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Name :   
Location :   
Date :   11.13.07
Message :   privacy would be a plenty good reason to put in some hedge or screen plantings if one owned lakefront and had neighbors building a deck within inches of your land.
Name :   Arbor Vitae
Location :   Lake side
Date :   11-13-07
Message :   Is it true that the Hollands want to plant those trees behind their two neighbors to the north to block the lake view of those two houses? What possible reason except spitefulness could there be for that?
Name :   remember when
Location :   the guns fell silent
Date :   11.11.18
Message :   armistice: the end of the war to end all wars
Name :   A Soldier
Location :   Anywhere Required
Date :   Current/Zulu
Message :   The adage Rule of Thumb, should be applied to the Midas Touch! Today is our day VETERANS! Thank You!
Name :   Im sure this old addage
Location :   has been posted on here
Date :   already but it bears repeating...
Message :   Regarding the Golden Rule - he (or she)who has the gold makes the rules.
Name :   Jeez, Louise
Location :   Greenery is good, right?
Date :   11/10/07
Message :   Heard a rumor that Staley slapped a stop work order on Hollands for trying to plant bushes! Is that for real? Since when do plants require a permit? How many full trees did PTR plant, move, destroy with no permits?
Name :   What a joke
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Star date who gives a
Message :   Security? What a joke. That is like calling RENT A COP.
Name :   On,On,On
Location :   Outskirts
Date :   11/5/07
Message :   Its hard to believe that all the shenanigans that happen around the asphalt plain by the PO are generated by Wells students & friends. Where are the cops? the sheriff? McGruff, the Crime Dog?
Name :   Former Main Streeter
Location :   Nearby
Date :   Tuesday
Message :   If offenders are Wells students or patrons of Wells-owned Fargo & since Wells owns/controls half the town, people call Security. If you live in college housing, call Security -- faster than the regular police.
Name :   On,On,On
Location :   Outskirts
Date :   11/5/07
Message :   Why do we have those stupid speed indicators at village lines when there is never a cop to enforce? Garbage trucks keep truckin FAST with no fear of enforcement.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   The Sept. VB minutes
Date :   are in error.
Message :   I have NOT repeatedly gone before the VB in regards to a *property dispute*. The issue here is FAIR & UNIFORM enforcement of the law with special treatment for NO ONE. There have been obvious violations which village govt refuses to acknowledge.
Name :   What?
Location :   village
Date :   11/2/07
Message :   Security - Why? They belong at the Wells campus not downtown. That would be why there is the Sheriff or NYS Police. Security is not a village wide police force.
Name :   observer
Location :   here
Date :   11/1
Message :   security was called several times due to kids running on cars and other acts of vandalsim last night
Name :   local
Location :   
Date :   11/1
Message :   and whats with the AFLs book drop being vandalized again last night. Sheriff was called.....
Name :   Contrarian
Location :   Aurora
Date :   11/1/07
Message :   My point was that I refuse to give Geo. F. CREDIT for this. Thats not myopia, thats simply recognizing what hes really all about.
Name :   Karin W
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Thu 1 Nov 2007
Message :   Weight, size & speed limits on roads thru small towns are often ignored by big trash haulers. We dont mind trucks coming to our homes/businesses; we dont like NYC trash going to huge dump in our backyard.
Name :   And when
Location :   village
Date :   11/1/07
Message :   It comes right down to it I think there are only two townies on the VB One is a local and two are transplants.
Name :   A lack of foresigtht
Location :   right here
Date :   Halloween night
Message :   I think we all were a bit of myopic. Or PTR would not have gotten so far. Yes she put tons of cash into Aurora. But What has Aurora lost? It is not the village I knew or loved. Can the PTR lovers say that? Oh wait you must be a transplant. Not a local
Name :   To Contrarian, etc.
Location :   Truck issue has nothing to do w/ Aurora
Date :   specifically. It just happens to be on the route the trucks take.
Message :   This issue affects many other towns and villages.Try not to be so myopic.
Name :   Phi·lan·thro·py
Location :   1. The effort or inclination to increase the well-being of humankind.
Date :   2. An activity or institution intended to promote human welfare.
Message :   Don’t insult Bisgrove, comparing him to PTR. Hes a true philanthropist, helps the disadvantaged, works w/ community. In Aurora PTR just filled her weird personal needs, dictating a disastrous monument to her fat ego, mired in manipulative vindictiveness.
Name :   Contrarian
Location :   Aurora
Date :   10/30/07
Message :   I will not give ANY credit to Geo F. It isnt WHAT a person does, its WHY they do it. The truck issue is more of the gentrification of Aurora for Geo. F., and a way for him to show off. Thats all.
Name :   talking about
Location :   existing laws
Date :   10/30/07
Message :   How many existing laws did the AVB overlook so PTR could do her deed with the blessing of the VB? Or even with CJ.
Name :   With eyes wide open
Location :   Aurora
Date :   
Message :   I trust the people of Auburn have a wide and broader perspective of development and will not curse out Jerry B as Aurorans have PTR. I know they do not whine as much.
Name :   Editorial compares true philantropy
Location :   to what PTR has done in Aurora.
Date :   www.auburnpub.com/articles/2007/10/29/news/opinion/our_view/ourview01.txt
Message :   For background information, see: www.auburnpub.com/articles/2007/10/28/news/latest_news/latestnews01.txt
Name :   
Location :   www.syracuse.com/articles/cayuga/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1193389464122780.xml&coll=1
Date :   9.26.07
Message :   i agree - he is doing the right thing re trucks but no reason to give credit cuz he will take it every time whether he deserves it or not
Name :   Even Moore
Location :   Aurora
Date :   10.26.07
