Finding Ulysses

Here’s a link to a two minute clip of audio from the Village Board Meeting 10/13/09
Sycophantic? Trustee  Thomas impressed us with his vocabulary, and he certainly isn’t being sycophantic.  A better word for what he is trying to do is placate
from dictionary.com,
Placate – verb -  to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures [...]

The La Leche League meets in Trumansburg on the 3rd Thursday of every month at the Ulysses Philomathic Library, at 7:00 in the evening. Pregnant women and mothers of breastfeeding chilren are encouraged to attend.

This cartoon ran recently in a Maryland newspaper called the Montgomery County Gazette.  We are not alone in this fight against those who would like to privatize wonderful single payer EMS systems.  The following is an excerpt from an editorial written by Marcine Goodloe, president of the Montgomery County Volunteer Fire-Rescue Association, and Executive Director [...]

Will the Trumansburg Dodgeball Tournament really be taking place next February?

Comment at the EMS budget meeting – Trumansburg Village Board – 10/1/09   -   “The Dryden EMS bills, and they went 24/7 paid, and they haven’t had any problems”
fast forward
It’s December 2010 and Trumansburg initiated “insurance only billing” last summer.
I’m home alone and have chest pain.  It’s pretty bad, but I don’t know if it’s [...]

The privatizers are on a roll. Last night’s meeting was attended by all Village Board members, and representatives from the Town Boards of Hector and Covert. Those wishing to go to billing, were in a clear majority, in spite of what, in my humble opinion, is an obvious majority of the public, remaining in opposition.
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The Village postponed the EMS Budget meeting that I wrote about below.  They rescheduled it for tonight. (I wonder if they “inadvertently” discouraged public participation)  Note the last item on the agenda.  It seems very likely to me that they are planning on going to billing inspite of the wishes of the residents of the [...]

Other photographs of our area can be found through the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Just search for “Finger Lakes”.