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ew York State officials outlined a final remedy for the Ithaca Gun Factory site adjacent to Ithaca Falls, probably the most notoriously polluted remnant of the city’s bygone industrial era. Last week’s information session was held with about a month left for public comment on the decont a m i nat ion proposa l, which would include a No Further Action order pertaining to the Ithaca Falls Overlook portion of the site. Ithaca Gun Factory was torn down after its final closing in 1986, but left behind a toxic mix of chemicals, carcinogens and most notably lead, that has since been one of the primary environmental headaches the city has had to grapple with. The DEC has already conducted two Interim Remedial Measures (IRMs) consisting of the removal of contaminated soil to Soil Cleanup Objectives (SCOs) levels, making the Overlook property safe for future use in the DEC’s opinion. The new proposal includes institutional controls which will regulate the site’s uses to minimize risky behavior that could incur harm from any remaining pollution, including a groundwater use restriction and land use restriction, in addition to regularly scheduled site reviews and an operation and maintenance plan. Engineering controls, which take the form of physical barriers to contain the contamination, include the soil cover system that was already trucked in several years ago. Further engineering controls have not yet been specified by the DEC. Gary Priscott, of the DEC, said a No Further Action order wouldn’t necessarily preclude the department from confronting any harmful levels of lead or other contaminants that are detected in the future, but that the research they have conducted shows the soil in the Overlook site is currently meeting the desired SCOs. continued on page 4

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ast month was an especially exciting time for the staff of the Paleontological Research Institute. Its Museum of the Earth received a collection of fossils and artwork of a fearsome species of shark – now extinct – with saw blade-style choppers. Its Nature Center, further up Cayuga Lake, was undergoing construction to accommodate a more extensive summer camp than ever before, a means to free up its main building for a larger audience. And, af ter much effort, its researchers were set to release its “Teacher-Friendly Guide To Climate Change,” a “For Dummies”-style tome intend-

Robert M. Ross, Ingrid H.H. Zabel and Alex Moore in front of a glacial model at the Museum Of The Earth last week.. (Photo: Nick Reynolds)

ed to guide educators through mate, putting materials in the the contentious science of a hands of educators to allow topic – however fact-based them to more effectively teach and accepted – that still proves chi ldren t he ver y scope of divisive on the political front. mankind’s inf luence on the A template for comprehensive heating of the earth. The book discussion of the science of even included a guide addressour warming planet, the book ing the cognitive and social was to fill a noticeably-vacant aspects of climate change eduniche in the cation, covmarket, one ering every“They would say where t here t hing f rom something with one how to think isn’t a lot of piece of the data great, jargonthrough one’s free literature own biases to where, if you saw ava i lable to counteractthe whole dataset, help teachers ing political it would tell a evaluate the and scientific intricate sci- completely different manipulaence and data tion that can story.” needed to o c c u r f rom fully explain only a basethe complexities of climate level understanding of climate change. It was to be the Insti- science. tute’s own contribution to the fight against a changing cliContin u ed on page 11

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“Usually we enjoy a few adult beverages on the back porch.” — Gigi Dugo

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he Learning Web’s Dale Schu macher loves his job. He’s the first face you see smiling from a sunlit-office off the front parlor of the converted old home (the headquarters he led the acquisition of in 2015), enthusiastic behind a massive desk as he walks you through everything the group’s been up to. For the past dozen years, Schumacher’s been the face of this organization, an apprenticeship-based youth services provider which began at Cornell more than 40 years ago. For someone to helm an organization with such a rigid commitment, Schumacher is the ideal spokesman. “The web is very much as it always has been,” Schumacher said. “As we review different funding sources, we won’t apply for a grant if it changes our mission in any way. That’s how strongly we feel about it.” But, after a dozen years in what he calls his “second career” and the cultivation of the largest organizational growth in the program’s history, Schumacher is hanging it up, leaving the organization in a much more inf luential place than it was when he stepped into the role of October 2005. Since the Learning Web’s start on Cornell’s campus in 1972, its mission has remained constant: to give local children of all walks – from the homeless to the privileged – a chance at success through a mentor28 –Jul y

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apprentice model of teaching, sponsoring their growth and maturation in ways others could not. Sometimes, this manifests itself as something as simple as connecting a kid with an internship opportunity. Other times, it’s paying someone’s rent on the condition they work to get their lives on track, walking with them all the way to ensure they don’t stray from the path. “For the last ten or 15 years in this country, the word ‘mentor’ has been huge,” Schumacher said. “You hear it all the time in Washington: ‘become a mentor!’ ‘Mentor youth!’ And there are a lot of mentor programs. But very few that do mentorship the way we do it.” Where the Learning Web is known for its Youth Exploration Program – a series for regular kids, at home, living with their families, working to build a sense of self-worth and prepare them for the world – it’s homeless youth the organization often deals with (more than 360 clients countywide last year), a group of which many don’t have anyone to raise them or acclimate them to life as we know it: they may lack social skills, may have a difficult time maintaining relationships or respecting other people’s property. Some may even lack simple habits, like cleaning or other domestic tasks. “We weren’t born knowing

how to do those things,” Schumacher said. “We were taught… these young people haven’t had that. We aren’t their parent, but they take a lot of attention and a lot of time. We don’t just sign a lease and pay a bill.” In the time they have them, the organization helps kids stay off drugs and alcohol too and, if they do, emphasize harm reduction. The past few years has seen drastic changes in society and in the perils facing youth; particularly the heroin epidemic. Each year since 2004, the Learning Web has compiled a survey of the issues facing Tompkins County’s homeless youth. In the last survey – conducted in 2015 – it was evident that while some issues had improved since the mid-2000s, rehab involvement and use of harder drugs has become even more prevalent, adding only another dimension to the work the Learning Web does. And the youth, Schumacher said, have always had a voice in that. There have been challenges. Largely funded by public funding and grants, they’ve actually reduced in staffing size as purse strings have been drawn tighter. At times, the 15 apartments it rents for homeless youth each year have been cut from the budget due to lack of funding. “We have to be creative to find ways to get that,” Schumachcontinued on page 5

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At this point, Priscott said, the proposed site management plan should be able to effectively handle foreseeable challenges. Either way, Priscott and the DEC’s fact sheet stated the public comments received about the order will be considered before the Record of Decision is released. The most vocal critic of the proposal was local environmental activist Walter Hang, the president of Toxics Targeting who led the initial charge to clean up the site in 2000 after discovering the contamination. After millions of federal and state clean-up dollars, years of delays and several different clean-up initiatives, Hang once again made waves in 2015 by releasing EPA documents that still declared Ithaca Falls an “imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and welfare,” according to a 2015 article in the Ithaca Journal. He urged Priscott to withdraw the No Further Action order, saying there is too much left to be done to allow complacency with what’s been accomplished so far. Hang’s comments at the meeting came just hours after he was standing at the base of Ithaca Falls, berating the job done by the DEC and the City of Ithaca to properly rid the Ithaca Gun site of lead materials entirely at one time, allowing residual lead to recontaminate parts of the area that had already been cleaned. For emphasis, Hang collected a jar of spent shotgun shells that had been dumped by the gun manufacturer near the site throughout the years to show the shoddiness of the clean-up process so far. Hang said he would now be renewing a written request for help from the Environmental Protection Agency, particularly in light of new criteria for the agency’s Hazard Rankings which now include Soil Vapor Intrusions, a problem often associated with the gun factory site. Alderperson Cynthia Brock also attended as a member of the public, and expressed frustration at the stagnation of the clean up after so much time, especially, she said, since the problems have seemed so widely acknowledged. The public comment period will be open until July 17. No more public meetings have been announced, and anyone wanting to voice their opinion can contact the DEC. –Matt Butler

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at the former Emerson Power Transmission plant site. For Lubin, the prime location does not only make good business sense; There’s also a personal connection. His father Harold, for whom the apartment building is named, owned the storefront that now holds the Movie Poster Store and operated a clothing store there called Harold ’s Army Nav y. T he you nger Lubi n closed down the company’s 16 locations in the late 1990s, with his L Enterprises development company then becoming his primary focus. Harold’s Square was originally approved to move ahead in 2013, and Lubin had planned to have construction finished by the time the Ithaca Commons’ makeover was finished in 2015. But the project was beset by uncertainty after it failed to entice enough office The facades of buildings soon to be torn down for Herald’s Square. The red front used to tenants to sign on. After the be a Harold’s Army-Navy Store. (Casey Martin) plan underwent minor he name David Lubin f o r a n e w changes last i s n’t e x a c t l y w i d e l y apartment mont h to known around Ithaca complex was e n s u re it s yet, more known for what he imminent financial wants to do, rather than has by the end of viability, it done. the month. look s as if Very soon, it will be. Helmed demolition His ma rk on dow ntow n b y L u b i n , and subseIthaca remains illusionary at t h a t n e w quent conthis point, for now signaled apartment struction only by the seemingly immor- project will finally ta l “BU ILDI NG DEMOLI- called Harbegin on David Lubin TION SALE” signs that blot old’s Square t he 10 4 the front windows of the Movie was a long unit apartment, mixed-use Poster Store on the Commons time coming. The Elmirabuilding in conjunction with – one-time pop-up shop that based developer had bought McGuire Development Group never left – that for months has several properties at the start from Buffalo. The process is occupied the first floor of the of the decade – though he’d expected to take around 18 building he owns. had his eye on it since the 1970s months to finish. T ho s e s i g n s h ave b e e n – with aspirations of building But the long approval proaround long enough to invite tall, his first foray into residencess, and the changes he has understandable but untrue tial development in Ithaca after had to make to the project’s speculation that they were a a real estate career developplan never deterred Lubin to clever bit of deception to drum ing hotels and retail centers the point of selling the propup business. In reality, they were in other parts of the Southern erty and walking away. That’s posted when the store’s owners Tier and northern Pennsyljust part of the process, he said, thought they were necessary vania. Lubin is also currently and one of the natural draw– in October, when it looked involved in the Chainworks as if the building’s demolition District redevelopment project continued on page 13

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er said, a mentality that once inspired him to appeal to nowPresident Donald Trump for fiscal help (mind you, this was years ago when The Apprentice was still popular) hoping to entice him into seeing what “real” apprenticeship looked like. “Didn’t even hear back,” he laughed.

But, with a smile, he said he knows their services will always be needed: Kids are a lways going to need to have certain services and opportunities to best transition into adulthood, he said, that they will always need skills to be able to get jobs and be successful. That doesn’t change. All they need to do is let people know they are there. “When I first came to Learning Web, I was told that we more

or less f loat under the radar,” Schumacher said, “ because if we’re too well-known, we wouldn’t be able to meet the demand of all the kids who’d want to sign up. My attitude is we’ve got to be bigger, shinier not in a boastful manner, but in a branding manner, so people know the work we do and will be willing to help us.” –Nick Reynolds

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▶ The Return Of Summer Concerts It fills us with great delight to see that the Summer Concert Series has kicked off once again, giving us warm vibes, cold beer and hot rhythms to help ease us into the weekend. Easily the best way to spend a Thursday afternoon.

Numerous local organizations received state funding in the final hours of the New York State legislative session last week. $52 million in funding was disbursed among 1,172 hand-picked recipients to f und a number of initiatives outlined in seven bills signed by the governor last week. Commonly referred to as “pork barrel spending” by critics, the funds are not new spending: rather, they are specific expenditures assigned to a lump sum appropriation outlined in this year’s state budget. The use of such lump sums has been criticized by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who has called out the practice for both the lack of transparency (resolutions do not include the names of sponsoring lawmakers or, oftentimes, a stated purpose for each grant) and, in several cases, the use of debt issued without voter approval, colloquially known as “backdoor borrowing.”. Here are the funds that are coming locally.

▶ Tom Reed for finally standing up to President Donald Trump. Granted, it was for his proposal to deregulate our Air Traffic Controllers – which was panned by just about everybody who doesn’t begin to drool like Pavlov’s dogs at the mention of the phrase “free market principles” – but it’s a start. Now, let’s talk about that healthcare vote of yours...