Message :   Credit where credit is due. Geo is doing the right thing with the trucks. PTR or not the interstates are where they belong. We still live here.
Name :   If you would have read an article in the Citizen
Location :   a couple of months ago
Date :   then you would know that...
Message :   Trucks of a certain lbs. and size or carrying hazardous material cannot travel on smaller hwys. that cut thru towns. They do it to save the toll Its an illegal practice, and the existing laws are not being enforced.
Name :   Semis and tractor trailers
Location :   are a danger to
Date :   people driving cars or walking
Message :   in Aurora and the Fingers villages. I was nearly hit from behind because the semi was bearing down on me in a 30 mph zone. He jacked-knife or I would have been history.
Name :   Nothing incongruous
Location :   about trucks
Date :   we all need use them
Message :   including rowlands businesses. this is aurora llc/farenthold attempt to get rid of trucks to make the town more doll house perfect. a speeding car is dangrous to so are idiots on cell phones
Name :   Contrarian
Location :   Aurora
Date :   10/25/07
Message :   I dont like the trucks myself, but I dont know that theres anything illegal about their practice of shortcutting thru Aurora...
Name :   I urge everyone to attend that meeting. Even though
Location :   I dont live in Aurora, I visited this summer
Date :   and one of the things I really noticed...
Message :   was the huge trucks rumbling through the village. Really incongrous sight, and potentially dangerous. Many small Finger Lake villages are having the same problem. The trucks are actually illegally short-cutting through to avoid tolls.
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   www.syracuse.com/articles/cayuga/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1193216359180400.xml&coll=1
Date :   Public forum tomorrow
Message :   for residents concerned about truck traffic to speak with state officals about the problem. Thurs, 10/25, 6pm - 8 pm at the (ugh) Aurora Inn. See article above for more information.
Name :   Contrarian
Location :   Aurora
Date :   10/24/07
Message :   Clearly, someone needs to get a petition started to change these ridiculous practices at the Aurora PO. Its one thing we might actually have a say in, in this village...
Name :   local
Location :   
Date :   11/24/07
Message :   or what about ability to get to your box before 8 and after 5 for those of us who work out of town and leave before its open and return after its closed. USprings opens the door earlier and closes later...just dont have access to a person
Name :   We do not need another or rather
Location :   a new PO until the
Date :   hours of operation
Message :   are reflective of all Post Offices in the country 8-5pm M-F and 8-12 S. Too much siesta!
Name :   If you want to know about
Location :   the Cj.John/Wells
Date :   property transfer
Message :   you can get all the information you want by going to the Cayuga County office building. Then share here.
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   ptr wants that building simply to tear it down for parking
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   10.22.07
Message :   ptr wont buy the old p.o., she hates it. sell it to georgie so he can demolish it by hand himself and destroy the evidence of his piss-poor stewardship of our public property.
Name :   to Taxpayer.....
Location :   about po
Date :   10/22/07
Message :   some good points, but sell PO? Gee, who do you think would buy it? She would then own the entire village, same issue as before.
Name :   The college gives away 100K of land for free?
Location :   In the Citizen property transfers of
Date :   Sun., Oct 21, 2007, quote -
Message :   *Wells College, Aurora, to Cynthia Koepp and John Place, 327 Main St. Aurora, property at 317 Main St., 0-dollars. Assessment 94,800-dollars.* What? Where is 317? CJ/John paid a fraction of assessed value for Lake House, and now this? Why?
Name :   Even Moore
Location :   Aurora
Date :   10/22/07
Message :   Wait and see if the PO doesnt go right where she planned. Isnt it odd nothing has changed at Heary Building? SHE IS NOT GONE!
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Reading the latest article about the P.O.
Date :   10/21/07
Message :   Instead of going beyond repairs & doing cosmetic improvements for 230K maybe its time to build new PO/VillageOffice on public land behind Fire Dept as 1st proposed 30 years ago? Safer parking, more office space, storage for historian etc; sell current PO?
Name :   A Soldier
Location :   Anywhere Required
Date :   Current/ZULU
Message :   Im really POd and Pitched off. To witness the downward spiral, of a village once admired and called home. Turned into a morass of ineptness is truly disheartening.
Name :   po plans
Location :   www.auburnpub.com/articles/2007/10/19/news/local_news/news04.txt
Date :   10.19.07
Message :   if anyone would know what lipstick on a pig looks like, he sure would.
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Has Randi been Hoffmanized? What else could explain that?
Name :   House Fly
Location :   on a shitpile
Date :   10/18/07
Message :   Great white horse my ass! More like a great white shark!! A single-minded eating machine with no soul.
Name :   Main st. guy
Location :   Pleasant b4 Pleasant
Date :   10/17
Message :   Randi Zabriskie, “It was like this great white Arabian horse came walking through our village and little houseflies jumped on it - sad, diminished people who didnt understand that this place was going to dust and she saved it.”
Name :   www.auburnpub.com/articles/2007/10/14/news/local_news/news04.txt
Location :   Citizen prints the whole article in Sundays newspaper
Date :   with lead photo of protest car.
Message :   And perhaps because of business connections (Am Girl, Matel, Mac-Childs) its getting wider distribution than a human interest feature and is showing up on financial sites at CNN, Forbes, USA-Today, MSNBC, etc. as well as hundreds of newspapers nationwide.
Name :   Now I am confused..
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   because I thought the most recent flap was about Wells not getting any kind of permit for the Big Dig they did at Lyon House. They dont need permits? Wrong. Why was that allowed?

