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Name :   Watchman
Location :   www.BonnieForMayor.com
Date :   February 27
Message :   Bonnie Bennet has put up a website. Sets forth her ideas priorities concerns experience and contact info. Well thought out. Not just campaign BS. She also sent an informative cover note thats not on the site. Email to ask her for a copy. Worth reading.
Name :   observer
Location :   Aurora and the college are inextricably tied
Date :   2/26
Message :   that is so wrong on so many levels! Why should the village be forever tied to the mast of a sinking ship? what if the college burned to the ground tomorrow, or folded, which would be the more likely scenario? Will Aurora cease to exist? The town was there
Name :   Give Us A Break, George
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   *The village and the college are inextricably tied, like family members* SAYS THE HUSBAND OF THE COLLEGE PRESIDENT!!!
Name :   yeah yeah
Location :   aurora
Date :   
Message :   its all about what george wants. not what the village needs. go away george. please.
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   all this voter wants is for GF to leave town
Name :   George in Onyx
Location :   Onyx
Date :   
Message :   George Farenthold is a flat out liar. How can he expect anyone to believe he and Lisa WONT BE TALKING ABOUT VILLAGE BUSINESS. how stupid does he think Aurora voters are? He is poison, dont elect him
Name :   More George
Location :   in the Onyx
Date :   2-25-10
Message :   And - he wants a new village center, a new PO, a village tourism bureau, new retail space, a Wireless Aurora, and to *re-engage the community with the Village Boards.*
Name :   Farenthold quoted in the Onyx (Wells Student Newspaper)
Location :   picked up in the snow today 2-15-10.
Date :   *The village & college are inextricabliy tied, like family members,*
Message :   says GF. In response to claims of potential conflicts of interest, GF, husband of Wells Prez LMR, wants to assure voters that *theres no overlap. We [Geo&Lisa] wont be talking about Village business... I strive to be independent in all decision-making.*
Name :   yes,
Location :   
Date :   224 10
Message :   are Jackie and George trying to run a stealth election? that info ought to be on the village website
Name :   Looking at the Village of Aurora website
Location :   you would never know there was
Date :   feb 24
Message :   an election coming up. Nothing there. But in the January minutes Farenthold still wants to put more $ into website. So HE can know who is looking at it. Not to keep the village informed.
Name :   
Location :   Biodiesel factory
Date :   feb21 10
Message :   How did Georgie get to be VP of failing bio diesel plant? Did he the marry the CEO of that place too?
Name :   I vote for George
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Feb 20
Message :   to leave town now! Go away and take Lisa with you. As for mayor, I vote for Bonnie.
Name :   Dear AH -
Location :   If everyone shares your attitude
Date :   AC and BB will split the vote and
Message :   and GF becomes mayor. AC isnt evil incarnate. But hes resigned from all those positions. Thats fact, not rumor. Another fact- he started out this time running for Trustee, not Mayor. Opinion- his actions are irresponsible and hes unworthy of our trust.
Name :   Took a look at the link
Location :   Did GF meet LMR when she was a student at Wells?
Date :   If mom was prez just four years, it seems an odd coincidence
Message :   that GF would end up back in Aurora.So he is just a dysfunctional loser riding on his wifes coat tails?
Name :   look again voters
Location :   http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2010/02/19/latest_news/6latestnews.txt
Date :   a great example of Farenthold leadership
Message :   strut, crow, and step out in front to take credit when things are going well, then duck, hide, and deny when they arent. Now imagine this boob as mayor
Name :   the real insult to the village
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   is George runing for mayor. there is no way he could put the village interest over the colleges. I cant believe a thing he says. its too bad Alan has turned to the dark side too
Name :   A.H,
Location :   
Date :   not sure
Message :   All we need is a division of church (wells) & state (village). Alan C. is not the Devil, nor GF, not fav, nor I him. Either BB, or AC will do. Quit creating rumors. Thats all.
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   run4mayor@gmail.com
Date :   Upcoming Forums / Debates for Mayoral Candidates
Message :   Sun. 3/7 at FireHall, time TBA. Residents asked to submit questions to email address above to be reviewed, consolidated, and asked of each candi
Date by a moderator. A 2nd forum as part of the Activism Symposium on Wells campus 3/12 at 7PM, place TBA.
Name :   
Location :   2.19.10
Date :   
Message :   connors didnt last long at the fargo either interesting pattern
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   2.19.10
Message :   alan was elected a village trustee but then resigned his office. he was elected to the parish board of his church, and then resigned. apppointed to the planning board, he left that too. his run for mayor is an insult to the village. vote bonnie!
Name :   No coincidence GF hooked up with LMR
Location :   to get back into Talor House.
Date :   http://aurorany.org/Farenthold.html
Message :   Didnt know hes a Texan? Start w/link then ask about corruption, cronyism, hard drugs & fiscal lunacy brought to college/village by a drunken pres with unstable young son in tow. He must have $ never had a real job, no ability just ambition & arrogance
Name :   Manipultate?
Location :   
Date :   2 16 10
Message :   You mean like the way Gunderson has been manipulated for the past 8 years?
Name :   Webdog
Location :   online
Date :   all the time
Message :   Enough with anatomy, already. Has a candidates debate been scheduled?
Name :   Lets hear
Location :   it for George
Date :   Vote for George!
Message :   You all just want someone in the Mayors Office whom you can manipulate. Bitter, old women. Penis envy...why?
Name :   Name
Location :   Aurora, NY
Date :   02/14/10
Message :   Alan Connors has his head up his own ass. If you want a leader that cares about the village and not political gain, vote Bonnie Bennett! P.S. Happy Valentines Day
Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   Feb 13
Message :   Georgies already been acting like he is the mayor. Tommys been pretty much sidelined as mayor for months. Enough is enough. ØGeoØ - Vote Bonnie!
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   2.13.10
Message :   important-george has 2yrs left in his trustee term, didnt resign to run for mayor. if geo wins, he can appt alan to fill out his trustee term. if alan wins, geo will be a trustee acting as mayor. if bonnie wins, she will keep geo in his place. vote bonne!
Name :   sad
Location :   
Date :   feb 12 2010
Message :   if thats true looks like the Farenthold slime has rubbed off on to Connors too. dont be fooled
Name :   Geo & Alan and their wives are very close friends.
Location :   (GF & LMR hosted wedding recption for Alans daughter at Taylor House.)
Date :   Alan was circulating a peition to run himself for Trustee.
Message :   But when he heard BB was running for Mayor he started petitioning for himself as Mayor! Appears he wants to split *Anybody But George* vote from BB so his buddy GF can win. And should lazy Alan win by chance- you can bet GF will act as Mayor. Vote Bonnie!
Name :   Read the story about the Farenthold family
Location :   What a sad yet fascinating story
Date :   2/12
Message :   So GF is a Texan? It seems an odd coincidence that he would come back to Wells/Aurora.What was his mother like as pres. of Wells in the 70s? Article was from92,says F. family had $ that still true for GF?
Name :   curious citizen
Location :   aurora
Date :   feb 11 2010
Message :   Bonnie Bennett is running for mayor of Aurora. I confirmed this with her yesterday. Vote for Bonnie!
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   just vote for B Bennett and you wont have to give it a second thought. the understanding is that Connors and GF in it togethr
Name :   local
Location :   main street
Date :   2/11/10
Message :   someone said bonnie was just staying in til alan got in the race. could that be true? but isnt alan just a puppet of GFs? what IS REALLY going on?
Name :   Does George
Location :   
Date :   Feb 9
Message :   EVER tell the truth? Hes a little disappointed? Well the rest of us are VERY disappointed in him, and Lisa and Wells financial situation. Oh, I hope Bonnie wins as mayor!
Name :   But GF can still get an interview out of it.
Location :   www.auburnpub.com/articles/2010/02/09/latest_news/latestnews01.txt
Date :   2/9/09
Message :   *Were a little on the disappointed side* --get used to it GF. Bigger disappointments may be coming your way soon!
Name :   follow this link
Location :   to some good news
Date :   2/8/10
Message :   http://fingerlakesdailynews.com/articles/view/612404/
Name :   Disappointed
Location :   there and also here
Date :   feb 7 2010
Message :   that local resident Alan Connors does not have more brains or better ethics than to align himself with George Farenthold. I hope that is not true.
