Finding Ulysses

According to Zillow, the value of homes in Trumansburg has leveled out, and even improved very slightly, after a significant drop in 2008. Zillow’s calculation of our village’s average home value is now at $175,900 – about $14,000 lower than it was at the height of the market in 2008, but still a 4.3 percent [...]

What’s the current participation rate of Trumansburg in the 2010 census?

When President Obama signed his corporate friendly “reform” bill into law on Tuesday, March 23rd, he  impacted the debate here as to whether or not we should begin a fee for service EMS for Ulysses, Covert and Hector. When Trustee Chris Thomas initially began to push for a fee for service EMS in early 2008, [...]

Arcuri certainly got some interesting telephone messages from Tea Party protesters, but perhaps more convincing was the $53,500 he received from medical industry PACs, and $15,000 from insurance industry PACs. That’s in addition to the amounts given by individual lobbyists.

A video on efforts of people living near Trumansburg to operate their farms in a more sustainable manner.

Security light flooding my back yard stars from one quarter mile off.

Trumansburg’s Congressman, Mike Arcuri, just voted against health care reform! Maybe Arcuri’s growing Republican voting record okay with the political machine up in Utica, but voters down in this corner of the district see things differently.

It’s available for viewing for a limited time only, between the melting of the snows, and the budding of the leaves on the blackberries growing around its rust.

Cayuga Street Democrat Blake Reid made a respectable showing, however, behind Nottke by just 13 votes. We can look to seeing Reid give another strong run in a future election, I think.

You’ve got to go take your ballot out of a concealing folder, and feed it into the scanning machine. That takes place just one or two feet from where people are walking in the door, standing in line, waiting for their turn.