League of Women Voters: Tompkins County

Board Meeting
2025-09-03 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-05-06 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Kendal at Ithaca, Kendal at Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca, NY, 14850

LWVTC Coffee and Chat
2025-09-15 13:30 - 14:30, 2025-10-20 13:30 - 14:30 | Ithaca Bakery at Triphammer, 2255 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca, NY, 14850
Join Us for Coffee! and learn about LWVTC

National Voter Registration Day
2025-09-16
National Voter Registration Day Releases Statement Renouncing Political Violence
Download this poster and find a great place to post it!
On September 16, We will be tabling outside Tompkins County Public Library from 11 am – 2 pm, and possibly also outside Greenstar on Cascadilla St. (We may extend hours if we have enough volunteers).
If members will volunteer to be liaison to one of the County Libraries we hope to have Voter Registration Kits taken out to the libraries. We already have liaisons to Ulysses (Trumansburg) and Newfield.
We hope to be able to take a Voter Registration Kit to the Finger Lakes Independence Center
Please contact LWVtompkins.info@gmail.com if you are interested in helping out with voter services.

Board Meeting
2025-10-01 19:00 | Lansing Community Center, First Floor, 25 Auburn Road - The Community Center is located at 27 Auburn Rd in Lansing, next to the Lansing Community Library., Lansing, NY, 14882, United States

Book Club meeting
2025-10-15 18:30 | Protagonist Books and Coffee, 8 West Main Street, Dryden, NY, 13053, United States
Gather and shop at 6:30, discussion at 7pm.
At Protagonist Books and Coffee in Dryden.
We’ll be talking about On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder.
On Tyranny is a call to resistance and an invaluable guide, with ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in these uncertain times.
Protagonist Books has ordered copies of the books for us.
It is also available at the Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL).

Cortland LWV dinner & discussion
2025-11-03 17:00 | CNY Living History Museum, 4386 US-11, Cortland, NY, 13045
Healthcare in Cortland County
Panel Discussion: Senator Lea Webb, Dr. Bonni Hodges, Dr. Anthony DiGiovanna
Join us for Dinner ($18 per person) at 5 pm
and/or Discussion (free) at 6 pm
Sign Up Here: https://forms.gle/9VqRzeqE7kTg3MMNZ
Everyone is welcome to join us.
First Monday of every month.

Board Meeting
2025-11-05 19:00 | Kendal at Ithaca, Kendal at Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca, NY, 14850
Conference Room A

Meeting with NY Assemblymember Anna Kelles
2025-11-14 14:00 | via Zoom
A zoom link will be sent to members before the event.

LWVTC Coffee and Chat
2025-11-17 13:30 - 14:30 | Ithaca Bakery at Triphammer, 2255 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca, NY, 14850
Coffee and Talk!

November 17th at 1:30 pm at the Triphammer Mall, Ithaca Bakery.

Join us for a social hour and lively conversation. Bring a friend!

New Member Luncheon
2025-11-22 11:30 | First Unitarian Church, Ithaca, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca, NY, 14850
Welcome, new League members!

Meeting with NY State Senator Lea Webb
2025-12-01 14:00 - 14:45 | via Zoom

Book Club meeting
2025-12-10 18:30 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga Street, Dewitt Mall, Ithaca, NY, 14850-4329, United States
DECEMBER 10, 2025
GATHER AT 6:30PM
BUFFALO STREET BOOKS 215 N CAYUGA ST, ITHACA, NY 14850
BRING YOUR OWN COFFEE MUG!
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
Javier Zamora’s adventure is a 3,000-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents’ arms, and living under the same roof again.
Solito is Javier Zamora’s story, but it’s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.
THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE IN SPANISH AT TCPL

Coffee & Talk
2025-12-15 13:30 - 14:30 | Ithaca Bakery at Triphammer, 2255 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca, NY, 14850
Stop by and learn more about the LWV!

Board Meeting
2026-01-07 19:00 | via Zoom
Via Zoom. Link will be available 3 days before.

Board Meeting
2026-02-04 19:00 | via Zoom
via Zoom. Link will be available 3 days before

Coffee & Talk
2026-02-16 13:30 - 14:30, 2026-04-20 13:30 - 14:30 | Purity Ice Cream, 700 Cascadilla Street, Ithaca, NY, 14850
Stop by to learn more about the LWV!

Board Meeting
2026-03-04 19:00, 2026-04-08 19:00
Location to be determined. Please check back.

LWVTC Spring Fling Luncheon
2026-03-14 12:30 - 14:30 | Corner Brew Event Space, 1 West Main Street, Dryden, New York, 13053 There is a large, free parking lot behind the building.
Please join us for an afternoon lunch provided by the Good Neighbor Grocery, at the Corner Brew Event Space in Dryden.
Our very own Sara Catterall will join us.
This lunch is part of our re-launched LWVTC Book Club.
We will be taking questions ahead of time, please submit them by 3/6.
Sara will discuss her book, Amelia Bloomer: Journalist, Suffragist, Anti-fashion Icon.