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Vote Bonnie Bennett and make George and Lisa a little less relevant. Please do not vote for George or his sidekick!
Name :   Texas Monthly - OMG
Location :   http://www.texasmonthly.com/preview/1992-04-01/feature5
Date :   Feb 7 - register for free to read this article -
Message :   *Blood of the Farentholds: mysterious disappearance of Sissy Farenthold’s youngest son is only the latest chapter in a tragic family history.* Bizarre, sad story- but Aurora must not provide employment therapy for this disturbed family once again! ØGeoØ
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   so then a vote for Alan is a vote for George? more sleaze at work?
Name :   A. Nony Mouse
Location :   Aurora
Date :   2-7-10
Message :   eg If Alumna knew a current student she could convince to write all students on the email listserve and explain the desirability of proper separation of Town and Gown or any other considerations
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Thanks for that info.
Date :   2/7/10
Message :   Good news again. The village&town infrastructure & tax base couldnt support startup for that museum. Water requirements alone (an aquarium!) would have buried us in debt for decades. And so - now Georgie has lost a major plank in his campaign platform!
Name :   FYI
Location :   Aurora
Date :   2/6/10
Message :   The Fingerlakes Museum board has informed the Village & College that the Bush farm & Wells sites have been rejected for
Location of the future museum.
Name :   curious citizen
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Feb 6 2010
Message :   Re: More conniving in mayoral election. Geo is trying to steal votes away from Bonnie Bennett by having his puppet friend Allen Conners also run for mayor. Geo hopes that if people wont vote for him theyll vote for Conners rather than Bennett.
Name :   Alumna
Location :   CNY
Date :   2/6/10
Message :   Any suggestions about how to do that, exactly?
Name :   A. Nony Mouse
Location :   Aurora
Date :   2-5-10
Message :   Geo is already campaigning strongly with students at Wells. Please use any means you may have to make Wells students understand how unethical (and sleazy) that is, not to mention bad for the village. Get them to vote for Bonnie instead.
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   2.6.10
Message :   thats not good news, THATS GREAT NEWS! and i checked - its true.
Name :   Good News
Location :   in the village
Date :   on Feb 3rd.
Message :   A very competent, dedicated and experienced candiate is standing for election against Farenthold! Support a Mayor who will put Aurora First. Vote for Bonnie Bennett on Tuesday, March 16th, noon-9PM (or by absentee ballot). Spread the word.
Name :   MSG
Location :   Wells
Date :   hogs day
Message :   Lisa-I am happy to share that we have filled the vacancy in the controller’s office. Beginning February 16th, John Dentes will join us as Treasurer assuming the controller duties.
Name :   Re PTR and Museum
Location :   Perhaps she wants to turn Aurora into another Williamsburg?
Date :   1/30/10
Message :   She is persisting in her vision of Aurora as faux historical village.The seed of Amer. Girl was planted in Wilmsbrg,this would bring it full circle.Get out yer breeches and bonnets!
Name :   not good
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   I read that article about Wells College and its financial situation. NOT GOOD! Dont let George and Lisa further destroy your village. Get rid of them. I hope people talk about this. Lisa is Georges puppet master. She is failing the school, dont let her fa
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   www.fingerlakesmuseum.org/docs/FLM%20STRATEGIC%20PLAN%20%20Revised%20July-August%2009.pdf
Date :   Check out the Finger Lakes Museum project
Message :   This group has no funding or govt support. Their board is Finger Lakes Magazine - no museum credentials, just tourism. Aurora fails several of their criteria for site selection. But our village is a finalist- because this group want PTR to bankroll them?
Name :   Alumna - CNY, 1/27/10
Location :   Google: Chronicle Wells Blumenstyk failed department
Date :   Find article: More than 100 Colleges Fail Ed Dept Test of Financial Strength
Message :   Can Lisa be there long enough for George to serve as Mayor? This incompetent, selfish, destructive couple needs to go while Wells & Aurora can be saved. (This article appeared in a national journal read thru-out higher education. Wells is on 1st page.)
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   1.24.10
Message :   only marie taylor would get on the democratic ticket with george. he couldnt get a 2nd trustee on his slate. and he damn near lost his nomination to -- nobody. obviously many dems want ABG, anybody but george. and the village will agree.
Name :   you must be kidding me
Location :   
Date :   Jan 2010
Message :   it will say much about the other candidates if they choose to share a ticket with George. They can always run on another party, and isolate him as a party of one. He makes my skin crawl.
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   1.24.10
Message :   re the caucus, maybe just as well he got the nod, so we arent wondering if georgie will form his own party and petition. now know what the village faces and can hope to convince other candidates to stand on their own or perhaps join janets family party.
Name :   imagine the embarrassment
Location :   coming to Aurora with GF as its mayor
Date :   1/25/10
Message :   some people are smart enough to keep their mouths shut on matters in which they are not well informed. Then there is George. People will really vote for him? Hard to imagine.
Name :   George thinks
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Jan24
Message :   he does own the website, and the village. Dont let that fantasy of his become reality. If he is Mayor, he will do whatever he pleases. I hope Janet runs against him!
Name :   Please
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Jan24
Message :   Janet Murphy please run against GF. I think you would go a great job! Please!
Name :   L Holland
Location :   YOUR website?? No George,
Date :   it is Auroras website.
Message :   If you page down to *Additional Information* George has linked to the Aurora Village website calling it *My Website*. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/george-farenthold/6/565/398
Name :   KAH
Location :   I stand corrected. The vote was 9 to 11.
Date :   23 Jan 2010
Message :   Janet Murphy turned down a nomination for Trustee, but indicated to the caucus that she may run again on the independent Family Party. Marie Taylor was nominated for the other Trustee position.
Name :   What???
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Jan 23
Message :   George? Really? The man is an idiot. Please, someone oppose him. The town will just continue to be an extension of Wells. So sad.
Name :   KAH
Location :   Answer to Qs in emails: no one else ran.
Date :   You can vote in caucus against a proposed candidate.
Message :   Just because only 1 person comes forth doesnt guarantee that person the party endorsement. Perhaps more people might have attended if they had understood that. It was close - votes from GF, LMR, her daughter & exec asst provided the slim margin of victory
Name :   KAHindenlang
Location :   Main St
Date :   22 Jan 2010
Message :   Just so you know, by a vote of 11 to 7 in caucus, Farenthold was named the mayoral candidate of the Democratic Party.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   I was wrong, a letter from the Mayor
Date :   and then my response to him, below:
Message :   http://www.scribd.com/doc/25396777/Gunderson-s-Letter AND my response http://www.scribd.com/doc/25515842/Response-to-Mayor-Gunderson
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   1.19.10
Message :   and did anyone else look at those minutes? the december set says on page 3 that pleasant rowland attended the meeting about the location of the finger lakes museum. she is not done with us yet...
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   1.19.10
Message :   you think georgie is any smarter? cuz hes gonna be da next hizzoner unless somebody sane comes forward to run.
Name :   please tell me
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   that Tom Gunderson will never run for office ever again!!!! He really needs to retire. Dumb as they come.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Aurora
Date :   January 18, 2010
Message :   Draft of Dec 16 2009 VB minutes: http://www.scribd.com/doc/25311440/DRAFT-of-VB-Minutes-12-16-09
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Aurora
Date :   January 18, 2010
Message :   Draft of the Aurora VB November 2009 minutes: http://www.scribd.com/doc/25311221/VB-Minutes-11-18-2009-DRAFT
Name :   that mousey
Location :   girl/woman
Date :   in the
Message :   Aurora office should be able to tell us all about the election and anything else we want to know. If not, get rid of her. She is quite rude, anyway.
Name :   ATA
Location :   The Hill
Date :   1/14/2010
Message :   Come to the Democratic Caucus at the Aurora firehouse on Friday Jan. 22 @ 5:00pm to nominate folks for Mayor & trustee. Perhaps you too could be the next Mayor. Questions? call Bill Maloney Caucus Chairman @ (315)406-3835
Name :   Sara Wells
Location :   has absolutely
Date :   1/9/10
Message :   no intention of running for mayor or trustee. Check your leg...someones been pulling it.
Name :   From Sara Wells arrived in Aurora
Location :   she has been eyeing
Date :   a position of power.