Heard&Seen ▶ We Hired A New Person! Please welcome Christie Citranglo to the team. A former intern and graduate of Ithaca College, she will be replacing Chris Harrington as our editorial assistant. Best of luck in Brooklyn, dude! ▶ Top Stories On Ithaca. com For This Week: 1) Ithaca Police searching for suspect in Thursday morning double shooting 2) Ovid abuzz over new coffee shop 3) IPD evacuates headquarters after bomb scare 4) Municipal officials hear about impending “collapse” of county’s emergency services 5) Living by the bus schedule

• Village of Dryden Police Department Crime Prevention Grant – $30,000 • Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office Crime Prevention Grant – $7,500 • Tompkins County District Attorney Domestic Violence Grant – $6,000 • Cornell University Educational And School Bullet Aid – $27,500 • Cornel l Universit y School of Industrial and Labor Relations Educational And School Bullet Aid – $50,000 • Cornell University Lyme and Tickborne Disease Grants – $172,500 • Finger Lakes Library System Educational And School Bullet Aid – $37,500 • Interlaken Public Library Educational And School Bullet Aid – $10,000 • Newfield Public Librar y Educational And School Bullet Aid – $4,500 • Ulysses Philomathic Library Educational And School Bullet Aid – $3,000 • Lodi Whittier Library Educational And School Bullet Aid – $10,000 • Tompkins County Public Library Educational And School Bullet Aid – $2,500 • Groton Public Library Educational And School Bullet Aid – $10,000 • C a ndor E mer genc y S qu a d – $5,000

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take away? Let me tell you a little something about the constitutional convention. Under Article 19 of the New York State Constitution, every 20 years the most-highly-taxed citizens of the United States residing in one of the most corrupt and divided states in the union are asked one seemingly simple question on their ballot: “Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend same?” Essentially, every two decades, New Yorkers have the option to make a profound change to their way of life. On the steps of the State Capitol on Tuesday, a group of activists announced on the Million Dollar Staircase the launch of a campaign in support of a NYS constitutional convention, a statewide campaign to urge New Yorkers to vote “Yes” this November in support of a state constitutional convention and allowing voters to go beyond the regular legislative process by either creating a new or amending the current state constitution so that it better serves the public interest of 21st century New Yorkers. This is an idea – a vote for an uncertain outcome where all of our laws and basic protections are exposed – that terrifies just about everybody in state government. It has been critically panned by every union in the state, largely from the fear of its hijacking by special interest groups to form a government more sympathetic to the plight of corporate interests. Governor Cuomo, in acknowledgement of this risk, said he supported the concept of a constitutional contin u ed on page 7

his written examination is the first step in becoming a New York State Senator or Assemblyperson, and your success on the examination is critical to continuing the process. The selection process in New York’s Civil Service System is designed to provide all applicants with an equal opportunity to compete for a position, and this examination will serve as one objective tool in the process. Test scores will be used to identify qualified candidates and to generate a ranked list to be considered for appointment by each legislative district. You have nine (9) minutes to answer the following nine (9) questions. Security. Your fellow legislators don’t have to tell you if they are wearing a wire, even if you ask them. Which of the following is the best method of making sure that delicate conversations aren’t being recorded? 1. Discuss sensitive matters only in a sauna or steam room. 2. Communicate only via edible post-it notes, and eat them after they’ve been read. 3. Play charades. Make them say what needs saying. 4. Wit hout warning, blow a coaches’ whistle close to the torso of the person you suspect. If you hear a muffled scream in a nearby unmarked van, clam up.

Vetting Staff. Which of the following is the most sensible way to select an intern for your staff? 1. Match.com 2. eHarmony 3. A swimsuit contest. 4. Blind date. Just Compensation. You receive a stipend check for a committee chairmanship that you do not hold. You should: 1. Cash the check and not tell anyone. 2. Deposit the check and not tell anyone. 3. Ask for the money in cash and not tell anyone. 4. Sign the check over to your intern mistress and not tell anyone. Mathematics. A certain public works project has made you f lush with cash, and you decide to temporarily invest your funds with an associate in the private sector. On a separate piece of paper, calculate the vig on a loan of ten large at five points per week. Show your work. Collegiality. Which of the following procedures is the most reliable technique for making sure a fellow legislator is a stand-up individual? 1. Have your staff track down his or contin u ed on page 7

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guess I am a bit confused by the shout out to the community given in the June 21-27 Ithaca Times. I would hope that the Ithaca community would show solidarity and support for anyone losing their lives anywhere, and not just when the incident involves someone of color or a transgender person, which was how the victim in the Collegetown killing was described the the Ithaca Times. Ithaca is not particularly known for showing support for law enforcement or Republicans, for instance, but I happen to feel that support and solidarity should be coming naturally in times of loss, no matter what color, religion, political persuasion or gender, and in my opinion, the Ithaca community tends to overlook the problems of the “average Jane or Joe” in favor of causes that are 6

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more heated, that will garner more attention, that are more controversial. Every person’s death affects and should diminish humankind, especially when lives are cut short by criminal acts. No shout outs for feeling that way are needed. It should be a given. Gay Huddle, Danby

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ill farmers be drawing water from the lake to irrigate in case of a drought? A lot of water is sold via waterside communities with withdrawal permits, Bill. The 2017 Cayuga Lake Watershed Restoration & Protection Plan recommends that we track withdrawals and use watershed wide, in anticipation of long-term needs to better conserve our water resources. Hilary Lambert, Ithaca

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her former cellmates. They always know who the snitches were. 2. Ask him or her to hide a handgun for you. If he or she does so without asking questions, this is a person with whom business can be done. 3. Inquire about his or her criminal record. If he or she says, “do misdemeanors count?,” you’re good to go. 4. Ask him or her to remove your house arrest ankle monitor. If the deed is done in under 90 seconds, this is a stand-up person.

Traditional: “Mr. Benjamin Franklin is lonely and would li ke to be w it h more of his kind.” Wistful: “Wouldn’t it be nice if an envelope of cash appeared in the upper left drawer of my desk while I left the office for a minute to freshen up?” Logic: “If I can’t afford nice things, then how can I realistically guarantee your liquor license will be approved in a timely fashion?”

Analogy. In the following question, a related pair of words or phrases is followed by four pairs of words or phrases. Choose the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that in the original pair. 1. PERJURY : LYING UNDER OATH 2. Omerta : State Senate oath of office 3. Indictment : Vicious web of lies 4. Censure : Not a big deal 5. Guilty verdict : Minor career setback

Sincerity. Imagine Pinocchio is a real boy and also a New York State Assemblyman. Upon leaving his arraignment for corruption charges, he holds an impromptu press conference on the steps of the federal courthouse. Which of the following statements is least likely to make his nose grow? 1. “I look forward to my day in court.” 2. “I didn’t do it.” 3. “I am the victim of a political witch hunt.” 4. “I am truly sorry.”

Creativity. Governor Cuomo created the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption. In 50 words or less, come up with a plausible explanation for why the commission was suddenly disbanded seven months later.

Fundraising. Which of the following is the safest approach when soliciting a bribe? 1. Subtle: “My yacht dealer can only hold that boat for one more day without a cash down payment.”

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

Corrections In an article in the 6/14 Ithaca Times detailing the candidacy of Michael Koplinka-Loehr, there were several mistakes: 1) Koplinka-Loehr never served of the Town of Lansing Board – he did run in 2011. 2) Due to an editing error, we misnamed a certain longtime County official: Mr Stein’s name is Stuart (Stu) not Sue. We would also like to clarify that Koplinka-Loehr did not work within the Tompkins County Planning Department: He did work with them, however. --In an online article documenting a candidate forum held by the Tompkins County Progressives, candidate Reed Steberger’s qualifications and work experience were mischaracterized: Steberger is Assistant Coordinator of the Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative, not a member and coordinates the Multicultural Resource Center’s Youth Organizing Fellowship, a program for a group of teens who are themselves leading an effort to implement participatory budgeting. Later in the paragraph, the role of his opponent – Rich John – was also misstated: John has served as the vice chair of the government operations committee, not the chair.

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convention but the reopening of such a staunch, well-crafted document would only lead to a disaster of a legislative session in the Capitol: the same disfunction of today, with everything to lose as much as there is everything to gain. “The theory of the constitutional convention is just good people come in and they’re the delegates,” Cuomo told the New York Daily News earlier this year. “The way it will work is you’ll probably elect assemblymen and senators as delegates. And the unions will probably fund the campaigns. And you may make the situation worse, not better.” After all, a constitutional convention isn’t the only way to update or fix the basic outline of our state government: this is why we have elected representatives, after all, here to listen to our concerns and draft legislation to fulfill our needs. This is perhaps why 67 percent of the state – according to a Siena College poll – have never even heard of the convention: they simply haven’t had to worry about it. To which we ask, how is that going for us? We do, after all, live in a state with an incredibly f lawed pension system, which milk public coffers in perpetuity and will only leave a bleaker future for the next generation. We lack singlepayer health care which, despite passing the State Assembly and having the approval of a majority of Americans – not just New Yorkers – will likely die in a state where, thanks to the Empire Plan, insurers have been largely immune to the worst of the fallout from the ACA. We have an inefficient, 11-tier court system badly in need of reform, which nobody can justify and costs our communities countless dollars that could be spent elsewhere. We have a failed anti-corruption commission in a state where 80 percent say our state government is corrupt (according to Gallup), a lack of ability to hold poorly-performing public servants accountable, a disparity between funding of city and state and historically, a governor with the power to profoundly impact counties and communities he’s likely never seen in a politicallycharged game of “got yer nose.” Many of the state’s biggest voices have their doubts. De Blasio and Cuomo both don’t support it. Former Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chairman Arthur “Jerry” Kremer, who’s written a historical analysis of the four the state has held since 1887, said they have “little value,” that conventions have been nothing more than “a carbon copy of a typical legislative session:” heavy on the Albany insiders with a dash of special interest lobbying thrown in. And so, maybe we don’t deserve a working democracy, that we allow ourselves to continue our fiefdom under special interests and the dead. Maybe the cynicism is deserved. If you’re mad, you should be. But if you’re mad and want to do something real, start learning up on the constitutional convention. Organize a discussion group. Educate yourself on whether or not it will work for your community, whether you have something to gain from it all. The fear may be overblown: after all, throughout the more than two centuries of constitutional conventions, just six amendments have made it in. It may be worth the paranoia: after all, with the nation’s 41st worst voter turnout last year, it’s easy to underestimate the power of the yearning masses. The best one can say is maybe this is what will bring them around. It is a risk, I’ll give you that. But Democracy, historically, has never smiled on complacency. Th e

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Week Of 6/18-6/24 By Vaughn Golden Barbara Lifton NY State Assembly & Tom O’Mara NY State Senate

The assembly attempted to wrap up its year in Albany last Wednesday. Working well into the night to craft compromises and pass the legislatures last minute bills and resolutions. The assembly technically concluded their session, but are currently on standby, waiting to return as soon as this Wednesday to extend New York City mayor Bill De Blasio’s control over the city’s school system. The assembly failed to pass the extension of mayoral control since the governor proposed tacking on enhanced pension benefits for city employees. That added measure didn’t sit well with the senate who threatened to kill the bill entirely unless the bill was amended to add grants for charter schools in the city as well. Since the legislature came to a stalemate in the 11th hour, the governor will now call them all back to vote on extending mayoral control without any add-ons. The one major fallout that would cause damage to upstaters coming off of the mayoral control debate would be the legislature’s failure to pass extensions on county sales tax rates. The two measures had historically been tied together, a move widely criticized by both democrats and republicans alike. Should the sales tax extension not pass successfully when the legislature is called back this week, counties would not be able to collect the four percent sales tax that generates $1.8 billion for counties statewide, according to the state Association of Counties.

