Finding Ulysses

The Cassettis hosted a concert by the Trumansburg Community Chorus, at their beautiful home. Here’s the first song with a message from the director Alice Ploss.  ”The message is timeless, and very important.  Lay down your arms.  Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither will we study war anymore” Happy Holidays!

Susan Steingraber speaks in Trumansburg about natural gas drilling using the controversial technique of fracking

Our outgoing Blue Dog Democratic Representative, Michael Arcuri, voted late Thursday to pass the insane extension of Bush tax cuts, that Obama has worked out with the Republicans. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/us/politics/17cong.html?_r=1 This is further evidence of the notion, which used to be a Republican virus,  which has now infected a large part of the Democratic Party, that taxes [...]

Obama has capitulated to the demands of the rich, who would rather not pay their fair share Sherod Brown says “This isn’t really a liberal vs conservative issue. The tax cuts go overwhelmingly to the wealthiest tax payers” He could just as well have been talking about the proposed tax savings offered by the proponents [...]

Wednesday evening’s event at the Trumansburg High School provided a much needed glimmer of hope.  The UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen was a disaster, the one in Cancun is going down the drain right now, Washington lobbyists have rolled back environmental protections for several decades, our NY Constitution “preempts” our rights to self governance, but [...]

December 8 (6:30 pm) at the Trumansburg High School In a continuing effort to assess presumed consequences of “fracking,” local residents, politicians and environmental groups will stage a free Public Educational Forum entitled, “Impacts of Gas Drilling with High Volume Hydrofracturing” on Dec. 8, 6:30 p.m. at Trumansburg High School (off route 96). The Forum [...]

A magician and a raffle will be available at the Trumansburg Elementary PTO Make-It and Take-It Craft Day on December 11 starting at 10:45 in the morning.