Name :   Former Main Streeter
Location :   Nearby
Date :   Wed
Message :   Disagree all you like but please dont let this forum degenerate into no-class name-calling like Citizen Two Cents.

Name :   Changing the Subject
Location :   Re Forum & Homepage
Date :   5.8.07
Message :   Re forum: no I hadnt heard about Sue Edinger leaving LLC. Interesting! Re homepage: very surprising info about Post Office plans. Doesnt look like PTR can make USPS meet her 6/1/07 ultimatum. What next?

Name :   Even More
Location :   Aurora
Date :   5/8/07
Message :   How is it that you can get one plan to share a drive with your neighbors approved, then when you don’t get along you quietly get something new done? Was there a public hearing for that? It doesn’t look like the stuff we sat through the hearings for!

Name :   If only you knew
Location :   Aurora
Date :   5/8/07
Message :   So do you still have your hands in Pleasants pockets. I really thought you cared about things that went on in the village ie. the Fargo. You were a plant. Right? Is this where I say BITCH.. Did I really type that? oooops. And by the way you never will

Name :   Lurker
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Great Picture! And Good Advice! Bet the Hollands& Pleasant Rowland & cj & the Village all wish they had heeded that advice!

Name :   Fact Check
Location :   (these documents are on file)
Date :   Tues., May 10
Message :   College signed easement for new drive in Oct, DOT approved curb cut in Nov, and PB Final Site Plan Review didnt take place until November. So driveway could not have been approved in September-- no matter where the drawings were or werent then or later.

Name :   CJK
Location :   whoops. one more
Date :   comment
Message :   The driveway drawing was discussed in public by village boards. And then criticized on this very site months ago. I was smarter then and kept quiet

Name :   not the first time
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   might be there now but wasnt a few months ago, i looked too, only plans with old drive in file. materials suposed to stay put, but things go missing, not just in this project but in slipshod state of affairs with staley, boards, etc.

Name :   CJK
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Drawing is thereand exactly as it was built--You missed it. Filed 9/12/07. I am fed up with these fabrications and slanderous remarks. End of comment.

Name :   I have driveway issues myself
Location :   so asked Village Office to see
Date :   proposed Lyon/Webb driveway sketch in early 2007,
Message :   curious about what was permitted in relation to property lines. No such sketch was on file. Approvals yes, but no drawing. Reasonable conclusion: plans seem to have been approved without full sketch for driveway. Other explanations, anyone?

Name :   CJK Fed up
Location :   look in the files
Date :   
Message :   Application and drawing for new driveway approved by Village boards 9/06 and by DOT 10/06 w/ permit. AC needs a new fact checker to avoid these potentially libelous remarks.

Name :   
Location :   Lyon House - CJs place
Date :   5/6/07
Message :   Maybe the VB should make a stop work order on it then. Till it is made right. I hope someone is taking notes for the next person that wants to do something W/O a permit. The board will have to let them do it also. Thats all

Name :   Lyon House Sold
Location :   to the Zwigards of NYC
Date :   as reported in 05/06/07 Citizen
Message :   for 187.5K (assessed at 185K). Word is they plan to start fixing it up soon & move in before next winter. We wish them the best!

Name :   Local
Location :   Vicinity
Date :   Sat.
Message :   The only person around here known only as Dugan (no first name) is Bills brother, Brian (also known as Dugie). You confuse me referring to Bill thus.

Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Aurora
Date :   5/4/07
Message :   Maybe the couple from PA should read the latest semi-coherent ramble from Dugan in the Citizen - www.auburnpub.com/articles/2007/04/30/news/lake_life/lakelife05.txt

Name :   r
Location :   around
Date :   may
Message :   Tell them nothing Let them come to their own conclusions

Name :   Former Main Streeter
Location :   Nearby
Date :   Wed
Message :   Could sure use more folks like the nice couple from Pennsylvania -- but what to tell them?

Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Aurora
Date :   May Day
Message :   Many thanks to our local Girl Scout Troop for leaving May Day posies at our doors this afternoon. Nice, and heartwarmingly nostalgic...

Name :   resident
Location :   here
Date :   5-1-07
Message :   i know cj had permission for new stone so-called shared drive -- all on lyon land -- but did she have permit to dig out half the lyon back yard and use it as fill for webb? sure looks like thats what happened.

Name :   next door
Location :   cjs place
Date :   4/30
Message :   Maybe she needs to put in a stone drive as they did next door. One thing for sure is I would never give up the drive she uses now.

Name :   Update
Location :   Our Town
Date :   4-30-07
Message :   From what we can tell...VB decided it needed more info and postposed vote again on 2 new laws, but renewed Staleys contract with village as well as Jackys (!), while Laura H needs to return to ZBA with more info and then will get answers (maybe).

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   New Oxymoron = *Courtesy of Staley* -- ha!

