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Name : Q
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Location : from the village
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Date : Sept 3
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Message : Did CJ get her demo permit? I thought she was ready to roll.
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Name : Nothing
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Message : makes any sense. Friday night, on a long weekend, and the pizza shop is closed.
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Name : Administrators
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Location : cyberspace
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Date : now
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Message : SIA: exchange taken down at request of founding member (without whom venue wouldnt exist). Responses left up a few days so all could read defenses after our stupid mistake in passing on personal attack. But replies led to more attacks. Let it go; thanks.
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Name : KAH
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Location : Main St.
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Date : 9/1/06
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Message : According to Aurora zoning code: no gas station - convenience store permitted in Flood Hazard, Residential, Commercial, or Institutional zones; but allowed by Special Use Permit in Agricultural/Residential zone.
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Name : Latecomer of some 25+ years
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Location : Aurora
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Date : Friday
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Message : Dont know if info is correct but have been told by more than 1 person that zoning in Aurora doesnt allow gasstation/convenience store. Heard grumbles against gasstation from locals @ PTRs pretakeover focus groups.
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Name : Taxpayer
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 9/1/06
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Message : Not aware of a ban. Think there was a proposal to put one on south corner of Poplar Ridge Rd, next to gully & in flood plain where buried gas tanks not permitted. Aesthetics concerned some but did not sink proposal as far as I know...?
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Name : SIA
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 8/31/06
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Message : To the webmaster or whomever is in charge of the forum: Could you please tell me why my post and a few others, answering Anon, have been deleted?
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Name : Latecomer of some 25+ years
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Location : Aurora
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Date : Thursday
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Message : I always thought the ban on gas station/convenience stores was that they were tacky & commercial & would spoil the aesthetics of the village. Since Pleasantization, perhaps that is now moot.
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Name : alumna
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : Is the village so threatened by competition from a good convenience store? Does life end at 9pm?
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Name : Auroran
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 8/30/06
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Message : Now come on... maybe 2 gas stations in a village this size is a bit much, but you cant tell me thered be a lack of business for a station in or close to Aurora.
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Name : alumna
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : Try a main road within walking distance from the campus -- not all kids have cars.
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Name : New Aurora
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Location : Reality
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Date : Today
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Message : Sure, even though last 2 gas stations (Sherwood Corner & Pumpkin Hill) had to close for lack of business, & last proposal for one was illegal (in flood plain) and no other business property is available, but gee-whiz thanks so much for your advice!
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Name : Good old Aurora
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Location : Doomed to the 30s
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Date : Zone it for chains
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Message : If the owners wont stay open, let a decent convenience store/24 hr gas station in!
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Name : resident
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Location : aurora
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Date : august 28
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Message : TG better be held to his word and the law this time, he is recorded in official approved minutes: PO demo only if USPS moves into Heary.
http://www.auroranewyork.us/December292005.html
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Name : Have noticed before how
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Location : Tom G has never behaved
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Date : as if rules applied to him
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Message : & gets irritable if anyone reminds him of legal decisions, laws, regulations, etc which stand in the way of his doing just as he pleases. PO is case in point.
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Name : An Auroran
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Location : Aurora, of course
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Date : 8/28/06
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Message : No, really, the Pizzaurora thing has gone beyond silly into nutty territory. Th-Sun 4-9? In a college town? Honestly, whos responsible?
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Name : Not really an answer
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Location : but interesting.
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Date : 8/28/06
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Message : It seems Tom G now says our PO will be demolished no matter what, even though all approvals were voted on condition that PO must move to Heary. USPS can keep lease until 2009, force us to supply new roof -- which Tom will then destroy? Duh?
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Name : Here is a Q:
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 8/27
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Message : Why spend $$ on Village roads when our Village P.O. needed a new roof???
Would not have cost as much as the roads that were not that bad.
even to just patch the fews spots now on Cherry Ave. now.
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Name : resident
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Location : aurora
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Date : august 27
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Message : IF her work here is done, why are we facing demo of our PO against all sense & reason and why are Lake Lyon Webb Houses held hostage to her iron will? Why the lies, why the scam about college taking over businesses, what is this all a front for???
