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ongressman Tom Reed held four town halls this past weekend across the 23rd Congressional District. One of those stops was in Trumansburg. The Ithaca Times was in attendance and highlighted a number of claims made by the Congressman we thought deserved additional exploration. Do vocational and technical skills generate leave graduates with higher wages? Vocational and technical training can encompass a wide variety of career choices from auto mechanics to cosmetology and the wages for these fields vary just as greatly. Based on 2016 Bureau of Labor statistics data, the median wage for vocationally trained construction workers is $22.88 an hour ($47,580 a year) whereas their classmates in culinary programs bring home a median $17.47 an hour ($36,340 a year). Auto mechanics make $19.90 an hour ($41,400 a year), heating venting and air conditioning specialists earn $23.23 an hour ($48,320 a year) and cosmetologists make $14.23 an hour ($29,590 a year). According to the same BLS report, workers with only a high school degree earned only $42,840 a year in comparison to those graduating with an associate’s degree, which is common to most technical programs, whom earn an average $54,510 a year. In most respects the congressman’s claim is valid. Are India and China “the largest polluters across the board?” This statement was made by the congressman in relation to the pollution of water resources. In that area the congressman is correct in that India and China are far behind the U.S. in access to clean water. Accordcontinued on page 4
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t a solar-powered news conference on a sunny Wednesday in Lansing, management of the coal-fired Cayuga Operating Plant – and new partners Beowulf Energy, an international infrastructure holding company – announced plans for what will soon become the largest solar farm in Upstate New York. The $25 million project, dubbed Cay uga Solar, w il l generate 18 megawatts of solar power (enough to power 3,100 homes, according to management) and allow the plant – which was facing shutdown as the state moves away from coal – to diversify the use of its 434acre property, allowing Cayuga Operating Plant to move toward its future goal of becoming an “energy park,” with a broad spectrum of renewable energy
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sources to offset the loss of coal in this section of the state. The announcement, significant in the fact it is a renewable conversion at a legacy fossil fuel plant, is also a testament to the efficiency of the private sector: Cayuga Operating Plant was one of just four facilities in the United States highlighted by the Solar Energy Industry Association as being feasible for such a project to take place. “Private investment is the reason why this project is going to work,” Jennifer Tavares, president of the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, said on Wednesday. While it’s unclear what the precise tax implications on the site or what the long-term job creation numbers will be, the
T a k e ▶ Save the date for the Northside Southside Annual Picnic on Wednesday, July 19th at the Titus Towers Picnic Pavilion. It happens from 11:30 a.m. and runs until 1:30 p.m. with lots of food provided (though a dish to pass is encouraged.) Johnny Russo will be there to entertain. ▶ The library’s annual summer reading challenge kicks off at 2 p.m., Saturday, June 24 with a family-friendly party
immediate impact will be the utilization of up to 150 union construction jobs in Tompkins County as well as the positioning of Cayuga Operating Plant in a sector which, according to the United States Energy Information Administration, is forecast to increase by 48 percent by the end of next year. “I think it’s very important to emphasize New York, Tompkins County, the United States and even the world are going through an enormous energy transition,” said Michael Enright, Managing Director of Beowulf Energy and former chief of staff to one-time Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley. “It is underway, nobody knows Contin u ed On Page 5
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starring Moreland the Magician. This year’s summer reading theme is “Build a Better World,” and during this special program participants will help our magical contractor, “Foreman Dave” complete a project at the library by helping him recover his missing blueprints using magic. The program will be held in the Library’s BorgWarner Community Room and is free and open to the public.
▶ Juneteenth is coming up! It’s an awesome event and you shouldn’t risk missing it. A weekend-long event, the event kicks off on June 16th with the Juneteenth Block Party 4:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. and features workshops and partying all weekend. It’s real easy to find: just walk down Plain Street and listen for the noise. You’ll figure it out quickly.
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he latest proposal for the Harold’s Square housing project includes a new outdoor entry court, additional twelfth f loor apartments (on top of the ones added to the plan last fall), separate mechanical equipment storage space and more.
Now it just needs to get built. The proposed 108-unit apartment complex for the Commons has undergone a few different permutations since it was first approved in 2013, these facade changes and structural modifications being the latest.
The developers have said the outcome of the combination of changes will ensure the financial viability of the project. The approved changes are also accompanied by an appeal to the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency for an updated tax abatement that
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solar and wind. Over the last five sessions of congress, Reed has not sponsored or cosponsored legislation in regards to renewable energy tax credits. However, the house, with Reed’s vote, has continued to extend existing tax credits until the year 2020. Did Reed write 16 letters to the Obama administration opposing the Paris Climate Accord before it was adopted and were those letters not given a response or acknowledgement? The Times is still working diligently to confirm this question through Reed’s office and will update this as information becomes available. Has Reed voted for expanded access to birth control? The house has not effectively taken up a bill expressly supporting expanded access to birth control. The last major attempt was in 2015 with the Affordability IS Access Act. That measure was passed by the senate, but left to die in the house. The congressman may or may not have supported expanded access is
debate over provisions in other bills such as the Affordable Care Act or the American Healthcare Act, but that is unverifiable. Does the budget call for increased funding for Federal Health Qualified Centers and does that support expanded access to birth control? Interestingly enough, the FY 2017 budget does not call for increased funding for the Federal Health Qualified Centers (FHQC’s). However, that being said, the Health and Human Services budget at this time formally requests for an additional $13.521 million to $300 million for the Family Planning budget which includes appropriations for birth control under the Title X program. Has Reed historically supported a “fully and respectably functioning” Environmental Protection Agency? Reed told a February 6 conference call with the press the following: “What I’ve seen over the last six to eight years, the EPA has expanded its regulatory power
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ing to World Bank data, there’s 8.84 cubic meters of freshwater resources for every person in America, but only 2.06 cubic meters per person in China and 1.12 cubic meters per person in India. Without federal tax credits, would solar and wind industries be deployed to the scale they are today? A U.S. Department of Energy report titled “Impacts of Federal Tax Credit Extensions on Renewable Deployment and Power Sector Emissions” concluded that the extended renewable energy tax credits would support greater investments in wind and solar than if those tax credits had not been extended. While on the House Ways and Means committee did Reed write provisions for renewable energy tax credits? It’s difficult to determine whether Reed did or did not physically write wording in legislation related to tax credits for 7–13,
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would adjust for the higher construction costs incurred in light of the building changes, which was discussed at this month’s Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency meeting. According to David Lubin and McGuire Development Company’s application for the abatement, there is a 12 percent increase in the project’s cost. The TCIDA will next meet on June 15. An agenda has not been published for that meeting yet but presumably the abatement will be a topic of discussion. Such actions have come under fire recently, most notably about the City Centre mixed-use project in April which provoked a fairly loud public opposition but was approved nonetheless. TCIDA member Rich John, who voted in favor of the City Centre abatement, said t he request for an increase makes sense in light of the construction changes, and that if the project is finally built the benefits will eventually outweigh the costs. He emphasized his satisfaction that the historic Sage Block would be preserved and renovated. “Overall, no project is perfect, but I think this would be a significant improvement to the Commons,” John said. “We’ve had that space empty or underutilized for years [...] The city continued on page 11
to a level that to me is just too excessive. I think you need to bring a level of reasonableness into the agency and that’s something that I think we need to do moving forward.” Within this session of congress, Reed voted against the Stream Protection Rule (02/01) and in favor of restricting EPA studies (03/28) which were two recorded votes on environmental protection topics. Reed earlier noted in that same press call that he would absolutely oppose a full defunding of the EPA. With that being noted, his voting record thus far does not show that he is a friend to them. Is the U.S. seeing it’s alltime highest tax revenue? To be precise, tax receipts peaked after Q3 of 2016, and have since fallen very minimally, but when viewing from a yearly data point, it’s still reasonable to conclude that U.S. tax revenue is at its all-time high. – Va u g h n G o l d e n
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where it’s going or where it’s going to end up, but it is a transition. Part of the movement for Cayuga on the solar array is that it is our recognition markets are moving toward renewables and we embrace that, and want to be a part of that in the days and weeks ahead.” There is no set timeline for the project to be completed, however RFPs (requests for proposals) were due on the project in April and some concepts – including a community aggregation program to sell energy directly to end users – might be pulled together in the future as more details are hashed out. Though the project itself would feed into the energy grid current ly overseen by New York State Electric and Gas, the proposed solar farm signifies a small – but important – step to fulfilling the overall solar potential of Tompkins County. In a 2012 planning department study, it was estimated the county could – at its fullest potential – generate up to 271 megawatts of power solely from solar power (or the equivalent of 298 million kilowatt hours), a large amount but still well short of the 323 megawatts provided by the Cayuga power plant. Though
The project at 1061 Dryden Rd. has been in the works for a year and is on a 6.537-acre parcel that would require a new zoning district – an issue with some town residents who feel the Varna comprehensive plan passed in 2012 is being ignored.
The plan is for two-floor, threebedroom units with a covered back porch built into the structure and sidewalks throughout to create a “walkable community, sort of like a cul-de-sac.” The project will be on the
difficult to track exactly how much energy generated locally is used by Tompkins County residents due to the nature of the energy grid, the solar farm nonetheless represents a small proportion of the estimated 779.5 million kilowatt hours of energy used county-wide in 2008, the most recent estimate available. (though, as the largescale industrial development of Emerson Power Transmission closed in 2009, that number today is likely lower.) Where the real significance of the announced project lies is in its potential for future commercial and utilities development on the site, setting Lansing up for a future that, while carrying on without coal, will still significantly rely heavily on energy production. “Who knows in five or ten years what will happen here,” said Lansing’s Town Supervisor, Ed Lavigne. “This is a giant lab. This is a time to see how much energy we can draw out of these things and what way we can do it. This will be huge going forward as we try to partner with other transitional fuels. As you know, solar isn’t there by itself yet: this is a giant step forward. There are other transitional fuels we need to incorporate until we can get there. We did it with whale oil; we did it with kerosene; we’re going to do it with gas.”
Nonetheless, it’s hard to meet renewable energy goals without taking steps forward and, as far as the future sustainability both for the plant and Lansing’s tax base, the announcement comes as welcome news. Income through an in-progress policy proposal called RECS – renewable energy credits – will be a helpful boost to the site’s revenue on the way to the state’s 2030 energy goals, allowing for the offset of a decline in tax revenues on the plant. According to Jerry Goodenough, chief operating officer at the Cayuga power plant, the early documentation of this proposal calls for good site control, sufficient placement on the grid and sufficiently handled in the permitting process, traits Goodenough said he feel apply completely to the Lansing facility. “We have a leg-up on the other projects in New York due to the fact we own this land, the zoning meets the needs of the project and we have a solid interconnection point,” said Goodenough. “We have an approved application and have been designated as a project ready to move forward. We fully understand our environmental obligations, and we have draft documents completed… we’ve had consultants with LaBella consult us with that… we’re ready for the next step.”
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ith the area’s efforts to be more green in the future, transportation figures to be one of the main targets of such a movement, with programs like Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Way2Go aiming to educate the public and modify policies to ensure efficiency but also emphasize equality. At last week ’s Tompkins County Planning, Developme nt a nd E nv i ron me nt a l Quality Committee meeting, officials from Cornell Cooperat ive E x tension gave a n update on a variety of projects being run through or in conjunction with the Way2Go program and its local partnerships. The Cooperative Extension was contracted in 2016 to attempt to design programs that could implement the suggested changes outlined in the Ithaca Tompkins Transportation Study. The general goal of these programs is to expand access to transportation for those living in Tompkins County, educating the community about the options that are available to them which, it’s fairly likely the community may not be aware of. Way2Go and Environment Team Administrator Dawn Montanye, who has been on t he job for t h ree mont hs , said their goals have revolved around trying to spread the word about things like ridesharing, the bus system, biking and walking, in advance of their more in-depth efforts which will most likely be coming as soon as later this summer. “It’s more than information, it’s really to help develop very usable transportation options that are going to change people’s lives,” Montanye said. “Our focus has really been on how do you match up people’s needs with the transportation options which a lot of people might not know are even present.”
