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or many rappers today, their big break comes in the form of a shout-out from a more famous, established artist, who then either puts them on a song or signs them to a label. Twitter is one of the primary marketplaces for this to happen, since its easy to go viral and pick up wide momentum almost overnight. Adan Morrone, a local Ithaca rapper, is trying to forge a different path to hip-hop stardom, though one still facilitated by Twitter. His will also include include a beverage beloved by him and millions of others: Snapple iced tea. Morrone, 28 years old, has been rapping for over a decade, with several mixtapes out and an established online presence and following (he has 60,000 followers on the popular social network who, according to a Twitter audit of his account, are almost all genuine). He’s originally from Lima, Peru, where he was adopted by a family who brought him back to live in central New York. Morrone estimates that he tweeted at Snapple’s official account nearly 20 times, posting pictures of every bottle of Snapple that he bought. It’s his favorite drink, something imbibed almost daily. Once they finally took notice, they messaged him about sending him some gear to thank him for his messages. Morrone said the company kept their word and sent him some clothes. Another four months later, Morrone reached out about getting more merchandise, but this time Snapple wanted something else: music. “They said they wanted Snapple flow, so right then and there I was like ‘Oh, they’re talking about rap now,’” Morrone said. “If anyone else could do it, make Sprite commercials and Mountain Dew commercials, I knew I could do it too.” Morrone then released “Snapple Rap” on his Soundcloud page, a fun, fast-paced song with Continued on page 12

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Opioid Crisis

Tompkins County Sees Slight Bump In Overdose Deaths, Still Below State Averages

ompkins County, like the rest of the country, has not been able to avoid the wave of addiction that has left no community untouched in the past decade. Though efforts have been made to solve, or at least stem the growth, of overdose deaths from opioids throughout the county, a recent report from New York State called the County Quarterly Opioid Report shows that Tompkins County actually saw its number of overdose deaths increase in 2016 from years prior, though its overall rate of deaths per 100,000 population remained below statewide averages. The report shows a mixed bag for Tompkins County's opioid problems, though it should be noted that it only provides data for January through September of 2017, along with 2016's numbers

T ▶▶ Ithaca Fest (And other options). It’s here again, Ithaca’s premier outdoor extravaganza despite the valiant attempts of winter’s Ice Festival. As usual, the festivities kick off in earnest on Friday with concerts all day on the Commons and in DeWitt Park. The first day comes to the crescendo with the parade down Cayuga Street at 6:30 p.m., though there will be plenty to do afterwards as well. But let’s say that’s not quite your scene. Maybe you’re looking

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for reference. Some numbers aren't final, either, as overdose figures can sometimes be slow to update and can change significantly between quarterly reports. Most of the report is compiled with both raw numbers and the rate of opioid overdoses per 100,000 people. For clarity, any statewide number treats New York City as an outlier, and thus excludes it from any statewide number in order to make comparison to the statewide averages simpler. OPIOID-RELATED OVERDOSE DEATHS

Speaking of those statewide averages, Tompkins County does come in below most of those rates: Over the first nine months of 2017, there were 14 reported overdose deaths in Tompkins

for a way out of town for a few hours or overnight, especially after the traffic madness that is routinely last weekend’s Cornell commencement. Fear not, because the Taste of Syracuse takes place this weekend in Clinton Square, running from 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday with free admission. There’s a full list of live music and Smash Mouth has even signed on to perform, architects of the official back-up National Anthem “All-Star,” taking over the

A county-by-county measure of the crude rates of overdoses death from any drug, calculated using available data from 2013-2015. While Tompkins County is about average using this metric, if adjusted for age the county does rise above state average.

County, which resulted in a range of rates between 1.0 per 100,000 (July thru September) and 6.7 per 100,000 (April thru June). Generally speaking, these rates are encouraging for the county in that they are still below the NYS averages, though obviously not ideal. But in terms of overdose deaths, Tompkins County saw just eight in 2013, jumping to 15 in 2014 and then, 14 in 2015. In 2016, that number rose again to 17 deaths and, according to the available data from the first nine months of Continued on page 11

e stage from 9-11 p.m. Saturday night. But the main attraction is, of course, the food. With nearly 80 participating food vendors, there’s something for everyone’s tastes, with names like the Calzone King, Bacon Bomb Stand and Bad Vegen Cafe. Importantly, each vendor has agreed to sell at least one item for $1 at all times during the festival.

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Town Of Ithaca’s Deer Management Program Gains Support

he Town of Ithaca’s looming war on deer appears – from the onset – to be a popular one after a meeting of the Town Board’s Deer Management Committee last week seeking public input on a plan to aggressively cull its ballooning deer population. Of the dozen or so community members in attendance, almost all spoke in favor of the plan which has, roughly, been under consideration for the better part of the decade. Reintroduced to the Town Board in Spring of 2017, the town began looking to put the proposal in motion back in January in efforts to curb the fearless insurgency of the herbaceous predator "gone amok." With the written public comment phase open through June 1, the plan will likely be subject to an additional public comment period before final consideration sometime in late summer. Michael Roberts, a co-author of the report as a member of the Town of Ithaca’s Conservation Board, said the report has seen few changes since it was first introduced to Town Board members in January and, if passed, would essentially affirm work he and other appointed town appointees had been involved in since 2007, when the issue was first explored. “We’ve had a lot of time to think this through,” he said after Tuesday’s meeting. The need for a deer management program focuses heavily

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on the conservation front. With the deer population outgrowing the resources that sustain them, the deer have begun destroying various native species, trees and undergrowth in the town’s forests, opening the way for invasive species to take root. From a quality of life standpoint shared by members of the public, the deer have become a detriment to health and home, blamed for damaging vehicles, ruining gardens and aiding the spread of lyme disease, often carried on the ticks who feed off them. James Hamilton, a longtime resident of the Burns Road neighborhood in the town, said the deer have "run amok," and he can't step in his backyard without stepping in deer poop or catching ticks. A self-identified a "tree hugger," he said that while he’s all for nature and the natural order, hunting "isn't working" and moving forward, no more studies are needed – adding the town just needs to "make them venison." "It's pure misery," he said.

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fter a contentious school year, Enfield Elementary School’s Principal is moving up to an administrative job with the Ithaca City School District. Lisa Rieger, who has helmed the school for the past seven years, will be moving into a role as the district’s Director Of Special Projects, beginning next school year. In a letter to the school community earlier this week, Rieger said she was leaving the role with a “mix of emotions,” and thanked the Enfield commu30–June

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nity for helping her to grow as a person and a leader. “Enfield’s caring and complex community will continue to inform my head and heart as I work to forward the Ithaca City School District’s mission of inclusion, culturally responsive practice and innovative teaching and learning on a broader level,” she wrote. “I look forward to the challenges and opportunities this new work will bring and hope our paths cross often! Together we can and will prepare our young people to better our world.”

"They're eating boxwood, they're eating plants they're not meant to eat simply because their native food source isn't there anymore." Many expressed concern about the elevated risk of tickborne diseases that come along with a large deer population, including one woman who, because of a tick bite, now suffers from chronic lyme disease. Bruce Brittain, the Forest Home historian and a lifelong resident of the community, said he had never seen deer in the community when he was growing up and, for a while, was excited when the population grew. But now? not so much. Professing he “doesn't get out much,” he said he now averages 20 to 25 ticks on his person a year a year. While he supports the plan, he said his one issue was that the town may be "starting too late," stalled by what some in attendance described as a lack of political will in the days before current Supervisor Bill Goodman took office. He added that if we had acted simultaneously with Cornell several years ago, when they moved forward with their deer management plan, we would have had less of a problem today. The deer population, while left unmanaged for years, can also be partly blamed on human behavior, some in attendance said. Some locals have even been feeding the deer, which under New York State law is a ticketable offense one man in attendance said he doubted was ever enforced at all. “It’s definitely illegal,” a spokesperson for the DEC confirmed with the Ithaca Times on Wednesday. According to figures from the

DEC, between 2012 and 2017, only 124 tickets were issued for deer-feeding related offenses statewide. In an attempt to curb the further spread of lyme disease and other communicable diseases via deer, the DEC is looking into implementing even stricter regulations around feeding deer in the near-term, intended to clarify and strengthen regulations that prohibit the feeding of deer and moose by more explicitly defining bait or feed and clarifying that incidental feeding, such as the attraction of deer or moose, to a birdfeeder or agricultural surplus would only be considered a violation if DEC had previously issued a written warning to the person responsible for the incidental feeding. There are some limitations to the plan, namely pre-existing regulations around hunting and deer management already in place at the state level. Looking to preserve as many deer carcasses as possible for butchering into venison, the town’s programming will look to employ arrows or shot as much as possible but, limited to where lethal weaponry can be employed and with restrictions on where deer can be baited, tranquilization and euthanasia (which would render the deer inedible) may be the better option depending on the scenario.

In an interview, ICSD Superintendent Luvelle Brown said that the newly-created, appointed role will involve work across the district, helping to administer a number of large grants the district has received in the past year, including various Title 1 and Title 2 grants (meant for low-income student success and professional development, respectively), various farm-totable grants (including a summer meals program) and various My Brother’s Keeper initiatives, an Obama-era mentorship program meant to close opportunity gaps for young men of color. Touting her experience in school administration as well as her desire to pursue new opportunities, Brown said

Rieger’s boost to the position was well-timed, especially as the district has received funding for numerous initiatives over the past year that needed some additional coordination. “Putting people in the right seats is always something we do,” Brown said. “We make shifts every year.” He added that the search for a new principal will be initiated sometime in the next few weeks. Rieger was the subject of some parental dissent this past year over perceived disciplinary issues and bullying at the school over the past year, prompting community outcry at a school board meeting and at least one person’s

Written comments on the report can also be submitted to the Deer Management Committee and will be accepted through June 1, 2018. Please direct written comments to Michael Smith, Senior Planner, 215 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850. –Nick Reynolds

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Race For Tompkins County

Osborne – who counts more than two decades of law enforcement experience under his belt – cited massive overtime cost overruns in the sheriff ’s department after his retirement and the need for new leadership as his primary

The Ithaca Times and Finger Lakes Community Newspapers caught up with Osborne over the weekend to learn more about his candidacy and ask questions about topics not otherwise mentioned in the initial press release. (This interview has been edited for length and clarity.) Ithaca Times: The last time Ken Lansing was up for re-election in 2014, he ran unopposed, the reason being that either nobody was up for the job or because he was doing “such a great job, nobody felt like stepping up.”

Derek Osborne: (Laughs) I would disagree with that. I guess my biggest thing is I want to see more community engagement from the department. If you’re familiar with the Kenneth Lansing (Left) and Derek Osborne (Right) will be facing off against each other in this year's election for County Sheriff. CGR report the county did last year, there are a lot of comments from the public reasons for running. A long-time reflecting on the difference critic of Lansing, he notably between policing in Ithaca as slammed the sheriff in a nineopposed to outside the city. There page letter to local legislators were a lot of negative comments upon his exit as undersheriff in on people not feeling engaged, 2015 (which was later leaked to 40th year since he began his caheriff Kenneth Lansing things like that. That bothers the press) and, in his announcewill be running for a third reer in law enforcement (he was me. I’ve seen nothing done to ment, documented numerous term as Tompkins County briefly retired), all of which was correct or change that and it incidents in the press where spent in Tompkins County. Sheriff this fall, his team andoesn’t seem to exist. In this day Lansing revealed information The Ithaca Times has reached nounced in a press release on and age, with things the way they Osborne said he feels undermines out to Lansing for comment, but Thursday. are and with people so divided, the credibility of the sheriff ’s received no answer by press time. In an announcement video I think the sheriff ’s office can do office. We'll try and get a profile of him distributed to local media, Lana much better job engaging with “I'm dismayed over the curand his campaign in the near sing said the past eight years had the public. rent leadership of the Tompkins future. been filled with “numerous chalCounty Sheriff ’s Office… an lenges” and lots of hard work he IT: Let’s talk about office moagency I have loved for so long,” FORMER said he would like to see through rale. Have you seen issues there wrote Osborne. “News article in his ensuing term. and if so, what ideas do you have UNDERSHERIFF after news article, I have read in A former Cayuga Heights dismay of major budget overruns, to improve things on that front RUNNING AGAINST police chief, Lansing ran unopon day one? threats of ‘secret files’ on memLANSING FOR posed on both the Democratic bers of the public, outlandish DO: I think there’s a lot that and Independence ticket in 2014. SHERIFF conspiracy-theory claims, percan be done to improve morale. Solely on the Independence line sonnel issues, and the concealDerek Osborne, who retired Several years ago I created the in 2010, he won his first term ment of criminal activity. I grieve as the undersheriff of Tompkins sheriff ’s office awards program defeating 12-year incumbent for the dedicated deputies and County in 2015, announced last – I don’t know where that stands and one-time County Legislator corrections officers who struggle week he would be seeking the now – but I think getting things Peter Meskill by just over 1,200 to maintain their professionalism Democratic nomination in his going like that more often can votes – 47 percent of all ballots under such conditions. I hurt for run against incumbent sheriff cast – after a narrow loss in the the victims that read these stories help. I think things should imKen Lansing in this year’s elecSeptember primary, also against and fear their victimization won't prove immediately if they know tion. Meskill. be handled in a professional In a four-page brochure If elected, 2019 will be the manner.” released to local media last week, continued on page 11

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▶▶ Ups&Downs Thumbs Up – To Cornell University’s graduates, who received their degrees on Sunday. We rag on the Big Nerdy Giant fairly regularly, mostly because they make it so easy, but in all seriousness, congratulations and good luck in your future endeavors. Maybe some of them will even be in Ithaca. Thumbs Up – After a two-month flirtation with entering the NBA Draft, Cornell junior guard Matt Morgan will return to school for his senior year. Morgan led the Ivy League in scoring, and will try to return to March Madness for the first time since 2010. Also, an additional thumbs up to LeBron James, the best to ever do it.