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Name : Full article available now
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Location : New York Times
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Date : 8-27-06
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Message : Link too long to post here -- find it at the bottom of www.AuroraNy.org/Happyland -- also an interesting blurb in todays Citizen www.auburnpub.com/articles/2006/08/25/news/local_news/news06.txt
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Name : Not as dumb
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Location : about marketing
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Date : as they are
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Message : Pizza shop run by people who know zip about their market: college students only just start thinking about ordering pizza around 10PM Its about same as Dories is for kids - yeah right.
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Name : augh!!!
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : MY WORK HERE IS COMPLETED?????
well leave then! go go go! GO!
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Name : what kind of
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : retail environment exists in Aurora if a pizza shop in a college town is only 20 hrs a week? Sounds like a front for the mob.
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Name :
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Location :
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Date : 8.25.06
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Message : More informative excerpts from NYT review up at www.aurorany.org/Happyland.html
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Name : Yes, it is true!
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Location : in the New York Times
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Date : 8/25/06
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Message : Happyland: Mystery of Missing Novel, full page 8/27 in NYT BookReview. Ha! Amazing pr for bad writer? And no threat from Rowland? So why did publishers lawyers get involved? A *mystery* for sure! www.madison.com/tct/news/index.php?ntid=95989&ntpid=0
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Name :
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : I thought pleasant gave jims wife - rest her soul - way over-priced (50,000 bucks?) buy-out of failing bird business. No-one else in heary bldg got bought out, but jim was on planning board so maybe his vote was needed? So what was deal with fargo?
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Name : Now
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Location : fargo confused
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Date :
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Message : I thougth owner orman only got a little bit of money from wells and pleasant, take it or leave it, didnt he? How much did he get?
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Name :
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : yea, really garish lurid prose in happyland seems atypical but maybe somehow suited to the subject? hey, his other books mailman & funnies are under option to movie studios. i wanna see kathy bates play happy masters!
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Name : KAH
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Location : Main St
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Date : 24 August
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Message : Ive read his other works, Funnies & Mailman: better but different in style from each other and from Happyland which got cut down, rewritten w/ eye on lawyers, & serialized. Will reserve judgement for the full version in paperback, if & when that happens.
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Name : watcher
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Location :
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Date : 8.24
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Message : Is the orman thing to make him feel better for what he did to the village.
Most know he got a sweet deal from Pleasant. Now he is still working over the locals.
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Name : SIA
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 8/24/06
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Message : The Pizzaurora hours are just goofy. Who makes these decisions? This village is like a bad joke at times.
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Name : Auroran
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 8/24/06
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Message : Gotta agree about Lennons writing. I love that the thing is out there, that somebodys lampooning PR. But the guy cant write. (Yet he teaches writing. But thats par for the course).
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Name : Use Our Park
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Location : in the village
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Date : on Sunday, Sept 3
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Message : -- a community picnic, 1-4PM, hot dogs burgers beer & soda for 10bucks a head, sponsored by Jim Orman (?!), more info here -- http://www.auroranewyork.us/Future%20Dates.html
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Name : Mystery solved!
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : Lennons writing sux. No wonder pub backed out.
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Name : hungry
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : If the pizza shop cant make it, how can the place across the street that isnt open yet?
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Name : guest
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : and you better have your order in by 8:35 because they lock up tight at 9. No late pizzas!
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Name : Pizzaurora
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Location : sign on door says:
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Date : New Fall Hours
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Message : Thursday thru Sunday 4-9. In a college town they cant sell more pizza than that???
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Name : KAH
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Location : Main Street
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Date : 22 August 2006
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Message : I was just told that the Sunday (27 August) New York Times Book Review will carry a full page article on Happyland: The Mystery of the Missing Novel. Can this be true?
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Name : Taxpayer
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : Thanks for the info, Nancy. That sounds promising. Best of luck to you.
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Name : Nancy
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Location : BTF
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Date : 8/21/06
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Message : I plan to open within two weeks. I will be open year-round. I am the sole owner of the business.
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Name : Taxpayer
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 8/20/06
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Message : Nancy, you might want to ask the administrators to remove your email address quick before it gets picked up by spam robots. And - when do you open, will you be year round, and are you the business owner? Thanks!