Name :   Laura Holland
Location :   Aurora, New York
Date :   April 25, 2007
Message :   I cant go to the meeting. After the rude & unprofessional & ignorant & biased behavior my family & I have experienced courtesy of Staley, I cannot bring myself to be present while he is re-anointed and his powers expanded.

Name :   VB Meeting Tomorrow.
Location :   Agenda in kiosk
Date :   (tuesday the 24th)
Message :   looks interesting, includes vote on those new laws (allowing village to demo any empty building regardless of condition, giving Staley power to treat us like shit if he feels like it, etc) and renewal of webmaster contract for Jackie. Sounds like a fun!

Name :   resident
Location :   here
Date :   4-24-07
Message :   its so great to see the protest car back on duty!! cant believe its being attacked again already. lets try to get a photo of the culprit in action.

Name :   Jay OHearn
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Please take a look at the post I put up today on the Feedback Forum.

Name :   Former Main Streeter
Location :   Nearby
Date :   monday
Message :   How did Laura H make out at the most recent meeting where she again tried to get a simple answer to her simple informational questions?

Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   www.auburnpub.com/articles/2007/04/21/news/local_news/in_brief/inbrief01.txt
Date :   St. Georges Day
Message :   Look - Village has 37K+ surplus annual funds! But according to GF we couldnt afford new roof for PO he wants demolished. So now we get to pay for clean up of roof leak & ceiling collapse from storm last week. Idiotic fiscal management!

Name :   Does anyone here know
Location :   if Aurora is still lucky
Date :   enough to ....
Message :   ....count Katie Waller as a resident? I have not seen her around of late.

Name :   farmer
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   http://aurorany.org/WebbWorkContinues.html looks like most of lyon house property is moving next door?

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   Thurs, Apr 19th
Message :   Oh! But link to Democaracy for America in Aurora (NOT!) off Feedback Forum shows GF has a #2 ruler in his imaginery playgroup -- even tho she is inactive. (Too busy moving houses!)

Name :   resident
Location :   village kiosk
Date :   4.18.07
Message :   Joesph K. (aka Laura Holland) on posted agenda for tonite ZBA meeting to again ask her unanswered questions. Who will answer? www.aurorany.org/Staley.html

Name :   A sighting
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   George Farenthold in shorts and a LOOK-AT-ME!! yellow t-shirt grandstanding on the roof of the post office this morning. Everything he does is ultimately self-serving. Or Pleasant serving.

Name :   
Location :   feedback forum
Date :   
Message :   so who named georgie as spokesidiot for all democrats in aurora? what a joke - a club with one member - yet he sells himself to arcuri as legit.

Name :   Former Main Streeter
Location :   Nearby
Date :   Monday
Message :   Welcome to the Castle, Ms. Kafka.

Name :   Q
Location :   here
Date :   4-15-07
Message :   OK so when does Staley contract get renewed? Annual right? When? http://www.aurorany.org/Staley.html

Name :   Watchman
Location :   www.aurorany.org/Arcuri.html
Date :   April 15
Message :   I see letter from Crawford is up here now, but I think it was the one from KAH that listed all the lies from Georgie. Lots of em.

Name :   K.A.Hindenlang
Location :   Main St.
Date :   13 April 07
Message :   Arcuri answered me also, bit longer letter - repositioned himself, politely thanked & invited me to share additional info. Included the key *as I now understand it* paragraph.

Name :   I saw the response to
Location :   Crawford posted in the kiosk
Date :   
Message :   too bad his letter itself wasnt there..the one that detailed all the lies George F told to Arcuri.

Name :   Aside to SIA: please, oh pleeeeze
Location :   get off your soapbox at the Citizen site.
Date :   Friday the 13th
Message :   You hurt rather than help the cause with extended hyperbolic rants that neither convince *enemies* nor assist *friends.*

Name :   supporter
Location :   www.aurorany.org/Arcuri.html
Date :   4/12/07
Message :   Looks like Arcuri changed his tune, maybe reacting to complaints from residents about his parroting disinformation from Farenthold to Senk? Wonder if the Congressman responded to anyone else?

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Alan Connors is still probably best bet to ask about Aurorafest, I think he has chaired or been on the committee for many years. You could try Geo Peter, but...

Name :   3 years ago? Who was teh
Location :   AFest chair then?
Date :   
Message :   I would like to find out why the AFest committee ended that contest. Who to ask?


Name :   REAL local
Location :   Aurora
Date :   4/10/07
Message :   AuroraFest has not given out 1st, 2nd or 3rd place trophies in the past 3 years. After all how would it look if the Aurorafest judges agreed to pick a float picking on PTR? Rl

Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   April 9
Message :   Why ask AF people? Ask Alan Connors, chair of *our* Aurorafest. Hey, whats the theme this year? The Dolls House? Enemy of the People? Comedy of Errors? The Importance of Being Pleasant?

Name :   Is it true? No more
Location :   aurorafest float contest?
Date :   If it is, someone
Message :   should ask the AF people Why?. Make someone explain it. I bet they wont. They are all running scared of lil ole Tudy.

Name :   main st. guy
Location :   aurora
Date :   almost 4/8/07
Message :   Hop, Hop. Happy Easter all.

Name :   resident
Location :   here
Date :   4-7-07
Message :   See GF promo of Aurorafest in Village Newsletter: parade at 4PM - since when? Being scheduled around an Inn wedding this year? And theyre moving it back up to campus again - ha, gotta keep it away from the tourists.

