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Volume 87, No. 19 May 11 to 17, 2011
Community Don’t forget to vote
The Baldwinsville Central School District will present a $92,679,249 2011-12 budget, which decreases spending but increases the tax levy 1.8 percent, for public vote 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. May 17 at Baker High School. A separate proposition ($881,108 designated for the purchase of nine busses) and a board of education election will also be on the ballot.
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DENIZENS OF THE DEEP
By Erin Wisneski editor@baldwinsvillemessenger.com
By Erin Wisneski
editor@baldwinsvillemessenger.com
The NE Regional, the tournament Baldwinsville
After a multi-year hiatus, developers of the Highland Meadows subdivision have returned to the town board with a new proposal: cluster development. Six years ago, developers proposed a standard layout for the 124-acre parcel located west of Indian Springs and south of Giddings Crest. After New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Army Corps of Engineers reviewed the area, it was determined the proposed design would disrupt the wetlands in the area. As a result, the project was put on hold. At the April 11 Lysander Town Board meeting, Mario Darrigo, one of the primaries for the new development group Highland Meadows
Wild Carp Week will kickoff this Saturday despite flooding along the banks of the Seneca River. According to Jason Bernhardt, cofounder of Wild Carp Companies, the organization bringing the event to Baldwinsville, the tournament is hap-
See Carp, page 28
See Highland, page 28
pening as planned. “We may have to move a couple of the traditional pegs (team locations) we’re accustomed to using, but we also don’t have as many teams as in the past, so that gives us some flexibility,� Bernhardt said.
Contenders announce candidacy in Lysander New party to introduce candidates at open house Staff reports There’s a new party in town and it’s called the Lysander Bipartisan Coalition (LBC). “The name of our party reflects the number one priority of our members,� said spokesperson Steve McMahon. “We’ve put the people of Lysander ahead of our respective political parties. We don’t see ourselves as members of the local Republican, Democratic, Conservative or Independence parties, but as citizens of Lysander. Our town is broken, and we need to work together to fix it now.�
The LBC’s slate of candidates for town elections this November reflects this bipartisan composition as supervisor and justice candidates Joe Coleman and Charles Mantione, respectively, are Democrats and councilor candidates Andy Reeves and Jeff Dack are Republicans. The candidates are also geographically diverse. Coleman and his wife, Kathy, live in Indian Springs, Reeves is a resident of the western end of town, Dack is a resident of Radisson and Mantione, a father of four, lives in Abbott’s Landing. LBC will unveil the five planks of its platform at an open house and public meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday May 12 at the Foxfire Clubhouse in Village Green. McMahon said that See Candidates, page 28
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Sean Lehrer displays a nice 18 lb. 6 oz. common carp caught during Session four of Wild Carp Club, which was formed as part of Wild Carp Companies.
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Joe Coleman, center, along with Jeff Dack, left, and Andy Reeves, are running in this year’s Lysander election on the Lysander Bipartisan Coalition (LBC) ticket. Coleman seeks the supervisor position, and Dack and Reeves seek councilor seats. The LBC will host an open house at 7 p.m. Thursday at Foxfire Clubhouse.
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