Finding Ulysses

As Mayor of Trumansburg, John White would be in a position to lead the village into providing some of our water to natural gas drilling companies such as the one that holds a lease on his own property. It smells like a serious conflict of interest.

The Trumansburg Volunteer Fire Company is having its annual Pancake Breakfast to Benefit the H.  Peter  Kahn Memorial  Scholarship H. Peter Kahn Sunday, March 21, 2009 7:30 AM to 11:00 AM 74 West Main Street, Trumansburg Adults $6; 5-12 $3; under 5 FREE Peter was a member of the Trumansburg Fire Company for over 20 [...]

On the 13th, sign up for a share of food at Sweet Land Farm, and get some fresh greens or winter root vegetables.

Preparations have begun for the Ulysses Philomathic Library spring book sale.

Some interesting kitchen items will be on sale at the Artisan Cafe this Saturday, from noon to 4:00 PM, as the business prepares to go close.

A video of a softly coating snow that came at the end of February 2010 with a general snowstorm hitting Trumansburg from the south.

Trumansburg Superintendent, Paula Hurley, describes the problem as follows: “We’re in our budget process currently, and we’re looking at approximately a 5 percent reduction in aid from New York State… That will translate for us into reductions of staff, the use of some of our reserves, as well as an increase in our tax levy.”

Either I’ve fallen down another rabbit hole, or all 3 Republicans running for Village offices, are to the left of the 3 Democrats, on the most important issue in front of the Board.  John White(R) is running for Mayor against the incumbent Democratic Mayor, Marty Petrovic.  Debbie Nottke(R) , incumbent trustee, and Matthew Taylor(R) are [...]

I went to the candidate forum on Sunday.  None of the Republicans showed up, but all of the Democrats did, but that’s about the only good thing I can say about them.  All of them are in favor of ambulance privatization.  Mayor Petrovic spent some time explaining to me why it wasn’t really privatization.  He [...]