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Name :   http://auburnpub.com/winery/image_ad798a75-e804-5716-828f-bf391f5c67d2.html
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/columnists/carmen_cosentino/grape-seed-oil-its-uses-and-origins/article_6ded3e98-300c-5baf-b314-13eb21c4d070.html

Date :   11.4.12
Message :   its snake oil if you know who is selling it

Location :   out of town
Date :   1/1/12
Message :   What happened at the Post Office meeting on 10/30?
Name :   JP
Location :   Aurora
Date :   
Message :   Munoz for President at Wells
Date :   10.31.12
Message :   boo! who could it be? ajb or lmb? ha - ann rollo?
Name :   Johanna
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Oct 30, 2012
Message :   Why wont LMR just bow out of Wells and go? A year of goodbye...please. She has taken all and done little. Does she think she is Oprah?
Name :   the board decided on an
Location :   
Date :   interim
Message :   president. Someone from Wells - no surprise - but who?
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   10.23.12
Message :   u r right. no wccs cars checking pleasant properties in village anymore. maybe security now provided by their own goons. like the ones who slashed js tires. think about that and watch out, watchman!
Name :   More desparate
Location :   budgets cuts
Date :   Lately
Message :   Wells Security, WCCS, does not drive around town.
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   10.7.12
Message :   they hate the pretentious food and the snotty phony *upbeat* people theyve hired to push their product. its all about making money not serving students trying to -ha!- get an education.
Name :   @FoxNews
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Those ratings are still based on years-old statistics. Almost every student Ive spoken with is enjoying the food on campus.
Name :   Fox News
Location :   http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/10/02/worst-colleges-for-foodies/
Date :   10/2/12
Message :   Worst College Food - Wells College ranks #3 in the country. These dining hall people are the same ones who run -- or should I say ruin -- the food operations for the Inn, Fargo, and Dories.
Name :   LHolland
Location :   
Date :   Ryerson should have acknowledged this:
Message :   http://www.scribd.com/doc/108839074
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Still here!
Date :   10/2/12
Message :   Js letter before it was edited at The Citizens request: http://www.scribd.com/doc/108776412
Name :   Reader
Location :   
Date :   October 2, 2012
Message :   http://auburnpub.com/news/opinion/mailbag/columnist-unfairly-attacked-old-fargo/article_cf420d63-f622-5acc-b99c-6d0c503c7631.html
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   10/2
Message :   To Jaymar: Good letter in the Citizen today taking the columnist who characterized the old Fargo as a puke-hidden-by-sawdust dump to task. Smarmy indeed.
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   13026
Date :   9/30/12
Message :   USPS will hold a public meeting re future of Aurora PO on Tues, 10/30/12 @ 5:30pm at the PO to give survey results, answer questions, and receive input. (Will we all fit in the lobby?)
Name :   Save our Post Office!
Location :   Aurora
Date :   9/27/12
Message :   All residents recd a questionnaire from USPS which must be returned by 10/16. Please vote to keep our PO in place and open 6 instead of 6.5 hrs a week. Dont let it be taken over by *private commercial interests* - that would be Pleasant Rowland!
Name :   LHolland
Location :   So, fill the year with rebuttals.
Date :   9/20/2012 The very poor writer at The Citizen
Message :   does not know that the Aurora Village Board of Trustees (not including GF, of course) wrote Rowland & Ryerson and asked them to keep their greedy paws off the Fargo. Because it WAS a fine place.
Name :   Bidding a fond goodbye to P-Rye
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/opinion/columnists/andrew_roblee/roblee-bidding-a-fond-goodbye-to-p-rye/article_1b3c1997-f38c-5a30-83e9-a5a3c2f32e5c.html
Date :   9-17-12
Message :   oh god a year of this to come.
Name :   CNY Alumna
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/wells-college-enrollment-up-almost-percent/article_221e9036-4a2b-58e5-8883-772e8def10ca.html
Date :   9/7/12
Message :   BUT - faculty on campus say that half the students this year are new. That means a huge number of upper class students have bailed out - and so will these new arrivals. LMRs big success, ha!
Name :   wondering
Location :   
Date :   8/25
Message :   If LMR had a 32 percent increase in enrollment why have wells folks gone w/o a raise for 4 years
Name :   Yep - thats what were afraid of.
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/president-of-wells-college-plans-to-retire/article_955ad826-32d3-5646-bae0-99bd1c3b9f93.html
Date :   (The day after, the Citizen catches up)
Message :   *** Even when her presidency ends, shell still be with Wells,* Rollo said. **
Name :   Curious
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   How do all the tenured PHDs feel about Lisa getting a sabbatical?
Name :   L Holland
Location :   And the biggest joke yet
Date :   August 23, 2012
Message :   is her so-called Sabbatical Year. Ha ha - just another way to siphon more $ from the college to HER bank account.
Name :   What?
Location :   Her remarkable life????
Date :   
Message :   What about her remarkable arrogance? What about her remarkable ineptitude? What about her remarkable dishonesty? What about her remarkable greed?
Name :   
Location :   Celebration city
Date :   8/23/12
Message :   Go George, go. Go to Texas. Go to Europe . Go to California. Go to Hell. Just GO. Better days may await Aurora with those two gone.
Name :   As we neared the end of her current contract,
Location :   she had let us know that it was time for her
Date :   to consider the next phase of her remarkable life.
Message :   She has positioned the College for an exciting future and thankfully will devote her sabbatical year to matters of mutual interest as we determine just what that future will look like.”
Name :   Ears in the wall
Location :   Aurora
Date :   the best day
Message :   told you in May Name : Ears in the wall Location : Wells College Date : the day before Message : From what I have heard LMR will be leaving very soon. Has she spoke of it yet Wells folks? FILL US IN.
Name :   
Location :   http://www.wells.edu/news/2012/lisa-marsh-ryerson-announces-retirement.aspx
Date :   8.23.12
Message :   announced at convocation tonite, email to everyone connected to wells, and now on the website. and she will stay on for a year and longer more as wells becomes... what?
Name :   Curious
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Aug 23, 2012
Message :   At Wells College convocation, Lisa Ryerson announced she will retire at the end of this academic year. Can we hope this involves leaving the village? With George?
Name :   long week in Bouckville
Location :   and every where I turned
Date :   was someone trying to sell me
Message :   Clevelands Antiques, in Sherwood. She bought a reputation. Destroyed that. What is to sell NOW?
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   8.22.12
Message :   note that the respondent didnt say that this widely promoted rumor was true. in any event, lets see if more than 100 are left in that smart class after xmas.
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Wells did a great job focusing on individual prospective students and reexamining their strategies. 16 is going to be a smart, strong class.
Name :   is it true?
Location :   wells college
Date :   8.18.12
Message :   has enrolled 250 freshmen this year? what is the average aid package? did they buy a class again? how, and - why?
Name :   confused
Location :   Main Street
Date :   Now
Message :   Aurora needs an updated NYS Historical Marker about the Sequoia tree. Like, it was cut down 12o years ago.
Name :   main st guy
Location :   
Date :   6/18
Message :   looks like one more round at Wells. http://wells.edu/about/employment.aspx
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   7.9.12
Message :   why no aurorafest this year? georgie out of town? hope so - stay gone.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Aurora
Date :   June 21, 2012
Message :   Resident - your first sentence says there is no business in Lyon House. But then, the rest of your post explains that there IS a business, with money changing hands, in Lyon House. Get a permit.
Name :   Eleanor Rigby
Location :   Penny Lane
Date :   6/21/12
Message :   so, there IS a business being run out of Lyon House - its just not Paddingtons business. Still not kosher! Money changing hands = a business = zoning violation. shut it down, Bonnie.
Name :   Aurora Resident
Location :   Aurora
Date :   June 20, 2012
Message :   @CNY Alum- there is no yoga business being run at Lyon House. Paddington graciously offers the use of her house to outside teachers- all money is paid directly to them, she does not benefit in any way financially. Community yoga is open to all Saturday at
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   http://www.fasttrackadvisorsllc.com/wells-college-business-center.html
Date :   6/16/12
Message :   After 2 years the Business & Entrepreneurship Director leaves, the guy who wildly insulted Alumnae and the Liberal Arts at reunion last year. His program still lacks state approval but athletes design “special majors” and can graduate with bogus degree.
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   6.4.12
Message :   all that painting, polishing, planting. plus the puff piece in the express. and no pleasant? it was her 50 year reunion. no big gift announced?
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   6/3/12
Message :   anyone see PTR in town over Alum weekend?
Name :   
Location :   http://innsofaurora.com/blog/welcome-back-dories/
Date :   5.30.12
Message :   busy, busy little bees frantically dressing up leffingwell house this week for the queen. and all the mindless buzzing about re-opening dories. what will all of this become when she returns to the hive?
Name :   Ears in the wall
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Wish I could tell you that. But for now will just have to wait and see.
Name :   Curious
Location :   Aurora
Date :   May 27 2012
Message :   Ears in the Wall, what is your source for the news that LMR is going away soon?
Name :   Ears in the wall
Location :   Wells College
Date :   the day before
Message :   From what I have heard LMR will be leaving very soon. Has she spoke of it yet Wells folks? FILL US IN.

Name :   L Holland - Wells College has had TWO offers
Location :   of Three Hundred Thousand Dollars in cash for the so called McMullen House
Date :   & the college refuses to sell the property & refuses to say why
Message :   - even though they (claim they) have no use for it. Yet when the village asks the college to share in upgrading the parking lot/post office area downtown, the college cries poverty & refuses to contribute.

Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   May 24
Message :   Jus cuz you was re-elected, Geo, dont mean you can lead anyone anywhere. Georgie got a no smoking sign in the kids park; thats it. When does the Fat Lady Sing already?

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   5.19.12
Message :   so what happened to the farenthold no smoking law that was coming up for approval last week?

Name :   
Location :   Wells
Date :   5/18
Message :   PTR will be in town for her reunion in a few weeks. If one needs money play the lady up. Just my guess.

Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Aurora
Date :   What are they planning now?
Message :   Check out the two page tribute to PTR at the back of the latest Wells College Express - all old quotes, nothing new, very strange. Plus the delusional depiction of the *successful* Inns of Aurora.

Name :   OMG
Location :   PO Box 500
Date :   5/8
Message :   The fat lady sings. NO RAISE for the Wells folks again this year I hear. Wish I made more then 20k a year. Year 4 now. The poor folks pay 4 the uppers to F*ck up again.

Name :   CNY Alumna
Location :   passing through
Date :   5/7/12
Message :   Is that Paddington Person selling the old Clevelands Antiques property in Sherwood? How can she run a Yoga business out of private home Lyon House? And is Leffingwell House really now an inn? Is there no residential zoning any more in Aurora?

Name :   NYer
Location :   
Date :   4/24/12
Message :   George is too dense to see the conflict between his *cause* and the facts of his life

Name :   L Holland April 25, 2012
Location :   Farenthold is trying to bully an unnecessary policy/law/resolution through
Date :   without objectively listening to the arguments against it by residents of Aurora.
Message :   But worse is his egregious hypocrisy. A portion of his household income is derived from the sale of cigarettes.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Farenthold now expects us all to
Date :   *educate* strangers on the sidewalk!!
Message :   Its not my job & its not my nature. Leave people alone. http://www.scribd.com/doc/90075444/Smoking

Name :   Farentholds
Location :   No-Tobacco Policy
Date :   4-18-12
Message :   Village Trustees meet tonight to discuss. Attend meeting and comment!This proposal seems unnecessary and costly. Is it really for public welfare or someones ego?

Name :   Possible demolition
Location :   of house owned by Wells
Date :   Apr 18 2012
Message :   Michael Peter registered complaint re termites/carpenter ants with bldg inspector and village. Of course Wells neglected house for many years and built it with no driveway access. More details at clerks office.

Name :   Wondering
Location :   Firehall
Date :   When Abbott House is a Hotel
Message :   will Pleasant make them stop sounding the alarm at the firehall?

Name :   main st. guy
Location :   abbott house view
Date :   4/17
Message :   My guess is PTR does not like to look at the house being an eye sore. But then so is she.

Name :   L Holland
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Easter Sunday
Message :   There are no unenforceable laws, only selectively enforced laws. And that does worry me.

Name :   J H
Location :   just outside Aurora
Date :   april 7
Message :   George, go jump in the lake. I will smoke on the street if I feel like it.

Name :   Non smoker
Location :   Aurora
Date :   easter
Message :   I do not smoke. George, however, can not tell me or anyone else what do to. Has he not learned? Nobody cares what he thinks! Puff, puff, pass on George. Happy Easter!

Name :   resident
Location :   aurora
Date :   4/7/12
Message :   Wells College to demo McMullen House due to lack of funds to upkeep property. Why cant they just sell it to someone who would enjoy the lake front? Public hearing sign says 4/25/12 at 7 PM at FH. If allowed what else will they tear down?

Name :   anon
Location :   auro
Date :   today
Message :   stop worrying laura. our village govt is so ineffectual that even if geo bans smoking it will not be enforced. just like the zoning laws.

Name :   Laura Holland April 6, 2010
Location :   If Farentholds no smoking law comes to pass in Aurora
Date :   I will start taking my daily 3 mile walk
Message :   with a lit cigarette - maybe one in each hand for balance. George, if you try to stop me, I am the one who is going to make the headlines.

Name :   Cherrry
Location :   right here
Date :   4-3-12
Message :   why are they tearing down a house on the lake? who is behind this?

Name :   
Location :   http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/city-hall/laptop-city-hall-block-project-puts-on-the-brakes/article_fa886ed0-7463-11e1-8aca-001871e3ce6c.html
Date :   3.23.12
Message :   hey pleasant take your dolls and go home. wait - madison is her home. and she is not going to get her way there. because they stood up to her. and aurora...

Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   assorted info bits
Date :   day after the election
Message :   George got 37 votes. Anybody willing/able could have beaten him in a walk; so sad. Presbyterian denomination still owns Aurora church property and the national org doesnt (yet) recognize gay marriage. Wells tuition hike for all students next yr is 3.9%.

Name :   Anybody But George
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/two-villages-holding-contested-ballots-today/article_96af1be2-7234-11e1-a093-0019bb2963f4.html
Date :   Election Day
Message :   Tuesday, March 29, noon - nine, Aurora Fire Hall.

