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NY Governor Eliot Spitzer Pledges Funds to Ithaca
Speaking critically of the Ithaca Gun factory site but positively about economic development in Ithaca and the rest of Upstate New York, Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) announced a $2.3 million grant for rehabilitation of the gun factory Tuesday. The Restore N.Y. grant will fund demolition of the factory and cleanup of the site, which will then be developed by Travis & Travis into 33 high-end condominiums and a public park. “At the end of this process we will have a beautiful public park with views of Ithaca falls that has been unavailable to the public for over 100 years," Frost Travis, a developer for Travis & Travis, said to a packed Common Council Chambers. “We will have a new enclave of fine homes." The gun factory site, a 2.1-acre property on Lake Street near Ravenwood and Gun Hill apartments, was home to the Ithaca Gun Company from 1880 to 1986.
Local NAACP branch upset that bank open on MLK holiday
A locally owned banking corporation has decided to keep its 10 offices open on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, which has drawn the ire of the NAACP. “We in the civil rights community fought very hard to get it made a federal holiday," said Willie Green, president of the NAACP Lee County Branch. “That institution is showing a sign of racism. What else could it be?" The Florida Community Bank has 10 branches in Lee, Collier, Hendry and Charlotte counties, and all will be open Jan. 21, which is the observation of King's birthday and a federal holiday. In addition to serving the local population, the board of directors for the bank is made up of men from LaBelle and Immokalee. The Lee NAACP sent a letter to the Florida Community Bank in Immokalee urging that branch to close for the holiday, as that was the only branch Green knew was planning to be open on the holiday.
It's Neverland with Peter Pan at new museum
Blatch-Geib has such a furniture item, she said, but sadly it's off being used in a theater production. Until then, one must make do with aluminum chairs and a surfeit of imagination, which is what the show is actually all about. From this area, visitors enter through velvet curtains into the theatrical portion of the exhibit, where characters have been turned into three-dimensional wall panels and Captain Hook's ship rises out of the floor, surrounded by a ''pool of water'' made of fabric and cast glass starfish and bubbles, resin octopuses and turtles, along with a life-size mermaid sculpture. Scenes from the book are represented on the walls of the gallery. There are Wendy's couch and her dressing table, where visitors can write notes to the museum or to their favorite characters, to be left for others to read.
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