Please RSVP by March 6th to Nettleton.megan@gmail.com
Suggested donation $20 accepted.
All are encouraged to attend! See you there . . . 🌺

Nothing About Us, Without Us: Women Who Led the Disability Rights Movement
2026-03-15 16:00 - 17:00 | via Zoom
Join us in celebrating Women’s History Month!
Nothing About Us, Without Us: Women Who Led the Disability Rights Movement
Host: Emily Krichbaum, Ph.D., National Women’s History Museum
Date: Sunday, March 15th
Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m., 45 minutes for the talk followed by a 15 minute Q&A period.
Place: on ZOOM
Please RSVP by midnight on Friday, March 13th.

Coffee & Talk
2026-03-16 13:30 - 14:30 | Purity Ice Cream, 700 Cascadilla Street, Ithaca, NY, 14850
Monday, March 16th, from 1:30-2:30
at Purity Ice Cream
700 Cascadilla St, Ithaca, NY 14850
Stop by to learn more about the LWV!

Cayuga Heights, Dryden, Groton, Trumansburg Village Elections
2026-03-18 09:00 - 18:00
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 Village Elections.
Polls open Noon to 9 pm.

Book Club meeting
2026-04-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga Street, Dewitt Mall, Ithaca, NY, 14850-4329, United States
Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization by Bill McKibben
Our climate, and our democracy, are melting down.
But Bill McKibben, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, insists the moment is also full of possibility. There is a hope―in McKibben’s eyes, our best hope for a new civilization: one that looks up to the sun, every day, as the star that fuels our world.

Lansing Village Election
2026-04-28 12:00 - 18:00
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 Lansing Village Election.
Polls open Noon to 9 pm

The Health Care Crisis & The New York Health Act
2026-05-07 18:00 - 19:30 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
Why do we pay 2 to 4 times as much for medications in the US than in Canada?
Dr. Rosemary Batt, the Alice HansonCook Professor at the Cornell University school of Industrial and Labor Relations, and Susan Beckley, a proponent of the New York Health Act, discuss health care financing and the New York Health Act on Thursday May 7th, starting at 6pm at Tompkins County Public Library Borg Warner Room (101 East Green St. Ithaca NY 14850.) The talk is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Tompkins County.
Is the American Health Care system broken? Why is it hard to find a primary care physician? Why do you have to wait weeks to get an appointment? Why do you get sent to an urgent care clinic or the ER when you are sick instead of seeing your primary care physician?
Why are infant mortality rates and maternal mortality rates significantly higher in the US than in Canada or other wealthy countries? (Canada 3.74, New York State 4.1, Cortland County 8.5, Cayuga County 8.6, Tompkins County 6.0 –2024 or 2025)
The United States spends nearly twice what Canada and Europe and other wealthy countries spend per capita on health care–$14,800 in the US vs $7000-$9000 in Canada and Europe. Andi n those countries all citizens have comprehensive health care, including long term care. And in spite of the high cost of healthcare in the United States, we have shorter life expectancy.
Why do all citizens in every other wealthy country have access to health care but in the United States, 27 million Americans do not have health insurance? The increasingly high cost of health insurance with high deductibles, high copays and out-of-network costs leave millions of Americans in debt and hesitant to use health care. Medical debt is a leading cause of bankruptcy in the US–62% of consumer bankruptcy.
Dozens of hospitals in rural Upstate New York are at risk of closing. Medicaid and Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals are at rates that are not sufficient to keep rural hospitals open and draw doctors to practice. Rural hospitals with more uninsured patients provide care for which they are not reimbursed. Many rural New York hospitals have closed or are closing some services. Cayuga Medical Center no longer admits children. Children who require
hospitalization are sent to Syracuse or Rochester

Coffee & Talk
2026-05-18 13:30 - 14:30 | Sunset Grille, 823 Danby Rd., Ithaca, NY
Sunset Grille
823 Danby Rd, Ithaca, NY
Stop by to learn more about the LWV!

LWVTC Annual Meeting
2026-06-03 18:30 - 20:00 | The History Center in Tompkins County, inside Tompkins Center for History & Culture, 110 N Tioga St, Ithaca, NY
Join us for a delightful evening of appetizers, great company, and wonderful conversations.
Our business meeting will include recognition of new members in the past year, updates on our new committees, and election of new officers for 2026-2027.
Date: June 3, 2026
Time: 6:30-8 PM
Venue: The History Center in Tompkins County Inside Tompkins Center for History & Culture,
110 N Tioga St, Ithaca, NY 14850
Please RSVP to Megan Nettleton by May 29th, Nettleton.megan@gmail.com
If you have any dietary restrictions, please let us know!
Suggested Donation $20
This end of the year gathering is a time to meet other League members, vote on the incoming board, and help shape our local League’s focus for the coming year.
Appetizers and desserts await! Please bring your own mug or water bottle, help us go green!
Parking is available on the street, the garage across the street is closed.
Please let us know by May 29th if you would like a ride from the Triphammer Road area.
The space is accessible to all!
In addition, we are collecting donations for “Women’s Inequality Day” on 8/26.
This year, we are making donations to two local organizations:
The Women’s Opportunity Center and the Menstrual Equality Cabinet in Center Ithaca.
Please bring any of the items to the annual meeting, and we will add them to our donation.
The wishlist for both places is as follows:
Unopened feminine hygiene products, preferably unscented. (pads, tampons, feminine wipes & washes)
Unopened shampoos, conditioner, deodorant, toothbrushes/paste/flossers, etc. Travel sized items are also welcome
NEW, unopened over-the-counter medications; Tylenol, Ibuprofen, Aspirin, Excedrin, Pamprin, Midol, etc.