Name :   L Holland 3.17.12
Location :   Desperate for attention, Farenthold says he will not rest
Date :   until he makes Aurora a tobacco free village.
Message :   He doesn’t like the butts. Neither do I. But, I think it is Ryerson’s responsibility to tell the students who use village sidewalks for smoking to clean up after themselves. Or, clean it up herself. It is a real mess down there.

Name :   Please remember
Location :   Aurora Election
Date :   
Message :   Tues March 20, Noon to 9PM, at Firehouse. Please vote for Alan Ominsky for Board of Trustees!

Name :   CNY Alumna
Location :   nearby
Date :   3/13/12
Message :   Sure. George wouldnt do anything like that. Of course, his PAC can just do it for him, right? What BS. Vote Ominsky and get ready for a write-in against GF.

Name :   
Location :   http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/city-hall/laptop-city-hall-a-viewer-s-guide-to-a-pivotal/article_27e32bf4-6a3c-11e1-a622-001871e3ce6c.html
Date :   3.12.12
Message :   they still remember us in madison. see item 2 in this article. and read the ending. guess what - looks like ptr is going to move another building. should we warn them where that will end up?

Name :   L Holland
Location :   
Date :   3-11-12
Message :   I sent Farenthold an email asking if the rumor was true. His reply was *No it is NOT!*

Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   in the fie hall
Date :   Election on March 20
Message :   What GF is doing is legal- not nice, but not *wrong* So every write-in vote he drums up must be examined. Isabelles name must be spelled perfectly. All last-minute student voter registrations must be validated. And- please, someone run against George!

Name :   anon
Location :   
Date :   3/8/12
Message :   Farentholds vocabulary does not contain the words *ethical* or *decent*. Neither does his life values.

Name :   L Holland
Location :   Aurora
Date :   March 7, 2012
Message :   Really? Is running a clandestine operation to sneak in a political ally an ethical or even decent thing to do - esp.given that Farenthold is Deputy Mayor & is the college presidents husband?

Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   March 7
Message :   Watch out Alan O. You may think youll get on VB easy & dont want a write-in against Geo to split *your* vote. Guess what? Georgie is putting up his Puppet Isabella as a write-in against YOU. So start campaigning & find a running mate now B4 its 2 late !

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   3.7.12
Message :   what is the tuition hike for wells next year? how many students are really enrolled on campus this spring? seems dead up there.

Name :   KAHindenlang
Location :   Any Other Good Ideas Out There?
Date :   4 March 2012
Message :   My husband had the chance to speak with Jim Chase yesterday and ask him if he would be willing to stand as a write-in candidate for Village Board and serve as Trustee again. Sadly, the answer was no. He has done more than his share -12 years. Now what???

Name :   Sad
Location :   Around
Date :   2/25/12
Message :   Apparently the Board doesnt know how to speak for themselves... just because theyre educated doesnt mean theyre intelligent.

Name :   Hay baler
Location :   40acres
Date :   February 24 2012
Message :   something odd in the workings of the Board of Trustees to allow her to stay and drive the college to the verge of insolvency. No one knows why and the Board aint talking

Name :   Not so new here
Location :   Where else?
Date :   feb 25
Message :   I have no logical answer as to why Lisa Marsh RYERSON is still at Wells College. She should have been asked/told to leave years ago. She obviously has a stronge hold on someone, other then Georgie.

Name :   new here
Location :   CNY
Date :   A day late
Message :   So this woman is such a drain on the institution and is not bringing in the cash flow needed. Why will there not not be a vote of no confidants. How long has this been going on?

Name :   oh my gosh
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   only 235 thousand and perks? There go the family finances ! Georgie better get out there and hustle

Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   IRS 990
Date :   2/23/12
Message :   Latest Wells tax forms available 6/30/10 show salary & benefits for LMR at 235K; down from c.300K in 09 & 08. (Quick - GF, get a real job!) She will probably get a bonus this year for killing the curriculum. RIP Music, French & Relgion at Wells.

Name :   Main St. Guy
Location :   Ahh Main St.
Date :   2/22/12
Message :   Has anyone heard how the Queen made out? Looks like she still has a job at Wells. Poor folks of Wells will go without a raise for the fifth year in a row. Getting rid of pee-ons and not the head go figure

Name :   wow, this IS a great idea
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   it would wonderful if it was Jim Chase who got GF off the village board. I will write him in ! Hope he wants to be there

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   2.21.12
Message :   is he willing to serve if elected on a write-in? chase has experience. and he no longer works for wells college. he and ominsky could block farenthold from returning to village board.

  

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   2.21.12
Date :   
Message :   Jim Chase for trustee

Name :   Looks like George Farenthold
Location :   is part of the Elite One Percent
Date :   jetting off to LA just to see a movie
Message :   http://auburnpub.com/lifestyles/aurora-native-s-film-career-hits-another-big-brake/article_d76b5152-58fb-11e1-838f-0019bb2963f4.html

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   congratulations to Stan and Grace

Name :   
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/aurora-dog-wins-best-of-breed-at-westminster/article_ee53542e-5760-11e1-abea-001871e3ce6c.html
Date :   2.15.12
Message :   delusional: no grace the whole village of aurora aint behind you. stan maybe but not you. stay in nyc. keep away from aurora. youve done more than enough damage here. take pleasant with you.

Name :   L Holland
Location :   Aurora
Date :   February 14, 2012
Message :   Just wait - wanna bet her PALS 2008 Ryerson will convince Rowland to take it off her hands & turn it into another of the Inns of Aurora? I think they are just getting started - they need many more rooms to even break even.

Name :   Hahahohohaha
Location :   Yellow house
Date :   Feb 14
Message :   ,000 a month? Too funny. Too rediculous. Still laughing. Theres no water front. The house is a mess. The dogs are bipolar; oops, that is really just a reflection of the owners. They will be lucky to get a month.

Name :   I agree with Even M
Location :   
Date :   Feb 13
Message :   Even Moore.... You took the words right out of my mouth.

Name :   Even Moore
Location :   Aurora
Date :   2/10/12
Message :   High end real estate broker, single mother of 3, now broke!Please rent my dream house, 20K a month, sorry not really lake property. Stick a fork in her, shes all done!

Name :   Frautschi, Rowland dig in their heels
Location :   http://www.isthmus.com/daily/article.php?article=35911
Date :   http://www.vrbo.com/381979#ownerprofile
Message :   Why oh why wont VB, PB, CPP & ZBA defend our village? Aurora is about to be turned into One Big Phony Quaint Ye-Olde Inne with No Soul or Real Life - just visiting vampires.

Name :   more of the same
Location :   Leffingwells house
Date :   Feb 9 2012
Message :   Inn now advertize rooms in Leff House, is it approved by the village already? the monsters grip tightens on aurora and the govt lets her have and do anything she wants. Its a shame for Aurora

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   who the hell is Isabelle Ramos? And what plans does she have for Aurora? Or will she only do what LMR tells her to do? Maybe LMR will pay her a bonus if she gets voted in

Name :   New admissions?
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Did Susan Raith get fired like Jim Chase?

Name :   Wise to her
Location :   Isabelle Ramos is another
Date :   
Message :   LMR lackey. Vote for Ominsky twice.

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   2.6.12
Message :   unless someone else runs, georgie is pretty much guaranteed re-election. theres about a week left to obtain and file official petition to get on the ballot. hope someone will step up. please.

Name :   At least Madison fights back.
Location :   http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=35832
Date :   Feb 5
Message :   Are Leffingwell & Abbot Houses already commercial extentions of Aurora Inn? Maybe NancyG &BonnieB will sell their houses to PTR for same purpose. That could explain their behavior. Aurora can become one big bad taste B&B thanks to them. Thanks a lot!

Name :   Just Me
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Feb 5 2012
Message :   3 candidates for 2 openings on Aurora village board. Alan Ominsky runs the school planetarium and has a background in history, graphic arts, and publishing. Isabelle Ramos is Wells graduate and new Wells director of admissions. George Farenthold is marrie

Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Aurora
Date :   2/4/12
Message :   I couldnt get back to Aurora until after 6pm yesterday... What happened at the caucus? Is anyone other than George running? There are 2 positions open because Lili Mac is not standing for re-election.

Name :   Just Me
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Jan 31 2012
Message :   Dem. Caucus Fri Feb 3 for purposes of discussion and signing candidates petitions allowing them to run for village board of trustees (two openings). No caucus voting. Resident voters, please come!

Name :   Just Me
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Jan 30, 2012
Message :   Apparently no Dem caucus Feb 3 because Board of Elections did not receive notice of caucus the required number of days in advance of planned date. Check with village clerk.

Name :   Demcratic Caucus
Location :   Fire Station, this Friday at 5:00
Date :   Last time George Farenthold got the endorsement by
Message :   only 2-3 votes because folks stayed home thinking they needed another candidate. We dont. Just Say No 2 Geo! Ask for a Private Paper Ballot. Get a Voter List from Board of Elections and make sure only Registered Dems get to vote. Observe the Count!

Name :   City staff report lukewarm in support for State Street plan
Location :   http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/city-staff-report-lukewarm-in-support-for-state-street-plan/article_c8bda4ec-494d-11e1-88f8-0019bb2963f4.html
Date :   Quote from 1/27/12 Article
Message :   Staff supports part but not all of plan by Frautschi&Rowland to remake historic block. If new report is followed Frautschi&Rowlands Foundation would rehabilitate rather than demolish. So far the Foundation has been unwilling to make those changes.

Name :   Why blame Wells College?
Location :   Put the blame where it belongs
Date :   Lisa Ryerson did this.
Message :   Lisa Ryerson is to blame. Lisa Ryerson is bankrupting Wells College both financially & morally. Remind her of that if you see her.

Name :   Stunned
Location :   Shockytown
Date :   1-26-12
Message :   The Chases should know that they are valued & loved by this community. Shame on you, Wells College! Shame!

Name :   Kilgour
Location :   Keyboard
Date :   Jan 26. 2012
Message :   Who else may run , Democrat or no, for the seat this time around? A village board without that repulsive puppet would be a delight.

Name :   To All Democrats Registered to Vote in Aurora:
Location :   Please Take Note - A Party Caucus is Called for Friday. Feb. 3 at 5pm in Fire House.
Date :   This is happening because George Farenthold
Message :   wants our nomination to run for VB Trustee again. Lets turn him down! Dont let him pretend he (or his controllers) represent our party! Make him run independent. WE DONT NEED to PUT UP ANOTHER CANDIDATE, WE JUST NEED a MAJORITY PRESENT to say NO TO GEO!

Name :   L Holland 1.23.12
Location :   Who else will dare tell Ryerson that this is despicable?
Date :   Now will ALL the people who signed the petition when we put up a hedge (oh, the horror!)
Message :   rally to present Ryerson with a petition in support of JC - telling her what a scumbag she is after all he has done for the community & the college? Or do they not dare offend their paymaster? Or do they really not care?

Name :   But why?
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Was he about to qualify for a pension so they had to boot him to save money for lisa?

Name :   364
Location :   
Date :   Jan22. 12
Message :   Who got jcs job? Someone who will work for less?

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   1.24.12
Message :   or 3/4 of a life-time - along with pulling their butts out of the fire more than once - in the case of prof thob-i-wan. and so why are s. sloan and rollo spared the ax? what is wells about to become? and where oh where will lisa and georgie porgie go?

Name :   Fool
Location :   on the hill
Date :   1-23-12
Message :   Of course JC did not resign, and, incidentally, its 29 years to the day. Thats what you get from Wells College after half a lifetime of dedication...Scum bags.

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   could Jim have been forced out?

Name :   What?
Location :   Wells College
Date :   1/23/12
Message :   Announcement today: Jimmy Chase has resigned after 25+ years at Wells College, and after having finally gotten Tommys job. What happened?

Name :   Reader
Location :   Aurora
Date :   
Message :   It is heartening to know that we are not alone. That she is being fought in other communities too. Maybe she will get tired of it.

Name :   http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/opinion/mailbag/margaret-marriott-our-buildings-should-be-recycled-too/article_0e1dfa2a-40a0-11e1-ae73-001871e3ce6c.html
Location :   http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/mailbag/ted-voth-jr-before-another-state-street-project-assume-burden/article_67aab3ab-2d6c-590e-aa40-b8980b800c1a.html
Date :   http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/city-hall/laptop-city-hall-so-how-is-the-overture-center-doing/article_6e015d4a-2cf2-11e1-9190-001871e3ce6c.html
Message :   So -destroying historic bldgs will fund non-prfoit org PTR helped drive into bankruptcy. Sound familiar? http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/plan-revised-for-historic-state-street-block/article_6e49c3b0-462d-5000-a8bf-ad7fb310a9f5.h

Name :   L Holland 1.19.12
Location :   Yep, still there. This is our village r-o-w..
Date :   Not a staging are for the Zwigards trash
Message :   - before they throw it into the lake.

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   I for two had my fill of the Zyigards a long time ago. Clean up the mess NOW!

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   I for one have had my fill of the Zwigards

Name :   L Holland
Location :   But dont try to walk down to see this mess
Date :   January 7, 2011
Message :   because Zwigard dogs are loose & will threaten, snap at, and bite anyone who attempts to use our public right of way.

Name :   LHolland : More than 3 years Todd Zwigard was given a permit & special permission from the village
Location :   to install his geothermal mess - he claimed it would be done in a day.
Date :   He has repeatedly not met promised completion dates that he publicly assured our village govt. that he would.
Message :   & now it appears that this mess - heaped in the r-o-w - will soon be thrown into the lake in an attempt to make it look like something is being done. Baloney. http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b85/cayugalake/IMG_8684.jpg

Name :   resident
Location :   aurora
Date :   1.2.12
Message :   AVFD % Kathy Chase, Treasurer P.O. Box 71 Aurora, NY 13026-0071

Name :   Watchman
Location :   http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/01/more_than_60_brave_cold_cayuga.html
Date :   1/2/2012
Message :   More than 60 Polar Bears swam yesterday according to article above - which has no further info on the scholarship to honor the memory of Phil Murphy.

Name :   
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/polar-bears-to-take-plunge/article_cfef820c-336e-11e1-af43-001871e3ce6c.html
Date :   1.1.12
Message :   must have been an enormous turn out for the polar bear dip this morning. can anyone provide an address for where to send contributions to this scholarship?

Name :   JP
Location :   HI
Date :   12/28
Message :   To answer question about Nancy...it is power...no money POWER. Nancy has always yearned to have power.Alas Lisa has rewarded her!

