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A Small Tax For Free Bus Service?

t costs $4 per day to ride the bus to work from outside the City of Ithaca into it – $2.50 in, and $1.50 out. While not a major cost for some each day – roughly the cost of a top-shelf coffee at CTB – that cost can add up and for some, might be a deterrent among those with their own cars, who have the option to forgo the $20 weekly expense and limited schedules offered by TCAT for the flexibility car ownership offers. With parking at a premium and more and more locals commuting into the city for work, some public officials see that cost as a deterrent, keeping people from riding the bus and putting more cars on the street. Meanwhile, TCAT – still considered one of the best bus services in the country – is consistently cashstrapped, and depends on the size of its ridership in order to leverage state and federal funds. With both these ideas in mind, the area’s town supervisors discussed a bold, but not totally far-fetched idea at Thursday afternoon’s meeting of the Tompkins County Council of Governments: introducing a small tax for people within range of bus routes to ensure free and unlimited access, in hopes of increasing ridership and in effect, increasing ridership, ensuring a sustainable financial future for the bus service. The idea, still – just – an idea, was introduced to the board by Town of Caroline Supervisor Mark Witmer, who had recently been looking into the idea with TCAT leadership. Citing a short report written by TCAT service development manager, Matt Yarrow, Witmer talked about the success of similar programs across the country, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. Witmer cited an erroneous, but ballpark estimated increase of $8 per year floated by County Legislator Dan Klein. Citing a report from Yarrow, he said he had found some cities in the northwestern United States to implement a program like this successfully, prompting other continued on page 12

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Gillibrand Pays Ithaca A Visit

merica has gained a reputation as a country overly reliant on drugs, prescription and otherwise, as the pharmaceutical industry has amassed more and more power over the last several decades seemingly able to avoid or minimize government interference and regulation. There have been some elements of a pushback against Big Pharma, the latest of which was announced in Ithaca on Friday morning by United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who represents New York. Gillibrand, a potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, pushed the legislation in front of a crowded room of supporters and local political officials at the Lifelong adult education center in downtown Ithaca. The bill, coined the Stop Price Gouging Act, aims to require pharmaceutical companies to publicly report and justify price increases for their product that go beyond medical inflation, impose a tax penalty on companies that excessively increase their drug prices, and suggest best practices

for new monitoring new drug pricing, and reinvest any penalties collected from pharmaceutical companies into drug research and development led by the National Institute of Health. The bill is additionally sponsored by five other Democratic Senators from around the country. The legislation will likely face significant opposition on Capitol Hill, if only from groups like the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America group, arguably the most influential industry presence in D.C. by way of money raised and spent on lobbying efforts. A report from NPR last year stated prescription drug spending was rising faster than any other health care expenditure in America. Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, Tompkins County legislator Martha Robertson, Lifelong’s HIICAP coordinator Nicole Zulu, HIICAP Counselor Harriet London and Gillibrand all addressed the crowd at the event. Nearly all of the speakers spoke of a personal experience they had within their family or one they had heard from people

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in their community who had suffered as a result of drug prices. Gillibrand told the story of a man who, with $60,000 in savings, chose to forego his $5,000 per month medication to allow his wife to save some money. He died nine months later, she said. “That’s the question we’re asking people to solve, this terrible problem of what’s more important, your medicine or everything else in your life?” Gillibrand said. Gillibrand pointed to price gouging as the primary issue in rising drug prices, as drug companies can operate behind closed doors to determine their prices with little or no public explanation (such as when the infamous Martin Shkreli inflated the price of a prescription drug from $13.50 per pill to $750). Zulu, whose job at Lifelong entails providing people eligible for Medicare with guidance around how to navigate the system said that while there’s still plenty of ground to make up to equalize access to affordable healthcare options, particularly later in life, Gillibrand’s bill was at least a good initiation. London, who also works at Lifelong, talked about people she works with and their battle to keep their heads above water financially while trying to stay alive physically, such as one woman, only 63 years old, who had to apply for grant funding to pay for her medication for long enough until they age into New York’s unique Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage (EPIC) program. London said it’s important to share those types of stories to exemplify the severity of the issue and its tangible impacts. “Please,” she said, turning to Gillibrand. “Whatever you can do.”

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events coming up where you can do just that. If you miss last weekend’s festivities, you can still catch fireworks in Ithaca on July 3, Canandaigua, Hornell and Corning on the 4th, and in Watkins Glen on July 6th. ▶▶ Libertarian candidate for governor, Larry Sharpe, is coming to town. The one-time Vice Presidential

nominee under Gary Johnson and his Lt. Governor, Andrew Hollister, will be meeting voters during a happy hour at Brookton’s Market in Brooktondale on Thursday, July 5, from 4:00 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Can’t make it? Don’t worry, the Ithaca Times will be on the scene with a camera and a notepad, ready to go.

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A Solution To Affordable Housing Financing?

ffordable housing is a tired topic here in Tompkins County. It’s a subject that’s been poked, prodded, researched and pontificated over nearly a decade as construction has boomed and the voices of those seeking relief have grown hoarse as numerous studies, recommendations and now, a task force saddled with the analysis of the issue have been created. However, last week, that task force was handed the outline of an RFP for a Park Foundationfunded study that would take all those loose ends and bridge them together, in the hopes of identifying tangible solutions in filling a shortage of workforce housing in Tompkins County. The proposed study, titled the Tompkins County Housing Market, Funding Resource & Solutions Analysis, will be an attempt to take numerous suggestions to come from 2017’s Housing Summit – a community-intensive meeting around the subject of tackling the local housing crisis – and find workable ways to implement them. The ultimate goal of the study will be to find pathways of stimulating more rapid and affordable housing development at price points falling within the county’s “missing middle” (not too expensive, but not subsidized or Section 8 housing), identify what amount of funding would be needed to make those projects work, and what types of financing terms would be beneficial for developers who often have claimed that the development climate in Tompkins County is not conducive to building at affordable price points. According to a draft proposal of the RFP reviewed by legislators at last week’s housing committee, the study would incorporate known data – from the county’s housing needs assessment to Cornell’s housing plan, the Downtown Ithaca Alliance’s housing plan – and what we know about the changing demographics of Tompkins County and apply them to as-yet unidentified solutions to make that type of construction happen within a five-to-ten year horizon. “This is an effort to dive a little bit deeper into our housing market challenges and specifically identify what tools we could use in order to move things in the 1–10,

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direction the county and others feel we need to be going,” said Jennifer Tavares, President and CEO of the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, who helped draft the RFP. Stakeholders in the community, particularly in the economic development sector, see the lack of viable housing options in Tompkins County as an impediment to growth but acknowledge that the implications of such a study could potentially lead to the wrong type of growth or unsustainable building patterns. To offset this, the study team would want to look at the odds of assumed changes if the market shifts, using actual data to quantify whether or not those assumptions are possible. For example: if more senior housing is built, people assume that a certain number of seniors will move into that housing, freeing up the three-to-four bedroom, single family housing stock they currently occupy – an assumption that only a thorough data analysis can verify. “If we can’t figure this out, it’s not only going to harm existing residents and their ability to thrive, but it’s also going to continue to be an impediment to us attracting the workforce we need to allow employers to stay in business and continue to invest here,” Tavares said. The document itself describes the situation facing the successful bidder best: “These documents are informative and instructive, however, cannot alone prescribe the actions that will be taken and resources that can be utilized to

achieve the stated goals for housing construction through 2025: nearly 6,000 workforce housing units; 3,900 student beds; and 700 senior beds with various levels of service,” the RFP reads. “In particular, our current housing market lacks the ability to deliver workforce housing which will support projected economic growth at a price point that middle class families can afford. Additionally, existing housing market challenges further exacerbate income inequality in our communities, foster greater rates of gentrification, and make it difficult for our aging population to retire in place. Significant recent investment in new college student housing, both on and offcampus, will likely alleviate gaps in that market segment over the next decade. However, this could create challenges particularly for existing landlords with smaller, aging housing units in need of renovation, while also presenting opportunities to incentivize rehab and the return units to single- or multi-family housing.” To tailor-make a list of recommendations, the team will be looking at peer markets in other areas like or similar to this one who have encountered similar challenges, identifying whether or not they’ve found any specific tools – like certain financing mechanisms, tax abatement programs or other more flexible solutions beyond the status quo – that have proven effective in diffusing their affordable housing issues. Solutions could include ideas like bulk purchasing of materials to build housing units en masse – saving on construction costs – or sharing contractors between multiple projects in order to reduce labor expenses. “It sounds like a wild and crazy idea,” Tavares said, “but it’s not impossible. Would something like that bring the cost down if there really was a concerted effort to do something? We want

Housing construction in downtown Ithaca. (Photo: Casey Martin)

to look at how other markets do things.” Tavares also sees an opportunity to change the conversation around affordable housing in Tompkins County, helping people to acknowledge its construction in a way where there’s no stigma – where the definition of “affordable housing” isn’t tacked with the narrow definition of Section 8 or subsidized housing. Tompkins County has long been known for a “missing middle” in its housing market, where options meant for working class families, young professionals and seniors are scarce as the stock of lower income and market rate luxury housing has been increasing, largely because of the challenges of developing in Ithaca and traditional funding structures that make housing projects happen. “We know that certain funding options and certain investment opportunities will fill the gap and stimulate that type of housing development,” Tavares said. “Certainly INHS and others are doing a good job of bringing more units in that category on, but one of the questions we’re really asking is how to build the next level of housing – people who aren’t going to be incomeeligible for what the government might consider affordable housing or what we would normally look at as subsidized housing.” “Properties that aren’t subsidized by the government are really difficult to build in this market,” she added. “It’s pretty certain we’re not going to meet our goals unless something else changes or other opportunities for funding or incentives are brought into the market in order to push us in that direction.” The City Planning and Development Office has been in the loop on these conversations and a client committee will be formed to work with the consultants once they’re chosen. Tavares said she has reached out to city staff with an offer to participate on the team, as well as the county planning staff, INHS and numerous realtors and developers. “We really want this to be an inclusive process,” Tavares said. “If we’re really going to capture knowledge and participation of all the entities participating in the market and helping determine how it moves forward and what solutions can be practically applied, then they need to be engaged in the process.”

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Visum Development Enters Middle Income Market

isum Development has decided to dip its toe into the middle-income housing pool with a newly proposed project that would bring a dozen units of housing to West Seneca Street.

two-bed/one-bath units, taking up around 7,700 to 8,000 square feet depending on variances. It was first introduced to the city’s Planning Board last week. While Visum is a well-known name in Ithaca development, most

Visum Development’s West Seneca Street Proposal, in this rendering via architect Stream Collaborative.