Ups&Downs ▶ THUMBS UP to the new parking lot at Pete’s Grocery on the West End. It looks great, it’s nice and smooth to drive on, and it’s a distinct and longneeded upgrade to the business and to the neighborhood. Very nice all around!. But the orientation of the mailbox... not so much. Despite being right next to the new lot, it’s impossible to put mail into it without getting out of your car. and it would’ve been SO easy to make car deposit convenient... –Dave Williams, Ithaca ▶ Ithaca Fest Vendor Fees Thumbsdown to the city for displacing long-time Commons hot dog vender and Ithaca institution Lou Cassanti from the Ithaca Festival? No out-oftowner’s can give you a rundown on “exactly what’s wrong with the city now” with your chili dog! And they don’t cook chicken for Riley-the Dog across the Commons. Maybe the city can explain to Riley why Lou’s not there. –David Schwartz, Ithaca
▶ Top stories on Ithaca. com this week: 1) Ithaca steakhouse ranked one of the best in the world 2) One of the last local movie rental stores on the verge of closing 3) ICSD Athletic Director Misused District Funds 4) Local psych rockers Spazzare bring the truth 5) Friends of Immaculate Conception School pledges to fight closing For these stories and more, visit Ithaca.com
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eciding whether to categorize Pokeland, Ithaca’s new Hawaiian food restaurant, as “American” or “ethnic” goes beyond the pages of the “Food and Drink” section of the Summer Ithaca Issue. It is innately a political statement on Hawaii, its history and involvement to mainland United States as well as a slap in the face to t he appropr i a t i o n o f ethnic foods for the purpose of profit in the U.S. The word “ethnic” and “ethnic background” trigger ideas of exclusion and cultural segregation because it is specifically used to categorize minorities. An ethnicity is supposed to describe belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition, but it only applies to people of color and is almost interchangeable with “exotic”
and connotes marginalization. At the same time, the word “ethnic” can bring about a sense of pride, a sense of belonging to a certain group, tradition, and history. But why not call it culture, then? The use of the word ethnic furthers a racial hierarchy because a person is only “e t h n ic” i f they are not a white American. The use of t he word et hnic puts whiteness and white culture — food included — in a higher category. Hawaiian food is traditionally not American food, this is recognized. Hawaii was annexed, politically toyed with, militarized and colonized. Its annexation a testament to the US becoming a new imperial power. The decision to categorize it as American does not come with the idea of erasing this history, the context of and culture of Hawaii, but more so from a place
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his week I heard an ad on WVBR olic high school. It was an official acathat I guess was a few months demic course, in the Theology departold, as it started “New year, new ment, not a Phys Ed offering. you.” It got me thinking about New The teacher was a middle-aged Year’s resolutions, which for 2017 are Jesuit priest, with a long beard and now almost half a year old. other eccentricities, who painted, thus Personally I don’t put much stock taught art, and had lived in Paris, thus in them, but this year I made a minor taught French. I studied both subjects but official one, to join the gym again with him and liked him. after a lapse of a few years, and then do A lot of guys (all-boy school) didn’t. the hard part, actually go. He drank, and was often hungover I’ve done both things. and ornery. He chided and cursed It crossed my mind in January also us extravagantly for our deficiencies, to resume yoga, after a lapse of many which unnerved a lot of guys, but years, but despite Ithaca’s many yoga somehow I found funny. venues, this is a tougher proposition. I felt bad for him, though, because Going to the he was clearly gym is simple: “I remembered something s i c k a n d s u fstrict ly physifer i ng. I saw I learned in a college ca l. Yoga goes him worsen my beyond this: it is journalism class (maybe the first three years also mental and only thing I ever learned in there. spiritual. Then, my a college journalism class). Or is it? This senior year, it It was about getting the i s p a r t of t he changed. He problem. Yoga right answer by asking the changed. wrong question.” has become so He had gone mainstream that upstate from the it now largely exists as a fitness regime, city that summer for a simple (not one option among many at the gym or first) dry-out. At this particular facilspa. Mental aspects are an addendum ity, they had a new program of yoga and spirituality an adornment. and meditation, which he joined. It wasn’t that way for me when I It was a revelation. The movement started, as a boy. There was actual reli- and poses helped his body. The breathgion involved. I was taught by a priest at my Cathcontin u ed on page 7
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o the Editor: Governor Cuomo’s announcement of a $1.5 billion initiative for renewable energy projects in New York State is a commendable move considering recent national actions on climate change, but it raises serious questions about his recent bailout of the nuclear industry. If a $1.5 billion investment into the renewable industry will create 40,000 jobs in New York by 2020, as the Governor claims, why is he taxing ratepayers $7.6 billion to save 600 nuclear jobs? It doesn’t add up. On top of that, the nuclear plants will only supply energy to Upstate New Yorkers through 2029, falling a year short of his Clean Energy Standard (CES) goal. A $7.6 billion state investment in renewable energy and energy effi-
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ciency, if you use the Governor’s calculations, could create 200,000 jobs, and be able to produce the necessary energy to fully replace unsafe nuclear power while phasing out fossil fuels. New Yorkers need clean, safe, economically sensible 21st century energy solutions. The State obviously has the capacity to do so. –Eric Wood, New York Public Interest Research Group
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was a reporter in Trumansburg for many years and attended a lot of public meetings there. I know that Trumansburgers are too polite to voice the kind of sentiments that Mr. Ocello asserts they have. But I lived in Trumansburg for 12 years and know that those kind of sentiments do exist there. However, I feel that they are not the primary obstacle to this development. Instead, residents are resisting an increase to the density of the vil-
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ing exercises concentrated his mind. The combination augmented his spirituality. It was not a process of conversion. The eastern philosophy he learned didn’t supplant his religious training. It burnished his past and opened a present and future he could determine for himself. He came back to school that fall and created a yoga and meditation class which was novice, not expert, but focused and real and keenly felt by us students. The issue for me now is finding that kind of study again. But how? Back then, I saw what it had done for my teacher and simply signed up. I didn’t have to ask questions. But today, how do I find a practice that is not about lifestyle, but do-or-die living? It’s a hard question to ask, or even formulate. But I remembered something I learned in a college journalism class (maybe the only thing I ever learned in a college journalism class). It was about getting the right answer by asking the wrong question. The story goes that years ago a studio was making a big-budget movie YourLetters contin u ed from page 6
lage. In fact, increasing the density is necessary to make it a more sustainable community. Anyone who lives in the proposed community could easily walk to the bus stop on Main Street, especially if the sidewalks in the village were restored or added. In my last years living the village I was aware of a proposal to bring social services to the Ulysses town hall to address exactly the concerns voiced above. The ShurSave is taking part in a pilot program that uses an app called Rosie that has ShurSave employees doing your shopping and deli! vering your groceries. This was expected to be used mostly by seniors. In fact it is primarily used by busy mothers. It could easily be used by carless residents of the proposed development. In other words, there is really nothing in the way of this development except the inherent conservatism of village residents. –Bill Chaisson, Martha’s Vineyard
But there could be a better site than THAT one, right? I attended the recent planning board meeting and I did not hear
of a best-selling book and, as part of its market research, asked prospective viewers if they had read the book. They expected about 20 percent to say yes, but over 90 percent did. The researchers knew this couldn’t be true. Finally they realized that people said they read the book whether they had or not so as not to seem ignorant. So the researchers changed the question. Instead they asked, do you intend the read the book? Then facesavers could say yes, while those who actually had would simply say so. Similarly, if I ask prospective yoga teachers if rigorous spirituality is part of their practice, they will say yes. So I have to contrive a false question to get the true answer. Or maybe I have already, but not to give away here to Ithaca yoga teachers who might read this column and, forewarned, outfox me. It’s funny how challenging resolutions can be, but I guess that’s how it is if one wants a “new you,” or renewal. Stephen P. Burke is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears biweekly.
those NIMBY sentiments you suggest. What I did hear from the developer is that they did not investigate any other sites either inside or outside the Village but like this site because they like to work with their development partner who purchased the land, that it had available utilities, and was in close proximity to services. The sad fact is they did not consider what would be best for the eventual residents that will occupy this low income development. These folks will most likely find employment in Ithaca and require the healthcare support of Cayuga Medical Center, Tompkins County dept of social services, county mental health services, major retail, and daycare/recreational outlets such as the YMCA -- all in Ithaca about 12 miles away from this development. This proposed development is not on the TCAT bus line route and fitting a TCAT bus down either South St. or Pennsylvania Ave. would b! e downright dangerous. South Street is currently less than half the width (about 20’) of what is required in the Village code for a collector street, which requires 40’. I am sure you could agree that with a little more effort, a more appropriate site could be found to address Ithaca’s problem of affordable housing. –User ‘BConnor,’ Ithaca.com
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that if Hawaii is to be a part of the U.S., it should be recognized as such and not treated as a colony or annex. The U.S. forgets about Hawaii sometimes, its history and the relationship between the islands and the mainland. The U.S. throws it away and forgets that it is a state, it undermines its power in the House and have made it into a tourist trap, mostly forgetting how crucial it was during World War II and the benefits Hawaii could bring to U.S.-Asian relations. It is the only part of the U.S. were an international war has been fought on, and like most forgotten veterans it has been left alone to deal with its history. Hawaii is treated as an “other,” as a prize on a shelf, something to enjoy and this is exemplified by its labeling of food, culture and the overall dismissal of the islands remembered only by the military community and vacationers.
“If the U.S. is really to consider Hawaii as its 50th state, it must embrace its history, its culture, and its people without appropriating, marginalizing or discarding them.” Categorizing Hawaiian food as American is not to diminish its cultural difference or concrete its colonization; it is more so for the U.S. to stop treating Hawaii as an annex and begin treating it as a state and respected as an equal. If the U.S. is really to consider Hawaii as its 50th state, it must embrace its history, its culture, and its people without appropriating, marginalizing or discarding them. The decision comes from a place of wanting Hawaii to be better recognized by mainland U.S. and not in the form of an “ethnic” and “exotic” location, but as part of U.S. imperial history and blatant disregard of minority populations, especially those of indigenous or Asian-Pacific descent. But to speak for the Hawaiian people would be wrong, so this is just a take on the situation. Whether the Hawaiian people want to separate, have a true seat at the table instead symbolic one the, U.S. has to recognize it is imperial past and take responsibility for it as well. Hawaii’s marginalization is no because of its distance or population, it is because of its race and its forgotten history. To be sure, I went over there for lunch and asked. The owners prefer it to be considered ethnic food. Isabella Grullon Paz is an intern for The Ithaca Times and a rising senior in the journalism department at Ithaca College.
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Week Of 5/28-6/3 By Vaughn Golden Barbara Lifton NY State Assembly The assembly was out of session this week, but Assemblywoman Lifton released a statement this week regarding the president’s choice to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. This is a portion of that statement: “I hope means that we will see a clear public plan for New York with annual reports on our progress of the sort written into the Paris Accord. While that Accord is voluntary, the most powerful part is the public accounting of progress so that everyone can verify that we are actually on a course to quickly bring down emissions, as our scientists are saying we must if we are to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.”.
Tom O’Mara NY State Senate The state senate was also out of session last week, the last break before the legislature is set to close for the year on June 21.
Tom Reed U.S. Congress T he house was also on re cess this week with the congressman spending his weekend touring the eastern and eastern-central reaches of the 23rd District. Finger Lakes Newspaper’s Jamie Swinner ton reviewed his stop in Trumansburg and a fact check of the day’s tour also appears in this issue. The major topics at all four town halls included the Paris Climate accord, which Reed said he did not support to begin with, the implementation of the American Healthcare Act, which Reed said will reduce premiums, reduce the federal deficit, despite leaving 23 million people without health coverage, and lastly the federal budget, which Reed touted as a comprehensive plan to reduce the federal debt.
Chuck Schumer and Kirsten gillibrand U.S. Congress The senate was out of session last week, but the senator did release a statement on the withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. Here’s a portion of that: “Our children’s generation will have to deal with the potentially catastrophic effects of a shortsighted and dangerous decision to leave the Paris Accord, and I urge all New Yorkers and all Americans who care about our health, our security, and our economy to raise their voices and speak out forcefully against this reported decision.” Mr. Schumer as well was off of Capitol Hill here’s his input on the withdraw from the accord: ““The idea of searching for a new deal is a fig leaf. If you truly believe in improving the Paris Agreement, you don’t back out -- you work with our allies and partners around the world.” 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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ing renewable energy as a priority during the Cuomo administration both in policy and investment – renewables are only set to grow even further, even with potential cuts at the federal level. “If you were starting at the moon and looking down at the planet, you’d see there’s this broad shift from fossil fuels and centralized power generation to more localized power generation and renewables,” said Sara Culotta, Business Development and Marketing Manager for Taitem Engineering. “Then you come down to the United States and see our aging electrical infrastructure that has to be rebuilt – all while
ral gas comes to its twilight, renewable energy has begun its ascent as both a driver of the economy at large and as a bolster to a disappearing middle class. Though coal and natural gas still produce a significant (but declining) proportion of the nation’s energy, the Traditional Energy and Energy Efficiency sectors – which employ 6.4 million Americans – increased in 2016 by just under 5 percent, adding over 300,000 net new jobs according to figures from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of all the sectors covered in that category, from motor vehicle production to efficiency engineering, only one sector declined: fuels, which according to a January report from the Department of Energy declined by 8 percent. Today, just under 374,000 people are employed in solar energy (including jobs related to the construction of solar facilities), according to the report, while coal, gas and oil power generation had a workforce of approximately 187,000 across all three sectors. In Tompkins County, this effort to capitalize on a growing renewables sector has toed the line of the cutting edge, the county’s overall renewable energy use increasing more than 136 percent between 2008 and 2014. Lobbying from groups like Sustainable Tompkins, Solarize Tompkins and Cornell Cooperative Extension have pushed for divestments of fossil fuel use in new development county-wide. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has pinpointed the county as a testing ground for a conceptual “Smart Grid,” a sort of model for the energy grid of the future. And on Planning Board agendas from Newfield to Dryden, solar projects have been popping up as discussion items almost every month. “Tompkins County is on the cutting edge here, which I think is a great thing,”
A look at the politics and economics of Tompkins County’s energy future. By Nick Reynolds
owulf Energy announced plans to begin converting a soon-to-close coal-fired power plant’s property to accommodate one of upstate New York’s largest solar arrays while New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo – in line with many mayors and governors around the country – pledged millions of dollars of new investment into renewable energy. Many say it means as a nation, the para8
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we’re using it – with this general guideline that over time, it has to get off fossil fuels. But we’re all working on different parts of that infrastructure at the same time.” Despite the misleading impacts of the Paris Accord given by the NERC – noted by The Washington Post to be funded by foes of the Paris Accord like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Council for Capital Formation – as the age of natu-
Brian Eden, chairman of local action group Solar Tompkins said. “The state has been looking toward our leadership to show it can be done, and hopefully this can spread further.” Supporters of renewable energy as well as critics agree: things are moving fast in Tompkins County. But, oftentimes, the economics are unclear and the politics – whether by an aversion to change or con-
flict with the financing – prove difficult to overcome. W here Does Tompkins Cou nt y Get Its En ergy?
