It sounded last night like comments on the proposed hydrofracking ban have been going to a lot of different places beyond the public hearing last night, so I asked this morning what the best place to send comments is. The...
I suspect it'll be busy. You can see the proposed amendment to the current zoning law on the Town's Gas Drilling Information page. 7:00pm, July 20, 2011, at Dryden Town Hall, 93 East Main Street/Route 392 in the Village of...
Come join the fun at tonight's 7:30pm Dryden Town Board meeting at the (air-conditioned) Dryden Town Hall - 93 East Main Street (Route 392) in the Village of Dryden. I'll be there to get a sense of what's coming in...
I can't be there tonight, but given my steady rate of sneezing, that's probably good for everyone involved. The Dryden Town Board will be meeting tonight at 7:00pm at Dryden Town Hall, 93 East Main Street (Route 392), Dryden. Here's...
I can't find an agenda for it on the Town website, but the calendar reports that there's an Agenda meeting tonight at 7:00pm 7:30pm at Dryden Town Hall, 93 East Main Street (Route 392) in Dryden. The Town Board page...
The Town of Dryden website still refers to February and March meetings, but there is an April Town Board meeting tonight at 7:00pm at the Dryden Town Hall, 93 East Main Street (Route 392), Dryden. I expect it will be...
I just learned (thanks to Jason Leifer) that tonight's Dryden Town Board Agenda and Zoning meeting will start at 7:30pm, not 7:00pm. Here's the agenda: Call Meeting to Order Roll Call Discussion Items Role of ZBA (and PB) Alternates Oakbrook...
This is huge (I think that's 144 units total), and I hadn't heard of it before now. Anyone know more about it? I just stumbled on it at the Village of Dryden website. The Village of Dryden Planning Board has...
It's Election Day today. Polls will be open today from 6:00am to 9:00pm. Remember that you can't campaign inside of the polling places, and that this includes things like T-shirts, signs, and buttons in addition to trying to actively convert...
Most Dryden residents are voting in the same places that they used to vote, but if you voted at the Dryden Village Hall or the Dryden Baptist Church, you now vote at the Dryden Fire Station. There are now four...
The Dryden Democratic Committee will be holding its caucus to select candidates for Town Justice and Town Councilman (1-year) tomorrow night, July 16th, at 7:30pm at the new Dryden Town Hall, 93 East Main Street, in Dryden. All registered Democrats...
The Dryden Town Board will be meeting tonight at 7:00pm at the Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Road (Route 366). Presentations will include the Racker Center, Alternatives IDA proposal, TCAD, Ithaca Cancer Resource Center, and OURS....
I can't make it to tonight's meeting, but here's the agenda. The 284 agreement specifies which town roads will receive which maintenance, and is usually interesting. The work on an Annual Report should be interesting to hear about as well....
Just a quick reminder - the Democratic and Republican caucuses to select candidates for Village of Dryden trustees are both at 8:00pm tonight at the Dryden Village Hall, 16 South Street, Dryden. Republicans will be upstairs, Democrats downstairs. There are...
It's hard for me to imagine that it's election season again, but village elections are in March, with caucuses to select candidates for the Village of Dryden this coming week: NOTICE OF CAUCUS There will be a caucus of the...
The Public Notices page announces that the Town of Dryden's Town Board will be having three meetings in the next week, plus one the 18th: Tonight (January 2nd) at 7:00pm is the organizational meeting, where Town Supervisor Mary Ann Sumner,...
Well, that's what people were calling the curve on Lower Creek Road when I spoke with them at the Etna Garage Sale. Tonight's Town Board agenda starts with a Public Information Meeting about that curve, and then looks at mileage...
The Dryden Town Board will be meeting tonight at the old Dryden Town Hall, 65 East Main Street, Dryden (map) at 7:00pm. One of the items on the agenda is "Discuss Moving to New Town Hall", which makes me wonder...
Kris Bennett of Tompkins County Youth Services wrote that the Dryden Youth Commission: is seeking applications for funding for youth programs for next year (2008). This is not for recreation programs but instead for programs that help build skills and...
Need something exciting to do tonight? The Varna Volunteer Fire Company will be having a tour of their building (14 Turkey Hill Road) and equipment tonight at 6:30pm, followed by a Town Board meeting at 7:00pm. The Journal writes about...
The Dryden Town Board will be meeting at the Varna Volunteer Fire Company on Wednesday night at 7:00pm, for what is probably their last visit to the west side this year before they settle in to the new Town Hall...