The proposal currently stands as a 3-story, 12 unit apartment building that would include six efficiency studio units and six

of their impact has been felt in the form of Collegetown development. This would be their first foray into the downtown market,

City Of Ithaca

Future Of Ithaca’s Bus Depot In The Air

fter serving passengers traveling to and from the Ithaca area for more than a century, a transit landmark in the west end is closing at the end of this month. Built around the turn of the 20th century, the building that’s now the Ithaca Bus Terminal served as a passenger rail station on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad until 1942, when that line ended passenger service. It was built on the site of an older stationhouse that offered passenger rail service starting in 1849. The nearby Lehigh Valley Railroad station building served rail passengers until Lehigh Valley ended the last of its passenger service in 1961, and, after local business owner Joseph O. Ciaschi bought the building in 1966 with an eye toward historic preservation, he operated it as the Station Restaurant for nearly 40 years. In addition to providing a

waiting room and ticket counter lobby for Ithaca’s passenger bus service for several decades, the bus terminal building housed a U.S. Navy recruiting office and then Bolton’s Donut Shop from 1974 through the 1980s. A freight house for the DL&W was just north of the station, on the current site of the GreenStar Natural Foods Market across Seneca Street. Presently, the building itself, the address of which is 710 W. State Street but listed on property tax rolls as 701 W. Seneca Street, is owned by Tompkins Trust Company, and the terminal space is leased by David and Brenda Wallace, both of whom are retiring this year. The Wallaces handle freight and packages for local businesses and residents, as well as selling bus tickets. “I have been told by the bank they are not interested in continuing with a bus station in that location,” the City of Ithaca’s Director

though they are simultaneously in the running to be chosen as the preferred developer of the Green Street Garage site. Project leader Patrick Braga said the shift in focus, at least temporarily, is a result of changes they are seeing in the student housing market, which will see an influx of units over the next several years, including Cornell’s announced plans to add 2,000 on-campus beds for undergraduate students and the Maplewood Apartment complex that will soon provide nearly 1,000 additional beds which are also geared toward Cornell graduate students. Braga said in order to maintain financial viability, the development team would be applying for public money, which could in turn influence some of the rental cost parameters the building will have. As it stands now, the project is meant to be aimed at making rents attainable to the 70-80 percent Area Median Income (AMI) range. According to the most recently available numbers, 80 percent of AMI ranges from $47,200 per year for a one-person studio apartment to $67,360 for a three-bedroom apartment meant for four people. The project will be applying for a tax abatement, along with funding from the Community Housing Development Fund and state-level money through the New York Main Street grant program. Braga said judging by the Planning

Board’s reaction, the primary tweaks to the project at this stage will be applying for larger variances in the front and back yard so the house can contain larger rentable units inside. There has been talk for the last few months that as Ithaca’s development boom has begun to slow down, the resulting gap in the market has shown to be at middle-income or workforce levels, as higher income housing and affordable housing have both seen significant amount of development over the last few years. Beyond that, the city is currently looking to require affordable housing as criteria for tax abatement eligibility. Braga said the three-story project fits into the neighborhood’s character, but more importantly can also help address more of the middle area that hasn’t been as much of the development focus. He said it’s an example of small urban in-fill, something unlikely to ruffle too many feathers due to its relatively small size and unitload compared to exponentially larger downtown projects. “Middle-income renter households have limited options for new, high-quality, and safe housing in Ithaca,” he said. “This project aligns with Visum’s mission to provide modern housing in walkable urban neighborhoods.”

of Planning and Development, JoAnn Cornish, tells us. “From a planning perspective, and a long term city goal, we would like to see the intercity buses served from the center of downtown. It is no secret that the current bus station has few amenities, no useable bathrooms, no food or beverage service, etc., and often it is the first and last place in the city visitors experience. We can do so much better.” The Wallaces are independent agents for the Chenango Valley Bus Lines, Greyhound Lines, ShortLine Coach USA and Trailways of New York bus services, a business arrangement common in small towns where it is not economically viable for the companies to own and operate their own facilities. As with many other business categories, online marketing has affected bus ticket sales; the Wallaces earn nothing from bus tickets sold online, even when passengers use their waiting room. With no agent operating locally, and assuming no physical facility takes the place of the Ithaca terminal, bus service will

likely function from the curb in some area of the city, as it does in Cortland, where buses pick up passengers from a space on Church Street, beside the campus of the County Office Building. The Ithaca Bus Terminal has served as a key connector to larger metropolitan areas served by Greyhound, connecting on the Greyhound routes from New York City to Buffalo or Rochester and from Syracuse to Elmira. On ShortLine, Ithaca routes include trips to New York, Binghamton and Albany. On Trailways of New York, Ithaca directly connects to Horseheads, Cortland, Binghamton and Geneva. Just off the Commons in Downtown Ithaca, a passenger waiting room and coffee shop operated off and on by TCAT and local cafe owners on East Green Street was originally intended to serve intercity bus passengers as well as local transit riders. Plans to bring intercity buses downtown never materialized.

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▶▶ Thumbs Up: for the relatively high turnout across the 23rd District for last week’s Democratic primary. Regardless of which corner of the political spectrum you occupy, we think it can be agreed that in the interest of democracy, having the most people willing and able to participate in voting is an absolute net benefit. ▶▶ Thumbs Down: Pretty tough week in local journalism, so we’re sending love to our colleagues in Annapolis. You don’t need to hug a journalist, but pick up a paper if you could.

HEARD&SEEN ▶▶ Heard & Seen Don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Ithaca’s been getting some shine recently from some pretty heavy hitters of statewide politics. In the last two months alone, Sens. Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Governor Andrew Cuomo and his main challenger Cynthia Nixon, and Attorney General candidate Zephyr Teachout have all made their way to the 10 Square Miles. Unfortunately, rumor has it their true motivations were just to figure out exactly where Central New York begins.

IF YOU CARE TO RESPOND to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, write upsanddowns@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “U&D.” ▶▶ Top Stories On Ithaca.com This Week Are... 1. NY23 Primary Election: Della Pia wins district by 26 votes... for now 2. Analysis: Whoever wins Tuesday faces an uphill battle against Tom Reed 3. Voters get last public look at primary candidates challenging Reed 4. Ithaca’s State Senator tweeted the definition of the word ‘penis’ to somebody to prove a point 5. NY-23 Reports: Where the candidates did – and didn’t – do well

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By Nick R ey nol d s couple of months before I started my first “real” job in journalism – as the city hall correspondent for the Ithaca Journal – I was holding down a desk at The Cortland Standard, a quaint operation in a town where a phone call from the paper still always made people’s voices rise a couple notes. It was the winter of 2015 and me, the youngest and most eager to please out of the group of maybe five or six of us, was accustomed to the quirky, “soft” assignments. I was the guy they sent out to write stories about the woman who rehabilitated squirrels out of her home or even, on slow news days, the weather. (Track down the paper’s recently retired photographer, Bob Ellis, and ask him about the day we both hit the pavement at 7 a.m. on a -4 degree day to pull together a centerpiece for that afternoon’s edition.) It was a fun job and a comfortable one, where I had the privilege of interacting and getting to know my neighbors face-to-face each and every day, learning about their passions, their hopes and aspirations for their communities and, on my end, gaining a deeper understanding of the place I was living in. It wasn’t the best paying job I ever had, but I knew I had stumbled on something rare and truly fulfilling. I can’t even begin to describe how incredibly privileged I felt, day in and out,

to be one of the rare few trusted with telling the story of my community each and every day. Within my little world, I felt vital. I felt safe, I felt welcomed, and I felt carefree and happy. Then, January 7, 2015, two men with assault rifles shot up a newspaper in Paris. As we put the paper to bed that afternoon, the newsroom watched the news unfold on Twitter and on television, everyone trying to make sense of it all. We waited for a motive, we drank in the expert’s analysis of it all, starving for some explanation that would set us all at ease. Throughout all of this, we watched the door – the one without a lock and just 30 steps above the sidewalk that to us, was always considered an asset. Since January 7, 2015, I’m sure more than one journalist has looked at their front door with wary eyes. In that case, the newspaper in question, a provocative satirical known as Charlie Hebdo, was persecuted for their aggressive stance for the freedom of the press – a depiction of the prophet Muhammed, an icon of Islam. They died for it. Even for an open attack on the press, I took some comfort in that, that I – a so-called respectful and caring centerpiece of the community – would never be a target for any of my work. “If you don’t want it printed, don’t let it happen”

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division of the American Library Association voted unanimously last week to strip Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from a major children’s literature award over concerns about how the author referred to Native Americans and blacks. The Association for Library Service to Children says the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award will now be known as the Children’s Literature Legacy Award. Also last week, the 19-member Pulitzer Prize Board convened in special session to re-name its award, citing the contribution of Joseph Pulitzer’s sensationalist yellow journalism in the New York World to the Spanish-American War. Henceforth, the Pulitzer Prize shall be known as the Quite Special Achievement in American Journalism, Literature, or Music Legacy Award. Seeing as Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Norwegian Nobel Committee issued a joint communiqué renaming all Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, Physiology and Medicine as the “Way-To-Go” Prizes. The gold medals will be changed accordingly, but the stipend amounts will not be changed. The Cy Young Awards are being replaced by ‘Good Throwing Plaques’, which will be awarded annually to the best pitchers in each of the major league baseball leagues. Mr. Young pitched for the Cleveland Naps from 1909-1911,

a t e a m t h a t w ou l d become the Cleveland Indians in 1915. Similarly, the NFL’s Vince Lombardi Trophy, awarded to the winner of the Super Bowl each year, will in the future simply be called the Super Bowl Cup, which may sound oxymoronic, but isn’t. Vince Lombardi coached a season with the infamously-named Washington Redskins in 1969. For failing to adhere to 21st century language standards in his 1884 book, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain’s name is being removed from the annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor awarded by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It’s now the First Among Funny Equals Award. Antoinette Perry, for whom Broadway’s Tony Awards were named, directed the play Harvey in 1944, in which a plus-sized rabbit is bodyshamed into invisibility. The American Theatre Wing (yes, it’s spelled ‘theatre’) voted unanimously to strip her name from the awards, which will from this day forward be called the Ripping Good Show Awards. Hockey’s Stanley Cup is now the Ice Hockey Legacy and Self Esteem Trophy. There’s no getting around the fact that Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby’s name just sounds like a eurocentric microaggression. Achievement in the music industry will no longer be recognized in the form of a Grammy, because what about Grampy? Recipients will now receive an continued on page 7

YOUR LETTERS The Long Road Ahead For Chainworks

hank you for your coverage in the June 6 issue of the ongoing challenges with cleaning up the Chainworks site for residential occupancy. Your article certainly drives home how difficult it is to clean up industrial pollution so many years after the infraction. Hindsight has 20-20 vision, and if folks in the mid-twentieth century had known how much trouble we would be having in 2018 to repurpose the plant, they might have been more careful with their leftover cyanides and trichloroethenes. Still, the cleanup and repurposing of the complex should be pursued, even if the path is long and challenging. Here are seven reasons why. First, repurposing Chainworks avoids having it fall into a large and conspicuous ruin. Consider all of the abandoned factories that one sees in many other cities large and small. In each case, on the day the manufacturing moved out, the occupant left behind a building that still had an intact shell, with heating and utilities. Over time, though, without

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activity and upkeep, they fell apart. Chainworks has an intact envelope and utilities for now, but without an economic purpose, someday that maintenance will stop. In the worst case, we would end up with a half-mile long abandoned factory adorning South Hill, visible from all over town. Second, adding residences at the site will contribute to the reurbanization trend of a growing number of Americans wanting to live in urban centers, rather than in the suburbs or exurbs. This trend is observed across the country, for example in Philadelphia, where recently NPR ran a story about efforts to provide housing for “millennials who want to return to the urban center.” This is a social movement with momentum, and we could take advantage. Third, adding residential space at Chainworks could also take pressure off of other Ithaca neighborhoods to build vertically -- an issue has been covered in your pages recently as well. Some continued on page 7

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‘A-Plus Mighty Musician’ certificate and a tee shirt. Oscars will now be called ‘Academy Awards’. Wait, they already are. But the Emmy, for excellence in the television industry, is being changed to the gender-neutral Sasha. The Clio Awards, which annually recognize innovation and creative excellence in advertising, will also undergo a transformation. The Greek goddess Clio was a glorifier and celebrator of great deeds and accomplishments, which we now know is an indirect discrimination against the mediocre and apathetic, a

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was always a common epitaph among us in the local press and, no matter the issue, we always had the facts on our side. We’d written unpopular things. We’d gotten people fired, usually for good reasons. We did our jobs, and then we went home. This week, five people in Maryland walked into their jobs, the same thought in the back of their heads. We journalists are good about that – if people like everything you write, the old editor’s cliché goes, you’re probably godawful at your job. The thing about journalism is all of us know what we’re getting into. People go into foreign conflict zones dreading death, but willing to face it down out of a courageous and relentless pursuit of the truth. Those on the police beat, unflinchingly, face down the worst of what lies beneath the polite facade of society we like to put up – grappling daily with evil and subjecting themselves to the shared trauma of comforting and telling the stories of those in despair, and at the worst junctures of their lives. Some of us go to city hall, and keep an eye on your taxes, or sit front row at plays and write about them, hoping to sell a few more tickets for our friends in neighbors who, we know, worked hard to create something worth sharing with the world. We’re all motivated by something, and, despite the nuances between our beats, we all have one thing in common with each other: we all want to make a difference for the people we care about most – we want to meet them, and talk to them. Like many of my peers around the

historically marginalized group. Starting this year, participation trophies will be given to all principals, agents and employees in the advertising industry. And, of course, the People’s Choice Awards have finally been recognized as a blatant example of speciesism, and the committee has registered to legally change the name of the honor conferred therewith to the Sentient Beings’ Choice Awards. Long overdue.