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HEARD&SEEN

▶▶ Heard &Seen After months of relative silence, the Old Library redevelopment made headlines again this week by announcing a partnership with Bridges Cornell Heights to provide services for the nameless senior housing project, and is now entering the final design stages. Here are the top stories on Ithaca.com this week... 1) Body identified in gorge death 2) LimeBike finds success and solutions 3) GreenStar relocation advances 4) Remembering Dano: A FLX culinary icon

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Tompkins County is facing a shortage of affordable for-sale housing. Can you afford anything costing more than $190k? 70.7% “No.”

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genetic factors? They found here is a little that it had nothing to do town in the Powith cholesterol, or any cono mountains medical cause they could of Pennsylvania that for identify. So they brought many decades was home to in a team of nutritionists. a medical impossibility. In Since everybody there was Roseto nobody ever had a Italian, they looked to see if it were t he “Med iterheart attack. Strangely, no ranean diet,” with lots of men had heart attacks. Un“good fat” in the olive oil. like the rest of the United But it turned out that they States and even neighborcouldn’t afford olive oil. ing towns, there were as They fried all their meatmany elderly men as there balls in lard. Still no heart were elderly women. Men attacks. Nobody ever spoke didn’t die before women. of nutrition there. It is true: I went there and In the bargain, Roseto met them. was a place where the men David Schwartz When a medical worked in t he hard and researcher who had a sumda ngerous slate qua rr y. mer home nearby learned They drank cheap red wine by the gallon, and of this in 1960, he was astonished and curismoked like chimneys. ous. What on earth was causing this? If they At a complete loss to find the cause, the could identify the causative agent, maybe they researchers brought in a sociologist. The could end heart disease in the country! So he sociologist found the cause that had not been brought in medical research teams to study visible to all the other scientists. The reason the health of the little town and find out what that men did not die of heart attacks in Roseto it was. It took a thirty-year longitudinal study was because of how they lived. Every evening, to finally find out the answer. the citizens strolled in a promenade down the The researchers did medical examinaMain Street, saying hi to neighbors on the tions of the town: could it be cholesterol, or

sure sign of summer in central New York has arrived, as the last holdout drivers take snow tires off their cars. Or at least want to. An appointment with a mechanic can be hard to swing here in spring, as droves of drivers f inally divine summer and dismiss winter, and jockey for car-center scheduling. Of course, attention to car maintenance is crucial year-round in Ithaca, with its hills, precipitation, and long routes from anywhere else, on less than optimal roads. It’s hard out there for a Prius. Winter is probably hardest, but summer also has challenges. Motorists in Ithaca planning summer vacations know that almost any trip will add many miles to odometers, since you have to drive half an hour to any interstate highway, an hour to any other city, and much further to anywhere you’d actually want to go. The only real tourist destination within, say, three hours of Ithaca is Niagara Falls, which is a nice spot, but doesn’t much reward multiple visits, with not much to do there but view, with a vista that doesn’t change much over time, at least not centuries. Within a less ordained location, three hours east of us, are the Catskills and the Delaware Water Gap, which provide things to do besides looking,

such as hiking, fishing, and rafting, but beyond those enthusiasms you won’t hear people waxing much about their time in the Appalachian Plateau, or the towns of Kingston or Stroudsburg, or at least hope you won’t. Personally, I like to visit places with something unique. (You can hike, fish, or raft a lot of places, including here.) Not having to go too far is a bonus. Accordingly, I recently went to Auburn to v isit Harriet Tubman’s house, a National Historic Landmark. It’s a quick trip from Ithaca, about 40 miles, a straight shot north on Route 34, which you pick up by Stewart Park. The setting of the Tubman house is fairly austere, but conveys magnificence: the life of a woman born to slavery who daringly escaped, and secretly returned to the south from the north time and again to free others, despite the danger to herself, and built a network of rescue and freedom, and changed history. Beyond history, there’s not much to hold you in Auburn. I walked through town among few other pedestrians (definitely no tourists), amid a clamor of road construction and car congestion. Auburn has four state highways running through it and seems bullied by them. I was looking for a quiet place to sit and eat, or have coffee, but found no enticement. I’d been meaning to take this trip to

YOUR LETTERS NY-23's Disconnect Bewtween East And West

he people and beauty in each of its 11 counties are the 23rd Congressional District’s greatest strength. However, the schism between the eastern and western ends of the district is its most vulnerable weakness. And it plays right into Tom Reed’s strategy. Yes, even Democrats that I know from Chautauqua County use the term “extreme Ithaca Liberal.” Ithaca has seen tremendous growth through high-tech manufacturing, airline service and vibrant local businesses with a top notch Ivy League institution to boot. The most recent New York State Department of Labor jobs report showed that Tompkins County had a 3 percent job increase from April 2017 to April 2018. Unfortunately, counties like Chautauqua, 6 T

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Allegany, and Cattaraugus have not seen similarly encouraging patterns of growth. Quite the opposite. In order to defeat Tom Reed in November, Democrats will need to send a candidate who has the support, and can speak to the issues of areas like Wellsville where Dresser Rand is scrapping 250 manufacturing jobs. Eddie Sundquist, like Nate Shinagawa, is a young candidate with backing from the Chautauqua County Committee. Shinagawa, like Sundquist today, also had to survive a competitive primary, something that certainly did not hurt Democrats chances by nominating someone with support from the Western end. He only lost by some 4 percent in the election against Reed, while later challengers like John Plumb (a Western New Yorker, who faced no challengers and no primary) and Martha Robertson (A Tompkins County

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“History’s Hometown,” as Auburn calls itself, since coming to Ithaca years ago, but the fact is that Ithaca regularly dissuades and diverts me from travel. First, there’s the time and tedium involved, with our geographic insularity. Second, there is plenty to do and experience right here. (I can tell you there are a lot more places for lunch here than in Auburn.) I lead a fairly Ithacacentric life, I guess, living and working downtown. I drive only about 3,000 miles a year. I mentioned this figure once to a group of friends, in a sort of ascetic smug ness , I g uess , u nt i l someone asked, “So, you don’t go anyplace?” “Hey, I go places,” I said, a bit vexed with the question, which seemed to me somewhat inflammatory, though justified, I guess. Part of my problem is I don’t know or care much about cars, or like them very nicely, as we would say where I grew up, in Brooklyn, a place of mass transportation, not personal vehicles. I am still trying to learn about cars, I guess. I recently retrieved my current car from my mechanic after some needed

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porches of modest houses. There were no fences between homes. If you were wealthy, you didn’t build a big house or buy an expensive car. The only socially permissible way to display wealth was through hospitality: inviting neighbors and friends to eat at your table. The sociologist checked another thing: how many people were in nursing homes or institutions of ot her types, and how many people were on welfare. No Rosetoean was in any sort of nursing home or other institution. There was only one person on welfare. She had just moved in from out-oftown. Once the researchers grasped that the positive effects on health and wellbeing were produced by the local culture, they got on a plane and flew to the little town in Italy town where everybody in Roseto had originally come from. What’s they found there was the exact same thing. People walked down Main Street in promenade in the evenings. There were no big houses or big cars. Men didn’t die of heart attacks there, either. The cause was confirmed over time as young people in Roseto went away to college and didn’t come back to their old home town. Residents started building houses in suburbs. They liked their big houses, but they started to feel

repair (exhaust system), and saw a note on my invoice, “rr discs very rusty.” This puzzled me a bit. Of course I know there is plenty of rain and snow in Ithaca, but I wondered why Volvo brake rotors would not be designed with robust defense against the elements and rust. What is it, warm and dry in Sweden? So I did some research. I found out that, generally, using the brakes normally shaves off any rust that might accumulate. You just have to use the car the way it’s designed to be used, like every once in a while. This apparently means driving more than 58 miles a week. So I have to hit the highway more. California, here I come? Or maybe Canandaigua? It seems li ke a n interesting place. Susa n B. Anthony was tried and found guilty there for illegal voting, being female. Kristen Wiig was born there. Every August it has a Pageant of Steam, which lasts four days, honoring steam. Who knows, it might even have an enticing place for lunch.

Stephen P. Burke is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears biweekly.

lonely. As this change took place, men in Roseto began to have heart attacks. The heart attacks rate in Roseto is now the same as in the rest of America. Why am I writing about an ItalianAmerican village in a column about Ithaca? Because Ithaca, in its own way, may have more in common with Roseto than it does than most of the rest of current America. Just as in Roseto, Ithaca has long had a unique and v ibrant culture. When we think of our word for this: Ithaculture, we tend to think of music, and the arts, and the many celebrations for which we are known. Living in Ithaca is good for my heart, and not just its pumping abilities. In this column I am going to capture personal stories about the healing power of Ithacaculture. “Without community, no single human being can survive,” the Dalai Lama once said. Here in Ithaca, the words of the Dalai Lama are important. That says something essential about our culture. The many small hospitable acts that constitute daily life in this place flow from his observation. That is how we survive as most of the rest of our country deteriorates. Maybe we remember something here; something essentially American. Maybe what is essentially American is under our feet.

David B. Schwartz, Ph.D. lives and practices psychotherapy in Fall Creek. You can find him at www.sidewalkpsychotherapist.com

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Legislator) both lost by double digits. Eddie Sundquist is from here, and that makes him uniquely equipped to attract support from both young progressives and blue collar voters. Trump dominated the Western counties in 2016, undoubtedly with help from disaffected Democrats. Sundquist relates to the concerns of these voters that must be won back to flip the seat in November. No other candidate can understand the plight we still feel as a result of Ethan Allen furniture closing in Jamestown in the ‘90s, or the fleeing of educated young professionals from the area. Young Democrats from the West look at Ithaca with frustration and a dash of envy. We envy the culture and prosperity but are frustrated that we do not have the same persistent progressive action that helped build it. Now, we see an opportunity to send someone to Congress who can accommodate the needs of our older, less educated population while taking advantage of the successful tactics of the East. Only one candidate, Eddie Sundquist, has the ability to make that message resonate with voters in the fall. I often fear that the citizens of Tompkins county are in the proverbial “bubble” and no matter how hard candidates try, they can never truly understand the pain that exists in the rest of the district. I would love nothing more than to make the environment or progressive social issues a focus of this campaign, but people here are concerned with jobs, drugs, putting food on the table. Our hierarchy of needs are so vastly different, we remain somewhat divided. And since the Corning and Ithaca areas benefit from an educated workforce, private universities and thus political, social and economic capital, it is we on the West whose concerns go unheard. 2018 will be the first test of whether the aristocratic liberals, who drifted out of touch from the working class Democrats, have learned their lesson. Defeating Trump and his cohorts (including Tom Reed) will take a grand effort. The party needs both the educated, wealthier progressives and the working class to do it. If they rally behind yet another candidate that plays right into Reed’s talking points, they are doomed. But if they send someone like Eddie Sundquist who is able to unite both factions of the party, just maybe they have a chance. Derek Smith is a Jamestown native and a student at SUNY Oswego, where he is the opinion editor of its student newspaper, the Oswegonian. He has also acted as a volunteer for the Sundquist Campaign.

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Barbara Lifton- N.Y. State Assembly 125th District It was a short week for legislators in Albany as both houses met for a join session to replace Attorney General Eric Schneiderman who resigned in early May following accusations of sexual violence. Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton and State Senator Tom O’Mara both voted for acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood who received the majority of votes and will fill the rest of Schnederman’s term. “His resignation was appropriate,” Lifton said in a statement shortly after Schneiderman’s departure. “We have reached the point in our society, fortunately, where we believe women -and men -- who come forward with their stories of abuse and violence. I applaud and thank those women for their courage and their concern for the safety of other women.” The Assembly also passed a bill cosponsored by Lifton which would require the Department of Environmental Conservation to publish permits and agreements with local water authorities.