Name :   Pleasant for President
Location :   Aurora
Date :   4/7/07
Message :   I want to be the Mayor so I can do as I wish. Oh wait I already have Gunderson and the VB in my pocketbook. Oh And Lisa, Gacci, even CJ. The list goes on. ;^P

Name :   Me
Location :   My Village
Date :   4-6-07
Message :   Aurora was Pleasant before!

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   I love the renovations in Aurora. Pleasant for President!

Name :   Embrace change and moron?
Location :   No thanks!
Date :   4-6-07
Message :   And for more on change as it is practiced in Aurora under Rowland, see the one April 5th entry at - http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2007/04/01/news/local_news/news06.txt

Name :   Time
Location :   to
Date :   Embrace change
Message :   and more on

Name :   Hey! FYI?
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Put your response here. You know they will read it.

Name :   
Location :   looking at that village newsletter
Date :   thurs. april 5
Message :   Schuster is also connected to Options for Independence, group GF diverted when residents contacted them for help on PO, he instead ran around putting up handicapped parking signs - and got an award!

Name :   FYI
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Thu
Message :   I have twice sent posts to the Citizen w/ examples of Pleasants behavior (witnessed first hand) which support the assertion that you cant reason with her - neither has been posted. I will keep trying.

Name :   Very Good Question
Location :   13026
Date :   4-4-07
Message :   Maybe you -& others?- should ask him? (All, but specially fellow liberals or at least registered democrats?) Contact info on county web site: Daniel Schuster, 123 East Genesee Street, Auburn NY 13021; Phone: 253-4842; email - ccdistrict12@cayugacounty.us

Name :   Dan Schuster is a newly elected
Location :   Cay Co legislator, and a
Date :   dyed-in-the-wool liberal
Message :   so I wonder how it is that he gets along so well with a big business billionaires manservant.

Name :   Confirmed by note at bottom of
Location :   1st page of Village Newsletter
Date :   enclosed with April water bill.
Message :   Earlier post correct: the guy with GF looking at Heary who will evaluate handicapped accessibility options and ADA compliance of new PO is Dan Schuster -- the Cayuga County legislator who put Farentholds name forward to take Fearons job.

Name :   Laura Holland
Location :   Re: the library fundraising
Date :   
Message :   Hey! I have a good idea...since George Peter was willing to mortgage his house to tear something down (like our new home), why doesnt he mortgage his house to build something up, like the library ?

Name :   Politics as usual?
Location :   www.aurorany.org/Arcuri.html
Date :   April 3
Message :   Maybe Arcuri gets a donation from Wisc. if he pressures fed employee to give immediate approval to PO move. But what about accessibility & preservation requirements? Those laws exist for public protection. So, who does Arcuri represent in this? Sigh...

Name :   Former Main Streeter
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Monday
Message :   Can youu document Arcuris Auburn office asst received Wells award? Thats more then just cozy. I searched Wells site & pdf of current Express & found nothing.

Name :   Whaaaat?
Location :   www.aurorany.org/Arcuri.html
Date :   Have you all read this letter from our congressman?
Message :   What the hell is he up to? Getting all his info from GF, guy with acknowledged conflict of interest in the project? Oh wait, look: the assistant in Arcuri Auburn Office just got picked by Wells Rulers for a big feature in alumnae magazine. Cozy, indeed!

Name :   That Million is not A Grant. Its the money PTR
Location :   is obligated to spend on HER parking lot
Date :   in exchange for destroying OUR post office.
Message :   And if she overspends & exceeds the 1M (and you know she will) then she gets to renege on promised features of the parking lot, like restoring access she ruined to our old park. Its all a big scam; check out that MOU.

Name :   hey Who Me
Location :   if you were in the Fargo
Date :   
Message :   I hope it was only to use the bathroom.

Name :   Who Me
Location :   The Heary Biulding
Date :   last week
Message :   I was at the Fargo one afternoon and saw GF in front of the PO with someone pointing and raiseing his arm like this is where the ramp should go@the Heary Bldg. He wants that mill.

Name :   Clown Watcher
Location :   the circus tent
Date :   4-1-07
Message :   That big old April Fool is at it again! Whats Georgie gone and done now? See www.aurorany.org/Arcuri.html and dont let him get away with it.

Name :   I cared
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   till I saw who was going to rally the troops. http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2007/04/01/news/local_news/news06.txt

Name :   main st. guy
Location :   aurora
Date :   3/27/07
Message :   Martha will get her way just as Pleasant did http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261624,00.html

Name :   just as scary
Location :   if not more so
Date :   3.26.07
Message :   Andy Fusco may run for District Attorney of Cayuga County. www.auburnpub.com/articles/2007/03/16/news/opinion/guy_cosentino/gc01.txt

Name :   did you see
Location :   the citizen
Date :   back on 3/14
Message :   that farenthold may run for county office? www.auburnpub.com/articles/2007/03/14/news/opinion/guy_cosentino/gc01.txt

Name :   Former Main Streeter
Location :   Nearby
Date :   Sunday morning
Message :   There are some really articulate posts on that blogspot -- its well worth the copy-n-paste to go to the website and read them. Recommend it to your dubious friends who think we are all just cranks here.