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Name : Nancy Tisch
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Location : Ithaca, NY
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Date : August 20, 2006
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Message : Seems you all have some questions about my store opening up. Rather than swap conjecture among yourselves-- you could just e-mail me at ntisch@twcny.rr.com. Id be more than willing to clear up any questions you have. I look forward to seeing you in the st
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Name : A Question
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Location : down the street
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Date : Sunday, August 20
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Message : Is completion bond required by village for Webb House relocation? No? Then what happens if CJ runs out of cash, changes mind, or is hit by a truck when project is half done? Mess could go from bad to worse.
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Name : SIA
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 8/18/06
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Message : To CPH: Why dont you READ this site before making judgements like that? Shes not a giving woman. And issues, CPH, are always more complex than the simple-minded think.
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Name : CPH
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Location : WNY
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Date : 18 Aug 06
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Message : Everybody always hates the gut with the big house on the block! Lotta sour grapes it sounds about a giving woman.
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Name :
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Location : Auburn Citizen
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Date : August 17, 2006
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Message : Aurora May Go Wireless
http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2006/08/17/news/local_news/news02.txt
Plus update about Webb - Lyon - Lake Houses
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Name : Try Again
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Location : Ithaca Journal
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Date : Todays Story
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Message : http://www.ithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060817/NEWS01/608170347/1002
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Name :
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : Yup & now shes g0ing to donate (for a big tax deduction) another sinking business to the college. Just what Wells needs - another way to lose big money. And dining hall food in the village - what a deal! Check the web at www.aurorany.org
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Name : coalition supporter
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Location : aurora
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Date : Today I saw someone
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Message : painting Fargo porch. Business now owned by Wells, but with need to address major deferred maintenance on campus, Wells touches up newly rebuilt Fargo? And college is paying to treat all those new trees? Dont think so. It is still a Pleasant operation.
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Name : x
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Location : x
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Date : x
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Message : http://www.madison.com/tct/news/index.php?ntid=94479&ntpid=4
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Name :
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : Hey: how about Democracy For Aurora? (What a hypocritical booby!)
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Name : A Friend
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Location : Ithaca
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Date : August 14
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Message : Geo Farentholds really tiny *Democracy for America* group meets monthly at Fargo, had Spitzer Fundraiser there in August, see http://dfa.meetup.com/516/?gj=sj3 AND http://www.party2win.com/Spitzer2006/parties/index.cfm?e=GeosFirstFridayFishFry
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Name : aurora
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Location : ny
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Date : 8/14/06
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Message : was there a political event at the Fargo recently endorsing Elliot Spitzer?
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Name : keep an eye here
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Location : bet the
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Date :
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Message : http://www.abc.state.ny.us/
http://www.abc.state.ny.us/JSP/query/PublicQueryInstructPage.jsp
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Name : coalition supporter
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Location : still here
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Date : 8/14/06
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Message : would be interesting to know what name is on Bet The Farm applications for licenses to serve food / wine: Tish or Rowland or Waller or Wells College...?
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Name :
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Location : Bet The Farm
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Date :
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Message : Nancy Tisch worked at French for Pleasant
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Name : Taxpayer
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 8/13/06
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Message : Was told a Nancy Tisch would open Bet The Farm. Anyone heard of her? Also that she could not open because permits not in place to taste&sell wine. And heard monthly rental for old Posies shop is 900 bucks a month! Who can clear that overhead in Aurora?
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Name : Wondering
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Location : End of summer
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Date :
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Message : I bet the farm that Bet The Farm never opens. What is the point? Summer is almost over. The tourists will be gone. Is it a front to make it look like something is going to happen, like Aurora is lively!!? Better than *Store For Rent*?
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Name : sez it all
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Location : latest issue of harpers
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Date : august something
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Message : another chapter title in the latest installment, a summation of the transformation of a village -- Horrendous Happycrap.
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Name : KAH
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Location : Main St
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Date : 10 Aug 06
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Message : Unrelated developments. Last night PB announced that D.Kirk has withdrawn his purchase offer for Lyon House. Today Happyland Part III arrived with a chapter called - The screams of local preservationists. On it goes...