Tom O’Mara- N.Y. State Senate 58th District Senator Tom O’Mara took to Twitter to call out Governor Cuomo who pardoned close to 24,000 parolees. Republicans and police advocacy groups have been highly critical of the Governor’s move which they claim is politically motivated as Cuomo enters a contentious primary and general election battle. The Assembly unanimously passed a bill cosponsored by O’Mara to increase advocacy, prevention and research efforts for Lyme Disease and other tick borne illnesses. O’Mara also hosted a roundtable event with Cornell University and other stakeholders over the state’s industrial hemp industry.

Tom Reed- U.S. House of Representatives N.Y. 23rd Congressional District Rep. Tom Reed signed onto a discharge petition crafted by a group of moderate Republicans in order to force debate over several legislative proposals to address DACA, immigration and border security. The House worked through several major pieces of legislation this week prior to a week-long recess following the Memorial Day holiday. The 2019 defense funding authorization, a bill loosening FDA restrictions on experimental drugs, and a criminal justice reform bill were passed with bipartisan support. Reed voted in favor for all three bills. The House also approved a controversial Senate measure to roll back several Dodd Frank regulations employed after the 2008 financial crisis. The measured passed mostly along partisan lines with Reed voting in favor. Reed also introduced legislation aimed at lowering student loan debt for low-income and middle-class families. The bill targets universities in particular to mitigate the loan costs for their students. “We currently give these schools huge tax breaks and subsidies, and it is time they start serving the working-class taxpayer who supports them,” Reed said in a statement last week.

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Marketing Tompkins County

Thousands Of People Locally Count On Tourism To Pay The Bills. We Decided To Take A Look Into The Mechanisms Behind One Of The Area's Biggest Industries

By Nick Reynolds or a place jokingly referred to as being “centrally isolated” by the locals, one might find themselves curious about the throngs of visitors making their way into town this summer, arriving on the pretense Ithaca is some sort of mecca of off-the-beaten-path living. Maybe they were drawn here by Ithaca's Firelight Camps mention in Shape Magazine as the Best Yoga Retreat in New York last December, or perhaps when Food & Wine Magazine named Ithaca Beer Company’s Flower Power IPA as one of The 25 Most Important Craft Beers Ever Brewed in January 2017, drawn to the area by the promise of a taste straight from the source. Maybe they’re in town to scout what was referred to as one of the best places to live in the country by Men’s Journal, or perhaps to experience something described in one of the numerous mentions the city and the surrounding area has garnered in publications like The New York Times, which has written about the area at length in numerous editions over the years. Perhaps they were attracted here by the region’s many wineries which, despite having a long-established presence in the Finger Lakes, has only just begun to garner international acclaim. Those of us who have been here a while may figure this to be some sort of overnight success, assuming that the region may have gotten its big break after years of quiet, sustained success. The truth of the region’s success and recognition, however, involves a number of different pieces, including a new direction for a cherished New York State tourism campaign, the efforts of a few well-intentioned professionals around the area, and a New York City public relations firm which, over the past decade, have come together in a public relations blitz that has elevated tourism in the Finger Lakes from a side note in the region’s economic picture into a $3 billion industry that provides roughly one in every 12 jobs here in the Finger Lakes. ITHACA WHO?

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had an appeal that doesn’t take much to decipher. Naturally beautiful, the area relies on the same capital regional destinations such as the Adirondacks, the Poconos, New Hampshire and Vermont have long used to attract visitors, be it the falling of the leaves, the breathtaking views, or the prospect of an escape from routine, leaving behind the confines of urban life or professional obligation

for the rustic experience city slickers can’t get on their own. Finding ways to help these regions stand out from each other was an afterthought, the philosophy being that where there be mountains and lakes, curious masses would follow, seeking something – anything – to break up the routine and experience something different. For a while, Ithaca was one of those places people would simply “discover,” something heard of via work of mouth from friends or the gushing Cornell alumnus at a rooftop cocktail hour with coworkers in the city. That was, until the city went viral. In 2015, the Tompkins County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau – in a daring move still revered in public relations circles today – told visitors in a widely circulated advertising campaign to skip spending the winter in Tompkins County and instead, go to the Florida Keys as a way to avoid the “ridiculously stupid weather” its visitors are succumbed several months each year. Rather than backfiring, the proposal and ensuing virality of the idea led to an insane amount of exposure from media outlets from Sarasota to Syracuse, putting Ithaca on a national stage and offering a gateway into the region for countless thousands who before, may have never heard of the Finger Lakes. According to a report by the 30–June

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Ithaca Journal’s David Hill, the stunt resulted in approximately 149,000 visits to the CVB’s website over a 48-hour period – roughly ten times the norm for the group, and marked the first indicator of a functioning advertising strategy that today, has begun to pay serious dividends. Five years earlier, the CVB – in partnership with the Finger Lakes Regional Tourism Council – signed a deal with Quinn and

Company, a New York City-based public relations firm whose clients include the likes of Lexington, Kentucky, Fort Worth, Texas and even the entire nation of Thailand, with the strategy to take advantage of all the traits of the community – including all its quirks and oddities – and sell it to the world, ensuring that if any conversation was being had involving travel, the Finger Lakes would be in on it. So far, that strategy has been extremely successful. Since being hired in 2010, Quinn has secured approximately 2,020 placements in national and international publications, equating to approximately 12 billion total audience impressions on a global scale, boosting everything from Ithaca’s La Tourelle as a prime destination wedding site to the nearby John Thomas Steakhouse, which was named as one of the best steakhouses in the world by Shake Shack’s CEO Randy Garutti in an interview with Bloomberg. “We’re always looking at what’s new, what people are covering, what’s trending, and how the Finger Lakes can fit into that,” said Quinn’s Ashley Lagzial, a public relations associate at the firm. “There’s something for everybody here, and in that sense, I don’t think there’s a publication or outlet we don’t go after.” Those efforts, stakeholders in the region say, have elevated Tompkins County – and the

rest of the Finger Lakes region – to a completely new level of prestige, particularly on an international stage. “Before, we would go and say ‘oh, we’re from Ithaca, we’re in the Finger Lakes,’ and people would think it was in Lake George,” Peggy Coleman, the CVB’s Vice President of Tourism and Community Relations. “Now, people recognize Ithaca.” TOURISM: A BIG BUSINESS IN NEW YORK STATE

The success of Ithaca, as well as that of the entire Finger Lakes region, is an isolated case in a much larger strategy for economic development in New York State as a whole. According to Empire State Development, the economic development arm of the state, New York State’s tourism sector is vital to the economic health of the state. The state’s fourthlargest industry at $100 billion in revenues annually (more than $60 billion of which is tied to New York City, according to the most recent figures available), tourism in New York State is responsible for one in 12 jobs and, according to ESD’s most recent annual report, is the third-fastest growing job sector in the state. And that trend line is pointing up: According to ESD, the most recent tourism statistics showed that New York State welcomed a record 239 million visitors last year, an increase of nearly 36 million since 2011. In the 14-county Finger Lakes Vacation Region, this translates to nearly 60,000 jobs and more than $3.1 billion in economic activity every year, a 2.1 percent increase since 2015 that leads to greater tax revenues, more spending by locals and, theoretically, a more vibrant economy – if the wealth is spread correctly. From a logistical standpoint, to orchestrate any cohesive strategy in a region roughly the size of the State of New Jersey requires a few different approaches in distributing tourist traffic equitably throughout the Finger Lakes Vacation District. To do this, the regional tourism board looks at the area’s metropolitan anchors as the gateways into the region, using those as launchpads to other destinations throughout the region, using big attractions like the Corning Museum of Glass, Letchworth State Park, Watkins Glen Internation-

al Speedway or even Syracuse Basketball as mechanisms to draw the masses in and send them out into the more sparsely populated and undiscovered pockets around the lakes. “It can be a task sometimes, but there’s a lot of product out there,” said Lisa Burns, Executive Director of the Finger Lakes Regional Tourism Council, which manages the tourism strategy for the Finger Lakes Region. “When we say to people ‘you should experience our wine industry’ and even further, have people check out our distilleries and breweries, you could have someone start in Ithaca and before you know it, they’re up by Lake Ontario sipping apple vodka on a trip that brought them through three or four counties.” While the FLRTC manages the big picture for tourism in the Finger Lakes, it’s up to individual counties – like Tompkins – to find ways in which to stand out and convince visitors that they, as a destination, have something unique to offer – an area meticulously and carefully planned at the county level. Though it has funded tourism initiatives through a 3 percent tax on hotel rooms since the 1980s, in 2005, Tompkins County passed its first ever comprehensive tourism strategy, which was followed four years later by something called the Chmura Report, a study breaking down the demographics of each of the 843,000 visitors to Tompkins County that year that is still used to weigh strategic decisions and investments today. How that budget is spent and immediate pay-off is always the objective, Coleman said, particularly when one considers the fact that visitors to Tompkins County bring in more than $200 million from outside our region annually, equivalent to approximately $673 of tax relief per household annually. Investments from the hotel tax coffers often come by way of the CVB’s grant programs, which provide everything from support to various capital improvements to assorted cultural events around the city. Funding also covers various beautification efforts around town, and even more subtle investments like professional development for workers in the hospitality industry, to even further the visitor experience down to the most minute levels of interaction. There is a high degree of accountability in the spending at the local level as well: anyone who receives funding has to report back to the county on the results of their investments and, through data gathered from point in time studies and through anecdotal takes on visitor outcomes from businesses, Tompkins County can learn a lot more about what works and what doesn’t. IMAGE IS EVERYTHING

Burns said that over the past decade, she has seen a noticeable acceleration of people’s perception of the Finger Lakes vacation. But likely nobody can speak better to how drastic the change has been than Heather Hughes,

Director Of Sales And Marketing for the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce’s Convention And Visitor’s Bureau Just one month in the role as of press time,

year, taking the conversation about the Finger Lakes from the predictable narrative of wine tastings and outdoorsy pastimes to an even more eclectic slate of activities, all of which

Top: Peggy Coleman and Heather Hughes, of the Convention and Visitor's Bureau. Below: Views of the Johnson Museum, one of the area's key attractions.

Hughes has made her return to the CVB after a stint with the organization a dozen years ago, when she left her role as a public relations and communications professional with the group. At the time, she said, the CVB had no dedicated budget to support media and travel writers looking to visit the region, the strategy then geared instead to responding to media inquiries as they came and perhaps hosting five to six media tours per year, often as a result from a “highly aggressive” appeal from the state or the regional tourism board. Today, Hughes said she’s already scheduled six tours with media over the coming weeks, gathered both through the individual efforts of the CVB and the collaborative efforts of their P.R. firm and both the state and regional boards. And where the tours largely used to be in the summer and around harvest time, Coleman noted, staff now host media 12-months a

are promoted through the conscientious hosting of journalists, social media influencers and others with large followings that can help attract an organically grown audience to the region. “We decided to build our program around a public relations program, because we understand that when we host journalists, editors, writers and social media ‘influencers,’ introduce them into our community and show them around, they go out and spread the word like wildfire,” said Burns. “We can’t pay for the advertising we get as a result of that P.R. program.” And the focus has changed: now, instead of trying to tell the story of the Finger Lakes on its own, the group focuses instead on trying to make the Finger Lakes – and Ithaca and Tompkins County in particular – part of a more national conversation, making sure that May

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when something is being talked about, Tompkins County at least gets a mention. “The spin then was more about the unknowns of Upstate New York or the Finger Lakes region,” Hughes said. “Now, it’s much more about niche markets and topics publications are covering, and media want to include this area in their pieces on destination weddings, hunting and fishing or the craft beer industry.” That image, they note, is also carefully curated and the platforms they tell the region’s story in, carefully considered. I Love NY will sometimes inquire with local tourism boards in order to compile lists of destinations only the local boards like know, like the area’s best dive bars or burger joints. Another recent push was a little odder, an inquiry requesting the names of hotels with barber shops on the premises. “We don’t want to overlook anything, but if there’s something that isn’t a part of our work we definitely want to be involved and promoting ourselves,” said Burns From Quinn’s perspective, marketing the Finger Lakes on a national scale is about always keeping in mind what different publications are working on and what the possibilities of placing their clients in those stories are. One recent example Lagzial recalls is the recent completion of the Ithaca Commons and pitching it for the New York Times Real Estate section’s Square Feet column, which covers the development of "live-work-play" spaces around the world. In Ontario County, the firm is helping to make “cow cuddling” – a stress remedy starting to gain momentum in wellness circles as of late – something thought about in New York State and, in Owego, the just-opened Waterman Distillery was recently covered in a Forbes profile on distilleries that rely heavily on local products. While the old saying goes that “any press is good press,” the local tourism associations try to be very careful about the types of outlets they open the doors to. In the early days of the program, there were some hits and misses, but they’ve learned to fine tune their process in the years since, particularly as the industry as evolved. Where they once dealt almost exclusively with television producers and magazine writers, FLRTC and the CVB are now looking much more closely at influencers on social media, who are tracked extensively online to see how their audiences respond and where their reach is, as well as the method in which they cover an area, from post frequency to broadcasting on mediums like Facebook Live. Digital also allows for easier tracking of promotional outcomes, and being able to generate better quality data on the impact of their investment. Almost overnight, places like the Ozarks in Missouri and the Upper Peninsula in Michigan – thanks to its highly successful Pure Michigan campaign – have become 2 01 8

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Coverage of The Environment

“Strong art, attractive design and nice use of pull quotes and graphics help break up the gray and draw readers into important topics like water quality, flooding, energy consumption and climate change.” FIRST PLACE

Feature Story

“THAT ONE CORNER, By Matt Butler: Outstanding piece of local journalism. The kind of in-depth, balanced reporting that tells more than just a surface story (whowhat-where when) about an issue, but that literally gets into the gutter to probe the “whys” and “hows” and “what’s next?” The lede set the mood and the personalities provided the color. The only criticism I have is for the last sentence: I would have preferred to have read a quote from someone saying essentially the same thing. Other than that, this is the kind of journalism every community needs. Excellent job.” SECOND PLACE

Coverage of Health, Health Care & Science

“A very interesting, informative mix of stories ranging from an info war on global warming, the evolution of apples, the impact of a food pantry closing on local residents and projected impact of global warming on the Finger Lakes area. Well-thought out and written with local connections in mind.”

