Living in Dryden

Former bookkeeper indicted, Freeville police reduction, more

Liva Brong, former bookkeeper for the Town of Dryden, has been indicted on multiple forgery-related counts connected to accusations of writing $17,900 in checks to her boyfriend's business, reports this morning's Ithaca Journal.

Because it's a Wednesday and their new Our Towns section on Dryden and Groton is included, there's lots of Dryden news today, including:

• An article on Freeville's reduction of contracted Village of Dryden police hours from 55 to the original 50,
• Cathy Wakeman's Dryden Town Talk column, focusing this week on Sis Johnson's knitting of items for donation to a wide variety of area organizations,
• An Ask Your Public Official with Sheriff Peter Meskill about speeding enforcement,
• Briefly in Dryden, noting a Dryden Middle School performance of "Fiddler on the Roof Jr.", April 22-24 at the Dryden High School auditorium at 7pm, as well as a boat safety course at TC3,
• and a Neighbors section noting that Air Force Captain Christopher Wood has received a master's degree in acquisition management from the Air Force Institute of Technology.

The printed edition includes information on housing values.

On the opinion page, there is a letter from Bill Cornell of Dryden about deer damage and the prospect of giving hunters a longer season rather than sanctioning year-round hunting by farmers.

In county news, the legislature's Budget and Capital Committee passed a goals statement that suggests limiting tax levy increases to 3% in 2005 and 2006.

Posted by simon at April 14, 2004 8:33 AM in Freeville , Ithaca Journal , Tompkins County , crime
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