TompkinsWeekly for the week of April 6th

Download the newspaper in Acrobat Format Here Questions Linger Over Standoff The Tompkins County community is still reeling from the tragic standoff that transpired from Dec. 30 to Jan. 2 on Hornbrook Road in Danby, which ended with the death of David Cady and extensive damage to the Cady household. Full Story »   Volunteer Ambulance May Disband The free ride could soon be over for Town of Caroline residents. A personnel shortage in the Slaterville Volunteer Ambulance (SVA) corps, with no relief in sight, may well result in its demise at the end of this year. This, in turn, has forced the town to consider some difficult, and costly, alternatives for providing emergency medical care and transportation to some 3,300 residents. Full Story »   Support network assists fathers in need page 2 The Fatherhood Initiative will begin offering services at the Tompkins County Community Justice Center (CJC) on April 10, providing easier access to a support group and mentoring for those in alternatives to incarceration programs. Full Story »   Global influence gives film festival special appeal page 3 The 18th annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) hosted by Ithaca College kicks off Monday, April 6, and runs through Sunday, April 12, exploring environmental sustainability’s economic, social, ecological, political, cultural, technological and aesthetic dimensions. Full Story »   A man of many faces takes center stage page 8 “Black Sheep” written and performed by Darian Dauchan, Kitchen Theatre, www.kitchentheatre. org. Tickets available for the final show in the series, “Mother Land” by Michelle Courtney Berry and “June 16” by Ryan Hope Travis (April 8-12). Full Story »   Soldier’s story is a tale of urban warfare page 9 “’71”, now playing at Cinemapolis, opens with concussive force, sound preceding the image of two British army recruits pummeling one another in an impromptu boxing match as their fellow recruits look on. Full Story »   Ithaca Fringe Festival will showcase a broad array of talent page 10 At the famous Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, the largest arts festival anywhere, tens of thousands of people swarm each summer to take in some of 2,800-plus live theatrical shows. While Ithaca doesn’t aspire to that kind of mayhem, from April 16-19 local audiences will be treated to the second and expanded Ithaca Fringe Festival, on and around the Ithaca Commons. Full Story »