Finding Ulysses

Now there is a fake money counter attack coming from a certain segment of the anti-Bush crowd. One Deception Fraudulent Event Notes, designed to look like dollar bills but with the numbers 9-11 in the corners, are supposed to be from the Uninformed State of Denial. This currency is now being handed out in Trumansburg.

The Trumansburg News has got a lot of information that you just won’t find in the Trumansburg Free Press – especially information about what’s going on at the High School.

Vieser’s comment on development characterizes Ulysses as a helpless victim of development. He writes as if we, the people who live in Ulysses, will have no say in whether our town is filled up with new housing developments and businesses, transformed into a new, generic, congested, sprawl-filled mess like our neighbor across the lake, Lansing.

Kim Schrag’s portraits of nature strained are now appearing at Gimme Coffee in Trumansburg.

I hope that, when the time comes for Mr. Austic to run for re-election, Trumansburg Democrats remember how they were stiff-armed by Doug Austic last night, and how their concerns were shoved off into the corner.

The proposal would force a permanent rate increase to Village water users of at least 40%, an additional $150 per year to a typical household. Most of this cost is unrelated to the benefit the Village would get. We do not and cannot support the current proposal, and call on all affected parties, the Village Board, the Town Board, and the Park to create a joint plan that is fair and affordable to all.

Ordinarily, I would wait until fall to buy perennials. There are deep discounts at that time, as nobody is thinking about gardening, which is a shame, because it’s the best time to garden, with the challenging heat of summer behind, and the slow, preserving cold soon to come.

There is no such thing as Trucktown, of course, but that didn’t stop the owner of the car dealership in the unincorporated area on route 96 just south of Trumansburg where developers are hoping to create a suburban strip-mall economic zone where sprawl flows like water from declaring that Trucktown exists. Trucktown is not on the map, but it turns out that another settlement is: The hamlet of Halseyville.

land owners include Doug Austic himself. There will be big bucks for a few people who can sell their land at new, higher prices to developers that want to fill up Ulysses with gas stations, corrugated metal chain stores, and fast food drive throughs.