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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 04 November 2005 |
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There hasn't been much progress on plans for a new fire house. Todd Mix reported the committee charged with replacing Firehouse #5 in the Village of Lansing has been presented with three potential designs. "Basically the committee doesn't like any of the three that were submitted to us," he told Lansing's Fire Commissioners at their Wednesday (11/02) meeting. He added that the committee will be meeting Saturday (10/08) to consider the drawings again. A new fire house is needed to accommodate modern fire equipment and to make sure adequate equipment is available to service fire fighting and emergency needs in the village. The Fire District has been consulting with the village on possible sites and designs. |
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Oct
28
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 28 October 2005 |
With energy costs sky rocketing the Lansing Board of Education is considering entering into an Energy Performance Contract. Doing so can cut energy costs and would have the added benefit of taking energy saving items out of the proposed capital project, either reducing its cost or leaving room in the proposed budget for other needed items.
The school district's Interim Business Administrator Larry Driscoll explained how the contract works. A company specializing in energy savings conducts an evaluation of the campus, identifying energy saving measures and estimating energy savings based on current usage. They commit to this level of savings, and if it is not met within the term of the contract they write a check to the school district for the difference. Entering into a contract of this sort does not require voter approval.
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Oct
28
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 28 October 2005 |
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At last week's school board meeting Interim Superintendent Tiffany Phillips told the board that she has been exploring alternatives to the current School District Office. A new District Office had been included in early drafts of the new Capital Improvement Project, but was removed because the cost was too high. "The work space is not appropriate for a couple of reasons," she told the board. "One, confidentiality. Two, there's no place for storage of materials. And it's just not a place that you want to represent the school district."
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Oct
28
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 28 October 2005 |
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Tensions were evident between the Town and Village of Lansing when the Town Sewer Committee met this Wednesday. The conflict is over which route a trunk line will take to bring the Town's waste through the Village to the Cayuga Heights treatment plant on Route 34 near the Route 13 ramp. Of the three proposed routes, the Town favors a gravity feed line along the old Ithaca Auburn Railroad bed that is largely owned by private homeowners now, because they ave determined it is considerably less expensive than the other routes. The Village favors Route 34, because it will cause the least disruption to Village residents. Several weeks ago the town extended its October deadline to December to allow the Village time to conduct its own engineering survey to support the choice of the route they favor for the trunk line. The Village plans a public informational meeting November 7 before making its route recommendation. Officials are sending letters to homeowners who may be affected by any of the three routes, so they can get feedback on the issue before deciding on their recommendation.
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Oct
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 28 October 2005 |
 "My Mother was asleep. I said, Mommy I see smoke," says four year old Blake Hunter. It was 1:15am Thursday (10/21) and Meredith Sears was sound asleep when a short circuit in her electric stove started a fire. Blake ran to her room, put clothes against the bottom of the door to keep the smoke out and woke up his mother.It wasn't easy waking her up, but he persisted until she understood there was a problem. "I opened the door and the rest of the house was dark. I could see the glow and hear the crackle of the fire," she says. She put the fire out, then got a neighbor to take Blake while she called the Fire Department.
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