Name :   Reader
Location :   More responses:
Date :   
Message :   http://yorkstaters.blogspot.com/2007/02/town-and-gown-looking-closer-at.html

Name :   update
Location :   http://blog.syracuse.com/news/2007/03/minor_setback_for_victoria_and.html
Date :   wed eve
Message :   Victoria and Richard MacKenzie-Childs have been dealt a minor setback in their trademark infringement case with Pleasant Rowland....

Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Aurora
Date :   St. Josephs Day
Message :   Minutes from Jan 17th Public Hearing on those two laws suggest this should NOT be moving forward yet. But, is it? Anyone know? www.auroranewyork.us/Jan1707PublicHearing.html

Name :   K.A.Hindenlang
Location :   Main Street
Date :   19 March 2007
Message :   Heard VB meeting on Wed 3/21 may vote to approve those horrible new laws proposed by code officer. In January Trustees said laws needed major revision. Did that happen? Isnt public hearing needed for the new versions? And what about input from CPP & PB?

Name :   A Soldier
Location :   Anywhere Required
Date :   Current/ZULU
Message :   Dance diversity is wonderous. From the Tango to fiddlin, Turkey in the Straw. But how about returning to local rock bands/dances that the INN promoted decades ago? ALAS! The good ole days! Lost forever...

Name :   Oh my God
Location :   The Inn
Date :   3/16/07
Message :   Local Lifer.. I hear that Jerry Springer is going to be there this coming Tuesday. I am not sure if it is for a show or just dance.

Name :   Local Lifer
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Mar 16
Message :   Dancing is fine for the occasional visitor (Im sure it is!) Nothing wrong with it per se, its just so obviously out of tune with local life.

Name :   Some really dumb people
Location :   involved in this.
Date :   
Message :   whos screwball idea is tango lessons??

Name :   Last Tango
Location :   in Aurora
Date :   
Message :   from the number of cars parked down there that night, it looks like this Tango night fizzled too. And they dont have the winter weather to blame this time.

Name :   *FREE Tango TONIGHT!*
Location :   (sent to college staff)
Date :   today :) :-) :-0
Message :   If you missed Tango lessons last week, nows your chance to try! We know weather kept many away last week so our instructors are going to start from beginning tonight. Join us at Aurora Inn tonight at 7:00 for FREE Tango lessons, followed by open dance.

Name :   Reader
Location :   
Date :   March 12, 2007
Message :   http://www.syracuse.com/articles/cayuga/index.ssf?/base/news-8/117377699734330.xml&coll=1

Name :   A Soldier
Location :   Anywhere Required
Date :   Current/ZULU
Message :   Your last two sentences remind me of a carpetbagger from Arkansas, dangerous indeed!

Name :   HQP may be baloney
Location :   but it is spreading far and near
Date :   March 11
Message :   Foolish insecure victims = pathetic, but HQP often weeds them out. Narcissistic blame-gamers entering program can emerge totally self-indulgent amoral megalomaniacs confirmed in their psychoses = sick. Add cash&power to act out their madness = dangerous.

Name :   phooy
Location :   aurora
Date :   march
Message :   weird? sick and dangerous? nah, more like pathetic, pathetic, and pathetic. Those people must have no self-confidence, and no intelligence at all, to need that Quadrinity baloney.

Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   March 10
Message :   Reportedly last night of HQP participants encouraged to more than Tango w/ strangers. Remember: spouses cant take HQP together. Of course *forbidden* behavior which participants may later regret ties them closer to controllers who know their *secret*...

Name :   Q
Location :   
Date :   3-9-07
Message :   what weird HQP sexual stuff???

Name :   Former Main Streeter
Location :   Nearby
Date :   Still Friday
Message :   Re: Hoffmann Institute in Forum: Weird is hardly the right adjective -- sick and dangerous come much closer.

Name :   Ten Gallon
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Dont think the tango night was a big hit, I drove by the inn that night and saw 4 cars parked out front, and plenty of empty curb space around them.

Name :   Watchman
Location :   Aurora
Date :   March 9, 2007
Message :   Not sure why dance info posted here, but Im still amused by what LLC idiots think will appeal to local customers: laughed when I read this. (Also curious about strange slightly salacious tone in dance promo which may echo some wierd HQP sexual stuff...)

Name :   main st guy
Location :   aurora
Date :   3/8/07
Message :   Why in the HELL would I want to dance at the Inn. Wait why would I want to know anything about the last post about the dance thing at the Inn?!?. Tell me poster.

Name :   Even More
Name :   FREE Argentine Tango
Location :   Aurora Inn WebSite ;-)
Date :   Tuesdays in March
Message :   *Unlock the mysteries of Tango! Not to be confused w/ Ballroom Tango...Argentine Tango is characterized by a close embrace...made unique thru improvisation. Singles & couples welcome, although you may feel most comfortable with a partner that you know.*

Location :   Aurora
Date :   2.25.07
Message :   It would be the last foundation renovation project scheduled for a while, Hutchinson said. Maybe Pleasant lies?

Name :   Even Stranger
Location :   Wed Nite Meeting
Date :   2-24-07
Message :   DHutchinson quoted in article, but she wasnt at PO meeting. No official reps of AF LLC attended: no KWaller, WMarsh, LRyerson, etc. Wonder why?

Name :   SIA, again
Location :   Aurora, again
Date :   2/23/07
Message :   AND... trust Whacky Jacci to say something totally idiotic... Aurora already HAS a PO in the center of town, you nitwit!

