Finding Ulysses

There’s a national glut in DVDs right now, combined with a low demand for them from brick and mortar stores. The popularity of Netflix is running physical video stores out of business. Trumansburg’s older, locally owned Main Street video store closed at the end of the summer, with a much better going out of business sale. There’s still one video store in Trumansburg left – out by Not My Dad’s ice cream, and that may hold on for a while, but the business lessons seem pretty clear – video is out, and a main street business that’s locally owned and targeted to the community’s needs is going to be a lot more successful than a manifestation of a national chain.

This was published in the Ithaca Journal this week: “Police said Aramani’s arrest followed the arrest of three others for seventh-degree criminal possession of controlled substance, a Class A misdemeanor: Shane Jennings, 26, of 9610 Lodi Center Road, Lodi; Lisa Riley, 42, of 4380 W. Seneca Road, Trumansburg; and Ashley Riley, 21, 98 N. Applegate [...]

A brochure with an overview of the project, plus floor plans for each of the three schools is available at: http://www.tburg.k12.ny.us/admin/capital_project/index.htm. The vote is Tuesday, October 23, noon to 9:00 PM in the Ulysses Historical Society. With 83% of the funding coming from the State, the property tax impact will be .11 cents per $1000 [...]

Dr. Sylvester Johnson is giving a presentation on climate change this Friday at the Trumansburg Fire Hall, sponsored by Back to Democracy.

The very large crowd in the fire hall was strongly in favor of the impeachment inquiry resolution, although there were some strongly dissenting voices. Pro-resolution activists also managed to gather over 150 signatures, while anti-resolution forces only got about ten letters. The vote, when it finally came after 10:00 PM, was not a defeat of the resolution, nor a passage of the resolution. Rather, the vote on the resolution was deadlocked.

It is essential to remember that each and every member of the Trumansburg Village Board of Trustees has taken an oath of office. That solemn oath begins with the promise, “I solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States…”

The integrity of the Constitution itself is at issue in the allegations of criminal wrongdoing that underlie the resolution to be considered tonight. It is alleged that the President and Vice President knowingly violated the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure of our persons and paper, the right to a fair and speedy trial, and the ancient legal right, continued under the Constitution, of habeas corpus. It is therefore not just the right, but the duty of every member of the Trumansburg Village Board of Trustees to consider the merit of this resolution, and not to dismiss it out of hand.

It has been said that Back To Democracy is creating a divisive atmosphere in the village by bringing the impeachment resolution to a vote by the Village Board. I think there is some truth to this, and I apologize for that. Perhaps Democracy is not the most perfect system of government possible. There will always [...]

I didn’t make it to the block dance last weekend — I was out of town, and the weather was kind of “iffy” anyway — and I was hoping that someone who’d been there would post a report on the blog. My home town used to hold block dances every week during the summer when [...]

Durand Van Doren began his career in what he calls “a hippie commune in a small town near Cooperstown,” working for Silent Steam Iron Works, crafting wrought iron plant hooks; hanging plants had just become the darlings of home décor. He studied with master smith Frank Turley at his forge in New Mexico, and the day he returned to the Finger Lakes he established Durand’s Forge in a cowshed in Speedsville.

The T-Burg Central School Community Advisory Committee is hosting a presentation by architect Steve Moolin on the upcoming Capital Project, tomorrow evening (Wednesday, September 12) in the HS Library. The project will go to the community for a referendum vote on October 23. The scope of the project is based on the District’s Five Year [...]