Message :   Watch her. She is very ambitious and power hungry. Only we can stop her. She thinks ahe is God sent and will go to any lengths to prove it. Mayor Sara Wells, Ha Ha!
Name :   it keeps getting worse
Location :   and worse
Date :   1/8/2010
Message :   Sara Wells? I hope thats a joke, cuz so is she. So is it now a question of whether Sara or lil Georgie is more corrupted by Wells college? the answer to that question is yes.
Name :   Sara Wells is ambitious but I do not
Location :   think she would be stupid enough
Date :   to think she can be Mayor
Message :   of Aurora.
Name :   We do not care if
Location :   Sara Wells can
Date :   beat GF. We do not want her or GF
Message :   as Mayor. Let Sara go back to from where ever she came.
Name :   Heard Sara Wells
Location :   will be running for Mayor.
Date :   
Message :   Can she beat GF?
Name :   KAH
Location :   Main Street
Date :   7 Jan 2010
Message :   I think the deadline is sometime mid-February. Nancy Yann, may she rest in peace, would get all the necessary info into the village newsletters well in advance. This months newsletter gave election date but said nothing about nomination/petition process.
Name :   
Location :   in the city
Date :   1-6-10
Message :   when is the deadline to submit petitions to run for mayor ?
Name :   Happy New Year!
Location :   http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2010/01/02/local_news/news01.txt
Date :   1/2/2010
Message :   Brrrrr!
Name :   Cathy Zimdahl
Location :   main street
Date :   jan 1
Message :   Welcome Back Johanna! Personally, I have missed your posts...the bizarrness, the stupidity, the way you shoot yourself in the foot...good fun!
Name :   Ten years ago a new century began. In a few hours another decade
Location :   begins. Let us like the years turn
Date :   a new page in our lives.
Message :   Reflecting on the things we have done that we should not have, and looking forward to a better relationship with everyone. HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!!!
Name :   Watcher
Location :   aurora area
Date :   last day 2009
Message :   a few stories http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2009/02/23/latest_news/latestnews01.txt and this one. How did I miss these before http://www.biodieselinvesting.com/biodiesel-archives/2009/10/21/auburn-biodiesel-may-get-federal-funding/
Name :   456
Location :   789
Date :   Dec 29 09
Message :   now Dories is closed again, at least for the next month. More of Wells/Edingers stellar management. Last year they were closed for months.
Name :   hahaha
Location :   Dec 28
Date :   Aurora
Message :   Look up the tradition of Boxing day JoJo. Idiot. By the way, peeping in windows is creepy and criminal. So is allowing your young girls to shower in an open window.
Name :   ?
Location :   Aurora
Date :   On Boxing Day
Message :   you are putting away things in boxes? You are supposed to be GIVING things away in boxes.
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   12.25.09
Message :   ahahaha! wacky jackys back! Yes, where IS castro hiding- behind your shoes? ha- you think LMRs gonna confide in you? PTR cant run away from you fast enough! when they both go, where will your obsessive delusions focus next- back on space aliens?
Name :   Happy New Year Indeed
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Dec26
Message :   I dont believe that LMR and GF got real jobs anywhere, but if true that would be Auroras gift of the century! When do they leave??????
Name :   Johanna
Location :   Aurora
Date :   December 26, 2009
Message :   Still kicking ass. Still watching all you crazies...calling me crazy. Its Boxing Day and I am putting away things in boxes. Peep into my window and see.
Name :   This site thrives on gossips.
Location :   Aurora and Wells
Date :   Today there is no such news of Lisa
Message :   and George. Do no hold you breath...you could fall into the dilemma of so many USA Presidents who have tried to kill Castro since 1959. Where are they? Where is Castro?
Name :   Alumna
Location :   CNY
Date :   12/26/09
Message :   Hard to believe anyone would give them jobs. If true, will PTR finally go too? Will she demolish the buildings she cant sell? And, which VP? There are three -- McGreevey, Miller-Bernal... and Rollo.
Name :   No room at the Aurora Inn
Location :   for the baby Jesus!
Date :   12/25/09
Message :   Remember their policy of no children under 12 yrs. old or whatever it is.
Name :   News has come to me from a very authentic source that
Location :   Aurora and Wells
Date :   will lose GF and Lisa.
Message :   Lisa and GF got high profile jobs in DC. They just bought a beautiful home in the Clintons neighborhood. Present VP will succeed her at Wells. Happy New Year!
Name :   The first Christmas I spent in Aurora reminded me of the Birth of Christmas.
Location :   I asked myself if Mary and Joseph
Date :   had come to Aurora would they have found a room
Message :   in the Inn? The question still bugs me tonight. No room in the Inn.
Name :   Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.
Location :   Yet in thy dark streets shineth,
Date :   the everlasting light -
Message :   the hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.
Name :   What do you mean by no Johanna? Where is she?
Location :   Is she the source of your problems in Aurora?
Date :   Keep me posted.
Message :   Have a Merry Christmas one and all in Aurora and I hope in 2010 your dreams will be realized.
Name :   opinion
Location :   
Date :   12.23/09
Message :   i think that if just Lisa Ryerson leaves Wells, that will be enough.
Name :   Jon-e
Location :   Wells
Date :   12/23/009
Message :   How many more will leave Wells before the day is over?
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Aurora Village Board Meeting
Date :   December 22, 2009
Message :   http://www.scribd.com/doc/24426553/Gunderson-s-Retroactive-Approval
Name :   No Johanna, No peep show, no complaints, no
Location :   problem. All is well in Aurora.
Date :   Let me use this opportunity to
Message :   wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and hope that in 2010 all wishes will be granted.
Name :   Students! Come to Wells and learn from
Location :   Edinger how to ruin any number of businesses:
Date :   Inn, Market, Pizza Joint, Bar & Grill, Luncheonette!
Message :   How can Wells be proposing courses in *hospitality* (or whatever they call it) based on the Aurora Inn management when A) the Inn is closed half the year, and B) the Inn is a miserable sucking money-pit failure?
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Aurora
Date :   12/14/09
Message :   Chase & Murphy terms expire 2010, Lili & Georgie 2012. Does that mean if GF wins as mayor he can appoint new board member to fill out his term? Or would it mean a special election? In any case: disaster for Aurora. Any word on Gunderson? Or KenZabriskie??
Name :   That Johanna character is
Location :   a silly distraction
Date :   12/09
Message :   - you can find out all you want to know about Johanna by reading last Dec archives. Important now is the upcoming election. Is Gunderson running again? What about the trustee positions?
Name :   Hoping
Location :   
Date :   dec 13
Message :   Ha, I was thinking the same thing about Johanna. If she does not drink, she must be ON SOMETHING potent. Its not the most wonderful time of the year for her.
Name :   Johanna is a woman
Location :   I am sure of it. She resides in Aurora.
Date :   What can I say? Perhaps her sprit gets spiked at this time of year (if you say so).
Message :   She is a December woman. Born then. Married then. Have children then. Significant? December? Think so?
Name :   Reminiscing
Location :   Back to Christmas Eve 2008
Date :   Holiday Season 2009
Message :   Johanna - who ever that is - gets pretty cranked up at this time of year. Thats some holiday spirit he/she has! More to come? Hope so!
Name :   Watchman - as the night falls
Location :   Dec 12
Date :   FZs candidate is known to be a
Message :   mentally unstable duplicitous charlatan who despicably peddles scam insurance to the working poor while trying to bluff his way into NYS politics w/ Aurora, Wells, & Mom as stepstone. As mayor he would hand our village to Rowland/Hoffmanites on a platter.
Name :   Johanna
Location :   Aurora
Date :   
Message :   Neither wine nor strong drinks do I consume. I as sober as they come. You need to leave people who are working to improve Aurora and not keeping it WEIRD a break. What do you want to live in Amityville?
Name :   Oh Johanna...
Location :   Here
Date :   Dec 11
Message :   Oh Johanna, dont you cry for me. Put the bottle down, my dear. Frank speaks ONLY for Frank. There are many others who can handle the not so hard job as mayor. Jojo, AA is OK.
Name :   Johanna
Location :   Yes Frank. I support George F also. Everyone else jsut seem to bitch and do nothing for Aurora.
Date :   There are some mean bitter female canine in Aurora.
Message :   They sit in their houses, and house sitting jobs on the phones and tear good people down. Waht have they done for Aurora lately. Find fault with others and bitch.