To understand the politics and economics of Tompkins County’s move to renewable energy, one first needs to understand where the supply for the county’s overall energy consumption comes from. In 2016, the Tompkins County Legislature accepted the planning department’s “Energy Roadmap,” a comprehensive guide to not only where the county gets its energy, but an outline of its energy consumption and the setting of goals to reduce overall greenhouse gas production. Outlining several scenarios of the impacts of various changes in our energy consumption on the environment, the Energy Roadmap offers a snapshot of local energy consumption and where we could reduce – or replace – our energy consumption with renewable sources. Like most communities across the United States, Tompkins County still relies heavily on a broad suite of energy sources. In 2008, the year the most recent data was compiled, 29 percent of all electricity used in Tompkins County came from nuclear energy, 29 percent from hydroelectric, a little more than 30 percent from oil and natural gas and 5.5 percent from peak time coal power produced in Lansing. However, times are changing. Last year, the state’s Public Service Commission shot down a proposal by the Lansing plant to convert to natural gas, leading to its eventual shutdown, and as the county’s population has increased, activists have called for alternative means beyond the expansion of natural gas, such as what the proposed West Dryden Pipeline would bring, to meet rising energy demands. Historically, the energy grid as a whole has consistently been a one-way street, a system based on the relationship from power plant to a mediator – like NYSEG – to the consumer. But as innovation – and public opinion – moves the state from natural gas and nuclear energy to the more diverse portfolio of renewables. This is happening to some degree as more and more homes inevitably go to solar (1,261 in Tompkins
County since the year 2000 according to NYSERDA) but, with limited room to rely on renewables such as wind and solar – especially in the unpredictable weather of upstate New York – more hydroelectric and nuclear power may need to be relied on to take on the baseload of the state’s energy demand as renewable energy sources seek to be the replacement for coal and natural gas. Beating Natu r a l Gas
Because most utilities providers are privately owned businesses, the question of profitability and feasibility for the developer comes up in every project. And like fracking helped lead to the demise of the coal industry, innovation – and incentive – will lead to more industry hopping onto the renewables bandwagon. At a time where many states have set ambitious sustainability goals and natural gas is cheaper than it’s ever been, making renewable energy the common sense solution to meeting our energy needs, whether by artificially lowering the cost of construction or by streamlining the approval process, is key. There has been speculation, however, that a changeover that happens too quickly – through regulating one’s way to sustainable technologies – can actually undermine natural gas as a transitional energy source, leading to higher utilities costs. “The United States has a huge energyprice advantage over many of its competitors,” the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in a statement to the Congressional Committee on Science, Space and Technology in February 2016. “The uneven nature of the emissions goals [favoring renewables over resources like natural gas], however, could raise U.S. energy prices.” Fortunately in New York, recent years have been especially kind to solar energy, helping to make renewables a significantly more affordable option than as recently as five years ago. In December, a Bloomberg analysis found that worldwide, unsubsidized solar was beginning to outcompete coal and natural gas (when constructed on a larger scale) and in emerging markets, new solar projects are starting to cost less to
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build than wind projects. between changing hands between legacy “We’ve seen a lot of growth within the energy sources and renewables.) In a way, few years I’ve been here,” Gordon Wood- solar subsidies in the form of PILOT agreecock, business development manager for ments or tax abatements are a means of Taitem’s renewables department since 2007. being creative in artificially levelling the “We’re leading the way in New playing field, helping to calm York. Even with low energy a significant amount of market “Either we prices compared to downstate, change, or the uncertainty and, after calmwe’re still in the top three per climate does.” ing fiscal concerns, to convince capita in solar production.” people these innovations will Investors seem to be responbe beneficial in the long-term, sive as well, with companies like Beowulf – both for individuals, the market and the part of an industry which invested more planet. than $44.1 billion in renewable energy in Khan said that while New York State 2015 and growing – feeling ready to invest. certainly has a vision for solar and has been In the top-10 solar market of New York (ac- aggressive in making its priorities known, cording to a review by the Solar Energy In- the state on the whole has not done a good dustries Association), aging dirty energy job on solar, partly because it’s only offered infrastructure, the slew of subsidies avail- incentives and abatements to corporaable from the state and the potential for tions with enough tax liability to pull it off. growth have made New York a prime target Largely, solar and wind investments have for investment, even in the uncertain envi- largely had to rely primarily on credits from ronment of cloudy upstate New York, where the state and federal government. And, besolar panels are up to 40 percent less effec- cause of uncertainties in the weather and tive – and far less predictable in regards to an inability to store energy, solar and wind output and revenue – than in a state like facilities have little guarantee of any sort of Nevada or California. consistency in predicting rates, meaning However because of this level of uncer- they often require incentives at the local tainty – and already thin profit margins for level – shows of faith – to be able to cross the a company selling cheap utilities at a high finish line financially. capital cost – many projects require some After all, in a realm of uncertainty, it’s incentives to make a project happen and hard to make a guarantee. justify high start-up costs when profitabil“It’s been more challenging in New ity may be years off. York,” said Khan. “The highest penetration “Natural gas prices are generally at low you’ve seen by the utility companies are levels which therefore, dictate energy prices places where they’ve entered into contracts as a whole,” Nazar Khan, Executive Vice that guarantee revenue for 15, 20 years, President of Development And Acquisi- California, for example, would have projtions for Beowulf Energy said in an inter- ects come in and guarantee revenues for 20 view. “However, renewables have a much years… There’s no real structure here.” sharper cost curve and The Pol itics are becoming significantly more competiDespite the county’s tive. But as far as cost of energy goals and construction, there are public support for still energy credits and renewable energy, the other incentives needed act of actually getting to beat that declaring a renewable energy price, helping to lead project online is an to a profitable investuphill battle at the ment.” planning stage. The K han said on t he granting of tax abatewhole, there’s a lot of ments, especially in uncertainty for invesa time where many tors – a problematic decommunities in Uptail in the private sector state New York are – and a reluctance from overburdened by lothe state to grant long-term cash incen- cal government’s heavy reliance on proptives, a stimulus meant more to spur change erty taxes, are a politically difficult thing rather than support it. (Though, as some to play around with and oftentimes can would argue, incentives should last longer draw public scrutiny. Project aesthetics as to weather the slow de-escalation period well, or even loud voices in a room, can
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play a major role in a small town’s perception of a project, be it a solar array or a wind farm. Solar is, first and foremost, something meant to be democratized, an energy source largely spread across the rooftops of homes and businesses across the county where, before, only a small area would be affected by the presence of a power plant. “The impact of energy production used to be very localized, only if you lived next to a power plant or a coal mine,” said Woodcock. “These were the things that once, only the poor had to cope with. Now, everyone has to. It’s much more democratized.” Unfortunately, this small-scale, spread out approach on its own is not sufficient to meet the county’s green energy goals: to some degree, you need major development with experienced developers building on the limited real estate feasible for any sort of project of scale. To make these work, there needs to be compromise between town officials and residents, a willingness to accept a solar development in a place where solar energy can be produced most efficiently: well-situated, on the grid and close to customers, all while being large enough to be profitable. “We need to be able to large enough facilities (in order to have community solar) to make them financially feasible,” Eden said. “You just can’t put up a tiny solar array and be able to pay for it. You have to be willing to accept the changing landscape.” But suitable development also requires willing lessees, power lines to support the project once constructed and proximity to a substation for transmitting, not to mention upgrades to the grid the company – not NYSEG – is liable to pay for. Essentially, it’s a pay to play type of investment. And at some point, it becomes cost-prohibitive. “On one hand it’s good, because NYSEG customers won’t have to pay to upgrade the grid,” said Jason Leifer, supervisor for the Town of Dryden which, recently, has been embroiled in a fight over subsidizing a large solar farm that would impact the sightlines of the local landscape. “But on the other hand, it seems like critics are doing whatever they can to make it so these solar projects can’t happen. So when you have people who are anti-gas coming out against solar because they don’t think it looks nice… they’re not doing anything to actually help matters.” Because the county has no land use authority, most of the local level initiatives fall in the hands of towns like Dryden, which
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can dictate the zoning for a site and conduct site plan reviews. To stop the project, whether as a whole or to get a better deal, residents have called for solar moratoriums and butted heads with the Industrial Development Agency – which crafts the PILOT agreements for solar projects – in order to further assess the deal and try and take in more tax dollars for Dryden: profit margins of the solar companies be damned. While localities can control the terms a solar company can build under, what can’t be controlled is a developer’s willingness to build here and, if moved, could bring their tax dollars elsewhere. This is where the sweeteners and the dealmaking come in, since the county has made it clear where it stands on energy use: cleaner is better. Solar financials often show most products are close to the edge and, with a low rate of return, often need financial incentives to be able to get online. But it’s a philosophical battle, one of hearts and minds. The biggest thing for the industry themselves is to educate residents on how the grid works, to normalize the idea of democratized energy production as something we all need to interact with, rather than a select few in the shadow of a power plant. “It’s a lot of change and a lot of new development all at once that touches on a lot of things,” Culotta said. “It would be nice if rather than pointing fingers, people said ‘wow, we have a lot to learn.’ This is moving quickly, it’s a little tense, it makes us anxious and we want to make the right decisions. None of them are easy decisions. So how can we learn, how can we actively talk this out? I do think at the county level, that’s been the prevailing approach, but there’s not necessarily a good bridge between ordinary citizens and the process at the planning and legislative level.” At the end of the day, said the City and Town’s sustainability coordinator Nick Goldsmith, the solar debate stands as a juncture of a county’s priorities. “Energy demands are always going up, and we need to get onto renewables as quickly as possible,” he said. I’d say the hardest part is moving forward, but also focusing on the biggest thing, which is efficiency. The cheapest unit of energy available is the one you don’t have to produce, and one of the key things we can do right now is simply to use less energy, not just getting it from renewables. That is always going to be key.” “Either we change,” Goldsmith added, “or the climate does.”
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Some of the transportation challenges that face Tompkins County are a result of the area itself-- its geographical spread, which leads to quite a bit of rural country, simply makes it more difficult to equalize access to all kinds of services while there are economic barriers to coming closer to places like downtown Ithaca, where the cost of living is substantially higher but there is also a much easier access to most services. The population boom among older adults in the area is another interesting dynamic that has arisen in the transportation efforts. Since many of them are no longer driving, they make up a decent sized chunk of the people who are in need of education about the transportation services being offered around the area. Sophie Somerfeldt, an education coordinator for Way2Go, said some of their work has also centered around familiarizing people with things like the TCAT bus system; nearly everybody knows there’s a bus system, but if they don’t actually know how to use it they might end up avoiding it entirely. “Basically we have a transportation system developed that tends to favor people driving their own car,” Somerfeldt said. “For most of transportation access and equity issues as well as environmental sustainability, looking at the long term, that system doesn’t work very well for lots of people. So we try to help people make the best of existing transportation systems.” Montanye said they have served as consultants, in a way, for instance if a company has run into parking issues due to one of the many construction projects in the area. If they want to design a rideshare program among their employees to conserve space, they may contact Way2Go, who would show them how that might operate most effectively. Move Together New York is another, widerranging initiative from Way2Go that extends its mobility education program, though instead of most of the other previously mentioned efforts this involves several counties from the Finger Lakes and Southern Tier, and could grow to include others. Primarily, Move Together is about increasing access to medical care and job opportunities across county lines, one of the more challenging obstacles Way2Go has faced, Somerfeldt noted. But after a 2016 spent gathering public opinion and reaching out to potentially interested organizations around the region, Move Together yielded the top three priorities of the public are cross country transit map, educational materials on existing mobility options and information on specialized transportation. Way2Go is also developing tools such as TrueCost Tompkins, which is an index that will show the average transportation plus housing costs throughout the county, with an additional look at how people are handling those costs. That information could then be distributed not only to the public itself but also county planners or developers who might then be better suited to customize their projects to the more specific needs of the area, Montanye said, which again would hopefully increase economic feasibility and more equal accessibility. –Matt Butler
wrote in a letter to the Planning Board that be at $300,000. At the time it was simply Harold’s Square the team is looking forward to “breaking contin u ed from page 4 not in the project budget. contin u ed from page 5 ground in the near future” on the longAfter the April board meeting, he said, the group took quotes on gas vs. electric uses their system to evaluate, and they awaited project. After that discussion, a public hearDryden rail trail with public access as requested by councilperson Deborah seem to be firmly in favor of this.” ing was held regarding the DeWitt House Cipolla-Dennis. Hugo said HALCO was The inf lux of people and retailers, points and each unit will have available project, which would take over the propcheaper and will come in at a cost of including a possible “large retailer”, would parking in its own garage and one spot erty of the Old Library on North Cayuga $100,000. be a boon to downtown and the Commons in front of the home. There will be 11 “We believe we ca n excha nge t he specifically, John said. He also noted the Street and construct a four story mixedadditional parking spots in the middle section for guests. After some concerns photovoltaics (planned on the roof) to go taxes that would be made That point can use building of 54 apartment units, comslip through the cracks at times: the tax mercial and community space. Three about the possibility of three vehicles with a heat pump system,” Hugo said. A small play structure for toddlers breaks only apply to the land’s increase in community members spoke, all of whom per unit, given the three bedrooms per unit, developer Gary Sloan said it would will be added to the southwest corner value, and once the abatement period ends own properties in the immediate area, of the property to make it more fam- the city stands to profit handsomely from concerning noise during construction and b e w r it ten i n t he ily friendly, a focus the nearly $43 million that the develop- the effect on their homes, statements that leases that only two fo r t h e r e s i d e nt s ment team has said will be invested in were acknowledged by the Board. After vehicles are allowed Hugo said the initial who spoke about the the property. The estimated value of the returning to the Ithaca Landmarks Presper unit. project during its total abatement, split between property ervation Commission for specific material study by Taitem After an at times April public hear- tax, sales tax and mortgage recording tax approval, the development group will look Engineering stated heated public hearing. would be $5.1 million. Additionally, the for preliminary and final approval at next ing at t he Apri l the general cost of “We believe it’s abatement would take place over 10 years month’s Planning Board meeting. board meeting, heat pumps and gas The Planning Board was declared the the right size for this instead of the initially approved seven. Sloa n a nd projec t lead agency on a project at 232-236 Dryden size structure and systems “were a wash” “I anticipate people will complain, and manager Steve Hugo Road, providing 191 bedrooms over 60 older kids can play the tax abatement process is complicated, and the cost for heat of HOLT Architects apartment units. The project is being on the trail,” Hugo and it’s not easy to do it in an uncomplic a me bac k to t he pumps would be at developed by Visum Development Group said. cated way,” he607-277-7000 said, warily May meeting to show Georgia@ithacatimes.com x220 laughing. “But $300,000. At the time along with Stream Collaborative. Noah T h e o n e t h i n g when you really examine it, it is a great the changes made to Sloan and Hugo Newspaper: said tool to get these kinds of large develop- Demarest, of Stream, it was simply not in the Client:stated an intention the plans highlightthey couldn’t rem- ment commitments, from developers from to get all necessary documents approved project budget. ed by the addition of and aim for preliminary and final edy from the public Ithaca Times/Fingerlakes News Kendal atapprovIthaca somewhere else or Ithaca, and invest a treheat pumps per the al at the next Planning Board meeting in meeting was burymendous amount of money in our core.” board’s request. June, though Board members cast doubt ing the stormwater The changes were mostly praised by At a special meeting May 30 supervisor Jason Leifer management system underground. Sloan the board, particularly in that opening on that sentiment due to the sheer size of moved the resolution for the Planned said the price to do so was too large at the entry court and including retail on the the construction. Barring interruption, ground f loor of said entry court, aimed the developers will appear at next month’s Unit Development (PUD), with council- upward of $200,000. One additional issue is the entrance, at taking advantage of the curiosity of meeting for further approval. person Kathy Servoss seconding, and the board voted 5-0 for the project at 1061 which merge together with the neigh- Commons-strolling patrons. –Matt Butler bor’s at 1065 Dryden Rd. and will come Jamie Gensel, of Fagan Engineers, Dryden Rd. out across from a TCAT bus stop. Sloan The biggest sticking points for members of the board have been energy -- said the two “conceptually have an agreemaking sure Sloan and the developers ment” and attorneys are meeting to finalwere being as green as possible – and a ize that shared driveway agreement. Councilperson Linda Lavine men“family friendly” environment. After questions in April about the actual dif- tioned after the resolution passed the ference in cost between natural gas and plans for the future of the East Hill Plaza, by Betsy Schermerhorn heat pumps, Sloan and Hugo returned in which is about three miles away, and said May to say heat pumps would be part of the project will “probably feed very well Director, Marketing and Admissions the project gave thanks to the board and into this.” “So I think you have a hot property community. “The reason we’re thanking you all there coming up,” she said. BY THE NUMBERS today is you all pushed us,” Hugo said. –Cassandra Negley “So we went back [and looked at it].” Our caring staff knows that doing someIf you have always wanted to learn to Hugo said the initial study by Taitem play a musical instrument, maybe it is thing that combines focus and fulfillment Engineering stated the general cost of time you took some lessons. You are never has a positive effect on seniors. Staying viheat pumps and gas systems “were a too old to learn to play an instrument. tal and living well are achievable goals at wash” and the cost for heat pumps would In the process, you may not only satisfy Housing
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people are being prioritized with the right resources, that’s something I’ve been very successful with professionally.” Having reached out to a few county legislature members, Shapiro said they were generally encouraging about Shapiro’s ing for this.” That training has taken the form of ability to mold his professional work into both educational and professional experi- political achievement, and after receiving ence for Shapiro. He has a degree in public some push from his Belle Sherman-ites, he policy that has translated to his career felt like it was time to make the jump. His in the human services industry, through goals of community repayment are eviwhich he gained experience maneuver- dent as he articulates his main legislative objectives. Housing, ing some aspects of naturally, is a highgovernment in order priority topic, as well to secure funding for as crafting reforms those agencies. More that don’t strangle specifically, he cites the middle class in his work with FCS a quest to serve the of Ithaca, which he poor but include both joined in 2011 and groups; he accentuwhich was still facing ated that the county the aftermath of the has to “help people nationa l economic live meaningful midfailings of the late dle class lives.” 20 0 0s. Nav igat i ng Shapiro fervently that uncertain finanadvocates work ing cial climate for the towards prov iding agenc y showc a sed universal pre-kinderwhat Shapiro believes garten as a county, to be one of his valuwhich involves setable skills that would ting up public fundbe an asset as a couning to ensure a ll ty legislator. children can access “It feels, to me, at least that level of like a very natural David Shapiro education. He opposprogression,” he said es the controversial of his potential move into legislative work. “One of the strengths Tompkins County Jail expansion, making that I bring is I really have a strong under- the argument that the county’s mentality standing of how to manage within fiscal on criminal justice must shift to a more constraints [...] making sure the right empathetic, rehabilitation-based approach
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ith Tompkins County Legislator Carol Chock’s decision to not seek re-election, the Third District will elect a new face to the post for the first time in 10 years. David Shapiro, the President and CEO of Family and Children’s Services (FCS) and a Belle Sherman resident, announced last month his intention to be that new face, running as a Democrat and armed with a compassion-centric campaign message. He is currently slated to face fellow political newcomers Henry Granison and Carolina Osorio Gil in the District 3 election. Many county legislature candidates have declared themselves over the last several weeks and months, the majority of which have said the current political climate nationally has invigorated their own governmental aspirations; Shapiro, for example, was particularly moved by seeing Bernie Sanders’ speech announcing his presidential candidacy. But Shapiro said his campaign has been on his mind for several years, even before moving to Ithaca from New York City. He knew when he moved to a smaller place he would want to get involved in the community and the opportunity would be more readily available. “There’s a lot of interest in being engaged right now, which is such a great thing,” he said. “I think I’m a little unique in that I’ve been planning for this for a while, I’ve been, in a lot of respects, train-
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to truly succeed. Shapiro’s entrance into his profession wasn’t merely happenstance. His professional life to this point has been fueled in large part by his relationship with his grandfather Solomon, a Holocaust survivor. Years of hearing his grandfather talk about his experiences during World War II inspired Shapiro, particularly that Solomon did not allow the horrors he saw around him to destroy his steadfast belief that “not all people were bad,” as Shapiro puts it. Shapiro’s voice shakes recounting the sheer miracle of his grandfather’s survival, let alone his ability to maintain his faith in humanity as a whole. “I feel like I owe it to give back to the community, I enjoy the work that I do -- but I also don’t feel like I have a lot of choice in doing it,” he said. “It feels like it is the calling that I have, and it’s the way that I want to pay back my grandfather’s life being saved.” Make no mistake, Shapiro’s already given one thing to the community: hours and hours of commute time between Brooklyn and Ithaca during the his first year and a half here. If that didn’t force him away, he said, nothing will. “Tell you what, you want to fall in love with a community, do that trip for 18 months,” he recounts with a laugh. “By the time you’re finished, you either fall in love or you just give up somewhere in between the two.” The election for the District 3 seat will take place on November 7. Granison and Shapiro are both Democrats.