Name :   eager
Location :   
Date :   dec 27 2011
Message :   why is Nancy Gil so deep in cahoots with Pleasants pocket? what is in it for her

Name :   JP
Location :   HI
Date :   12/26/11
Message :   Anne Lundquist was Dean of Students the last time I hear of DOS at Wells. When did she leave? After being sued? See link below: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/23/earlyshow/main6325299.shtml

Name :   
Location :   http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2011/06/thursdays_readers_page_centerp.html
Date :   12.26.11
Message :   no, this fellow became dean 18 mo ago after being at wells about 3 yrs. famous locally for spending 50K on his wedding. and important ps - with gil as pb chair rowland can do absolutely whatever she wants with leffingell, abbot or any village property.

Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   12/21/11
Message :   Dean of Students is leaving in January, mid academic year, to take a lower rank job as Resident Director in a branch campus of U Mass. All senior staff are getting out. When will Lisa turn off the lights at Wells College? What will it become? Name :   For Curious
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Where did you get this information? It is interesting but irrelevant. Rowland does not need ore deserve the mony.

Name :   Curious
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Dec 14 2011
Message :   Just learned that CNY Dev. Group invited Ettinger and Aurora Inn to apply for the grant in the first place, saying the Abbott project was perfect fit for the grant program. Did CNY Dev. Group use Abbott project to pull in more money from the State? More m

Name :   Laura Holland December 13, 2011
Location :   Edinger is a weasel & a liar
Date :   – there is no more truth to what she told The Citizen
Message :   than in what she wrote in that 4 pg fabricated screed that defamed me &my family & my friends. It appears to me that she is being (well) paid to lie for Rowland. She thinks that we are idiots who are willing to forget her despicable behavior. We dont.

Name :   And the Comments on the Article are also entertaining:
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_1ec8f65e-2548-11e1-9e73-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=comments
Date :   Aurora project’s future uncertain*
Message :   *She is a dairy cow from Wis, doesn’t even live in NY. Crap spewed by her mouthpiece is a tantrum ordered for political purposes. 250K denied is 2% of cost! For that project is uncertain? Stop insulting us. More deceit,shes a champion at that. Go away.*

Name :   
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_1ec8f65e-2548-11e1-9e73-0019bb2963f4.html
Date :   12.14.14
Message :   this is even sillier than the last post

Name :   JP
Location :   HI
Date :   
Message :   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEvGKUXW0iI

Name :   jamestkirk
Location :   the final frontier
Date :   
Message :   hahahaha NY state funding denied. Dig a little deeper Pleasant

Name :   This links to letter to the editor
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_98576a0e-2134-11e1-b934-0019bb2963f4.htmlhttp://auburnpub.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_98576a0e-2134-11e1-b934-0019bb2963f4.html
Date :   This info from article in link in post above
Message :   Five projects — including those that would have renovated the Abbott House in Aurora... did not make the final list...come ,000 was announced for the Howland Stone Store Museum in Sherwood...to restore “Opendore,” once home to the Howland family.

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   No soup for you, Abbot House!
Message :   http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/central_new_york_lands_1037_mi_1.html

Name :   L Holland
Location :   
Date :   December 5.2011
Message :   http://www.scribd.com/doc/74829981

Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   Dec. 5
Message :   Upcoming public hearing, Wed. Dec 14 at 7:00 in the Fire Hall to decide on changing Leffingwell House from a residence to (another!) hotel. Night is falling soon on Aurora...

Name :   KAHindenlang
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/lifestyles/article_c627b8dc-17be-11e1-b989-001cc4c002e0.html
Date :   Second Sunday in Advent, 2011
Message :   Thank you (!) for reminding me of this old German song that can be sung as an endless round: Himmel und Erde müssen vergebn; aber die Musica (3x) bleibert bestehn! (All things shall perish from under the sky; music alone shall live (3x), never to die.)

Name :   JP
Location :   Aurora
Date :   12/3/11
Message :   Wells, PTR and LMR have a hold on the village. All things shall perish from under the sky music(justice) alone shall live never shall die.

Name :   Pathetic
Location :   wells college
Date :   November 21
Message :   Such a sorry state of affairs at Wells. Just what Wells and Aurora needs, another money losing Inn. More traffic problems, more rules...

Name :   L Holland 11 20 11 - Holy COW!
Location :   Today I was accosted by Wells College Dir. of Student Activities & Leadership
Date :   She repeatedly told me I was a *terrible person*.
Message :   I never met & do not know her but she thinks she knows me. She spewed misinformation & lies about me to me. This is the level of professional that Wells hires these days? Today a Wells employee smears me-tomorrow I will prob get another request for money.

Name :   She doesnt think,
Location :   no one cares about Wells anymore
Date :   
Message :   Ryerson has given up on the college she wants to run convention center because PTR wants that.

Name :   This is funny
Location :   Aurora
Date :   11/17
Message :   President LMR pushes for the 5 star Restaurant and hotel in the village. But runs a half ass college going under. What is she thinking about.

Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   
Date :   http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/11/plan_sets_priorities_for_state.html
Message :   That measly 250K grant, less than 2.5% of her project, could make a world of difference to fledgling entrepreneur. WHY is Cayuga County giving our Tax Money to MoneyBags Rowland? And what unspecified *other buildings* are part of Rowlands 9.6M project?

Name :   L Holland 11/16/11
Location :   I dont understand why the county wants to give
Date :   Rowland money for Abbott House - it is not
Message :   as if she isnt going to finish the project if she doesnt get the money. Give it to a struggling business w/potential that needs it. If she was a real philanthropist she’d let a more needy and deserving business have it. And 35 jobs? HA - more PR BS.

Name :   What?
Location :   Why?
Date :   
Message :   http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/11/plan_sets_priorities_for_state.html

Name :   Madison, Wisconsin
Location :   http://www.isthmus.com/daily/article.php?article=35190
Date :   11/12/11
Message :   The city of Madison’s Dept. of Planning & Economic Development opposes Pleasant Rowland’s plan to further destroy their historic downtown. Why wont our Planning, Trustee and Preservation Boards stand up for Aurora? How do they benefit by us selling out?

Name :   how soon
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   before LMR leaves Wells? not for a while, someone has to support and buy food for George

Name :   Sensa and Lil Buddah ?
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_edd70b56-0c80-11e1-b64d-001cc4c002e0.html
Date :   11.11.11
Message :   

Name :   Last Citizen article has been updated:
Location :   Its the same crooked game NG has played all along:
Date :   She gets her PB to permit with “conditions” -- that never fet met!!!
Message :   Looks like we might just as well have elected Geo Fartinhole mayor after all. Nothings changed. The PTR agenda to destroy our village continues moving forward.

Name :   L Holland 11 11 11
Location :   *Profits*?! Did they say *Profits*?!
Date :   Were talking about *Profits* here?
Message :   Get serious: The Aurora Inn Inc by its own admission is a massive financial drain on Wells College. million sucked out of Wells coffers & were talking *profits* ?!

Name :   True enough
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Nov10
Message :   The powers that be will do as they please. No concern for the village. Might as well rename the village: Aurora Inn phase 1, 2, 3, 4 etc...

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   who was that honest person, reporter should have got a name

Name :   Taxpayette
Location :   safe house
Date :   11/10/11
Message :   Leffingwell House a hotel? do they know about the Satanists who hold their Dark Rites back on that hill?

Name :   Residents voice displeasure with Abbott House inn plans
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_49d32398-0b4d-11e1-bb86-001cc4c03286.html
Date :   Todays Citizen 11/10/11
Message :   Sounds like Tudy was there! (You’ll just go ahead and do it in 18 months anyway,” said the resident before storming out of the meeting. “I don’t trust you people.”) HOW DID THE MEETING END???

Name :   The Citizen
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_d6f3d0a4-0a7d-11e1-8a75-001cc4c03286.html
Date :   Wednesday, Nov 9th
Message :   The headline should read *Rowland plans to turn ENTIRE VILLAGE into inn.* Aurora Planning Board meets to discuss this tonight at 7. (Why no zoning variance required for a Hotel in a Residential Area?)

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   They never turn down anything they approve everything. Why bother

Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   kiosk in the village
Date :   11/7/11
Message :   Planning Board agenda posted. They will review (approve?) Rowlands plan for Abbot House, and consider her new application to turn Leffingwell House into another commercial extension of the Aurora Inn Inc. Are no permits required???

Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   Nov 1
Message :   Saw a lot of toilet paper strewn on Taylor House shrubs, trees, lawn early this morning. Sorry we didnt stop to take a closer look. In 06 grafitti on the college water tower said: F^ck Wells Ryerson is a Robot!

Name :   IT WAS TAYLOR HOUSE!
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_44172524-04a6-11e1-b358-001cc4c002e0.html
Date :   The Day after Halloween.
Message :   *Wells PresRyerson reported someone spray painted vulgarities on a college residence, deputies said. Her car was spray painted & had window broken. No other residences were vandalized, deputies said appears vandalized property was specifically targeted.*

Name :   
Location :   citizen article
Date :   11/1/11
Message :   What building in town got vandalized?

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   10.21.11
Message :   and wacky jackys website served ptr and lmr only, gave no info to the public regarding meetings, minutes, applications, hearings, etc. and thats what the mayor is giving us now. what is wrong here?

Name :   Main St. guy
Location :   Aurora website
Date :   10/21
Message :   You know at least Jackie had the site up

Name :   new parking lot
Location :   shrewood rd
Date :   shouls be a villege owned lot
Message :   or the INN will shut it down for their use whenever like they do with the one by the PO. Make t5hem do a master plan.

Name :   
Location :   http://host.madison.com/article_cd39a13b-0541-5bfa-8819-a44d15fb022b.htmlhttp://host.madison.com/article_cd39a13b-0541-5bfa-8819-a44d15fb022b.html
Date :   10.18.11
Message :   madison at least questions rowlands take-over. why doesnt aurora? what is wrong with our village govt? was nothing learned last time around? tommy is gone. stand up for us - CPP, PB, VB and Mayor NOW before it is too late!

Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   that website ought to be up and running Why does it take years and years to get a website going?

Name :   Watchman
Location :   What is wrong with do-nothing Mayor BB?
Date :   Its not too late to Act For the People!
Message :   Sure helps R&R that we STILL have no village govt website so public can easily see notices of hearings &special meetings &minutes from such meetings! Why no competent legal counsel yet? And why sit by & let NGil help theives to plunder our village AGAIN!?

Name :   L Holland 10/13/11
Location :   More of the same. Rowland & Ryerson want to dramtically transform
Date :   the village AGAIN & village govt has no lawyer
Message :   involved & is pushing it through ASAP. No questions from the village to delay R&R! Meanwhile we apply for a fence that will not impact the village *at all* & the application is tabled due to NOYB *questions* till hell freezes over.

Name :   Small fish
Location :   In even smaller pond
Date :   Oct 6
Message :   I feel really sorry for the CPP if they are impressed/ intimidated by a small time COO at tiny little Wells College. Newcombe is a nobody anywhere, but in Lisas little mind. Sad state of affairs. No pathetic is a better word.

Name :   L Holland 10-6-11
Location :   Before wells college is allowed to expand into more residential zones,
Date :   the village should demand a master plan for the Inns expansion.
Message :   Edinger publicly admitted that they need at least 60 rooms to *stop losing money*. With Abbot House they will have 30 rooms - what is next? Because of their recent aggressive behavior I am thinking that they would like it to be Morgan House.

Name :   KAHindenlang
Location :   http://host.madison.com/news/article_fb8e14f4-49ff-59d8-a6cd-d128740320f0.html?print=1
Date :   6 October 2011
Message :   Someone in WI just sent this, saying we are lucky- she’s done in NY but still messing w/Madison (funny; dont remember seeing this in ‘08.) But with sign at Abbot House for demo permit submitted by Aurora Inn & PTR, there clearly is more to come here.

Name :   L Holland 10/06/11
Location :   Last night the Aurora CPP refused to do their job.
Date :   Of course, Terry *The Enforcer* Newcombe was there to observe.
Message :   RIP CPP, Wells College has suffocated you. http://www.aurorany.org/CPP2007.html

Name :   http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/chris_rickert/article_24636d10-ee11-11e0-a10f-001cc4c03286.html
Location :   http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_97144cb0-ee22-11e0-b7b2-001cc4c03286.html
Date :   http://www.avclub.com/madison/articles/state-street-development-project-certain-to-overjo,62641/
Message :   PTRs Overture center disaster; ticket sales way in red; no maintenance endowment; taxpayers saddled with repairs to 10 yr old! bldg; despised by performers and audiences alike. More - .http://www.thedailypage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=53226

Name :   L Holland
Location :   Everything Rowland does is a dishonest facade.
Date :   I think that is symbolic of her character.
Message :   A fine example: The Aurora Inn was demolished - but for the facade - and rebuilt. To call it a renovation or restoration is a blatant lie. Her sense of morality allows for that.