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Name : SIA
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 8/9/06
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Message : Not sure what PR would sue Lennon for... a libel suit wouldnt wash (pardon the pun). It would only make her look bad. And a writer would enjoy the publicity. Trust me.
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Name : in a lawsuit ptr could
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Location : use OUR published
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Date : public perspectives here
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Message : as evidence of damages to her reputation. therefore enjoy the parallels privately but dont insist upon them in public forums monitored by her agents.
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Name : Dont Worry:
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Location : Harpers understands
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Date : 1st ammendment protections.
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Message : And Norton may have panicked for different reason: her husbands big powerful family business is in textbook printing.
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Name : when wishing for PTR
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Location : to be stung by Happyland
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Date : have a care
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Message : whod want the author who gave you the revenge of a stinging lampoon to suffer from being sued by the BIG BULLY (suffer he would) and/or have publishers pull out even more? have a care.
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Name :
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Location : nearby
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Date : 8-8-06
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Message : the author is also very wrong about the book not bothering PTR. more on forum...
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Name : Karin W
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 7 Aug 2006
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Message : Happyland description of Happy Masters stepping from car, standing on sidewalk surveying all is EXACTLY the way PTR stands;cant tell me he hasnt ever seen her in person. But dont want trouble 4 him either.
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Name : I dont believe
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : that R John Lennon is being truthful. His book IS about peope in Aurora. too easy to recognize. Is he worried about a law suit? From who?
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Name : KAH
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Location : Main St.
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Date : 5 Aug 06
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Message : This map copy was a FOIL request to Village Clerk back in 2001, its part of LLCs file for Inn/Market proposal. Do tax maps show ROWs? Those used to be available on line. Or, maybe they can be viewed in Village, Town, or County Clerks Offices?
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Name : Aurora
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Location : Aurora Area
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Date :
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Message : Can you post the Map? Or give info on where to find that info? KAH.
thanks much
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Name : KAH
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Location : Main St.
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Date : 4 August 06
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Message : Much newer survey map made for Aurora Foundation LLC, dated 1/8/01, still shows Thompson Lane just north of bank as a Right of Way also labeled *unopened street* extending from Rte 90 to lake shore. Interesting.
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Name : Surrpised
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Location : to learn
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Date :
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Message : Does that map mean we can all access the lake via Biaconis driveway and back yard? What became of that ROW? Does it still exist?
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Name : Taxpayer
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 8/4/06
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Message : I sent some notes on concerns with Right of Way issues to the feedback Forum.
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Name : Ruth Spinks
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Location : Equinox NY
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Date :
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Message : Interview with the author of Happyland in yesterdays Ithaca Times. Hey, it quotes this GuestBook! http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16997154&BRD=1395&PAG=461&dept_id=216620&rfi=6
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Message : The point being. No 1 really knows where ALL the ROWs in the village R. I am also sure the powers are really hiding most. Let them show the village where they R. The one by the bank is real look at the curb cut. But still hidden. a trade for ROW#2 RR one
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Name : Resident
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Location : still here
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Date : August 3. 2006
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Message : Already knew of its existence as well as its name; no surprise there. Note that unlike the Rowland land-grab, other village rights of way --there are several-- are not blocked or built upon, nor is use prohibited to public. What IS your point?
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Name : 2 Long Gone
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Location : one more try
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Date :
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Message : I am sure you did not see the 3rd ROW just north of the bank. Sure Pat would not be happy if Aurora puts a sideway down that one or blacktops it.
look at it again! Thompson Lane
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Name : Resident
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Location : right here
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Date : August 2, 2006
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Message : Theres a Right of Way south of old IGA -- a road once extending to stone mill on shore -- that Rowland built on top of, plus the R.O.W. to north of Inn that she now bans for public use. Long Gone: more than your knickers are twisted!
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Name : Maria S.
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Location : Syracuse
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Date : August 2, 2006
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Message : I do hope Bob Congel and Pleasant havent been introduced -- to think of those two weeping into their G & Ts at the lodge! [shutter]
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Name : Long Gone
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Location : Anywhere but here
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Date : 8-2-06
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Message : Site map: I see rights of way for a railroad that no longer exits. I see property owned by Wells College. I dont see anything you need to get your knickers in a twist about.