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lthough the threat of 23 million uninsured people in the United States has put the healthcare debate suddenly back in the forefront, a percentage of people have had to wrangle between healthcare and everyday living for years. The Ithaca Free Clinic has been helping regular folk who have found themselves in limbo — those who make too much for Medicaid but too little for Medicare, the suddenly unemployed, undocumented migrants, those in the service industry — for a little over a decade. What makes the clinic different than other healthcare centers is its emphasis on alternative approaches to medicine. Instead of using narcotics as pain relievers — a decision made since the clinic’s inception as an answer to the opioid epidemic — the clinic uses acupuncture, herbalism, massage and occupational therapy as well as chiropractic care to treat patients. “The founders wanted to find a way to provide healthcare for those in need and to also provide what they called integrated or complementary health services where these multiple modalities would learn to work together,” explained Norbert McClosky, executive director of the clinic. “What has grown out of that is a multiple-modality non-narcotic pain management model.” It’s one of the few clinics in the US who does this. Their approach to healthcare is also an overarching experience of not only providing medical assistance in the form of both conventional care and holistic care but to also provide financial services, facilitated enrollment into insurance programs, sometimes even couples counseling. Once a patient walks in, they see a primary care practitioner first. After this, the doctor works with the other practitioners in the clinic to decide on what the patient needs. “A lot of the time, depending on the provider, they will consult with, for example, the herbalist about what would be an additional treatment for the patient, so they tend to work together,” Luz Rivera, the Clinic Coordinator, said. Through research the clinic has done, they’ve found that they can treat a number of conditions without the use of narcotics. McClosky added that “in some cases, the alternative approach is as effective — and in some cases more effective — than traditional pain management regimes that use narcotics.” Although the clinic has been working with a mixed-modality structure since the beginning, finding the balance between conventional medicine holistic care to make
it a truly integrative experience has been an intricate process because there is still not a complete understanding of the benefits and consequences of all the practices utilized by the clinic. Last year, the clinic took the next step in bridging that gap by launching the Chronic Care program, which provides long-term services to individuals with chronic conditions who would otherwise not be able to afford it. “It is a way to help [the patients] to learn to help manage their chronic condition to increase the quality of their life. Lower the amount of medication that they have to take, manage that condition so that it is not managing them,” McClosky said. 7 Song (spelled as written), Director of Holistic Medicine at the clinic, said that the Chronic Care Program is the first integrative project that the clinic has had, before this it was many practitioners under one roof assisting patients to the best of their abilities. “The integrative part of it is tricky. You have to understand all the modalities to really do that,” he said. Song also explained that a lot of the time there simply is no time to sit down and understand the varied effects of different methods such as acupuncture and herbalism because these practices fall on a scale, and every practitioner uses different methods within the same practice. For example, Song is a herbalist who followed
a more scientific method whereas other practitioners follow a more spiritual path to their medicine. This makes the process more convoluted because of a lot of the time there it is hard to pin down what aspects of what practice can aid a patient. Another barrier has been that the patients themselves are so different. “We have a lot of patients with numerous health issues. It’s the classic American problem: mental health issues, cardiovascular issues, diabetes, etc. Many people are treated by bunch of us, so how do we all work together to treat them and their different conditions,” Song said. The Chronic Care Program gives prac-
ting from the community has made all the difference. “One of the outgrowths from that is that we’re attempting to do outreach in the community by providing free screenings that pick up, or help individuals determine whether or not they have a chronic condition,” McClosky said. The Program has been able to provide free kidney screening with the support of Cornell University as well as the Northeast Kidney Foundation and is seeking to be able to give even more resources back to the community with the help of volunteers and donations. “This organization’s functions and is
titioners this opportunity because they are allowed to follow the progress of a patient for longer than they normally would. “Given the recourses, we have here we could probably provide fantastic service to about 40 people. We have 45 in the program right now,” McClosky said. Although funding has been an issue for the program as well as other parts to the clinic, McClosky said that the support the clinic has been get-
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ome college students have been finished with classes for 3 or 4 weeks, and have settled into their summer routines. The rowers and coxswain that make up the Cornell men’s lightweight varsity eight have yet to call it a year, as they just returned from California, where on Sunday they capped their undefeated season by winning their
third national championship in 4 years. I caught up with head coach Chris Kerber on Monday, and I pointed out that as if being a student athlete at an Ivy League university wasn’t challenging enough, training to compete at the highest level while juggling final exams, graduation and the rest of the year-end chaos must make it even more difficult.
“We have to navigate through these things all through the year,” Kerber told me. “We have finals in May, some rowers have the full experience of graduation – meaning spending time with their visiting families in addition to training – and we just figure out what works in making what we have created just a little bit better.” Coach Kerber has an idea what it takes, as he rowed at Temple University, graduating in 1990. He kept his eye on t he prize a nd kept t ra ining for the opportunity to make the U.S. national team, and he did so in 1993 and remained on the team for 7 seasons. He helped his crew win two World Championships, and won numerous medals at the Henley Royal Regatta, the Pan-
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American Games, and the U.S. National Championships. He also served as an alternate for the U.S. teams at both the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the 2000 Sydney Games. After dominating the field and “running the table” for 2 consecutive years on their way to two national titles, the Big Red had a down year in 2016. “Four of this year’s rowers were on that team,” Kerber said, “and they observed what the difficulties were and set about overcoming them.” He stated, “That was our goal since we started last August.” The coach also conveyed that a good leader knows when to step back and stay out of the way, and he said “At the IRA (in California), we had a lot of meetings, going over a lot of details, and (senior) Dan O’Neill said, ‘Coach… we got this.’ That exemplifies the character of our team.” From here, the crew will keep training hard in preparation for the Henleys, held in England at the end of June. “It’s a bigger stage,” Kerber offered. “It’s a grand event.” After that, the rowers will take some time off, then in late August, they’ll be back in the boat. “That,” Kerber said, “is what makes rowers different.” *** Local fans are aware that Ithaca College’s athletic teams are very widely respected, but two recent awards give a glimpse into just how far and wide that sustained excellence reaches. As the Bombers prepare to leave the Empire 8 conference and move to the Liberty League, they do so my putting an exclamation point on their time in the E8. For the 17th consecutive year, It haca won t he Empire 8 Commissioner’s Cup, awarded to the school that saw the most overall success across the board in varsity athletics. Bomber varsity teams won 11 conference championships during the 2016-17 academic year. In the fall, Ithaca won five conference titles, leaving them in first place with 62 points following the fall season. The Bombers added four conference championships during the winter season, and they picked up two E8 titles in baseball and women’s outdoor track and field during the spring season. That excellence spilled over far beyond the Empire 8, as Ithaca finished 10th out of 325 Division III colleges in the Learfield Sports Directors Cup. The Cup is based on a school’s finish in nine men’s and nine women’s sports, the Bombers’ top 10 finish is their highest since 200203. Ithaca is one of only seven schools to finish in the top-30 every year since the Cup was started in 1995-96. The Bombers were in 44th place after the fall season, jumped up to 18th after the winter season, and in the spring – lead by the women’s track and field team’s 2nd place finish at the NCAA’s, vaulted into the top 10.
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by Bill Chaisson But Dolan-Leach manages to combine these kinds of tricks with a relatively straightforward mystery plot that draws along the reader not at all interested in constraints on composition. Local readers will enjoy Ava’s visits to Watkins Glen, Kuma’s Charmers, and Two Goats brewery, and Seneca Lake is a not altogether benign presence in the story. Anyone familiar with the wine industry and the demographics of Schuyler County will recognize the pervasive tension between long-time residents and newcomers. Dolan-Leach’s primary interest is psychological though, not sociological, so the focus stays on the dysfunctional relationships among the Antipova clan. Anyone hoping to get an inside look at the wine community will have to look elsewhere. The author thanks Katie Ko-
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ead Letters, the debut novel by Caite Dolan-Leach, manages to combine elements of a suspense novel with the gravity of literary fiction to tell a story that is funny, sad, and clever. Since its release in February it has been selected as a Book-of-the-Month, reviewed favorably by the New York Times, and has been a topic on many a literary blog in both the U.S. and the U.K. Dolan-Leach is a 2005 graduate of Charles O. Dickerson High School in Trumansburg. She went off to Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland, not Ohio) and then on to Paris to attend the American University in Paris, where she still lives and makes her living as a translator of French literature. Her mother Peggy Dolan taught for many years at Belle Sherman Elementary School. Her father Mike Leach owned Ithaca Stoveworks. In her acknowledgements at the end of Dead Letters, Dolan-Leach thanks her sister Emily for believing her when she told her that the novel was not about their own family. Dead Letters focuses on the relationship between twin sisters Ava and Zelda, who are the offspring of divorced parents who established a winery in the Finger Lakes. As the novel opens Ava is en route back to Ithaca from Paris because she has received an
email from her mother that informs her that her sister has apparently died in a barn fire. Her father picks her up at the airport, having returned from his second marriage and new winery in Napa to attend Zelda’s funeral. This sets in motion an elaborate cat-and-mouse game during which Ava receives riddle-laden electronic and handwritten messages from the possibly not-expired Zelda. Apparently as far apart as A and Z at the novel’s beginning, chapter by chapter DolanLeach brings the identical twins together like stereoscopic images slowly coming into focus. Ava has been studying the OuLiPo writers in her Paris post-graduate work, and in Dead Letters Dolan-Leach deploys some of the techniques of this school. OuLiPo stands for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle or “the workshop of potential literature.” Founded in 1960, they believed that applying constraints to composition would trigger new ideas. Some works entirely exclude certain letters (lipograms). Others replace a letter with the one seven places after it in the alphabetical order (… + 7). Dead Letters consists of 26 chapters; the first letter of each chapter is a different letter of the alphabet, presented in order. Fans of OuLiPo can enjoy themselves looking for more constraints throughout the novel.
