Finding Ulysses

Josh Harben informs us of a meeting just a few miles outside of Ulysses borders – in Hector – to present a petition against fracking there. The meeting is tomorrow night!

There won’t be a protest of this sort in Trumansburg today, but take the Route 21 bus down to Ithaca, and you can be dropped off right at the protest in Ithaca, starting at 5:00 PM.

Cornell Cooperative Extension will hold a Master Composter class in Ithaca starting next month. Applications are due February 4.

The going rate that Mike Arcuri has calculated for his upcoming gathering: 500 dollars to stand in line waiting to shake his hand, and 1,000 dollars if you want your photograph taken with him to make yourself look important.

I’m not saying that I know that Ranger the robot was actually en route to hear Donna the Buffalo, but it would provide some motivation for going the distance.

A couple of days ago, the Washington Post published a fascinating resource, Top Secret America, which gives what information is available about a national government surveillance infrastructure that “has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist [...]

That sticker, which you put on your bike helmet, acts as a coupon entitling you to discounts, as high as 50 percent in some locations. Purity Ice Cream is participating.

In Ithaca at 4:00 this afternoon, on the corner outside the Tompkins County Public Library, there will be a Speak Out for Peace.

Some deer, and some small critters, seem to come that way, but most of all, the bank above the gorge seems to be visited by dogs with large paws.

When I hear people demand that trucks filled with garbage coming through Ulysses on the way to Seneca Meadows be re-routed along some other road, I can’t help but cringe at their narrow vision of the issue. As long as we in the Town of Ulysses are making garbage, we’re part of the problem we’re complaining about.