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Coverage Of Education

“There’s some exceptional reporting and writing here, particularly in the piece on the service program in New Orleans.” SECOND PLACE

Coverage of Agriculture

“Matt Butler and Isabella Grullón Paz Immigration is such a relevant topic right now. The author’s extra effort to dig into what it’s like to live in the shadows just to make a decent living was appreciated. Community gardens are popping up all over and this well-written story highlights their importance.” SECOND PLACE

Best News Website

“This website’s story layout was an excellent way to showcase photos and draw the reader in (the way a photo flows through a story). It was also nice to see print editions being teased on the site. The site was easy to navigate and served as a good guide for the local area as well.” SECOND PLACE

Best Editorial Page

“Ithaca Times content is witty, pointed and original. Not afraid to take risks. Visually interesting throughout the section. Illustrations and cartoons set it apart from other entries. Topics could be more varied.” HONORABLE MENTION

Best Column

Ithaca Times, Ithaca Charley Githler Caught me off guard with the willingness to switch up the format in each entry; I liked that originality and I’d wager the readers do too. The sarcasm is strong with this one.

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nationally renowned sites simply because the experiences possible in those areas have been plastered everywhere, reaching unprecedented audiences in a well-planned and strategic fashion. “I remember the day it was strictly print, where you had to wait for it to come out and then track it anecdotally,” said Burns. “Now, we have immediate data. We can tell who’s seeing it, who’s reposting it… it’s remarkable, and everybody is doing it now because you have to.” The infrastructure from New York State’s long-maintained I Love NY campaign helps too. With international reach thanks largely to increased investment under the administration of Governor Andrew Cuomo, markets in Upstate New York have been much more effectively branded than they have in the past, allowing international travel to extend beyond the limits of New York City and into the more rural counties several hours out of Manhattan Island. “I think the fact we have people actively marketing not just domestically, but internationally as well, helps,” said Coleman. “International visitors might think that they can hop on the subway and get to Niagara Falls, so the fact we have people educating people through the media coverage is helping to make that story easier to tell.”

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When building on an area’s brand as a tourism destination, it’s always important to be honest about the region’s assets and avoid anything too contrived or artificial. When marketing an area, one wants to think about an area’s unique traits, the type of visitors those traits attract and, when building a tourism strategy, focus on building out those traits to the best of their cash-earning potential in efforts to get heads in hotel beds and cash in locals’ tills. “We know outdoor recreation is important. We know a vibrant art experience is important, and that we have a unique strength there,” said Nick Helmholdt, a Principal Planner and Tourism Program Director for the Tompkins County Planning Department. “Heritage tourism is another area we’ve increasingly looked into, and agritourism has been a major focus for us as well. We know our strengths.” Tompkins County, Helmholdt notes, is a seasonal market with a few big spikes where a majority of its travellers drive into the market, rather than fly in. In that way, the region has focused heavily on packaging events and experiences within close range of each other,

helping to spread wealth to existing assets in the community that already lend themselves to the area’s distinct identity, rather than attempting to amplify it in a way that may lead to the area becoming a caricature of itself. In a notable example, Nashville, Tennessee – known for its honky tonk music scene and Instagram-ready aesthetic – has seen some neighborhoods transformed from boisterous boulevards where good-timing locals partied with tourists into townie no-go zones, turned from an authentic distillation of the area’s heritage into default districts for destination weddings and bachelorette parties. We want to focus on the organic experiences, Helmholdt said, making efforts to capitalize on and enhance our existing assets as a way of solidifying the identity of the community. “Tourism is an industry with a lot of potential, but it can potentially have a lot of drawbacks as well, said Helmholdt. “You don’t have to look too far to find locations that have fallen prey to the over-tourism syndrome, where visitors seem to overwhelm the locals. It’s rare in this part of the world – I moved here from Savannah, Georgia – and that’s certainly an example of a city on the precipice of that. When you find those places, they don’t feel authentic, like it’s forced. The state is trying to address this by looking at what we’re investing in – an exhibit at a museum, a trail – and being sure it’s an authentic part of what that place is about… it’s an interesting balancing act and, in my opinion, the state has been very smart in that perspective.” Down the road, the county already has big plans to expand on tourism as a local industry. Working with the same data since 2009, the CVB is currently in the process of profiling a new crop of visitors and, by the end of 2019, the County’s Planning Office expects to have an update to its current tourism strategy, taking into account progress that has been made and looking into new sectors such as edutourism, which draws on the unique traits offered by places like Ithaca College and Cornell. Even a convention center, and the prospect of floating Ithaca as a city able to host large gatherings, has been floated, exploring the cost benefit for the region as a whole of investing in the City of Ithaca as a corporate destination. Now seen as an international destination, there really does seem to be nowhere else to go but up. “We’ve seen a lot of success there,” said Lagzial. “People are learning more and more what the Finger Lakes are, they know it’s a destination and that – not only is it a wine region – but there’s so much more to do there. And those that don’t know about it, when they find out about it, usually think it sounds amazing.”

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2017, Tompkins County was at 14 by the end of September. In terms of crude rates, Tompkins County experienced 16.2 overdose deaths from all opioids per 100,000 people in 2016, while

avoiding death. In 2016, emergency responders in Tompkins County administered naloxone 81 times, administering the drug 98 times in 2017 – a jump of roughly 20 percent. As for administrations by law enforcement in Tompkins County, naloxone incidents jumped from 11 to 19 in 2017. That's in contrast to the rest of the state, where naloxone usage actually fell in all instances.

OUTPATIENT ER VISITS AND HOSPITALIZATIONS

There were 58 total outpatient emergency department visits in Tompkins County in 2016, which was slightly below the per100,000 rate of the rest of the state. This number was heavily dominated by heroin overdoses as opposed to other opioids, by a rate of 45 to 13. As for last year, through September 2017, 29 people had visited an emergency department due to all opioid overdoses, split pretty evenly between heroin and other opioids. That would put the county on pace for lower outpatient visits, but until the last quarter's numbers are available that's only speculation. As for hospitalizations, there were 16 total as a result of opioid overdoses in 2016, which also hovers around the crude rate of New York State otherwise. NALOXONE ADMINISTRATION REPORTS

Crude or adjusted rates are not provided for naloxone (Narcan) usage in the report, though the raw numbers show that its usage increased fairly significantly across the board in 2017, for which full-year data is available unlike the previous numbers. Narcan is used to reverse overdose symptoms in the hopes of

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they have someone there who’s open and honest with them, as I’ve always been. I won’t be going out there making their jobs harder. IT: You mentioned community policing as a focus of yours. I know the Sheriff ’s Office has a pretty wide area to cover, so how would you roll out community policing on that scale, and what tweaks would you make to the system from how it’s currently organized? DO: I think just opening up the relationship that’s there already. John Barber, the former chief of IPD, did a great job with that when he was there – they had a lot of negativity around them when he came on but, from going to community events to having coffee with the chief at local businesses and giving people opportunities to have discussions with him… I would want to do more things like that. I think if people are put in a position where they can actually have a dialogue with their sheriff, I think that will help turn things around more quickly.

Overdose trends in Tompkins County.

the state average was 18. The majority of Tompkins County's deaths came from opioid pain relievers, including the increasingly prominent drug fentanyl, attributable to ten deaths compared to just two involving heroin only. The total of 17 is not mutually exclusive between heroin and pain relievers, meaning that in the remaining five incidents, more than one substance was found in the deceased person's system. Crude rate numbers for 2017 will not be available until the entire year is accounted for, presumably by the next report publication in July.

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It should probably be noted that what exactly is at the root of these changes isn't clear: expanded recognition and use of Narcan and other naloxone substances could theoretically be the culprit of the heightened Tompkins County numbers, though it could also be linked to more overdose incidents. To quote the report itself, "There is often a lag in data reporting, increases may represent program expansions, and may or may not indicate increases in overdose events." REGIONAL COMPARISON

The Finger Lakes region specifically was pointed out for continuing to struggle with opioid abuse particularly in forms outside of heroin. Of the contiguous counties to Tompkins County, there are only two whose populations approach that of Tompkins County, which are Chemung and Cayuga (89,000 and 80,000 respectively). From those two, Tompkins comes out as basically the middle ground: Cayuga had a considerably higher crude overdose death rate, and a stunningly high outpatient emergency department usage rate of 98.4 per 100,000, nearly double the statewide average. Both numbers obviously outpaced Tompkins County’s rates. Cayuga also had many fewer incidents of naloxone administration. Meanwhile, Chemung seems to have had more success against opioid overdoses, albeit compared alongside its historic struggles with the issue. The county saw five deaths total in 2016, though that number had risen to at least ten in 2017. In terms of healthcare encounters, there were slightly lower rates than Tompkins County, while naloxone seems to have gained a very hefty foothold in the county with 130 and 146 EMS administrations over the last to years, easily the highest among Tompkins, Cayuga and Chemung. Regionally speaking, Chautauqua County faced the worst numbers from the report, which showed 24 opioid deaths in 2016 and another 20 in 2017 through three quarters.

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IT: A lot of these problems are tied to greater societal or economic issues, and there’s only so much law enforcement can do. I know one of the things in the planning stages right now is the LEAD Program (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion). How do you feel about how the process has rolled out so far? How would you continue the conversation around it? DO: I think it’s a fantastic program and would strongly encourage it moving forward. Thinking back over time and giving these people with other chances beyond immediate incarceration was actually something we used to do back in the day. I’ve had a lot of opportunities in my career where I’ve come across a young person who has done something wrong and I’ve been able to work something out without them being incarcerated, and those were the moments that were always the most rewarding to me. I can honestly say I’ve impacted more lives in that manner than through arrest and incarceration. May

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DO: I’ve got to be honest with you, that’s a tough one for me. I’m going to take a little different stance than Ken has taken, that he will uphold the law no matter what unless the laws change. I don’t want to see anybody die due to addiction, but I have a lot of questions about it and a lot of concerns. I’m not ready to flatout rule against it and say it’s a dumb idea – I think a lot of people have taken that stance – but I want to have the opportunity to educate myself and during my campaign, find out voter’s thoughts and concerns around that. I don’t think it’s an issue that’s up to the sheriff ’s office, I think it’s a legal one that needs to be handled through the legislative process. IT: So the sheriff ’s office, knowing the law might be broken at one of these facilities, wouldn’t go out of its way to wait around and see if people are using near it?

IT: I know we mentioned the CGR report earlier and some of the recommendations contained in there. Ken did say he had a number of “good things” in motion he wanted to see through and I was wondering, if you won, how would you continue those “good things” he mentioned? DO: First of all, I’m not really sure what he’s referring to, because I don’t think he’s started any programs that I’m aware of. I know on his Facebook page, he talked about Project Lifesaver (a program to help quickly track down missing persons, particularly the elderly) and starting that, but that’s actually something I instituted while I was there – not him. I know he’s mentioned alternatives to incarceration in the past, but I’m the only candidate who actually worked with inmates in that capacity. I would drive to Syracuse every day after I retired and sit in a room with federal inmates – the worst of the worst – and teach them life skills, council them, help them find jobs. That’s something near and dear to my heart, and working with them actually taught me a lot about empathy.

IT: So now I have to ask your thoughts on safe injection sites and harm reduction around drug use.