Tom Reed U.S. Congress Reed began last week calling out recently departed CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley for what Reed called “doing the despicable deed of blaming the victim” in a commentary Pelley delivered regarding the nature of rhetoric leading up to the shooting of house majority whip, Steve Scaliese, in Alexandria, VA the week before. Reed went on to say that Pelley should never be employed in the media again. Pelley’s commentary didn’t mention Scalise once. During the week , Reed, who cochairs the Congressional Diabetes Caucus, spoke out against the soaring price of insulin and called out healthcare industry stakeholders responsible for the price increase. Reed also supported the senate healthcare bill’s inclusion of the Collins-Faso amendment which would require New York state to take on the costs of its Medicaid system rather than issuing it on counties. In addition, he made several appearances on MSNBC and other outlets to comment on the newly released healthcare plan. Editor’s note: Government stuff takes a break soon and this column space will be open. If you have ideas or opinions, email editor@ithacatimes.com

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Philly Looks Back A pillar of Ithaca’s downtown is headed out... eventually. By M att Bu tl er

hilly DeSarno is retiring as the City of Ithaca’s Deputy Director of Economic Development at the end of month. Well, probably. She was scheduled to leave in December, but was asked to stick around for a few more months. She suggested March 1. Current Planning and Development Director JoAnn Cornish, whose office is just steps away from her front door, asked for April 1. DeSarno agreed. Now it’s June. But at least she’ll be able to kick back, forget about work and take in some rest and relaxation. Maybe even have some time to go kayaking, one of the first activities on her retirement agenda. Eh. Sort of. Since the City of Ithaca is still in the early stages of replacing her, DeSarno has offered to stick around a few days a week in order to smooth the transition. But she makes it very clear: she’s not complaining, at all. She loves Ithaca, her coworkers, her job, and being a part of moving the city she cares about forward. She’s been in her current position a dozen years now, a gig taken after nearly 25 years spent working in different forms of economic development in Corning. She’d developed a strong affinity for Ithaca during that time, driving in on weekends 8

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and coming to the city’s litany of festivals. Even as most of her friends eyed retirement, DeSarno, now 65, was thirsty for a new commitment, a fact made all the better given that the City of Ithaca’s Deputy Director of Economic Development job had been empty for quite some time. And so, 12 years ago, DeSarno applied and, after a job interview, she was hired. They wanted someone who was versatile enough to entice business owners to the city, while also being able to serve as an advisor to businesses already there, handling problems and smoothing concerns to encourage an environment conducive to the economic success and stability both of Ithaca and the businesses therein. Cornish still hasn’t forgotten the day they decided to hire the out-of-towner she now calls a “good friend and a wonderful coworker.” “When we finished with her interview I was so excited, I said ‘She’s the one,’” Cornish said. “She brought such a wonderful energy with her, very positive and she was very knowledgeable about business and had small business experience. She’s really a people person [...] I think that really has been the recipe for her success here, because she just has this amazing way with people.” DeSarno greeted Cornish’s enthusiasm by throwing herself into the job full tilt, 28 –Jul y

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keen to feel out the pulse of the city. She proachable and engaged around town and attended meeting after meeting – whether even the occasional trip to some far-flung a meeting on planning and economic de- part of central New York to scope out a velopment or city administration or some- possible business target. thing else – just to acquaint herself with One can hear the positivity that Corthe city’s issues, intentions and motiva- nish mentioned in DeSarno’s voice as she tions; working to familiarize herself with speaks, and she rarely leaves a negative the people who served in government, es- word unaccompanied by optimism shortly pecially the Planning Board. At that time, in the mid20 0 0s, t he Pla n“I think of myself as a marketer, ning Department was usually tasked more than anything else. I’m with note-tak ing selling Ithaca, New York. And it’s for the meetings; a freaking easy job.” DeSarno, not yet k nowing the differenc e bet we en what information was important to include or not, ended up with what would afterwards. In a job such as hers, though, amount to a word-for-word transcription an upbeat nature can take a beating from of every meeting and hands sore to the the constant tug-of-war of maintaining bone. peace between the interests of developIt was all homework for her new job, ers, the city and public opinion. Even the an intensive, months-long training regi- city’s top developers acknowledge Ithaca men. That groundwork eventually enabled as a tough but imminently appealing locaher to conduct what she calls the heart of tion, the pros usually outweighing its meher job: working the phones for potentially ticulous review process and occasionally interested businesses, staying visible, ap- apprehensive public. The Planning and

Economic Development Department finds itself both trying to attract businesses, but also cautioning those that want to enter the Ithaca market but might not fit. That balancing act can make her a regular target of ire among the community. DeSarno remembers, with an incredulous smile, a developer telling her she “ just doesn’t get it” early during her time in Ithaca. Countless others have slammed their phones down to hang up on her, and perhaps uttered some blush-worthy words just prior to said slams; DeSarno coyly avoids those types of details. But after whatever fight was finished, there was almost always a mutual respect left over. It could take hours, or days, or weeks, but DeSarno said she’d always get a call back. Breaking the bad news is one of the necessary parts of the role, but after 12 years DeSarno and Cornish, along with the rest of the Planning and Development department, have it down to a science. Cornish paints it as a “good cop, bad cop” routine, with DeSarno normally playing the former role, calming people down and softening the blow of any misfortune. She values the honesty the job allows as well, believing her goals and the city’s align well and has made it a job priority to be straightforward with those she deals with professionally. As she grew older, she realized that was one career characteristic she may have been missing from her previous jobs, a sacrifice she was willing to make in her younger years but no longer. “I didn’t have to wear two faces here,” she sighs with notable relief. “You want to just be who you are, you want to be working toward the things that have meant the most to you in your life. You certainly don’t want to be at odds.” As much as she’s enjoyed her time at 108 E. Green Street, DeSarno’s time with the department has not been completely devoid of turbulence. In fact, this won’t even be her first time leaving the department. After her second year on the job, DeSarno took a leave to test out a new post in Watkins Glen, as President of the thenSchuyler County Chamber of Commerce. She left for a few reasons, mainly concerning health issues her elderly mother was experiencing, but also as a result of nervousness regarding her role with the city going forward. DeSarno felt like she and former Mayor Carolyn Peterson, whose administration lasted from 2004 until 2012, got along well but were “on a different wavelength” when it came to the city’s development strategy. After discussion with Cornish, deputy of the Planning De-

partment at the time, DeSarno decided to opt for the city’s six month leave instead of resigning her position permanently. A f t e r ju s t f i ve short weeks in her new position, DeSarno knew leaving had been a mistake. Even her mother told her to go back to Ithaca, where she was happy. She phoned Peterson asking to return and after a meeting to ensure the mayor that DeSarno was fully prepared to return, she was welcomed back. The brief departure, DeSarno said, became a turning point in her career with the department and her relat ionship w it h Peterson. “I wa nted her skills with the city of Ithaca,” Peterson said of DeSarno’s return. “We got along quite well and worked very hard, with everything from the Commons redevelopment to small businesses like Buffalo Street Books or F. Oliver’s. She had a very broad perspective, with the ability to have one-on-one relationships with small businesses.” It h ac a’s de velopment pac e h a s picked up considerably, especially as the city has healed f rom t he Great Recession of 2009, which Peterson said significantly hamstrung development in the area during the latter stages of her administration. Under the leadership of current Mayor Svante Myrick, the city has begun to charge full steam ahead into a renewed focus on mixed-use building along while continuing Peterson’s goals of increasing housing. Perhaps there are some projects DeSarno would have liked to see through before her re-

tirement, but she lists no regrets from her time with the city. The projects that she is proudest of are not the biggest, or the shiniest, or the ones that cost the most. She quick ly notes lu r i ng t he Fi nger Lakes School of Massage and the Cornell Store to the Commons as some of her personal favorite accomplishments, and a mention of F. Oliver’s – originally from Canandaigua – is never far behind. “Philly and I have worked together for a long time now, we’ve brought in a lot of projects and we really work off of each other’s strengths,” Corn i sh s a id . “I w i l l miss her. In you r professional career, t hat doesn’t come along ver y often or sometimes not at all. It just means finding someone who has her same spark, which is probably not going to happen.” There’s a curious closeness in the department, it might speak to why DeSarno agreed to stay on for so long after her announced retirement date. DeS a r no ment ione d that during a recent workshop, the department was compared to a family, a sentiment Cornish repeated as well, citing its low turnover and small size that creates a close-knit group, sometimes for better or worse. “Your work partners aren’t your friends,” DeSarno said. “You might become friends, but they’re more like family. You have family members you really love, and there’s family members who I’ d rather go to the dentist than sit at the table with. But you learn to flex a little bit who you have to work with.” Th e

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Bittersweet as it is, DeSarno is comfortable with her decision to retire. One of her goals was to leave with the city on solid footing, not having to apologize on her way out the door. With Ithaca’s development scene thriving, and interest not showing any signs of dropping, the position is an attractive one that will appeal to quality candidates, allowing DeSarno to rest assured that her choice will not be too burdensome.

JoAnn Cornish and Phylissa DeSarno at the 2016 DIA awards.

“I will miss her. In your professional career, that doesn’t come along very often or sometimes not at all. It just means finding someone who has her same spark, which is probably not going to happen.” -JoAnn Cornish “I wanted to go out and enjoy my position, really feel like I contributed something, and I am at that point,” she said. “I feel it’s a good time to go, things are really hopping here, there’s good people interested in this position [...] It’s a very, very crucial job and I don’t want to walk away until there’s somebody that’s in line to come in and take over.” She said if there’s anything she can impart upon her successor, it would be to prepare for anything every day; there is no guarantee what voice will be saying what words when the phone rings. But in DeSarno’s mind, the person who fills her role will benefit from many of the same factors that have helped her during the last 12 years. “I think of myself as a marketer, more than anything else. I’m selling Ithaca, New York. And it’s a freaking easy job.”• /

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at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), where Rashad was a program participant. GIAC has had a youth league for many years, but in 2003 the agency named the league the Rashad Richardson Basketball League. Travis Brooks is a GIAC employee and the League Director, and he said “The mission of the RRBL is to teach

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young players the skills needed to succeed will play with the same age group. at the next level of play, and to instill the The JV League is more competitive, they virtues of sportsmanship, teamwork and utilize high school referees, and they work discipline in each player throughout the more on game play and different situations. summer.” The rules are also written so that during I asked Travis if he had been around the “skills combine,” held prior to the start long enough to know Rashad, and he said of the JV season, league officials take a “Yes, I met Rashad my first year at GIAC, close look at the players’ skill levels and and I had a relationship with his entire construct rosters accordingly. The Varsity family. I coached on League is even more the RRBL for many compet it ive, a nd years, and for the past gives t he players a 3 years, I have been glimpse of what they the administrator.” will see if they play He added, “I ca n’t at t he hig h school even begin to imagvarsity level, or perine the things Rashad haps beyond. I asked would be doing with Travis if there is an his life now. He was academic component just an exceptional involved, given the young man, academiprogram’s stated miscally, athletically - the sion is to prepare the sky was not even the kids for the future. limit for him.” He replied, “UnforBasketball fans are tunately, the kids are usually able to shift not connected with gears, so to spea k, the school during the i f t hey a re able to summer, but we are watch some decent continually preach basketball, even if it t he i mpor ta nce of means doing so durbeing scholars first, ing what is traditionthen athletes. We try ally baseball season. to encourage them to The RRBL games are be model citizens.” played on weeknights GIAC is true to their during t he summ i s s i on i n l a r g e r mer, with the Develways, and Travis said, opmenta l L eag ue “If any kids or parRashad Richardson (Provided Photo) play ing on Monday, ents need to connect Wednesday and every with services, we’ll do other Friday at 5:30 p.m. The JV’s play at our best to help.” 6:30 p.m. and the Varsity plays at 7:30 p.m. I conveyed to Travis that it was apparand 8:30 p.m. ent that this program is dear to his heart. To join the league, players must be “This is everything to me,” he offered. entering the 6th grade, and they are eligi- “Keeping Rashad’s name alive means so ble up until the summer before they enter much, and it’s important that the kids who 12th grade. While the league is described are playing now know about him. It’s an as a “competitive league,” the competitive honor for me to be involved in a league level rises as the players move up through named after such an exceptional young the ranks. In the early years, organizers man.” call the league a “Developmental League,” The league’s game schedule is already and those in charge take several steps to underway, and for those interested in assure balance and parity. This is evi- learning more, please contact Travis at denced by the fact that players are not Travisb@cityofithaca.org, or go to GIAC’s allowed to “play up” or “play down,” so RRBL Facebook page. regardless of a player’s skill level, he or she

