botanic Gardens, 124 Comstock Knoll Dr., Ithaca | Participants will enjoy an extended hike and learn about the diverse plant collections and landscapes of Cornell Botanic Gardens. Please dress for the weather and wear comfortable walking shoes.Walks will be held rain or shine and will include some slopes and stairs. | $10 suggested donation Historic Ithaca’s Walk and Talk: Tour of Rogues’ Harbor Inn, Lansing, NY | 11:00 AM, 7/21 Saturday | 2079 East Shore Drive, Lansing, NY Knitters and Crocheters | 3:00 PM, 7/22 Sunday | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Come meet other fiber artists and share skills with one another. Benefit Concert w/Bruce Ward | 3:30 PM, 7/22 Sunday | St. Marks Episcopal Church, 17 Main St, Candor | Donations will be accepted and all proceeds will benefit the churchís organ restoration fund. Mah Jongg and Classic Games | 1:00 PM, 7/23 Monday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Brooktondale Farmers Market | 4:00 PM, 7/24 Tuesday | Brooktondale Community Center, 522 Valley Road, Brooktondale |

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Feeling Mentally Clear | 5:30 PM, 7/24 Tuesday | The Loft, 371 Main Street, Aurora | Join author and health-coach Michel Gribble-Dates as she shares simple techniques for achieving mental clarity. This 90 min. workshop is designed to help you eliminate the feeling of mental fatigue and grogginess upon waking in the morning. You’ll learn how to lift the smokescreen that obscures your mind, allowing you to feel more alert and focused throughout the day. | $20 Chair Yoga | | Various locations, Ithaca | Using breathing techniques, basic yoga postures, relaxation, and focus, you will become more in tune with your body, and improve your breath awareness and

CANDOR FARMERS MARKET Every Thursday, 3:30-6:30 (through September) | Candor Community Pavilion, 101 Owego Rd, Candor | Visit the Candor Farmer’s Market and you’ll be surprised to recognize so many familiar faces. The vendors are your friends, family, and neighbors! The Farmer’s Market gives local vendors and farmers a place to come together and share fresh produce, baked goods, eggs, honey, meat, other foods, handcrafts and more with the community. It’s a great way to socialize with your community as well as support your local farmers and artists.

control. Classes held in Ithaca and T-burg. Contact Lifelong for times and locations. S.A.I.L. Into Fitness | | Various locations, Ithaca | Classes held in T-burg, Brooktondale and Ithaca. Contact Lifelong for days and times. Tai Chi | | Varying Locations, | Classes held in Brooktondale and Lansing. Contact Lifelong for days and times. Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, 7/19 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Local fitness instructor Stephanie Wright leads this exercise class for seniors. Increase fitness and strength while having fun. Meets weekly on Tu/Th.

Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 7/19 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey 6599969 or jmdewey@frontiernet.net Yoga Farm presents BLISS NIGHT: A Community Healing Event | 7:00 PM, 7/19 Thursday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Bliss Night is an invitation for you finally gift yourself the opportunity to nourish yourself, cherish yourself, and love yourself in this relaxing and enriching environment. | Donation Accepted Ride For Heart Health | 8:00 AM, 7/21 Saturday | Treleaven Wines, 658 Lake Rd, King Ferry | An annual fundraiser event, held by the Cayuga Heart Institute, consisting of a scenic bike ride through the beautiful Finger Lakes. Beginning with

registration at 7am, the ride will kick off at 8am with a choice of three different routes: 30, 50 and 70 miles.

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Saturday Sweat Yoga | 9:00 AM, 7/21 Saturday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Start your weekend off with our intermediate vinyasa flow yoga class.

Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM, 7/23 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Open “Big Book” OA 12-Step meeting. Contact Leigh 379-4858. No matter what your problem with food - compulsive overeating, undereating, food addiction, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, or overexercising - we have a solution. No dues, fees, weigh-ins.

Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM, 7/22 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | All are Welcome. Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest Humanity. Pray. Move. Sit. Connect. Open Meditation | 10:30 AM, 7/22 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | All are welcome to meditate according to their own practice. 20 minutes of silent meditation, reading and discussion, then 20 minutes of silent

Chair Yoga | 11:45 AM, 7/24 Tuesday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Join us for our popular chair yoga class on Tuesdays before the library opens. No experience necessary!

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478 Lower Creek Rd, Ithaca | The FBM crew is opening their doors to everyone for an afternoon, of Fun and Bicycle Mayhem. There will be a demonstration on how bike frames are built, FBM team demo art, new gear, and a history of FBM display. If you need more X-Games-style sports in your weekend, join them the night before at the Ithaca Skatepark for the Flyout World Championships.

The Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State Street | Enjoy an evening of 50+ brand new one-minute plays, written by many of Ithaca’s established and emerging playwrights and highlighting the spirit of the local community. Proceeds from the event will support the development of new work at the Kitchen.

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THE WILLIAM GEORGE AGENCY FOR CHILDREN’S SERVICES CURRENTLY HIRING FOR: DIRECTOR OF HARD TO PLACE SERVICES: Full Time position in a residential treatment center for at risk youth. Responsibilities include but are not limited to; Administrative and clinical oversight of multiple hard to place units. MSW required; LMSW or LCSW preferred and 3 years supervisory experience in programs serving youth. CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY COUNSELOR: A full-time position, working with adolescents in a residential treatment center. Provide individual, group and family counseling. Bachelor’s and one year’s chemical dependency experience , valid NYS driver’s license required. Master’s preferred. Full benefits package available, including health, life and dental insurance, 401K with company match, paid vacation, sick, personal and holiday time. Apply on line at: wgaforchildren. org; or send resumes to: The William George Agency, 380 Freeville Rd, Freeville, NY 13068 EOE. Fax to: 607-844-4998. For a full Job Description and to download an application please see our website at: www.wgaforchildren.org

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