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VOL.XLII / NO. 20 / January 5, 2021 Serving 47,125 readers week ly
F E AT URE S 2021 in Review ���������������������������������8 The year that promised everything and delivered, well, we’ll let you decide.
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ON T HE WE B Preservation
Local officials hoping to preserve Camp Barton
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ocal officials from three neighboring municipalities have teamed up to convince New York State lawmakers that they should push the state to purchase Camp Barton, a Seneca County Boy Scout camp that is being sold to raise funds for the scouts’ national bankruptcy settlement. Their cause has gained momentum over the last few weeks. Currently a Change.org petition to save Camp Barton has garnered 3,845 signatures, and NY Assembly Member Anna R. Kelles, State Senator Pam Helming and Tomkins County Legislator Anne Koreman have expressed their support for the plan to save the camp. When members of the Baden-Powell Council, owners of the camp, reached out to local municipalities for help saving the property for public use, local leaders took notice. A public campaign was
developed, spearheaded by Trumansburg Mayor Rordan Hart, incoming Ulysses Town Supervisor Kaitlin Olson and Covert Deputy Supervisor Deborah Nottke. The group is pushing for the preservation of the camp through the purchase of the land by New York State with Covert, Ulysses and Trumansburg taking responsibility for the management of the public park it would become. The Village of Trumansburg is invested in the camp’s future for multiple reasons; for one,
the lakeshore well that sits on the 138-acre property used to be the primary water source for the town. “It’s a unique formation,” said Hart. Nothing like it is found anywhere else on Cayuga Lake, he said, and though the village has now renovated and connected to wells in Taughannock Falls State Park, creating a new supply source for Trumansburg, the lakeshore well still constitutes about half of the village’s water system, Hart said. But perhaps more important to Hart is the opportunity to provide village residents with public space on the waterfront while protecting the area from subdivision and residential development. “It could be operated as public space,” Hart said, “with
T a k e ▶ Tree collection Department of Public Works crews will pick up discarded holiday trees between Jan. 3 and Jan. 28 in the city of Ithaca. You can put your tree out regardless of your trash day, and they will
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Camp Barton on the shores of Cayuga Lake
youth recreation, sports, swimming, camping hiking, a place to hold events.” In a detailed plea to NY Governor Kathy Hochul, Kelles and Helming point out that similar arrangements have succeeded before. “This collaborative approach has been successfully used before in the region—at Camp Onanda in the Town of Canandaigua, Ontario County, and Camp Beechwood in the Town of Sodus, Wayne County,” their call to action states. “In both of these cases, New York State acquired these properties and then entered into management agreements
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be collected free of charge as time and weather allows. All trees are chipped and added to the free mulch pile, so remove all decorations, lights, ornaments and stands from the trees. Wreaths will not be accepted. If your tree has not been picked
up, feel free to call Streets and Facilities at (607) 272-1718, and enter extension 3 for the Parks Department. Leave your address and the department will make sure to get it next time the crews are out.
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