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Name : Map reader
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Location : The Inn etc.
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Date : 8-2-06
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Message : Well... we know village board let Rowland steal two public rights of way, building over one and just taking another. Do you see something else in this link?
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Name : well well welll
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Location : The Inn etc.
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Date :
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Message : What do you think?
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~springport/caycomaps/3-2-69.jpg
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Name : dissident
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Location : happyland article a week ago
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Date : 7-31-06
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Message : How come planning boards James Stephen Taylor (aka steve) speaks to press re rowland when mayor wants ALL board members mum on public issues? Maybe he should tape his mouth shut...
www.auburnpub.com/articles/2006/07/24/news/latest_news/latestnews02.txt
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Name :
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Location : rt.90
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Date : Sunday morning
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Message : Anyone know what ever happened to the Pedestrian in Crosswalk signs the village use to put up in the summer? Sure could have used them for the Rt. 90 sale.
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Name : Karin W
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Location : In a Thunderstorm now passing
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Date : Evening
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Message : Good point, Taxpayer. Makes me feel better too. To sum up: wireless in Aurora is fraught w/potential trouble, not all of which I covered, with or w/o email. As usual, sounds good, but danger lurks....
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Name : Taxpayer
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Location : re: wireless village proposal
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Date : 7/25/06
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Message : By the time we learn what George has in mind, he has already done it. Remember the lesson of the official village website. Good to start questioning before he gets too far. Neither an attack nor a waste of time: just advance notice & wary watchfulness.
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Name : Maria S.
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Location : Syracuse
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Date : July 25, 2006
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Message : [more] ... Who hangs around and tells the august heads how to spend their alum donation? This was a devils bagain from the beginning.
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Name : Maria S.
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Location : Syracuse
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Date : July 25, 2006
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Message : Its difficult to read of the problems in Aurora without a sense of sadness and loss. Alums who do well and give a healthy contribution usually expect little more than a pat on the head and a new building bearing their name. Who would hang around to tell t
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Name : Karin W
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Location : After consulting with
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Date : a more expert expert
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Message : Lot of IFs: could just be wireless access w/o email services, but there are still issues. Will want to hear just what pie-in-the-sky George has in mind before wasting energy attacking straw man.
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Name : Concerned local
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Location : Aurora
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Date : Tuesday
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Message : Question: Is Ken Larson (Wells Manager of Computer & Network Operations) back from vacation or are they (purposely?) meeting in his absence yet again?
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Name :
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : So.. looking at wireless internet in village run by LLC partner, Wells? Not good idea. See security concerns on Feedback Forum. (And probably our taxes will pay for us being spyied on!)
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Name : Watchman
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Location : re campus/village internet
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Date : (tuesday, 7/25)
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Message : I was told that Time-Warner reps were coming to campus last Friday to discuss new services for campus, and that in VB meeting Tom said George should sit in on the meeting to check out possibilities for wireless in village too. Watch Out!!!
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Name :
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Location : Happyland
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Date : Today
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Message : Wrong link for todays Happyland story. Try again at -
http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2006/07/24/news/latest_news/latestnews02.txt
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Name : KAH
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Location : Main Street
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Date : 24 July 06
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Message : Long-ish article on Happyland in todays Citizen...
www.auburnpub.com/articles/2006/07/24/news/latest_news/latestnews01.txt
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Name : Karin W
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Location : Aurora
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Date : another issue
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Message : Email isnt only internet service; ISP servers can log every site visited. If IP addresses are assigned on-the-fly one wouldnt know who visited which sites, but still....
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Name : Auroran
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Location : right here
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Date : 7/21/06
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Message : Good answers to these wireless internet security questions posted in comments at
www.auburnpub.com/articles/2006/07/20/news/local_news/news03.txt
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Name : Wired Aurora???
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Location : here
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Date :
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Message : I can see it now, Pleasant hires her fawning toady, Jacci F, as admin of the local network, with specific instructions to monitor the emails of known dissenters. Could that really happen?? Is it technologically possible?
