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Volume 181, No. 16 April 20 to 26, 2011

No tax hike from Skan village board

Community

‘Think change, not cuts’ By Dwayne Houghton

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New officers inducted at Skan Garden Club event The group’s Spring Luncheon was held April 14 at the Skaneateles Country Club. ...See page 3

Schools

High winds

hit condo

Severed pine strikes roof By Dwayne Houghton

editor@skaneatelespress.com At the Thayer House condominiums Saturday, violent winds snapped a tall pine 15 feet from the base and sent the rest of the heavy trunk crashing to the roof of a middle unit condo. No one was in the home at the time. “The winds not only cut the tree off, it pushed the trunk

Candela named ‘Jazz Educator of the Year’ Skaneateles Band Director Angelo Candela was honored on April 16. ...See page 6

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another ten feet away,” said Jim Freeland, caretaker for the condos. “Once it hit the rooftop edge, it crushed just about everything in the way – downspouts, gutters and supporting woodwork. The branches caused internal structural damage that popped the ceiling nails right through the drywall.” Unusually high winds battered the area all day long, scattering limbs and brush everywhere. No injuries were reported.

Skaneateles Dry Cleaners’ final move By Dwayne Houghton

editor@skaneatelespress.com After close to five decades of helping residents and visitors keep their clothes clean at various addresses, the Skaneateles Dry Cleaners on 36 Jordan Street closed for business on Thursday April 15. The Skaneateles Office supply store, which shared the same room space with the dry cleaner, had closed earlier in the year. Like some of the older businesses in Skaneateles, the history of the little dry cleaner is a mobile geography lesson. During the early 1960s, the Skaneateles Dry Cleaner was located on

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Skaneateles Dry Cleaner employee Pat Schmidt on the job. The business closed on April 15. Jordan Street, but directly across the Jordan Street sidewalk to the municidriveway from where it is now. At that pal parking lot. The laundromat and time, the business included the self- dry cleaner moved in the early 1970s service laundromat and was housed in to Fennel Street and the building was the east end of a long, one level apart- torn down. The Key Bank is located ment building that extended from the See Cleaners, page 2

Determined not to raise taxes, the Skaneateles Village Board of Trustees held a public hearing on Monday April 11 and again on Thursday April 14 for the tentative budget. Tightening the appropriation and revenue figures to keep the tax rate flat didn’t come without concern from residents attending both meetings. Monday’s meeting was standing room only as Mayor Hubbard and the board fielded comments and questions from the audience. Considering the large attendance, questions were surprisingly few, as if testament to a board focused on no tax increase and working hard to make it happen. One particular item was the reduction of street maintenance salary figures, from $406,500 to $201,000, resulting in the laying off of three DPW workers. Executive Director of the Skaneateles Chamber of Commerce Sue Dove sternly challenged the board twice about how the final figure came to be. “The public should know just exactly what services may no longer be provided as a result of these cuts,” said Dove. “If I had an organization that faced a budget cut of half yet expected the same service, I’d wonder what I did wrong before.” Skaneateles resident and CSEA Unit President David Short echoed Dove’s sentiSee Village, page 15

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