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“If you’re not comfortable looking at data or looking at graphs, it’s very easy to be deceived,” Alex Moore, a professor of geology at Cornell and Senior Education Associate at PRI said. “It’s this deception of people who may not have the resources, knowledge or skill to know where to look and get to the root of what’s really going on.” Then, about a week before the first copy was to go to print, the Heartland Institute – a free market-minded, conservative and libertarian public policy think tank with robust financial backing from the natural gas industry – announced plans to distribute 200,000 copies of a book, “Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming,” to as many high school classrooms as possible with the same idea: to utilize the multiplier effect of influence powered by a schoolteacher and a place in the curriculum. “They want to spread doubt on the robustness of the science that supports climate change,” said Moore. “They’ve done this for many years on many subjects.” What has begun is something akin to information warfare: a battle between the deep pockets of special interest science and the grant-supported education arm of a small nonprofit on Ithaca’s outskirts. What was once a continuation of PRI’s public education mandate had become a reluctant stymie against a weapon of mass deception. “When we got started, we weren’t trying to ‘battle’ anyone,” Robert Ross, PRI’s Associate Director of Outreach said. “Our intention was to provide good quality information in the face of a lot of misinformation. We had no idea this other thing would arise at this particular time. But thinking about it from the other way around, this is a great time for us to have this particular product because now, we have something we can get in teacher’s hands.” The concept of man-made climate change is nothing new. It’s been 25 years since the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change first called for the “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations” to combat a trend of global warming seemingly compelled by human activity. And it’s been 24 years since the Heartland Institute published its book, “Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism,” which first characterized the heating of the planet as a natural occurrence and the human-sourced introduction of Co2 in the atmosphere, a negligible piece of what the institution frames as an “inevitable” phenomena of nature, brought about by natural solar cycles rather than the introduction of greenhouse gases. To the untrained, the materials being distributed by Heartland present a strong narrative on climate change, supporting its claims with real data and a video featuring experts from universities such as Harvard and the University of Delaware. To critics of the work, it is junk science, the director for the National Center for Science Education, Anne Reid telling PBS last month the book seemed “clearly intended to confuse teachers.” “They would take actual climate science data and manipulate it to make it appear like there was no issue: that there was no

change in temperature or rise in sea levels,” Moore said. “They would pick a tiny slice of a beautifully rising trend and – if you pick a tiny piece of this messy data – you can make it look like there’s no trend. They would say something with one piece of the data where, if you saw the whole dataset, it would tell a completely different story.” And yet, there is nothing to prevent this type of deception: in some states, in fact, it is condoned. At present, six states have either enacted or proposed legislative measures allowing teachers to choose the type of science they teach (which according to a NCSE-funded survey of 1,500 science teachers nationwide, is practiced by 31 percent of teachers who challenge the ‘opinion’ of the 97 percent of scientists who believe in manmade climate change) and, given the tone of

climate change-denying president Donald Trump and the freedom-of-choice approach of a Betsy DeVos led Department of Education, the practice seems likely to continue. Moore and Ross plan to fight back in an ambitious way: connecting 200,000 teachers and students with their book. The logistics of doing so are tricky. They could always – much like the book offered by the Heartland Institute – be made available online for free as a PDF file. But to distribute a printed copy on their desired scale will take deep pockets: about $2 million, Moore estimates. So for now, they’ve set their sights smaller, the goal to land a copy of their book in each of the nation’s 37,000 high schools at a more reasonable $87,000 clip, a cost which they are now appealing to the public to help fund.

“Though we’ve been fairly successful at fundraising over the years, that is a lot,” Ross said. The cost, they say, is worthwhile. “We all feel, since Trump was elected, that science is under siege,” Moore said. “There are no more presidential science advisors, there’s no longer a science advisory committee in the EPA, climate change data has disappeared from the websites… there’s a lot going on. There’s a real need for teachers, learners, everybody to have access to really good information.” To donate, visit bit.ly/TeachClimateScience –Nick Reynolds

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embers of the Tompkins County Council of Governments on Thursday heard some details – and statistics – outlining potential “collapse” of community-based, emergency service and medical providers in Tompkins County if proactive steps by the county’s towns and villages aren’t taken. Lee Shurtleff, Director of the Department of Emergency Response in Tompkins County, presented an overview of statistics analyzing the status of Emergency Medical Service resources in Tompkins County, an overarching assessment of everything from staffing levels to the needs and demographics they handle. Essentially, as staffing levels have been strained (a third of volunteer providers, Shurtleff said, have been lost since 2013), demand has gone up, an issue compounded by a lack of volunteers, the need for taxpayers to start paying for services (and already pained local budgets), increasing call volumes

and increasing expectations of the services first responders should provide. “It’s not that services aren’t being provided,” Shurtleff said. “It’s that there aren’t enough staff to provide them.” Though resources are strained, they’re doing well with what they have: response times, today, are still decent, Shurtleff said. But the question of who will step up to provide these services in the future remains in question. “I go to a fire today and I see the same people I saw 20 years ago,” he added. “We have older people doing what younger people should be doing.” In 2006, Tompkins County EMS agencies responded to 49,500 calls. Last year, they responded to 66,000 – a 30 percent increase over the course of a decade – between the police, the fire departments and the county’s ambulatory system. This mirrors a historic trend over the past 40 years, where fire and rescue calls have qua-

drupled since 1976. This is partly due to fire departments now responding for emergency medical needs and mutual aid responses for other fire districts. Within this, there are now broadened job descriptions for everybody involved, from code enforcement to special trainings. As for EMS services, since 1976 the response amount has increased nearly 11 times what it once was, a symptom of a growing – and aging – county population. But another component of this trend has come, in part, because of the collapse of fire departments on the borders of the county, a trend forcing departments to stretch outward to serve communities without adequate coverage or facilities of their own: communities like Slaterville, Richford and Virgil. But it also has to do with the county’s booming population and a sharp increase in the population of individuals 60 years and older, which has doubled since 1980. Many of these calls – about 1,200 a year – come from falls, while the opioid crisis has also contributed to the

quantity of staff calls each year, with calls for unconscious persons being a large contributor for calls related to individuals aged 20-29, some meriting a number of “Echo” calls; signifying cardiac arrest. And all of this effort – funded by a combined $15 million of community budgets – is close to $1.2 million short of the actual cost of service, that amount covered by service contracts with towns like Dryden, Ulysses and Groton. All of this, Shurtleff said, is footed by the taxpayer, while ambulance levels are still what they were 14 years ago. All of their staff, unlike then, are paid. “Among our group,” Shurtleff said, “this is not a sustainable situation. This is going to take combined thinking, a political will, to start thinking about these things and come up with solutions to preserve these life-saving programs.” So what do we need to do? While officials suggested creative solutions – from student debt forgiveness for fighting fires to regular EMS training – Shurtleff said some ways to reduce call volumes can come by working with the elderly to reduce falls, improving initiatives to combat mental health and substance abuse, leveraging healthcare initiatives and looking toward the implementation of community-based paramedicine, which could potentially reduce reliance on ambulance use in the first place but, Shurtleff said, has largely been averted due to efforts by the state-level nurse’s union, stating it would heavily change their role in the medical system. “Most of the time, when someone is coming to the E.R., they’re coming in an ambulance,” Shurtleff said. A nd W here A re W e W ith Sh a red Serv ices?

Beginning his brief presentation by accusing the state and city of New York of playing a “dangerous game of chicken” with the local tax revenues gleaned from the provision of municipalities’ one percent sales tax extension, County Administrator Joe Mareane caught town and village officials up on county’s saga in coping with a statewide mandate for counties to consolidate their services in an effort to boost efficiencies and lower property taxes. “The low-hanging, high-impact fruit is gone,” Mareane said, noting that Tompkins County has, for years now, maintained a legacy as a county that had identified and created its own operational efficiencies for years. Nonetheless, he and a shared services committee created by the county had pulled together a number of proposals the county may look into implementing in order to meet the state mandate, including a standardized process of digitizing records, the sharing of GIS/heavy equipment repair facilities and creating a standardized mass-communication system, a la phone/text/social media updates for things like leaf pickups/public meetings/etc for all communities to utilize with their residents. All of this, Mareane noted, will take longer than the state deadline to fulfill, but even for the length of time it would take and the small potential for saving money, is still worth looking into. “Maybe we should punt this year, but come back with an idea to save even more money next year,” Mareane said. –Nick Reynolds

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eclaim New York Initiative, a conservative-backed state reform organization, has issued an Action Alert to its statewide network calling for their supporters to apply pressure on Tompkins County and New York State to end the natural gas moratorium in Lansing. The call was issued in a blog post on Reclaim NY’s website late last week and picked up moderate traction on social media, registering 30 shares on Facebook at press time. “The Tompkins County Energy and E conom ic Development Ta sk Force (EEDTF) is pushing friends in Albany to extend a politically-driven ban on natural gas, meaning that new Lansing resident customers would no longer [be] able to purchase a readily-available and costeffectvie local source of energy,” says the post, which continues with a rallying cry to contact the state Public Service Commission (PSC) and the EEDTF and lodge complaints against the moratorium’s continuation, as well as a petition. Reclaim’s post cites four statistics to point to the advantage of a moratorium repeal – all of which are verifiable – even if the logical leaps they are accompanied by might not be. The group claims the “push” to get off natural gas is being made without Lansing community input and notes that Lansing’s community leaders, specifically Town Supervisor Ed LaVigne, are speaking out against the moratorium, arguing it makes new residential and business development essentially impossible due to a lack of supply. The “friends in Albany” referred to by Reclaim NY presumably refers to

the PSC, which is currently considering a proposal from New York State Electric & Gas Corporation (NYSEG) to alleviate the immediate natural gas pressure reliability problems that have resulted from increased demand over the years. NYSEG’s plan would center on the installation of a compressor system that would aim to increase pressure toward the existing pipeline’s northern end. That proposal has been presented as an alternative to the controversial West Dryden natural gas pipeline project, which has since been suspended in favor of “other options” which, if followed through on, will allow Tompkins County to meet its 2050 energy needs and emissions goal of an 80 percent reduction in fossil fuel use while still allowing for continued economic growth in Lansing. Tompkins County Legislator Martha Robertson, a member of the EEDTF who has been privy to the ongoing talks regarding the pipeline, denied the task force is pressuring the PSC to extend the moratorium. She said at this point the EEDTF is waiting for the PSC to issue their decision on NYSEG’s proposal, which was submitted in January. Once that decision comes down, they will be able to continue on but until then there is not much progress to be made one way or another. She also advocated that those interested in developing in Lansing turn to ground source heating systems instead of gas heating as a method of working around the moratorium’s limitations. –Matt Butler

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he said, and he called himself a “problem solver.” “It’s the challenge of doing something and trying to do something well,” he said, mentioning he thinks the best manner by which to maintain a high quality standard is to stay involved in ownership after building is completed. “I try to build a high quality structure and keep it. I don’t like turning things over [...] A lot of people want to throw something up then walk away. But that’s not what gets me going.” Lubin is 64 now and wants to have some down time “before the grim reaper comes,” but even when Harold’s Square is completed it won’t be the last project he oversees. Lubin said he is fully prepared to see the Chainworks project through to the end, regardless if it lasts 10 or more years until completion. Lubin views that sort of commitment as part of his duty not only to himself but to the community he is building in. “Absolutely it’s important for the community,” he said. “It’s like anything... you put a lot of work into something, it becomes part of you.”

