SYRACUSE — Turkey Creek Fire Territory and township advisory board members took their oath of office Monday, Jan. 14, administered by Andrew Grossnickle, who was reappointed township attorney. Also sworn in was newly elected township trustee Julie Close, who replaced retiring trustee Barb Griffith. Both boards signed the 2019 volunteer fire contract presented by Fire Chief …read more.

Sunday’s special meeting of the Enchanted Hills Community Association was laced with accusations of illegality and underhandedness, but the members in attendance, along with proxy voters, approved the construction of a new community center paid in part by the Bowen Center. The meeting was called by the association board pursuant to a Dec. 9 written …read more.

It was a messy but ultimately successful exercise in local democracy. Tuesday evening’s meeting of the board of directors of the 735-member Enchanted Hills Community Association was peppered with unintelligible crosstalk, interruptions and mutual volleys of invective, accusations and innuendos, but, at the end of the 2 1/2-hour session, everyone achieved essentially what they came …read more.