Name :   I will never
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Dec 9 2009
Message :   vote for Georgie for anything. Well thats not true, I vote that he and his wife leave town. NOW!!! Wells is in bad shape, their businesses are in bad shape, leave before you do more damage. I hope Ken Z or Janet M will run.
Name :   Cathy Zimdahl
Location :   Petticoat Junction
Date :   12/9/09
Message :   I am starting a new political party - The Aurora Anarchists. We dont support anyone for mayor, especially not Frank.
Name :   doubtful
Location :   
Date :   9 december 09
Message :   yes, sounds like a joke,I think frank is too ethical to vote for george F
Name :   local
Location :   main street
Date :   12/8
Message :   frank, i hope this is a joke.when did you have a change of heart re: GF? reconsider, youd be a GREAT mayor...
Name :   ???
Location :   
Date :   dec 7 09
Message :   how can you be for someone before you know who else is running???
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   12.7.09
Message :   the field is now yours, ken z - go for it. (and if frank z really truly now wants ryersons hubby as mayor of aurora, his vote wont bring georgie any others.)
Name :   Frank Zimdahl Mayor
Location :   Aurora
Date :   12/6/09
Message :   Its official, You can stop asking me. Im supporting George Farenthold for Mayor. Think about it, hes the only one doing real work for this village and he still loves this place.
Name :   
Location :   aurora
Date :   dec 3 009
Message :   someone burst the boston writers fantasy vision version of aurora read the second comment
Name :   Alumna
Location :   CNY
Date :   www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/travel/view.bg?articleid=1215160&srvc=next_article
Message :   
Name :   Wow, Lisa admits it......
Location :   in the Nov. Wells Onyx......
Date :   12/1/09
Message :   QUOTE:*if...we do not start looking at things differently, we could head for a closure.* Article goes on to say Wells lost 24% or mil from endowment when stock market fell. Better idea: Lisas reign should come to a close instead.
Name :   dont belive it
Location :   WHO would vote for someone
Date :   
Message :   as slimy and phony and with such blatant self-interest as GF. Who are these people who cant see thru his insincerity? Can there be that many dumb people in aurora?
Name :   If Georgie
Location :   
Date :   Dec. 1
Message :   runs for mayor and wins...Well, kiss your village good bye. It will become Ryerson Hamlet. If KZ says no to running would Janet Murphy or someone with integrity please step up. No one really wants Georgie and his worst half to run the village.
Name :   Watchman
Location :   
Date :   December 1
Message :   Georgie has been running for Mayor every since he returned to Aurora.
Name :   need to know........
Location :   
Date :   nov 30
Message :   has anyone at all announced they want to run for mayor in March?
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   11.30.09
Message :   ok i will dontate a shower curtain to poor pz family. can dump it on the porch and see when they find it. but if by *all ages* you mean kids -well- that cannot pass. call child welfare right now if it doesnt stop immediately. i mean it - this is serious.
Name :   hey Joanna
Location :   public viewing
Date :   Nov 30
Message :   JoJo, I do NOT want to walk on a public sidewalk and see people showering. These people are all ages and it is indecent! I am being gentle and kind. Dont call me a peeping Tom when others put their entire family up for viewing. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THEM!
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   11.20.09
Message :   word is that hizzoner da mayor is counting the days --fingers&toes-- to get out of the job, and praying he wont get sued for gross malfeasance in office before his term is up. we need you ken z -- will you run?
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Aurora, New York
Date :   November 29, 2009
Message :   http://www.scribd.com/doc/23345447/CEO-Piechuta
Name :   Johanna
Location :   What are you? Peeping Tom/Jane?
Date :   If you got it
Message :   flaunt it. Are you the village police? The body is art. Enjoy it. Or is it envy?
Name :   election year 2010
Location :   in aurora
Date :   11/29/09
Message :   Does anyone know if Tom Gunderson plans to run for another term for mayor next year
Name :   Damn
Location :   yellow house
Date :   11/28/09
Message :   Maybe that is why they left NYC! New people could see the naked and trashy
Name :   Jeez L.
Location :   still here
Date :   11/28/09
Message :   And whats with the display of all that junk on the front porch? Why spend millions on a mansion only to dress it up like a rural slum yard?
Name :   Eyefull
Location :   rt. 90
Date :   thanksgvg
Message :   yes, please, Zwigards...put up curtains. we do not want to see you in your (what should be)private moments anymore!
Name :   Interesting...
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Nov 22
Message :   So, the Zywgards can afford docks and floats but can NOT afford to put up curtains. I have seen more of that family than any person should see,or wants to see. Take this hint.
Name :   L Holland November 21,2009
Location :   This is the application for a permit that we are required to truthfully complete, attest to, and pay for, in order to have our float.
Date :   The Zwigards must fill this out also.
Message :   Since they own NO lakefront, they either lied on the application or didnÍt bother to submit one. Note highlighted questions of page 2. They just do what they want regardless of the rules or the law. http://www.scribd.com/doc/22857018/Float-Permit
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   11/21 2009
Message :   maybe a meeting to purge the school of Lisa R
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   11.21.09
Message :   trustees of wells college met here again last weekend. what is going on?
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   Nov 16
Message :   I hope Ken Z runs for mayor! No sane person would chose Georgie over KZ. It will be nice to say good bye to Tom G. Dont let the door hit you on the way out. Or do.
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   11.16.09
Message :   and get rid of georgie before he gets himself crowned as mayor for life. (the election comes this march. who will run against him?)
Name :   WHY???
Location :   
Date :   Nov 14
Message :   is LMR still president??? Really why? Get rid of her and Sue E. and Ann Rollo and start fresh.
Name :   How incompetent are these people?
Location :   From the design of the Inn (10 rooms,no bar), to its targeted market,
Date :   nov 11 09
Message :   to its method of management, the Inn was doomed to failure. Didnt any of them do any market research? They had no debt to service, and they still lose gobs of money on operations. How short sighted or stupid can they be? 86 people? Cmon .
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   Veterans Day
Message :   THERE ARE NO PROFITS. Not with top-heavy mismanaged inn, just 10 rooms, overpriced restaurant, so-so food, awful service, no bar. Theres been no benefit to college or community. And much of great value has been distroyed forever. Rot in hell, PTR.
Name :   wait a minute,
Location :   According to Pleasant
Date :   11/11/09
Message :   all the profits from the Aurora Inn would go to Wells College.

Name :   todays citizen
Location :   http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2009/11/11/latest_news/latestnews02.txt
Date :   11.11.09
Message :   wells has been supporting 86 employees at rowlands failed aurora inn - no wonder the college is going bankrupt
Name :   nothing new there
Message :   theres a whole chain of venomous creeps in management of Inn/Wells
Name :   Anna 11/7
Location :   
Date :   Sue E. Aurora Inc.
Message :   Amazingly awful management. I cant wait to see the revolving doors at the dining hall. Screw you Sue for firing Julie, you venomous creep. The new employee pools coming. Tudy would be proud
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Letter TO VB Regarding Enforcement
Date :   November 4, 2009
Message :   www.scribd.com/doc/22119266/Fair-Enforcement-of-Aurora-Village-Law (Two posts consolidated into one after the fact in order to save space. -Admin)
Name :   Observer
Location :   downtown
Date :   after another season
Message :   of hemorrhaging red ink, the Aurora Inn is now closed for another 6 long months. What a wonderful addition to Aurora that proved to be. How in Gods name does the Inn benefit the village?
Name :   L Holland
Location :   The underground stream
Date :   November 1, 2009
Message :   Amazing - this has been read 522 times! http://www.scribd.com/doc/14057159/No-Plan-for-the-Stream2
Name :   Major Threat to Upstate NY
Location :   www.shaleshock.org/drilling-101
Date :   Halloween
Message :   Consider asking DEC to extend public comment period - http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/gasdrilling_1009?rk=SpSnszSqFPQNW and then offer comments to the DEC - http://www.dec.ny.gov/cfmx/extapps/SGEISComments
Name :   MSG
Location :   The village
Date :   10/29/09
Message :   For I still see. Call Mick Piechuta he is the CZEO. =s code and zoning enforcement officer.
Name :   I still see  
Date :   Oct 23
Message :   3 pieces of the Zygard dock decorating the beach and the public access. How do they call themselves green????