DO: No, I think the conversation needs to be about involving stakeholders like the District Attorney’s Office and the Health Department. I wouldn’t want to be told to not enforce the law – I think that would be wrong to force somebody elected to force the law to do that – but I think some things need to be done to make that process legal or get some sort of agreement in place around how we would respond to these sorts of things. Would I have deputies sitting outside these places to try and catch people coming in and out? Absolutely not. IT: Whether justified or not as far as the jurisdiction of the sheriff ’s office is concerned, the enforcement of President Trump’s federal immigration policies have been a huge talking point locally. Have you had any thoughts on how things have played out on the ground here and what role the sheriff ’s office should play, if any? DO: I don’t think it’s up to us to decide on that matter. However, I think you have to be very careful when you’re serving the community to take certain actions that may prevent a possible victim from coming forward based on their citizenship. I also think there’s so much the sheriff ’s office could and should be doing to impact our community in a positive way where there simply isn’t enough time, and it shouldn’t be a concern of the sheriff ’s office to try and enforce federal policies. If I’m elected, I believe we should let ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) do what they do and let us do what we do. IT: Is there anything we might have skipped over that you’d like to get across? DO: I just want people to know my heart is in this. I have a deep love for the sheriff ’s office and the service that it provides, and I want to move us into the 21st century. That requires a lot of vision to be had, and I think we can do a lot more in the community that needs to be done.

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a “Snap, sip, you know what it is, it’s Snapple baby, up in the mix” hook and production by Rated Too Real, another local artist. Snapple retweeted the song, commenting that they could “see it going platinum.” The shoutout from Snapple’s account, which has almost 100,000 followers, upped Morrone’s profile and has inspired him to go even further with it: he now wants to shoot a music video to accompany the song on the Ithaca Commons, and send that to Snapple as well. He knows it’s a pretty unlikely route to fame, but that doesn’t seem to bother Morrone. He said the company told him he made the first ever Snapple rap, so in Adan’s mind, he’s already made history. Now, it’s just about finding sustained success so he can make enough to provide for himself and his family, something he emphasizes repeatedly. This is a professional venture for Morrone, not something he’s willing to just brush aside like a hobby. His dream was almost derailed by his own hand, though. Morrone’s recent success comes on the heels of one of the more intense struggles of his life. In 2017, he was arrested by New York State Police after a tip led them to his house in Amsterdam, New York, where they discovered four ounces of marijuana and a small amount of cocaine. He was sentenced to three years of probation as a result. Morrone said the situation was more complicated than it seems, but that he began selling drugs as an act of desperation to provide for his family. Morrone’s left that behind him now, having obtained a well-paying lab technician

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job to support him while he further pursues a career in rap. He’s also found some solace and stability in his relationship with new manager Jon Auchampaugh, who’s helping Morrone get on his feet as well as serving as a consultant of sorts for career decisions. Auchampaugh knows Morrone through his wife, who was a high school classmate of Morrone’s. They originally connected over the Snapple song, which Auchampaugh heard but knew Morrone couldn’t afford to get into the studio to record it officially. He volunteered

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his money so Morrone could record it, and the partnership was formed. “I know what it’s like to start with nothing and try working your way up, it’s hard,” Auchampaugh said. “For me, that was my dad. I used to be a professional motocross racer, but then I got into a car accident. I don’t like people wasting their talent when they got some and want to follow their dreams.”

candidacy for the ICSD Board of Education – an issue Brown said was “totally separate” from the decision to promote her. In the past several months, numerous parents alleged issues of bullying at the school were prevalent at the school and oftentimes, went unpunished. However, according to disciplinary figures obtained by the Ithaca Times, Enfield Elementary School averaged the most annual disciplinary instances – meaning anything from no action taken to behavioral plans or suspensions – of all elementary schools in the district, averaging 369.9 instances per year according to documents obtained by The Ithaca Times. The next highest was Caroline Elementary School, with 268.9, and Fall Creek Elementary School, with 175.3. The lowest rate reported was at Northeast Elementary School, which averaged 23.6. The average for all elementary schools combined? 160.5 instances per year. These numbers, however, have to be taken with a grain of salt: According to one district source speaking on background, actual numbers may be over or underreported based on each school’s unique situation, an allegation corroborated by parents within the district earlier this year. Even then, discipline, Brown noted in March, is not always black and white. “We’re talking about young people with disabilities here,” he said at the time. “We have to be careful to meet their needs to balance the safety of staff but also to respect the law as well. You have to think about what an appropriate consequence is for a student with an identified disability whose behavior is a manifestation of that.” “It’s never a good thing when an adult or a young person is hit, but this is something we need to navigate carefully.”

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n the northern hemisphere, most communities consider summer to start at the time of the summer solstice or another indicator of the season’s shift, typically based on the area’s climate.

to Bar Argos for fancy drinks and a comedy hypnotist until midnight. 4. Watch the Blind Spots for 15 minutes, then head down the block to the State Theatre and watch The Big Lebowski, which we at the Ithaca Times consider to be the greatest film ever made. Personally? This guy will be heading off to The Haunt around then because, come on, Ithaca Festival and bone-crushing metal music is a totally foreign concept to most people. That all-ages show, with doors opening at 7 p.m., is being put on by Ithaca Underground and costs $10 to get in.

block and shopping a little bit. Make sure you make it back to Cayuga Street from 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Though, because that’s when the Fall Creek Brass Band will be playing in the middle of the street. You seriously don’t want to miss those guys. From this point on, you’re on your own, as the schedule from this point on reaches its point of peak diversity. There are children-centric activities and entertainers, throwbacks to the ever-popular GIAC Festival that, this year, is on hiatus and a highly eccentric bill on the Ithaca Underground Stage worth dropping into every now and again. From 10 p.m. to 1 p.m.

However, you’re going to be faced with a choice: Attend another silent disco on the Commons, partake in an old-time variety show at CSMA, or party with this author at The Range, where he will be in the audience for the Spazzare/Ilium Works/Field Destroy show that promises to be as mind-blowing as it is chest pounding. We recommend you eat light ahead of that one.

Ithacans know better – summer, it’s universally known, doesn’t start until the Ithaca Festival rolls around.

The annual, multi-day affair is a well-ingrained institution here in town, marking the reclaiming of the city by locals after the student’s departure. Things seem to move a little slower festival week, not picking up again until the first chill breezes of September roll across the lake, and smiles seem to come a little easier. While there is no wrong way to enjoy the festival, getting the most out of your Ithaca Festival experience takes a certain degree of planning and deliberation to squeeze the most you can out of the experience. While we might be a (bit) biased due to our own personal interests in this list, we encourage you to head on over to ithacafestival.org to do some poking around on your own and make the plan that’s right for you. We assure you, there’s something for everyone here. OUR PICKS FOR FRIDAY 12 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Get lunch from a food truck or vendor and watch Sam & Mandy on The Commons. Go back to work if you need to, or stick it out through 4:50 p.m. to catch the end of The New York Rock’s set. Why cut it short there? Well, you’re going to need time to get home and grab a lawn chair for your next appointment from… 5:45 p.m. to 8 p.m.

When the Ithaca Festival Parade makes its way down Cayuga Street. While the route technically starts at 6:30 p.m., the Youth Bureau will have its moment in the spotlight a little bit earlier, which is well worth seeing. (Pro tip: This writer lives near Thompson Park and has watched the parade route from his roof every year. Highly recommend you do the same.) Don’t need a break? The stage at Dewitt Park will be rocking all the way up through the parade’s start. Fair warning: it’s predicted to rain on Friday, with thunderstorms likely. After the parade, we have two suggestions to fill the time between 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Including… 1. Watch the Blind Spots. Dance a lot. Or… 2. Go to a nearby bar or the beer tent, have a few drinks, and get yourself loosened up for the silent disco, taking place right after the Blind Spots’ set. 3. Head over to CSMA. Get 19th century fancy and dance to some lively old-timey jams. Immediately follow that up with a trip

OUR PICKS FOR SUNDAY

OUR PICKS FOR SATURDAY Sleep In.

Seriously. You had a long day yesterday. Just chill out. 10:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

Get down to the Bernie Milton Pavilion and check out the New Roots Rock Band. It’s such a cool program and these kids deserve a big crowd. Maybe even get breakfast somewhere downtown beforehand at one of our fine local establishments (Commons Kitchen and Waffle Frolic are right around the corner) and enjoy the show with a full stomach. Try not to get too enraptured, because you’ll want to hightail it back to the Commons in time for Vinegar Williams’ set at the busking circle at the corner of State and Cayuga, which ends at 11:45 a.m.

After which please, for the love of god, get your but back down to the pavilion because, at noon, songwriter Vee Da Bee and her band’s set starts and, having seen and heard them on several occasions, I can assure you that you will be kicking yourself for weeks if you allow yourself to miss it. Her set ends at 12:30 p.m.

After which we recommend you take a walk. This is around the time things really start to kick up, when the cooks at the food tents begin to get into rhythm, the crowds begin to appear and all stages are firing on all cylinders. Personally, we like to advocate for the rotation method, taking a stroll down to Dewitt Park to cool off before looping around to the Ithaca Underground Stage (behind the Ithaca Journal building) and back down Cayuga Street, catching the buskers before taking a stroll down the

We always enjoy the lineup on Sunday. Which always seems to take on a chiller, more relaxed feel that helps us weary souls ride out what, otherwise, had been a pretty wild weekend. While Sunday often strike us as a good shop ‘n’ stroll sort of day, we feel obliged to point you toward Anna Coogan’s Bernie Milton set at noon, though if you want to stick it out through one-time Ithaca Times cover story darlings Stone Cold Miracle’s set at 7:45 that night, you won’t go home disappointed. And if you do? Well, you clearly did the whole weekend wrong.

Pro Tips: Get an Ithaca Festival button. It will save you $2 off the price of admission at any Ithaca Festival-related event with a cover charge. Remember where the first aid station is. It’s at the corner of State and Geneva Streets, FYI. BUY THE MERCH. If you’re new to town, you’ll regret not marking the passage of every year you live here with a new shirt or button, which locals obsessively collect like karate belts. I’ll be marking three years lived here this summer and I regret starting so late. Drink water and, if you want to drink, get a driver or take the bus. Seriously. There is so much awesome beer, wine and cocktails ready for the drinking this weekend. Enjoy it responsibly, and don’t let your inner party animal make you look like a jerk. Control yourself, for all our sakes. SHOP AT LOCAL BUSINESSES. Ithaca Festival at face value is a free party. But it’s also a major way to bring foot traffic downtown, thereby helping to support local business. When you’re wandering around, enjoying the free entertainment, help to circulate a little more coin into the local economy. I guarantee you, the pockets that cash is going into will somehow find its way into another till somewhere in town. Don’t talk down to Volvos. This is the worst possible time to speak evil of the much-beloved station wagon. Please don’t do it. May

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t unfolded like a movie script, one written over the course of several generations… The Ithaca High boys lacrosse team, trying to win the Sectional championship and maintain a proud tradition, had just coughed up a 3-goal lead in less than 2 minutes of the Sectional final. They were playing against the Corning Hawks, a team they had faced twice in the regular season. Corning had won both games, and no one would be surprised if their last-minute comeback would give the Hawks the momentum they would need to seal the win in overtime and move on in the postseason. Ithaca’s Ryan Sposito – a senior midfielder - had watched his team’s 3-goal lead disappear, and he just wanted one more chance to get the ball. He had scored three goals after halftime, and a year ago he had torched the Hawks for five goals in the Sectional final in a 10-5 win. Corning would, for sure, doubleteam or even triple-team him, but that didn’t matter. He wanted the ball. Like I said, this script was written over time, and I have watched some of it unfold. I watched Ryan’s uncle play lacrosse for Cornell

in the 1980s. His mom, Jennifer, had been at every one of those games, sitting with her mother and cheering on her brother. They were in the stands in rain, snow and blistering heat. Jennifer’s dad never sat with them, but he was there. I knew Jennifer way back then, and I knew her fiancé, Lou Sposito. He was a solid guy and while I didn’t know if he brought any athletic genes into the gene pool, I knew that he and his family were hard workers and good people. I invested heavily in their financial future by eating a few thousand pieces of Napoli’s Pizza, and I was pleased to do so. Starting when he was about 3 years old, every time I saw Ryan he was carrying a basketball, a lacrosse stick or some other piece of sporting equipment. He was quick – whether running with great confidence down an athletic field or running in terror away from the Big Red Bear – and his parents gave him every opportunity to excel in the classroom and on the field. Ryan had heard stories about his maternal grandfather’s service in the Marine Corps, and he knew that his grandfather’s brother – a West Point grad – had made the ultimate sac-

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Ryan will carry that torch, as he will depart for West Point two weeks after Ithaca High’s graduation ceremony. I asked Ryan if Army was always his first choice, and he said, “Yes, it was always my first choice, and I will be entering the Army prep program in July.” I asked if that decision would affect his four years of NCAA eligibility, and he replied, “No, it won’t. It will give me an extra year of academic and athletic preparation, and I will need it because academics and athletics will be very rigorous at West Point.” Becoming a leader will take a lot of hard work, but again, it’s in the gene pool. Ryan’s dad – like his own father – is a business owner and makes daily decisions that affect many people. That other grandfather – the one I said was at the Cornell lacrosse games but never sat with his family – is known as a leader of some note himself. Richie Moran was the men’s lacrosse coach at Cornell for 29 years, he led the Big Red to three undefeated seasons and three Division 1 national championships, and the team won 15 Ivy League titles and saw 117 players earn All-American recognition. Richie also won a national title as a player at Maryland in 1959, and many of his players have gone on to become leaders as well. Of course, in the Sectional title game, Ryan got the ball with 12 seconds left in overtime, and of course, he fought his way through traffic to score the winning goal. “It’s something you dream about as a little kid,” he told me. “Scoring the winning goal in OT… when we were ahead by three late in the game, I didn’t think it would come to that, but I’m very happy that we’re moving on.”