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Name : just a Q:
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Location :
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Date : 7/21
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Message : If wireless was put in Aurora. And I say if. Would they whoever ran it (the village/or even PR). Could they not look at every email, internet site anyone that uses it has been to? But it would be the reading of emails on the server that would not sit righ
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Name : To the *Getta Life* Guy
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Location : Free Aurora
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Date : July 22, 2006
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Message : The same old mindless irrational rude response, duh! Try this - live your own life & get your nose out of others. Why should our questioning bug you so? Why feel threatened by different opinions? (and stop the fibs: this is not about *home remodeling*)
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Name : Karin W
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Location : Aurora
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Date : Thu
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Message : Did a major project on wireless security in grad sch Network Security course (SU): also an oft-cited (now obs) pathfinder on wireless in libraries. More expert than many, but less than people who work w/it daily.
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Name : Get a LIFE, people!
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Location : Aurora, NY
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Date : Today
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Message : Wow, you folks really need to get a LIFE! Protesting the remodeling of homes? HEY, I HEARD THERES A WAR GOING ON, MIGHT WANT TO CHECK THAT OUT! Sheesh!
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Name : Georgie Makes News Again
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Location : Citizen
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Date : 7-20-06
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Message : Anyone know anything about individual internet security in these *hot spots*?
www.auburnpub.com/articles/2006/07/20/news/local_news/news03.txt
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Name : Karin W
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Location : Aurora
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Date : Tues
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Message : Looks good now -- thanks for the good work! I can now read the missing paragraphs and no more weird formatting. Thanks!
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Name : regular reader
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Location : aurora
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Date : monday
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Message : wil the forum entries be fixed? theyve been cut off and messed up for 2 days an im hoping to read the missing parts soon
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Name : New store just for us locals
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Location : in old Posies, so we are
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Date : happy now, right?
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Message : Coming in August: regional wine & food *emporium* featuring finger lakes cider cheese food wine, tasting & sales, what a great addition to our community! Called *Bet the Farm,* hows that for cute?
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Name :
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : tudy pressed by pleasantistas to apologize for her float(!) so good of doc to claim misunderstanding and get her off hook especially when shes not well and we all know whats going on here anyway wonder when tommy will ever say sorry for anything
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Name : Second installment of
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Location : Happyland is in
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Date : this mornings mail...
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Message : ...and its getting better and better.
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Name : villager
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Location : aurora
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Date : 7/14/06
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Message : How come it is ok for our mayor to make rude remarks to Tudys float riders from the Fargo porch? I was at the Library and hear him!! He needs to apologize to them.
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Name : Stan Zs Float
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Location : in AuroraFest Parade
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Date : last Saturday -
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Message : more offensive to the powers that be than Tudys, either her original plan or improvised replacement, yes? An in - your - face parody of New Aurora, those obnoxious tourists. Any official response to that?
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Name :
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : main street: is she here still???
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Name : Take back the park
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Location : by the Inns dock
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Date :
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Message : If people would just use the area. It will not be lost.
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Name : local
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Location :
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Date : 7/11/06
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Message : dont go to the fargo
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Name :
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Location : main st.
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Date :
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Message : So what is the news out there today.
What is she up to
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Name : To Townie
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Location : in Aurora
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Date : on 7/8
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Message : Which VB member gave you info? Must be Ken, Janet or Jim, right? Did this VB member say Tom told them this recently & in reference to Aurorafest? Or did they mean the *crackdown* on public statements after Georgies letter last summer? Please answer.
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Name : If by *memo* they meant the directive sent by mayor to all boards last summer saying
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Location : they may not write newspapers about issues coming before their boards
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Date : (after George F. did just that):
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Message : how strange that board members, their relatives & friends suddenly & simultaneuously equated this order w/ Tudys float on Sat morning, and collectively withdrew their promised participation a few hours before parade. More on Forum.
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Name : lets be fair, Right
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Location : The Fargo
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Date : the day, day after
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Message : The Mayor said nice things about the Red Hats. Come on. People from the bank to the PO could hear what he said.