Name :   Madison story tied to Aurora, 10/4/11
Location :   http://slysoffice.blogspot.com/2011/10/pleasant-rowland-vision-for-state-movie.html
Date :   On radio yesterday, on web to the world today!
Message :   Listen to drive-time radio in PTRs hometown: *Pleasant Rowland Vision For State: A Movie Set.* Email this guy sly@wtdy.com and thank him for speaking truth! (More links to come if you dont know what her fatness has done to ruin downtown Madison WI.)
Message :   now THAT is a reason to throw a party Gotta wonder what kind of person will replace her.
Name :   The Citizen
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_47738abe-e8b3-11e0-88f6-001cc4c03286.html
Date :   9/28/11
Message :   If these are *preliminary discussions* why did they notify the press? What is really in the works here?
Name :   So LMR says she is
Location :   celebrating her MIL birthday as
Date :   she [LMR] will not have the opportunity to do this for again. You see, this is my last year, er semester at Wells
Message :   Happy trails LMR. Dont let the door hit you where.....
Name :   Happy Birthday to the woman who
Location :   started it all by bringing
Date :   
Message :   corruption, cronyism, incompetence, academic irresponsibility, delusional leadership, mental disorders and major drugs into Wells College Admin. We’re invited to celebrate her 85th on October 1st at Taylor House. Have fun.
Name :   OMG
Location :   http://ncronline.org/news/people/cardinal-laypeople-honored-aid-catholic-education
Date :   9.23.11
Message :   maybe she can buy herself a sainthood
Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   Sept. 16
Message :   Earlier this week the expensive new *improved* Wells website was up online. Nearly impossible to navigate. Also full of misrepresentation and outright lies. Now the old one is back listing all the liberal arts programs killed by LMR.
Message :   main st guy, maybe Wells has shut down along with their website
Name :   Main st.guy
Location :   Wells
Date :   9/15
Message :   Anyone able to see the main web page at wells. Seems to have been down all day. Was this the big change someone was talking about?
Name :   I think Tobin
Location :   wells college
Date :   Sept 13
Message :   Tobin meant that LMR is thriving. He took one look at her robust figure and said wow she is thriving. The village... Oh yeah it is another story.
Name :   L Holland - According to David Tobin, in a Syracuse mag, Aurora is thriving!
Location :   He doesnt mention that the Inn is hemorrhaging money & Dories is closed “for the season”- all of them.
Date :   His writing is so intentionally vague as to be misleading. (Has your property gone up in value 50%?)
Message :   Tobin is unabashedly biased-but that is nothing new for him.The article praises Rowland and looks down on the poor fools who do not recognize her as an “archangel”. Either he is a liar or he has been lied to. Or both.
Name :   the real mystery
Location :   WELLS
Date :   9/3
Message :   the real mystery IF IT IS BE KNOWN. IS WHY IS THE SR TEAM STILL IN PLACE AT WELLS? It is not just one person THAT IS TO BLAME. It is LMR staff. get new blood in there!! clean house.
Name :   Todays Citizen
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_491c12c2-d5e0-11e0-a040-001cc4c002e0.html
Date :   9=3=11
Message :   *CCC admissions grow; Wells stays flat* says headline. Ive heard many upper classs students didnt come back and 1st year students left after a few days. Heres the real mystery: why does incompetent Sloan keep her job?
Date :   September 2
Message :   Must be the same person running the Wells College website and the village website.
Message :   Looks like wells is reimaging itself in its front lawn
Name :   Watchman
Location :   www.wells.edu
Date :   September 1st
Message :   Classes for 2011-12 yr began a week ago. But Wells website still has only 2010-11 catalog, and site shows info on majors in French, Music, and Religion (all cut), and fired profs Thoburn, Penniman, Malena as tho still on faculty!!
Name :   waiting

Message :   It is September 1 now so where is the reimaging of Wells we have been promised?
Name :   Start the academic year
Location :   Wells
Date :   Aug 31
Message :   Start fresh and show LMR the door. Let her take her huge pension and go ruin another small college. Just go Lisa, just go!
Date :   August 31, 2011
Message :   Well????? Isnt something big supposed to happen today?
Name :   For Inquiring Minds
Location :   the move
Date :   8/23/11
Message :   My guess is someone has their eye on her. We can only hope thats it.
Name :   Lisa go away please
Location :   Please go away
Date :   Go away! Go far away
Message :   Go far far away. Leave Wells and Aurora.
Name :   982K
Location :   Aurora inn
Date :   
Message :   The losses continue? LMR threatens the existence of Wells College so she can run a restaurant, a bar, and a hotel ? That is nuts. Someone do something.
Name :   Taxpayer
Message :   In 08-09 Rollo salary&benefits about 125K, in 09-10 more like 100K. That latest IRS 990 form shows AuroraInnInc loss of 982K. And look at Schedule R Part V - is that loans from college to Inn of 10.3M?!

Name :   Inquiring Minds
Location :   Here
Date :   8/19
Message :   Why is Rollo getting a new office, and why is it away from the rest of her staff?

Message :   How much does rollo make?

Name :   No more VP
Location :   Wells
Date :   8/16/11
Message :   Rollo Ann S. Staff - arollo@wells.edu Dir. for Communication & Marketing Pettibone 113 315.364.3416. Why is she still at Wells? What does she have on Lisa.

Name :   Just great
Location :   the town of ledyard
Date :   8/13
Message :   A deputy clerk. Come on more $ to pay out. Just get one that will sign them !!

Name :   Wells volleyball coach resigned. Women’s program put on hold until the fall ‘12.
Location :   http://fingerlakesdailynews.com/sports/details.cfm?clientid=16&id=5112
Date :   She was hired Aug ‘10 to build men’s & women’s volleyball programs for their inaugural season this upcoming year.
Message :   Her departure coupled w/low participation numbers = decision to postpone start of women’s vball until fall 2012, while men’s will kick off inaugural season as planned in January. A national search for a new vball coach will be launched in mid-Oct., start

Name :   The Citizen
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_d84507f0-c48e-11e0-8b09-001cc4c03286.html
Date :   Aug 12, 2011
Message :   Ledyard Town Clerk Rose Marie Belforti submitted a letter... saying that her religious beliefs prevented her from signing marriage licenses for same-sex couples...cited a law which...she said allows her to request a deputy clerk to sign same-sex marriage

Name :   Everybody is resigning from Wells College
Location :   except Lisa. Whats keeping her there?
Date :   Oh, the money. That is the only place where she can have a job. No one else will hire her.
Message :   She was hitching her wagon to Hillarys star but that did not pan out. When will she be 60? That is how long Wells and Aurora has to wait.

Name :   Ledyard clerk wont sign gay marriage licenses
Location :   Aurora

Message :   Isnt this newsworthy?

Name :   low numbers?
Location :   a national search?
Date :   august 11
Message :   http://auburnpub.com/sports/local/article_626205bc-c3c4-11e0-aa17-001cc4c002e0.html

Name :   Carefree
Message :   wendy wells you are right LMR has pretty much turned an entire village against her. She must go. It must be hard fro her to live there

Name :   Wendy wells
Location :   Wells
Date :   August 7
Message :   I am a 1984 graduate of Wells. I thought it was a good school then. I knew then it was past its prime, but I never guessed it would sink as low as it has. Too bad. LMR must go. I knew her then and was not impressed.

Name :   re-imaging at Wells ?
Location :   
Date :   8/8/11
Message :   what, did Lisa go on a diet?

Name :   L Holland
Location :   Aurora
Date :   August 6, 2011
Message :   Hmmmm.....I wonder if Ryerson tried to *work* with her neighbors.....before cutting off *their* access to the water?

Name :   L Holland
Location :   Aurora - August 6, 2011
Date :   That is some neighborly behaviour from Ryerson!
Message :   Would there be enough water if Ryerson stopped watering her athletic fields? Or do her fields get priority over the needs of the neighbors? Rough week for Newcomb – whoever he is.

Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/state-and-regional/article_c621af60-bfcf-11e0-937d-001cc4c03286.html
Date :   8.6.11
Message :   looks like that land is owned by the college? still dont like the sign. the village is more than wells. aurora was here before and will be here after.

Name :   I disagree
Location :   wells
Date :   august 5
Message :   LMR is stupid. Yes she is. Yup. She is a lot of other things too, but definately stupid.

Name :   LMR is not as stupid as we think.
Location :   Conniving, maybe but stupid not.
Message :   Look out Aurora here comes Wells with LMR STILL at the helm.

Name :   I have heard about the secret reimaging of Wells
Location :   Aurora, I heard it is big
Date :   I can hardly wait to see it.
Message :   Wells is not closing as many think.

Name :   Welcome to the new Wells
Location :   Aurora. Watch for that
Date :   sign. You thinl you are asking questions now? Wait until August 31.
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Sherwood Rd.
Date :   8/3/11
Message :   The sign is outside village limits (so no permit required?) but on land of the water tower probably (?) owned by the village so might need public approval. It appears to be sunk in an above-ground cement base; heavy but portable, so it could be removed.

Name :   A better Q:
Location :   water tower area
Date :   8/2
Message :   Is the sign approved signage? And is it really in the village?

Date :   8.1.11
Message :   isnt that sign on municipal land owned by the village? so, who approved it? i dont like it how it presents my village. cant i donate one i like better? who decides such use of our public property?

Message :   gee I thought our favorite philanthropist had declared she was done with Aurora. one can only hope

Name :   JP
Location :   Aurora
Date :   
Message :   You did not pay for the sign. Taxpayers did not pay for the sign. The sign was put up compliments of a philanthropist. Need to know? Learn to mind your business.

Name :   Sign of the Times
Location :   Sherwood Road
Date :   Yard Sale Day
Message :   Taxpayer, did we pay for that new sign? Welcome to Aurora, it says - Founded 1788, Home of Wells College. Someone needs to add: NOT FOR LONG!

Name :   KHindenlang
Location :   Unfortunately... my understanding is that Bates was brought in to handle the complex issue of access
Date :   to the new water line, which was way over the head of the loathsome lawyer.
Message :   But... we can hope that this subtle acknowledgement of his professional inadequacy in serving our village marks the beginning of the end of the patronizing, biased, dangerously misguided *counsel* he has imposed on Aurora during our unPleasant decade.

Name :   L Holland
Location :   Fusco gone?!
Date :   7/24/2011
Message :   How will I know what I am REALLY saying without his interpretation of my words? How will I know what I am REALLY thinking if he doesnt tell me? Who will psychoanalyze me? I wont know who I am without Fusco telling me.

Name :   Watchman
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_de113c16-b404-11e0-931b-001cc4c03286.html
Date :   July 21
Message :   Check out the ending of this article. Is this true? Andy Fusco no longer the Village lawyer? HOOOOray.

Name :   Jeez, Louise!
Location :   www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/education/30collegeweb.html?_r=1&hpw
Date :   7/21/11
Message :   Wells College makes the New York Times -- for having a record 67 per cent tuition increase in the last couple of years...

Name :   NTHP
Location :   www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/mackenzie-childses_put_home_ne.html
Date :   Sunday, 7-17-11
Message :   On it goes. Look- Tobin still has his snout in the story. Ugh! Sothebys certainly stages the house better than MMiller, see www.mackenziechildsestate.com. Hey is it true that the new *owners* of Mac-Ch are just a salvage front funded by Unpleasant?

Name :   my guess Message :   depending on how the endowment does in the stock market, is there will be no incoming class of 2017 at Wells College. wonder what happens to those already there when/if it closes

Name :   Sad girl
Location :   Here
Date :   7-13
Message :   The Board will say either: We believed in LMR so its her fault, or its the economy, or the staff and faculty didnt work hard enough so its their fault, or we didnt know what a BoD does...

Name :   Your Guess
Location :   Wells
Date :   July 11 2011
Message :   so will Wells run out of money next year, the year after that, or the year after that? And what will be the Boards excuse when it does?

Name :   A real Townie
Location :   Wells/Aurora
Date :   The day after
Message :   The Cash Cow would never do it. But if she did I would welcome her. Even PTR can lean from past mistakes.

Name :   The administration of Wells is quite similar to this site
Location :   Wells is led by an egotistical, narcissist
Date :   idiot who kistens to know one but the close circle of idiots with which she sourrounds herself.
Message :   This site is lead by someone who blocks out and censors anything that does not blast her enemies or perceived enemies!

Name :   Mary
Date :   July 9
Message :   What would we do? Oh what would we do if PTR became the next President of Wells. Mark you so far she has been a successfully business woman and education is a business. Give reasonable well thought out feedback, please. No sniping.

Name :   Money for Wells
Location :   Its only rumor
Date :   Aurorafest Day
Message :   I heard PTR shut the cash off until LMR leaves Wells. But you know now rumors fly around here. Think about she loved Wells maybe not Aurora something happened.

Name :   Just Me
Location :   Aurora
Date :   July 8, 2011
Message :   Would it really matter if Pleasant cut off Wells? Did she ever fund any ACADEMIC undertaking, scholarships? It appears she sticks to decorating and then expects people and dogs to stay off the furniture!

Name :   what ???????
Location :   
Date :   7/7/11
Message :   has Pleasant shut off Wells?? What got her mad?

Name :   For Johanna
Location :   Aurora / Wells
Date :   7/6
Message :   LMR a legend in Aurora may be right. But it will be for the person that ruined her Alma Mater. It is going down. Every plan she has put in effect has lost money for Wells. PTR tried to help but Lisa fu^ked that up. I have heard PTR will not give money to

Name :   I agree
Location :   Aurora
Date :   July 6
Message :   I want that pipe mess fixed down by the village right away!! Who do the Zyigards think they are? I do not know them, but I know they are slobs and I do not like it.

Name :   Aurorafester
Location :   3 years of lies & the geothermal is still unfinished
Date :   & is trash in our lake.
Message :   2 years & the deck bears no resemblance to what was permitted – it is 2x4s and chicken wire. So many empty promises. Yet there is time, money, & energy to spend on a float that mocks & insults the harmony that once existed in the village.

Name :   Nick
Location :   Rochester
Date :   7-3-11
Message :   Hello! I just wanted to share this reddit I created. Maybe it could be useful in sharing information? http://www.reddit.com/r/Wellscollege/

Name :   Johanna
Location :   Aurora
Date :   
Message :   Like it or not LMR is a legend in Aurora and if and when she leaves she will not be easily forgotten.

Name :   Hope so
Location :   
Date :   7/2/11
Message :   good news about Lisa house? Good riddance. JUST LEAVE, LISA. we will do our best to forget you were ever here.

Name :   Finding the Best (and Worst) Deals in College Tuition
Location :   http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/07/01/finding-the-best-and-worst-deals-in-college-tuition/
Date :   http://collegecost.ed.gov/catc/Default.aspx#
Message :   Wells College leads the pack among 4-yr private nonprofit schools with a whopping 67% increase in tuition from 2007-08 to 2009-10. No wonder the students are bitter: pay more, get less - time to go!