Charley Githler is a columnist with The Ithaca Times. His column, Surrounded By Reality, appears bi-weekly.

country on Thursday, I was enraged and saddened to hear of the gunning down of five members of our journalism family at their desks in Annapolis. I was particularly shook because these people weren’t those who put their lives on the line for the truth – the Marie Colvins and James Foleys of the world – but people just like me. The people who show up to ribbon cuttings for a new tree at the park. People who sit across from someone in tears, giving as much time as-needed for struggling to get out a story they were brave enough to tell, in hopes someone would hear it. People who still crack a smile when they spot their byline over someone’s shoulder at the coffee shop. (I still do.) For those who’ve ever met, interacted with or even met one of us, you would know it takes a special person to do this job: journalism suffers no assholes, no narcissists, nobody without empathy or compassion. This is a job for bleeding hearts, for people broke and loving it, who deserve a hell of a lot more than they get every day yet take it smiling, going to bed assured there’s nothing else in the world they’d rather be doing. We need more people like that. And all I know, as of Friday, we have five fewer of them in this world. If you consider people like that “enemies of the people,” as a certain someone has been known to label them, maybe it’s you with the problem. But nobody in this world has the power to make me fear my neighbor, and I’ll still be out there doing what I know best. If I know the people in this industry as well as I think I do, nobody else is going to stop either.

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neighborhoods are objecting to the addition of multi-story residences (for example on South Hill or Northside) because it will change the character of the neighborhood. The structure and footprint of Chainworks is already in place: Converting it from an empty shell to repurposed residential and commercial space does not change its “look and feel.” Fourth, consider transportation. Living in Chainworks can enable sustainable and energy efficient access to multiple modes of transportation. With enough residents, some shopping or professional services might be provided internally, so there would be no additional burden on the surrounding transportation infrastructure. For local trips outside of Chainworks, the location makes it easy to access a range of transportation options, from public transportation, to biking and walking, to ridehailing. Residents might own a car or not, but even if they did, they might leave it at home in favor of another option that is more convenient. A person might someday even get on their bicycle and ride down the South hill railroad grade, past Lower Buttermilk, over the “bridge to nowhere”, onto the Cayuga Waterfront Trail, and eventually on to the Black Diamond Trail, and arrive at Taughannock Falls without ever having ridden in automobile traffic. Fifth, “recycling” this contaminated site by cleaning it up is another benefit. Recycling packaging or even used appliances and cars is an activity about which we all feel good, and here is an opportunity to carry out recycling of an entire industrial complex on a massive scale. In fact, there is a nice synergy between the cleanup and the repurposing. The return on investment from repurposing is the economic engine that makes the cleanup possible. Cleanup leads to repurposing, and repurposing leads to cleanup. Sixth, repurposing Chainworks can be marginally helpful in making housing more economical. Admittedly, the project is not a slam dunk as far as affordable housing is concerned: the extra cost of cleanup may wash out cost saved by having an existing shell. However, with thoughtful planning on the part of municipal leaders, adding residential units to the housing market on the scale envisioned is enough of an expansion that increased supply could reduce average rental and sale cost for our area. The seventh and final reason comes back to the first one, and is concerned with the numerous unused industrial facilities in cities outside of Ithaca. We must collectively address the global problems of sustainable energy and climate change, and in that effort projects such as this must be repeated many, many times. Each successful project lends momentum. Other cities, many of which are in upstate and western New York State, are looking for ways to reclaim industrial buildings and at the same time revitalize the urban core. If the Chainworks project can succeed, the knowledge of how to finance and carry out the repurposing of old

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Lawmakers have closed the doors of the state house for 2018. Local Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton spoke with The Ithaca Times about her thoughts on the year’s session and what lies ahead in this election cycle. If you had three words to summarize this year’s session what would they be? I’m tempted to say long hard winter, but maybe I’ll just say hard hard hard. It’s been a very tough year because it started out because of the actions of the Trump administration on the state and local tax issue. It had us in quite a state of worry and- I don’t want to say disarray, but certainly scrambling and trying to figure out how we were going to deal with that threat to the pocketbooks of a lot of New Yorkers. you know we have a lot of well-to-do areas with high property taxes. We know we have high property taxes in the state partly because we don’t want want to do progressive income taxes. That’s another discussion. That’s how we started. It wasn’t a good way to start the budget and we also started with a budget gap, not as much as had been discussed of $4.4 billion, but it was significant. It was probably at $1.5 billion or so in budget gap, so it wasn’t a wonderful start to it and we did our best. It was a pretty tough year. What were some disappointments you had coming off of this session? Maybe that’s things that didn’t get passed or did get passed or other items? In the budget because of the court decisions- very bad court decisions- Silver v. Pataki, almost everymany many policy issues are getting thrown into the budget. And so, during that budget process from late January to April 1 we’re dealing with tons and tons of issues and most of those issues this year just got tossed off the table, thrown out of the budget because there was no agreement on them. You had to look at each of those policy issues before they got tossed off. You didn’t just start on day one throwing them out. You had weeks and weeks and weeks of conferences and discussions and ‘can we do this, what’s the right thing to do?’ So then you end up mostly focusing on the issues we always focus on in the budget and I was pleased that we were able to get more money into schools healthcare and other things, but we’re not meeting the court decision. We added $618 million to the Governor’s numbers on foundation aid for schools. That was significant. It’s not as much as it aught to be and that’s always a disappointment when you know schools aren’t getting as much money as they need, but I have to say it’s more in the plus column than the negative terms as far as aid to schools. We got more money into transportation. We all know that upstate transportation is a really important issue. Our bus systems are underfunded so we added a couple million to upstate transit. So we added a couple million to upstate transit, we added $20 million for capital for non-MTA transit. So that’s important money to get in the budget. I’m very glad with what we did on the Attorney General, voting in Barbara Underwood after the scandal with Eric Schneiderman. I’m very glad that we were able to come together. We had interviews we had an open and transparent process. Barbara Underwood did come forward and say “I want this temporary position and I’m not going to run for the position in November.” We got together and did what we did with the regents, having an election in the legislature as we did with Tom DiNapoli as our comptroller and we made Barbara Underwood our current Attorney General. We already see her doing a great job, being active and doing the kinds of things that we were happy with holding the Trump administration accountable.

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NIGHT OF THE LIVING WAGE OMG! Is Tompkins County Finally Ready To Pay People What It Costs To Live? B y N i c k R e y n o l d s

nstituting a living wage in Tompkins County has been a topic of both close interest and pessimism more than two decades now. Since the first living wage study was instituted in Tompkins County in 1994 (the year the modern living wage movement was thought to have been born, in Baltimore), the push to pay as many workers in Tompkins County what it actually takes to make a living here has been something graciously embraced by some and leered upon cautiously by others, particularly in the economic development sector. While the theory goes that people earning higher wages would circulate more money in the local economy and rely less on social services, critics – like those who have warned against progressive campaigns like the “Fight For $15” – have expressed concern such a rapid adjustment could have unintended impacts on entrepreneurs already burdened by increasing expense lines budgeted for under stagnant

wage conditions, and that the economic readjustment most businesses would experience from such a sudden shift would have devastating results. Before the release of Alternatives Federal Credit Union’s biennial report on the Living Wage last year – now pegged at $15.11 an hour – the President and CEO of the local Chamber of Commerce, Jennifer Tavares, stated her opposition for a universal living wage in Tompkins County, stating that the local minimum wage should equal the state’s minimum wage, currently at $11.10 per hour for workers in Upstate New York. The reason? Because most businesses in Tompkins County were reluctant to take the leap. Out of 60 or so respondents queried by the Chamber, 53 percent were opposed or strongly opposed to a universal living wage, while 27 percent were “in favor or strongly in favor.” 17 percent were neutral and 3 percent, according to the study, were unsure where they stood. The reasons for their reluctance, Tava-

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res wrote, were many and varied. Signifi cantly higher minimum wages, she wrote, would limit first-time job opportunities for high school students and internships, while on-the-job training – which can cost employers up to $1,000 per employee – was also anticipated to take a hit. Other possible unintended consequences of such drastic immediate wage increases, she wrote, included the cutting of jobs (36 percent), raising prices (48 percent), asking current employees to do more (19 percent) or even closing, as seven businesses reported. “A clear majority are not supportive of such a rapid increase to the minimum wage,” Tavares said at the time. However this week, headlines were made when the Worker’s Center’s Pete Meyers was joined by County Legislator Anna Kelles, who announced an initiative around the living wage that might be considered to be the first institutional step in the community to seriously discussing the issue in a formal setting. On Wednesday, The Tompkins County Workers’ Center announced that a working group, made up of local figures, would be examining the benefits and drawbacks of instituting a living wage requirement in Tompkins County, and would be planning a number of information gathering sessions in the coming months to gather feedback from workers and other involved parties. According to a news release, the working group would “study likely costs and benefits of making the living wage a minimum wage in Tompkins County and contribute to broader understandings of local minimum wages.” Kelles, the release said, would chair the working group, with help

from Meyers and Sally Klingel of the Scheinman Institute at Cornell’s ILR School. Over the past several months, Kelles and Meyers had been working together to build an 18-person working group featuring numerous stakeholders in the community with sublime influence over the issue of a living wage, the roster including TC Legislator Leslyn McBean-Clairborne, Common Council Alderperson Cynthia Brock and even Tavares herself, as well as several other business owners and local economic figures in order to broach the conversation around the topic and begin to build an understanding not just of the state of the local economy, but how feasible implementing a living wage would be. The inspiration, Meyers said, came not from the number of small business owners wary of a living wage but those who were strongly in support of one or on the fence, showing that there was a real willingness in Tompkins County to at least sit down and discuss the issue of wages and how best to address it. “These numbers do show that there is real concern,” said Kelles. “And that’s why it’s so important to be conscientious and cautious and thorough in the evaluation and research of this. We wouldn’t want to squander the goodwill of businesses who

understand the value of a living wage, but feel worried about the impacts, which is absolutely and completely valid. It’s our job to be respectful of that concern.” “I think the fact there are members of the business community and members of associations that are part of this makes this something I feel comfortable being part of,” she added. “If they weren’t there, I don’t think there’s anything about it that could be valid.”

cal climate, the interest level in something like this, the perceived barriers,” she said. “That’s the type of stuff you would gather. You need both the qualitative and quantitative data.” Though Meyers minces no words around his stance on the issue – that if he were “king of the county,” living wage legislation would have been passed a long time ago – he said that the most effective

inequality experienced oftentimes, at the local level, leading to an increased reliance on public spending and social services, particularly in places like Tompkins County which still experiences these issues despite having living wage requirements for all

MAKING A CASE FOR THE LIVING WAGE

After getting all the necessary players at the table, Meyers and Kelles both thought of how best to tell the story of Tompkins County’s sub-living wage workers as well as the industries that employ them, trying to discern both hard data around local wages and who is earning them against the anecdotal information needed to accurately interpret that data. While not meant to answer all the questions surrounding the implementation of a living wage in Tompkins County, this broad brushstroke of a study is intended to bring attention to the issue by presenting an overview of wages in Tompkins County convincing enough to lay the groundwork for a deeper dive. “We realized in our internal conversations that a draw to this conversation would be that it would be communitybased and that we weren’t starting this with a foregone conclusion,” Kelles said. “We also realized the importance of doing an actual evaluation. Bringing in scientists was a real tipping point, in a positive way, and there are several researchers in the group who are very committed to this study.” Kelles said in gathering that information, the research team would be looking at areas like the mean, median and distribution of incomes in each job sector and how many people and businesses are in those job sectors, and other areas including the percentage of which industries offer benefits or wages on-par with a living wage. Using that data and pairing it with the anecdotal evidence gained from conversations with everybody affected, Kelles said she hopes to draw a detailed picture of wages in Tompkins County’s economy for the team to gain their bearings and begin planning on how they can achieve their goal of a county-wide living wage ordinance. “A quantitative analysis of where we are is an extremely important addition to stacking up our efforts against the politi-

means of actually influencing change is getting everyone together and marrying pride and pragmatism – weighing the emotional appeal for workers in Tompkins County to actually be able to live here with a practical pathway of rolling out a universal living wage that is sustainable for workers and businesses alike. That takes coming together as a community, Meyers said. “The realization I’ve had is we’re small enough that we can really operate as a community together,” said Meyers. “We’re not going to just slam legislation down people’s throats – that’s not going to happen here. We need to have a serious conversation about this.” “And it doesn’t have to be only one outcome,” added Kelles. “If there’s something we could do to help and encourage businesses to reach a living wage they would like to offer in a way that won’t break them, aren’t we then serving the community?” IS THIS REALLY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSIBILITY?