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of being a developer is that it could take years and years before a vision is finally realized. Ithaca’s notoriously rigorous development process can be a strain, but one he has been willing to handle through faith in the business opportunities the finished product will provide. “I believe in the city, there’s not many downtown small communities in upstate New York that I would invest in,” he said. “Downtowns are sort of a dying breed. Ithaca is a very unique opportunity.” There’s something else that attracted Lubin to the city. Challenges, of which Harold’s Square has seen its fair share, don’t seem to have much of a discouraging effect on him. He said he enjoys them, a trait that has at least partially fueled his career to this point, and more specifically pushed him to take a closer look at developing in Ithaca. Along with L Enterprises, he owns three hotels and a computer recycling business. Never quite knowing what is going to happen from day to day keeps things exciting,

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was assemblywoman Barbara Lifton’s fifteenth on the legislature, and, to her, this one will go down as a productive year, but one without an overwhelming amount of hype and hurrah. “This year, there were series of very important things, but not necessarily a big explosion so much so it’s hard to say what’s a high point There were a lot of good assembly bills,” Lifton said. During the year, Lifton sponsored and cosponsored legislation ranging from providing improvements to copper telephone infrastructure to a bill codifying New York state rulings on voter laws. Lifton remarks that several of her bills did not pass the legislature because they got held up in committees, but that the amendments to the bills should make them easily passable during the 2018 session. Here are some excerpts from her recent interview with The Ithaca Times. (You can watch or listen to full, unabridged audio and video editions of this interview at www.ithaca.com.) Climate Change “For me, climate change has become the largest issue, the biggest issue that I’m trying to push forward and am working on. The assembly put forward at the end of session our Climate and Community Protection Act.” “Cornell has a lot of experts, professors, scientists wanted to make some amendments to the bill we passed last year so I wanted to bring them in to the table, into the room.”

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Campaign Finance and closing the LLC Loophole “This bill [one that Lifton wrote and sponsored in the Assembly] closes that loophole and says the LLC is a company, they’re subject to the corporate limits of $5,000 tops as a donation to a campaign.”

Governor Cuomo “The governor’s not been as strong a supporter of public schools as I’d like him to be, but he’s been willing to negotiate. He gave us a good deal, a chunk of new money for education.” “I can’t think of an instance where we’re just diametrically opposed. We’ve had our differences in areas, but we’ve had a lot of areas of agreement.” The Excelsior Plan to cover SUNY tuition “It’s a good thing to be adding money to the pie to help in higher ed, about $163 million is being spent on that program. I’d like to see us do much more for SUNY and CUNY and for our kids going to any college in the state. Again, it sounds like a lot of money to most people, but we have 700,000 students that go to SUNY and CUNY so $163 million doesn’t really go that far.” Education Funding “We have a recovering economy in the last two or three years and we really should be taking great lengths to add to school funding so that’s an area where I’m glad we added. [in this year’s budget] It certainly helped. Schools were pretty happy with what we did, but we really ought to be doing more.” Cargill Salt Mine “I’m hopeful that the DEC is listening to that [a discussion Lifton had with DEC leaders, constituents and experts on mining], looking at that more carefully, look at the issue of mining under the lake and how safe that is, whether that needs adjustment. That whole issue’s going to get looked at more closely by the DEC and by our own [Environment and Conservation] committee. – Va u g h n G o l d e n

The Glimmerglass Festival Returns this summer

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here’s no better way of experiencing exceptional opera productions than in a lovely location by a shining lake rubbing shoulders with the likes of fine artists, the highminded and even the occasional Supreme Court justice. This is what to expect of The Glimmerglass Festival, the prestigious celebration of high culture opening July 7 with the promise of main-stage performances of three operas and one American musical, all running in rotating repertory through August 22. Also scheduled on the festival site or nearby will be a veritable feast including small opera premieres, concerts, talks and discussions, plus myriads of special events. Opening night on Friday features Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, preceded by a special dinner. The curtain goes up Saturday evening, July 8, with a perennial favorite, Oklahoma! by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Handel’s 43rd opera and a baroque masterpiece, Xerxes, opens July 15, followed on July 16 by a rarely heard bel-canto work, The Siege of Calais by Donizetti. Three getaway weekends, one in July and two in August, offer the four productions on successive days. The Glimmerglass Opera company has been around for 42 years. Its first season, in summer 1975, provided four performances of Puccini’s La bohème staged in the auditorium of the Cooperstown High School before audiences of roughly 1,200 local residents. From that time on, there have been at least three shows each season. In 1987 the company opened its new home, the Alice Busch Opera Theater, located

above Otsego Lake: the “Glimmerglass” of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. With about 900 seats, the theater provides an intimate setting for the spectacle of the stage, with good sightlines and excellent acoustics. Since then the company regularly mounted outstanding productions of three operas and one musical every July and August, many being world

(Above) The cast from last year’s performance of “La bohème” (Left) The cast from last year’s performance of “The Crucible” (Photos: Karli Cadel: he Glimmerglass Festival)

premieres. Since 1992 operas are performed in their original languages with an excellent projected English text. The Young Artists Program, founded in 1988 by former music director Stewart Robertson, brings singers in the early stages of their professional careers to study and perform at Glimmerglass. About 40, chosen annually from over 700 applicants, earn opportunities to perform and cover appropriate roles in the main productions, and to work with world-class directors, designers, and conductors. Francesca Zambello — world-renowned director of opera and theater productions, with a résumé that boggles the mind — became the artistic and general director at Glimmerglass in 2010. Under her leadership the company was renamed The Glimmerglass Festival and, since her first season in 2011, the number and variety of events has increased enormously. With a reputation for creating innovative and thoughtful productions, she continues to carry out her aim of mounting works that reflect and possibly affect social change. With special ties to Central New York — she is a graduate of Colgate University, which awarded her an honorary degree in 2012 — she is dedicated to regional outreach. Zambello’s inauguration of the Artist-inResidence program in 2011 has brought in some Met stars, who spend the summer working with

the young artists and performing in special concerts. Soprano Deborah Voigt was the first, followed by famed bass-baritone Eric Owens, in both 2012 and 2015 (just named artistic adviser to Glimmerglass and scheduled to perform main-stage roles in 2018 and 2019), baritone Nathan Gunn, and soprano Christine Goerke. Renowned conductor Joseph Colaneri — on the Met roster since 1998 and artistic director of opera at the Mannes School of Music — has been music director at Glimmerglass since 2013. He will conduct The Siege of Calais. The scene almost any day this summer is inviting — an expansive lawn, the opera house with flags flying, pavilions with food and drink, inviting picnic tables, lovely walks around the grounds and through the woods, with glimpses of the lake. This year’s special installations relating to the operas, on the lawn in front of the theater, are “Terra Transmuto” by Katarina Isaksson, a sculpture of welded steel and stone, and Rob Licht’s gridded work of painted steel called “Glimmerglass Landforms.” The festival’s theme this season examines the idea of home and homeland. Zambello feels this is so important and relevant to today’s world, as we look around and watch issues of displacement involving so many people. “The productions will be beautiful, moving, and Contin u ed on page 16

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at the Santa Fe Opera last year and sings regularly with Philadelphia Opera, will be Curly. On the podium is James Lowe, who conducted Camelot at Glimmerglass in 2013. inspiring,” she explains, but she hopes the whole season Baroque opera returns this season with Handel’s will offer “a starting point for a much bigger conversation masterpiece, Xerxes, in Italian with English projected about identity and homeland.” She will direct Porgy and text. It is a tale of love, loss, and fraternal loyalty Bess, widely considered to be the first great American opera, in the original version, with a full orchestra, a large involving the fierce and powerful Persian conqueror who reigned for twenty years until his assassination in 466 BC. The opera has “everything,” according to director Tazwell Thompson (who directed Vivaldi’s Cato in Utica in 2015), “comedy, pathos, and beauty.” Its opening aria, “Ombra mai fù,” outstanding in Handel’s work, is a serene song of praise to a shade tree. Countertenor John Holiday, on the faculty at Ithaca College since 2015 and who played Caesar in the Vivaldi opera, returns to sing the role of Xerxes. The part of his brother and rival in love, Arsamenes, is played by 2016 Young Artist Allegra De Vita. Nicole Paiement, who led the 2016 production of The Crucible, will conduct, while veteran John Conklin has designed the scenery. The Siege (Above) Actor’s cry out during “The Crucible” (Right) A cast member from last year’s “Sweeney Todd” (Below) of Calais “The Thieving Magpipe” on last year’s stage (Photos: Karli Cadel: he Glimmerglass Festival) by Gaetano Donizetti, a virtually unknown opera about the cast, and potential star performers. She sees Catfish Row French port city and never before as both a home and a prison and that Porgy’s optimism performed in the United States, was leads to his getting away. South African bass-baritone Musa Ngqungwana, who appeared in feathers in last year’s selected by Zambello as she was struck by the beauty of the music Rossini opera, The Thieving Magpie, sings Porgy, while and the powerful contemporary Talise Trevigne, most recently in David Little’s JFK at the resonance of the story. She knows Fort Worth Opera, will play Bess. In the role of Crown the opera well, as she directed it at by Norman Garrett, a recent alumnus of the Washington National Opera (WNO) Young Artist program. Returning England’s Wexford Festival over 20 years ago. The plot concerns the to the podium is popular conductor John DeMain, who burghers of Calais (immortalized has led more than 350 performances of this opera. in stone by Rodin), who offered to The beloved classic Oklahoma! — all about starting sacrifice their lives to lift a year-long a new promising life in a rough and rowdy territory— English siege. Instead of keeping the makes its Glimmerglass debut in a new production by original 1346 time frame, director the artistic director of Arena Stage, Molly Smith. She Zambello will update the setting considers Rodgers and Hammerstein to be “the best in to the present day, reminding us musical theater,” and that this work “appeals to anyone of what has recently happened in who longs for freedom and change.” Leading a cast of Calais and of the deplorable situations that have caused colorful characters are Vanessa Becerra, a 2015 graduate millions to flee their besieged homelands. She wants of the Glimmerglass Young Artist program and seen the Glimmerglass Festival to be a home of dialogue last season as Musetta in La bohème, as Laurey, while baritone Jarrett Ott, who played Masetto in Don Giovanni where a wide variety of views can be spoken and heard, with hopes of “sparking meaningful discussion.” Leading the cast are two singers to watch: mezzo soprano Aleksandra Romano, former Glimmerglass Young Artist, who sings the trouser role of Aurelio, heroic son of the mayor, and soprano Leah Crocetto, who had the title role of Aida at the San Francisco Opera this season, as his wife, Eleonora. Music director Joseph Colaneri will conduct what he calls an “extraordinary score” containing some of Donizetti’s “most dramatic and lyrical vocal writing.” On the main stage as well will be two performances of a one-act comic opera, Scalia/Ginsburg by Derrick Wang (and inspired by the opinions of the Justices themselves); Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has GlimerGlass

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been an enormously popular Showtalk participant at Glimmerglass since 2012. She shared a friendship with the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who, as we know, strongly contested her on legal matters. They both loved opera, however. This year’s artist in residence and acclaimed tenor William Burden will star, and performances will be on August 4 and 13, the latter followed by a Q&A with Justice Ginsburg. Also the main stage in July will have An Afternoon with Stephen Schwartz, with stories and songs by this award-winning composer-lyricist performed by Young Artists, plus a reading in August by David Sedaris from his books followed by a Q&A session. Two smaller productions have world premieres in August. Stomping Grounds, by Victor Simonson, who conducts, with an English verse text by Paige Hernandez, who directs and does choreography— is described as “hip-hopera” and will have three performances. A youth opera, Robin Hood, featuring the Glimmerglass Youth Chorus and members of the Young Artists program, has eight performances. Second Stage events include concerts at the Pavilion — with the opera principals; with Young Artists presenting songs, scenes and stories on the theme of home; with Gospel music; with Klezmer music done by a quintet; and a baseball-themed presentation called Perfect Pitch. Highlights of the Saturday-morning Showtalk series, held at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown, include Jeffrey Toobin and Faith Gay on current events related to 2017

opera themes and a program with music director Colaneri and Youn Artists performing songs that celebrate the human spirit. Zambello will present a 2018 preview over lunch at the Pavilion, and there are two baseball-themed concerts at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Not to mention free events: previews of all main-stage opera performances, backstage tours, production changeovers on Saturday afternoons, Q&As. Early in June Glimmerglass holds “company intros” where the cast and the creative team get together in the large rehearsal hall. They go around the room, explain who they are while the director, conductor, and designers get to talk about their approaches to the production and this season’s theme. It’s like one big family, whose summer homeland is this place in Central New York, where people get to know each other, where young members and new voices come to learn, and from which they often go off to a major career. To name a few we’ve been lucky to see and hear in fabulous performances — countertenor David Daniels, bass-baritone Owens, and soprano Goerke, a Young Artist more than 20 years ago, who will be Elektra at the Met next season. There are others all over the world, whose careers were shaped here. Come to the opera and hear familiar and new voices, soaring out over the peaceful land. •