The public notices page for December lists a few meetings for this month, including a Youth Commission meeting tonight. The Youth Commission will meet December 5th. (No other information is listed.) The Recreation Commission meets tomorrow night at 6:00pm at...
The public notices page for November lists meetings for this month, including a budget hearing tonight at 6:00pm. (The print edition of today's Journal has a bit of information on the budget and the hearing as well, citing a $1.44/$1000...
NYSEG posted this message in yesterday's Ithaca Journal, page 5A: PUBLIC NOTICE Ithaca Transmission Project - New York State Electric and Gas Corporation Pursuant to Article VII of the Public Service Law of the State of New York and implementing...
The Town of Dryden Public Notices page lists a hearing on the Renewable Energy Facilities Law of the Town of Dryden, New York for Thursday night at 7:00pm. I'd heard earlier that it might be at Neptune Hose Company, but...
The Journal's late-breaking news notes that the Dryden Town Board will be meeting tomorrow at 11:00am at Town Hall to "award the construction contracts for construction of the new town hall and authorizing the town supervisor to sign the same,...
The public notices page for August lists meetings for this month. The Recreation Commission will meet tonight at 6:00 p.m., in the Dryden School District Office Conference Room. The Zoning Board of Appeals met last night. The Conservation Board is...
I won't be able to make it tonight's meeting at 7:00pm, but the Town Board has some interesting issues on its agenda: More on the proposed Dollar General and surrounding complex near the A-1 Restaurant and TC3 A possible land...
Apparently last week's Zoning Board of Appeals meeting went much longer than usual, with one of the issues a request for a variance to put a residential windmill at a house on Mount Pleasant. They couldn't grant it, because the...
The Dryden Town Board will be meeting tonight at 7:00pm at the Dryden Town Hall (map). Agenda items include the feasibility study for a water district in Ellis Hollow, the new Director of the Tompkins County SPCA, the Etna Fire...
The town's public notices page is still showing January, but the agenda for tomorrow night's Town Board meeting is available. Highlights include a report from the Town Historian, a telecommunications law amendment (regarding cell phone towers, I think), "Discuss land...
The public notices page for December lists meetings for this month. The Zoning Board of Appeals meets at 7:30pm on Tuesday, December 6th. They'll be discussing a variance for a carport and the TC Foundation's plan to build a 134-resident...
Amidst all the political news, political institutions still operate as usual. The Dryden Town Board will be meeting tonight at 7:00pm at the Dryden Town Hall (map). The agenda doesn't appear to be posted on the town site, but I've...
The public notices page for September lists meetings for this month. The Zoning Board of Appeals met at 7:30pm on Tuesday, September 6th. The Recreation Commission will meet on Wednesday, September 7th at 6:00pm, in the Dryden School District Office...
The public notices page for August lists meetings for this month - it's a bit scrambled, though. The Zoning Board of Appeals doesn't have a meeting listed. The Recreation Commission met on Wednesday, August 3rd, at 6:00pm, in the Dryden...
This Thursday's Town Board meeting will start with a 7:00pm public hearing about the Comprehensive Plan that's been coming through the Planning Board for the past few years. The Comprehensive Plan lays out the proposed future for the town for...
The public notices page for July lists meetings for this month. (Sorry, the first two have happened already.) The Zoning Board of Appeals met at 7:30pm on Tuesday, July 5th. The Recreation Commission met on Wednesday, July 6th at 6:00pm,...
The public notices page for June lists meetings for this month: The Recreation Commission is meeting on Wednesday, June 1st at 6:00pm, in the Dryden School District Office Conference Room. (Sorry, that was tonight.) The Zoning Board of Appeals is...
The public notices page for May lists meetings for this month: The Zoning Board of Appeals will meet Tuesday, May 3rd10th, at 7:30pm. The Recreation Commission is meeting on Wednesday, May 9th at 6:00 pm, at the Red Dragon in...
It looks like there's another petition to annex property from the Town of Dryden to the Village of Dryden, this time along Route 392 at the eastern boundary of the Village. From the Ithaca Journal's legal notices: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE...
The Dryden Town Board will have two extra meetings in the next couple of weeks. The first will be Thursday night, in joint session with the Planning Board. The Planning Board will have two subdivision public hearings at 7:00pm and...
Unlike my false alarm last week, there really is a Town Board meeting tonight at 7:00pm at the Dryden Town Hall (map). The agenda is posted. Highlights include the long-delayed Time-Warner Cable franchise agreement, Six Mile Creek monitoring, next steps...