Name :   yummy
Message :   So, the Inn, Fargo and Dories will be serving college dorm food? That will bring in the foodies from everywhere. They just keep getting dumber and dumber.
Name :   Curious Citizen
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Oct 18 2009
Message :   Wells Trustees claim students no longer want liberal arts education and demand Wells come up with a new plan for the college by February.
Date :   10/18/09
Message :   the inn will never be able to run the kitchen like sodexo did hope to see them all back someday good luck to you all.
Date :   10.19.09
Message :   no joke. wells takes over all college food services. edinger keeps fat full time salary for killing the inn and will now destroy the dining hall at college expense. what are the priorities of this so-called educational institution?
Name :   Alumna
Location :   CNY
Date :   10/18/09
Message :   Youre kidding, right? About the Inn taking over the college dining service?
Date :   10/18/09
Message :   just a message to all sodexo employees it is very sad that this had to happen to all of you. Just wish that you sodexo could stay, and with all the changes that have been made to the dinning hall it looks nice and the food is good also the Inn will never
Date :   10.17.09
Message :   aurora inn corp will take over college food service, sodexo is out come january. board fees to keep village restaurants in business, students can eat at dories & fargo on meal plan.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   2 months after 1st letter
Date :   still no reponse from mayor - Oct. 16
Message :   The r-o-w is still the mess that the Zwigards have made of it. And their geothermal is our Loch Ness Monster. *Done & restored in a day* ñ ha ha! Why wonít the mayor take action? http://www.scribd.com/doc/20006265/September-18-VB-Repeat-Letter
Name :   unethical?
Date :   Oct.14
Message :   Yes. Thats who they are. I hope the Inn and the Fargo are sold to normal people who want village business,but as long as LMR is in charge that will NEVER happen.
Name :   check out the aurora Inn website
Location :   It specifically states that
Date :   10/14
Message :   Actually, I think its on the Morgan house site - it says it cant accomodate kids but Aurora Inn does.I wonder if they knew they were related to LH? Isnt that discrimination and if not illegal, unethical?
Name :   Jeez, Louise!
Location :   www.aurora-inn.com/home.html
Date :   10/11/09
Message :   No notice of age restrictions on the inn website. So, a spunky 9-yr old American Girl traveling with her mom who who carefully reserved a room for the night -- would be turned away from the door? Outrageous! Or - was this rule just adopted for LHs family?
Name :   when LMR
Location :   Oct 11
Message :   travels with her daughter do you think they stumble upon too many hotels who say no 10 year olds? That is absurd! Its an empty Inn not a retreat. STUPID!
Name :   Wow, good research! But why did they get a grant? they are a private college.
Location :   Besides, that is just a drop in the bucket.
Date :   10/10
Name :   MSG
Location :   Aurora Inn & Wells
Date :   10/10/09
Message :   Maybe this is why L Holland. They got over 1/4 mill. So sad no service folks got any. http://www.recovery.gov/transparency/pages/ProjectSummary.aspx?AwardId=147242&AwardType=GRANT
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Not the Aurora Inn - their loss
Date :   October 9, 2009
Message :   The Inn could have had 2 rooms sold for 3 nights to my relatives. But the Inn said *NO* to my cousins delightful 10 year old daughter. *No Children Under 12* they said....and so they lost 6 nights of business. How can Edinger & Wells afford this policy?
Name :   seer
Date :   10/9 2009
Message :   the future of the Inn is that it will bankrupt Wells College if they continue to operate it. thanks for nothing Pleasant
Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   October 9
Message :   Yes, and bonfires are an important component of the Hoffman Institutes bizarre ceremonies. Be careful where you get mesmerized! Any word on the future of the Inn? Or French House, Fargo, Dories?
Name :   I remember fall in the Finger Lakes
Location :   The bracing breeze, the changing leaves
Date :   10/8/09
Message :   and the mesmerizing spectacle of bonfires...
Name :   KAH
Location :   just back from the lakeshore
Date :   9 Oct 09
Message :   Most of the dock is still there (and more of the geo-thermal mess is uncovered). Local Law Section 1202B sets penalty for failure to comply after due notice at 250 dollars a day and/or 15 days imprisonment.
Name :   Mother nature
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Oct 7
Message :   Knew what to do with that awful dock. It in in pieces all over the lake front. They are so environmentally aware. Lets see if they clean it up.
Date :   10.7.09
Message :   this morning it looked like the illegal dock was still in place. deadline has passed - whats up? maybe high wind waves this afternoon will break it up!
Name :   who?
Message :   do we sue if someone gets hurt on the makeshift dock? The entrance to the dock is on village property. Those stone steps are deadly. If I fall I will sue the village!
Name :   I want   
Message :   my own dock in front of Gundersons. I love the lakefront in front of Steve Zs house too. Do you think these people will mind? Second thought who cares, its what I want.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Yes, that Army Corp of Eng permit is called a General Permit
Date :   & it is weird, even the ACE says so.
Message :   The ACE also told me that *we assume that people applying for a permit have the right to do so on the property in question*. I dont think Id get too far with my General Permit if I decided to install a dock off of TomGs property.
Name :   Avery
Location :   Woodchuck Hill
Date :   10-04-09
Message :   NY State has issued a blanket permit for anyone to build a dock. Its very vague & weird, but Ive seen it.I dont have any answers to the many questions this raises, but you can read it at the clerks office, if you want.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Plague On Community
Date :   October 3, 2009
Message :   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucW1In60b7g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN-oxpboD8k
Name :   L Holland
Location :   For those who are curious about Zwigards illegal dock
Date :   October 3, 2009
Message :   Because the Zs had no permits, Teary Todd assured CEO Piechuta that the dock will be gone no later than Sunday Oct 4 2009. This date is already an extension of the initial deadline.
Name :   I hope
Message :   they do sell the Fargo, so it can become the fun place it once was. The problem with that is: LMR would not have the control she loves to have over every public eatery in towm.
Name :   No, RM  
Message :   theyre going to tell her to sell the businesses - inn and Dorrys and fargo. Good luck.
Name :   rumor monger
Location :   Trustees in town
Date :   oct 2
Message :   Wells trustees in town are they going to tell LMR to sell the Inn?
Name :   Bush Farm
Location :   why did she buy it in the first place?
Date :   she overpaid for it, then tried to sell it for almost double.
Message :   Im sure shes looking for creative ways to get out from under the property taxes on all those unsold properties.
Name :   Hey Todd Z  
Message :   Toddy,what makes you think you know what is best for aurora? STFU you PWed little twerp, why does the Citizen quote the same people in Aurora over and over? there are others beside GF and the Zwigares to interview
Name :   Watchman
Location :   http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2009/09/30/local_news/news01.txt
Date :   Front Page 9/30/09 Citizen
Message :   PTR donates Bush Farm for a huge tax write-off we get...?
Name :   Sleepy little village?  
Message :   Oh Todd, it was sleepy, but then you came to town. Now no one gets to sleep because your 3 dogs keep us up all night. Your laws suits and illegal projects keep the village awake. So please just SHHH...
Location :   Bizzaro world
Date :   9-30-09
Message :   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/29/american-girls-homeless-d_n_302981.html
Name :   Wondering  
Message :   Does anyone know when the Inn closes this year? Dories to?
Name :   which is worse    
Message :   I would rather have those trucks in town than george farentholld
Name :   Speak Up!
Location :   www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/deadline_is_approaching_to_com.html
Date :   9-27-09
Message :   2 weeks left to comment on draft regs to ban big long-haul trucks from local roadways... truckregcomment@dot.state.ny.us or write Commissioner, NYS DOT (Truck Regs), 50 Wolf Road, Albany NY 12232. Draft regulations at www.nysdot.gov/programs/truckpolicy
Message :   maybe the next owner will have it removed
Name :   Cathy Zimdahl
Location :   my house
Date :   9/23/09
Message :   Just want to say that deck is ugly. It is, in fact, FUGLY! Architect? Really? Poor Lyon House. That deck is like hot pants on an old lady.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Fusco cant read.
Date :   September 21, 2009
Message :   http://www.scribd.com/doc/20005491/Fusco-Wont-Read
Name :   Haha
Location :   Who talks
Date :   Like this???
Message :   Its such a traditional way of coming together, said Wells president Lisa Marsh Ryerson. The bounty - how great to be here in this richness with neighbors.