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Name : wells worker
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Location : nearby
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Date : tonite
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Message : seen tom myself protect lazy slugs dangerous inept sexual predators guncrazed troublemakers false qualification liars @ b&g just to avoid conflict/trouble for hiself great mayor you all have
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Name : KAH
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Location : Main Street
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Date : 10 July 06
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Message : Not Napoleon, but Edward Bulwer Lytton (of *it was a dark and stormy night* fame) and context gives one pause: *Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.* We are not under the rule of the great here...
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Name : Taxpayer
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 7/10/06
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Message : Gonna be a long 3.5 years. And I know our *reluctant candidates* tried SO hard to get someone, anyone to run against the Regime last March. NO ONE would step forward, so they did at last minute. No offence, but where were you, Soldier, overseas?
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Name : coalition supporter
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Location : aurora
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Date : 7/10/06
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Message : Auroran: among prostitues, greed trumps shame -- he has none left. Soldier: remember how Tom became Head of B&G in the first place? That went waaaaay beyond being a *yes* man.
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Name : Missed the parade
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Location : Aurora
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Date : July 10
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Message : Memo? As in physical evidence? Does someone have a copy? Share the text? Or was it a *secret* memo? Let Mayor G. deny that if it exists. How about witnesses to the loud speaker words?
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Name : A Soldier
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Location : Anywhere Required
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Date : Current/ZULU
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Message : Tom Girthansome has been a yes man since Hitler was a Corporal, at Wells, and presently as mayor too. I believe Napoleon said the pen is mightier than the sword! In Aurora it may be the vote that ends this puppet regime.
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Name : KAH
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Location : Main Street
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Date : 10 July 06
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Message : Judges stand was @ fargo & Im told Tom said *right people have mouths shut* on loud-speaker! And today he denies issuing prohibition to board members. So - all the people who backed out on Tudy invented Toms memo and its ban on float participation? Right.
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Name : An Auroran
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Location : seriously p*ssed
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Date : 7/10/06
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Message : Heres an even better idea. Why dont the citizens of Aurora who are fed up with this crap GO UP TO Tom G. on the street and TELL HIM HOW WE FEEL. Shame works sometimes.
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Name : D.H.
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Location : Hey.. Heres an idea...
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Date : lets all get together 4
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Message : a public burning of Happy Land, denounce our rights as citizens, & wear smiles all the time. Dissent is America you dumb bunny (TG).
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Name : local
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Location : Tudys float
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Date :
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Message : Mayor Gunderson, Did you say
The right people have their mouths taped shut now
And told your boards not to ride. Is that being impartial?
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Name :
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Location : Aurora(fest)
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Date : 7-09-06
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Message : Arrrgh. Citizen sent its tourism reporter and missed the real story.
http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2006/07/08/news/local_news/news06.txt
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Name : Cruiser
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Location : NY
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Date : july 8th 2006
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Message : Having worked for the Inn when it first reopened I know for a fact that music from neighbors or boats going past the Inn during the Wedding gets alot of complaints from Brides, you really want to wake up the Managment make sure you have your speakers up o
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Name : another
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Location : local
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Date : today
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Message : Quick! Feed him some more beer and point him towards a reporter or a microphone. Everyone needs to hear that. Disgusting, disgraceful. Ugh. (Can he be impeached? Or do we just have to wait until he explodes?)
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Name : local
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Location :
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Date : aurorafeat
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Message : Corrupt mayor has forked tongue.
I thinks he has been bought!
He was heard saying the right people have their mouths taped shut now on the fargo porch!!
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Name : Yeah
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Location : For the big tough guy
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Date : the mayor wants to be
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Message : He sure lets himself get pushed around by a couple of women.
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Name : Taxpayer
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 7/8/06
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Message : They rode float w/ mouths taped shut, but no explanation: hope point got across. Tom may say CPP must appear neutral; but OK that Attilio had *Ban Coalition* sign in yard but not for Chris to ride Tudys float? And maybe corrupt mayor has forked tongue.
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Name : Karin W
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 8 Jul 2006
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Message : Hope some have courage to ride a float anyway, just to assert their rights. Tom wasnt worried about rules governing govt websites, now he wants to apply his OWN rules for float riding?!? To heck with that.