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Liberty and Justice for Some Indivisible humanizes undocumented immigrants By C hr i s tie Cit rang l o

car full of young adults in their early 20s likely conjures images of fun-loving and jovial moments. Favorite songs blaring, sunglasses within reach, mini dance parties in the back row — typical, young Americans. Indivisible, which screened at Cinemapolis June 22, took this familiar image and applied it to the context of Dreamers: young adults who came to the United States as children and are still undocumented, despite living nearly their entire lives in the country. The film opens with that car full of young adults on a roadtrip to the U.S.Mexican border. Evelyn, Renata and Antonio are traveling to see their mothers for the first time in almost a decade. Their mothers were deported back to their home countries (Colombia, Brazil and Mexico, respectively), but they still remain undocumented in the U.S. The Dreamers are not permitted to leave the country and re-enter, and their mothers are not permitted back into the U.S. The Dreamers get to see their mothers, but their embraces and tears are separated by a fence. They reach their arms through rusted metal bars and try to grab each other’s faces. Renata shares a diploma she’s received, and Evelyn tries to hug her mother. “I’ve spoken to both people on either sides of the immigration reform issue,”

said Hilary Linder, the director and producer of the film. “I just kept thinking that the one thing we all have in common and that we can all come together on is family. Everyone who sees this film can feel the pain of being separated from family.” According to the Department of Homeland Security, 61 percent of undocumented immigrants are between the ages of 25 and 44. In 2015, more than 333,000 undocumented immigrants were removed from the U.S. and 462,000 undocumented immigrants were apprehended. Indivisible touches on these stories and gives faces to these statistics on immigration. Linder, who worked as a humanitarian aid for years before making Indivisible, went into the film with the idea that these people are more than statistics or foreign policy: they’re human. So often, she said, undocumented immigrants are thought of as trespassers and bad people. Even the language — referring to these immigrants as “illegal” or “aliens” — fails to see undocumented people as human. When Linder screens the film, she asks her viewers to shift their language in their everyday life in hopes to rehumanize undocumented immigrants. “Even though it’s a little thing, it’s a shift in your head, especially if you’ve grown up referring to people as illegal,

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you think that must be bad,” she said. “We need to really switch our thinking about that. Even just switching your language to undocumented immigrants — that can do a lot.” Indivisible has been shown at 11 film festivals, and Linder even screened it to the United States House of Representatives earlier this month. While the film has received much recognition, it’s easy to forget Linder doesn’t have a background in filmmaking. The level of in-depth reporting and the fluid cinematography in the film feels like it comes from a seasoned producer. “I was helping to respond in Syria right when the crisis began and working on internally displaced people in Yemen — those kind of things,” Linder said. “My

jobs also were writing reports, so I kept thinking, ‘Gosh, if I could show what’s happening in one of these crises, maybe that would do more,’ and that’s when the idea of a documentary came up.” Filmed over the course of three-anda-half years and debuting during the end of 2015, Indivisible shattered the rhetoric of Republican frontrunners during the 2016 election — and yet, more fighting for immigration reform was yet to come. “I truly think immigration reform is going to define our generations to come,” Linder said. “Sadly, we haven’t gotten there yet, but the fight continues. And reform is going to shape our country, whichever way it goes.” •

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He’s in so many iconic films: Roadhouse, The Big Lebowski, Thank You For Smoking, Up In The Air, “Justified” on TV. He’s in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and you know it’s him the minute he opens his mouth to speak. If you’re a fan, you’re probably thinking of another terrific performance that I didn’t even mention. In The Hero, Elliott plays Lee Hayden, sort of a version of Elliott if he were on the C List or lower. We first see him in a voice-over booth, doing take after take of copy selling a barbecue sauce. It doesn’t look like very fulfilling work, but for Lee, that’s all there is. His days are spent trying to get his agent to get him a gig, and smoking weed with Jeremy (the always delightful Nick Offerman), his dealer and one-time co-star; the two worked on a TV show called “Cattle Drive” years ago. He’s also been divorced for years from Valarie (Ross), a successful photographer, and his relationship with his daughter, Lucy (Krysten Ritter), is unbearably brittle due to Lee’s habitual neglect and distance. One minute Lee’s trying to find a job, and the next minute, he finds out that he has pancreatic cancer. And so The Hero presents Elliott with a fitting and melancholic role that allows him to use everything about him that he’s ever used to play a man who’s hurt but not defeated: maybe it’s a form of denial, but the diagnosis gives Lee a sense of crazy hope, that maybe he can find another great role before it all ends. The only offer on the table for Lee is to accept an award from a film society fan club, and he attends with Charlotte (Laura Prepon), a sharp and observant lady he met at Jeremy’s place. Accepting the award, Lee gives a sweet, selfdeprecating speech that hits the internet and goes viral, and suddenly he’s in the spotlight: Lee Hayden is trending. Brett Haley’s film, co-written by Marc Basch, has a real authenticity to it, not just about the sudden epiphanies brought on by an unexpected death sentence, but also about the cumulative realities brought on by a hardscrabble life lived on the outskirts of show business. Lee has only made one movie he’s proud of, and now he has a chance to make something more out of whatever life he has left in him. •

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Coming out of the Cage

La Cage Aux Folles holds up in the present By Br yan VanC ampe n La Cage Aux Folles, book by Harvey Fierstein, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, based on the play by Jean Poiret; directed by Bert Bernardi; choreography by Matthew Couvillon, music direction by Joel Gelpe, scenic design by Darin Himmerich, costume and wig design by Jimmy Johansmeyer. At Cortland Repertory Theatre through July 8.

saw Édouard Molinaro’s 1978 French farce La Cage Aux Folles at a particular point in high school when I was starting to see foreign films for the first time: new films like The Tin Drum and Excalibur and older titles like Jean-Luc Godard’s Sympathy for the Devil (One Plus One) and Roman Polanski flicks like Repulsion and Knife in the Water. I remember seeing the film for the first time at Cornell Cinema, and I also recall that hip feeling of being in on some kind of cool tip. Like Tootsie (1982), the Molinaro film took drag humor and gender identity and made it funny, mainstream and very commercial: two

transplanted the story to Florida, the musical — and CRT’s production — stays faithful to the film. The story focuses on a gay couple: Georges (Brian Runbeck), the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin (Joel Briel), his romantic partner and star attraction “Zaza.” The complications begin when Georges’ son, Jean-Michel (Aaron Jacobs), brings home his fiancée’s ultraconservative parents to meet them. The musical gives Georges and Albin an alternative family of sorts with the ensemble of drag queens that support ZaZa, dubbed “Les Cagelles”: Angelique (Giovanni DaSilva), Monique (Caiti

(McKenna Silva) and Mercedes (Michael Dikegoros). The group introduces the show’s signature number, “We Are What We Are,” reclaimed by a defiant Zaza at the end of the first act, redefining the power of Herman’s lyrics and music. In a dizzying variety of get-ups and hairdos, Anthony Wright steals every scene he has playing Georges and Albin’s housekeeper Jacob. CRT’s production, under the direction of Bert Bernardi, is as warm and fuzzy as its source material. Considering the show itself is 34 years old, it stands as a tribute to the durability of its premise that it always feels so fresh and contemporary. Runback is not the manic choreographer that Williams played (“You Fosse, Fosse, Fosse, Martha Graham, Martha Graham”) nor is he trying to be. His Georges is the ideal compere, but sweet and love-struck at his core, the essence of the doting husband. This leaves plenty of space for Joel Briel to act the temperamental diva who always needs to be coaxed out of her dressing room. (Once it’s clear that the prospective in-laws are coming, Briel’s acting ability will really be put to the test.) The sound from Joel Gelpe’s eightpiece ensemble was fine and wellbalanced, and as usual, CRT makes the most of its intimate space. Starting with a simple but elegant gilt-edged proscenium arch, cast members bring in and take out all flats, furniture and props to change the scene, and the costumes and wigs by Jimmy Johansmeyer merit mention as well. •

sequels and Mike Nichol’s hilarious 1996 remake The Birdcage, starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane in the roles played by Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault in the film. And speaking of remakes, La Cage Aux Folles was co-written by Francis Veber, whose entire filmography was optioned for an endless series of Americanized remakes, everything from The Toy (1982) to Dinner for Schmucks (2010). The La Cage Aux Folles franchise also inspired a 1983 TripleTony award-winning An actor in “La Cage Aux Folles” cross-dresses for the part musical by Harvey Fierstein (Photo: Eric Behnke) and Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly, Mame) that has been revived twice on Broadway and is now Marlowe), Phaedra (Brendan Henderson), playing at CRT through July 8. Bitelle (Logan Mortier), Chantel (Grant Unlike The Birdcage, which Paylor), Hanna (Richard Nebel), Nicole

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Gilbert & Sullivan Comic Opera Impresses By G.M . Bur n s

t’s been more than 140 years since the first comic opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan was performed at the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company in London, England, in 1875. The collaborating duo composed

songs, dialogue and staging for 13 operas, and all have the trademark “topsy-turvy” theme of creative consequences, humor and crafty conclusions, which seem to have stood the test of time for many theatergoers.

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This summer, the Savoyards Musical Theatre will return to the Schwartz Center stage at Cornell University with their production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Sorcerer, kicking off the 2017 free summer events series sponsored by Cornell’s School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. According to the president of the Savoyards and frequent lead soprano, Karen Dumont, the two-part play is about what occurs when a village partakes in a love potion. “I love performing G & S.,” said Dumont. “The Sorcerer is a special treat this year. It is not often done and hasn’t been produced in Ithaca since the 1980s.” “I loved discovering the charming nature of the piece. It’s been a wonderful

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surprise,” she adds. “The show has beautiful — and catchy— tunes and funny scenes just as entertaining as in the more well-known G & S operas.” Dumont said enjoys playing her character, Aline Sangazure, who “not only sing[s] beautifully and act[s] dramatically, but also gets to show her comedic side,” once she drinks the love potion. “As such, two of my favorite pieces in the show are the gorgeous soprano and tenor, love duet (“O love, true love” ...) and my comic duet with the baritone vicar (“O joyous boon”...),” Dumont said. “It is clear that Dumont, on a personal level, loves the character she is performing. Another aspect of the production is the director Holly Adams, who said she was the last person to join the project after the play had been chosen and cast. “The performers had been rehearsing with the musical director Scott Miller, production concepts had been sketched out and dates set,” Adams adds. “Needless to say, I crammed for the exam — especially as I had never heard of this particular G & S show. I expected Gilbertian wit and skewer, which there is a-plenty, and a richly colored tapestry of sound, each note thoughtfully placed, from Sullivan.” The work reflects a “first true venture between them [Gilbert & Sullivan] [and] is a more tender look at we humans than later G & S works,” she said. “There is a sweetness that seems to say that despite our ignorance and accidental cruelty, we can be, if not changed, at least adjusted, and that we are basically decent at heart. I also love the delicious comedy of this operetta, especially in Act II. The ‘dissembling’ of Doctor Daly is riotous.” So whether the audience members are familiar or not with G & S operas, this production does appear to have been designed to be magical and amusing. It is also a thoughtful story in the tradition of G & S and one that Dumont hopes will “keep the tradition of G & S alive in Ithaca for years to come.” “I think audiences will love the voices, ballads, and humor,” Adams said. “It is basically 24 hours on a wedding day in a village, and things go wildly awry. The characters are both funny and lovely!”•

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Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz. The Jess Novak Band | 8:00 PM, 6/29 | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St, Ithaca | (Rock, Soul)

Root Shock | 10:00 PM, 6/30 | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca |

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Rd, Ithaca | (Rock ‘n’ Roll, Oldies, Blues) Ithaca Concert Band at Dewitt Park | 7:00 PM 6/29 | Dewitt Park, Ithaca | “National Spirit March” arranged by band piccolo player, Phil Krasicky; male groups of the 1960s will also be featured in the “The Beach Boys Greatest Hits”; Also from the ’60s, ICB has resurrected a medley of The Beatles; if you like Broadway tunes, come and listen to Meredith Wilson’s “The Music Man.”

