Perhaps living up to their name as "the Grand Old Party," the Dryden Town Republican Committee will be having a Meet the Candidates event this next Friday night, November 4th, from 7:30pm to 9:00pm at the Dryden Fire Hall (map). The ad for the event in The Shopper calls the Republicans a vote for intermunicipal cooperation, open government, and fiscal...
This week's issue of The Shopper adds another item to Saturday's busy schedule of Dryden events: the Etna Community Yard Sale, which will be Saturday from 9:00am to noon at Houtz Hall in Etna. There's also a schedule for the Freeville Harvest Festival, which looks like: 8:30am - Service of Hope 10:00am - Back Yard Circus 10:30am - Fool's Gold...
This week's issue of The Shopper includes a list of "Tuesday nights on the lawn" presented by the Southworth Library. They include: July 19th - Guinea Pig Party! July 26th - Tadpole Surprise! August 2nd - Lori Stefferson, Storyteller August 9th - Teddy Bear Picnic (Bring Your Bear!) August 16th - Trooper Ruland and his canine, Baker! The events start...
This week's issue of The Shopper has a notice for Democrats in the northeast corner of Dryden, as well as Groton and eastern Lansing: Calling All Democrats All Democrats in the 9th Legislative District are encouraged to attend a meeting on Thursday, June 2nd at 7:30PM at the Town Hall located at 101 Conger Boulevard (map) in the Village of...
I should have looked over The Shopper earlier, as it had ads for a Kiwanis can drive and a McLean bluebird box event, both of which happened yesterday. There are still a few items worth noting. The Dryden Town Historical Society has an ad for the Varna Then and Now talk I'll be leading today from 2:00pm to 4:00pm from...
This week's issue of The Shopper includes an ad from the Dryden Central School District, calling for school board candidates. Residents of the district who are U.S. citizens and have lived in the district for one year are generally eligible, though you can't hold an incompatible public office, reside with another board member, be a current employee of the school...
County Legislator Mike Lane writes the Ithaca Journal today to endorse Jerry Carbo for Village Trustee in tomorrow's Village of Dryden elections: Jerry Carbo is running for one of the seats, and is well qualified. He has impressive experience in law and accounting. Jerry, his wife and children have returned to our area, bought a house and have made Dryden...
Jerry Carbo, running for Village of Dryden Trustee, has the first ad of the campaign season in this week's issue of The Shopper, and notes that the election will be March 15th from noon to 9:00pm. Looking forward to the next election season: The Dryden Central School District is seeking community members who are interested in serving on the Board...
This week's issue of The Shopper includes an ad announcing "A Night for Remembering Bret Neff," the Harford volunteer firefighter who lost his life responding to a call in Slaterville last year. There will be a candlelight memorial service for Neff at the Harford Fire Station on Route 221 on Wednesday, February 23rd, at 7:30pm. The Shopper also has an...
This week's issue of The Shopper includes notices from both the Dryden Democratic Committee and the Dryden Republican Committee that they will be holding caucuses on Tuesday, January 25th to select candidates for Village of Dryden Mayor and Village of Dryden Trustees. All terms are for two years this time. Republicans will be meeting at 7:30pm at the Dryden Village...
While browsing The Shopper, I found this inquiry that seems worth repeating in the hope that somebody can find these: INFORMATION WANTED: The entrance gates at the Willow Glen Cemetery in Dryden were removed in 1971 by Frank Stelick, and stored at his residence at 252 Dryden-Harford Road. In 1992, Rosemary Stelick sold the gates to an unknown person believed...
This week's edition of The Shopper includes an ad for the Village of Freeville's Summer Rec Program, which is running July 12th to 16th, 19th to 23rd, 26th to 30th, and August 2nd to 6th and 9th to 13th. (That's Mondays through Fridays from July 12th to August 13th.) The program runs from 9am to 3pm at the Freeville Elementary...
I've been a bit more lax about covering The Shopper, but there's been less in it lately that I haven't covered elsewhere. I do scour it every week, though. This week's Shopper contains, among many other things: An ad for the new Place Names of Tompkins County, published by the Office of the Tompkins County Historian and available at Wildflowers,...
This week's issue of The Shopper includes an announcement for the Dryden Veterans Memorial Home's Memorial Day parade, to be held Saturday, May 29th at 10:30am in the Village of Dryden, with a memorial service at 11am in tribute to World War II veterans. There will also be a free luncheon for participants. There is also a notice that the...
Dryden school elections, budgets, and news dominate the Community News section of this week's The Shopper. There are advertisements from Paul Lutwak, Margaret DeGaetano, and Anderson Young, candidates for the board, as well as an ad from David Branagan opposing the school board budget. There are also reminders from the district about the budget proposition and a proposition to purchase...