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Name : been around
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Location : aurora
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Date : too long
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Message : tom is crotchty good ole boy who just wants to keep doing whatever he pleases legal or not (always has!) without interference or hassle same way he runs b&g @ wells same as mayor
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Name : Watchman
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Location : Free Aurora
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Date : time to protest
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Message : Did all Village Board approve this move by Mayor? Shame on you! Contrary to basic values & violation of constitutional rights! What next: ban satire, prohibit questions, arrest those who disagree? Why do you silently support this insane dictatorship?
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Name : townie
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Location : AuroraFest
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Date : 7.8
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Message : It is true. A VB member told me that is what they were told. I guess that is what the village wanted when they voted him back in..! What is Tom afraid of? a little heat.
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Name : Crawford R. Thoburn
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Location : Main Street
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Date : Aurorafest 2006
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Message : Tudy just told me Mayor wrote CPP (&PB/ZBA?) members theyre NOT ALLOWED to be on her float. Supression of free speech is contrary to spirit of Aurorafest; I was a founding committee member, this is a fundamental betrayal of our community. Outrageous!
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Name : Tell Pleasant:
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Location : historic village for sale
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Date : on E-bay for only 5-million.
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Message : Totally perfect for her new Hoffman Institute Quadrinity Process center (see Warren CT under real estate at www.ebay.com). Buy it now, then go away and leave us alone!!!
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Name : Wow Again
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Location : Aurorafest location
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Date : Day Before
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Message : I meant the moving of the location of the Aurorafest to accomodate one (non-Auroran?) couples wedding, rather than serving all the residents of Aurora with an attractive and comfortable location for the Aurorafest. Makes it obvious who counts - and who do
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Name : auroran
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 7/7/06
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Message : to Wow: Which one are you talking about?
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Name : Wow
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Location : Aurorafest location
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Date : Friday before
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Message : WHEN will people wake up?!?!??? Someone who can sign his/her name send this one to the paper, would you?
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Name : Village bends over
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Location : for Pleasant
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Date : again.....
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Message : Instead of being held at OUR public lakeside park, OUR Aurorafest is held on a blacktop parking lot. Why? Because Pleasants INN has a wedding. Once again, Auroras residents come in second..and our officials go along.
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Name : townie
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Location : AuroraFest
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Date : Friday morning
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Message : I sure do know what Tudy is doing with her float. But like the rest you will have to wait and see.
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Name : Taxpayer
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 7/7/06
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Message : Does the Mackenzie-Childs retail face-off continue? Im told Richard&Victoria now have a shop called *Home Again* in their house south of Aurora. Anyone have details? I though Pleasant bought their home as well as their business...
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Name : Friend
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Location : Ithaca
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Date : July 7, 2006
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Message : Anyone know what Tudys doing for her float in this years Aurorafest? (Is it tomorrow?)
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Name : Jake
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Location :
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Date : 7/30/06
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Message : The fargo used to be fun. The people of the town make it , you cant ever change that!! We Will take it back.
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Name : Friend of M-C employees
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 30 June 2006
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Message : How can one respond to M-C post? M-C employee friends tell me Pleasant has issued ultimatum: Turn profit this year or she will sell; not looking too good. Was a fad that passed its due date anyway.
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Name : webdog
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : Interesting bit on MacK-Childs way down this page -
http://www.syracuse.com/business/storefront/index.ssf?/mtlogs/syr_retail/archives/2006_06.html#155914
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Name : A question:
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Location : if ugly houses
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Date : should not be allowed
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Message : why arent the Farlows in jail?
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Name : Laura Holland
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : Re: our home.
Please see Forum.
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Name :
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Location :
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Date :
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Message : Bottomline is, the Holland House is way off-topic and bringing it up now is pointless. *I* hate what was done to the Inn, architecturally. But its too late now. So enough with the Hs new house. Same issue.
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Name : SIA
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Location : Aurora
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Date : 6/29/06
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Message : The POINT about the Holland House is that it doesnt MATTER. Its a diversion, taking us off the IMPORTANT issue--P.R. All the Hollands did was build a big house. What P.R. has done is what matters here.
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