Local governments, however, do have the ability to have profound influences on their own economies. According to a 2006 briefing paper on living wage policy from the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute, public policies at the federal level – rather than the local level – have exacerbated the problem of wealth

making their wages off public money. (Out of 103 total employers highlighted by The Worker’s Center, almost all public entities in Tompkins County provide a living wage.) Compiling the results of all studies conducted to-date at the time, the paper found that in settings like Los Angeles and Boston, most living wage workers were in households struggling to meet a basicneeds budget and, after conducting surveys of workers and firms in Los Angeles, job losses that resulted from instituting a living wage affected just 1 percent of all workers in industries impacted by a rise in wages while drastically reducing turnover – by as much as 57 percent. The overarching – but complicated – conclusion? Living wage ordinances improved working conditions particularly among cities’ most-marginalized populations, without substantially impacting firms’ ability to employ more people. “As in the debate over minimum wages, the question of the impacts of living wages on employment is ultimately answerable empirically,” the paper concludes. “Thus far, the most reliable research on living wages suggests that the impact is modest. In the largest cities with the broadestbased living wage policies, there has been little measured employment loss. Given these results, prospective studies would do best to acknowledge that offsetting factors and modest costs for employers result in only limited job losses from a living wage policy. Ignoring the importance of offsetting factors will result in extreme overestimates of costs and job losses under a living Ju ly

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wage policy.” Empirical data, however broad, is only as good as the nature of its sample size and, as local living wage critics will attest, the Tompkins County economy is a drastically different animal than that of a large metropolitan area, however its commonalities with its massive tourism sector and sizeable population of in-commuters. Proportionately, it has been argued the area’s nonprofit sector is too volatile and their budgets, limited to handle such a drastic wage increase and, in a period of rapid growth, the fear of wage compression – distributing money meant for competitive wages for top workers to pay for bottom-tier workers – would put Tompkins County at a competitive disadvantage against its peers across the country, particularly with increasing engagement from local firms on a national and international scale. In Seattle, for example, a nearly $4 increase in the area’s minimum wage resulted in a reduction of hours of approximately 9 percent among workers in the city’s most-impacted sectors, according to a 2017 report from the University of Washington and the National Bureau of Economic Research. For the good will of local governments, however, some maintain that real impacts for the poorest and most at-risk members of our community come not only from local ordinances, but substantial actions at the state and federal level as well. “Living wage laws can be useful, but meaningful increases in the earnings of low-wage workers and reductions in poverty require more powerful public policies,” Harry J. Holzer, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institute concluded in his own study of the issue in 2008. “Because of their limited coverage and modest effects on wages, living wage laws cannot have a large impact on low wages or poverty. Other public policies, such as those to expand collective bargaining, education and training, and publicly financed health insurance and parental leave, are likely to have more impact. Living wage laws can be useful if they raise awareness of pay disparity issues and build support for more powerful policies to raise the earnings of low-wage workers.”

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Try Goat Yoga By Mat t Butl e r

oga is known for its meditative qualities, offering a chance for momentary introspection in a world increasingly geared to demand foregoing such reflection. Goats, on the other hand, are not known for their meditative qualities or for their introspection, at least not to our knowledge (it’s quite possible that in the animal kingdom goats are considered the acoustic guitarist on a park bench for their apparent emotional depth). Perhaps it’s this contradiction that makes goat yoga one of the more bizarre, but increasingly popular, trends to come about in the last few years. Goat yoga has begun to gain a foothold in New York state as well, as Sandra Seabrook, who runs Purpose Farm, said the idea has grown in popularity even just since her farm recently started providing goat yoga sessions. “People come from all over, from New York City to out of state,” she said. For Seabrook, the idea started innocuously enough: someone had come to take a tour of the farm, during which Seabrook and her daughter mentioned that they

the uninitiated beginner, but Seabrook said having the animals around increases the experience, despite the goats not really having any idea of what’s going on. Goats, especially young ones, are generally docile, harmless creatures anyway; it’s what makes them the ideal farm animal for the activity instead of pigs or rabbits, who Seabrook said are surprisingly territorial with each other, or horses who are too dangerous, or alpacas who are too skittish around were having difficulty keeping the farm fihumans. Goats, however, just want to play, nancially viable. Right away, the man sugand they do as people do traditional yoga gested they start to host goat yoga, an idea that did not exactly grab Seabrook initially. around them. “When the goats are going around, just “Me and my daughter thought he was being with animals in general,” Seabrook crazy,” Seabrook said. “But we looked into said. “When you’re with an animal, they it and it really was a thing, and that’s how just make you happier and make you feel we got started [...] The goats aren’t trained or anything, they just do their thing. So we better. People are doing poses and then all of a sudden an animal runs through their tried it one day and said okay, let’s put a legs. Or you can use them as a prop to date up there.” hold you up and stuff. It’s really the interNow whenever they post a goat yoga action with the animals, I think.” event, it sells out quickly. Their next is Though the program is certainly whimJuly 15, starting at 9 a.m. at the farm’s sical, Seabrook’s motivation for running it Baldwinsville location, a bit past Syracuse, is anything but. Seabrook is driven by her and sessions are led by a professional yoga Georgia@ithacatimes.com 607-277-7000 x220 teacher. While it is a mild trek for Ithacans desire to support the farm her family operates, the main mission of which is to serve to make, the trend is beginning to seepNewspaper: emotionally traumatized teenagers who down to the city, as TST-BOCES held a are dealing with some difficult life obstafundraising goat yoga event in the spring, cles, like abuse or loss or an unstable living just a year after Purpose Farm became the environment. While the venture has been first place in central New York to have a successful so far, Seabrook said it hasn’t goat yoga program. With one year down, the farm has already reached some level of actually made that large of an impact since they only want to charge $40 per ticket. acclaim, getting named one of the 10 best places for goat yoga in the country in a list Seabrook said the income from the regular or private sessions covers about a third cited by USA Today. of the farm’s hay budget. While not a lot, The appeal might not seem obvious to

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It does help offset some of the expenses of upkeeping the farm for Seabrook, who runs the youth mentoring program free Client: of charge for children aged 6-18. The kids work with animals, many of which have been rescued from some level of abuse or troubling situation themselves, to “show love, build confidence and relationships.” “I wouldn’t be doing this without the youth mentoring program,” Seabrook said. “That is why our family sold our house, our camp, just to start the youth mentoring program. We don’t make any money, we’re 100 percent volunteer-based.”

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goals and 28 assists. Rob is back on Team USAâ€™s roster four years after being named to the All-World Team and earning the Most Valuable Attackman award at the 2014 World Lacrosse Championships. Buczek is presently an assistant coach for the Big Red, and his blistering shot has

nastics team on their collective induction. That year, the Bombers went 16-4 won their first national championship (after finishing second twice). The 16 victories remains a program record. Many of the people who were a part of that historic season have made many trips

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do not envy Team USAâ€™s goalie as last weekâ€™s elite matchup pitting the Major League Lacrosse All-Stars and Team USA. The game was a close affair at the half, but Team USA had scored the first seven goals in the second half to take a 14-8 lead. In such games, goalies can relax a bit, but in this case, the relaxation period was short-lived. The MLL guys had charged back to pull within one goal with 23 seconds left in the game, and Connor Buczek had the ball. The goalie likely knew that Buczek has won the MLL skills contest with a blistering shot clocked at 112 miles-perhour, and at that point, stopping the Cornell graduate and current Florida Launch player was the only thing standing between Team USA and a big win as they prepare for the World Lacrosse Championships later this month in Israel. Buczek eluded a pair of defenders, wound up and let it rip. When the ball tore into the back of the net, I am guessing the goalie said, â€œThat sounded like it was going about 112 miles-per-hour.â€? The game, played at Harvard Stadium in front of 6,500-plus fans, provided a platform for some MLL players to gain a measure of redemption. It was reported that some felt slighted by Team USAâ€™s selection process, and that they were grateful for the opportunity to prove their point. Cornell was well represented, as Buczek (class of â€™15) suited up for the MLL team, and Rob Pannell (class of â€™13) represented

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earned him some accolades as well. Not only has he won the speed contest at the MLL Skills Competition, but earlier this season he tallied his 100th career point. He is regarded as a dangerous two-point scoring threat, and he currently ranks 10th in MLL history with 17 two-pointers. (For those unfamiliar with pro lacrosse, the 2-point line is 16 yards from the goal.) Indeed, a player needs to unleash a highvelocity shot to get it past a professional goalie from that distance, and Buczek has done so ten times in his career. After Buczek put the game into overtime, it was fitting that another Skills Contest winner would ice it for the MLL All Stars. Will Manny â€“ who has won the Accuracy award at the Skills Competition â€“ found the net in OT to complete the stunning comeback and seal the 15-14 win. â€˘â€˘â€˘ I wrote last week about Ian Goldenâ€™s induction into the Ithaca College Athletic Hall of Fame, and Iâ€™d also like to congratulate the 1998 Ithaca College womenâ€™s gymJu ly

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back to Ithaca (Jen Nardone was inducted into the Hall of Fame on her own in 2014) but one of the central figures never left. Head coach Rick Suddaby had been at the programâ€™s helm for over a decade when the Bombers won that first NCAA title, and now, two decades later, he still leads the team. Rick is entering his 33rd year as the head coach, and he is one of the Bombersâ€™ longest tenured coaches. Suddaby was inducted into Ithacaâ€™s Hall of Fame in September of 2015, and he is a three-time NCGA Coach of the Year. According to I.C.â€™s website, â€œThe Bombers have made 27 trips to the National College Gymnastics Association (NCGA) championship meet in the meetâ€™s 30-year history. Under Suddaby, Ithaca has recorded 10 topfour finishes at the NCGA meet, which includes an NCGA Team Championship during the 1998 season. He has also guided the program to 12 ECAC titles and 24 top-three finishes at the ECAC Championships overall.â€?