ken of Bloomer Creek Vineyard and the folks at Brooklyn Winery (where her sister works) for consultation about wine making, but there is a lot more information about dementia and alcoholism in this book. The winery stays in the background because its slow failure is a result of family neglect, but mental and physical health (lack thereof) are central to the plot. The Ithaca Times corresponded with DolanLeach by email. Ithaca Times: Why set this at a Finger Lakes winery? Nothing about the winemaking process is invoked, no other employees are mentioned, and nothing about the region seems essential to the plot. Caite Dolan-Leach: Ah, I disagree! The winemaking at Silenus is admittedly underexplored, largely because the winemakers themselves aren’t fully committed to the venture, but the rural and agricultural nature of the region are central to the book. The Finger continued on page 16
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ne day about 25 years ago, Kate D. Mahoney woke up, and people started calling her a miracle. It wasn’t undeserved, but that’s a weighty title to apply to someone. And yet after all this time, she still seems more comfortable with the first half of her Misfit Miracle Girl moniker than the latter. Mahoney now lives in Syracuse, though her ancestral Ithaca roots are strong. One of her great grandfathers founded the Ithaca Meat Market, and her great grandparents sold land to Ithaca College. As part of a wide-ranging tour, Mahoney will be holding a book-signing event on Saturday, June 10, at the Barnes at 2 p.m., welcoming community members to come out and enjoy a homecoming as Mahoney shares material from her debut book. Mahoney’s book, The Misfit Miracle Girl: Candid Reflections, has been named an Amazon.com Best Selling Book. It’s a mix of humorous anecdotes, poignant memoirs and advice from someone who has seen more than their fair share of highs and lows. As she speaks, Mahoney seems
eminently grounded, convinced her voice can help, but only if others ask for it first. “The messages in the book are things people need to be reminded of,” Mahoney said. “I don’t know that I feel so particularly arrogant that I think they need to hear exactly what I say and take it to be their fact. At 35, the decision to write a book was partially the desire to help others who may have faced some of the challenges Mahoney had as well, and frankly, she says, partially it was out of survival. After having spent many years as a family caregiver, she had reached a dead end of sorts. The crux of her story begins in the summer of 1992, when Mahoney was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer at the age of 14 while vacationing with her family in Central New York. She spent 46 days in Crouse Hospital in Syracuse suffering from multiple organ failures after chemotherapy wasn’t having an effect. With hope nearly gone, the family was approached by a local nun who had been working on the canonization case of Mother Marianne Cope, who also worked partially in Central New York. After praying for Mother Cope’s
intervention in Mahoney’s health, her condition improved drastically and she was released from the hospital with a note that said her turnaround “Could not be explained medically.” Mahoney’s case was used as evidence of a miracle by Mother Cope, two of which are necessary for consideration to sainthood. In 2012, Cope was canonized after another Central New York miracle emerged, officially taking the title of Saint Marianne, Mother of Outcasts. While the book is light-hearted in general, Mahoney’s story has profoundly trying moments, and she admits there are parts of the story she might’ve preferred not to relive, though these parts are ultimately still important for the reader to understand and feel — such as when Mahoney learned both her parents had been diagnosed with cancer within 10 days of one another. “Having to really, out of respect for the story, reconnect with those emotions was incredibly painful,” she said. “But I found almost every time I tried to read those out loud I couldn’t get through it without choking up and crying.” The book was partly motivated for practical reasons for Mahoney as well. Several years ago she returned to Syracuse to care for her ailing parents, which meant
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both incredibly fun and daunting. Having just finished a draft of some creative work, I find myself craving the gritty work of translation, and I have no doubt that after translating something, I’ll be desperate for the freedom of my own fictions. IT: Where did you get the idea for the alphabet games? Did it inspire making the sisters twins and their names? CD-L: I’ll confess that I didn’t really figure out what was going on with the alphabet games until just before Ava does, not quite halfway through the manuscript. So in a sense it’s really the other way around–the twins’ names and their family mythology ended up driving the alphabetical clues that Zelda has devised. IT: Each chapter starts with the relevant letter of the alphabet and there are 26 chapters. This kind of conceptual playfulness seems sort of ... French. Are you invoking a particular school of writing here? CD-L: Good eye! Indeed, this a modest riff on the OuLiPo movement, who play around with the alphabet in much more serious and creative ways than I do. Ava is also studying these French writers as part of her graduate degree. There are a few OuLiPo inspired games throughout the book, not least of which are the 26 pangrams–26 sentences that contain all twenty-six letters of the alphabet. IT: Ava slowly reveals her true character over the course of the book; she seems to trust the reader more and become more candid. In the end she seems a lot more like
Zelda than she did at the start. What is the significance of this evolution? CD-L: Ava does a lot sliding over the course of the book; she comes home certain that she understands everything—herself, her sister’s machinations, her family—and over the course of three hundred-plus pages all of that certainty is eroded. Zelda, who has never left [home], undergoes the same chipping away of identity, and her elaborate game ultimately becomes a way for Ava to understand herself better: Zelda forces her sister to change and evolve by destroying many of Ava’s self-imposed boundaries. IT: Zelda’s presence in the book is entirely electronic and by proxy (and yet by the end you are convinced you know her). This is essential to the plot, but did you want to make a wider point about communication between people in our era? CD-L: I think there probably is a point to be made, but I was particularly interested in what death looks like in our technological age; someone who is presumed dead can continue to technologically haunt you, because digital media in some ways keeps you alive. Zelda is offstage (or exclusively onscreen, I guess) for the entire novel, but her presence is still felt, and she’s able to act and manipulate people in some sense from beyond the grave because of digital technology. IT: Ava and Zelda seem to have been endlessly cruel to each other and get they remained tight until their fallout over
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Lakes, as developed but not as renowned or successful as Napa, exist in a weird tension between sophistication and podunk, an emotional conflict that Ava lives out: an Ivy League degree, but in farming and a dual life between Paris and the countryside. And the lake is obviously important for a few plot developments. The Antipovas are both profligate and rooted, and their badly-run vineyard is exactly that sort of enterprise. There are also some allusions that tie in with the Greek names that abound in this area that are too pedantic to really go into. [Editor’s note: Silenus was the mentor of Dionysius, for example.] IT: “Pova” turns out to be Esperanto (!) for “power”. Why “anti-power” as a surname for this family? CD-L: I had no idea! So it’s a coincidence, I guess. IT: How does being a translator inform your writing? CD-L: Translating is a really different process to creative writing; while translation is filled with difficult choices, you’re always working within a finished text, and the really big decisions have been made for you. So translating is technically demanding, but doesn’t offer you the freedom to just explore and wander. When you’re writing fiction, you literally get to make every single decision yourself, and go down any old rabbit-hole that looks appealing. This is 16
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leaving her job in Chicago. As time passed, she realized she was adding more time away from professional work to her resume that might be difficult to make up, and once her father passed away and mother had recovered to a certain extent, she had a decision to make: she could try and restart her life and career after several years out of commission, or she could take a sizable risk and try to tell the story of the Miracle Misfit Girl. Having written a string of monologues about her early life experiences while in college, Mahoney knew how to articulate her story and she was familiar with writing for stage, so she began experimenting with that form of storytelling. But her first book required something different, to be able to communicate her story while walking the fine line between preaching her faith at readers while still providing the fullest possible self-portrait. Now, five months after the book’s release, it has been effusively praised by critics and readers alike, drawing rave reviews even in the notoriously vicious online comment sections. “I felt that this was not a Catholic story,” Mahoney said. “I believe there’s a universal resonance for any reader who would choose to pick this book up.” •
Wyatt. Is this a comment on the nature of relationships between sisters, women in general? This story doesn’t seem it would work at all if it was about two brothers. CD-L: Yes, I definitely agree–a male relationship just wouldn’t be quite as… weird. I think sister relationships, and female relationships more generally are endlessly complex–just look at how Ferrante’s Neapolitan books have resonated with people. Because Dead Letters is really the story of one central relationship, that relationship needs to be filled with tension, love, frustration, competition, closeness, etc. IT: What is the significance of Ava’s poor relationships with both food and alcohol? CD-L: Ava has a lot of control issues. And Zelda’s game requires Ava to give up her sense of control, and hopefully, heal. IT: Garden-variety readers/critics often complain that “there is no one likable” in a book. The Antipovas meet this description, but Wyatt and his hippie parents seem both principled and forgiving (although the parents are a bit dissolute). Is this a culture vs. counterculture comment and/or something else? CD-L: The “likability problem” really irks me. I feel like the demand for likable characters is really only directed towards female authors and female characters. There’s an expectation that women need to be likable in order to be worth investigating. Frankly, I’m just not terribly interested in likable characters–they’re boring. •
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rtist Elizabeth McMahon keeps a notebook — the sort of notebook that captures bursts of inspiration along with the randomness of human consciousness. Lists, charts, graphics and snippets of sentences litter the pages, some splattered in crayon and others in pen. It’s these notes that inspired her latest collection, “Cosmic Metro,” currently on display in Ithaca’s Press Cafe. The collection also draws on inspirations from the chaoticness of subway stations and the overwhelmingness of outer space — “Cosmic Metro.” “It’s almost like sensory overload, and I’m trying to kind of block down some of this information,” McMahon said. “I like so much of it, but I have to block out some of the information. The [paintings] aren’t as busy as my other work, and I think people can kind of read them a little better.” Each work is a combination of tape, charcoal, paint, pencil and ink. At first glance, the combinations of media feel
random, but on further inspection, they still feel random, but with a purpose. Polka dots, stripes, mathematical equations and splatters swirl around the paintings and form a different story for each viewer. Some of the patterns come together into different shapes, a predominant shape being the bowtie. Cutouts form in the shape of triangles, collections of tape and charcoal contort into bows, and polka dots follow a similar shape. McMahon’s background in fashion design bleeds into “Cosmic Metro,” notably in the bowties. After attending Parsons School of Design for fashion design and painting in the ’70s, her love for fashion and artwork never left her. This passion appears in her collection, drawing on bits of what she loves in subtle patterns. The New York City in her hasn’t left either. Each work is bold and mirrors the disarray of the city, notably the subway patterns. Tape tracks flow into what look like blueprints, and charcoal dustings leave behind traces — messy footprints.
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“So much of it is unconscious,” McMahon said. “There’s some suggestions of patterns, and there’s motion. All my cutouts have all this activity, and I like that and I like seeing what came underneath and shows out.” Another theme in “Cosmic Metro” comes from the idea of playfulness. After completing her undergraduate education and beginning a family, McMahon found a new way to express herself. She became known as Mrs. McPuppet, a traveling puppeteer in the Central New York area. She performed for school children, telling stories and singing original songs with her puppets. “The idea of play is key,” she said. “I think that is my thread through my work as Mrs. McPuppet and I think it’s crucial in how I get where I want, and that [my work] does have to have a sense of playfulness.” These new works are undeniably playful and curious. “Cosmic Metro” is but one collection in McMahon’s body of works. Each of her collections work together as a string of stories that tackle curiosity and coping with endless information. They mean something dif- (Above) Artist Elizabeh McMahon stands before her collection, “Cosmic Metro” (Left) McMahon’s notebook that served as her inspiration ferent to each viewer, but each (Photos: Casey Martin) painting leads down a path of curiosity and exploration. “I think taking chances is your voice comes out more and more and crucial and always realizing you’re kind you find what you’re after.” of in a state of transforming — nothing’s gonna stay the same,” McMahon said. “Al“Cosmic Metro” will be on display at the ways being curious and not being afraid Press Cafe through June30. to try something new: these are things that I try to keep my mantras. Hopefully
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Psychedelic band moves in smooth patterns By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Maybird, Justin Roeland And Nightswimmers, Friday, June 9, 8:00 p.m., The Haunt
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aybird drift along the interstellar corridor in colors lush and serene. The Brooklyn by way of Rochester quartet is both a throwback and a futuristic wave, their sound claiming a softness that lets you get real close before opening you up to an infinite psychedelic pattern, bridging the moist with the edgy. Haunting echoes define each Maybird track, and the songwriting is sneakily dense. There’s something really deep here, something obscure but totally solid. A juxtaposition that is absolutely true. “For some tunes, like “Maybird” for instance, there’s very much a song section and a hazy noise section,” noted singer and guitarist Josh Netsky. “Which I think compliment each other just as much as juxtapose. On a tune like “Looking Back,” the noise is building throughout underneath the song, so they’re more of a combined presence. I find it really effective when I hear music that has that kind of texture. It gives you something more to react to than the music and lyrics, without overpowering either.” Maybird do indeed catch you with something extra. The band soars with its looseness and originality, and reverberates perpetually with a special hidden magic. They get out there in terms of dexterity, but always manage to keep you close with their strong sense of composition totality; a trait reminiscent of bands like The Beatles,
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musical forms, but are completely doing your own thing: are there particular aesthetic sensibilities from the past that are really inspiring or influential to your approach? Sam Snyder (guitar, backup vocalist): I don’t think we’re too shy about experimenting, we all dig a lot of types of music, and a common thread I’ve noticed is an affection for good songs with little twists and turns that keep them interesting. IT: There’s a lot of freedom to your sound when you guys go off into psychedelic hazes, is it important to juxtapose that freedom against something rigid and structured? SS: I think juxtaposition is an important form in music. It keeps things fresh to have a little familiarity with a little dissonance or whatever you want to call it. “Psychedelic music” I’d say is basically based on that vision, which is why it’s maybe easy for us to fit into that term, but I don’t think we’re afraid to break away from it when the song requires different attentions
Maybird hanging (Photo: Rishad Mistri)
IT: What inspires you guys on a day to day basis, and what does community mean to you: do you feel you have a string one in Brooklyn? AN: I don’t know if I could pin our community down to one location whether it’s Brooklyn or Rochester. With touring, the internet and us all having lived and worked in several different locations, it feels more like several intersecting communities. Still, I think these bonds are really important. Its great to show up to a gig and know you will see your friends and that there is a community there that kind of has your back. IT: What was the process like behind the song “Keep in Line” and is a new record on its way? JN: “Keep in Line” began as a moody synth tune I recorded in my bedroom the first year I lived in Brooklyn. You can hear construction vehicles from the rooftop of where I lived, and one night I was hanging out up there and decided to record this one pattern I was hearing. I based the tune off of that sound musically. That was also the first song we worked on with Patrick Carney in the producer role, and he brought a lot of energy into it—the tune was originally a lot slower. A new EP is on the way with four tracks, including “Keep in Line”. It should be out late June. IT: Have you guys been inspired or deeply disturbed by the last few months in political and social stratosphere, and does your music have any investment in politics and philosophy? AN: I have definitely felt a mixture of deep disturbance and inspiration. I don’t think the songs are political in the sense of the “protest song,” but I really believe that any music expressing existential vulnerability, be it loneliness, alienation or heartbreak, can be political in maybe more subtle ways. It helps people to relate to one another, to feel some kind of deep solidarity in a public forum. Maybe music and art can be a benefit to political and social movements in this way. •
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Firsts for DC and Captain Underpants By Br yan VanC ampe n Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins; Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, directed by David Soren; both playing at Ithaca Stadium 14.