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Blue Eyed Soul | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/30 | Treleaven Winery, 658 Lake Rd, King Ferry | Part of Treleaven Winery’s

drummer Zaun Marshburn and bassist Andy Adelewitz. Rachel Beverly, Ryan Newton and Single Dowt - Triple Header! | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 6/30 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | It’s going to be a frolicking bout of musical diversity and collaboration ranging from soulful acoustic guitar solos with great vocals to rock favorites done with a fun twist. As usual, there will be drink specials on many craft beers from near and far. Dinner fare will be on hand to make Friday all the easier. Busdriver, Zeroh, Winston Bongo, Robot Detective | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, 6/30 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge &

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Monday Weekly Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 7/03 | The Canaan Institute| (Jazz jam session) Switched to Monday nights for the summer months.

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When success is achieved, when the ultimate goal is reached, everything should have fallen into place. Without another goal to top the previous one, what else is there? “The Hero,” starring Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon and Nick Offerman, grapples with the false ending that success is thought to bring. Now in his early ’70s and with only one iconic roll that made him famous, Lee Hayden will begin to mediate on both his past and his imminent mortality. (Photo provided) Garden Concert series; featuring Alexander’s Food Truck Stone Cold Miracle | 7:00 PM, 6/30 | Cornell Arts Quad, Cornell University, Ithaca | Original soul music with deep grooves, funky beats and gospelinspired vocals. The Ithaca-based band showcases some of the area’s most epic talent, including powerhouse singer LaTrece Stevenson, guitarists Nick LaVerne and Dustin Stuhr,

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Purple Valley, Backtalk Band, Thru Spectrums, City Limits and Jeff Love Band. Fireworks close out the show. Sons of a Beach | 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, 7/01 | Heron Hill Winery, 3586 Rt 14, Himrod | Jimmy Buffett Tribute Duo. Jess Novak & Marc Ryan Serenade The Boathouse | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 7/01 | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | When Jess Novak graces the Boathouse it’s an honor for us. To welcome Marc W. Ryan back to our humble environs is a wonderful treat. Lots of food available at the Shops at Traders Village and, of course, our fantastic array of local and specialty craft beers, ciders and wines on hand, too! Candor Community Chorus: Seize the Day | 7:00 PM, 7/01 | Candor High School, Academy St, Candor | The program celebrates America’s Independence through a mix of folk, gospel and patriotic music that will set your spirit soaring. The chorus will present some old favorites with a new twist and some Broadway tunes to hum for the rest of the evening. Wailing Souls | 8:00 PM, 7/01 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Rocksteady, Reggae)

us with real country music. Please bring your lawn chairs and umbrellas. There will be ice cream, popcorn, sausage and soda, plus 50/50 drawings during all entertainment. Come and relax and have a great time. Music Night at The Country Diner | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/02, Sunday | Hosmer Winery, 6999 State Route 89, Ovid | Live music from Tribal Revival Duo: Marc & Tom. Serving up fresh mimosas as well as wine and beer by the glass and bottle.

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Queen of Katwe Screening | 7:00 PM, 6/28 | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Biopic of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi. She traces her journey from the slums of Katwe, where she is forced to

Music & Mimosas | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM, 7/02, Sunday | The Country Diner, 45 E Tioga Street, Spencer | It’s that time of year again! Come out and join

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Izzy True, Palberta, Purrer, Ghosties | 7:00 PM, 7/04 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | (Indie Rock, Folk, Punk) Wild Root with a Fireworks After Party | 9:30 PM, 7/04 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Band Wild Root — rock, funk and soul, originally a cover band from Florida — plays; fireworks after the show, to celebrate Independence Day.

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abandon her schooling at the age of 9, to the upper echelons of the chess world. Fantastic Mr. Fox: Cinema Under the Stars | 9:30 PM, 6/29 | Willard Straight Hall Terrace, Cornell, Ithaca | Directed by Wes Anderson with the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray. Wes Anderson turns his inimitable style to Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel, and the stop-motion results are, truly, fantastic. Part of Cornell Cinema’s Cinema Under the Stars series. 87 minutes. Hidden Figures Screening | 5:00 PM, 6/30 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Part of the Build a Better World Series for teens, hosted by the Tompkins County Public Library. Cinemapolis

Friday, 6/30 to Thursday, 7/06. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes The Exception | A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation. | 107 mins R | I, Daniel Blake | After having suffered a heart-attack, a

Cass Park and Stewart Park, Monday July 3 (Raindate WednesdayJuly 5) Celebrate Independence Day with fireworks on the lake! Fireworks will be visible from both Cass and Stewart Parks, and food trucks will fuel culinary needs. The Jeff Love Band will provide entertainment at Stewart Park. Pyrotechnics will launch the fireworks from the city golf course, illuminating the night of festivities. (Photo: Adam Baker)

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Stage Guys and Dolls |Through 06/28 | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Sing, dance, laugh and gamble the night away in this timeless blockbuster musical comedy. From the bustle of Time Square to the dance clubs of Havana to the sewers of New York City, gangsters and missionaries team up for an unforgettable adventure. Auditions for The Speed of Darkness | All Day, 6/29 | Chenango River Theatre, 91 State Highway 12, Greene | Chenango River Theatre will hold local auditions on Sunday, July 9, for The Speed of Darkness, by Steve Tesich. The show rehearses Sept. 11-28 and runs Sept. 29-Oct. 15. Needed are one 17-year-old female, one 17-year-old male, plus two men and one woman, all of whom are 45-50. More info on the roles is posted on CRT’s website: www.chenangorivertheatre.org. To audition, actors will need a headshot/resume and a maximum two-minute monologue. Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, 6/29 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv, Stand up. Hosted by Comedy FLOPs) Come out for a fun night of improv and lots of laughs; stay for drinks at The Dock bar. Chicago at The Central New York Playhouse | The Central New York Playhouse, 3649 Erie Blvd E, Dewitt | Through July 1 | Chicago will run for 11 performances June 16 to July 1 (Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.) There will be an additional ASL interpreted performance July 1 at 2 p.m. La Cage Aux Folles |Through July 8 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | This multiple Tony-Award winning musical remains one of Broadway’s all time greatest hits. After 20 years of unwedded bliss Georges and Albin, two men partnered for better-orworse, get a bit of both when Georges’ son (fathered during a one-night fling) announces his impending marriage to the daughter of a closedminded politician. The Sorcerer | 7:30 PM, 6/28 Wednesday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | What happens when an entire village partakes of a love potion? A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | 8:00 PM, 06/29

Cinema Under the Stars: Fantastic Mr. Fox, Willard Straight Hall Terrace, Thursday, June 29, 9:30 p.m.

Based on Roald Dahl’s classic, this film captures the sneaky, conniving fox who steals food from three mean and wealthy farmers. Directed by Wes Anderson, this is his first stop-motion film starring George Clooney and Meryl Streep. Experience the magic of Fantastic Mr. Fox outdoors in the cool Ithaca nights at Cornell Cinema’s Willard Straight Terrace.

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59-year-old carpenter must fight the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance. | 100 mins R | Paris Can Wait | The wife of a successful movie producer takes a car trip from the south of France to Paris with one of her husband’s associates. | 92 mins PG-13 | Beariz at Dinner| A holistic medicine practitioner attends a wealthy client’s dinner party after her car breaks down. | 83 mins R | The Hero | An ailing movie star comes to terms with his past and mortality. | 93 mins R | The Beguiled | At a girls’ school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tension, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events. | 93 mins R |

Tubelight | Tubelight is the story of a man’s unshakable faith in himself and the love for his family. | 136 mins NR | 47 Meters Down | Two sisters vacationing in Mexico are trapped in a shark cage at the bottom of the ocean. With less than an hour of oxygen left and great white sharks circling nearby, they must fight to survive. | 89 mins PG-13 | Rough Night | Things go terribly wrong for a group of girlfriends who hire a male stripper for a bachelorette party in Miami. | 101 mins R | Despicable Me 3 | Gru meets his long-lost charming, cheerful, and more successful twin brother Dru who wants to team up with him for one last criminal heist. | 90 mins PG | Transformers: The Last Knight | Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. | 149 mins PG-13 | All Eyez On Me | Tells the true and untold story of prolific rapper, actor, poet and activist Tupac Shakur. | 140 mins R | Wonder Woman | Before she was Wonder Woman she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained warrior. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, she leaves home to fight a war to end all wars, discovering her full powers and true destiny. | 141 mins PG-13 | Cars 3 | Lightning McQueen sets out to prove to a new generation of racers that he’s still the best race car in the world. | 109 mins G | The Mummy | An ancient princess is awakened from her crypt beneath the desert, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension | 110 mins PG-13 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | A group of intergalactic criminals are forced to work together to stop a fanatical warrior from taking control of the universe. | 136 mins PG-13 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales |Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the trident of Poseidon. | 129 mins PG-13 |

Through 07/15 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Book by Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. This Tony Award-winning musical is light, fast-paced, and irreverent. Broadway’s greatest farce mashes the comedy of Ancient Rome with the great American musical. Add in a healthy shake of vaudeville and Borscht belt and you get one of the funniest musicals ever written.

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Melanie and the Boys have been jamming together for ages, and now they’ve formally come together and combined their musical talents. Their music, generally speaking is Americana: a mix of bluegrass, blues, rock and folk. Since they come from a background of jamming, that iconic jam feeling hasn’t gone away in their shows. Each performance is fun and carefree, amping up the audience for a lively yet mellow show. Originally from Binghamton, Melanie and the Boys will play at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 2, at Maxie’s Supper Club. (Photo: David Huizinga)

Knit & Chat| 2:00-4:00 PM, 7/03 Monday |Edith B. Ford Memorial Library 7169 N Main St, Ovid | A social knitting club open to all skill levels. Held every Monday through July 24.

Learning Summer Music Class | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 6/29 | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Come jam with us! Dust off that guitar and come play. Review the basics or expand your skills while learning to play rhythm and melody to a new tune. All levels welcome. Radiant Skin, Hair & Nails | 08:30 PM, 6/29 | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn about herbs, foods and supplements that can help make shiny hair, a glowing complexion and resilient nails with Amanda Lewis. Registration required: sign up at greenstar.coop, at the store or call 273-9392. Pioneer Forest Walk | 09:00 AM-10:30 AM, 7/01 | Michigan Hill Historical Marker, King Road, Ithaca | A tour about the first landowner John Welch will

be led by Eric Gervais, a local history researcher who is also a land steward on Welch’s historical lot. The tour will focus more on remnants of pioneer life in the forest today on his land. Please register by emailing community@thehistorycenter.net or via the registration page: http://tiny. cc/y1snly.

Health Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 8:00 AM-10:45 AM, 7/02 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | You are invited to join the entire event, and you are equally welcome to join at the top of the hour.