Name :   The same
Location :   
Date :   6/30
Message :   http://www.homes.com/listing/146040857/280_Main_Street_AURORA_NY_13026

Name :   Main St. Guy
Location :   Jed Morgan house
Date :   6/30/11
Message :   Can it be true that LMR is selling her home? on Main St. the sign is up. Could it be true she is leaving Wells? Maybe she will give the money she gets for the sale back to the college Does the college get first refusal to buy it back? Message :   to lholland or whoever can aswer - did pb vb and/or zba approve new use for abbott house? if so, when and how? (no public hearing for a zoning change?)
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Aurora
Date :   June 25 2011
Message :   Abbott House becomes part of the Inn,but that is not enough. Inn claims to need twice as many rooms to stop losing money. What house is next? Leffingwell? Lyon? Morgan? All of them? When?
Name :   Strange thought
Location :   Dories
Date :   20011-6-23
Message :   Maybe they should have Dorie run MACKS again!!
Name :   Main st. Guy
Location :   Macks/ Dories
Date :   6/23/11
Message :   A message for Johanna. If we were to park our cars there someone would knife the tires there like they did at the Holy House of the Aurora Inn
Name :   Doomsday? No.
Location :   Just noticing bad business practices.
Date :   Summer 2011
Message :   No cars means no one in the seats. No business. No surprise. Let someone take it over who can make a go of it.
Name :   Johanna
Location :   Aurora
Date :   
Message :   If you all go park your cars at Dorie there will be more cars if that is what impresses you. Doomsday announcers.
Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   June 20
Message :   Few cars at Dories at lunch, fewer at breakfast. Just as well - they never provided parking as required by law. The road becomes very dangerous with customers. BUT what was that game about with all the real estate signs in the village a few days ago?
Name :   another alum
Location :   nearby
Date :   6-12-11
Message :   Ellis spoke at alumnae college. Not a policy speech. He was selling his program. He didnt know his audience and was unprepared for the response to his rhetorical question. Not sure I sneered but I sure as hell raise my hand. Doubt his text is available.
Name :   Curious
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Is the Ellis speech available to read?
Name :   Dories
Location :   
Date :   6/10/11
Message :   Hows business at Dories
Name :   CNY Alumna
Location :   The Ellis speech at reunion.
Date :   The man is a dangerous idiot.
Message :   Trashes liberal arts to alums. Only business counts; He is the Future. Arrogantly asks with sneer: how many leaving Wells with liberal arts degree felt ready to face the world of busines? Every single woman in the room sneers back and raises her hand.
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_8b6d1254-9051-11e0-a684-001cc4c03286.html
Date :   6/6/11
Message :   To date, the NYS Dept of Ed hasnt approved this program; it is not an accredited major at Wells. Last fall Wells got court approval to raid and spend dedicated money from its endowment; why should this 5mil be different? Will Ellis be next Pres of Wells?
Name :   CNY Alumna
Location :   Wells Reunion
Date :   6/4/11
Message :   As of yesterday, 157 alums were registered for reunion; thats half or less of what they used to get. Only 15 women here for their 25th reunion, just 10 for Lisas own 30th reunion, none for their 10th. But 45 for the 50th, sweet deluded dears...
Name :   I agree
Location :   Aurora right of way
Date :   June 2
Message :   How does Todd hold his head up as anarchitect when he lives in a hovel. A 2 million dollar hovel, so I guess that is ok. Do not call yourself an environmentalist. You have destroyed the waterfront. You should be ashamed.
Name :   Ryersons husband is
Location :   strange
Date :   june 11
Message :   http://www.pandora.com/people/email2geo
Name :   Really, Todd?
Location :   What about our village park???
Date :   June 1
Message :   *TZA has always believed that good design must consider the environmental impact of the work both as a process and a product.*
Date :   5.31.11
Message :   and did lisas boss tell her she had only one more year as pres? and did the boss reveal her plan for college / village after the ryerson regmime? just me -- do you have any more info?
Name :   to Watchman
Location :   the ans is....
Message :   ......because Lisas boss said so
Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   May 30
Message :   Dories to be open 7am to 3pm from May 24 to Labor Day. Not going to build loyal local customers that way. And why waste college cash on summer jobs for Aurora Inn Inc. dining hall employees to serve a few tourists? Whats going on?
Name :   CNY Alumna
Location :   Wells Graduation 2011
Date :   the day after
Message :   Nice that all the faculty applauded Thoburn leaving graduation stage for last time as senior marshal. Hey, he could be trusted Interim President- hire administrators who cared about education & ethical trustees for a change! Ah well: goodbye and godbless.
Name :   disappointed
Date :   5-28-11
Message :   that is oneyear too many. it will pushy wells over the edge if it hasnt already gone over.
Name :   Just Me
Location :   Aurora
Date :   May 28, 2011
Message :   Rumor has it that one of Lisas daughters told a friend in Syracuse that her mother will be president of Wells only for one more year. If true, what are the implications or outcomes for college and most importantly community, i.e., the people of Aurora and
Name :   Jen
Location :   Aurora
Date :   May27
Message :   Why??? Why is the question people have been asking for 10 years. Why does LMR do any of the stuff she does? Why does anyone listen to the fat lady? Why? I guess because people let her.
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   5.27.11
Message :   wells closed dories cuz they couldnt afford the loss. how can the trustees allow her to dictate college finances? aurora inn inc bleeds red ink. college staff faculty & programs are cut to support her sick play-village hobby. why?
Name :   From what I heard
Location :   old macks
Date :   2/26
Message :   Herself (PTR) said open it up. But that is just hearsay.
Name :   wondering
Location :   
Date :   5/25/11
Message :   why was it decided to reopen Dories after the community was told it would definitely not reopen this summer
Name :   So May 21 was not judgement day
Location :   Though it would come to Aurora
Date :   first.
Message :   
Name :   Inquiring Minds
Location :   Aurora
Date :   5-21-2011
Message :   Pay cut to faculty restored. No summer hours for staff. No pay raises for staff, yet again... all is well in the land of make-believe.
Name :   Main st guy
Location :   Aurora
Date :   5/21
Message :   Just a Q. Is it true the profs. and LMR get the 1 year drop in pay back and the staff get it up the bum for the 4th year in a roll again?
Name :   L Holland
Location :   She is the self-described Person of Integrity
Date :   November 8, 2006
Message :   http://www.scribd.com/doc/14057159/No-Plan-for-the-Stream2
Name :   Has anyone seen
Location :   the couple in the
Date :   
Message :   Wells White House recently?
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   5.16.11
Message :   which she are you speaking of LH? everyone please note: white cars are at leffingwells -what is it with white and PTR?- and porch furniture out front. she is here to stay now that she has destroyed the liberal arts and all independent thinking at wells.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Aurora
Date :   May 15, 2011
Message :   Now that it has been confirmed that she lied to the village govt about the site plan for her house, do you wonder what else she has lied about?
Name :   Pleasant?
Location :   self centered, everyone else does not matter
Date :   Is this where it came from?
Message :   “with my new inner strength and the love I have for myself ............. I need to follow my own path in life and do what truly makes me happy”. Hoffman Process results
Name :   Watchman
Location :   http://forum.rickross.com/read.php?4,72500,100778
Date :   Fri the 13th in May of 2011
Message :   Is anyone else here tracking this group that Pleasant promotes? The more of us who know what to watch for, the better.
Name :   BRAVO Professor Thobi-Wan!!!
Location :   Barler
Date :   Last day of classes 2011
Message :   Singing Schuberts Erlkonig for your students to close the last swan song to a standing ovation and brilliant accompaniment by Russ. Metaphors within metaphors, and such wonderful music. Thank you for everything. May the force be with you.
Name :   can the trustees
Location :   even spell the word education?
Date :   5.10.11
Message :   college cant afford to open the ugly place the monsters call dories, they lost so much money on asinine business center, failed aurora inn, phony market and salary of idiot president. now they want to open another hotel with ptr? criminal insanity!
Name :   wondering
Location :   village
Date :   5/10/11
Message :   is wells going to limp thru another year or what? Anybody know?
Name :   Admin
Location :   http://www.aurorany.org/news
Date :   5-9-11
Message :   The final informal student recital becomes the last Swan Song, and marks the destruction of the liberal arts at Wells College.
Name :   Freshman Class
Location :   enrollment at Wells
Date :   for next year
Message :   is far lower than admin budgeted for. And, as always, dozens of prospectives contacted music dept this spring asking about offerings - and were told there would be no program as of 2011-12. Real stupid move, Lisa - just to satisfy PTR. Wake up, Trustees!
Name :   Not A Friend
Location :   
Date :   5 9 2011
Message :   What did the woman named after a train station have to say about plastics? More than one word Illbet.
Name :   LMAO
Location :   village right of way
Date :   may 8 2011
Message :   Hilarious! Paddington posts on a facebook page called Plastics Pollution Coalition. I cant make this stuff up!
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   5.4.11
Message :   meeting is at 7pm. notice says its informational, no action to be taken at this time. (except to try to sway opinion in advance and pressure the approving boards.)
Name :   
Location :   Here
Date :   Today
Message :   What time is the meeting on Wednesday? Thank you!
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   4.29.11
Message :   large moving trucks at both properties this week, boxes and boxes of stuff being taken into the houses. those boards are led by wells employees now more than ever desperate to keep their jobs.
Name :   Main St. Guy
Location :   aurora
Date :   4/27/11
Message :   I heard the real plan is for the leffingwell home not the Abbott House. Switch and bait so to say.. WATCH HER.
Name :   to PB and CPP
Location :   
Date :   4/28/11
Message :   do the ethical thing.....Deny Deny Deny whatever she needs to commercialize Abbot house. The village will be all the better if you deny
Name :   Here She Comes Again
Location :   Posted in kiosk at P.O.
Date :   Announced for May 4th, 2011
Message :   Combined meeting of CPP & Planning Board to discuss *proposal from Pleasant Rowland & Aurora Inn to operate Abbott House as a hotel/inn.* But wait - PTR left & gave Inn to Wells, right? And the area is zoned residential! Think that will stop her? HAhahaha
  

Name :   I do hope for better from the current govt.
Location :   But - NGil handed Aurora to Rowland on a platter,
Date :   Easter Monday 2011
Message :   insisting all PTR plans equaled a *small impact*, requiring no serious review before destroying buildings & businesses, ruining village parking, creating hazards, etc. New mayor just extended her term as PB chair. Why? Hasnt she done enough damage?
Message :   the government at the time was corrupted by Wells and Pleasant ( Ken Z was right). lets hope for better now.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   To Taxpayer: BINGO
Date :   April 22, 2011
Message :   Yes, Taxpayer, you and all of us will pay. But, this is just getting started. Time will tell.
Name :   Watchman
Location :   http://www.aurorany.org/WebbHouseFlood.html
Date :   http://www.aurorany.org/WebbHouseFlood2.html
Message :   And its not like the PB didnt see the problem and the consequences of their failure to act in the best interests of the public. Whatever Pleasant wants, our govt gives - and to hell with Aurora. Thanks, Nancy G!
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Wait - NYS is going to move the stream?
Date :   4/21/11
Message :   After CJ said she would? And our PB approved moving the house based on her promise? Isnt it enforceable? Why should taxpayers pay for this? Didnt the DOT approve CJs plan? Is the state claiming eminent domain to take Holland property? Take CJs instead!
Name :   Laura this is from the coward
Location :   Work with your neighbor
Message :   If you are not the person responsible for this site then the person has your bloody back. He/she publishes nothing that speaks of your behavior and station.Censorship!!!anything that shows Laura in a bad light.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Aurora Planning Board & the underground stream
Date :   April 21, 2011
Message :   It was the charge & the DUTY of the Planning Board of 2006 to resolve the plan for the stream & verify K/Ps claims BEFORE the board gave permission to cram that house in there. But the board didnt fulfill their duty.
Name :   L Holland April 21, 2010
Location :   They LIED. The Aurora govt at the time
Date :   WILLINGLY, gleefully, swallowed their lies
Message :   & allowed this debacle. Now the taxpayers of NYState are on the hook for what THEY promised THEY would pay for & the state will attempt to take OUR property because THEY lied & the village allowed it.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Next Door To A Big Mess
Date :   April 20, 2011
Message :   If you have not yet read this, now is the time, because it is about to turn into another big fight: http://www.scribd.com/doc/14057159/No-Plan-for-the-Stream2
Name :   HA- see how Mr. Family Man Deputy Mayor describes himself!
Location :   The brainless puppet and his owners are all Fascists.
Date :   And NILICO is a despicable scam - google it!
Message :   From http://twitter.com/#!/GeoFarenthold Husband to Lisa, Father to Rachel, Julie, Carol, Annie and Zoey-the dog. Democratic Enviro Labor Activist. Deputy Mayor, Marketing Representative AIL/NILICO
Name :   The Twit Twitters!
Date :   4 18 2011
Message :   http://twitter.com/#!/GeoFarenthold
Name :   they are not green
Location :   Zywgards
Date :   April 18
Message :   just because they say they are. They should be embarrassed at the mess they left at OUR park.The whole scene is unkempt and just plain ugly. They should not be allowed to get away with it. Green..my ass. White... trash is more like it.
Name :   Swan Songs
Location :   Part Three
Date :   4/20/11
Message :   I will always love you
Name :   L Holland - To The Anonymous Coward
Location :   Havent we been through this before?
Date :   No, I have nothing to do with this website.
Message :   Except to read & contribute to it, as you do. I am curious, Anonymous Coward, why would you claim that this is my site? BUT although this is NOT my site I am glad that it exists and believe it makes a valuable contribution to the village of Aurora.
Date :   April 2011
Message :   The soon to be extinct music dept at wells -- CRT, VP, LC, and the pianist -- are advertising their students performances this spring as Swan Song numbers 1, 2,3 etc.
Name :   Wilbur
Location :   
Date :   April 20011
Message :   The chickens are crossing the road to get away from the rats. The rats like chickenfeed.
Name :   Aurora is Wells
Location :   Wells is Aurora
Date :   This site is Laura H Laura is this site
Message :   News of Wells, Lisa and Laura =Aurora Roundup.
Name :   Who is CT?
Location :   Aurora
Date :   april 14
Name :   Swan Song
Location :   suggestions
Date :   for CT
Message :   Take this job and shove it 9 to 5 Chain Gang Workin for a Livin Get a job Bang the Drum
Name :   Why
Location :   did
Date :   the
Message :   chicken cross the road? To avoid the Dutch oven!
Name :   ex worker
Location :   well news
Date :   4/10
Message :   The only people that lost their jobs were Joy and Mary. all the rest that left was because overworked and no pay increase.
Name :   Gunga Din
Location :   turning over in my grave
Date :   4/9/11
Message :   No new layoffs but 3 new hires in Pettibone (theyre so overworked).
Name :   quiet here
Location :   here
Date :   4/8/2011
Message :   no news anywhere in town? Any more layoffs coming to Wells?
Name :   downtown/uptown
Location :   the same
Date :   3/27
Message :   MOOOOOO
Date :   March. 22. 201
Message :   Looks like Wells is going to make it thru another academic year
Name :   Was Leslie-Bernal retired like
Location :   another Vice-President was in
Date :   2006/7. Lisa has a way of firing people and paying them to say they resigned or retired.
Message :   The woman is evil! Does she realize that what she does will come back to haunt her children? Supposed she does not give a damn.
Name :   Lisa, there is a guy in
Location :   Libya with whom you would work well.
Date :   He likes power and holds on to it for dear life even when his
Message :   citizens want him out. Does that sound familiar. QUIT LISA! QUIT!
Name :   Wells wants to use all of its houses
Location :   in aurora
Date :   March 2011
Message :   for student housing. More Big Change for a small town.
Name :   The Citizen, Property Transfers
Location :   Real Estate Section, p. 3
Date :   Sunday, March 13, 2011
Message :   *Dorothy Bush, St.Michaels Md., to Pleasant T Rowland LLC, Middleton Wis., part of a parcel at 700 Sherwood Rd.* Price paid listed as zero dollars but assessed value given as 684,700! Huh?
Name :   So what time is chicken dinner?
Location :   I have my cutlery. Is there anything else I need to bring?
Name :   If those chickens are in your
Location :   yard; they become community
Date :   property. You can have chicken dinner.
Message :   No questions asked.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   
Date :   March 10, 2011
Message :   If you keep chickens shouldnt you keep them in your own yard?
Name :   I have the first problem for students to solve
Location :   Why wont Lisa resign as President so the College
Date :   can be run by more
Message :   efficient management? Figure that one out.
Name :   Watchman
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_6f5ee3ce-4abc-11e0-8897-001cc4c002e0.html
Date :   March 10
Message :   Earth to Wells: Stanfords Design Lab is run by mechanical engineers. Yours is run by - a Spanish instructor? And it will offer *problem solving that is fast, cheap and that yields breakthrough results*? Can you spell delusional?
Name :   Em
Location :   here
Date :   3/10/11
Message :   If you’re a leader who believes that what you’re doing is best, the people around you need to keep you in check. There are no checks and balances at Wells. That’s the B of D’s job… in fact, their only job.
Name :   How do you let someone who was born without
Location :   a conscience suddenly
Date :   get one?
Message :   LMR has neither conscience nor scruple...having born without.
Name :   Jen
Location :   Aurora
Date :   March 9
Message :   question for Em : why dont you blame LMR? Yes, the Board is pathetic,but is LMR SIMPLE? Can she not act on her own? Shame on LMR and the Board.
Name :   LR
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Someone sent me this and I thought of LMR...Dead Horse
Message :   Dead Horse ---The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in government, education and in corporate America, mo
Name :   Em
Location :   here
Date :   03/08/2011
Message :   I don’t blame LMR. I put all the blame on the Board. They are supposed do whatever is best for Wells, not for individuals, and they are failing at their task, miserably. Shame on them, shame on all of them.
Name :   Jen
Location :   Aurora
Date :   March 7
Message :   Come on now, one look at Lisa and you know that she can never get enough. She will NEVER walk away; she will have to be taken out by bulldozer.Selfish dictators never change, we all know that.Her little army is getting smaller though.