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members of TCCOG to suggest rough ideas to introduce the program. Martha Robertson, chair of the Tompkins County Legislature, suggested a threeyear pilot program might be the best way to test it, offering wiggle room to adjust routes or costs if needed, and see if it’s a viable plan in the short-term before making a long-term commitment. Joseph Wetmore, liaison to the board from the Town of Lansing, suggested the free cost gives a pull to the bus system that a fare might dissuade someone from, especially if driving the car always trumps paying a bus fare a few times a week. He added the best way to practically implement such a program would be to create a tax district that mirrors the bus routes in order to avoid an unneeded increase in taxes for people nowhere near buslines and therefore, less likely to use them in favor of personal vehicles. City of Ithaca alderwoman Donna Fleming said she would invite Yarrow to a TCCOG meeting in the coming months to discuss the idea further. HELPING OUT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE

Two community leaders attended Thursday’s TCCOG meeting to share the efforts they had been taking on to help the area’s young people in recent months, chatting with community leaders on ways to amplify that impact and do a better job serving Tompkins County’s youth. First to the plate was Tompkins County Director of Youth Services Amie Hendrix, who gave an overview of the work her office does to bring various youth services in the community, something they’ve been doing for the fast 41 years. In a fast-paced presentation, Hendrix gave a picture of a rich suite of services, from recreational to interventional services, and provided each of the towns present with a picture of how many thousands of young people in their communities were directly impacted by the group’s services. Next up was Kirby Edmonds, there to present an overview of the Cradle To Career initiative, a wide-ranging umbrella intended to foster collaborations with more than 70 organizations focused on ensuring people ages 0-24 are active, caring members of their community working toward living wage jobs, by way of eliminating structural poverty and racism at its core. The concept is based around a principle called collective impact, a “collaborative strategy between multiple stakeholders (like non-profits, public agencies, governments, and businesses) for solving complex social problems. In contrast to traditional approaches where organizations pursue their goals in isolation, collective impact encourages these diverse groups to coordinate their activities around commonly agreed-upon goals,” according to the initiative’s website. “It’s not a program,” Edmonds said. “It’s a way of thinking how to get that goal accomplished on a large scale.” Critical points of the initiative include

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areas such as working on making sure people are getting fed, and implementing a school readiness program with the long-term intention of changing the conversation around what people call a crisis around affordable, accessible child care. Edmonds also outlined the program’s efforts in finding ways on easing people into engaging with their community and creating pathways to provide mentorship to the area’s youth. While Edmonds said in combating these issues, there’s an inclination around solving problems by raising money, Edmonds emphasized Cradle to Career was focused more on supporting relationships between organizations that, working together, can help leverage resources. Many of the supervisors talked about the difficulties of fostering these relationships in their communities, and pointed to a lack of community-building efforts in their communities centered on creating cultures of success. Enfield – the poorest town in the county – has four school districts covering its community of 3,500, making it difficult to communicate possibilities to their youth in a coherent and consistent way. “The communication piece is something we struggle with,” Beth McGee, Enfield’s Town Supervisor said. “This school district issue has fractured our community terribly.” TOMPKINS LEADERS GET UPDATES ON SHARED SERVICES, AIRPORT

County Administrator Jason Molino briefed local leaders on recent discussions with the New York State Department of State about the roll-out of the county’s shared service plans, announced last year as a response to a gubernatorial mandate to find ways to reduce redundancies in county governments to cut costs, the cost of which would be reimbursed by the state. Molino said while three out of six initiatives are currently underway, the state has so far offered no guidance on how to report on or reimburse the implementation of those plans, only that further details will be announced within the month. Molino also gave an update on the state’s plans to move its Department of Transportation facility from the Cayuga Lake waterfront, adjacent to the Farmer’s Market, and moving it up the hill to the Tompkins Regional Airport in Lansing. Molino said the state is currently looking to purchase the 7.6 acre property and move it to a 15 acre plot, where construction would take place in tandem with major construction at the airport. “They’ve been moving fast given DOT time,” Molino said.

The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine Turns 50

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bout a year before I signed on as the film critic here at the Ithaca Times, the Inquiring Photographer at the time asked me what my favorite movie was. I didn’t have to think very long. My favorite movie has been my favorite movie since I was six years old. Yellow Submarine is my favorite movie, and it has been my favorite movie since I was six. I’m not saying it’s the best movie, but it’s my favorite. My friends know this about me. They’ve been to my house and seen my music room, which is pretty well a shrine to Yellow Submarine stuffed with toys, posters and other assorted curios. For a few years, I showed surprise movies on my birthday, and in order to get certain people to show up, I pretty much had to promise not to show the film. (Which was fine by me; I usually have a private screening later at home.) If you’ve never seen Yellow Submarine, it’s all about this idyllic undersea community called Pepperland that celebrates art, music and love. Pepperland is attacked by the music-loathing Blue Meanies and their fellow villains, including the dreadful Flying Glove. The Lord Mayor sends Admiral Fred off in search for help in the Yellow Submarine. Fred finds the Beatles, and they have a series of adventures and sing lots of Beatles songs as they journey back to Pepperland to save the day. And now, Yellow Submarine is coming back to town in honor of its 50th anniversary for screenings at Cinemapolis from July 10-12. This movie was the first DVD I ever bought, and when I updated my home entertainment system, it was the first Blu-ray disc I ever bought. Abramorama, in conjunction with Apple Corps Ltd. and UMG, will be bringing Yellow Submarine back to Ithaca in 4K digital

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resolution, and the film’s score and songs were remixed in 5.1 stereo surround sound. Because of the delicate nature of the film’s hand-drawn artwork, no automated software was used in the digital clean-up of Yellow Submarine’s restored photochemical elements. This was all done by hand, frame by frame. Even though I watched the film the other night to refresh my memory and do some research, I can’t wait to see Yellow Submarine on the big screen again. (And I will be at Cinemapolis on July 11, introducing the 7 and 9 p.m. screenings and showing off some of my favorite toys that I’ve collected over the years.) I am an Ithaca native, and we were living on Slaterville Road when I was five and all this happened. I was in the TV room playing with my Legos when a commercial for the film came on the screen. Even watching it on a black and white screen, I had never seen such amazing, vibrant pop-art graphics before, and from that moment, that’s all I wanted. I ran into the kitchen and told my mom that we had to see this new movie Yellow Submarine right now. I checked the newspaper theater listings every day from then on. If the movie had a theatrical release in Ithaca, I missed it. A year later, it played at Alice Statler Auditorium, and my folks took me and my brother. I have never been the same since. I remember telling all my friends about the movie the next day in school, the first of many impassioned “film reviews” on the Caroline Elementary School playground. I’m so glad I grew up in the pre-streaming era. Back then, if you wanted to see a movie, you had to scour TV Guide and be vigilant, otherwise you might miss it. For a few years, WPIX played it around the holidays, and if you stayed on top of the Flick Sheet, you might see it at Cornell Cinema here or there. Video Ithaca had one VHS copy back in the day, and it was always out. Sometime in the late ‘90s, a friend of a friend gave me a tape of his laserdisc copy of the film, and finally, I could watch it any time I wanted. I’ve been collecting toys, trinkets and posters from the film pretty seriously for about 20 years. One of my favorite pieces is the Polish version of the film’s marketing campaign. Google “Polish movie posters” sometime, and you will see lots of amazing and unique images.

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I was working in record retail in 1999 when Yellow Submarine was first released on DVD. We were sent a huge in-store mobile display that the boss elected not to use, and so I carried this enormous cardboard Yellow Submarine around for years. In 2010, I met and interviewed Ron Campbell, an animator on the film, and he signed it for me, and it hangs in my music room - in a yellow frame, of course. Campbell had spent years in his native Australia directing TV animation when in 1965 producer Al Brodax hired him to direct episodes of The Beatles – the first animated series based on real people. A few years later in 1968, Brodax brought him in helm some scenes in Yellow Submarine, largely the Blue Meanie attack before the opening credits. Campbell told me that Brodax himself can be seen in the “Eleanor Rigby” sequence. One of the reasons that I love Yellow Submarine is that it’s pretty unique. Just about any film you can name, someone tried to make something like it or rip it off. Let’s face it: there aren’t a lot of psychedelic feature cartoons scored by iconic British rock bands. Yellow Submarine was so distinctive in its look – every time I see it, I see something new in the background of some shot. It’s a very verbally and visually dense picture, crammed with wordplay and punnery that mixes John Lennon’s eccentric English wit with Lewis Carroll. Because the film was produced by King Features Syndicate, you’ll see glimpses of KF characters like Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom. There are also witty visual gags in tribute to Frankenstein, King Kong and Magritte. Yellow Submarine was so unique visually that years went by before you’d see any animators even reference it, let alone imitate the film’s Andy Warhol-Peter Blake-Peter Max vibe. (For some reason, I remember a Bubblicious TV ad that had some of that flavor.) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and The Simpsons episode “Last Exit to Springfield” contain great Yellow Submarine homages, as do the Futurama feature “Bender’s Game” and a nice psychedelic sequence at the beginning of The Road to El Dorado. Looking at it again, I think I was so bowled over by the look and the sound of Yellow Submarine that I felt the same way about the plot. Looking back, the story is the most traditional aspect of the film: a town under siege looks for help. In broad outline, then, the story is as familiar as The Seven Samurai, The Magnificent Seven, Galaxy Quest and even A Bug’s Life. But as Roger Ebert once wrote, it’s not what a movie is about, but how it’s about it. If you’ve never seen Yellow Submarine, you’ll want to see how it’s about it.

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hether Nellie McKay is crooning jazz standards such as Hoagy Carmichael’s “The Nearness of You” or “In a Sentimental Mood” by Duke Ellington on her seventh release titled Sister Orchid, McKay’s ability to compose and perform music is nothing short of a tour de force. She has the rare and artful ability to add sultry tones on stage, as well as humor on the Jimmy Dore Show to Conan O’Brien. In this interview McKay talks about what she enjoys about touring, her rescue dog Bessie, and her recent record. McKay will perform at the Haunt on July 13th. Ithaca Times: Your voice makes this work special, but how do you take care of it? How have you trained and practiced to sound so good? Nellie McKay: Oh, it’s very nice of you. There is a gal, a good teacher, named Ingrid Sobolewska, she went to Curtis with Leonard Bernstein and she was wonderful. I can’t say that much rubbed off on me, but it’s wonderful being able to study under her. She had a beautiful oval portrait of Jenny Lind in her place, and that was a magically time. IT: How did Sister Orchid come about for you? NM: I suppose it’s good to have limitations, and I wanted to do a solo album, and from there we hand sorted the songs. And then eventually settled on an album of saloon songs. IT: This work is different – the songs reveal human stories – people in need or searching for something essential.What made you decide to release these songs such as “My Romance” or “LAZYBONES” now? NM: I suppose I was just inspired and it may brighten up a view. IT: Can you say how jazz music is fundamental for you? NM: Yeah, it should be anti-establishment. It should be radical. To me jazz is the voice of rebellion, of the outsider, of the counter

cultural. IT: Would you say jazz is about change? NM: Well yes, something is always happening. [McKay laughs]. You can feel that. IT: That’s true. What new projects are you working on? NM: I guess just more music. There were more songs for Sister Orchid that we recorded but didn’t release, and I don’t know if there is a way to do that. IT: What were some of the songs? NM: I’ll just say they had more of a Southern feel, and that was just a choice to what direction to go with. We had to make a choice for the album -- if we wanted a late night vibe or more of a Southern vibe, and some of those songs still made the album like ‘LAZYBONES’ and ‘Georgia.’ [And] ‘Willow Weep For Me.’ IT: Do you have a pretty busy tour schedule coming up? NM: Well this is the end of the West Coast thing, but we are busy with travel to Boston, around Washington D.C. and Virginia. I imagine we will be adding some more [dates]. IT: Can you share what makes this tour so special for you? NM: It’s a beautiful country. So it’s lovely to experience it with my dog. IT: Yes, and now tell me about Bessie – your pit bull. NM: Oh, well you know, she was a rescue – she was a throw away mom. She had babies, I suppose, and who ever had her wanted to sell them and then they just discarded her. And I took her on as a foster, which you know, is I think always a dangerous situation, because you don’t want to let them go. I would encourage anyone who is reading this to adopt – don’t shop. Because every dog breed is a shelter dog dead. There is a dog waiting in a concrete cell for you. And they are so grateful – especially when they are older. And they are just the best pals you could have. IT: Is there something more that you enjoy about being on the road? NM: I love our tolls [booths,] because they are disappearing. It’s really not good to be monitored from the sky or by machine. I don’t want to live in a cashless society. And I love that brief interaction of the human toll worker and often has a friendly smile in the night. I just think they are beautiful. I think toll booths are beautiful. IT: Would you like to say anything more about your upcoming performance in Ithaca? NM: Ithaca is lovely. It’s a treat to finally play there. Ithaca has assumed mythic proportions in my mind. I’m looking forward to seeing it.