2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | The Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen weekend is set to feature the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, IMSA Prototype Challenge, Porsche GT3 Cup USA and Canada, and Lamborghini Super Trofeo. Carnival a Candor Bell Park | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, 6/29 | Candor Bell Park, Rt 96/Spencer Ave, Candor | Fourth of July celebration featuring DJ David Hurd. and other joyous festivites in Candor. Second Annual Togethernessfest | 6/30 through 7/02, Friday through Sunday| Fools Hill Farm, 657 Dawson Hill, Spencer | 20+ Bands from all over New York and Pennsylvania, contests, games, home-cooked meals, kids activities and more. Celebrate togetherness with folk music and bluegrass tunes. Sterling Renaissance Festival | 10:00 AM-7:00 PM, 7/01, Saturday | Sterling Renaissance Festival, 15385 Farden Road, Sterling | The Sterling Renaissance Festival is one of the oldest and most successful producers of professional interactive entertainment in the world. Thrill

to the excitement of over 100 stage and street performers, professional actors, comedians and musicians who whimsically recreate an authentic English Renaissance village for you to experience. 4th of July Birthday BBQ Bash | 12:00 PM-10:30 PM, 7/01 | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Pack up family and friends, blankets or lawn chairs, and join Americana Vineyards for the biggest party of the summer in the Finger Lakes. Great food, drink, music and fun all day, topped off by a full-blown fireworks finale at 10! So get here early, and plan on staying late! Lansing Fireworks and Independence Day Concert | 6:00 PM, 7/01, Saturday | Myers Park, 1 Lansing Park Rd, Lansing | Concert by Taylor Made begins at 6 p.m. Fireworks go off at 9:30 p.m. Food available. Park and Ride shuttle buses from Lansing Schools will provide rides. Myers Rd will close at 8 p.m.; residents of affected roads will have access Donations and volunteers welcomed. Sponsored by Lansing Community Council. Horse Pull | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 7/02 Sunday | Candor American Legion, NY-96, Candor | Beer, Food, Soda, Concession, Vendors, Calcutta Auction, and Basket Raffles. And — of course — horses. Ithaca Community Fireworks | After dark, 07/03, Monday | Stewart Park, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | Rain date is Wednesday, July 5. Viewings at Cass Park and Stewart Park. Event begins at dark. This event is sponsored by the Ithaca Rotary Community, and catering will be provided in the form of food trucks. Open Car Show | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/03, Monday | Candor Ball Park, Rt 96/Spencer Ave, Candor | Open Car Show with DJ David Hurd playing your favorite oldies. Contact Everett Swansborough (607)659-7957. Candor 4th of July Parade | 10:00 AM 07/4, Tuesday| Church St Candor| Celebrating with Independence Day with the theme heroes. Cortland County Junior Fair| 10:00 AM-10:30 PM, 7/04 Through 7/08 | 4849 Fairground Ave, Cortland | The foundation of this fair is all about agricultural education and kids learning about real life. Come visit and see the hard-work ethic of all the families and 4-H kids

showcasing their work. Games, rides, food and more.

Kids Cuddle Up| 10:00 AM 06/28, Wednesday | 24 W Main St, Dryden | Books, rhymes, songs and play time for infants, toddlers and their caregivers. Held every Wednesday. Summer Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, 6/30 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | These fun-filled programs will include stories, songs, rhymes, baby sign language and early literacy tips. Baby Storytime sessions will be immediately followed by an hour-long Baby and Toddler Playtime, designed to encouraged socialization and hands-on learning through informal free-play. For more information, contact the Library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275. STEAM Book Club| 3:45 PM, 6/28 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children ages 8-12 are invited to explore science, technology, engineering, art and math through lively book discussions and hands-on activities during Tompkins County Public Library’s monthly STEAM Book Club. “The Mechanical Mind of John Coggin” by Elinor Teele is this week’s book. For more information, contact Kate DeVoe at (607)272-4557 extension 277 or kdevoe@tcpl.org. Summer Family Storytime| 11:30 AM-12:00 PM, 7/01, 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 at Summer Family Storytime. Stories in the Park | 11:30 AM-12:00 PM, 7/04, Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children and families are invited to join library staff for lively stories, music and family fun, and stay for lunch and shopping at the Market. For more information, contact the library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

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Fools Hill Farm, June 30 to July 2 After the success of the first fest, Togehternessfest is back for its second year! Relax and enjoy bluegrass, Americana and folk music from all over Pennsylvania and New York There will be contests, home-cooked meals, kids activites and more. Summer is the time to bring everyone together, and now that school’s out and the weather is warm, come on down and embrace togetherness. (Photo: David Feavearyear)

Busdriver has been rapping since 2000 with 10 albums released since then. He is known for his off-kilter production and speedy flow. Zeroh, also a rapper from Los Angeles like Busdriver, raps with a psychedelic vibe, weaving his lyrics. Robot Detective takes on experimental music with an eclectic atmosphere. Hosted by the Ithaca Underground, come out and broaden your musical spectrum.

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Wild Root, 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 4, The Range.

clectic melodies and fresh vocals swirl and stew together to nourish the sound of Wild Root. Motown, reggae, rock ’n’ roll and whispers of funk fill the songs and animate the stages the band performs on. Paul Fournier, lead singer of Wild Root, formed the band in his Florida hometown. Beginning as a cover band, Fournier began to peel away from covers and instead blended genres — sometimes with lyrics, sometimes without. But before Wild Root’s inception in 2013, the roots of the band needed attention. Prior to living back in Florida, Fournier spent several years in Brooklyn working at BB King’s Blues Club as a promotions employee. “[Working at the club] was a wonderful experience for me, and I’ve loved New York ever since I first knew about it,” he said. “I left about four years ago, and ever since I wanted to come back.” While the band has described themselves as creating “swampy beach vibes,”

Rarely seen and previously unexhibited works by Louis Eilshemius, Thornton Dial, Howard Finster, and others. Info at museum. cornell.edu/exhibitions/best-wayprepare-bananas-fruits-soulpermanent-collection. The Best Way to Prepare Bananas: Fruits of the Soul from the Permanent Collection, on view from June 24 to August 13, 2017. Drawn entirely from the Johnson’s collection, many works are exhibited here for the first time, featuring gifts of Cornell alumni and several artists with local connections Hilton Garden Inn | 130 E Seneca St | Glorious Spring in the Finger Lakes: Photography by Maria Krueger Hopshire Farm and Brewery | 1771 Dryden Rd, Freeville | “Awakening” by Trina Bartimer Bruno. New mixed media paintings that are nature inspired. The Ink Shop | 330 E State St, Ithaca | Rebecca

referencing the Floridian climate and Even though the music scene Wild it worked out better for me to come home landscape, it’s ironic that Wild Root’s hard Root caters to doesn’t thrive as well in and start the band here in Florida.” soul is not as widely played or understood Florida, Fournier decided it was time to Fournier is still running through in Florida. Fournier noted there isn’t much go home. Full of inspiration and taking members until everyone finds a long-term musical diversity in his hometown. It’s this his experiences back with him, he found fit. Even though much of the writing and need for recording that goes into more exWild Root comes from perimentahim, Fournier still draws tion and on the creative minds of creative his current band memvibes is bers. It’s a collaborative fueling the effort with one musician band and at the forefront. bringing “I like that it’s a them to loose thing and can Ithaca. play with different “Upmusicians,” Fournier state said. “Everybody brings New York something different to and the the table, and we try to Northeast blend as much as we in gencan together as conclueral: that’s sively as we can.” where The sounds and Woodstock the art flow through was, that’s Wild Root, but the band where hasn’t necessarily found jam bands a place to call home really yet. Or, perhaps, their made their home manifests itself in Wild Root is from Florida, and the band’s sound along with their art mirrors the state’s swampy, statements, the different cities they beachy vibes. (Photo: Paul Fournier) soul musitravel to. Maybe their cians — all home isn’t in Florida or of those great genres that I love came out members to join him on the journey to New York City, but it’s somewhere in the of the Northeast,” Fournier said. “Some Wild Root. melodies. But settling down in one place, came out of Detroit, too, like the soul and “When I started playing in New York, Fournier said, isn’t a bad idea either. Motown stuff. My father is from Detroit, so I was drumming for an indie rock band “We’re ready to find our second I always grew up with classic rock, soul and called Brother K,” Fournier said. “I was tryhome,” he said. Motown.” ing to start up a band like I have now, but

Hahn: “What is home” Is an exhibit of monotypes that represent the artist’s interest in relationships between humans and their localities. Ithaca Marriott Downtown | 120 Aurora St, Ithaca | Recent work by artist and designer Aric Snee. Snee has been working with glass for over 15 years in academic, studio and factory environments. Kitchen Theatre | 514 W State St | “Mirage”: Paintings by John Lyon Paul. John’s paintings emerge from a kinesthetic awareness also evident in his sculptures. His use of color and line, with their pulse, vibration and rhythms, invite the viewer to enter and travel them. Lifelong | 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Life in a Different Art. Susan Stolov began to paint 12 years ago. A professional classical musician for most of her life, this is the first public exhibition of her visual art. Working in watercolor and acrylic, Susan has captured images of family life, her

Michigan Hill Historical Marker, Saturday, July 1, 9:30 a.m. The first landowner in Tompkins County, John Welch, settled on his land.for military service in the American Revolutionary War. A tour of his land will be led by Eric Gervais, a local history researcher who is also a land steward on Welch’s historical lot. Celebrating Rural Heritage, a movement by the History Center of Tompkins County, connects the area with its humble beginnings and bright futures to come.

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| 6:00 PM | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Lose weight and stay healthy — yes, at the same time. Contact Jean Dewey Leader 659-9969 or jmdewey@frontiernet.net The Ultimate Purpose Rap Session: A Free Speech - Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Room #3, 2nd Floor, Above The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 Center of the Commons, Ithaca | We have tea, cookies and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future. Please join us in these trying political times and division of ideas across the country and across the county!

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Tompkins County Public Library, Thursday, June 29, 6:30 p.m. Bob Proehl reads from his newest book, A Thousand Worlds. The book follows a mother and son on a cross-country roadtrip, stopping along the way for comic-cons. Originally from Buffalo, Proehl worked as the programming director and bookseller of Buffalo Street Books, and he builds up his comic-con credibility through his previous work at the comic book store Queen City Bookstore. He has also written for the 33 1/3 book series.

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new roofs in 2015. Also new are the hot water heater and ceiling fans in all the bedrooms. And a colorful peony hedge was singing its last summer song when we visited. •

203 Hook Place is a hideaway from the bustle By Peg g y Haine

n the city, with all city amenities, 203 Hook Place feels as if it’s a country place. This 1935 Montgomery Ward kit house has been added to, updated, and upgraded, but it still has the well-proportioned rooms and arched doorways of the originals that rolled into Ithaca on the railroad in pieces, and were assembled on site. They came with complete plans and directions for assembly; each piece was marked and the plans showed where to use it. The Tudor revival home, with its halftimbered façade, has certainly stood the test of time, and is nicely situated on West Hill, one of the leafiest neighborhoods in town. It’s on a quiet street, just up the road from Alternatives Community School, on a bus line, near Island Health & Fitness, close to McDaniels Park and a short jaunt from everything downtown. From their hillside perch, the sellers say they’ve had a perfect view of Fourth of July fireworks, this year scheduled for the Third of July. Close enough. The current owners have installed many new additions and amenities and have enjoyed the home’s open-plan layout. The living room focuses on a baystyle window trio that would make an ideal spot for a window seat, and a pretty Vermont Castings gas stove adds to the room’s warmth. All-day light brightens a sitting room off the living room with windows on three sides. The kitchen looks out over the firstfloor living area, into the backyard (lucky cook!) and has a large, new stainless-steel double-door, bottom drawer fridge and

a new dishwasher. Off the kitchen, a mudroom entrance from the driveway also leads to a half bath. The sunroom is a joy, providing even more light, its stone flooring providing passive solar heat. And beyond the sunroom, a spacious new deck looks over the nearly quarter-acre double-lot backyard with its privacy fence, garden shed, and raised beds, on their way to producing a bumper tomato crop. Upstairs, you’re in a tree house. Bedrooms face in three directions, and each is shaded by tall hardwood trees. The full bath has a shower and tub combo. And a door in the master bedroom leads to a good-sized insulated storage space or kids’ hideout under the eaves. An office that previously lived its life as a garage is now fully insulated; a “split” with a quiet outdoor compressor provides both air conditioning and heat, and light filters in through a double slider door. Charming detail includes a telephone

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