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05-03-2025
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OFA students use skateboards as a canvas for ‘Ascension' art exhibit
OWEGO, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – Tioga Arts Council (TAC) has partnered with an internationally recognized artist to help Owego Free Academy art students tell their story through a unique approach. Thanks to funding from The Floyd Hooker Foundation, TAC has collaborated with Mark Rivard of Do Rad Things and Owego Free Academy (OFA) to present a community wide event featuring artwork by 150 students called Ascension: A Student Skateboard Art Exhibition. The exhibition opens on First Friday, March 7, in downtown Owego. Rivard will bring his program Do Rad Things to OFA this week. From March 3 through March 6, Rivard will present a motivational speech and discuss art as entrepreneurship. He will host design sessions using skateboards as a canvas with one-on-one instruction. According to TAC, Rivard's approach is student-centered. Participants will use the skateboard deck to create a work of art that tells their own story under Rivard's guidance. During the residency, students will also discover the value that their creative vision can have as a profession and as a community asset. Following Rivard's visit, TAC says it plans to match his efforts and spearhead an Artist as Entrepreneur curriculum to help artists of all ages gain the knowledge and tools needed to build a successful creative career, as well as facilitate a related Public Art Project. TAC says that over time, the program aims to be the first step toward developing a culture of art as a practical form of entrepreneurship and as an act of civic engagement in Owego. The exhibition will be open on March 7 from 5 to 7 p.m. with an Artist Talk at 6 at Tioga Arts Council, located at 179 Front Street. It will also be on display at Owego Home, located at 173 Front Street; Experience Tioga, located at 200-204 Front Street; and Lucky Hare Owego, located at 17 Lake Street. Remarkable Women in our community: Victoria Kelly JUST demands enforcement of HALT Law during Tuesday rally BCAC raises over $300k for local arts organizations UE families react to administrator's controversial Instagram post Garage Taco Bar under new ownership Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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05-03-2025
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Garage Taco Bar under new ownership
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – A popular downtown eatery has new owners who are no strangers to the Binghamton restaurant scene. Garage Taco Bar on Henry Street has been purchased by local businessmen Mark Yonaty and Owen Blye. Yonaty is also an owner of Courtside Bar and Grill and Station 45. The new owners are not planning any drastic changes but say they are bringing back some old menu items as requested by customers. They also plan to better utilize the Garage's outdoor eating space in the nice weather and use the restaurant's food truck at more events. Former Garage Taco owner Daniel Sharp continues to own and operate the Crowbar Bar and Arcade down the block on Washington Street. Remarkable Women in our community: Victoria Kelly JUST demands enforcement of HALT Law during Tuesday rally BCAC raises over $300k for local arts organizations UE families react to administrator's controversial Instagram post Garage Taco Bar under new ownership Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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05-03-2025
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BCAC raises over $300k for local arts organizations
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – There was good news for local arts organizations on Tuesday as a fund created to support them raised more money this year. The Broome County Arts Council announced the recipients of its 2025 United Cultural Fund. This year, the Arts Council raised $307,000, a 12% increase over last year. $242,000 was divided up between seven major organizations to assist them with their operating costs. They are the Binghamton Philharmonic, Roberson, Tri-Cities Opera, Good will Theatre, Discovery Center, EPAC and LUMA. 'These funds will directly support local artists and organizations ensuring that our vibrant arts scene continues to inspire, enrich and honor Broome County,' said Chang. A dozen other non-profits and individual artists received $1,000 grants to support community projects. They include Music in the Glen, the Binghamton Downtown Singers and the Phelps Mansion Museum. Remarkable Women in our community: Victoria Kelly JUST demands enforcement of HALT Law during Tuesday rally BCAC raises over $300k for local arts organizations UE families react to administrator's controversial Instagram post Garage Taco Bar under new ownership Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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05-03-2025
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JUST demands enforcement of HALT Law during Tuesday rally
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – As the debate over a New York law restricting the use of solitary confinement in state prisons and county jails rages across the state, a group dedicated to incarceration reform argues that the controversial law has never been fully implemented. Members of Justice and Unity in the Southern Tier, or JUST, held a rally outside of the Broome County Office Building this afternoon. JUST blasted the state prison corrections officers who have been striking recently to protest unsafe working conditions. The activists claim the CO's have turned New York's HALT Law into a bogus boogey man as they seek to avoid accountability. HALT, which stands for Humane Alternatives to Long Term solitary confinement, was passed in 2022 and severely limits the circumstances in which an inmate can be held in isolation. JUST founding member Bill Martin accuses Broome County Sheriff Fred Akshar of skirting the law. 'We have three kids under the age of 21 who have gone into isolation. The HALT Law says you can't do that. We have people who are disabled, who are mentally distressed who go into solitary in one form or another. They think up new names, it's now called 'keep lock,' it's called 'D block,' it's called 'medical.' All these things are basic forms of solitary and torture of people in the Broome County Jail,' said Martin. Martin also alleges that inmates are not allowed to file grievances as they should. Sheriff Akshar pushed back forcefully against the allegations calling JUST tone-deaf radical activists who spread lies and misinformation about conditions and procedures at the jail. Akshar released documentation that he says shows there were no instances of solitary confinement inside the jail last year and that over 200 grievances have been filed by inmates over the past two years, only one of which was deemed credible. Remarkable Women in our community: Victoria Kelly JUST demands enforcement of HALT Law during Tuesday rally BCAC raises over $300k for local arts organizations UE families react to administrator's controversial Instagram post Garage Taco Bar under new ownership Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