There isn't yet an agenda posted for it, but the Town Board will be meeting tonight at 7:00pm at the Dryden Town Hall (map). Oops. That's next Thursday, the 14th, as I wrote earlier. I need to pay closer attention...
The public notices page for April lists meetings for this month: The Recreation Commission is meeting on Wednesday, April 6th at 6:00 pm, in the Dryden School District Office Conference Room. The Conservation Board is meeting Tuesday, April 12th, at...
I'm late getting to this, but the public notices page for March lists meetings still to come: The Recreation Commission is meeting on Wednesday, March 23rd at 6:00 pm, in the Dryden School District Office Conference Room. The Conservation Board...
There isn't any news or opinion about or from Dryden in the Ithaca Journal today, but their legal notices include this piece announcing the further extension of the Village of Dryden's moratorium on new multiple residence construction: ATTENTION VILLAGE OF...
On March 1st, the Zoning Board of Appeals will return to discussion of the future of the largely empty duplexes on Observatory Drive off of Mount Pleasant Road. I'm afraid I haven't made it to the ZBA or Planning Board...
It's slightly outside of the Town of Dryden, but I just received a postcard notifying me of a meeting tomorrow night about Hanshaw Road reconstruction. Here's the text of the card, in case anyone wants to attend: Ladies and Gentlemen:...
In this morning's Ithaca Journal, Cathy Wakeman's Dryden Town Talk takes a look at Welsh pony trainer Amy Schwartz and rider Junelle King, National Grand Champion of the United States Equestrian Foundation Welsh Pony Division. Schwartz is raising 30 ponies...
The Town has posted the agenda for tonight's Town Board meeting, which will start at 7:00pm at the Dryden Town Hall (map). One of the public hearings listed is a continuation of a heated hearing from the May meeting, about...
The Zoning Board of Appeals is meeting tonight at 7:30pm at the Dryden Town Hall (map). I'll post the rest of February's meeting list when it's available, but wanted to make sure to point out the ZBA, as they've had...
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...
I mentioned earlier this month that the Planning Board would be meeting at 7:00pm on Thursday, but they've moved it up to 6:30pm. I can't be there (another meeting), but I wrote Town of Dryden Environmental Planner Debbie Gross to...
The Town Board is meeting tonight at at 7:00pm at the Dryden Town Hall (map). The agenda has been posted. Highlights include: 284 AgreementA budget listing which town roads will receive maintenance and repairs this year. The Highway Superintendent proposes...
The Town of Dryden has updated the public notices page for January. The Zoning Board of Appeals had a special meeting December 21st " to discuss current matters before the board" but has no meeting scheduled for January. The Recreation...
The Town of Dryden has updated the public notices page for December. The Recreation Commission meets tonight at 6:00 pm, at the Dryden School District Office Conference Room. The Zoning Board of Appeals meets tomorrow, Tuesday, December 7th, at 7:00...
I just noticed that the Town Board will be having an extra meeting Monday, November 29th, at the Dryden Village Hall (map): "The purpose of this meeting is to approve an amendment to the labor agreement between the Town and...
The Town of Dryden's Public Notice page announces three upcoming Town Board meetings, two of which are explicitly budget meetings: There will be a budget workshop Monday, October 25th, at 5:00pm at the Neptune Hose Company (map) A budget hearing...
The Town of Dryden has updated the public notices page for October. (I'm late posting this, I know.) The Zoning Board of Appeals meets tomorrow, Wednesday, October 13th, at 7:30 pm. The Recreation Commission met last night at 6:00 pm,...
The Town of Dryden Planning Board is meeting tonight at 7:00pm, a week later than usual. There's no sign of an agenda on the town site, but I'm guessing they'll be discussing the Comprehensive Plan, especially with all of the...
The Town of Dryden has updated the public notices page for September. The Zoning Board of Appeals meets tonight, Tuesday, September 7th, at 7:30 pm. The Recreation Commission is also meeting tonight at 6:00 pm, at the Recreation Department Office...
The minutes for the August Town Board meeting (which was pleasantly briefer than most have been) are now available on the Town's web site....
Dryden Environmental Planner Debbie Gross wrote me today with news that the August meeting of the Town of Dryden Planning Board has been cancelled....
The agenda for the August 12th Town Board meeting has been posted. It looks like another full evening, though there are no public hearings. The meeting will start at 7pm, at the Dryden Town Hall (map). Also, minutes for the...
