Living in Dryden

News including Dryden

After yesterday's relative torrent of Dryden news, today's Ithaca Journal is fairly quiet about Dryden. Three pieces definitely affect Dryden, though:

• The state Department of Environmental Conservation's Wildlife Management Unit 76, which includes Dryden south of Routes 13 and 366, is aiming for a 36% decrease in the deer population through increased hunting.
• Congressman Sherwood Behlert is getting an early start on fund-raising. Potential Republican primary challenger David Walrath is getting some assistance from the Club for Growth, while Boehlert has had help from the Republican Main Street Partnership.
• The Journal's editorial supports the effort to keep the county tax levy within a 3% increase for the next two years.

There's also a piece in the New York Times (registration required) that Verizon is considering selling off its upstate lines, which include part of Dryden. The first two paragraphs:

Verizon, the state's largest local telephone company, said Wednesday that it was considering selling off all its phone lines in upstate New York, prompting some state lawmakers and union officials to warn that jobs and service quality could be put at risk.

Paul A. Crotty, the group president for New York and Connecticut at Verizon, told a State Assembly hearing here that the company had "asked for expressions of interest" from companies that might consider buying its 2.5 million phone lines in upstate New York from Orange County out to Buffalo. But he said that no sale was pending.

Posted by simon at April 15, 2004 8:46 AM in politics (local) , public finance , recreation
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