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he superhero genre is undergoing gold rush fever right now, but it’s mostly been a sausage party. My Facebook friends and I could only come up with a few female-driven comic movies: Supergirl (1984), Red Sonja (1985), Witchboard (1986), Tank Girl (1995), Barb Wire (1996) and Elektra (2005). Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman isn’t just the highest-grossing opener for a female-directed movie, but it’s also a rip-roaring, fun and touching adventure. Everything that Zack Snyder’s Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice got completely wrong, Wonder Woman gets resoundingly right. To be fair, Wonder Woman did have her own TV series in the ’70s, a 2009 DC animated feature and two great seasons of the animated Justice League, but the sheer scale and size of the new film is truly impressive. Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) man-
ages to work out her origin story on the female-only island of Themyscira, introduce stranded spy pilot Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) as a love interest and this sends her on her first outing into the real world to help Trevor fight in WWI. So as a bonus of sorts, we get two fish-outwater stories: Trevor is utterly out of place in her world, and she’s utterly out of place in his world. Pine knows comedy, but Gadot reveals a sweet light touch as Wonder Woman (disguised as Diana Prince) discovers 20th century items like women’s clothing and the taste of ice cream. I don’t want to spoil the rest of the story. This is a great popcorn entertainment that features a strong, resilient heroine, hissable Nazi bad guys headed by the great Danny Huston, great supporting characters and the kind of femaleempowerment tale that resets the gender pendulum in a new direction
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I wasn’t familiar with the Captain Underpants books by Dav Pilkey when I took in a screening of Captain Underpants: The
First Epic Movie. I guess I was expecting a goofy kids’ comic book movie that would pair up nicely with Wonder Woman, but it’s really about two hyperactive fourth-grade best friends (voiced by Kevin Hart and Thoma Middleditch) and the Captain Underpants comic books they make together. I can’t remember the last time I saw a movie as zippy and ADD as this one. The story rushes through all manner of visual styles, from the old textbook flip-books some of us doodled during detention to the boys’ homemade markers-and-Sharpie comic book panels to a sequence where the boys are rendered as sock puppets. There’s a headlong momentum that’s almost dizzying; as the kids hypnotize their angry high school principal (Ed Helms) into thinking that he’s the real Captain Underpants, an evil genius inventor (Nick Kroll) posing as the school’s new science teacher invents a ray gun to stop all childrens’ laughter because he has the unfortunate name of Professor Poopypants.
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About that: I’m not sure when toilet humor started to infiltrate family films. Some slip it in here and there, and most aren’t that funny. I think I can safely say that Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is the apotheosis of bodily function gags, and they pile it on with no apology. There’s even a giant robot toilet reminiscent of the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. This may not be parents’ cup of sludge, but I’ll admit that I laughed a lot and was reminded of something a studio executive once said to Mel Brooks regarding Blazing Saddles: “Mel, if you’re gonna go up to the bell, ring it.” •
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lose your eyes and imagine the Old West: the creaky saloons, the infinite desert and the hard railroads. Imagine the Old East as well, the smoky nightclubs of Chicago and Boston, the misty lights of a timeless age. Ithaca’s early rock and roll and classic country conjurers, Grey Wolf Jam, are of this age, playing killer renditions of Elvis, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Muddy Waters and Bill Whithers songs. The trio (quartet for larger gigs) has an infinite quality to them. Seeing them live, you’d think you just walked onto the set of My Darling Clementine. “Having once been stage actors, Joey [Dugan] and I both try to get into ‘character’ for most songs,” lead singer and guitarist Bob Eller noted. “Sometimes we imagine ourselves at least 40 years younger energetically trying to get with that beautiful girl on the beach. Other times we resurrect the pain we felt when the girl we thought we’d marry sent us the Dear John letter.” Eller’s got the voice (and the humor) that nails the essential emotional qualities of a once blossoming age. Powerful and real—owing much to the belief in music and its eternal qualities—his style is cinematic and passionate, and the band moves seamlessly from classic to classic, spiraling your heart and moving your soul. The Times caught up with Eller recently as the band has a full summer of shows scheduled, starting this Sunday at Americana Vineyards. These guys are as cool as it gets. Ithaca Times: What’s the power of playing music in a song structure that was created many decades ago: does it empower you guys, and is it timeless? Bob Eller: I think the power of the music we choose to play is in its simplicity. Most of the songs have raw emotion, either happy or sad. Most happy songs reflect trying to make a love connection, while the sad songs are about the hurt in your heart when your bid fails. Because the message is usually simple, it lends itself to strong musical expression. IT: How’d the Grey Wolf Jam form, and what did the original vision of the band look like? BE: Our Grey Wolf Jam formed as a trio with lead guitarist Larry Real, bassist
Phil Jackson and myself on vocals, about 21 months ago, reflecting my preference for a clean, simple sound. Since then we have added a fourth member, Joey Dugan, who plays blues harp and flute. IT: What kind of music did you grow up on, and do you remember when the first time music really and truly moved you? BE: I grew up listening to a mix of very old country music by Gene Autry, Hank Williams, Ernie Ford and Jim Reeves. Then in the mid-50s I heard Elvis and Johnny Cash, which led me toward icons like Little Richard, Ray Charles and Sam Cooke. I
The Grey Wolf Jam doing its thing (Photo provided)
saw Little Richard do 28 songs live without a break, and then fall flat on his back. That was moving! IT: Any plans on writing a new record, and what’s the band’s schedule look like these days? BE: We will try to make a new CD this fall, to reflect a bit more current sound including the harmonica, flute and vocal harmonies. We have about 20 shows lined up for this season and are excited that we may have bookings in Lake Placid and 1000 Islands. IT: What’s the music scene around here meant to you? Is there a community aspect to it? BE: Friends who come to see us play are so encouraging. Many ask us, “Where have you guys been biding?” Oh yes, and, “get a drummer.” IT: You’re hitting the road for a tour and can only bring five cassette tapes with you (the van only has a tape deck); what are you bringing and why? BE: Only five Tapes? They would be tapes of Little Richard, Ray Charles, Muddy Waters, Aretha Franklin and Kenny Neal: because of their soul! •
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Homecoming Players a bold presentation By Ros s Ha ars ta d and forgiveness - all the stuff that makes me well.” Why the title? Why Curved? Shepherd said many of us don’t lead linear, rational lives; We don’t move from A to B without veering off here and there. And although “curved” also refers to being a woman in this world, she said, the production speaks to “anyone who hasn’t been raised at the center of the white heterosexual male power class.” Hockett: “Tell us a little bit about the conceit of using stand-up comedy and microphone work for each character.” Shepherd: “This one has been challenging. For a while, I tried to write
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this bit out of the play, but I couldn’t do it without losing its meaning. I could not get these women to play out a regular story without intelligently and directly using humor as a mostly conscious cover for their broken hearts.” When asked her experience with audience responses, Shepherd replies “Oh, man. OK. My other plays have generated a really loyal audience in the small, northern city where I live — fairly easy comedy with heart. With Curved, the audience was shaken a bit, I think. I still have people coming up to me, more than a year later, telling me why they loved it or why they did not. It’s beautiful
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I-Town Community Jazz Jam with Greg Evans | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Jazz)
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Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing. Marty Flynn Goodtime Band | 6:30 PM-9:30 PM | Flynn’s Roadhouse Café, 1928 E Shore Dr, Lansing | Featuring Marty Flynn, Bob Young, Neal Massa and Dave Salce. Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at DamodarDas.com. Sadie Fredrick, Mathias Kamin | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | StoneCat Café , 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Nate Marshall and Friends play traditional and original folk, jazz and gospel music. Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Featuring local bands, soloists and other musical groups. Reggae Night with Crucial Reggae Social Club | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Reggae, Dub, Roots) Magpie | 9:00 PM | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Folk, Indie)
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Ladiez of UpState | 10:00 PM | Keefs Tavern, 208 W Millet St, Elmira | Faetruing Ruhshikuh Major, Mystique, Ariel Geter, MoeBetta, MissSick07, DJ PrimeTime, Indy Black and more. (Rap, Hip-Hop) Dead Night Featuring The Proud Walkers | 10:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Grateful Dead tribute/cover band)
6/09 Friday
The Ilium Works & Glacial Erotics Team Up! | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 State Route 89, Romulus | (Rock, Funk, Indie) The Yardvarks | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | (Folk, Rock, Blues) Qwister | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | (Reggae) Raised On Radio at Creekside Tavern | 8:00 PM | Creekside Tavern, 896 Ithaca Road, Willseyville | ’80s and ’70s rock, pop and a little country. Gunpoets, Mike Davis & Laughing Buddha Episodes | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 522 Main St, Apalachin | (Rap, hip-hop, funk) Kurt Riley, Teencat | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Classic rock, Pop-punk) Uncle Uku and the Guise | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Psychedelic folk) Pete Panek and the Blue Cats | 9:00 PM | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Chicago Blues, Rock) Lucky Old Sun | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | (Folk, Rock) Viva Mayhem, Mason District | 10:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S
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Alley and the Blue Flames | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | (Swing, Blues, Rock) Greg McQuade | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Ithaca Bakery, 400 N Meadow St, Ithaca | (Acoustic) Treleaven’s Garden Concert Series: Under Construction | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | King Ferry Winery, 658 Lake Rd, King Ferry | (Rock, Funk, Dance) City Limits | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Swing-funk-blues rock) West Hill Billies | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | HiVE 45, 45 East Main Street, Trumansburg | (Old-Time, Folk) Donal O’Shaughnessy | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | (Folk, acoustic) Virgil Cain | 6:30 PM | The Boat Yard Grill, 525 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Blues, Pop, Rock) Maybird | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Psychedelic, Rock, Pop) The Tarps | 9:00 PM | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Classic Rock, Covers) Wingnut | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | (Improv, Jazz)
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Mary Ott Band | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM | StoneCat Café , 5315 Rt 414, Hector | (Jazz) Ithaca Folk Song Swaps | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM | Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | (Folk) Whiskey Sunday | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | (Folk) Sean Farley | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Original Blues) Grey Wolf Jam | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | (Early Rock-and-Roll, Blues, Country, R&B) Blue Skies | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | (Vintage jazz, Blues)
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Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Blues, Rock) Immortal Jellyfish | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | (Classic Rock) Irish Music Session | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Bar Argos, Ithaca | Hosted by members of Traonach. Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | (Jazz) Under Construction | 8:00 PM | JD’s Town Tavern, Rt. 223, Erin | (Rock, Funk, Dance)
Sunset Music Series: The Inner Crazy | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | (Pop, Bluegrass, Folk)
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Music & Mimosas | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | 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. Memorial Jazz Concert | 2:00 PM | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | This year’s
I Am Not Your Negro | 5:45 PM, 6/07 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Directed by Raoul Peck and narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, I Am Not Your Negro is based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript, Remember This House. It explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin’s memories of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. and shares his personal observations on American history. This screening is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Tom Burns at tburns@tcpl.org.
“My Cousin Rachel” opens nationwide this Friday, June 9, and Cinemapolis will be showing the film all week long. Based on the 1951 novel by Daphne du Maurier, the movie stars Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, Holliday Grainger and is directed by Roger Michell. It’s the first adaption of the famous mystery romance since the 1952 version, and has been highly anticipated since Michell announced he was directing. (Cinemapolis, starting Friday, June 9) (Photo provided)
jazz concert will feature Bill Carter and the Presbybop Sextet. Patrons are encouraged to bring their own lawn or folding chairs with them, as seating will not be provided outdoors. Patrons are advised to reserve tickets in advance, in case weather causes the concert to be moved into the theatre, which has a limited number of seats.
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Friday, 6/09 to Thursday, 6/15. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes The Commune | A story about the clash between personal desires, solidarity and tolerance in a Danish commune in the 1970s. | 111 mins NR |
the great music of this iconic American performer. The 39 Steps | Through 6/17 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Hitchcock meets Hilarity. Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of brilliant physical comedy and you have this award winning, fast-paced comedy. Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, 6/08 Thursday | Lot 10, Ithaca | (Curated by ComedyFLOPs) Rockin The Redhouse | 5:30 PM, 6/09 Friday | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse | Rockin the Redhouse is a friendly, corporate battle of the bands style event, with each band competing to win the title of champion. Each band has 15 minutes of stage time. Kitchen Sink Series: Curved | 7:30 PM, 6/12 Monday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Homecoming Players presents the first U.S. production of Canadian Kristin Shepherd’s hilarious comedy, Curved. Home Fires Burning | 7:30 PM, 6/12 Monday | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | What is Home? Is it physical or emotional? Is it memory? In Home Fires Burning, award-winning actor/ writer Roxanne Fay inhabits two unique characters — one a child, the other ancient and disfigured. Funny, horrifying and heartbreaking, their compelling stories speak of the need for, and willingness to give all for, that place called Home.
A new, expanded Simeon’s American Bistro re-opened on Ithaca’s Commons late in 2016, restoring jobs and a vibrant presence downtown. Owners Dean Zervos and Rich Avery credit Tompkins Trust Company and Tompkins Insurance Agencies with helping the business stage a comeback after the tragic accident. Dean and Rich worked with Tompkins representatives to get the answers and support they needed to rebuild.
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Where we make decisions. Simeon’s American Bistro Dean Zervos and Richard Avery, Owners The Lovers | Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a long-married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. But on the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance. | 94 mins R | Colossal | A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she’s suffering. | 109 mins R | A Quiet Passion | The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist. | 125 mins PG-13 | Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer | Norman Oppenheimer is a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman’s life dramatically changes for better and worse. | 118 mins R | The Wedding Plan | When her fiancé bows out on the eve of her wedding, Michal refuses to cancel the wedding arrangements. An Orthodox Jew, she insists that God will supply her a husband. As the clock ticks down. | 110 mins PG | My Cousin Rachel | A young
Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms. | 106 PG-13 | Regal Ithaca
Wednesday, 6/07 to Tuesday, 6/13. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales |Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the trident of Poseidon. | 129 mins PG-13 | Alien: Covenant | The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape. | 122 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 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul | A Heffley family road trip to attend Meemaw’s 90th birthday party goes hilariously off course thanks to Greg’s newest scheme to get to a video
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gaming convention. | 91 mins PG | King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Robbed of his birthright, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword from the stone, he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy - whether he likes it or not | 126 mins PG-13 | 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 | Baywatch | Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon butts heads with a brash new recruit, as they uncover a criminal plot that threatens the future of the bay. | 116 mins R | Churchill | A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 96 hours before D-Day. | 98 mins PG |
Stage Flying | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | Through 6/19 | Drawn from oral histories and memoirs of women who served as WASP’s (Women’s Air
Service Pilots) in WWII, Flying is based on the women who flew fighter planes and bombers to help train male pilots in the art of aerial dogfighting. Clean Alternatives | Through 6/18 | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | A businesswoman turned environmentalist takes on a pollution-spewing megacorporation in this satire of environmental politics and corporate America. You can run but you can’t hide from Karma. Relevant, dark and funny, Dykstra’s play won a Fringe First Award in Edinburgh in 2006. 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 Times Square to the dance clubs of Havana to the sewers of New York City, gangsters and missionaries team up for an unforgettable adventure. Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash | Through 6/25 | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Celebrate the life and songs of an American legend with the musical Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash. Through jam sessions and concerts, hardship and triumph, Cash’s story unfolds and reveals the complexity of his life and his constant drive to become a better musician. Dedicated fans and casual listeners will revel in the chance to experience live
Notices Call for Participants: Heritage Ambassadors 2017 Pilot Program | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | The 2017 Heritage Ambassadors Pilot Training Program will start on Wednesday, June 21, and will run through 6 consecutive weeks through July 26 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. If you are interested in becoming a Heritage Ambassador, please contact Rod Howe, Executive Director of The History Center, at director@thehistorycenter.net. Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 6/07 Wednesday | Crossroads Bar and Grill, 3120 N Triphammer Rd, Lansing | RSVP spicechick2@verizon.net Writers Group | 7:00 PM, 6/07 Wednesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | Membership to the Write Now writer’s group is a multi-genre organization open to those interested in writing, from
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Ending Kitchen Theatre’s 2016-17 season with a bang, Brain Dykstra’s “Clean Alternatives” is a masterclass in corporate bullying, environmental politics, and standing up for one’s beliefs. The production morphs slam poetry, Zen Buddhism and powerful performances to bring one of the season’s very best shows. Kitchen Theatre has had a moving season this year, get your fill before it goes in into hibernation mode. (Photo by Dave Burbank)
One of Ithaca’s most epic and timeless events, Gallery Night sees downtown come alive with art exhibits, music and dining. Some of the highlights this month include State of the Art’s showing of Margaret Reed’s drawings “Something Wicked This Way Comes” (see picture), and Rebecca Hahn’s monotypes at The Ink Shop. Hahn is the Ink Shop’s 2017 Kahn Family Fellow. Get your art and drink on this Friday in style.
