Finding Ulysses

I have to admit that I caught snow fever tonight. After hearing the loud booms of the Winter Festival’s fireworks, the snow started coming down at a respectable pace, and I had visions of play. Sledding on Rice Hill with my kids tomorrow morning became a hope for me in the same way that I [...]

A while back, there was an interchange between me and Jonathan in comments regarding what is the role of a local committee of a political party. I was checking out some of our neighboring town’s blogs (those Dryden folks are quite the bloggers, actually), and came across this excellent piece on the topic that was [...]

over on the Freecycle page for Trumansburg, a single mother has put in a request for a microwave. If you’ve got one to spare, please respond.

The first thing I noticed about Sundrees is that it just smells good in there, good enough to keep me lingering. There’s a view of the creek out the window too, like there is in Gimme, but with more foliage. As gorgeous as the space is, it’s the items for sale that make the store. They’re almost all by local artists. It’s a great idea for small store – exactly what Trumansburg needed, and well done. It’s beautiful in there.

Representative Mike Arcuri held a Town Hall Meeting in Dryden 11/18/07. A Large Part of the conversation centered around his vote to table Dennis Kucinich’s HR 799 to impeach Cheney. Everyone seemed to disagree with his position. I asked him why a former prosecutor (Onieda County District Attorney) would interfere with Kucinich’s attempt to prosecute [...]

Dear Friends – In this week’s issue of the T-Burg Free Press, Geoffrey Hart wrote that outgoing Town Board members did not understand their duties and obligations, and this led them to be “obstructionistic” on the proposed water district. He writes about division of government functions into 3 parts — legislative, executive, and judicial — [...]

I went to the Village Board meeting last night, Tuesday 11/13. I mainly went to continue to pressure the board to pass the resolution which would urge Congress and State Legislators to begin an impeachment inquiry. I read a couple of statements to the board and I’ve posted them over at trumansburgimpeachment.blogspot.org Another issue got [...]

This coming Saturday, November 17, from 4 to 7 PM, there will be a grand opening of Salmon Pottery at 79 East Main Street. Salmon Pottery is named after MaryEllen Salmon, but the grand opening will feature other artists as well, most of whom work in media other than pottery. So, it’s not just Salmon, [...]

On the north end of town, the Village Greenhouse is finally gone, and the video store in the new building next to what used to be the Big M is, according to the sign in the window, “very closed”. In the middle of Trumansburg, the new awning for the improved and enlarged Little Venice is [...]

In a “pulse poll” with an instant run-off structure run by Democracy for America, Hillary Clinton failed to gain the 66% of the vote required to gain the endorsement of DFA. What’s more, she even failed to gain the most votes… or even a respectable showing. Hillary Clinton got just 4.21% of the vote. Here in New York, she did hardly any better, with just 4.85%. She came in fifth place.