TompkinsWeekly for the week of March 23rd

Download the newspaper in Acrobat Format Here Broadband Hits Speed Bump While plans to provide universal access to high-speed Internet in Tompkins County are moving forward, there is one corner of the county that, because of topography and demography, presents problems in completing the project. Full Story »   Sheriff Reports on Danby Incident Tompkins County Sheriff Ken Lansing and Undersheriff Brian Robison on March 16 presented to the county legislature’s Public Safety Committee the detailed After-Action Report on the Barricading Incident at 127 Hornbrook Road in Danby—a twoand- a-half-day standoff that began the evening of Dec. 30, when sheriff ’s deputies attempted to serve a warrant on David Cady, and ended the morning of Jan. 2, when officers entered the home after Cady died of a selfinflicted gunshot wound. Full Story »   Celebrating Women’s Works and the songs of whales page 2 The group Women’s Works of Ithaca will perform a celebration of music written by women for, from and about our environment on Sunday at 4 p.m. at the First Unitarian Church of Ithaca. The concert will include works by Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Shulamit Ran and winners of the Women’s Works 2015 Young Composer Competition, and humpback whale songs. Full Story »   People’s Choice Sustainability Poll Announced page 3 Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the Greenest of them all? That is the question local nonprofit Sustainable Tompkins wants you to answer in its new People’s Choice Signs of Sustainability Awards. Actually, the organization would like you to describe several of your favorite groups and projects that made a contribution to making our community more resilient, healthy and fair. Full Story »   Legislature approves work for Pine Tree Road paths page 5 The Tompkins County Legislature took action at its March 17 meeting to preserve the Pine Tree Road Bike and Pedestrian Paths Project in the Town of Ithaca. By a vote of 11-2, legislators voted to amend the capital program to increase the project cost to $1,865,000 and appropriate more than $196,000 from the Highway Fund Balance to support the project. Full Story »   Publication provides a forum for airing mental health issue page 8 The Mental Health Association in Tompkins County (MHATC) is accepting submissions from the community for the next issue of its literary and arts magazine “States of Mind,” produced to further the organization’s broader advocacy efforts. Full Story »   Examining a life unraveling page 9 “The art of losing isn’t hard to master…” This quote from Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” arrives a little past the midpoint of the astonishing “Still Alice,” for which Julianne Moore won a deserved Oscar for her portrayal of Alice Howland, a woman in the prime of her life facing early-onset Alzheimer’s. Full Story »   Downtown Ithaca Alliance presents annual awards page 10 The Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA) on March 17 honored several individuals and institutions that have made a special impact in our community in the last year. Full Story »