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he Catskill Mountains form a landscape as deep with valleys as it is with folklore. Where it makes room for resorts and New York City expatriates, it is a landscape dotted with cabins and homesteads, the farms of generations who have carved out lives amongst the maples, pines, and oaks of Upstate New York. It is a landscape whose towns are scattered between the knolls, cut by the exaggerated curves of winding roads. It is a landscape exposed where it meets the Hudson River, otherwise often encased by a canopy of leaves. A landscape meshed with a history of the working class, it has served as a lifelong home to Ian and James

color gray, reverence to rust, and comfort to clutter. Think the lyrics to “Nowhere, New York,” “… if I don’t cry back / It means I’m halfway to Nowhere, New York / I see signs for Routes 23 / See the Indian moon rising yellow / O’er this fallen down Dairy Queen / Pregnant Indian ghost in the window.” It is music written to be as stark as the contrast felt in the simultaneous familiarity and loneliness of abandoned businesses and two-lane highways. “We are so explicitly of a place, and I think that’s because we’ve grown up here, we’ve lived here our whole lives, we still live here, and this is what we know,” said James Felice, who plays accordion, organ, and piano for the band and who also wears the hat of de facto spokesman. “I think that Ian’s songwriting is so good though that it transcends that and it takes on

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Felice, and a backdrop to many of their songs as the band The Felice Brothers, who will be performing at The Haunt in Ithaca on July 7. Having played in Ithaca several times in their decade-plus tenure as a band, the brothers have come to recognize the town, building a fanbase acquainted with their raucous performances and drawing in new listeners with music that sits well as a soundtrack to the Catskills and the rest of Upstate New York. The words of Ian Felice, the brother who primarily author’s the band’s lyrics, appeal to the intersecting experiences of farm and factory families, families no longer guaranteed such professions, families with long histories of addiction backed by a strong affinity to home. It is music which lends grace to the

universal qualities.” “Diamond Bell” off the band’s latest album Life in the Dark, is a folk legend presenting as a bandits’ ballad, ringing true to modern cowboys who hold onto the glory and mystery of the wild West. A reflection of the Northeast, the music of The Felice Brothers floats across the plains of the United States just as easily as it nestles itself in the forests of the Catskills. While the brothers have lived in Ulster County their whole lives, their touring has taken them across the country. From time to time, it feels like the job is glorified truck driving, stopping at just as many rest-stops, the difference being getting to play a show each night. “I’m so lucky that more than anyone I know, I’ve seen this country,” James said.

Hesitant to draw the comparison, but remarking upon the church-like nature of gas stations in a conversation reminiscent of Don DeLillo’s White Noise, and the books recurring examination of the of mysticism of the grocery store and the calming lull of consumerism in American culture, James said, “Going into a gas station after you drive for like 8 hours, walking among the aisles of candy, food, is such an awesome, colorful, psychedelic experience.” While James has not read DeLillo, it is unsurprising that Ian is a DeLillo connoisseur, many of his lyrics taking on a similar tendency to focus on the beauty of small moments and memories. Ian can undoubtedly swing a satirical verse, yet far more of his lyrics are concerned with showcasing the beauty in day to day lives, without glamorizing, fetishizing, demeaning, or turning people into caricatures, unlike DeLillo and White Noise. In this way, Ian’s lyrics are akin to those of John Prine and Randy Newman, whom James cited for their ability to humanize people who the majority may not necessarily think to humanize, if think about at all. Life in the Dark, released in June of 2016, was written prior to the election cycle’s height, but is explicitly political in its characterization of many of the trials long felt by the working class. The album carries weight throughout the United States and speaks to varying audiences, mixing his own experiences with populist sentiments. On the albums’ track “Triumph ’73,” Ian narrates a life the character feels removed from, “I’d rather be on my Triumph ’73 / Town is watching as I pass / throwing shadows on the working class / I was once like them, but now I’m flying fast,” turning later to say, “So long, Sue / Though I know not what I’ll do / Ain’t gonna join the marine corps / Ain’t gonna fight no rich man’s war / There’s too many boys gone down that way before,” denouncing the implications that the character is no longer subject to issues facing the working class, though he has the privilege to avoid such struggles. While neither James nor Ian tend to talk about politics much in interviews, James spoke on the necessity of being political when a part of the working class, saying “when the world changes, the people at the bottom, they get crushed the fastest, and you have to have a wary eye on that at all times.” When the brothers and their bandmates are not on tour, James picks up odd jobs, sometimes working construction, or sometimes writing music for other projects, as he is for a documentary right now. He sees himself as a vagabond of sorts, living out of a suitcase and moving every few months, although always within the confines of Ulster County. “The trees, I think it’s always the trees,” said James, when asked what draws him back to the Catskills and the Hudson Valley. Having the chance to leave and reset his brain with a little novelty, there’s no place James Felice would rather hang his hat, a similar feeling likely what has drawn many an Ithacan to, or back to this place like the Catskills. Working on a new album which will likely come together following this summer’s tour dates, The Felice Brothers will be trying out a few of their new tracks on July 7 at The Haunt in Ithaca. Accompanied by William Lawrence on drums and Jess Hume on bass, Ian and James Felice will take the stage following the band Twain, who will open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 general admission online and at The Haunt. Ju ly

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his past weekend, Southern Culture on the Skids (SCOTS) brought their talents to Ithaca to add to the always-diverse music scene. The veteran band was formed in Chapel HIll, NC in 1983 and are one of the hardest working bands I’ve ever encountered. Everything from their touring schedule to their impressive discography speaks for the band’s incredible work ethic. SCOTS consists of of guitarist/sing Rick Miller, drummer Dave Hartman and bassist/ singer Mary Huff. This trio brings together a very interesting combination of surf rock,

americana, rockabilly, R&B and soul with a pinch of psychedelic thrown in too. Over 30 years of heavy touring in all sorts of venues all over the world, have earned them a reputation for their hard work and dedication and it shows in their live performances. Rolling Stone once called their live performance “a hell raising rock and roll party.” If their commitment to their live music isn’t enough, they have released an astounding 14 albums and 6 EPs with only one re-release to date. Without question, they have put the time and effort necessary in perfecting their craft.

When you spend as much time as SCOTS has creating music, you’re bound to stray from the core sound you want to present as a band at times. For most artists, those songs would be tossed aside and go unused, but not for SCOTS. Rather than suppressing those songs that didn’t quite fit, they decided to lean straight into them and created a side project of sorts called The Pinecones. The Pinecones has the same member lineup as SCOTS, so it is not really a new band, as much as it is a different outlet to express their creativity in a new light. Miller describes The Pinecones as “our folk-a-billy garageband alter-ego. We loved the sound of the ‘60s west coast folk rock and psych bands.” Outside of a couple of times where SCOTS opened for themselves as The Pinecones in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, the group was only for fun during practices and some parties with friends. However, the sound the group created using this alter-ego was the starting point in creating their latest record, The Electric Pinecones. The Electric Pinecones was released in September of 2016 and is unique because of the paradigm shift it is inspired by. The 12-track album is their fifth album under their own record label, Kudzu Records. Right

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from the lead track the ‘60s west coast folk rock influence is apparent. As I listened, I couldn’t help but imagine footage from the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and think of how well their sound would have been received in that crowd. Finding fresh new music that brings that brings both a familiar epic tone yet is unique enough to stand out from other songs you have heard in the past is a rare opportunity and it’s one you shouldn’t miss out on! I’m not the only one who agrees as the album has received shining reviews from several different publications across the country, and even one from Spain, which are available on their website. Ithaca is one of the last stops on the band’s impressive tour schedule. Ithaca will be the 34th city they will have visited on their 36 city tour spanning from February to early July, with another handful of dates forming in October already. Additionally, they recently completed re-recording some old material that they had recorded under a record label in order to take back the rights to that music. This where owning your own record label becomes a huge advantage. Kudzu Ranch Records is where SCOTS does all of their recording now and is owned by their very own Rick Miller. Though many record labels will release the rights to the music that their artists have recorded with them, they don’t have to. In many record label contracts, the artists signs over the rights to their songs to the label. In cases where the label won’t give up those rights, the artist can be stuck in a situation where they can’t perform or control their own work the way they want to, which is exactly what happened to SCOTS. Even though there has been pressure from their fan base to record live versions of a handful of songs, they were not able to because the label still owned the songs. Fortunately in this situation, re-recording the works on their own record label will remedy the situation and will give them the freedom they deserve. Whether it’s through their massive discography, their touring history that has taken them all over the world or easier still, just by giving them a short listen it is quite evident that Southern Culture on the Skids has done everything in their power to perfect their sound and share it with the world.

from the sweetness of Cameron Park Miller to the tremendous range of Davina Barrett, and more – proves that Ithaca may be small, but the musical talent it holds is remarkable. There’s a lot of movement but not much actual dancing in the show; Steinhagen calls it “choreographically informed moments.” The costumes, too, are on the simple side, just enough to tell the story, and coordinated by the student team of Mallory (studying musical theatre and directing at Marymount Manhattan) and company member Alana Craib. “Songs for a New World” runs over two weekends, July 5-14, Wednesday through Saturday at 7 PM, Saturdays and Sunday at 2 PM. Tickets are $15 general admission; students and seniors $12, available online at www.runningtoplaces.org.

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thaca youth rocked the community recently by demanding changes in the theatre program at Ithaca High School; now they’ve taken an old musical theatre hit and given it a contemporary political voice. Running to Places’ “Songs for a New World” at the Kitchen Theatre could easily be renamed “Songs for Our Time.” Because each song in the show is its own story, untethered to any other except in its thematic elements, R2P had free rein in its interpretations. According to Caitlin Mallory, who co-directs the show with R2P artistic director Joey Steinhagen, the show has a number of themes, including race, gender and violence in America, as well as moments of decision. Some of the themes developed out of rehearsals and what the cast members brought to their performances; some of the choices were intentional by the directors. “Being a woman of color in theatre can be lonely,” said Mallory, “so it’s nice to get to tell stories that are related to our lives.” The title song promises “a new world” full of hope, but reality quickly intrudes. There is plenty of humor – Zoe Klausner’s comic timing for Mrs. Claus is spot on – but these are comedic aspects with a dark overtone, as Mae Simon put it. Mrs. Claus isn’t getting her needs met; Simon’s character “is a privileged white woman with no emotional wealth or health. This is a show that makes you think,” said Simon. Maddi Carroll’s “King of the World” isn’t an ambiguous song about a metaphorical prison, as it’s often interpreted: it’s a condemnation of the disproportionate incarceration of African Americans in this country, an issue Carroll cares deeply about. Coupled with the power of Carroll’s voice, this song goes right to your heart. But it is Aspen Earls’ “Christmas Lullaby” that will most challenge the audience to think in broader ways about our current world. The song is about a woman expecting a child; in R2P’s interpretation, the singer is a trans woman awaiting her adoptee. As a trans woman, Earls says she can relate. “It’s the struggle trans women face: are you woman enough to be a mother? In this number, we’re making a solid statement that you can do this and my character did do it.” (Earls was last seen on an R2P stage playing the burly, testosteronedriven Lewis in “Pippin,” proving both Earls’ versatility as an actor and what Earls calls R2P’s “incredibly welcoming space.”) The song styles span the gamut, from gospel to jazz to ballad. The composer, Jason Robert Brown, “is best at writing real full human characters: no heroes, no villains,” said Jeremy Pletter, resident music director. “The characters change their minds and make mistakes.” Because the songs are stand-alone, R2P was able to cast each individual song to the actor and what they’re best at. The range of voices

– from the bass resonance of Howard Kraskow to the earnest passion of Rachel O’Brien,

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Bear Tread w/ Space Carnival | 7:00 PM, | La Tourelle , Ithaca | $12

marsjazzproject live! | 12:00 PM, | Bernie Milton Pavilion, Ithaca

East Side Park Summer Concerts | 7:00 PM, | East Side Park, Norwich | Victor Wainwright and The Train

Rosie Newton, Paul Martin, Rich & Jason Koski | 5:00 PM, | Red Newt Cellars Inc, Hector

7/6 Friday Busy Bird Bluegrass Festival | All

Erin and the Backwoods Blues Project | 6:00 PM, | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville

