14850 Dining

When people in the Ithaca area think of the outdoors, the first thing that comes to mind may not be National Parks. That’s because there isn’t anything obviously close that falls into this category. But there actually are many opportunities if you define your terms.

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Dear Uncle Alan,

I’m not sure if you’ll remember, but about a year ago, my dad sent you an e-mail asking you what you thought about hydrofracking, since it had been in the news for a while. You sent back a link to Debunking Gasland and a strongly-worded email that supported the work of the gas company you’d worked for in the past, that’s drilling in Pennsylvania now.

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An artists reception is scheduled for the evening of June 29th at the Gimme! Coffee in Ithaca's west end for "Tiny Invasion," a collaborative art show that joins the paintings of local artist Evera Lovelace with accompanying poems by Daniel Adinolfi. The pair (they're husband and wife) will be on hand Wednesday from 5:30 - 7:30pm.

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After last year's acquisition of the P&C Foods supermarket chain by Tops Friendly Markets, the Federal Trade Commission is forcing Tops to divest itself of several stores in areas where the additional stores could give Tops an unfair advantage. We say it's ridiculous to consider the acquisition of the former P&C Store at East Hill Plaza in the Town of Ithaca, now operated by Tops, as anti-competitive.

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It was a (stereotypical) dark and stormy night. As I lay in my tent in the Cedar Pass Campground of Badlands National Park, the sound of thunder in the distance and the surge of the wind rushing through the screen windows assaulted my senses. I wondered if our six-foot-plus-tall tent would stay up as the storm grew nearer. It didn’t. But thanks to some ingenuity and some extra rope and stakes, I was able to get the tent back up, and get it to stay up. My four-year-old kids were wary. My wife, mildly annoyed.

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