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beginners to published authors who are 18 years and older, and are seriously interested in publication. Contact Carol Henry at above information 659-7661; carolhenry@frontiernet.net Beginner Bird Walks | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the Cornell Lab of Ornitholgy on Sapsucker Woods Rd by the front of the building. For the meeting time and more information, go to the club’s website: cayugabirdclub.org/calendar Application for Ithaca Artist Market | Information and Applications are available on www.artspartner.org for artists of all mediums. The event is a juried show and sale of art, with food, wine, beer and jazz at the beautiful Farmers Market. Deadline: June 20th. Writing through the Rough Spots | Register now for summer Writing through the Rough Spots classes. Writing can help to create clarity about challenging situations. More info: www.WritingRoomWorkshops.com Doug’s Fish Fry | 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, 6/08 Thursday | Tramnsburg Fairgrounds, 2150 Trumansburg Rd, Tramnsburg | Benefit for Searsburg Community Church. Candor’s Farmers Market | 3:30 PM-6:30 PM, 6/08 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, Candor | Fresh local garden produce, cheeses, meats, eggs, baked goods, handcrafts and more. Candorfarmersmkt@gmail.com Etna Community Association Ice Cream Social | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 6/08 Thursday | Houtz Hall/ Post Office, 2 Lower Creek Road, Etna | Make your own sundae with all the fixings. Brownies, cake, cookies. Free beverages. Turkey Dinner | 12:00 PM, 6/11 Sunday | Ledyard United Methodist Church, 1069 Route 34B, Between King Ferry and Poplar Ridge | Menu includes roast turkey, mashed potatoes, dressing and gravy, vegetable, coleslaw, cran-applesauce, relishes, homemade brown bread and pies. Worship service at 9:00 AM. All are welcome. 31st Annual Candor’s Canduckie Derby | 12:00 PM, 6/11 Sunday | Catatonk Downs Candor American Legion, 90 Spencer Road, Candor | 50/50 Raffle: beginning at noon;
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Concession: beginning at noon; Goods and Silent Auction: beginning at noon. Dryden Senior Citizens Lunch | 12:15 PM, 6/12 Monday | V.F.W., Route 13, Dryden | The meal will be an indoor picnic, BBQ chicken quarter, baked beans, salt potatoes, macaroni salad, three bean salad and ice cream sundae.
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Pete Panek and the Blue Cats are Ithaca legends. The hard hitting, Chicago Blues swinging trio has been a mainstay in the Finger Lakes for decades, ripping up clubs, festivals and more. If you caught the group at Ithaca Festival this past weekend you know what I’m talking about. These guys are the real deal, bringing an honesty to the blues that is both magical and true. Hear them rip it up this Saturday, 6/10 at 9 PM at The Range. It’ll be a rocking time! (Photo: Christopher J. Harrington) Certified Instructor. This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of safe boating operations and is open to students ages 10 and up. Preregistration is required. Register by calling the Museum at 607-569-2222 or emailing info@flbm.org. Women Awheel: The Evolution of Bicycles In The 1800s And How it Affected “The Fairer Sex” | 2:00 PM-3:30 PM, 6/10 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Join a presentation discussing effects of bicycles and bicycling on women, by Donna Scott, 1800s Bicycle Enthusiast. Bicycles and bicycling affected various aspects of women’s lives from the 19th century, such as dress, exercise, going out and about without a chaperone, and cultural change. Some of these changes emboldened women to seek the vote later on. Modern Dance with Jim Self | 2:00 PM, 6/10 Saturday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Movement awareness, choice and exploration are a way of interacting with the world. Class incorporates Cunningham, yoga, classical
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Forest Talks: Seeing Patterns in the Forest, with ecologist Steve Gabriel | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/07 Wednesday | Wellspring Forest Farm & School, 6164 Deer Run Ln, Trumansburg | This region of New York contains some of the most unique and species-diverse forests of the entire east coast. Local ecologists & foresters will be our guides as we learn to see the forest through the eyes of experience. Presentation on Organic Gardening | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 6/07 Wednesday | McLean Community Church Hall, 50 Church St, McLean | Featured speakers will be Master Composter, Jared Popoli, from Cortland Co. Soil & Water Conservation District and Horticulture Educator, Claudia Hitt, from Cornell Cooperative Extension Topics will contain information on composting and companion plantings for an organic garden. Light refreshments will be served. Call 607-423-2221 for information. Healthy Global Table | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 6/07 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Come taste four healthy and yummy global vegan recipes. Garima Lal will share recipes and samples. Registration required - sign up at greenstar.coop, at the store or call 273-9392. Archaeology Presentation hosted by Brant Venables | 6:00 PM, 6/09 Friday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Hosted by Brant Venables, Binghamton University Archaeology Doctoral Candidate and Carole West, Eight Square Schoolhouse Program Director. Why is archaeology important, and why is it even more significant as we move into the 21st century? How is The History Center involving the public, including our youngest community members, in this exciting endeavor? NYS Boater Safety Course | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, 6/10 Saturday | Finer Lakes Boating Museum, 8231 Pleasant Valley Road, Hammondsport | NYS Boater Safety Course, taught by Scott Johnson, FLBM Trustee and NYS
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Special Events Wildlife Health Cornell: Because we need nature, and nature needs us | 10:00 AM-11:30 AM, 6/09 Friday | Cornell University, 130 Statler Dr, Ithaca | Join Cornell University’s internationally renowned wildlife health experts and Provost Michael Kotlikoff
for a conversation about conservation in the Statler Auditorium. This event is free & open to the public. Space is limited. Admission does not include admission to other Cornell Reunion events. Full Moon Fire Ceremony | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, 6/09 Friday | The Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd., Ithaca | Gather in community by the fire as our ancestors have done, and learn Songs of Honoring & Celebration of the earth and each other. Something good always happens at the fire. Free and open to the public. Donations accepted to keep these fires going each month. Questions? Call Susan Norton (607) 229-5161 or connecting2spirit.com 2nd Annual Paleophonic Festival | All Day, 06/10 | Downtown Spencer | Paleophonic Festival is a full day of music, an event to raise awareness and talk about mental health issues, and a fundraiser for the Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service of Ithaca. Tickets for Paleophonic Festival, a fundraiser for Suicide Prevention; Crisis Service, are available at paleophonicfestival.org. No one will be turned away for lack of
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Silver Line Tap Room, Friday, June 9, 9:00 p.m. Showcasing some of Ithaca’s most dynamic and fearless musicians, Wingnut, led by Micheal Stark, Walter Lorenzut and Zaun Marshburn, is a force to be reckoned with. With compositions ranging from free jazz, electronic, funk and experimental madness, the group is one of the area’s most exciting and unpredictable groups. It’s always a great time to see these guys rip it! Don’t miss out! (Photo: Facebook)
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funds. Camping is free, but parking is limited. Fools Hill Farm is located at 657 Dawson Hill Road, Spencer. Fire It Up BBQ Weekend | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 6/10, Saturday, 06/11, Sunday | Various Locations, | Usher in the summer season with a visit to beautiful Keuka Lake for some terrific foods and wines at eight outstanding wineries. At our very popular Barbecue at the Wineries, each winery features its own barbecue dish with a special sauce, marinade or rub, all made in New York State. Info and locations at corningfingerlakes.com City Sizzlin’ Summer Kick-Off | 4:00 PM-10:00 PM, 6/10 Saturday | Downtown, Auburn | Featuring two live band performances on the Showmobile stage, fine artist displays & food vendors serving up your summer favorites, plus beer, wine & cider sales by Moondog’s Lounge. This event will happen rain or shine, with the City Parking Garage serving as the back-up venue. For more info on downtown events please call the BID 315.2527874, or visit auburndowntown.org. Salt City Comic-Con and Cosplay | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 6/10 Saturday | Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, 205 Genesee St, Auburn | CNY cosplayers are invited to show off and compete in Auburn’s first ever cosplay contest! Entry to this family-friendly event is free for both cosplayers and non-costumed participants. Cosplayers are encouraged to participate in Auburn’s Sizzlin’ Summer events that same evening, which will include live music and food vendors a few blocks from the Schweinfurth in downtown Auburn. Keuka Arts Festival | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 06/10, Saturday, 6/11 Sunday | Penn Yan Boat Launch Park and Outlet Trail, Penn Yan | Works from more than 100 artists in a wide variety of artistic mediums will be for sale at the two-day event, which will also include entertainment and food vendors as well as beer and wine tastings. For more information, call 315-288-6075, email contact@keukaartsfestival.com or go to keukaartsfestival.com. 31st Annual Candor’s Canduckie Derby | 12:00 PM, 6/11 Sunday | Catatonk Downs Candor American Legion, 90 Spencer Road, Candor | 50/50 Raffle: beginning at noon; Concession: beginning at noon; Goods and Silent Auction: beginning at noon.
Kids Children’s Writing Workshops With Anne Mazer | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 6/10 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Participants are encouraged to bring a favorite notebook, pen, curiosity and imagination to these fun-filled programs, which are perfect for students ages 8 through 12. Each workshop will allow writers to explore and be inspired by various locations within Library. Colorful Kinetics | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 6/10 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Families will explore the colorful world of chemistry and chemical reactions by completing a fun-filled activity using different types of food dye. Stories in the Park | 11:30 AM-12:00 PM, 6/13 Tuesday | Dewitt Park Farmers Market, 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.
Books Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 6/08 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Buffalo St. Books presents Trampoline Thursdays; public is invited to share and compete with original three-minute stories. Gordon Bonnet | 4:00 PM, 6/10 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Signing and reading from Bonnet’s new novel Signal to Noise. Zee Zahava | 1:00 PM, 6/11 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Signing and reading from Zahava’s new novel Here I Am.
Art Margaret Reed: Something Wicked This Way Comes | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/09 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Much of Margaret’s recent work revolves around stories of saints and mythological figures recombined the Tarot and modern imagery, resulting in unique interpretations of the current political climate: soagithaca.org
Paleophonic Festival, Town of Spencer, Saturday, June 10
Paleophonic Festival is a full day of music, an event to raise awareness and talk about mental health issues, and a fundraiser for the Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service of Ithaca. Held in the Town of Spencer, the festival has free camping, but parking will be limited. Tickets are available at paleophonicfestival.org, or you can give a donation at the gate. This is great chance to help out with a very important social cause. (Photo: Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service)
41st Anniversary Celebration & Pottery Demonstration | 5:00 PM, 6/09 Friday | Handwork, 102 W State St, Ithaca | Throwing demonstration and pottery process with Featured Artist Renata Wadsworth – Renata’s pottery reflects her training from the folk, Chinese and Japanese traditions. Her work is made predominantly from porcelain, a clay that encourages the intense carbon-trapping she looks for in her shino surfaces. Renata is our Featured Artist for the month of June. Stop by during Gallery Night or anytime during the month to enter for a chance to a free gift made by Renata, no purchase necessary Lisa Baechtle: Lions and Tigers and Bears!! Oh My!! | 5:00 PM, 6/09 Friday | Collegetown Bagels, 203 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Lisa Baechtle’s world is one where lions and birds, bumblebees and elephants interplay as teachers and guides to inform us of possibilities and inspire imagination and transformation. Transform: Paintings by Miwa Oseki Robbins | 5:00 PM, 6/09 Friday | Ten Forward Café , 115 E State St, 2nd floor above Autumn Leaves, Ithaca | Art was the language of expression, integration, and connection for Miwa growing up. Her art is often inspired by a personal story, documenting and expressing moments of internal and external death and rebirth. This is Miwa’s debut as an artist in Ithaca, showing paintings from the last decade, her first decade as an adult, and a time rich in transformation, growth and rebirth. Cecile Swift Lippitt: Back to Basics | 5:00 PM, 6/09 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | New work. Rebecca Hahn: What is home? | 5:00 PM, 6/09 Friday | The Ink Shop, 330 E State St, Ithaca | A latitudinal study of North America between Providence, RI, and Seattle, WA, as seen from the seat of a bicycle and through the lens of affordable housing. They are monotypes representing her interest in the relationships between humans and their localities. Rebecca Hahn is the Ink Shop’s 2017 Kahn Family Fellow. Anna Pausch: Shift | 5:00 PM, 6/09 Friday | Breathe, 171 E State St, Center Ithaca | Shift is a series of Art Therapy Oil Paintings in Abstraction by local Artist Anna Pausch. Each piece is the residual effect of confronting her lingering experiences and innerconflicts influencing her environment
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e’re living in ironic times, people. For instance, it’s ironic that I spoke to Fred Schoeps of the Sustainability Center about their screenings of the documentary Tomorrow on the day that President Trump basically kissed off the rest of the world and pulled out of the Paris Climate Change Accords. Tomorrow plays on June 14 at Cinemapolis at noon and 7 p.m. Environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist Paul Hawken has said of Tomorrow that it is without question. “absolutely the best and most creative film about the future of humanity and the environment.” Ithaca Times: It’s interesting that we’re talking about “Tomorrow” after Trump pulled out of the Paris Accords. Fred Schoeps: It was actually a good stroke that it happened at this
and those around her. Laurel Hecht: Resilient Nature | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 6/09 Friday | CAP ArtsSpace, 171 The Commons, Ithaca | Laurel Hecht’s Unique Vision of Nature, Paintings. Runs June 9 – June 30. Martin A. Poole: Little Moments | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 6/09 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Recent paintings by Martin A. Poole. Music performed by William Groome. ongoing Art @ 2nd St. | 208 2nd St Ithaca (Front Porch) | Tribute to Romeo The Wolf. Curated by Linda Zeito. Images of wolves. Run through June 30. Benjamin Peters | 120 E State St| Photos by Jack VanDerzee | Landscape and nature pictures taken from near and far. Breathe | 171 E State St, in Center Ithaca | “Shift” is a series of Art Therapy Oil Paintings in Abstraction by local Artist Anna Pausch. Each piece is the residual effect of confronting her lingering experiences and innerconflicts. Cornell Lab of Ornithology | 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Free Spirits: Bird
point in time. People are fairly politicized, following Trump on line. But this movie is really about what’s going on: in other words, concrete solutions that are available today. Not years from now, but tomorrow. The two people who put the movie together, Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent, did a crowdsourcing to put the film together. She’s a director and he’s a film producer. IT: She acted in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009). FS: Yes, that’s her. They’re both French, which is ironic, with the Paris Accord [laughs]. And one of the drivers for them to put this movie together was, they both had children. She had just given birth, and they both realized, “What kind of world are we leaving for our kids?” Particularly in terms of an article that came out that in La Monde a number of years ago that basically [said] if we keep this up, humanity’s actually going to take the Earth down, in terms of a planet that’s liveable. It’s not about just going to Western countries: there are Indians, there are Africans, people of good will and it doesn’t matter if they’re white, black or whatever that are making some real differences. The bottom line is, there are solutions now that we have in order the situation with climate change, in order
Photography by Marie Read: Acclaimed local wildlife photographer Marie Read celebrates the beauty of birds with an exhibition, Free Spirits. Through August Corners Gallery | 903 Hanshaw Road Ithaca | “Collision of Realms.” A two-person exhibit featuring paintings and works on paper by Marianne Van Lent and Masha Ryskin. Collision of Realms will be on view through June 22. Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E State St, Ithaca | “In the Ring by Scout Dunbar.” The Ink Shop presents In the Ring by Scout Dunbar at the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) gallery. Through the exploration of pattern, mark-making, line and material, Scout uses memory as a tool to revisit childhood. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Ave, Ithaca | Identity Crisis: Reflecting On Public and Private LIfe in Contemporary Javanese Photography” (through 6/11) / “The War to End All Wars” (through 6/11) / Leo Villareal “Cosmos” (ongoing) | www.museum. cornell.edu Hilton Garden Inn | 130 E Seneca St | Glorious Spring in the Finger Lakes:
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to address the issues that we created, and that we can also create a sustainable future for the world. IT: Do you have a sense that things can be turned around on our end? FS: The bottom line is. It’s not a question of whether we can turn it around or not. One of the things about human beings is possibility. You can either play it from the standpoint of “The sky is falling” or you basically say, “So let’s figure out how to deal with it.” One would
Photography by Maria Krueger Hopshire Farm and Brewery | 1771 Dryen Rd, Freeville | “Awakening” by Trina Bartimer Bruno. New mixed media paintings that are nature inspired. The Ink Shop | 330 E. State St, Ithaca | Rebecca Hahn: What is home” 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
be able to turn it back to 50 years before – probably not. But a more interesting question is, can we create a world that really represents a sustainable future for all generations? • Read the full interview with Fred Schoeps at Ithaca.com.