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Garden Concert Series:Dave Richman & the Poorboys | 6:00 PM, | Treleaven Wines, King Ferry

Bars/Bands/Clubs

7/4 Wednesday

Louiston | 6:00 PM, | Ten Forward Cafe, Ithaca

Djug Django | 6:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca

Throw Down Cold | 6:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

All Strung Out | 7:00 PM, | Stonecat Cafe, Hector

Virgil Cain | 6:00 PM, | The Boat Yard Grill, Ithaca

Open Mic with Marty Flynn and his Good Time Band | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing

Radio London | 7:00 PM, | Cornell Arts Quad , Sam & Mandy (from Noon Fifteen) | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

Concerts In the Park: The Kirby Band & Fireworks | 7:30 PM, | Hickories Park, Owego

All Strung Out | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca

Ire Clad, Diluted, Dramascream, The Dredneks | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $8

Reggae Night w/ the Crucial Reggae Social Club & DJ Mike Judah | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5

7/7 Saturday

7/5 Thursday Busy Bird Bluegrass Festival | All Day | 231 Ketchumville Rd, Berkshire | Featuring Lonesome River Band, Dave Adkins Band w/special guest, Carolina Blue, Blue Mafia, 7 Mile Bluegrass, Grillbillie Project, Wilson Banjo Co., Mama Corn, Slewfoot, Jersey Corn Pickers, Melanie & the Boys, Molly and the Badly Bent Boys, Gospel Way, Terry and the Busybirds along with host bands Bug Tussle and Matthews Family Tradition. CFCU Summer Concert Series: Viva Mayhem | 6:00 PM, | Bernie Milton Pavilion, Ithaca David Graybeard | 6:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

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Hilltoppers | 6:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca Myers Park Summer Concert Series : Backtalk | 6:30 PM, | Myers Park, Lansing

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Day | 231 Ketchumville Rd, Berkshire The 27th Annual Great Blue Heron Music Festival | All Day | The Heron Farm and Event Center, Sherman

4th Annual Kings of Summer | 1:00 PM, | Treleaven Wines, King Ferry | Take in the sounds of the local area’s most prominent rock & roll, country and funk musicians. The Diana Jacobs Band, Custom Taylor Band, and the headliner, Brass Inc. |$5 Live Music Featuring Brad and Anna! | 1:30 PM, | Buttonwood Grove Winery, Romulus

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5th Annual Reds, Whites, & Blues Fest | 3:00 PM, | Barnstormer Winery, Rock Stream | $10 parking

Sons of a Beach: Jimmy Buffett Tribute | 1:00 PM, | Starkeys Lookout Winery, Dundee

Monday Night Blues w/ Brett Beardslee | 5:00 PM, | Rasta Ranch Vineyards, Valois

Ithaca Concert Band | 7:00 PM, 7/5 Thursday | DeWitt Park, Cayuga St., | Downtown Ithaca Summer Concert

Doolin O’Dey | 2:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca

Canaan Jam Session | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale Open Mic hosted by Benny T | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing

Keith Urban | 7:30 PM, 7/8 Sunday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | | $35-$106

Open Mic | 8:30 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

Ithaca Concert Band | 7:00 PM, 7/10 Tuesday | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca |

Devinne Meyers | 4:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM, | Mix Kitchen and Bar, Ithaca Radio London | 4:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken Andy Knapp & Dan Scherer | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca Travis Knapp Album Release Show | 7:00 PM, | Foundation of Light, Ithaca | $5-$15 Bound for Glory: Pierce Pettis | 8:00 PM, | Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca Funky Dawgz Brass Band + NEO Project | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $8-10 Open Mic | 9:00 PM, | The Nines, Ithaca

7/10 Tuesday Tuesday Bluesday with Danny P & friends | 6:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca Irish Session with members of Traonach | 7:00 PM, | Argos Inn, Ithaca The Jeremy Kittel Trio | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale | $20 Eloise & Co. | 7:30 PM, | RhodesRawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, Ithaca I-Town Jazz Jam w/ Prof. Greg Evans | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca Open Mic | 9:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca

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Backyard BBQ with Tony Trischka, Richie & Rosie, The Crooked North, & Honey Cave | 2:00 PM, | La Tourelle, Ithaca | $15

Ray LaMontagne w/ Neko Case | 7:00 PM, 7/4 Wednesday | Brewery Ommegang, 656 County Highway 33, Cooperstown |

Tedeschi Trucks Band | 7:00 PM, 7/10 Tuesday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | $20-$125 DJ/Dance/Trivia QuizBowl Trivia Showdown | 7:30 PM, 7/4 Wednesday | Atlas Bowl, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Think you’re the sharpest knife in the drawer or the brightest light in the harbor? We’ll see about that. Join us every Wednesday for T-burg’s trivia throwdown. Salsa Dance Night | 10:00 PM, 7/4 Wednesday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Includes free dance lesson from 10-10:30 | $5 The Vinyl Showcase | 7:00 PM, 7/5 Thursday | Atlas Bowl, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Each week a new local DJ, collector or vinyl enthusiast spins

Stage Chicago | Shows all week. Contact theatre for showtimes. |Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | In 1920s Chicago, there arenít many paths to fame for women. But as Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart discover, murder is one of them. Based on the true stories of the ìmerry murderesses of death row,î these two vamps compete with each other to become the nationís sweetheart, prove their innocence, and prove that corruption never goes out of fashion. Saturday Night Fever - The Musical | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Based on the iconic movie, featuring the Grammy Award winning songs by the Bee Gees! Shows all week, contact theater for times. The Calamari Sisters in Beat Until Stiff | 2:00 PM, 7/5 Thursday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Additional shows: 7/5 at 8pm; 7/6 2pm & 8pm, 7/7 8pm | $35-$38 Fast Blood | 6:00 PM, 7/5 Thursday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 402 Chestnut Street, Ithaca | In the antebellum South, Effie and her mate Ham, slaves on a tobacco plantation, stumble across the body of a mysterious stranger whoís been

lynched but is still alive. Their connection to the hanged man begins a journey into their past and a trek from vengeance to justice; darkness into light. Thur-Sat shows at 6pm, Sundays at 4pm. | $20 ComedyFLOPs Presents All You Can Eat Improv to Benefit Scleroderma Foundation Tri-State Chapter | 7:00 PM, 7/5 Thursday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | ComedyFLOP’s mission is to provide high-quality, affordable and inclusive comedy to Ithaca that serves the community through entertainment, education and philanthropy. Show donations are allocated to both ComedyFLOP’s operational needs and local charities. | $5 suggested donation R2P presents Songs for a New World | 7:00 PM, 7/5 Thursday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Opens 7/5: Wednesdays thru Saturdays @ 7PM; Saturdays& Sundays @ 2PM. | $12-$15 Anne of Green Gables | Contact theater for showtimes. | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Loved by generations and perfect for all ages, this world-renowned novel by Lucy M. Montgomery will be rediscovered in this modern, bold production with contemporary choreography, ensemble story-telling and a score that blends folk-rock, pop, gospel, and musical theater.| $58-$60 The Stupendous Circus Swindle | 7:00 PM, 7/6 Friday | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | Hilarious Interactive Musical Melodrama! Shows thru 7/14 Fri&Sat at 7pm; Sun at 2pm Cirque Us presents - StarStruck: A Cosmic Circus | 1:00 PM, 7/7 Saturday | Circus Culture, 116 W Green Street, Ithaca | Currently entering its third season, Cirque Us is an up and coming circus collective gaining national attention. The show features professional level circus artists. | $15 General Admission, $20 at the door

Art The World Bewitchíd: Visions of Witchcraft from the Cornell Collections | All Day 7/6 Friday | Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | Features rare and unique books and documents and examines themes such

Bernie Milton Pavilion on the Commons | Why not try a little ska to get your weekend off to a great start? Viva Mayhem! is a local eight-piece post-wave ska band. They boast a stellar female lead, a rockin’ rhythm section and a tight hornline. Together, their sound is raw and original. Come see for yourself and find out if your feet can stay still while listening.

Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | The fantastic KIDDSTUFF series continue this weekend with a brand-new play. A young group of friends make a pact to brave all hours of the night, against all odds, in the dangerous landscape of…their own backyard! Through interactive storytelling, you’ll be on the edge of your seat – and maybe even part of the action – as they creatively quest their way toward dawn.

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as gendered stereotypes, belief in night flying, shapeshifting, demonic pacts, and the witch epidemics that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands. Still Life Images Within The Landscape | 11:00 AM, 7/6 Friday | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | Artist Brian Keeler presents his still life images in landscape context work at this exhibit. Greater Ithaca Arts Trail Open Studio July 7th, 11am to 4pm.† First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM, 7/6 Friday | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Downtown Ithaca explodes with talent in different shops, restaurants and hotels. Nearly 20 businesses downtown become the home to different local artists, and sometimes global. Inner Life///Outer Action: Seeds of Incarnation | 5:00 PM, 7/6 Friday | Grayhaven Motel, 657 Elmira Road, Ithaca | Inspired by nature, faith, spirituality, and the mystical overlap of all three, this exhibit explores the interface, occurring within all living things, between seen and unseen...the tangible and the abstract. It stands as a sign post, at the intersection of inner life and outer action, to incite wonder at the potential held within even the smallest thing. Featuring the art of Joshua Swartwood. Movie to follow. Spirit, Dreams, Invention | 5:00 PM, 7/6 Friday | 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. Opening reception Friday, July 6 from 5-8pm. Hours: Wed.-Fri., 12-6pm and Sat. & Sun., 12-5pm. Info: 607-277-1626 and www.soagithaca.org Wingbeats | 5:00 PM, 7/6 Friday | Center Ithaca, Ithaca Commons, Ithaca | The July show at CAP in Center Ithaca will focus on Florida birds in a collaboration of photography and Watercolor/Pastel paintings by Paula Bensadoun. July Gallery Night at TCPL | 6:00 PM, 7/6 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | The featured exhibits and activities are: Still I Rise, Dance Installation: Something Happened, Recognizing Women’s Right to Vote in New York State, Hat Collection, Pop Up Open Art Hive.

Something Happened: A Dance | 6:30 PM, 7/6 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A dance installation piece performed by six local dancers. Featuring choreographer Karen Koyanagi, Jeanne Goddard, Janice Kovar, Stephen Nunley, Amy Bush, and Shayna Grajo. Family friendly. Still Life Images Within The Landscape | 11:00 AM, 7/7 Saturday | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | Artist Brian Keeler presents his still life images in landscape context work at this exhibit. Greater Ithaca Arts Trail Open Studio July 7th, 11am to 4pm.† Laura Katz Opening | 3:00 PM, 7/7 Saturday | The Widget Factory, 220 Cherry St., Ithaca | A pop-up exhibition by the artist. Reflexion | Printmakers of Atelier de gravure de la Villedieu | ongoing | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Featuring work from a community studio located outside of Paris, exhibiting the work by great contemporary French and International printmakers.

Special Events Candor 4th of July Parade, BBQ & Carnival | 10:00 AM, 7/4 Wednesday | Theme: Summer Past Times 4th of July Cruise | 8:00 PM, 7/4 Wednesday | Discover Cayuga Lake, Robert H. Treman Marina, Ithaca | Join us aboard the MV Teal for a beautiful sunset cruise. The Teal will offer the best view of flares and fireworks from cottages and communities lining the shores of Cayuga. We will provide a selection of locally sourced finger foods and non-alcoholic beverages. All are welcome to bring beverages and additional treats of their choice. | $45-50 Candor Kiddie Parade & Carnival | 6:00 PM, 7/5 Thursday | Theme: Favorite Sport or Activity. Parade will start at HS and walk to Ball Field. Carnival 6-11pm, DJ: David Hurd, Drawing for Bicycle at 7pm, Zoo mobile: 6 to 8pm Downtown Ithaca Architectural Walking Tour | 4:00 PM, 7/6 Friday | See how preservationists and developers have worked together to save these key components of Ithacaís past.