Message :   is that just wishful thinking or do you know something?
Name :   Pay back is a bitch
Location :   Some people at Wells
Date :   have abig PAYBACK day coming.
Message :   
Name :   Will Lisa ever has a full stomach?
Location :   Can she push herself from the table?
Message :   Doesnt she know gluttony...in food and money are sins...especially when the money you take does not belong to you.
Name :   Lisa and Leslie
Location :   fired a good Vice-President
Date :   and then Leslie took the position although her husband was on deaths bed (2007)
Message :   He is still breathing and now she is retiring because her is ill. The name has been gravely ill since 2007. Leslie only wanted to live in that house across the street, repair and rent her house and line her pocket with Wells money. At least her stomach is
Name :   When will Ann Rollo go?
Location :   It is about time she
Date :   gives up the luxurious life
Message :   on Wells campus. Lisa will be buried in the French House or the deck of Aurora Inn.
Name :   JP
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Leslie-Miller Bernals husband has been sick for years
Message :   Why is she just retiring because of his illness. B...s the is something fishy and stinky about her retirement now. Her pocket is oozing money. Maybe she has also repaired her house.
Name :   Should have said:
Location :   the latest rat.
Date :   My mistake.
Message :   She puts forth family reasons for her retirement. Her husband is not well; but he was unwell when she took the big raise to become Provost after slashing the faculty last spring. A rat is a rat, and the ship is sinking.
Name :   There are plenty of rats
Location :   still on board:
Message :   Rolo, Gunderson, MVD, and the supreme rat, Ryerson. Are they going down with the ship?
Name :   The last rat
Location :   leaves the ship
Date :   after helping to scuttle it.
Message :   Having arrogantly perverted the once worthy educational institution of Wells College - selling it out to coeducation, sports mania, gross fiscal mismanagement and Rowlands Aurora Inn Inc. - Leslie Miller Bernal is retiring in June as Dean and Provost.
Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   Feb 28
Message :   Could you please post links to the relevant google map pages? Thanks.
Name :   Ha ha!
Location :   Google Maps - Immortalized for the time being
Date :   February 2011 and October 2008
Message :   On Google Maps the Street View of the Aurora Inn shows The Protest Car vandalizd with four flat tires.
Name :   alum
Location :   Wells
Date :   Feb 26
Message :   Well, shouldnt the college have planned on fixing it before it broke? It is called preventive maintance. Lisa had better do A LOT more of it.
Message :   Just because you havent seen a bulldozer on campus doesnt mean they are not working on the heating system...it might involve a little planning in the beginning...
Name :   Bad to worse?
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Feb 20
Message :   The Aurora website has always been NOTHING but a free advertisement for that woman photographer. I forgot her name because she is not worth remembering. She just advertises her so called art work.
Name :   residents
Location :   aurora
Date :   2-119-2011
Message :   What happened to the Aurora website? It went from bad to worst?
Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   Feb 19
Message :   Family members of deceased big donors, whose named memorial funds were hi-jacked from the endowment, were assured that infrastructure repairs (specifically the heating system) would begin last fall. Ive not seen any evidence of that, have you?
Name :   Hmmmmm...
Location :   Perhaps theyve selfishly
Date :   
Message :   decided to continue to heat the campus as best they can this year before turning everything off to begin the project?!
Date :   2.19.11
Message :   and we were told the 14M stolen from the endowment last fall was going to repair the decrepit campus heating system, which broke down yet again last week. where did all that money go?
Name :   Relax a Bit!
Location :   Aurora
Date :   2/17/11
Message :   I was told this was done to meet some State Education Law requirements...
Name :   Yesterdays Citizen: area alums want to know-
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_9b37f162-38b9-11e0-8475-001cc4c002e0.html
Date :   Just how many felonies are commited on campus now days?
Message :   *The Judicial & Public Safety committee also passed a resolution allowing the county sheriff’s office to enter into an agreement with Wells College in Aurora, whereby the sheriff’s department would handle all felony & missing person cases on campus.*
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_27d0bbda-385c-11e0-a480-001cc4c03286.html
Date :   St. Valentines Day
Message :   Wells sinks into insolvency, but French House gets featured on national TV as a romantic getaway. (Thats college money donated for education you hear being flushed down the drain of all the failing Aurora Inn enterprises.)
Message :   so did the trustees fire Lisa or not?
Name :   Watchman
Location :   http://www.epageflip.net/issue/25033/2
Date :   February 12
Message :   Maybe PTR is going to build her mausoleum here. She has deeded land (at the back of Bush / Gould Farm) to the Oak Glen / Presby Church Cemetery. Lisa should be planted at her feet. Someday soon.
Message :   they are trustees, not directors, and there is no longer any kind of legitimate search and screening process for new members. lisa just appoints her cronies. or people she meets on planes and decides are instant bff. seriously.
Name :   JP
Location :   Aurora
Date :   2/12
Message :   Get on Wells Board of directors and you do not only have to wonder whats going on but you can vote to make changes.
Name :   Main St. Guy
Location :   Main St.
Date :   2/10/11
Message :   Maybe they will vote and give the folks $ this July. It has been 3 years bout time Wells gave back.
Date :   2.10.11
Message :   trustees start arriving late today. board meeting this weekend. a little later than usual.
Name :   Just Me
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Feb 9, 2011
Message :   Is there any news about the recent meeting of the Wells College Board of Trustees?
Name :   PTL
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Feb7
Message :   PTL brought a lot of misery to a tiny village. Yes, she furnished the dorms with modern furniture, yes she modernized the Inn, BUT she ruined the Fargo and caused a lot of shit. Then... She left crying. I just want her to stay GONE.
Name :   Resident
Location :   here
Date :   February 6
Message :   Stinking village? Damn graveyard? Why do you live here then?
Name :   wondering
Date :   feb 5 2011
Message :   JP,can you honestly say that, ten years later, Aurora is as happy and harmonious a community as it was prior to Pleasants arrival? I dont think so. What do you value most?
Date :   2.5.11
Message :   Yep thanks to PTR Aurora now crawls with living dead - LMR and her clan of est Hoffmanites - zombies all of them, chewing up Wells College to turn it into a cult institute.
Name :   JP
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Feb.4
Message :   PTR is the best thing that ever happened to this stinking village. At best it was a damn graveyard and she came in and woke the dead.
Name :   Aurora Foundation 10th Anniversary this year
Location :   Under Rowlands thumb
Date :   groundhog day
Message :   last word missing: She is ultimately profoundly selfish.
Name :   Aurora Foundation 10th Anniversary this year
Location :   Under Rowlands thumb
Date :   2001 - 2011
Message :   10 yrs of lies, bullying, rancor, division, she built her new buildings but destroyed the community. What a shallow, stupid, egotistical, vindictive, superficial, woman she proved to be. For all the money she dropped in Aurora she is ultimately profoundly
Name :   Hopeful...
Location :   Here
Date :   2/2/2011
Message :   Please remember that there are incredible students along with a hardworking, devoted staff who work tirelessly to keep Wells running. I wish the upper echelon at Wells could see that, and take appropriate action...
Date :   Feb 1 2011
Message :   What a quiet campus
Date :   1.28.11
Message :   which board meeting? they had their winter meeting already? or was this the executive committee? thought full board was meeting on campus next weekend. are these more cuts in program & faculty, or still more staff layoffs, or cuts in admin for a change?
Message :   Many more program cuts discussed at the board meeting
Name :   Yes
Location :   Wells
Date :   Jan 25
Message :   Yes, Lisa is nuts. Stupid and selfish, too. It was an established fact many years ago.
Name :   Observer
Location :   here there and everywhere
Date :   Jan 25 2011
Message :   An organization usually hires a turn around expert once it reaches a state of desperation. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. First thing he should recommend is to send LMR packing.
Name :   Jeez, Louise!
Location :   www.turnaround.org/Membership/MemberDetail.aspx?memberID=8579
Date :   1/24/11
Message :   Link to resume of new Wells Chief Operating Officer. Not one iota of experience in education! Do trustees think a Mergers&Acquisitions, Liquidation and TurnAround expert can save a college? Did faculty have any role in this search? Is Lisa nuts?
Name :   So sad and pathetic
Location :   Has Wells become a sports training facility?
Date :   1/19
Message :   How do they keep their accreditation?
Name :   Easy to tell
Location :   that Realist
Date :   1 18 11
Message :   was not a graduate of Wells College.
Name :   Realist
Location :   Reality
Message :   Sports or studies......who cares ! Its whatever brings the bucks in !
Name :   Watchman
Location :   www.wells.ed
Date :   MLK Day
Message :   Check the college home page: one big list of news releases on 50+ sports events. Thats what now passes for higher education in the liberal arts at Wells.
Name :   Alumna
Location :   CNY
Date :   1/15/11
Message :   Im told Wells dorms & dining halls being kept open all January this year for sports teams who pay no extra for room/board. What IS the athletics budget compared to academics now?

Message :   I thought Wells had budgeted 5 million for a brand new heating system. No ?
Name :   I agree
Location :   Mackenzie Childs
Date :   Jan 6
Message :   M.C. is really a beautiful place. I feel so much better about going there now because it has owners I respect. As for closing the Fargo, stupid continues. LMR goes out of her way to make the town unwelcoming.
Date :   1.5.11
Message :   fargo closed for more repairs next week. student lounges on campus get renovated yet again. this is how lmr spends the 14million of hi-jacked endowment, while campus heating system fails, faculty get slashed, and liberal arts disappear.
Name :   Watcher
Location :   MacKenzie Childs
Date :   January 5, 2011
Message :   Now that the megalomaniacs VMC and PTR are gone, Mackenzie Childs is thriving and successful. Being run by smart, normal people instead of ego monsters and it works.
Name :   R and R
Location :   Aurora
Date :   12/30/10
Message :   Happy New Year everyone! Lets work on keeping Aurora a great place to be.
Message :   nice to see cheerful holiday lights at the hollands even after the vandalism.
Date :   12.14.10
Message :   hear that, pleasant?
Name :   Our conscience
Location :   the future
Date :   Dec 24
Message :   For all those who choose not share kindness, theres always time to start...
Name :   Santa
Location :   North Pole
Date :   12/23/2010
Message :   Merry Christmas to all the people in Aurora, both the right ones and the wrong ones
Name :   Aurora is a beautiful
Location :   
Date :   DEC 18
Message :   little village, but people like RZ and LMR and their cohorts make it very unpleasant. Who is RZ to say who the right people are? I know people who were born in Aurora and that witch will not even say hi to them. She really needs to expand her horizons. Sh
Name :   Just Me
Location :   Aurora
Date :   Dec, 17, 2010
Message :   Continue saga of Aurora Society. After we disobeyed RZs warning, people seen talking with us in public were warned to think twice about such unsavory association. Most disobeyed, but not all! Sigh.
Name :   OMG
Date :   when did you move to town?
Message :   *being seen with the wrong people*??? Its unbelievable that someone allows herself to think in such a constricted way. What else did she have to say? Aurora Society? There is no such thing.