The Town of Dryden has updated the public notices page for August. The Zoning Board of Appeals meets tomorrow, Tuesday, August 3rd, at 7:30 pm. The Recreation Commission is meeting on Monday, August 9th at 6:00 pm, at the Recreation...
The agenda for Thursday night's Town Board meeting, complete with five public hearings, is now available. This will be the first time this year that the Board has two business meetings in a month. The meeting will be at 7:00pm...
The Town of Dryden has updated their public notices page for July. The Zoning Board of Appeals meets tomorrow, Tuesday, July 6th, at 7:30 pm. The Recreation Commission is meeting on Monday, July 12th at 6:00 pm, at the Recreation...
The Town of Dryden has updated their public notices page for June. The Zoning Board of Appeals met already this week, Tuesday, June 1st at 7:30 pm. The Recreation Commission is meeting on Monday, June 7th at 6:00 pm, at...
Today's Ithaca Journal legal notices include: a hearing of the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency on June 28th at 10am at the Dryden Town Hall (map) to consider assisting Ithaca Produce's move to new facilities at 150 Johnson Road (map)....
I haven't been reading legal notices as consistently as I should be, but this one from Ulysses today caught my eye: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Town Board of the Town of Ulysses will hold a Special Town Board Meeting...
The agenda for tomorrow night's Town Board meeting looks packed. It starts with four public hearings - one on telecommunications towers and facilities, two on special permits (Oak Brook Drive and Yellow Barn Road), and one on the Storm Water...
The Town of Dryden posted its meeting schedule for May, and I seem to be a little late getting to it. The Zoning Board of Appeals met earlier this week, May 4th at 7:30 pm. The Recreation Commission is meeting...
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...
Today's legal notices include this one from the Village of Freeville: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held at the Village Hall of the Village of Freeville, 5 Factory Street, Freeville, New York on May 4th, 2004,...
The Town of Dryden Public Notices page announces that tomorrow night there will be a: Special joint board meeting with the Village of Dryden Board of Trustees to discuss matters pertaining to the Cortland Road Sewer District, and any other...
The agenda for Thursday's Dryden Town Board meeting includes six public hearings and a presentation of fire department awards as well as a long list of business. The meeting will be Thursday, April 8, at 7pm at the Dryden Fire...
Today's Ithaca Journal contains lots of notices for public hearings to be held at the Town Board's April 8 meeting. The full text of the notices follows, but a quick description of the hearings is: There are two hearings on...
The Town of Dryden site lists two meetings this week. On Tuesday, March 9, the Conservation Advisory Council is meeting at 7:30pm, while the Town Board is meeting on March 11, at 7pm. The agenda for the Town Board meeting...
The legal notice for the hearing on the law turning the town's. Conservation Advisory Council into a Conservation Board has been published. The hearing will be at 7:00pm on March 11, coinciding with the regularly scheduled Town Board meeting....
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...
The Town site now has a list of February meetings (local copy). The main Town Board meeting is February 12th, 7pm at the Town Hall (map). I'll be out of town for that one, but this month I'll try the...
The Town of Dryden site has a new look, going from blue text on white to white text on black. The pictures in the top left corner - pictures which vary on different pages - are a very nice touch....
The Town of Dryden Public Notices page (local copy) announces a meeting for Tuesday, January 27, at the Dryden Fire Hall (map), noting: The purpose of this meeting is to discuss ways to improve communications between the Town of Dryden...
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...
The agenda (local copy) for tonight's Dryden Town Board is available. If you can brave the cold, it's at 7pm at the Town Hall (map)....
The Town of Dryden has posted an updated schedule of meetings for January (local copy). The first full Town Board meeting is this Thursday, the 15th, at 7:00pm....
The Town's Public Notices page is kind of confusing right now. It notes a December 30 Town Board meeting to discuss the Intermunicipal Wastewater Agreement, but lists the Planning Board as TBA, the Zoning Board as meeting on the 6th...
The Town of Dryden site now has minutes available for the November Town Board meetings. The November 5 meeting is a few public hearings followed by changes to and approval of the budget. The November 12 meeting deals largely with...
The Ithaca Journal legal notices contain an announcement that: the Town Board of the Town of Dryden and the Village Board of the Village of Dryden will hold a joint public hearing on the petition of Konstantinos Katsiroumbas for annexation...
I've added links for the Town of Dryden Public Notice page, as well as to the Ithaca Journal Legal Notices in their classifieds. Oddly, today's Journal contains Notices for two hearings (1 2) held last night. Maybe they were also...