Name :   Tracey Leonard
Location :   Auburn,NY
Date :   sept.20.2009
Message :   I Love Aurora, and just found out about the Indian Fest that was yesterday. I wish I knew about it sooner so I could have been there. I never see it advertised.
Name :   L Holland  
Date :   September 18, 2009
Message :   I dont think that the Village Board can vote out the front yard parking law when the Zoning Board has just voted to uphold it, 3-1. Is that even the VB purview to change the law?
Name :   yeah, cause they know theres
Location :   nothing anyone can do about it.
Date :   9/18
Message :   You are all powerless in the face of evil.
Name :   WHY?
Message :   Why do they continue as though nothing has happened? Why dont people in the village stand up to Georgie and the mayor. Better yet, get rid of Lisa and those two twits will just follow.
Message :   its funny that even when KZ resigns a year ago and accused the rest of them of corruption in the paper they still go on as they have, it didnt bother them
Name :   You ask why now?
Message :   It is obvious why now. Its what cj wants now. she wants the stream moved to. NOW. she wnats the hollands lake front to, now. Anything else, Princess?
Name :   from Aurora VB minutes July 09
Location :   After years on the books only NOW VB may strike the front yard
Date :   parking law from the books
Message :   Why now? Cuz CJ wants them to? Change village laws to help one special person? VB coddles and protects the favored ones. They do what Lisa wants them to. The laws are enforced against the rest of us. Is this the corruption Ken Z resigned over?
Name :   I just hope
Message :   who ever wrote that drunken, rage letter keeps their car PARKED, on the lawn or wherever. We dont need you on the road or the internet.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Ok, now I get it.
Date :   Sept 12-2009
Message :   I wouldnt put my name on that kind of incomprehensible, nonsensical drivel, either.
Name :   Why do you want my name? You know who I am.
Location :   Aurora
Date :   You call me crazy. You have the bully pulpit. You do to hell as you want.
Message :   Leave people alone and empty the skeletons in your closet. Good time Halloween is upon us.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   To you who asks who & what
Date :   September 11, 2009
Message :   I put my name ON what I post here. You put my name IN what you post here. Why not your name? Coward.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   What should stop all of us is this:
Date :   September 11, 2009
Message :   *Section 407.B Off Street Parking No Parking is permitted in the front yard.* Who stopped ME, was Nancy Gil, who informed me that IS the law. Period.
Name :   Irene
Location :   Wells College
Date :   9/10/09
Message :   I lost my job because of a vote of no confidence by the faculty members, staff, and students.
Name :   Enlighten my darkness of
Location :   Aurora
Date :   law of Hon. Laura Holland
Message :   But let me ask. Is it safer to park in the front of your yard than on the side of the road? I park in my yard because I do not want someone to run in my park and hit it. Who or what stops you from doing the same?
Name :   concerned
Message :   If someone falls down at the right of way, on the stone steps or the dock, the village will be sued. Why take the risk?
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Fully aware of village law,
Date :   September 9, 2009
Message :   & denied a variance, they still park in defiance of the law: http://www.scribd.com/doc/19551664/Complaint-Parking
Name :   LMR loves the Zs???
Location :   and why not? Theyre all PTRs people after all!
Date :   9/6
Message :   The Zs live in a Wells property. They literally had to be approved before Wells would sell them the house.How else can you keep out the riff-raff?
Message :   Lisa Ryerson pretty much hates everyone in the village and yet she loves the Zigards??????Please make them take their love fest elsewhere.
Name :   wondering
Location :   why did they fire Irene H
Message :   what would LMR have to do to get fired? Wells Board of Tr does not seem interested in actually caring about how the school is run
Name :   me
Location :   aurora
Date :   9/4/09
Message :   Lisa has been gone for a very long time. She is so out of touch with the employees at Wells. She still thinks we all love her. Remember Irene H. Watch out Lisa!
Name :   I have been away from
Location :   Aurora for
Message :   a while. Who is left at Wells? Kelly is gone? Diane Hutchinson is gone. What of Ann Rollo? When will Lisa Ryerson go? That is the move thats really needed. Bring me up-to-date. Thanks
Date :   sept 1 2009
Message :   how long ago did Kelly Tehan leave her job at Wells? I see in the Cit that she works in Auburn. Ithought she was one of the gang at Wells
Name :   I thought
Message :   Teary was an architect?? I would like to think he would be embarrassed by that dock, but then look at their front porch, and side porch and back porch. White trash with money.
Name :   you need to do something dramatic to
Location :   attract attention to your dysfunctional village
Date :   8/29
Message :   you are an oligarchy-rule by a chosen few.Why not call to disband the VB and get rid of all codes, by-laws,etc.?Demand to be ruled directly by Wells/LMR.
Name :   Teary Todd
Location :   Had better be
Date :   Very careful
Message :   About such violent threats. His threats are now on tape and I hope LH goes to the police with it. He, his witch, and his kids have harrassed the Hollands and now the threats are too much.
Name :   incredible
Location :   is the no property law
Date :   in effect in Aurora?
Message :   The Zywgards have pushed and taken from the day they arrived. Where is the government? If they had reacted to LHs letter, this dock wouldnt have happened.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Two weeks ago I sent the following letter
Date :   Aug 28 2009
Message :   to the village board : NO RESPONSE. Now, Zwigards have stuck in a dock. http://www.scribd.com/doc/18700787/Zwigard-rightofway
Name :   I Hope
Message :   everyone calls the DEC and the mayor etc... to complain about the Zyigards. They have said FU to your village and you really need to stand up to them. That is one ugly dock.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   When we took these pictures, from our own backyard
Date :   Aug 27 2009
Message :   we were threatened by Teary Todd Zwigard: Where I come from we take & break the cameras! http://s17.photobucket.com/albums/b85/cayugalake/illegal%20zwigard%20dock/
Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   August 27
Message :   Call the Auburn Field Office of the Army Corps of Engineers 255-8090 and contact the Syracuse region of the DEC at reg7info@gw.dec.state.ny.us or 426-7400.
Name :   call the police
Message :   and the village lawyer and the mayor etc... There must be a stop work order on those people. Sue them to death!
Name :   Laura Holland
Location :   The Zwigards have taken the next step
Date :   August 27 2009
Message :   in their takeover of village property. Without a village permit, or DEC permit, or ACE permit, they are installing a dock. Just doing it. Right Now.
Name :   Proposed new regs to limit truck traffic:
Location :   http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2009/aug26/pdfs/rules.pdf
Date :   Aug 27
Message :   Public comment period open until 10/9. Support restriction of big-rig trucks barelling through Aurora by writing to Yomika Bennett, Director of State & Local Relations, NYS DOT, 50 Wolf Road, Albany NY 12232 or email her at TruckRegComment@dot.state.ny.us
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Aurora
Date :   8/27/09
Message :   If there was any question in your mind about who wrote the notes to LH, take a look at the home-made sign leaning on tree in Zwigards front yard. It is clearly the same handwriting and graphic style seen in the notes. (Did PZ think no one would notice?)
Name :   To faraway
Date :   august 26
Message :   You may be faraway, but you certainly have a great understanding about PR and her controlling ways. No doubt in my mind that the Zywgards were sent here to torture the rest of us. Talk about coming in and taking over! They do what ever they want, the rest
Date :   aug 25
Message :   Id pay big bucks to hear LMR talk about her plans to resign from Wells. Lisa lives in fear in a tiny village, cant be a very Pleasant life.
Name :   LH dont know more than you do.
Location :   Far Away
Date :   Just common sense.PTRs properties all have her toadies in them.
Message :   PZ was/is a hot-shot realtor from NYC.PTRs kind of people.The Zs picked up Lyon house for chump change,approved by PTR,after others were rejected.Just anyone cant buy a PTR/Wells property!
Name :   Wells Alum
Date :   08/25/2009
Message :   I wont pay a nickel, never mind to hear LMR talk about anything. She is a fraud! She hides behind her mansion and dictates, thru the voice of GEORGIE. Come out in public and mingle with the people who have honest questions about you.
Name :   Its unhealthy to be
Location :   www.auburnpub.com/articles/2009/08/25/lake_life/lakelife03.txt
Date :   a pathologically deluded liar.