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Arkansas. The ilium works started mostly just as folk but continue to shift towards higher energy and volume and a more rock and roll sound. The new album is mix of noisy rock tracks and a handful of more low-key, acoustic tracks. Spazzare is comprised of John North on Works headlining at The guitar, Dustin Underwood on bass, and drummer Jeff Asbrand and takes cues 2016, Playing from ‘60s psyPossum, and are chedelic and ‘70s working on an rock like Black upcoming album Sabbath, Nirvana, and plan to begin Johnny Paycheck, recording in Auand the Beatles. gust with Galen Dusky and John Morley on lead share lead vocals vocals and guitar, in a solid juxtaTim Nosewicz position between on guitar, Corbin their styles and Boisvert on distinct voices bass and vocals, one raspy, higher violinist and pitched punk and vocalist Alejandra the other full, Diemecke, and deep, and growldrummer Luca ing. Fustinoni. Their Spazzare is sound, especially a little bit punk, Galen’s voice, metal, psychedelic might remind Spazzare, who will be taking their acid-washed stylings grunge and a lot one of Shawn to The Range on The Ithaca Commons this weekend. of rock and roll James and the with a big helping Shapeshifters, of weird and an a heavy blues rock band from Fayetteville, exploratory approach to their sound. Their writing process: Dusky or John will bring a song and a vision to the table, the three play it, destroy it completely, and then rebuild it. Spazzare, appropriately pronounced to sound like spazz and bizarre, is an Italian word meaning to sweep or wipe out completely – total annihilation. Songwriting, and their blue collar work ethic, play the biggest part in their identity as a band as well as their chemistry. The band was together for almost a year and a half before taking it live.

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sych grunge outfit, Spazzare, has been aspiring to do a show with the five piece folk rock group, the ilium works, for some time. This Saturday, June 2, these two local groups finally get the chance as they bring it live to The Range for a night fit for any rock music lover. Spazarre will be releasing its first full-length album, a self-titled compilation jam packed with three years’ worth of music annihilation and creation. Galen Morley, the ilium works’ front man, set up the gig, giving Spazzare the spotlight to showcase their new album. Field Destroy, an alternative rock group with a melancholy and often mellow sound, will be performing at The Range as well on Saturday night. The ilium works and their music are inspired by a disparate variety of influences, drawing from the likes of gruff and growly songsmith Tom Waits to the lighter stylings of Modest Mouse all the way to English indie pop outfit Peggy Sue. According to Spazzare, the ilium works hits hard with a folk rock sound “fit for some good ole barroom brawling.” The group released an album in March

“We’re very anal about our sound and how each song sounds but also our chemistry and wanted to really build that up,” said John. Spazzare worked on their album over the winter of 2017 putting in their best eight tracks some of which are re-recordings of previous titles and others written and recorded more recently. The group found a post apocalyptic, nuclear war theme that unified these disparate works. While chatting with Spazzare, the group talked about the changes in their lives that led them to Ithaca and the formation of the band in 2015 – “ a feeling of nuking one’s life” noted Jeff, “and you can either pick up the pieces and build something new or let it totally destroy you. This coincides with what is happening in our world with the election of Trump and a feeling of doomsday looming in the air.” The tracks on Spazzare’s self-titled first album have an eeriness to them, and pack a heavy, high energy punch to the gut, or rather to the ears. Spazzare is dropping their album day of show on all streaming services including Bandcamp, Spotify, Amazon, iTunes and Google Play, and plan to sell physical copies at the show as well as on Bandcamp on a pay what you can basis, the price ranging from $1-20. You won’t be getting short changed either on Spazzare’s 43-minute album which holds eight tracks, all but one being at least five minutes of epic guitar, heavy drums, and powerful lyrics. Bonus: If you’re in town but can’t make the show, order a copy on bandcamp and Dusky will hand deliver it to you! And don’t worry, he is all bark – that powerful voice on stage – and no bite; a truly sweet guy off stage as are all three of the band members. “I love these fellas,” said John. “Jeff is an insane drummer; Dusky is an insane bass player. These guys have been my brothers for three years, and this band means the world to me.” Come out and see Spazzare, the ilium works, and Field Destroy this Saturday at The Range. Bring your cash, your friends, and your readiness to have your hearing damaged and a sore neck from head banging.

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he toxic and healthy expressions of masculinity have both been under a microscope over the last several years, with some of the repercussions of that process manifesting themselves in the ripples of the Me Too movement and the admissions of mental health issues among star athletes.

The point of this movement is to, hopefully, repair the way society views masculinity and the expectations of male behavior. One of the more popular works in this vein is The Mask You Live In, a 2015 documentary by Jennifer Siebel Newsom being screened by Family & Children’s Services of Ithaca. The screening will take place Thursday, May 31, at 6:15 p.m. at Cinemapolis, and will be followed by a panel discussion on the topic. The panel will feature Mayor Svante Myrick, Ithaca High School principal Jason Trumbull, Minister David Kaiden of the First Congregational Church of Ithaca, Travis Books from GIAC, and Davi Mozie, who works with the organization A Call to Men. The movie Newsom previously made was a documentary called Miss Representation, released in 2011, about negative portrayals of women in mainstream media and the impact that had on societal advancement for women. Family & Children’s Services CEO David Shapiro believes it’s important to include the voices of powerful men in the community to lend credence to the lessons in the movie, but also involve a woman, Mozie, with profound experience with the topic. “Pressured by the media, their peer group, and even the adults in their lives, our protagonists confront messages encouraging them to disconnect from their emotions, devalue authentic friendships, objectify and degrade women, and resolve conflicts through

violence,” Family & Children’s Services’ description of the event states. “These gender stereotypes interconnect with race, class, and circumstance, creating a maze of identity issues boys and young men must navigate to become ‘real’ men.” Shapiro said he believes the overarching conversation is fueled by the discussion of gun violence, along with the aforementioned Me Too movement. Boys, he said, aren’t being adequately educated about relating to women and treating them with respect, which in turn leads to rejection and alienation from women. That can fairly easily lead to resentment and, in the worst cases, can manifest itself in horrid episodes of violence.

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“If you have feelings or emotions in this country, we haven’t told our boys that it’s okay to have these things, and then we see the terrible things going on in our country,” Shapiro said. The movie, and Shapiro, don’t aim to excuse these actions, but are far more focused on hopefully cutting off the repression of feelings in boys and young men until they explode into something tragic. Of course, romantic rejection is far from the only source of trauma someone can experience, but the point is that boys are collectively influenced to not talk about anything that could be perceived as vulnerability. “But because boys in America aren’t taught to talk about these things or taught to process these feelings, they get bottled up and become rage,” Shapiro said. “That’s what I think is behind a lot of these school shootings.” Part of the motivation behind the screening is personal for Shapiro, too: he said he’s only felt truly comfortable expressing himself for a few years now, but the conversion has been beneficial. With that said, he feels like that’s an important lesson to spread to virtually anyone who will listen. While the movie itself features teenagers, Shapiro said he thinks there’s enough value in the message that anyone with a connection to a developing male, and even to those who are fully formed, could take something important away from the documentary. “I’m a happier guy since I hit 37, and realized I could be a lot more forthcoming with how I feel, and I wish someone had told me that when I was 22, that would have been a great lesson to learn,” Shapiro said. “We think anyone who has a role in helping boys develop is the right audience to come see this movie.”

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Like all compelling abstract art, Reid’s paintings evoke hidden depths lurking below everyday experience. They suggest the cosmic and the musical but also a more quotidian world of graspable material things—they are almost still-lifes. “There are no dreams on that side of the river” shows a particular lyricism of color, touch, and layered transparency. A pale yellow oval rests on hillock that emerges from the bottom edge, thin translucent red-purple

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here’s something uniquely informative and satisfying about a wellthought out, two-person exhibit. Seeing a pair of accomplished artists side-byside sharpens one’s awareness of each. Audrey Bialke and Lizzie Reid are friends: 2013 graduates of SUNY Fredonia currently living and working in Buffalo. “An Unrelenting Horizon,” their joint show, is on display through June 1st at the Finger Lakes Cider House in Interlaken. It’s a modest but compelling study in individual strength and unexpected convergence. Both artists are showing recent small paintings on paper, with Bialke using oil and Reid gouache (opaque watercolor). Bialke, who comes from an artistic Trumansburg family, has exhibited at the Cider House before. Worked with brush and palette knife, her recent paintings show a development of the gritty, suggestive approach to landscape that she has been building up for several years. Ghosts of Romantic and expressionistic visions of the apocalyptic, the sublime and the numinous are brought to bear on a more contemporary concern with environmental ruin. Three of Bialke’s paintings feature bonfires — an image recalling the artist’s country childhood, their expression both enchanting and violent. “With regards to an old power,” “To this unquiet era,” and “We sat and watched it die” are marked by a particularly

aggressive paint handling. Her palette here is unusually lurid with bright orange-yellows, charred black, and bloody crimson—these against her more typically subdued landscapes shades. “We used to ride horses” is a particularly plangent memory scene, filled with a barely contained whirl reminiscent of the British Romantic J.M.W. Turner. (Other Bialkes show affinity with Edgar Degas’ visionary color monoprint landscapes.) Cloudy gray sky merges with cool distant foliage — rising up in places like handprints. A burst of orange fame towards the top right crowns a black smear that extends to fill the lower right corner. Behind it, to the left and stretching into middle distance is an racetrack arc: maroon scraped against thin olive green. As with her bonfires, Bialke (who has painted actual horses) overlays youthful nostalgia with adult darkness. Reid, also a sculptor, brings a sweetness and clarity to her geometric abstractions here that feels opposed to Bialke’s moody chaos. Grids and blocks — often forming a horizon, or horizons — meet a small but carefully chosen vocabulary of other shapes: ovals, ellipses, diamonds, parallelograms, ribbons. Variations of opacity, the overlaying of translucent forms, rich but constrained color combinations, areas of virgin white paper, the containment of unruly paint texture in wavery but crisp contours — all unite.

and violet. (The oval resembles a misshapen moon crashed down to earth.) Elsewhere a deep blue bar crosses the horizon, a white and off-white frame contains a foggy warm gray window, and short “ribbons” — white, pale blue, and crimson — festoon the space like musical notation. Reid is also showing a pair of larger pieces incorporating thin, off-white textured paper collaged and cut-out — strips and blocks and windows, which overlay her usual shapes on pristine white. “A bridge with no boundary” and “One lifetime” take Reid’s approach in an austere, minimalist direction. Seeing the paintings of these two young artists together brings out difference and convergence. Bialke’s landscapes seem perpetually clouded in smoke and fog, sometimes twilit or nocturnal. Earth, air, and fire often appear to shift with primal animacy or viewer delirium. Reid’s abstract world, by contrast, appears in the bright daylight: all distinct color shapes, suspended in static equilibrium. Closer looking reveals echoes. Both artists share a commitment to insistent but relatively quiet paint handling. (Reid’s feels more accidental, the product of her more fluid medium.) Colors, although variously inflected, also reverberate between the two. And the unrelenting horizon — here vague, there sharp — leads the viewer around the exhibit while serving as a metaphor for near and far, the visible and the invisible, the present and the unknown future. May

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The Purple Valley | 6:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca

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Bars/Bands/Clubs

The Soul Rebels | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $15-$20

Bert Salmirs - Jazz Piano | 1:00 AM, | Red Newt Cellars Inc, Hector Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM, | Mix Kitchen and Bar, Ithaca

5/30 Wednesday Djug Django | 6:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca Mortal Combine | 7:00 PM, | Stonecat CafÈ, Hector Open Jam Session | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale Open Mic with Marty Flynn and his Good Time Band | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing Reggae Night w/ the Crucial Reggae Social Club & DJ Mike Judah | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5

5/31 Thursday Better Weather String Band | 6:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

If there is an event you’d like us to consider for TimesTable Our deadline is noon on the Friday before the listing needs to be published. Mail items to: Calendar, “Ithaca Times,” PO Box 27, Ithaca, NY 14851, bring them to our office at 109 N. Cayuga Street, or e-mail arts@ ithacatimes.com with “Calendar Listing” in the subject line. Or–better yet– enter your event online at ithaca.com/events. No phone calls, please. Submitted listings may be edited and will be included as space permits.