Name :   resident
Location :   here
Date :   2-23-07
Message :   Handicapped entrance at the front of Heary P.O.? Whoops - there goes Pleasants balls! She wont like that much. Ha, bet she still finds a way to force elderly gimps to use the back door in her picture perfect village.

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   www.auburnpub.com/articles/2007/02/22/news/local_news/news02.txt

Name :   Very Strange
Location :   last nights meeting
Date :   2-22-07
Message :   Senk of USPS had no site plans to present & nothing to announce (!?), but said sponsor (PTR) faces design challenge making Heary Bldg comply w/ USPS accessibility standards (front handicapped entrance preferred), and SHPO still has to approve project.

Name :   For : Down the road
Location :   the village
Date :   2/21/07
Message :   Get a life? Come on. We keep you here. So now think about that!

Name :   coalition supporter
Location :   aurora
Date :   2/21/06
Message :   Oh, the GETTALIFE guy is back! Dont you just love that he has nothing better to do than read our exchanges so he can get hot about it? Now THERE is a guy who needs to get a life. Or maybe just a new assignment from his keepers...

Name :   As far as I can tell...
Location :   13026
Date :   1.21.07
Message :   yes, I agree, it does bear watching. And I remember that before she got hold of Aurora, PTR had a sort-of trial run in Mt Kisko. Who knows what MS might head for eventually? (Lets just hope it stays down-state!)

Name :   Down the road
Location :   and thinking
Date :   that you cant win
Message :   The VB meeting isnt takiing place on Ash Wednesday just to bug you, nor did we get 24 inches of snow on VD to thwart you. Get a life, people!

Name :   watcher
Location :   CNY
Date :   2/21
Message :   Well I think I will watch and see how it a plays out. After all there are dishs named after buildings in Aurora. And I know PTR did not own the place then. But still something 2 watch

Name :   Well, I really can tell a quite a bit...
Location :   because I have facts on which to base my comparison...
Date :   2.21.07
Message :   since I have family living by 1 of the several MS estates, and have observed 1st hand that tho annoying & intrusive shes far better neighbor than PTR. Stewart hasnt yet tried to take-over & entirely re-make Katonah, East Hampton, Westport or Seal Harbor.

Name :   watcher
Location :   13026 or
Date :   today
Message :   As far as I can tell: Does that make any it different. It all starts somewhere. But then it is in someother village right! Come on.

Name :   And
Location :   13026
Date :   
Message :   Martha actually LIVES in Katonah.

Name :   As far as I can tell...
Location :   13026
Date :   2.20.07
Message :   MS just wants Katonah name for a furniture line. Hasnt gutted historic buildings or pushed out all local businesses; only bought 1 mansion there. Even if she tries to run over neighbors with car once in a while, still a big improvement over PTR.

Name :   watcher
Location :   close
Date :   2/19/07
Message :   Katonah, NY and Martha Stewart. Sounds like Aurora, NY and Pleasant. Hope it works out better for them.

Name :   cant tell
Location :   Aurora
Date :   2/19/07
Message :   Did anyone hear on NPR today about a company that will deliver WiFi. And they named Aurora, Penn Yan etc. I was snoozing and missed it. Did anyone hear if it is true? I hope they play it over.

Name :   Q
Location :   here
Date :   2-19-06
Message :   Hey, wont this kill GFs plan to bring village supported (and pleasant controlled) wireless internet to Aurora? Yipee! www.syracuse.com/articles/cayuga/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1171879321140680.xml&coll=1

Name :   SIA
Location :   Aurora
Date :   2/19/07
Message :   TO PROUD AMERICAN: GET IT STRAIGHT before opening your mouth. Wells refused to sell these properties. THATS why they went to pot.

Name :   Hi, there!
Location :   Do you still
Date :   believe in WMDs, too?
Message :   Inn was never boarded up, shut down due to mismanagement - period. Good offers were made, but college refused to sell it or market. (The delusional fabrications and lame appeal to *patriotism* are pathetic beyond words.)

Name :   The Citizen
Location :   misses the point again.
Date :   2/18/07
Message :   www.auburnpub.com/articles/2007/02/17/news/local_news/news04.txt

Name :   Proud American
Location :   your home town
Date :   present
Message :   Bicker bicker bicker, all up in arms over katty rumors, take a moment from your venting and realize that if you loved your town so much why didnt you get together and buy these properties yourselves, the Inn was boarded up, the historic market was a dark,

Name :   resident
Location :   here
Date :   12-16-07
Message :   Just got yellow card to 13026 customers from Aurora Postmaster about this Wed meeting, same wording as Senk but not in his name. Less than a week notice! And its going to be on Ash Wednesday & during school break. How very thoughtful.

Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Snow
Date :   St. Valentines Day
Message :   No PB meeting tonite beacuse of weather. (Too bad storm didnt wait until next Wed and keep USPS official Senk in CT.)

Name :   Yes the sign is large
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   but I guess would count as temporary so maybe they have 30 days, like political signs, but whoops, no, those Ban The Coalition signs stayed up for months & months, and all the complaints to VB ZBA Mayor & Staley could not get them down. So good luck.

Name :   drive by
Location :   tune
Date :   2/13
Message :   catchy tune you have there Some where over the Fargo Way up high

Name :   Why doesnt someone
Location :   rent that space
Date :   
Message :   and put a real Aurora bar in there? Somewhere Over the Fargo.

