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Laker hoop girls have Pas’cal performs for game ... Page 6 Manor ... Page 8 Volume 181, No. 2 Jan. 12 to 18, 2011
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The entire town board met with village Mayor Bob Green and three representatives from the Skaneateles Volunteer Fire Department regarding fire department concerns on Wednesday morning Jan. 5. The fire department reps, Chief Eric Sells, President Kathy Murphy and Vice President Tammy Dudden, updated the town board on building issues, fundraising for equipment (included discussion of the Firemen Field Days) and the relocation of the Loan Closet.
See Fire, page 5
THINK SPRING: In December Cate Strodel and Sally Mason were already into the spring season in their namesake clothing boutique Cate & Sally on Genesee Street in the heart of downtown Skaneateles. Village business owners and managers comment on 2010 on the business page ... that’s page 7.
Meatballs in the Falls Red rooster hosts first annual meatball cook off to benefit SVFD By Dwayne Houghton
Calendar...............2 Classifieds.......... 15 Editorial................4 Obituaries....10 & 12 Sports...........6 & 13
Missing in Skaneateles
Maroon MidLakes cart vanished By Ellen Leahy
By Ellen Leahy
Building issues Even before the fire department moved into the new firehouse, three items were not covered in the construction budget: An exhaust system, epoxy flooring for the garage floor and landscaping. “The village deemed these functions weren’t necessary to have a functioning building,” Green said.
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A Central New York winter is famous for more than just slick roads and cancelled school days. It’s when outdoor summer grillers become indoor competitive chefs almost on a weekly basis. Tom Benedict, owner of the Red Rooster Pub in Skaneateles Falls, wanted a contest offering something a little different. “Who makes the best, ahem, meatballs in the Falls?” Tom asks. “Anyone who owns a crock-pot makes a decent chili, but how about a meatball competition?” On Sunday Jan. 16, The Red Rooster Pub
will host the First Annual Meatball Cookoff. For an entry fee of $10, anyone cane enter with prizes and prestige going to the chef judged to have the best, ah, meatballs. If cooking isn’t on your resume but eating is, a $5 sampling fee will get you access to all entries. The feasting begins at 1 p.m. with door prizes and raffles throughout the afternoon. Proceeds will benefit the Skaneateles Volunteer Fire Department. For more information and to enter, stop by the Pub at 4618 Jordan Road across from Welch Allyn in Skaneateles Falls or call 685-2326.
Hydrofracking?
At the Jan. 6 town meeting the Town Board set a Feb. 17 public hearing on possible extenstion of the moratorium until July to coincide with state’s moratorium. Original town of Skaneateles moratorium runs from Aug. 23 to Feb. 23. For more on hydrofracking go to page 3.
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It’s not much publicized, but also no secret that Skaneateles merchants continually go out of their way to help out any economic, athletic or artistic pursuit in the village. And so it goes as MidLakes Navigation loaned one of their rolling handcarts (AKA rickshaw) to the Tumbleweed Jones Band. MidLakes uses the cart to move food and beverage from their main kitchen on Jordan Street to their boats in Clift Park. The musicians used the cart to move their gear into the Blue Water Grill on Thursday night, Dec. 23. There was a pretty big crowd as many folks had returned for a holiday in Skaneateles. Lo and behold, sometime during the performance, the cart disappeared. Now consider there was snow on the ground, and being upstate New Yorkers, the first thing the band members did was to look for tracks. Nothing. So, they assumed the cart was heaved into the inlet, but they couldn’t detect it from the bridge, looking into the depths or near the shore. If there is anyone with knowledge of the whereabouts of the “rickshaw,” it would be helpful, especially in this economy, if you would come forward with information on its return. The parties involved will not press charges, they just want to recover the cart. See a poster with more details on Skaneateles Press’ Facebook page.
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