There's a new Dryden Board Briefs in this week's issue of The Shopper, covering the April 27th meeting. (They're not yet posted on their site.) There's also an announcement about getting absentee ballots for the May 18th Board Elections, and a note that the "Dryden Central School District Office will be moving to its new location at the Middle School...
This week's issue of The Shopper includes three handy notices from the Town of Dryden: The Recreation Department has a notice about registration for the Duke Erickson Adult Co-ed Softball League. There are two leagues (Tuesday and Saturday). Team roster forms are available at Dryden Town Hall (map) and must be submitted by May 15th. Players must be men or...
The April 20th issue of The Shopper includes the Dryden Board Briefs for the April 12th meeting. (Unfortunately this brief doesn't appear to be posted yet, but hopefully that will change. Update: It's been fixed.) I noted this meeting's coverage in the Ithaca Journal, and the Board Briefs are much the same. One interesting piece that the briefs provide is...
The Recreation report at the April Town Board meeting combined the usual reporting and conversation with a slideshow of initial analysis of the survey (241KB PDF, unfortunately slightly crumpled). Recreation Coordinator Jennifer Glaab began with the recreation report, noting that contra dancing turnout had varied from zero in Varna to 45 in Dryden and 25 in Freeville, with one remaining...
This week's issue of The Shopper includes the latest edition of the Dryden Central School Board Briefs, from the meeting where, as item 4 notes: 35 community members addressed the Board about budget related concerns including: concern about too high a percentage tax levy increase; proposed music cuts; proposed modified sports cuts; proposed new math courses; proposed art cuts; need...
This week's issue of The Shopper includes an ad proclaiming April to be Fair Housing Month in the Village of Dryden, an ad from the Dryden Schools Art Department asking for public support in keeping art programs from getting cut in the current round of budgeting, and a notice of the Etna Community Association's annual meeting, which will be in...
Today's Shopper includes two pieces from the Dryden Central School District: a new Board Briefs about a meeting with bleak budget news and a repeat of the invitation to run for the school board noted earlier. Two other items in The Shopper reflect school concerns - there's an ad from the Dryden Faculty Association that's brief enough to cite in...
Today's issue of The Shopper includes the latest Dryden Central School Board Briefs, as well as a notice looking for candidates for the May 18 school board election. If you want to run, you have to have lived in the district at least a year, can't share a household with another member as a member of the family, can't be...
Today's Dryden schools news comes from three different papers. The Ithaca Journal reports that the Dryden Central School District will include summer school funds in its budget, providing juniors and seniors who need to pass classes to graduate to take courses. The closing of TC3's summer school had left uncertainty about whether Dryden would participate in a new arrangement with...
I've been surprised by how little coverage village elections have had this year, though at least today's Ithaca Journal editorial mentions village elections. Even finding out who the candidates are has been a challenge, though yesterday's Shopper included a notice on Freeville elections. Thanks to County Legislator Michael Lane, I now have a complete list of who is running for...
The Shopper has an Election Notice for the Village of Freeville today. All of the candidates are on the "Citizens Party" line (Freeville elections aren't along traditional party lines) and there appear to be no contests this year. The nominees are Lotte Carpenter for Mayor, Diana J. Radford and Penny Beebe for two-year Trustee terms, and Thomas A. Lyson for...
Dryden schools are getting out fifteen minutes early today as an "emergency go home drill". There's also a new Dryden Board Briefs posted (and in The Shopper). They don't seem to be archiving these, so I guess I'll try to collect them here. The Shopper also includes a notice for the next meeting of the Dryden Central School Board of...
This week's Shopper includes a notice that Patricia Mooney is the new Clerk/Treasurer for the Village of Freeville. They also list village hall hours, which are Tuesday and Thursday 10am-3pm, Wednesday and Friday Noon-4pm, and Saturday 8am-Noon, closed Sunday and Monday....
The Board Briefs in this week's edition of the Suburban Cortland-Ithaca Shopper (and online) are hardly brief, but they're an excellent way to share information. Twenty-one items under reports and comments, sixteen items the board approved, five other actions of the board, and four upcoming events plus a superintendent's coffee hour. The online archive looks a bit thin, and it...
This week's Shopper contains Notices of Caucuses for Village of Dryden Democrats and Republicans, as both parties will be meeting to select candidates for the two 2-year and one 1-year positions for village trustees. The actual election will be in March. Both caucuses will be held January 27 at the Dryden Village Hall (map). The Republican Party caucus is at...