http://findingulysses.com Blog and discussion forum for residents of Trumansburg and Ulysses, New York Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:41:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Trumansburg Color Guard has come up with a great idea in sponsoring a T-burgopoly board, a version of the classic Monopoly game, but with names of properties assigned to Trumansburg-area businesses. It's got local character, and can bring in needed funds to the color guard. Still, couldn't there be ... http://findingulysses.com/2008/08/17/who-gets-what-space-in-t-burgopology/ ... and I mean aftershock in a good way. The truth is that music in Trumansburg is a year round thing - witness yesterday's CD release for Toivo. Still, when people think of Trumansburg and music, they think of Grassroots. It's maybe a good bit of marketing, then, for ... http://findingulysses.com/2008/08/16/grassroots-aftershock/ I got my hands on a copy of Toivo's new CD, Laughing Shoe, the other day and I've thoroughly enjoyed it since. So have my kids. Whenever I play the CD, all three get up and started stomping and tapping in orbits around each other on the floor. My ... http://findingulysses.com/2008/08/14/toivo-cd-release-party-tomorrow-night-at-the-atomic-lounge/ In what may be a trend we can expect to see more of in the future, Trumansburg got some attention from blogging bicyclists participating in the Bon Ton Roulet. Michael Nakata takes note of a hot dog at one of our ice cream stands. A self described cheese mite, on the other ... http://findingulysses.com/2008/08/13/a-different-kind-of-biker-through-trumansburg/ I just got back from the Village Board meeting.  There was a great deal of discussion about the EMS budget, response rates, volunteerism, committees to study the issue further, etc.  Absent from the discussion was any mention of pursuing the third party billing concept that has been the hot topic ... http://findingulysses.com/2008/08/11/ambulance-privatization-fails/ You'd think that, with less than three months to go before Election Day, there would be quite a bit of activism for Barack Obama going on in Trumansburg. Trumansburg has been a very politically active community in the past, with about half of the village's population being very strongly ... http://findingulysses.com/2008/08/10/obama-activism-asleep-in-trumansburg/ Just along the southern border of the town of Ulysses, there has been a small herd of American bison for awhile now. They're kept safely behind a fence, of course, farmed as cattle would be. At least, that's how it used to be. A couple weeks ago, the buffalo ... http://findingulysses.com/2008/08/09/the-buffalo-of-ulysses-sighted/ The Artisan Cafe, a locally and independently owned eatery on Main Street here in Trumansburg, has received a rating of four out of five stars by an out of town visitor, Sue, at a customer review site called Yelp. The review reads, "Artisan Cafe is in a storefront along the charming main ... http://findingulysses.com/2008/08/07/artisan-cafe-gets-yelped/ It's a warm and sticky night, and so the idea of resting in an air conditioned apartment above a rushing creek sounds appealing to me at this moment. Add a quick hop to pizza, coffee, a bookstore and a chocolate shop, and it's getting close to paradise. Those of us ... http://findingulysses.com/2008/08/06/renting-the-the-stadtlander-loft/ Thanks to the Grassroots Festival and Felicia of the Atomic Lounge, Trumansburg now has its own summer alcoholic beverage: Trumansburg Lemonade. 1 ½ ounce Woodford Reserve bourbon ¾ ounce Cointreau ¾ ounce lemon juice 2 rounded tsp sugar club soda lemon wheel Fill a pint glass to top with ice. Add bourbon, Cointreau, lemon juice and sugar. ... http://findingulysses.com/2008/08/05/trumansburgs-mixed-drink/ Today, the United States Senate is scheduled to begin consideration of the FISA Amendments Act, a proposed law that gives the Attorney General to declare unilaterally that government spy operations against the American people are legal, without any judge being able to rule to the contrary. The legislation places ... http://findingulysses.com/2008/07/08/ulysses-democrats-speak-against-fisa-amendments-act/ Tomorrow, the Senate will vote on H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act. The name doesn't tell you much. It sounds all technical and dry and boring. Go to the Library of Congress. Read the law, and try to get over the obscuring legislative language, and you'll find that ... http://findingulysses.com/2008/07/07/hillary-clinton-as-clear-as-mud-on-fisa-amendments-act/