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Grassroots Festival Videos Start Trickling Out

Jonathan Cook — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:47:32 +0000

Every year, as the Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance winds down, the YouTube representation of the event begins, with a wave of new uploads that lasts several weeks, well into the autumn. The first of these videos have now arrived, starting out with a touch of Zydeco.

Mr. Roboto Visits Grassroots?

Jonathan Cook — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:46:31 +0000

The official story is that engineering students at Cornell University set the record for the longest distance walked by an untethered robot. A robot named Ranger is said to have walked 14.3 miles in 11 hours.

It’s curious that 14.3 miles is close to the distance from Cornell University to the Trumansburg Fairgrounds, where the Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance is taking place this weekend. I’m not saying that I know that Ranger was actually en route to hear Donna the Buffalo, but it would provide some motivation for going the distance.

Tour and Taste Life’s So Sweet

Jonathan Cook — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:22:36 +0000

This news from Life’s So Sweet on Trumansburg’s Main Street comes out this morning:

“To celebrate our recent rennovations and membership to the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, Life’s So Sweet and The Chamber are holding a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on Tuesday July 20, 2010 at Noon (12:00pm) at 27 West Main Street in Trumansburg. Guests of the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony will receive free samples and a half price chocolate tour!

All Tompkins County Residents are eligible for half price Chocolate Tours on this day at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm and 6pm. Reservations are HIGHLY recommended and can be made by calling 607-387-4477 or emailing reservations@LifesSoSweet.com

Come and enjoy a sweet day with us!”

Lecture on Egypt In the Philomathic Library

Jonathan Cook — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:21:48 +0000

On Thursday (July 15) at 7:30 PM, our Ulysses Philomathic Library will be hosting a lecture entitled Perceptions of Egypt by Dr. Phil Lempert. There will be refreshments served afterwards.

Music At The Trumansburg Library

Jonathan Cook — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:36:37 +0000

Tomorrow night at 7:00, Eric Aceto and Doug Robinson will appear together at the Ulysses Philomathic Library. Aceto will play the violin, while Doug sings, it is promised, in three different languages.

Tween Reading

Jonathan Cook — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:28:21 +0000

This Thursday sees the first meeting of the Tween Summer Reading Book Club at the Ulysses Philomathic Library. The book club meetings will take place every Thursday at 3:00 in the afternoon, until August 12, facilitated by Dalaine Walburn.

What’s a tween? Kids aged 9 to 13 are welcome.

Your Kid Sister Coming To Trumansburg

Jonathan Cook — Sun, 30 May 2010 06:51:58 +0000

Well, okay, it’s not your kid sister. Your Kid Sister is Maïa Vidal, who plays the accordion, and sings in a slightly world-weary tone, while wearing a fuzzy hat with wolf ears on it.

She’s coming to the Rongo on the evening of June 10.

Swap Meet Outside Trumansburg Today

Jonathan Cook — Sat, 15 May 2010 10:36:16 +0000

From Share Tompkins:

“Spring Cleaning Swap Meet
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Yellow House, 6200 Mount Road, Trumansburg, NY

Out with the old and in with the new!

Bring what you don’t need anymore to our Spring Cleaning Swap Meet hosted by the Trumansburg Yellow House. There’s plenty of lawn space to set up your goods on picnic tables, tarps, blankets, or just the grass. There’s also adequate parking and lots of lovely scenery.”

What’s a swap meet? You come. You barter. You give.

“At Share Tompkins Community Swap Meets people come together to express their haves and wants and work together to make sure everyone leaves with what they need. Some examples of swaps include foraged chanterelle mushrooms for home-grown sprouts and web design in exchange for containers for an urban garden.”

Massive MiniGolf Easter Egg Hunt Crowd

Jonathan Cook — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:49:25 +0000

A reporter for a TV news outfit was overheard to say that the crowd at yesterday’s 2nd annual TBurg Minigolf Easter Egg Hunt was near 2,000 people. I’m not sure it was that big, but there were an awful lot of people there, whatever the actual number was.

In previous years, Easter egg hunts have suffered from bitter cold weather. This time, it was above 80 degrees, and were participants wearing shorts and tshirts and wolfing down ice cream cones. People came, not just from Trumansburg, but from all around the area, with cars lining both sides of Route 96 from the lumber mill all the way into Jacksonville.

It was like Grassroots for tots. A very intense time was had by all.

Library Seeking Donations For Spring Book Sale

Jonathan Cook — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:06:36 +0000

The spring book sale at the Ulysses Philomathic Library may seem like a long while off now, but preparations for the event are already underway. In order to have a successful book sale, there need to be quality donations from the community. The time is now to get those donations in.

The sale will take place on April 23 to April 27, but the deadline for donations is April 3. Books, music, movies, audio books, puzzles, games, and computer software in good condition are accepted at the front desk. Textbooks, encyclopedias, magazines, condensed books, romances and damaged items are not accepted.

The library is also looking for volunteers for the sale. A sign up sheet will be posted in the library in early April. Call 387-5623 or 387-6562 for more information.

Artisan Cafe Going Out Of Business Sale

Jonathan Cook — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:03:46 +0000

2 Commercial Panini Presses $200 each
17 Cubic foot, frostfree freezer $400
Artic Air Commercial Refrigerator, 22 cubic foot $650
GE frostfree brushed stainless freezer/refigerator with ice maker 18 cubic foot $350
1 white dorm style refrigerator $50
1 dorm style silver refigerator with freezer on top $75
8 foot Boos worktable with shelf underneath $400
Pottery Barn cement topped table $400
Pottery Barn galvanized magazine racks $25 each
All Books
Softcover Childrens .25 Adult $1.00
Hardcover Childrens $1.00 Adult $3.00
Bookshelves $50 each
Glass topped side table $150
Stone topped side table $100
Rubbermaid Wheeled Bins for flour etc. $25 each
Stainless work table with shelf and side hooks $85
Coffee Presses (used) Large $4 Small $2
Beehouse Teapots (used) $3
Pottery Barn Ladder Shelf $75
Huge assortment of Dishes, Glasses, Cups Bowls, Cookware, Etc.
Decorative Items
Casio Cash Register $150
20% of all new retail
Metal Shelving units
Nova Cart baking molds

These are some of the items that will be on sale at the Artisan Cafe this Saturday, from noon to 4:00 PM, as the business prepares to go close.

Those of you out there who are into cooking may find some really great deals for your home kitchen in this sale, but don’t miss those books either. There are some good quality books in those shelves, and at a great price.

Free Our Midwives

Jonathan Cook — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:26:05 +0000

Our two younger children were born in Trumansburg – not in the hospital down the road, but actually in Trumansburg, upstairs in our own house. It was a relaxed, positive birthing experience, far and away superior to our experience with the birth of our older child in a hospital. Midwives help make home births possible, but regulations in New York state make home birth a difficult choice for families and professionals alike.

Yesterday afternoon, Free Our Midwives presented a family-friendly benefit concert right here in Trumansburg, at the Rongovian. The concert provided social and financial support to Birth Net of the Finger Lakes, a group that helps families as they seek out alternatives to birth in a highly regulatory medical setting.

The benefit concert is over, but the opportunity to help this organization’s work remains. You can donate financially, or through your grassroots activist efforts.