Finding Ulysses

If you have been looking for an opportunity to register your opinion on the federal issues of importance to you, or get help with a federal-government problem, you need to get some one-on-one time with the staff of your Congressman. Here comes another good chance. Bob Messinger will be bringing a field office of Congressman [...]

Can anyone tell me what a garden’s accessory appurtence is? I’ve been gardening for years, and I’ve never used an appurtence, as far as I know. Maybe that explains my troubles. Maybe I really need an appurtence.

The penalty for firing a gun within Trumansburg doesn’t seem like much of a deterrent. It’s just a fine of between ten and one hundred dollars.

Anyone have their repose interfered with recently? Been annoyed by someone else’s disorder? I hope these laws don’t apply to my baby’s habit of squawking in in the middle of the night, or that patch in the front lawn that I missed while mowing this afternoon.

This is a lamppost that can be appreciated even more by a pedestrian than by someone driving through town, cold metal with flowers at its feet. Its appearance encourages me to linger.

Looking in some places for information about the proposed budget, one would have thought that the Trumansburg school community was in a strongly anti-budget mood this year. Clearly, that was not the case.

Trumansburg is getting a used bookstore in the space where Kinney’s pharmacy used to be.

Given the shift of the American economy and media toward the realm of computers, it would be negligent of us to ask the Trumansburg schools to educate our children with computers and software that are not keeping pace with the technology used in the professional world. This referendum is in everybody’s interests, and I’ll be voting in favor of it today.

The Trumansburg Free Press goofed up and only gave information about three of the five candidates for school board in the May 2007 election. Tompkins Weekly, on the other hand, got it right, and profiled all five candidates.

There are five candidates for the Trumansburg School Board in 2007. Only three of those five were given coverage by the Trumansburg Free Press. Is this the kind of coverage we ought to expect from a paper of record?