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6/1 Friday “Dr. K” Paul Kempkes | 7:30 PM, | Creekside Tavern, Wilseyville IU & DSP present Wormrot, Escuela, Monolith | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $10 Junkyard Theory: Ithacafest After Dark | 9:30 PM, | The Range, Ithaca Perry City 5’s Farewell Show | 7:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus Richie Stearns | 5:00 PM, | Red Newt Bistro, Hector Rob Ervin | 7:00 PM, | Plantation Bar & Grill, Ithaca The Sweats | 8:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett Traonach | 6:00 PM, | Felicia’s Atomic Brewhouse and Bakery, Trumansburg

6/2 Saturday Cosmic Joke Collective | 7:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca Glacial Erotics | 8:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett Los Blancos | 6:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus Raised on Radio | 9:00 PM, | Mary’s Bar & Lounge, Binghamton Steve Forbert with Jesse Bardwell | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $20-$25 The Ilium Works w/ Spazzare | 9:30 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

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6/4 Monday Monday Night Blues w/ Brett Beardslee | 5:00 PM, | Rasta Ranch Vineyards, Valois Open Mic | 8:30 PM, | Agava, Ithaca Open Mic hosted by Benny T | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing

OLD WAYS DAY The Ward W. O'Hara Agricultural and Country Living Museum, Auburn, Saturday, 6/2, 10-4pm

6/5 Tuesday I-Town Jazz Jam w/ Prof. Greg Evans | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca Irish Session with members of Traonach | 7:00 PM, | Argos Inn, Ithaca Tuesday Bluesday with Danny P & friends | 6:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

Geneva Music Festival: Jinjoo Cho & Hyun Soo Kim: La Fin de Siecle | 7:30 PM, 5/31 Thursday | Gearan Center for Performing Arts, 327 Pulteney Street, Geneva | Acclaimed young violinist and pianist return to open the Festival, featuring works from the turn of the 20th century. | 25

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5/31 Thursday Chris Janson | 8:00 PM, 5/31 Thursday | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Country | $20-$40

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Brantley Gilbert with special guest The Cadillac Three | 8:00 PM, 6/1 Friday | Tag’s, 3037 State Route 352, Big Flats | Country | $44 -$314

Mike Powell with Stephen Douglas Wolfe | 8:00 PM, 6/1 Friday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | An intimate evening of original songs. | $10-$17

, Aurora | Dynamic five-piece Americana quintet from New Yorkís storied Hudson Valley carrying on the work of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie with indie grit, earthy soul, and boldly political stringband fervor. | Adults $17, Seniors $15, Students $10

6/3 Sunday Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble | 4:00 PM, 6/3 Sunday | Lodi Historical Society Building, Main Street, Lodi | | Adults $25; Seniors $20, students free Geneva Music Festival: Cavani ‘Collage | 2:00 PM, 6/3 Sunday

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afford their own home. | Gearan Center for Performing Arts, 327 Pulteney Street, Geneva | The Festivalís ìMusic, Poetry, and Perspectives: A Celebration of African American Cultureî kicks off with the Cavani String Quartet in a program of spoken poetry woven in and around music. | 25 Ithaca Gay Men’s Chorus and CSMA Recorder Ensemble | 2:00 PM, 6/3 Sunday | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | The IGMC will sing a cappella favorites, from South African freedom songs to Billy Joel. The CSMA Recorder Ensemble will play Renaissance dances, Baroque hits and folk song arrangements around the theme of the natural world. Kendrick Lamar | 7:30 PM, 6/3 Sunday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center | The Chesapeake Chamber Group | 4:00 PM, 6/3 Sunday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | A concert of music for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. Music of Haydn, Pfeiffer, Ibert, Szalowski, Paquito D’Rivera, and featuring the Ithaca premiere of Peter Winkler’s ‘Recitative e Terzetto’.

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Boynton Chamber Orchestra Concert on the Commons | 7:00 PM, 6/4 Monday | Bernie Milton Pavilion, Ithaca Commons, Ithaca | An exciting and varied program consisting of baroque, classical, popular and contemporary music. The Boynton Chamber Orchestra, directed by Mark Lewis, is a string orchestra consisting of Boynton Middle School’s most dedicated young musicians from grades 6-8.

DJ Rock and DJ CDZNUTZ | 10:00 PM, 6/1 Friday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca |

6/3 Sunday Trivia Night | 9:00 PM, 6/3 Sunday | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca |

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5/30 Wednesday Salsa Dance Night | 10:00 PM, 5/30 Wednesday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Includes free dance lesson from 10-10:30 | $5

Film Cinemapolis Friday, 6/1 through Thursday, 6/7. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes.

1945 | On August 12, 1945 at 11AM, two mysterious strangers dressed in black appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. Within hours, everything changes. | 91 mins NR How To Talk To Girls at Parties | An alien touring the galaxy breaks away from her group and meets two young inhabitants of the most dangerous place in the universe: the London suburb of Croydon. | 102 mins R The Rider | After suffering a nearfatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America. | 104 mins R Connie and Carla | A mob mix-up in Chicago sends two chanteuses screaming for L.A., where they score a perfect gig: posing as drag queens on the dinner theater/cabaret circuit. | 108 mins PG-13 Tully | A mother of three hires a night nanny to help with her newborn. | 95 mins R RBG | A look at the life and work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. | 98 mins PG Disobedience | A woman returns to the community that shunned her for her attraction to a childhood friend. | 114 mins R

Isle of Dogs | Set in Japan, the story follows a boy’s odyssey in search of his dog. | 101 mins PG-13

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Wednesday, 5/30 through Tuesday, 6/5. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. Deadpool 2| Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (AKA Deadpool) brings together a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilities. | 119 mins R Book Club| Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading 50 Shades of Grey in their monthly book club. | 104 mins PG-13 Avengers: Infinity War | The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe. | 149 mins PG-13 Adrift | Based on a true story, a young couple’s chance encounter leads them first to love and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in history. | PG-13 Action Point | A daredevil designed and operates his own theme park with his friends. | 85 mins R Best F(r)iends Volume Two| A drifter leaves behind the mortician who took him in and finds himself on a desert expedition where wild characters and dark foibles intersect. | 120 mins R Solo: A Star Wars Story | Young Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian during an adventure into a dark criminal underworld. | 135 mins PG-13 Cornell Cinema is closed for the season.

Stage Drag Show with Cassanova’s Royal Court | 9:00 PM, 5/31 Thursday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Cassanova’s Royal Court’s bi-weekly drag show. Buffa-LOL-o Books Comedy Show | 7:00 PM, 6/1 Friday | Buffalo Street Books , 215 N Cayuga St , Ithaca | Comedy On The Commons, the best Stand Up Comedians from Upstate and Central New York showcasing

Beautiful Botanicals painting class | 6:00 PM, 5/30 Wednesday | Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Botanic Gardens, 124 Comstock Knoll Drive, Ithaca | An introduction to painting the flora of our gardens. Explore black and white, color pencil, pen and ink, and go into greater depth with watercolor. Pre-registration is required. | $200 Art@BTI Reception | 5:00 PM, 5/31 Thursday | Boyce Thompson Institute, 533 Tower Road, Ithaca | Join the Boyce Thompson Institute for a free reception to celebrate our current Art@BTI exhibit, Juxtaposition of Light and Texture: Photography by Nancy V. Ridenour. First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM, 6/1 Friday | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Downtown Ithaca explodes with talent in different shops, restaurants and hotels. Nearly 20 businesses downtown become the home to different artists ó local artists, and sometimes global. In Search Of (ISO) | All Day 6/1 Friday | The Studio, 171 East State St, Center Ithaca, Ithaca | Featuring photos from Ithaca Collegeís Spring 2018 Photo Workshop, the photos are curated with the help of Assistant Professor Rhonda Vanover and graduate student of Image Text, Melani Lopez. The World Bewitchíd: Visions of Witchcraft from the Cornell Collections | All Day 6/1 Friday | Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | Features rare and unique books and documents and examines themes such as gendered stereotypes, belief in night flying, shapeshifting, demonic pacts, and the witch epidemics that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands. Who Is Me? | All Day 6/1 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Curated by x rance, Who Is Me? caresses the tongue of AAVE (African American Vernacular English) to tackle the biggest existential question of all: Who am I? This April through June , x rance curates their first exhibition.

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5/31 Thursday | 6:45 PM Head over to Lot 10 on Thursday to catch the first episode of the new “Ithaca Is Music” podcast being recorded live. Thru Spectrums will be the featured artists. (photo provided)

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Special Events Delivering Award Winning HR Solutions | 7:30 AM, 5/31 Thursday | Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd., Ithaca | On May 31st the Society of Human Resource Management of Tompkins County will be hosting a one day conference at Ithaca College for local professionals. This conference is a professional development opportunity that is open to anyone in any industry. | 200 Handwork’s 42 Years in Ithaca Celebration Sale | 1:00 PM, 6/1 Friday | Handwork - Ithaca’s Artisan Cooperative, 102 W. State St., | Join us for a customer appreciation event! Watch art being created in-store, meet our newest member Olivia Royale of Easy Living Hats and enjoy free refreshments and birthday cake to celebrate with us. Enter for a chance to win a free gift from our Featured Artist for June. Ithaca Festival Parade 2018 | 5:30 PM, 6/1 Friday | Downtown Ithaca, Ithaca | Suffrage Anniversary Celebration | 1:00 PM, 6/1 Friday | Old Village Hall, 9011 Main St (NY Rt. 79), Lisle | Celebrate the centennial of the first women to vote in NY State.† Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul will help unveil the historical marker and French Distillers & Alchemists will release their new commemorative whisky. Downtown Ithaca Food Tour | 11:30 AM, 6/2 Saturday | Various locations, Ithaca | Enjoy local cuisine on a guided walking tour of Ithaca’s unique restaurants. During a three-hour culinary adventure, satisfy your appetite for inventive and delicious food while getting a taste for our town’s history, culture, and architecture. Call†607272-4830. | $57 Emergency Services 5K | 8:00 AM, 6/2 Saturday | Homer Fire Department, 45 South Main Street, Homer | Benefit for the Cortland County Regional Training Center. | $25 Old Ways Day | 10:00 AM, 6/2 Saturday | Ward W. O’Hara Agricultural and Country Living Museum, 6880 East Lake Road, Auburn | Celebrate the Past with family-friendly activities from days of yore. | donations

Woofstock 2018: Local Rescue & Shelter Benefit | 12:00 PM, 6/2 Saturday | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Annual fundraiser for local shelters, rescues and animal care programs! A day of kids’ games, doggo events, raffles & auctions, live music all day, food & wine, and pet & people vendors. ?Bring the dogs, kids, family and friends for a few hours or the whole day, great fun for all for a great cause! Dark ecology: Studying nighttime bird migration with weather radar | 7:30 PM, 6/4 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Three distinguished Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellows will reveal how they are unlocking the secrets of bird migration and answering such questions as: which nights will migratory birds be travelling in great numbers; what directions will they be headed; and which species are likely to be part of the massive stream passing by overhead? The Basics of Podcasting | 6:30 PM, 6/4 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Kate Essig will return by popular demand, to present the basics of podcasting, including tips of the trade and how to get started making your own podcast. This fun, skill-building lecture is one night only. For adults and teens. Registration encouraged.

Books Writing Through the Rough Spots | 10:00 AM, 5/30 Wednesday | Various locations, Ithaca | Writing can help to create clarity about challenging situations. Registration for spring classes/ more info: www.WritingRoomWorkshops. Classes offered at various times and locations.

Kids Magic Tree House Adventures | 3:30 PM, 5/30 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden | Reading adventures with Jack and Annie from the popular childrenís book series. Weekly after school club with crafts and activities based on several books in the series along with their non-fiction ìfact finderî companion

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By G.M. Burns Popular musician Steve Forbert has made his way as a young lad from Mississippi to landing on his feet in Greenwich Village while playing with the rock band Talking Heads. Forbert’s long history in music began in the late 1970s, but in this interview Forbert talks not only about his past work, but also about his upcoming record and memoir, which will both be released in the fall. (Full intervie available on Ithaca.com) Ithaca Times: Tell us how your recent CD, Flying at Night, came about. Steve Forbert: I was going to go do a tour of the U.K. and Europe. And they wisely always ask for something new and it wasn’t a time that I was releasing a new record, but I had these recordings that I really love that I did with a friend of mine, Anthony Crawford. So he is an old friend and an extremely talented musician, and so we had done these recordings years ago, and I added a few things to them and sort of

pulled this project Flying at Night out of my back pocket, and we put it out in England to support a tour – which I recall was 2016. And I quite enjoy listening to it – so that is what it boils down to – it wasn’t really a proper new album. But I will follow that sentence up by saying I am putting out a proper new album in September and it’s going to accompany a memoir. IT: How did you decide on the tracks for Compromised? SF: Compromised (2015) is a proper collection of newer songs that I worked on for a couple of years and then recorded with some friends who were my band at the time. I worked very hard to write those songs following the previous record, which was Over with You. So that was everything as a getting older [and] working songwriter that I wanted to release, accumulate and put into songs, record and share. So that was a big project for me, and now I’m working on the

guides. For independent readers. Call (607) 844-4782 for more information. Sciencenter Science Together | All Day 5/30 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Join us with your little ones (2 thru 5 years old) for hands-on science discovery! T/Th at 10:30 am and Wed/Fri at 3PM. Forensic Club | 4:00 PM, 5/31 Thursday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Who done it?? Use science and forensics to solve the mystery at the library!