Date :
  12.16.10
Message :
  dont drink the kool-aid at taylor house or you will become one of them.
Name :   Just Me
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  Dec 16, 2020
Message :
  Considering the delusions of Aurora Society, when we moved to the village, Randi Z took us aside and firmly informed us that we were being seen with the wrong people, and that if we wanted to be part of Aurora Society, we had better watch it!
Name :   Anybody whos anybody?
Location :
  Taylor house
Date :
  Dec 16
Message :
  Are you kidding me???? Let me guess, big fish in a very small pond? Get over yourselves lmr and gf and the losers who follow them. I will be at a real party. OMG, that is pathetic.
Date :   12/15/10
Message :
  yes, my significant other / partner (or whater her pc-ness calls spouses now) and i are invited. no, we wil not go. btw the party is tomorrow, thursday. go friday and you party hearty with geo and lmr on your own. have fun, snowbird.
Name :   Integrity,Humanity and Competence,
Date :
  Christmas 2010
Message :
  Party? What party? We wont be there. We arent welcome.
Name :   Snowbird
Location :
  Warmer place
Date :
  9 days to Christmas
Message :
  Hey, whos going to the Taylor House party Friday? Should be fun! Lots of free food, beverages, and everyone whos anyone in town. Huh. Are you all invited?
Name :   Watchman
Location :
  still here
Date :
  December 13
Message :
  Speaking of Church, guess who graced Aurora services last Sunday? LMR & GF! They must be desperate - except Xmas Eves, thats the 1st time theyve been in the UM since their wedding. Their royal presence impressed nobody. Go back to your Quadrinity, Lisa.
Name :   Are you kidding me?
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  Dec13
Message :
  Some idiot ruined your CHRISTMAS lights? Real Christmas spirit. I hope they have a safe and wonderful Christmas. Oh, and be sure and go church. Tis the season, you jackass cowards.
Name :   Laura Holland
Location :
  A new low. To the miserable louse
Date :
  December 12, 2010
Message :
  who vandalized & dismantled my xmas lights: all you have accomplished is to deprive your neighbors of light at a cold, dark time of year and lower my electric bill. Why would you want to do that?
Name :   wondering
Location :
  Wells
Date :
  Dec 12
Message :
  Just wondering if 2011 will be a postive year for Wells? That will only happen if they start the year with a fresh prespective and a FRESH president.
Name :   simply a case of
Location :
  manlius
Date :
  Dec 7
Message :
  LMRs daughter being far too superior for anything local. I heard him loud and clear; Manlius Pebble Hill or bust. That is fine of course, but the Southern Cayuga student I was with did not like the comments. Speak a little softer next time George. I know
Name :   Has GF been relegated to driving only?
Location :
  Has GF given up his local political ambitions?
Date :
  December 6,2010
Message :
  If not, even he should realize that he shouldn’t go in to the Fargo & LOUDLY disparage not only the local schools – USCS & SCC – but also the unfortunate & inferior students who have to attend them. He won’t win votes that way.
Name :   Interesting Link at the google site called
Location :
  Wells Coalition
Date :
  http://www.faqs.org/tax-exempt/NY/Wells-College.html
Message :
  Brings up fascinating fiscal summary of Wells under LMR based on audited financial statements; eg - annual expenses hover around 20M in years 2000 thru 05 and then leap to 45M in 06! Not much deficit before Rowland and Coeducation; in ‘06 it is 22M!
Name :   At the bottom of the page
Location :
  Wells College tax form 990 for 3 years
Date :
  December first
Message :
  https://sites.google.com/site/wellscoalition/file-cabinet
Name :   Confused squared
Location :
  NY
Date :
  11/30/10
Message :
  Wells is hiring because so many decent, hardworking people have left. No one stays if they have any other opportunity. Too sad...

Date :
  november 28
Message :
  according to the classifieds wells is still hiring. good sign?
Name :   Graduates of Wells College
Location :
  check your yearbook and posters...anything that bears the Wells College logo and compare the twoW
Date :
  This was not pocket change that was used.
Message :
  My comment was any member of the Wells community could have made the W. Lisa remarked that it is copyrighted and no one else can use it. Well, Lisa if you start a lawsuit. Wells will have money to saty afloat. Stupid woman.
Name :   In 2005 when Wells started accepting women
Location :
  the W was changed. Who knows how much
Date :
  was shelled out, but for something
Message :
  as ludicrous as a W. Yes, it was about the time she had consultants to resell Wells as co-ed. This should be open public info. Shouldnt it?
Name :   Watchman
Location :
  still here
Date :
  Black Friday
Message :
  What year was that horrendous W logo foisted upon the College? In fiscal 2006-07, Lisa spent 337K on marketing consultants. The year before, 402K.
Name :   Does anyone outside of
Location :
  Wells College know that
Date :
  Lisa paid a handsome price to change the W
Message :
  that had for nearly a century and a half represent the college? She was told that the presen W is only used by Wells. I have seen it so many places I am sick.
Name :   I have often wondered the same
Location :
  thing. Henry Wells started Wells. Wells Farg support so many organizations, institutions and
Date :
  individuals but refuse to give a cent
Message :
  to Wells College. Instead of spend so much money a few years ago to change the W Lisa should try to change the name of the College.
Name :   JP
Location :
  Wells Collage was started and named for
Date :
  billionaire Henry Wells. We still use the name why dont the organization make donations to its name sake. Some years ago a faculty member tried to get a grant from Wells Fargo and was told that
Message :
  they had no link to the College. Is it bad press or poor organization?
Name :   JP
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  11/23/10
Message :
  Message to Lisa. Please resign from Wells so everyone can enjoy a good Thanksgiving and look forward to something to give thanks for...your resignation!

Location :
  loonyland
Date :
  11/16/10
Message :
  so Lisa makes over 100 thou MORE than both the PHD presidents of Lemoyne and IC do. On what basis? Credentials? Performance? Ha! What is WRONG with the people on the BOT?
Name :   BUT....
Location :
  Wells
Date :
  Nov 15
Message :
  LMR is SOOO worth the money. I mean who else could cause so much damage to a small college and village for that price? The BOT is getting their moneys worth. Why they want such destruction? Who knows. They could get a qualified president for less, but ref
Name :   Page A-3
Location :
  Todays Syracus Newspaper
Date :
  11-15-10
Message :
  LMR annual compensation listed at 299,142 dollars. (Doesnt include the house, the cook, the car, etc.) She makes more than the Presidents at LeMoyne and Ithaca College!!!
Name :   jean continued

Message :
  ...when Ann referred to Wells as the enterprise 15 yrs ago. we should be concerned whenever a college/non-profit is suddenly the enterprise. language is meaningful and is an active agent in the construction of our world, right?
Name :   jean 1985
Location :
  
Date :
  11/9/2010
Message :
  Wells as for-profit? All those businesses? all these enterprise-minded administrators? http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/07/01/hlc Poor Ann Rollo, Im never going to forget her professionally snappy foreshadowing of all of this when she referr
Name :   jean 1985
Location :
  
Date :
  11/09/2010
Message :
  In researching something else altogether, I came across this: http://chronicle.com/article/Dana-College-Once-Under/64687/ Higher Learning Council, in June, ultimately refused to sign on. It caught my attention because Dana was 126 years old, student
Name :   stumper of a question
Location :
  ,
Date :
  11/9/10
Message :
  If Wells goes out of business,and its buildings and land are sold, who gets the money? Wells College would no longer exist, so who profits? I guess the question is who owns Wells College if there is no more Wells College?
Name :   Frankie
Location :
  
Date :
  11/08/10
Message :
  Lisa cannot leave Wells. She is unemployable. She has no skills, very little brains and no other place will pay her what Wells does. She is heading for entry level position anywhere else.
Name :   Lisa benefits
Location :
  Wells
Date :
  Nov 8
Message :
  By digging into the endowment fund,Lisa guarantees herself and her girl friends a large salary.What happens when that money runs dry? Well, atleast Lisa got paid right up until the doors close.
Name :   
Location :
  
Date :
  11.8.10
Message :
  who do they want to sell to, and why? what will the campus become? who benefits by bankrupting an endowed educational institution? if you know anything, share it now - there is still time to alert the state attny general office.
Name :   went to Wells with Lisa
Location :
  Wells
Date :
  Nov8
Message :
  She was a selfish jerk then and she has never changed. If anyone thinks she cares for anyone but herself they are sadly mistaken. BOT must be stupid, no other word for them. Rob the college into foreclosure and then blame Bush.

Date :
  nov 9
Message :
  they are deliberately running Wells out of business and want to sell the campus real estate once the college closes
Name :   L Holland
Location :
  I dont understand - this makes no sense.
Date :
  November 3 . 2010
Message :
  Why would Ryerson choose to spend the endowment, further jeopardizing the schools existence, instead of raising money by selling some businesses/properties WHICH ARE DRAINING THE COLLEGE OF VERY LARGE SUMS OF MONEY?! This is nuts.
Date :   11.3.10
Message :
  faculty recently told that the endowment is down to 29M. Lisa will now spend 48 percent of it. on sports, restaurants and worthless unmarketable culinary and business programs. the trustees should be shot.
Name :   Citizen Article
Location :
  http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_29058f90-e6d0-11df-8e8d-001cc4c002e0.html
Date :
  11/3/10
Message :
  Apparently they sent that letter out as a press release. The idiots are proud of this acccomplishment. Anyone know which judge issued this ruling? (NYS Supreme Court meets in Auburn.) Cant heirs contest robbing family legacies?
Name :   Lakebound
Location :
  state of disbelief
Date :
  Wells is eating its seed corn
Message :
  The death spiral has begun.The money will never be paid back, judge was fooled.Sad that the dead donors gave in good faith and are now being dishonored by this bunch of incompetents,both admin and BOT
Name :   Isnt there a law against whats
Location :
  happening at Wells?
Date :
  
Message :
  Who will be jailed or imprisoned when the dust settles?
Name :   Letter to the Wells Community
Location :
  http://auburnpub.com/article_05cf4eda-e6d0-11df-8a4c-001cc4c002e0.html
Date :
  All Souls Day
Message :
  May all the good and faithful donors of past decades rest in peace. Ryerson is stealing half the endowment to buy her presidency another pathetic 2-3 years. Wells College is dead.
Name :   Warmly
Location :
  
Date :
  Nov 2, 2010
Message :
  http://auburnpub.com/article_05cf4eda-e6d0-11df-8a4c-001cc4c002e0.html
Name :   Cluck Again.
Location :
  Poultry Gone Wild
Date :
  (11-2-10: its called All Souls Day)
Message :
  Nope, Snowbird - bird? - youre wrong. Animal Control already contacted. This is a violation. Law applies to all kept animals. The owners have been cited and told to control their fowl. Get ready for turkey dinner!
Name :   Chowder
Location :
  
Date :
  Nov 2
Message :
  With 14 mil being spent, whats the endowm now worth? Truly a desperate act. I have trouble believing this. A judge would have to lack accurate info or sanity to believe a repayment is coming.
Name :   Snowbird
Location :
  to Cluck
Date :
  Day after all saints
Message :
  NY State ag and market animal control laws are poorly named. Animal Control is about dogs and dogs only. Not cats, chickens or cows. It is up to the village to have ordinances. Just fyi.
Name :   
Location :
  the end is in sight.
Date :
  11.2.10
Message :
  wells college is taking 14M in designated endowment scholarship funds given by deceased donors to bail out lisa marsh ryerson. nys supreme court approved this desperate action - only if the money is repaid. hahahahahahahahaha
Name :   Cluck.
Location :
  Dont mind chickens in Aurora.
Date :
  11-2-10
Message :
  But I do mind neighbors poultry entering MY yard, garage, porch, etc. Nasty, aggressive white geese attacking kids; stupid ugly white turkeys crapping in my yard. This violates animal control laws. Pen them or eat them.
Name :   another one will bite the dust
Location :
  too bad its not Lisa
Date :
  10/20/10
Message :
  just watch, Munoz will be the next one to be relieved of her job. gotta like her guts, though. too bad no one with any influence will listen
Name :   Statement by Professor Munoz
Location :
  http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=114858718553337&topic=247
Date :
  Read at the 9/14/10 Faculty Meeting
Message :
  Asking Ryerson to resign for the good of the College. Powerful words. Go to the bottom of page linked above. Why wont she listen? How much longer can this go on? Why does she want Wells to die? Why will the Board allow it? ITs IMMORAL & IT MAKES NO SENSE!
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :
  Aurora Inn email to community
Date :
  10/17/10
Message :
  Wells cuts programs - so Aurora Inn / French House can stay open this winter & suck more money out of the college! Who the hell is writing their business plans? Ok, how about it Lisa - free food all February for fired faculty and staff. Its only fair.
  
Message :
  wells college is taking 14M in designated endowment scholarship funds given by deceased donors to bail out lisa marsh ryerson. nys supreme court approved this desperate action - only if the money is repaid. hahahahahahahahaha
Name :   Cluck.
Location :
  Dont mind chickens in Aurora.
Date :
  11-2-10
Message :
  But I do mind neighbors poultry entering MY yard, garage, porch, etc. Nasty, aggressive white geese attacking kids; stupid ugly white turkeys crapping in my yard. This violates animal control laws. Pen them or eat them.
Name :   Cathy Zimdahl
Location :
  main st
Date :
  nov 1
Message :
  Just want to go on record as saying Im pro-chicken. love all our village yardbirds. even the constantly crowing rooster. cluck you if you dont.
Name :   issheforreal
Location :
  wells
Date :
  Oct 30
Message :
  Has Wells ever had a president more disliked than Lisa Ryerson
Name :   Lisa is a woman without scruple and
Location :
  a moral compas. She is a selfish, cold hearted woman.
Date :
  The Board is a set of stupid idiots.
Message :
  RESIGN LISA! RESIGN LISA! LEAVE WELLS NOW. YOU HAVE RUN THE INSTITUTION IN THE GROUND.
Name :   Is the she devil
Location :
  Wells
Date :
  Oct 27
Message :
  still President? Really? Why?
Name :   Attn Snobird
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  October 21 , 2-10
Message :
  Views of the lake - or anything else - are not protected in the village law.
Name :   another one will bite the dust
Location :
  too bad its not Lisa
Date :
  10/20/10
Message :
  just watch, Munoz will be the next one to be relieved of her job. gotta like her guts, though. too bad no one with any influence will listen
Name :   Snowbird
Location :
  Headin South
Date :
  October 21
Message :
  Hello preservation of Aurora! Why is the house next to Macks twice as high as it used to be? Who allowed that? Sure it is a nice new house, but now someone else has their view of the lake wrecked.
Name :   Statement by Professor Munoz
Location :
  http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=114858718553337&topic=247
Date :
  Read at the 9/14/10 Faculty Meeting
Message :
  Asking Ryerson to resign for the good of the College. Powerful words. Go to the bottom of page linked above. Why wont she listen? How much longer can this go on? Why does she want Wells to die? Why will the Board allow it? ITs IMMORAL & IT MAKES NO SENSE!
Name :   Even Moore
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  10.18.10
Message :
  Open all season, ah... except Thanksgiving? Really?
Name :   Dont get it
Location :
  Kitchen
Date :
  
Message :
  Why would any aspiring chef pick Wells College over one of the established cooking schools?
Name :   L Holland
Location :
  
