Public input session this Saturday on Ithaca Commons redesign project

If you are interested in the Commons redesign project, consider attending a meeting this Saturday.

Share Your Thoughts On Ithaca's Future

By now, many of you have heard about the City's Comprehensive Planning effort.

Our neighborhood will have a chance to provide input next Tuesday, February 28th from 7-9 p.m. in the Belle Sherman School Cafeteria.

The City website also includes an online survey, as well as a mail-in public comment form. While we hope you can attend our own meeting next week, we understand you might be busy with other commitments. If this is the case, please be sure to share your thoughts by completing either the survey or comment form.

This is our chance to provide input into this important exercise.

For those of you with teenagers!

Book talk: The Adolescent Brain: Learning, Reasoning, and Decision Making
Thursday, March 1, 2012

4:00pm
160 Mann Library

Cornell University

In the second decade of life, young adults have endless choices, but the decisions they make depend on developing the power of the human brain to learn and reason.

Join Dr. Valerie Reyna for a "Chats in the Stacks" talk about her new book “The Adolescent Brain: Learning, Reasoning, and Decision Making,” (American Psychological Society, December 2011).

Valerie Reyna is Professor of Human Development in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell, and a Co-director of the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research. In her book, she brings together an nterdisciplinary group of leading scientists to examine how the adolescent brain develops, and how this development impacts various aspects of reasoning and decision-making, from the use and function of memory and representation, to judgment, mathematical problem- solving, and the construction of meaning.

A reception and book signing will follow. The "Chats in the Stacks" book talk is funded by the Mary A. Morrison Public Education Fund at Mann Library.

Belle Sherman School Book Fair

This year the Belle Sherman Scholastic Book Fair is trying something new...opening up to the Community for one evening.

On Tuesday February 28th, the Book Fair will be open from 3-7:30pm in the Main School Library. Families from the neighborhood and schools in town that don't have book fairs of their own are invited.

Also new this year - a large selection of middle school level books (in addition to our standard PreK-5th).  Please stop in, support the Belle Sherman PTA and bring some books home!

Feel free to spread the word!

For questions, email aimeelehmann@twcny.rr.com

Save The Date! Redistricting Meeting

CITY OF ITHACA
REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE MEETING NOTICE

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2011
6:30 p.m.

SECOND FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM, CITY HALL 

THIS MEETING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC  AND EVERYONE IS INVITED TO ATTEND

Deptartment of Planning and Development Comment Period for Collegetown Crossing Complex

The Department of Planning and Development is accepting comments on the Collegetown Crossing Project at 307 College Avenue. This project was mentioned at our recent neighborhood association meeting due to the lack of parking planned at the site. If you have questions or concerns, please submit them by noon on February 21, 2012. The Committee will be considering this and other projects at their February 28 meeting. Visit this link to see the list of projects for review.

Belle Sherman Cottages Coming Soon!

Belle Sherman Cottages is starting to take shape! You may have noticed that Walnut Street, the private road running through the development, has been laid and the curb cuts are done.

The first three to-be-built homes, a Craftsman, a Bungalow and a Victorian, are now listed in the Multiple Listing Service, and you can find details of these at http://belleshermancottages.com/homes.html. And don’t forget to “Like” our Facebook page to receive ongoing updates at http://www.Facebook.com/BelleShermanCottages.

Sometime this spring you’ll see a model home arrive, and we’ll let you know when it will be open for you to take a look!

For more details, contact Margaret Snow or Karen Eldredge, Licensed Associate Real Estate Brokers at Audrey Edelman RealtyUSA, 607-220-5333. We are ready to serve you at our two locations in Ithaca, 710 Hancock Street and 2333 N. Triphammer Road.