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record that will accompany the memoir, and that record will be called The Magic Tree. And the Big City Cat is the memoir. And they are complimentary together. IT: Can you say who are your recent musical influences of late? SF: Sure I can. It’s nothing new and exciting but I’ve been listening to Louis Armstrong more popular recordings from the ‘60s. You know, “Hello Dolly,” “Mame.” And “Hello Dolly” was a number one hit for

him. And I have been listening to some of those things from that time and their just really great. And jazz people will say [to Steve], ‘Oh it was a pop singer by then, but that’s not the cutting edge stuff, or whatever.’ But I really like it a lot. And I’ve been listening to some Professor Longhair recordings from back in the '50s and throughout his career from New Orleans. He didn’t change much, but he just got older and he didn’t go through some radical change like Louis Armstrong.

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tion about different science concepts each week with local scientists, educators, and students. Topics range from chemistry to rockets and more. Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM, 6/4 Monday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Early literacy education thru reading, writing, talking, singing and playing, combined with a healthy snack and a quick hello to our resident turtle Ted, prepare your child for success in school.

Comic Book Club | 4:00 PM, 6/5 Tuesday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Kids ages 7-12 come make your very own comic book! All the supplies are provided, just bring your creativity! Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 6/5 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun. There is a different theme each week.

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6/2 Saturday | 7:00 PM The Tag’s Summer Stage welcomes a raucous double-bill of Boston’s finest Celtic Punk, Dropkick Murphys and their westcoast counterpart, Irish-American rock band Flogging Molly for their first-ever tour together. Gates open at 5:30, show starts at 7pm. (photo provided)

Health Chair Yoga | All Day 5/30 Wednesday | Various locations, Ithaca | Using breathing techniques, basic yoga postures, relaxation, and focus, you will become more in tune with your body, and improve your breath awareness and control. Classes held in Ithaca and T-burg. Contact Lifelong for times and locations. S.A.I.L. Into Fitness | All Day 5/30 Wednesday | Various locations, Ithaca | Classes focus on stretching, flexibility, balance, low-impact aerobics, strength training, and deep breathing exercises. Personal progress is measured through comparison of level of achievement in three simple exercises over time. Classes held in T-burg, Brooktondale and Ithaca. Contact Lifelong for days and times. Science on Tap Summer Series: | 7:00 PM, 5/30 Wednesday | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | “The Science of Food: Energy resources, food waste and health!” Tai Chi | All Day 5/30 Wednesday | Varying Locations, | Using precise, fluid movement, dissolve tension, increase your strength, cardiovascular fitness, and overall sense of wholeness. Classes held in Brooktondale and Lansing. Contact Lifelong for days and times. Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, 5/31 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Local fitness instructor Stephanie Wright leads this exercise class for seniors. Increase fitness and strength while having fun. Meets weekly on Tu/Th. Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 5/31 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net Yoga Farm presents BLISS NIGHT: A Community Healing Event | 7:00 PM, 5/31 Thursday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Bliss Night is an invitation for you finally gift yourself the opportunity to nourish yourself, cherish yourself, and love yourself in this relaxing and enriching environment. | Donation Accepted Square Dance and Other Dancing | 2:00 PM, 6/1 Friday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Everyone Welcome (members and non-members). No

experience or partner needed. For more information call 273-1511 Saturday Sweat Yoga | 9:00 AM, 6/2 Saturday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Start your weekend off with our intermediate vinyasa flow yoga class. Open Meditation | 10:30 AM, 6/3 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | All are welcome to meditate according to their own practice. 20 minutes of silent meditation, reading and discussion, then 20 minutes of silent or guided meditation. Beginners are welcome and instruction in basic meditation will be provided. Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM, 6/3 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | All are Welcome. Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest Humanity. Pray. Move. Sit. Connect. Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM, 6/4 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Open “Big Book” OA 12-Step meeting. Contact Leigh 379-4858. No matter what your problem with food ó compulsive overeating, under-eating, food addiction, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, or overexercising ó we have a solution. No dues, fees, weigh-ins. Chair Yoga | 11:45 AM, 6/5 Tuesday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Join us for our popular chair yoga class on Tuesdays before the library opens. No experience necessary!

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND 8:00 PM, 6/5 Tuesday | Lakeview Amphitheater, Syracuse

Village Offices and Community Center, 6 Gee Street, Van Etten | City Board of Zoning Appeals | 7:00 PM, 6/5 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Legislature | 5:30 PM, 6/5 Tuesday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Public is welcome. Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM, 6/5 Tuesday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | May include hearings, during which the public may speak.

Notices Candor Historical Society Meeting | 7:00 PM, 5/30 Wednesday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Rd, Candor | Friendship Craft Festival | All Day 5/30 Wednesday | Church of Christ Uniting, Richfield Springs | Applications are currently being accepted for crafters. The craft festival will take place on Saturday, June 9th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Spring Park on Scenic US Route 20. For an application and festival details go to www.rschurchofchristuniting.com

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 5/30 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, 5/30 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information. Resumes: The Basics | 5:30 PM, 5/31 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Learn what goes into crafting a good resume, study some examples of effective resumes, and begin to work on your own. Register online. Cornell University Meet the Employer Session | 1:00 PM, 6/1 Friday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | A Cornell Human Resources representative will discuss job search tips, application process and overall information about working at Cornell University. Celebrating the Ithaca Festival: A Community Conversation | 3:30 PM, 6/2 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Join Ithaca

Festival participants past and present to reflect on 41 years of a festival like none other. This conversation, moderated by folklorist Hannah Davis, will provide community members an opportunity to learn about the festival’s history, share their own festival experiences, and contemplate the festival’s broader significance. Chinese Auction | 5:00 PM, 6/2 Saturday | Community Fire & Rescue Dept. 24, 321 State Route 224, Van Eten | † Door Prizes & Refreshments Edible Plant Walk | 10:00 AM, 6/2 Saturday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Sarah Kelsen will lead a walk in the Hector National Forest to identify wild, edible plants. Registration required. Free Clothing Giveaway | 10:00 AM, 6/2 Saturday | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Potluck Dinner and Jam Session | 5:00 PM, 6/2 Saturday | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | Our friend and fiddle companion Derrick Doty is heading back to Kansas! Come help us send him off with a down-home potluck dinner and fiddle jam. Bring food, family and instruments!

Saddle Up for Jesus Horse Riding Club | 7:00 PM, 6/2 Saturday | Brooktondale Baptist Church, 2311 Slaterville Road, Ithaca | A Christian, family-oriented riding club. We have club meetings, trail rides, horsemanship clinics for a variety of disciplines, cowboy devotionals and youth programs. Contact Lawrence Canfield at 607-539-6440. Ithaca-Cortland PFLAG Meeting | 4:00 PM, 6/3 Sunday | Interfaith Center, 7 Calvert St, Cortland | Parents , Families , Friends , and Allies. United with LGBTQ People to move equality forward. D&D Adventure | 4:30 PM, 6/4 Monday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Join Luke for an adventure of epic proportions. Registration appreciated. All ages welcome. Meet at the library. Going Back to School Workshop | 1:00 PM, 6/5 Tuesday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Are you interested in going back to school, or doing a training program, but not sure where to start? What to study? How to pay for it? Come to this workshop and take the first step. Go back to move forward! Summer Musical Theatre Workshop | All Day 6/5 Tuesday | Dryden Middle/High School, 118 Freeville Rd., Dryden | June 25-29: Week-long immersion into musical theatre. Students will experience a coached audition and then rehearse a musical theatre revue culminating in a performance the final afternoon of the workshop. For students 12-18. Registration forms at: or ksp3@cornell.edu or at our Facebook event page. | $200

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Holliston, MA needs 1 temporary worker 6/01/2018 to 12/17/2018, 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 the 15 days or 50% of the work contract . Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.83 per hr. Applicants apply at: Employment & Training 201 Boston Post Rd., Suite 200. Marlborough MA 01752 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #10413749. General farm work on a diversified farm, including but not limited to planting, harvesting, and processing fruits and vegetables. Clearing land, cleaning fruits and vegetables, felling trees, burning brush, picking stones, splitting wood, some poultry work. May use hand tools such as shovel, pruning saw, hoe,one month experience in duties listed.

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BELCHERTOWN, MA needs 2 temporary workers 6/12/2018 to 11/23/2018, 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 1 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.83 per hr. or applicable piece rate. Applicants apply at, Franklin/Hampshire Career Center 413-586-6505 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #10458465. work may include but not limited to a combination of tasks related to the growing, harvesting and processing of fruit including but not limited to cultivating, thinning, harvesting, grading and packing. One month experience is required in apple duties listed.

Southern Cayuga Schools seeks a Computer Systems Technician a Classified Cayuga County Civil Service position, must take &pass exam. Salary to depend on experience. Minimum Qualifications: EITHER: (A) Graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Resource Management, Computer Technology or related field AND one (1) year of experience in the operation and maintenance of micro-and mini-computer equipment, which shall have involved local area network, administration and the installation and maintenance of software programs; OR (B) Graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university with an associate’s degree in one of the areas mentioned in “A” above AND three (3) years of experience as described in “A” above; OR (C) An equivalent combination of training and experience as defined by the limits of “A” and “B” above. NOTE: Successful completion of the three (3) credit hour course beyond the requirements in (A) in management information systems, computer science, information technology, or a closely related field may be substituted for three (3) months of appropriate experience. ANTICIPATED ELIGIBILITY (EDUCATION): If you expect to complete the educational requirement by January 1, 2019, you can be admitted to the examination. If successful on the examination, you will not be certified for appointment until have submitted proof of completion of the requirements to the Cayuga County Civil Service Commission. Proof must be submitted by March 1, 2019. Failure to do so will result in removal of your name from the eligible list. Job description available on request; contact 315-364-8711, ext 1103. Apply online with the Support Staff Application; go to southerncayuga. org/644, click on the application in the right column. Deadline Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Loretta Van Horn, Business Administrator, Southern Cayuga Central School, 2384 Route 34B, Aurora, NY 13026. SCCS EOE

seeks Internal Claims Auditor, effective July 1, 2018, hours to be determined; M-F; (approximately 1-5 hours per week), hourly rate based on qualifications; see SCCS website posting for job description and application; use Support Staff Application; southerncayuga.org/644; deadline June 5, 2018; Loretta Van Horn, Business Administrator, SCSS, 2384 Route 34B, Aurora, NY 13026; SCCS EOE

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OCM BOCES has a need for a Spanish Teacher for 9th-12th graders at the Cortland Alternative School, Cortland. Duties: Provide instruction to alternative and special education students within the framework of the N.Y.S. LOTE Learning Standards and the N.Y.S. Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards. Create and maintain a student centered classroom that supports the principles of project-based learning and technology integration. Be flexible, resourceful and innovative while using data, feedback and reflective practice to drive instruction and facilitate student learning. NYS certification in Spanish 7-12 required. Experience with projectbased learning is recommended and strong technology skills are a must. Applications accepted online only. Register and apply by 06/01/18 at www.olasjobs. org/central. for more information. EOE

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Martz Trailways is accepting applications for Full Time Motorcoach Operators for Ithaca, NY. Candidates will have a CDL, the ability to be away from home 2 nights/week, clean driving record and strong interpersonal skills. Previous Motorcoach experience helpful but not required. We offer $21.15/hr. for all drive time.

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OCM BOCES has the need for an hourly adult education instructor at the OCM BOCES Cortlandville Campus, 1710 NYS Route 13, Cortland, NY 13045. Knowledge and skilled in the instruction of Welding, basics of electricity, SMAW, GMAW, GTAW, and FCAW welding, 5+ years prior experience preferred. To apply, please forward letter of interest and resume to: Matt Tarolli, OCM BOCES, PO Box 4754, Syracuse, NY 13221 or email: mtarolli@ocmboces.org For more information, visit our website at: www. ocmboces.org EOE

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I am looking to join or start a band. I am an experienced singer in mostly Country and Rock & Roll! I live in Ithaca. Please contact me at 607-262-1818 or even text me. Butch Perfetti

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