Message :   *Nationally recognized for her progressive views on higher education and community partnerships, she has elevated the colleges national standing as a leader in providing an excellent liberal arts education.*
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Hello, Far From The Village...?
Date :   August 23, 2009
Message :   Could you elaborate on what you said about baggage and being PTRs special pick for the village? If not here, could you possibly contact me? Thanks!
Name :   How have the Z family
Location :   Far from Aurora
Date :   8/22
Message :   fit into the social fabric of the village? Are they accepted? Tolerated? They kind of came in w/baggage-and maybe with an attitude? After all, they are PTRs handpicked,appropriate village residents.
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Aurora
Date :   8/22/09
Message :   Those notes turned my stomach. (Scroll down to see all 5 sheets.) Crazies giving evidence of their very unhealthy parenting. Adults who use, manipulate and exploit youngsters for grown-up *games* are guilty of child abuse. Keep your kids away from them!
Name :   Oh,cmon LH! This is just the type of
Location :   high spirited, fun, old-fashioned
Date :   8/22
Message :   highjinks that the feisty,clever heroines in the American Girl books get up to.In those stories,tormenting the cranky old neighbor ends up with a heart-warming friendship,culminating w/a fancy dress tea party which your supposed to give.
Name :   Great
Location :   L.H house
Date :   8/21/09
Message :   Another generation learns how to hate
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Parents!
Date :   Summer 2009
Message :   Good ways to put bored kids to use! http://www.scribd.com/doc/18973653/Parents
Message :   was Pleasant riding a white horse?
   Location :   Aurora
Date :   9/20/09
Message :   Maybe she was here to keep Frank Zimdahl off the Planning Board! (He was up for appointment at last nights VB meeting. Going to take the place of Sara Wells who up and resigned. Did he get on, anyone know?)
Name :   local
Location :   freaking Aurora
Date :   8/19/09
Message :   I hear there has been a PTR sighting in the village.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Aurora Village Right of Way
Date :   August 17, 2009
Message :   http://www.scribd.com/doc/18700787/Zwigard-rightofway
Name :   the more things change
Location :   the more they remain the same
Date :   august 2009
Message :   10 years ago leffingwell house was rotting and empty. 10 years and 2 million dolllars later its rotting andd empty again.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   August 13 2009 - FINALLY
Date :   after 2 years of blatantly & knowingly violating village law
Message :   Koepp/Place are being required to get a variance for their illegal front yard parking. Can they get a variance if Wells College never applied for or was given a permit for the driveway that leads to the K/P parking? It is an unapproved driveway.
Name :   My guess is that PTR bought Bush Farm LLC, the business
Location :   or legally took it over somehow
Date :   8/11
Message :   then bought the actual property from the family so they could get the money, then deeded it to herself later for a dollar.That,or she gave the biz the $ to cash out D. Bush and hide her name in the sale.Either way,its sneaky!
Message :   how do you sell a million dollar property for a dollar and have no public record of what really happened?
Name :   something fishy went on with dde exchange on that property
Location :   you can look it up in the county records
Date :   9/8
Message :   the property was sold several years ago by Dorothy Bush to Bush Farms LLC for a mil. Then last year or whenever PTR took possession of it for one dollar.She obviously was feeling the heat and wanted to hide the identity of the purchaser.
Name :   I think she wanted to corner the market on stately homes
Location :   hoping that the high purchase prices
Date :   8/10
Message :   would raise property values and further gentrify Aurora,bringing in well-heeled buyers from downstate or wherever.Now shes stuck with a lot of real estate she cant sell.
Name :   L Holland
Date :   August 10, 2009
Message :   What I wonder : why did Rowland lie (very publicly) about owning the property? Just out of habit?
Name :   housefly
Location :   aurora
Date :   August 10
Message :   Well, before all you disgusting houseflies attacked the poor woman, she was going to open a retreat for her cult on that farm. Lisa is still crying in her beer over the loss. Oops, crying in her cosmo.
Date :   8/11/09
Message :   makes you think about why she ever bought that farm in the first place. wonder what she had in mind
Name :   So she does own Bush Farm
Location :   I remember there was question about that
Date :   8/9
Message :   would the site be donated or purchased?Its very nice but way overpriced.In typical PTR fashion she bought for more than the assessed value and now is trying to sell it for over a half mil more. yknow, just because
Name :   Watchman
Location :   www.auroranewyork.us/June172009.html
Date :   today
Message :   From June VB Minutes: Two proposals (for Fingerlakes Cultural & Natural History Museum) have already been submitted from Aurora. One is an 80-acre parcel from Wells College...the other is the 230-acre Bush farm on Sherwood Road, owned by Pleasant Rowland.
Name :   Rules banning truck traffic on CNY roadways closer to being final
Location :   www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/rules_banning_truck_traffic_on.html
Date :   06 August 09
Message :   *Draft regulations will be published within 2 weeks... the public will have 45 days to comment on them... During that 45-day comment period, we have to make sure people... e-mail and write in support of the regulations, Klink said.*
Name :   fifty perecent increas in tuition
Location :   and they wonder why enrollement is down?
Date :   Agust1
Message :   No brainer http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2009/08/02/latest_news/latestnews01.txt
Name :   Jeez, L.
Location :   www.auburnpub.com/articles/2009/07/31/opinion/artists_view.txt
Date :   todays paper
Message :   Um, its business as usual for a college to meet its annual fund goal. This wasnt a capital campaign! Why all the absurd hype? (And, is this cartoon meant to be a caricature of the young LMR?)
Name :   L Holland July 30, 2009
Location :   ï¿½Indicates� gives them wiggle room, hmm?
Date :   Gil & Gunderson are NOT being factual, in this Fusco letter.
Message :   Gil was not even on the Planning Board when the site plan was approved for Koepp/Place�s fiasco, 11/8/06. Despite TGs claim, there is no indication of parking debate in any of the VB minutes. http://www.scribd.com/doc/17854028/Fusco-to-Carl-Staley
Name :   Yes, and while
Location :   www.aurora-inn.com/employment.htm
Date :   (today)
Message :   Wells College employee salaries / benefits are cut and empty campus positions seem to go unfilled -- the college is still hiring at the end of July for off-campus positions at the Inn, Fargo, and Dories!
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   www.theithacajournal.com/article/20090728/NEWS01/90728023/1126/news/Wells+College+meets+fundraising+goals
Date :   7/30/09
Message :   Govt rules for reporting charitable gifts should be too strict for Wells to fudge that line, MSG. My guess: the cuts in retirement & health benefits, faculty pay reduction, staff unpaid furough days -- all that money goes straight to Inn/Dories/Fargo.
Name :   MSG
Location :   Aurora
Date :   7/30/09
Message :   My guess is the monies they saved by not having their folks work on Fridays was channeled into the fund.
Date :   7,29,09
Message :   Does Pleasant still care? Thought she and Lisa were on the outs?
Name :   Wendy Wells
Date :   July 29
Message :   I imagine Pleasant donated a lot of the money raised. Who else cares enough? I graduated from Wells, but my caring days are over.
Name :   local
Location :   main street
Date :   july 29
Message :   another question, how did wells surpass its million fundraising goal??? who would donate to such a mess?
Name :   Wells
Date :   7/26/09
Message :   How does Wells afford to keep Dories open? there is almost no one in there, and I go by many times a day.
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Aurora
Date :   7/27/09
Message :   Interesting. The letters that Georgie allowed / disallowed are here: www.scribd.com/doc/16580628/State-Committee-on-Open-Government www.scribd.com/doc/16310826/June-7-Village-Board
Name :   L Holland
Location :   July 26, 2009
Date :   On what authority did George Farenthold
Message :   arbitrarily decide that my letter of 6/7/09 to the VB should not be read? Why shouldn�t I be able to reply to the lies John Place said about me & my family? http://www.scribd.com/doc/17701949/July-26-Letter-to-George-Farenthold
Name :   Paddingtons porch
Message :   lokks like a dump site.
Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   July 26
Message :   Yup, whatever we didnt unload in the Route 90 garage sale, lets dump it on Paddingtons rocks in *our* village park and call it art, an enrichment of our public space. See if Tommy tries to arrest us, cuz then he has to get Paddington too.
Name :   Needs a dumpster
Location :   The R-O-W
Date :   7/25
Message :   If the Zwigards were allowed to dump there guess we all can. I have a few things 2 get rid of that dump day would not take.