Name :   drive by
Location :   The Fargo
Date :   2/12
Message :   Has anyone seen the sign in the window above the Fargo? I am thinking it is a bit large for signage size in Aurora? Any thoughts anyone.

Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Aurora P.O.
Date :   2/11/07
Message :   Senk responded to several of us asking about nature of meeting with same paragraph; its up on forum now. Suggest those concerned review background & new outline of whole PO business on coalition website - very useful (thanks).

Name :   coalition supporter
Location :   aurora
Date :   2/9/07
Message :   reall think we helped make her sick life hell? hope so after what shes done to this place. think: post office not down yet. we delayed it 4 years. keep working keep trying. dont let her do this. she cant own whole village center. thats wrong.

Name :   home for sale
Location :   Leffingwell place
Date :   2/9
Message :   The Leffingwell place. Do you really think she would go through a local broker if she were to sell. And well keep it hush, hush till the PO is torn down . Then BLOW out of town with I will fix them for making my life hell. Just one more slap she can give

Name :   resident
Location :   here
Date :   2-9-07
Message :   i heard a while back that old leffingwell place was shown to real estate agent. but no listing yet. so maybe just a rumor?

Name :   main st. guy
Location :   main st.
Date :   today 2/8
Message :   Watchman - What I heard while I was getting a newspaper. That there was talk about PTR selling the homes. All I am saying is or has anyone else heard this? I am NOT saying this is in fact true or not. Just reporting a tid bit of info.

Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   Feb 8
Message :   Last year village officials stupidly approved P.O. plans not okayed by USPS, so theyll have to go thru it all again. To Main Street Guy: you mean you over-heard that Leffingwell House & Abbott House are up for sale?

Name :   main st. guy
Location :   main st.
Date :   2/8/07
Message :   I over heard two people talking about some land that may be up for sale on main st.. I do not know the address for sale. But they are Pleasants two homes in the village. Has anyone heard of this?

Name :   Syracuse Newspaper
Location :   www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/cayuga/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1170929058281140.xml&coll=1
Date :   02/08/07
Message :   As usual with this USPS thing, Toxic Tobin somehow has advance notice and gets out a story kissing pleasant butt and ignoring the real & serious concerns of this community.

Name :   Notice from Senk does not say what its about!
Location :   see feedback forum
Date :   2-7-07
Message :   But he must addres major unresolved issues: inadequate handicapped access & Section 106 Review required for any fed agency wanting to alter bldg in a Natl Historic District. (Fact that the work was already done before any review is a Big Problem.)

Name :   Senks new public meeting
Location :   why? what about?
Date :   
Message :   Anyone know? I thought this was all decided last year, when the wimpy village officials sold out to Pleasant once more.

Name :   villager
Location :   aurora
Date :   tues, feb 6
Message :   The USPS has asked the Village to set up a public meeting with Paul Senk for Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 6:30 PM in the Meeting Room of the Firehouse.

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   yea, and how about bribing the united states postal service to let her have her way regardless of what is best for the community?

Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Aurora
Date :   2/5/07
Message :   Also: since Aurora Foundation LLC is wholly owned subsidiary of a private charitable foundation, isnt it prohibted by law from making cash contributions to political candidates (like Gary Finch)?

Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   Feb 4
Message :   She already got big tax write-off setting up her *philanthropic* foundation, now she must give away X amt each yr or pay Big IRS Fine, but tries obsessively to keep Total Control of how her Big Gift to Aurora is spent; may end up at odds with IRS Code.

Name :   curious
Location :   my home
Date :   
Message :   why would a person of her means have to worry about playing tax games like that? Shes not young, and she likely has more money than time.

Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Aurora
Date :   2/4/07
Message :   So, Aurora Found LLC is wholly owned subsidiary of Rowlands own private org! She gets tax break to give cash away but gets to spend it herself? Bet IRS had some Qs on that -- then maybe she had to *turn over* operations to Wells. One scam after another?

Name :   Interesting
Location :   http://www.aurorany.org/IRS.html
Date :   2.3.07
Message :   What exactly is the Aurora Foundation LLC, and who owns it? Why does the LLC still exist almost a year after everything was said to have been transferred to the college?

Name :   Cmon, somebody
Location :   must know and
Date :   can share here
Message :   any details on the sale, if any, of Lyon house.

Name :   Webdog
Location :   online
Date :   today and everyday
Message :   Hey! Only about 48 hours left to vote for your favorite(s) in our January caption contest, see www.aurorany.org/Poll.html

Name :   Sympathetic
Location :   Far away
Date :   1/28
Message :   Guest House opened May ? 2005 Reunion alumnae were given one of the first official opening tours. Think the Zabriskie guests had been only people to use it at that time.

Name :   Q
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Anyone remember when French House reopened as the EB Morgan House Lakeside Retreat? Thanks.

Name :   resident
Location :   thanks
Date :   1-27-07
Message :   sorry for guy driving wells truck but glad to know damage wasnt on purpose, have been worried about some of the nonlocal not-so-nice types coming into village to work for Pleasant and their bad behavior maybe continuing.

Name :   What
Location :   Regarding Dories
Date :   1/26/07
Message :   Dont make it out to be that bad It was done by a Wells College truck. The guy the gets the garbage did it.

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Name :   resident
Location :   here
Date :   1-26-07
Message :   what happened to north wall of dories last night? looks like maybe more vandalism or another break-in attempt, cant think what else could have caused that damage...