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Meet at the trolley circle near Center Ithaca on The Commons. Birding and Boating on Cayuga Lake | 6:00 PM, 7/6 Friday | Montezuma Audubon Center, 2295 Rte 89, Savannah | Explore the birds and other wildlife and their habitats at the north end of Cayuga Lake. Pre-paid reservations required Candor Carnival w/ Fireworks | 6:00 PM, 7/6 Friday | DJ: David Hurd PK, Tim Worden’s Band at 7pm at Softball field across the street. Fireworks: at dusk (rain date: Saturday, July7th). Sterling Renaissance Festival | All Day| Sterling Renaissance Festival, 15385 Fraden Rd, Sterling | Each weekend through 8/19. The 11th Annual Elmira Street Painting Festival | Friday, 7/6 thru Sunday, 7/8 |Downtown Elmira, | Stroll through the historic downtown while art takes place on the ground- and all around. Marvel at the dozens of masterpieces evolving right before your eyes as artists take to the streets with chalk in hand. Browse regional crafts and artwork of numerous vendors. Step into a pop-up gallery, move to the rhythm of live music, experience all that the festival has to offer. Come for the day- or make it a weekend! Garden Conservancy Open Days Program Tour - Ithaca Area | 10:00 AM, 7/7 Saturday | Lion Garden, 219 Lansing Station Road, Lansing | Explore four private gardens in Freeville, Ithaca, Lansing, and Spencer, open for self-guided tours to benefit the Garden Conservancy and the Tompkins County Community Beautification Program. No reservations required; rain or shine.† See www.opendaysprogram.org or call weekdays, 1-888842-2442. | $7 per garden; children 12 & under free Garden Tours- Cornell Botanic Gardens | 11:00 AM, 7/7 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 diversity of our cultivated plant collections. Each tour will be a unique experience, as we observe the gardensí progression throughout the growing season. Tours are offered every Saturday at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. | $5 suggested donation Downtown Ithaca Food Tour | 11:30 AM, 7/7 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†607272-4830. | $57 Candor Open Car Show & Carnival | 4:00 PM, 7/7 Saturday | Candor American Legion, 90 Spencer Ave, Candor | No rain date: if it rains ñno show. Carnival: 6-11pm, DJ: David Hurd, Bendher Band 7pm at softball field across the street.

Books Skaneateles Summer Book Sale | All Day 7/5 Thursday thru Sunday | Skaneateles Village Hall, 26 Fennell Street, Skaneateles | This popular annual event offers tens of thousands of used books at bargain prices, including adult fiction, biography, history, art, music and other non-fiction, along with a wide variety of books for children and young adults. Used DVDs, music CDs, audio books and puzzles are also for sale. For more information visit: SkaneatelesLibrary.org. Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM, 7/5 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. Talk on Women Suffrage | 6:00 PM, 7/6 Friday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Karen Pastorello will discuss how women in New York State struggled for over 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. Author Daniel Kirk | 7:00 PM, 7/10 Tuesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Author of Library Mouse.

Lehman Alternative Community School, 402 Chestnut St., Ithaca |Fast Blood is the first of two plays featured as part of Civic Ensemble’s new play festival called “Civic Acts: New Plays Toward The Beloved Community.” Featuring new political plays by renowned playwrights whose work centers on women and people of color, these plays deal with the challenges our communities face in moving society toward what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called The Beloved Community. Ithac a T imes

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Kids The Amazing Tale of the Backyard Overnight | 10:00 AM & Noon, Thursday thru Saturday| Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |A young group of friends make a pact to brave all hours of the night, against all odds, in the dangerous landscape ofÖtheir own backyard! Through interactive storytelling, youíll be on the edge of your seat ñ and maybe even part of the action ñ as they creatively quest their way toward dawn. Circus Culture Workshop for Kids | 12:00 PM, 7/5 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | During this free program, Circus Culture instructors will teach children and families of all ages and experience levels how to juggle, walk on a tight wire, perform basic acrobatics, and more. Game On! | 3:00 PM, 7/5 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | At this weekly dropin 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, 7/5 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. Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 7/6 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and babies up to 24 months embrace early literacy through books, music, movement and rhyming. This storytime is followed by an hour-long ìBaby & Toddler Playtimeî at 11:00 AM. Comic Creation Workshop Series for Teens | 4:15 PM, 7/6 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, 7/7 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. Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM, 7/9 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. Nate and Kate’s Kids Show | 11:00 AM, 7/9 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A fun-filled musical show best suited for children ages 8 and under. Summer Art Fun with Stiller Zusman | 1:30 PM, 7/9 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children aged 3 to 6, along with their caregivers, are invited to celebrate summer and create masterpieces at this drop-in program. Stop by any Monday to join the fun! Cortland County Jr. Fair | All Day 7/10 Tuesday | Cortland County Fairgrounds, 4849 Fairground Ave, | Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 7/10 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun. There is a different theme each week. Stories in the Park | 11:30 AM, 7/10 Tuesday | DeWitt Park, Cayuga St., | Children and families meet at Dewitt Park for stories, music and family fun. Miss Judy’s Musical Adventure | 4:30 PM, 7/10 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Judy Stock uses the banjo, guitar, spoons, and many more instruments to bring music to children, from newborns to 5 years of age.† Children will sing with Judy and meet Jerry the beaver and Ellie the elephant.

Civic Meetings Newfield Schools Board of Education | 6:30 PM, 7/5 Thursday | Weaver Room, 2nd Floor in Newfield Elementary School Building, Main St. Ithaca Town Council | 5:30 PM, 7/9 Monday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | Includes a privilege of the floor interval where the public may speak.

LAURA KATZ – POP-UP EXHIBIT SATURDAY, JULY 7 3:00-5:00PM

The Widget Factory, 220 Cherry St., Ithaca | Don’t miss a rare opportunity to see Ms. Katz’s work. Katz is a Cornell grad who has made her career designing wallpapers and textiles for Home Furnishings. She has now added Fine Art painting in oil and mixedmedia that generally includes fragments of both original and vintage wallpaper and is predominantly Abstract. As she says, “I have finally learned to color outside the lines … in my art as well as in life, it’s all about letting go.”

Dryden Schools Board of Education | 7:00 PM, 7/9 Monday | Dryden Middle/High School, 118 Freeville Rd., Dryden | Meets in the Middle School Library. Spencer Town Board Meeting | 7:00 PM, 7/9 Monday | Spencer Municipal Building, 79 E. Tioga St., Spencer | † ICSD BOE Monthly Discussion and Voting Meeting - | 6:00 PM, 7/10 Tuesday | ICSD Administration Building, 400 Lake St., Ithaca | Meetings held in Board room. Candor Village Board of Trustees | 7:00 PM, 7/10 Tuesday | 138 Main Street, Candor Ulysses Town Council | 7:00 PM, 7/10 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). Groton Town Board Meeting | 7:30 PM, 7/10 Tuesday | Candor Town Council | 7:00 PM, 7/10 Tuesday | Meets at the town hall, 101

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 Square Dance and Other Dancing | 2:00 PM, 7/6 Friday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Everyone Welcome (members and non-members). No experience or partner needed. For more information call 273-1511 Saturday Sweat Yoga | 9:00 AM, 7/7 Saturday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Start your weekend off with our intermediate vinyasa flow yoga class. Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM, 7/8 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, 7/8

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Notices Candor Farmer’s Market | 3:30 PM, 7/5 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Rd, Candor | Fresh local garden produce, cheeses, meats, eggs, baked goods, handcrafts and more Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 7/5 Thursday | The Glenwood Pines, 1213 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Host: Lynne D., RSVP: lpd4@cornell.edu Enfield Community Yard Sale | 8:30 AM, 7/7 Saturday | Get your map of all the garage sales in Enfield at the barn at 190 Halseyville Rd., Ithaca. Baby paraphernalia, baby clothes, crackle glass, household items, German beer steins, rattan furniture, antiques and power tools and much more. Sponsored by the Enfield Community Council. Bake, Book and “This & That” Sale | 9:00 AM, 7/7 Saturday | Lodi Historical Society Building, Main Street, Lodi | Part of Lodi Festival Day. Chicken BBQ from 11AM until gone. Babysitter Training Course | 10:00 AM, 7/7 Saturday | Seneca Falls

TAUGHANNOCK FALLS STATE PARK SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: IRON HORSE Saturday, July 7 at 7PM | Taughannock Falls State Park, Rte. 89, Trumansburg | The favorite summertime concert series kicks off with Iron Horse, a regional band that plays authentic southern rock and Texas blues. Their set will be followed by fireworks over the lake.

Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | This 5 hour course will teach kids (ages 11 and older) the basics of child care and the responsibilities of a babysitter.† Certificates will be given to those completing the course.† Space is limited.† Preregistration is required by calling the Seneca Falls Library at (315) 568-8265 x2. Saddle Up for Jesus Horse Riding Club | 7:00 PM, 7/7 Saturday | Brooktondale Baptist Church, 2311 Slaterville Road, Ithaca | A Christian, family-oriented riding club. We have club meetings, trail rides, horsemanship clinics for a variety of disciplines, cowboy devotionals and youth programs. Contact Lawrence Canfield at 607-539-6440. Fall Creek Garden Tour | 11:00 AM, 7/8 Sunday | Join us for a self-guided walking tour of beautiful gardens, landscaping, and yards in Fall Creek. Visitors will not only see enticing, well-tended front yards but also the

hidden delights of private backyards. Begin the tour at Thompson Park. Start and stop whenever you’d like, chat with gardeners along the way. Rain or shine. Open to all! Knitters and Crocheters | 3:00 PM, 7/8 Sunday | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Come meet other fiber artists and share skills with one another. Mah Jongg and Classic Games | 1:00 PM, 7/9 Monday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Brooktondale Farmers Market | 4:00 PM, 7/10 Tuesday | Brooktondale Community Center, 522 Valley Road, Brooktondale |

Health Ithaca Bipolar Support Group Meeting | 7:00 PM, 7/10 Tuesday |

Lifelong, 119 West Court St., Ithaca | The group is peer-run without supervision by any medical expert. We share knowledge and experience in an attempt to help each other deal with the issues of bipolar disorder including medications, life management, therapy and anything else that might help us to live more successfully. Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, 7/5 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. 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 control. Classes held in Ithaca and T-burg. Contact Lifelong for times and locations.

FALL CREEK GARDEN TOUR SUNDAY, 7/8 AT 11AM

Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM, 7/9 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 ó compulsive overeating, under-eating, food addiction, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, or overexercising ó we have a solution. No dues, fees, weigh-ins. Chair Yoga | 11:45 AM, 7/10 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!

Meet at Thompson Park, Corner of Cayuga and Cascadilla Creek, Ithaca| Enjoy a self-guided walking tour of beautiful gardens, landscaping, and yards in Fall Creek. Visitors will not only see enticing, well-tended front yards but also the hidden delights of private backyards. Start and stop whenever you’d like, chat with gardeners along the way. Rain or shine. Open to all!

Circus Culture, 116 W. Green St., Ithaca | Based in New England, the Cirque Us Team is composed of artists from all over the country. Their mission is to bring highlevel, affordable circus performances to local communities and share their values of teamwork, the importance of play, and a reminder to not take ourselves too seriously. Come see their brand-new show inspired by all that exists as we gaze into the night sky. Ju ly

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S.A.I.L. Into Fitness | Various locations | Classes focus on stretching, flexibility, balance, low-impact aerobics, strength training, and deep breathing exercises. Personal progress is measured through comparison of level of achievement in three simple exercises over time. Classes held in T-burg, Brooktondale and Ithaca. Contact Lifelong for days and times. Tai Chi | Varying Locations, | Using precise, fluid movement, dissolve tension, increase your strength, cardiovascular fitness, and overall sense of wholeness. Classes held in Brooktondale and Lansing. Contact Lifelong for days and times. Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 7/5 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net Yoga Farm presents BLISS NIGHT: A Community Healing Event | 7:00 PM, 7/5 Thursday | Yoga Farm, 404

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 or guided meditation. Beginners are welcome and instruction in basic meditation will be provided.

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