Date :   7/22
Message :   you will need power eqipment to clean up the mess the Zwigards made on the village ROW and shoreline. its all boulders and rubble
Name :   You can clean up to show the slobs in the
Location :   village the model citizen you are today
Date :   July 23.
Message :   The rock garden or clean it up Model Citizen. Show them.
Name :   rock garden????
Location :   Public right of way
Date :   July 21
Message :   To hell with a rock garden, I want my kids to swim there. Clean it up NOW! Summer is almost over, you selfish slobs. Law suit is a great idea. Who the hell do they think they are???
Name :   L Holland, July 21-2009
Location :   Regarding the Planning Board Minutes for June 2009:
Date :   While Fusco pats PB Board on the back because they �try to help�,
Message :   it is clear to me who they are trying to help. & in allowing Zwigards & Fuscos claims to be accepted unquestioned it is just as obvious who they do not care if they harm. http://www.scribd.com/doc/17540033/Aurora-Planning-Board-Minutes
Name :   Johanna
Location :   the village
Date :   July 20
Message :   I keep telling you all that the mess will make a beautiful rock garden by the lake. Use the lemons and make lemonade.
Name :   finally read thru the detailed and documented story
Location :   of the Culvert Mess on this website
Date :   7/09
Message :   From the account presented, it looks like Ms Koepp didnt mind doing a bit of fibbing in order to get what she wanted. amazing that someone, Koepp or the village has not been sued over this fiasco.
Name :   Dont you live next door to these people?
Location :   do you ever speak to them?
Date :   7/17
Message :   If so, what do they say about the situation theyve created outside of their home? Im not a litigious person,but there must be a lawsuit here somewhere.
Name :   LHolland
Location :   Observing The Zwigard Geothermal Mess
Date :   July 17, 2009
Message :   How much longer will the Zwigards litter the lake, lakeshore, and village park, with their geothermal disaster? When will they restore the r-o-w as they PROMISED they would in writing & remove the rubble?
Name :   Cathy Zimdahl
Date :   post-parade
Message :   gotta love theCitizen!: children decorated their bikes with paper machete horns and followed in line with the floats Machetes? What?
Name :   local
Location :   main street
Date :   july 13
Message :   anyone have parade pics to post?
Name :   What gives
Location :   Aurora Inn
Date :   7/11/09
Message :   The Aurora Inn has blocked off the other two parking lots in the village also.
Name :   MSG
Location :   parking lot or less
Date :   7/9/09
Message :   Seeing as one cant park in it how about in front of it. Or park a big truck on the north side to the lot so it is hard for them to pull out of the lot.
Name :   Alumna
Location :   CNY
Date :   Aurorafest
Message :   Not able to make it to Aurora this year for Aurorafest. Tell us what the floats are like. Get some pix if you can. Thanks!
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Aurora
Date :   7/10/09
Message :   I think Wells College owns parking lot but rents a portion of it to the US Postal Service for use of patrons. The whole lot is closing? For how long?
Name :   NO PARKING
Location :   IN VILLAGE LOT FOR VILLAGE
RESIDENTS Date :   7/010/2009
Message :   while plenty of parking for AURORA INN ? This latest stunt should serve as a reminder to all village residents as to who their master really is. Mayor shouldnt put up with it
Name :   observer
Location :   parking lot
Date :   july 9
Message :   Inn blocks off parking lot for a wedding on Aurorafest? Can they do that? Who owns the parking lot?
Name :   L Holland
Date :   July 8, 2009
Message :   Thanks, TaxPayer. But don�t get your hopes up. It remains to be seen whether this letter will have any effect on those people. At least it appears that this has been an eye-opener for Fusco.
Name :   VB minutes here.
Location :   http://www.auroranewyork.us/May202009.html
Date :   7-3-09
Message :   
Name :   Taxpayer to L Holland
Location :   http://www.scribd.com/doc/16958505/Fusco-Letter
Date :   7/3/09
Message :   Thanks for forcing Fusco (who has lined his pockets at our expense by promoting improper VB/PB involvement in a private property dispute) to finally call for an end to 10+ yrs of gross impropriety by a village govt that routinely indulges in defamation.
Name :   Drano
Location :   Village market - Whats going on there?
Date :   one day before 4th July 2009
Message :   shelfs are half empty on the biggest summer holiday of year. all they have is a lot of beer keeping it in business. maybe selling beer is keeping Wells in business. Nice, Lisa. you ought to be proud
Name :   Jeez, Louise
Location :   http://www.aurorany.org/WhiteHorse.html
Date :   7/2/09
Message :   The Jordan farm is not inside the village. Looks like Aurorafest will not be run by Aurorans at all. Take back your parade! Lets do it for Tudy.
Name :   I hope
Date :   July 1
Message :   Aurora fest parade pays tribute to Tudi. I wish I knew who the big barn lady is. Most of Rowlands local fans are huge and mean.
Date :   7.01/09
Message :   so is she. big time. and her size is her most defining characteristic in trying to identify her.
Name :   local
Location :   main street
Date :   1 July 2009
Message :   Was it really necessary to make reference to a barn when describing Judy J. Thats just mean.....
Name :   Good Idea
Message :   if you are sick of them crapping on the community, dont buy their crap
Name :   L Holland
Location :   This link will send you to a letter from the village attorney.
Date :   regarding Places soul-baring at the May vb meeting.
Message :   Fusco says: I see nothing defamatory, thank God. He should actually thank Gunderson for careful editing. http://www.scribd.com/doc/16958505/Fusco-Letter
Date :   6.30.08
Message :   judy j was judy erdely wells class 1970-somthing, married local farmer mark jordan, is now as big as a barn and also a big big supporter of rowland. sounds like a fun aurorafest, more for tourists not locals. watch or stay home, but dont buy their crap.
Name :   very good point
Message :   Let people do as they please until it hurts business and then all laws will have to be enforced fairly. If everyone sells campers and trucks on their front lawn, Aurora will lose alot of visitors/money.
Message :   Correction: Doug Staley died Thursday morning. He lost his battle with cancer.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   I have a good idea,
Date :   If village officials refuse to enforce the law,
Message :   lets take the No Front Yard Parking law off the books. If the law is not going to be fairly and uniformly enforced, living with a few eyesores in the village is a healthier atmosphere for everyone than living with selective enforcement of the law. Parkin
Message :   if the campper is illegal, why doesnt someone force them to remove it from their yard
Name :   trailer for sale
Message :   or rent... Is it for sale, or are they just enjoying the ultimate STAYCATION? That is so REDNECK;a camper for sale on your front lawn. It matches their indoor couch on their porch.
Name :   LHolland
Location :   State Committee On Open Govt
Date :   Re: Aurora Village Board
Message :   http://www.scribd.com/doc/16580628/State-Committee-on-Open-Government
Name :   local
Location :   main street
Date :   6/19/09
Message :   Dont worry. Tudy will be at the parade in spirit. Word is that Float plans are well underway.
Name :   Aurorafest   
Date :   June 18
Message :   Aurorafest parade wont be any fun without Tudy. I hope you pay tribute to her with a great float. Please dont let the only floats be Georgie and Lisa approved.
Name :   not WE who can sell out of our yards
Message :   ....its THEY who can do that. The favored elite who are exempt from the laws that the rest of us follow.
Name :   main st guy
Location :   Aurora
Date :   here and now
Message :   Looks like we can start selling stuff in our front yards again. Wait John sell the house and go camping forever.
Name :   main st guy
 Location :   Aurorafest
Date :   coming up
Message :   Who is Judy J?
Name :   local
Location :   main street
Date :   6/15/09
Message :   I hear the parade is set for 4:00 on July 11. Judy Jordan is leading the planning. Float makers are already planning their floats.
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   www.aurorany.org
Date :   6/15/09
Message :   Nothing about Aurorafest 2009 on village website, not even a date. Will it take place? Maybe it should pass away with Tudy, lest PTR take over the parade. (Hey, rude person shouting in caps below: why are you reading this if it makes you sick? Go away!)
Name :   pleasants road to hell is paved with dead tourists.
Message :   who sent all the mac-childs sale fanatics down to aurora yesterday? there is no room here for for 1,000+ idiot tourists to eat park shop walk gawk. saw a few who seemed to think route 90 a quaint country path nearly get run over.