images of family life, her beloved cats, and still life scenes. In the future, she plans to venture into oils and (perhaps) contemporary themes. The exhibit will be up through May and June. Lot 10 | 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Robert Sikora | Paintings. Press Cafe | 118 W Green St, Press Bay Alley. Cosmic Metro, New Paintings by Elizabeth McMahon State of the Art Gallery | 120 W State St. Something Wicked This Way Comes, drawings by Margaret Reed Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S Cayuga St | Tobias Inigo, Isolated Landscapes. Tobias Inigo is a self-evolving artist, intuitive writer, and unapologetic dreamer. Home and studio is a 1910 craftsman inspired fixer-upper in rural New York where he enjoys pleasantly unpredictable life with his wife, children, cats and dogs. He tends to work in watercolor, egg tempera and pen & ink. His paintings & drawings are in private and corporate collections and he has exhibited in the UK, Europe, and America Ten Forward Cafe | 115 E State St, 2nd floor above Autumn Leaves. Transform: Paintings by Miwa Oseki Robbins Tompkins County Public
Got Submissions? Send your events items – band gigs, benefits, meet-ups, whatever – to arts@ithacatimes.com.
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Buffalo Street Books, Saturday, June 10, 4:00 p.m.
The Dock, Saturday, June 10, 9:00 p.m.
Gordon Bonnet’s last novel, the sleek and mystical “Sephirot”, was a tour-de-force filled with msystery, scfi, and a sort of inverse metaphorical reality. His newest offering, “Signal To Noise”, sees wildlife biologist Tyler Vaughan, who spends his days ear-tagging elk and monitoring bear populations, capture an eerie and surreal image of an eyeless humanoid on one of his remote cameras. Scary times ensue.
Ithaca’s most prolific classic glam rocker Kurt Riley, has been hitting the clubs pretty hard lately, performing his newest album, “Tubula Rasa,” with others rockers from previous records, to much acclaim. Riley’s a unique talent, with a penchant for extreme visual style and blue collar writing. Ithaca feline powered indie-punk outfit Teencat, opens up, in what’s sure to be an exciting and moving night. (Image: Fried Rice Designs)
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Library | 101 East Green Street | “Mapping Tompkins: A Community Exhibit.” A commemorative project designed to showcase, for our and future generations, what it means to live, work and study in Tompkins County. Local residents were asked to illustrate a pre-printed map of Tompkins County, highlighting the places that are important in their lives– from where to find the best ice cream to where you met your spouse, to the places you play, worship, shop or explore. “More Than A Book”: Works by Janet Edwards, Kumi Korf, Lee-Ellen Marvin, Maude Rith, Laura Robert, Teresa Yatsko; and books from the collections of Susan Currie and Tom Burns. Curated by Maude Rith. Books can be more than the physical holder of a story or of information: they can contain the memories of its owner: of their childhood, of the mother who read that book to them, of the lover who gave the book.
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Newfield, June 10th, 8-4. Sewing, Quilting, Cross-stitch, crochet, crafts, housewares, jewelry and so much more.
HUGH Multi-family Garage Sale
Children toys, books, playhouse, slides, sandbox, clothes: size infant - 6. Accordion’s, bicycles, gun cabinet, new electrical boxes, golf clubs, tables, chairs, tent, camping equipment, furniture, head boards w/frames, antiques: table w/12 leaves, books, games and collectibles. 305 North Applegate Road, Ithaca. June 9 & 10, 8-2pm.
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West Brookfied, MA needs 1 temporary worker 6/20/2017 to 10/31/2017, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.38 pr hr. Applicants apply at Workforce Central Career Center, 44 Front St., 6th floor, Worcester, MA 01608 508-799-1600 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #8842561. Harvest tree fruit using a ladder and picking bucket. Workers will be required to lift approximately 50 pounds while ascending and descending a ladder on a sustained basis. Place ladders (up to 24 feet) against tree limb, climb ladder, secure footing and pick fruit carefully placing it into picking bucket. Climb down ladder and gently empty fruit into designated field container. Fruit should not be squeezed or handled roughly to avoid bruising. On a short term basis may perform other harvest related tasks such as operating equipment, pack fruit, and perform general farm labor such as pruning, building and equipment maintenance. Work is performed out of doors sometimes under conditions of heat, cold, and rain. 1 month apple experience required.
The City of Ithaca
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Start Here - Get trained as FAA Certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call AIM for free information 866-296-7094. (NYSCAN)
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The Ithaca Times has an immediate opening for an editorial assistant. We are looking for someone who has knowledge of and enthusiasm for the Ithaca arts and entertainment scene, has experience with social media and content management systems, copy editing, and strong writing skills. Experience with digital photography, InDesign pagination, and layout/design skills needed. Newsroom experience a plus. Email cover letter, resume & examples of writing & design to: editor@ithacatimes.com
District. CLEANER. Full Time Position.
$11.79 per hour. All qualified candidates will be considered. Deadline May 26,
2017. Candidate should submit a letter of interest to: Loretta Van Horn, Business Administrator, Southern Cayuga
Central School, 2384 Route 34B, Aurora, NY 13026. Southern Cayuga Central
School is an equal opportunity employer.
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AUCTION & Info. Session Location: The Space @ Greenstar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca, NY. Ordered by the Tompkins County Board of Representatives to sell at Public Auction, several parcels of real property. SINGLE FAMILY & MOBILE HOMES: Ithaca 229 Cliff Park, 415 Hillview Pl; Dryden 601 Bone Plain Rd, 615 W Dryden Rd; Groton 211 Barrows St; VACANT LAND / BUILDING LOTS: 2.36 acres Elmira Rd, Trumansburg; 2.16 acres Portland Point Rd, Lansing w/ great lake view; Dryden 1.62 acres Ellis Dr; 1.02 acres 805 Midline Rd; Caroline 2 parcels on Slaterville Rd. Property list subject to redemption! Property Information, photos & tax maps at www.reynoldsauction.com. BRIEF TERMS: cash or honorable NYS drawn check with acceptable identification.
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One Bedroom Apt.
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Wrentham, MA needs 5 temporary workers 6/15/17 to 11/1/17, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.38 per hour. Applicants apply at the Attleboro Career Center, 67 Mechanic St., Attleboro, MA 02703, 508-222-1950, or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #8798546. Harvest apples, other tree fruit and small fruit using a ladder and picking equipment, lifting approximately forty pounds while ascending and descending a ladder on a sustained basis. Must be able to identify mature fruits and not squeeze or bruise them. Must also perform other harvest related tasks such as hoeing and hand weeding, planting and picking vegetables. One month experience in work listed is required.
the bolton Point Municipal Water system in accordance with us EPa regulations and NYs Public Health Law have prepared their annual Water Quality report for the year 2017. the report is available on the internet at www.boltonpoint.org. comments or questions regarding this notice, the annual Water Quality report, or to request a paper copy, please contact Glenn ratajczak, Production Manager at 277-0660.
The Southern Cayuga Central School
first. Living Expenses, housing, medi-
is accepting applications for the following positions until 6/21/17. Building Maintenance Mechanic: Currently, there is one vacancy in the Department of Public Works. Min Quals/Preferred Quals/Special Reqs: Visit website. Salary $18.58/ hour. Parking Lot Attendant: Currently, there are two vacancies in the Parking Division. Min Quals: Graduation from high school or GED. Special Req: Valid driver license. Salary: $15.56/hour. City of Ithaca HR Department, 108 E. Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607)274-6539 www.cityofithaca.org The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce.
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106 Park Street, Groton, NY June 10, 9am-4pm. Sale conducted by The Green Giraffe 607-369-3234 Time to downsize/clean out some great excellent items from a clean home. Hickory China Cabinet, Dining Table w/4 Chairs, wall shelves, child’s roll top desk, vintage dress form, tools, architectural house pieces. Adirondack chairs, household, frames, decor & more FOR MORE INFO & PICS GO TO ESTATESALES.NET & QUERY GROTON, NY.
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Campus, Cortland, NY. Instruct students in the areas of math, science, writing, reading, and social studies in preparation for the TASC assessment. Observe and evaluate student performance and progression towards taking the TASC assessment. Administer and score TABE assessment according to policies and guidelines. Provide special education support to Cortland Alternative School program and to students in the TASC program. NYS Students with Disabilities 7-12 certification required. Register and apply by 06/13/17 at: www.olasjobs.org/central. For more information, visit our website at: www.ocmboces.org. EOE
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f a little house on a big village lot with a rip-rap-lined stream is your idea of paradise, check out this sweet Interlaken place. Only six miles from Trumansburg and another ten from Ithaca, this home has been totally re-done, from top to bottom, stem to stern. A one-bedroom, one-bath tiny palace, all 1040 square feet of it have been lovingly and tastefully re-done and upgraded. Its surprisingly large kitchen offers brandnew stainless steel appliances, plenty of dark-wood cabinets, and an easy-cleaning
Ithaca’s only
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Since 1984 802 W. Seneca St. Ithaca 607-272-1711 fax: 607-272-3102 www.fingerlakeselectric.com 3608 Mechanic St (Photo provided)
SpaniSh Teacher (Anticipated vacancy)
OCM BOCES has a need for a Spanish Teacher for high school students at the Seven Valleys New Tech Academy in Cortland, NY. Duties include: Create and maintain a student centered classroom that supports the principles of
project-based learning and integration of curriculum. Be flexible, resourceful
and innovative while using data, feedback and reflective practice to drive instruction and facilitate student learning. Connect with local business and community agencies to build partnerships that support student learning and internships. Show confidence in working with technology and exhibit a desire
to learn new software applications to manage a project-based curriculum. Work closely with the program director to collaborative lead the school through a shared decision-making process. NYS Secondary certification in Secondary Spanish Certification required. Experience with project-based learning is
BYO washer and dryer. A bay window in the 16’ x 18’ living room/dining room gives you a shelf for a few potted plants, and looks out over part of the large lot and stream. The double lot offers loads of possibilities: garden to your heart’s desire, with plenty of room for vegetables, flowers, garden seats, patio, and barbecuing space. Or build a garage or workshop. Put your imagination to work. Consider building a mom-in-law house or a rental to help with the mortgage – village services (water, sewer, gas, etc.) are available at the curb. There’s loads of room for another residence and for privacy too. And, best of all, it’s ready for you to move right in. A Look at Today’s Ithaca-Area Real Estate Market: According to the Ithaca Board of Realtors, so far this year (as of the end of May) the number of residential properties on the market is up by 5.85%, solds down by 19.63%, and pendings (under contract) by 31.89% compared to last year’s figures for the same period. Because the Ithaca market is generally strong, despite the small drop in sales, the average selling price was $235,838, down only 1% over last year’s figure for a comparable time period, the median selling price around $223,000, UP 5.37% over last year’s. While some properties are gobbled up as soon as they hit the market, and some with multiple offers, it may take a bit longer for most to sell. Average days on market is now 82, as opposed to last year’s 74 for a similaryou period. • in that first open Before set foot
porcelain tile floor. An open floor plan means the cook can enjoy the pleasures of his or her company while rattling those pots and pans, and there’s plenty of light to go around. A trendy glass-tile backsplash means your burbling Sunday gravy splashes are a quick wipe-up. A sliding “barn door” crafted from some of the house’s original rafters leads onto a heated four-season sunroom, house, get prequalified for a mortgage which, in a pinch, could serve as a second and know exactly what you can afford. bedroom or office – or both. There’s a At A Glance lovely, new full bathroom on the first floor, Price: We 119,000 offer plenty of loan too. Location: 3608 Mechanic St, for Upstairs, a large (12’8” X 19’) master options and special programs Interlaken , NY bedroom completes the indoor picture – first-time homebuyers. it’s a perfect home for a single or couple School District: South Seneca downsizing or just getting into the housing MLS#: 310208 And decisions take minutes, not days. market for the first time. Contact: Julia Duffe, Warren Estate Though this is a solidly built 1890s-era Broker Happy shopping.* home, there is no fusty cellar – the house Phone: 607-227-6960 is built on a crawlspace accessible from the Apply online or talk to one of our first-floor mechanicals/laundry room. It’s Mortgage Officers today.
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