Finding Ulysses

Other photographs of our area can be found through the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Just search for “Finger Lakes”.

It will take more than a video gimmick to sell a house in current economic conditions. The following YouTube video has been online for four days, and in all that time, it’s had only one visitor.

The underwater videos of Cayuga Lake’s waters, while not very eventful, do have a nice kind of serene quality to them.

You’re more likely to get up to date news at the Grassroots Twitter page, but you’ll get more in-depth insight at the blog.

The natural gas under Ulysses isn’t going anywhere. Will residents be willing to wait to sign leases until a new law provides them with more information about the substances that they, and their neighbors, may have to deal with?

When teenagers can produce and upload a video like the one below using the name of our town’s only grocery store in the description, can local businesses afford to keep their old advertising strategies?

Mary Ellen Salmon sent me a note this morning on behalf of the Trumansburg Chamber of Commerce, asking me to relay the following message:
The Trumansburg Chamber of Commerce is seeking photographs of the following subjects, for inclusion in a brochure:
- Grassroots photos
- Inside of Taughannock Farms or another dining experience (interior shot)
- Library with [...]

The response of the people behind Ulysses Progressives to the problems with the Trumansburg Free Press is the one that makes the most sense. If the local newspaper shows itself to be consistently biased, create your own media. Here’s hoping that the Ulysses Progressives keep it up, and offer a lasting alternative source for community information.

Becoming Human provides an online documentary about human evolution by the Institute of Human Origins, run by Donald Johansen, famous for his team’s discovery of the australopithecine fossil commonly known as Lucy. A part of the documentary that focuses on the anatomical structures of human ancestors features John Gurche, talking about the importance of working on fine details of soft-tissue reconstructions based on fossilized structures, in order to allow people who see the reconstructions to gain a holistic sense of the creature being represented.

It was a weird experience reading the Trumansburg Free Press last week. Our village’s paper of record ran the top headline: Filiberto: Town Must Listen to the Village, with the subheader, “Trustee says that village does not need to coordinate with town on annexation”.
The article was by Stacey Silliman, someone I haven’t [...]