Date :
  Oct17.10
Message :
  Three days a week is considered open? I actually thought they would have to stay really open for the winter because of the short-order cook immersion program.
Name :   Locus 42
Location :
  Oct 17
Date :
  was not the Inn closed in winter
Message :
  because of the huge losses it suffered then? And now it is once again open for the winter? What has changed? And when does LMR become a fiscally untenable employee of Wells?
Name :   Snowbird
Location :
  Headin South
Date :
  10-17-10
Message :
  Wont it be nice to have the inn open in December and January when the only people in Aurora refuse to step foot in the place? Heck, if you cant beat em make yourselves and everyone else miserable.
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :
  Aurora Inn email to community
Date :
  10/17/10
Message :
  Wells cuts programs - so Aurora Inn / French House can stay open this winter & suck more money out of the college! Who the hell is writing their business plans? Ok, how about it Lisa - free food all February for fired faculty and staff. Its only fair.
Name :   
Location :
  
Date :
  10.16.10
Message :
  yea she bought it for a fraction of its value when she was *special asst* to bob plane. nice perk. it never came available to faculty or staff her senior. she has been feathering her nest at college expense for a long long time.
Name :   resident
Location :
  aurora
Date :
  10/15/10
Message :
  Lisa owns the Jed Morgan house on main street.Bought several years ago. Was rented but know empty.
Name :   alum
Location :
  
Date :
  10.12.2010
Message :
  Is the last message an indication that Lisa is making welcome noise about resigning? why all the talk about her owning a house in town?
Name :   pip
Location :
  anywhere in village
Date :
  10/12 /2010
Message :
  LMR living in Aurora after Wells would be like Sherman living in Atlanta after Appomattox.
Name :   More confused
Location :
  
Date :
  Oct9
Message :
  But? IS ryerson buying a house? Is someone objecting to her buying a house? who cares what those two blood sucking buffoons do? Buy arouse but get out wells!
Name :   oh please!
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  Oct 9
Message :
  Whats wrong with Lisa owning a house in Aurora? Where would I begin to list the reasons. I can understand why she would want one, she just wants one more HIDEAWAY. Maybe just separate homes for the spouses.
Name :   JP
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  Fri
Message :
  Think Lisa is downsizing? Moving from the white house to the one she has been looking at? Maybe she bought the house...just saying. Whats wrong in her owning a house...the house in Aurora?
Name :   Taxpayer - yes, I have.
Location :
  Same sick game of money, control, self-gratification and community destruction.
Date :
  10/8/10
Message :
  *the big donors want a big say in how Overture is run thru significant representation on the board....to enjoy the *thrill* of running Overture without expertise... Giving millions does not impart wisdom as to how to run a public-supported arts center.*
Name :   Anyone else see the parallel?
Location :
  http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/madison_360/article_149a8f40-d002-11df-a68e-001cc4c002e0.html
Date :
  Overture= Aurora Inn Inc., Madison= Wells College
Message :
  Been following Madison debacle since Rowland &husband evicted businesses to build lavish huge Overture Center that public didnt want; now 6yrs old it needs 19M in repairs and drowns in red ink, so city taxpayers will suffer.
Name :   local
Location :
  main street
Date :
  10/4/10
Message :
  Noon PTR just spotted showing couple around Leffingwell House and grounds??...
Name :   Gee, it must be nice to have that kind of
Location :
  job security. Wouldnt it great if
Date :
  10/3
Message :
  we all could stink at our job, but still get paid lots of money plus perks, and be able to get away with doing it for years?
Name :   Taxpayer - to Just Me
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  10/2/10
Message :
  The 9.30.10 mesage below is correct. There has been no vote as of yet. The committee charged with advising the president on acamedic matters advised her last week that the faculty had lost confidence in her leadership.
Name :   
Location :
  
Date :
  
Message :
  board should fire Lisa, but give her a job running the fargo
Name :   Just Me
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  Oct 3, 2010
Message :
  Has the text of the Wells facultys vote of no confidence in LRM been made public? Appeared in newspapers? Available for posting on this website?
Name :   To: Board of trustees
Location :
  Lisas office
Date :
  Should have been done along time ago
Message :
  MAKE her explain why she pours money into failing businesses while she guts academic programs. LMR has refused to give any reason behind her stubbornness. Is Wells a college or a LLC?
Name :   Warmly
Location :
  Re:Diane Koesters email
Date :
  Oct 1 210
Message :
  ‎In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college. - Joe Sobran
Name :   Long over due
Location :
  Wells
Date :
  Sept 30
Message :
  Finally the faculty speaks up to the big woman! Get rid of her. A vote of no confidence is not just a hint, Lisa. Go now.
Name :   
Location :
  
Date :
  
Message :
  i hope that committee formally notified the Board of Trustees as well
Name :   
Location :
  
Date :
  9.30.10
Message :
  last friday a faculty governing committee formally advised lisa that the faculty had lost confidence in her presidency. think she will resign?
Name :   Helen
Location :
  Fairchild
Date :
  Smith?
Message :
  Is Helen real? A relation of lady principal HFSmith?
Name :   jpb
Location :
  ohio
Date :
  9/27/2010
Message :
  admin - i sent my post to the address you provided. thx for all info posted. please keep us informed.
Name :   Webdog
Location :
  on line
Date :
  all the time
Message :
  The latest mass email coming to alums can now be read here - http://www.aurorany.org/Fairchild2.html and an earlier message is up at http://www.aurorany.org/Fairchild1.html
Name :   CNY Alumna
Location :
  http://www.aurorany.org/Resolution.html
Date :
  9/27/10
Message :
  Faculty did get the boards attention last spring with presentation of concerns and demands. And trustees came within inches of firing Lisa. The pressure must continue - from alums, village, students and faculty.
Name :   Admin
Location :
  Message to jpb in ohio
Date :
  Sunday
Message :
  Nothing came in to the forum for posting. Could you try sending it to: admin@aurorany.org ? Many thanks. Are you speaking of the letter to alums from Helen Fairchild? We got that, and will put it up on the forum ASAP and look forward to your response.
Name :   jpb
Location :
  ohio
Date :
  9/26/2010
Message :
  see forum for message from an alum, which was circulated broadly to alums yesterday. (posted after my response).
Name :   Re the Trustees
Location :
  Wellls
Date :
  
Message :
  Maybe its time for the faculty to quote - do something. unquote. A faculty vote and declaration of NO CONFIDENCE in LMR might get the Trustees attention
Name :   WebDog
Location :
  http://aurorany.org/Trustees.html
Date :
  A week Before Trustees Come to Aurora
Message :
  OK - time to do something. The AC has been sent a list of contact info for the Wells College Trustees. Tell them what you think. Give them facts. LMR is not in touch with reality. Tell them what she has done Wells and Aurora. Now is the time.
Name :   Dear Lisa
Location :
  Save Wells. Do Aurora and the institution
Date :
  a favor. Resign!
Message :
  Save your face there is still time Resign. A friend.
Name :   Past Faculty Member
Location :
  NY
Date :
  9/22/10
Message :
  Everyday I thank God that I left Wells. Had I been there now things would not be so quiet. PROTEST PEOPLE. BRING AMERICA TO WELLS
Name :   JP
Location :
  Wells
Date :
  Sept 23
Message :
  Wells is sinking faster than the Titanic did when it hit the iceberg.The Board fails to offer the institution a life jacket. Fired stuopid incompetent Lisa NOW.
Name :   Lisa Ryerson
Location :
  Wells
Date :
  
Message :
  Asset or Albatross? Well is a .....Albatross. Asset to whom...Lisa, Leslie and their cronies. What a damn disgrace that one uneducated woman is allowed to ruin the lives of the future, professors and a once great institution! The Board should be charged w Name : Venison

Location :
woods

Date :
9/21/10
Message :   What must the work atmosphere be like at Wells these days. People must be scared or angry or both, didnt used to be that way.
Name :   LMR article
Location :
  is one of the most misleading and dishonest things I have ever read.
Date :
  sep 20 10
Message :
  It neatly leaves out that Wellss auxiliary enterprises have left it on the verge of insolvency. What gall it must take to get something so false published in a professional mag.
Name :   Admin
Location :
  on line
Date :
  today
Message :
  As requested by readers without Facebook accounts: the statement to the Wells faculty from a destroyed academic department can be found under our Whats New? section or directly at www.aurorany.org/MusicFacStatement.html
Name :   there is nothing
Location :
  Wells
Date :
  Sept 18
Message :
  NOTHING more to say about Lisa Ryerson. She has destroyed the college and the town. Only a few brave people stood up to her. Shame on the board for keeping her.
Name :   Reader - What a dishonest, deceptive, phony piece of cr-p!
Location :
  Ryerson conveniently omits the 2+ mil that the Inn has lost
Date :
  Sept 18 2010
Message :
  over the past 2 years, that the coffee shop is always empty. What R calls down timeâ€� at the Inn is CLOSED time, How does 6 months of shut down “benefit our communities healthâ€�? “Stay tuned!!â€� For what? The college closing?
Name :   Lisa Marsh Ryerson
Location :
  http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1562&p=1#0
Date :
  April 2010
Message :
  Auxiliary Enterprises: Asset or Albatross? (OR - how to kill off a venerable liberal arts institution, devastate the local economy and turn an authentic community into one big phony baloney wedding destination.)
Name :   CNY Alumna
Location :
  http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=114858718553337&topic=66
Date :
  9/17/10
Message :
  If you have not seen it yet, read this statement from the faculty of one of the original Liberal Arts now destroyed forever at Wells College by Lisa & Leslie. Scroll to the bottom of this page. The comparison to the Phys Ed is devastating.
Name :   Just Me
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  9-13-2010
Message :
  Ithaca Journal website plans to live stream the EPA meetings about fracking study in Binghamton Monday and Wednesday starting at noon today.
Name :   EPA Meetings in Binghamton
Location :
  http://auburnpub.com/news/local/state-and-regional/article_d30ecd1e-bee7-11df-b065-001cc4c002e0.html
Date :
  Today and Wednesday
Message :
  The postponed and rescheduled hearings taking public comment on hydrofracking take place this week - http://shaleshock.org/2010/09/epa-meetings-in-binghamton/
Name :   Its pretty obvious they are
Location :
  catering to their clientele
Date :
  9/11
Message :
  Maybe academics arent so important anymore, and its become more like a 4-year rec center. Maybe thats what those paying the bills want out of Wells these days.
Name :   The Citizen
Location :
  http://auburnpub.com/sports/local/article_d2c31ee2-bc89-11df-950f-001cc4c002e0.html
Date :
  9/10/10
Message :
  So,14 full-time coaches for school w/550 students&no phys ed major. No Music, Religion or French next year. No reliable heat or hot water. No replacements for fleeing staff/faculty. No leadership, no standards, no future. But the kids can play volleyball.
Name :   only fair
Location :
  
Date :
  Sept 6 2010
Message :
  If it comes to it, Wells should use what is left of the endowment as part of a severance package to its employees
Name :   To the Fool
Location :
  dont bet on it
Date :
  9/5
Message :
  When my daughters h.S. closed down,the religious order that ran it tried to keep the endow. money.They are being sued by the benefactors who donated to the school, not the order.
Name :   Just Me
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  Sept 5 2010
Message :
  NY Board of Regents takes control of any remaining funds and gives them to another college, presumably in sturdier shape. Still wonder who looks after a closed colleges buildings and grounds? Who pays?
Name :   Fool
Location :
  On The Hill
Date :
  9/5/10
Message :
  I would hazard a guess that the costs of closing the college would far outweigh any remaining endowment funds.
Name :   resident
Location :
  aurora
Date :
  9.3.10
Message :
  If Wells should close, who will gets control of(or profit from) the endowment funds?
Name :   No pay cut for LMR?
Location :
  
Date :
  
Message :
  What kind of leadership is that?
Name :   Do not tell me that Lisa and Leslie and all the other administrative staff/faculty that makes over S125, 000
Location :
  are inot in the pay cut.
Date :
  9/1/10
Message :
  Lisa should take the first cut as a model to her devotion and love for her college. Go Lisa show you love and understanding and go on the cutting block also since they will not fire you as you deserved to be.
Name :   Wells College president should take a pay cut
Location :
  http://auburnpub.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_aa14fbfc-b318-11df-8306-001cc4c002e0.html
Date :
  Sundays Citizen, 8/29/10
Message :
  Letter to the Editor.
Name :   Shocked - Helen Fairchilds item
Location :
  Wells
Date :
  Fall Semester - 2010
Message :
  http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/topic.php?uid=114858718553337&topic=66&post=655#post655
Name :   
Location :
  
Date :
  
Message :
  All I want gone is Ryerson
Name :   What???
Location :
  Freshman class
Date :
  August 27
Message :
  Why would the Dean write a letter saying that about the Freshman class? Why have they never done homework or written notes? Why are they in college? Why did Wells accept them?Closed by 2012 indeed.
Name :   Dories: now open 7AM-3PM.
Location :
  This establishment is part of the college dining service.
Date :
  Kids stop eating at 3PM?
Message :
  Speaking of kids: have you seen the memo to fac from the advising dean? About how this freshman class has never taken notes, done homework or read a syllabus? How long will they last in college!? My bet: 1/2 the 200 frosh gone by Xmas, Wells gone by 2012
Name :   There is a burning hell
Location :
  awaiting Lisa and her cronies.
Date :
  Their fire will be a hundred times hotter.
Message :
  Oh, Leslie worships Lisa who else or where else could she hold such a position. Rollos duty is to worship Lisa she gets a salary she does not deserve, lives in a free house and has the same racist philosophies as Lisa.
Name :   why dont you - staff, faculty,students, etc.
Location :
  stage a walk out or a sit in?
Date :
  8/25
Message :
  Hey, it used to work in the 60s! Dont leave it to the press/media. A lot of times they are reluctant to criticize the unversity status quo.
Name :   How the**** can LMB get promotion and raise when I have to take a pay cut
Location :
  Wells
Date :
  8/25
Message :
  Departments have been cut and professors let go/fired. Can someone please call the press and AUUP in?
Name :   Watchman
Location :
  http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_35027cc2-af2b-11df-8537-001cc4c002e0.html
Date :
  August 24
Message :
  LMB got big raise from Dean to Provost and fired tenured prof quoted here OVER THE PHONE while he was alone camping in Maine on vacation. And waited until THREE DAYS before classes start to tell students/parents/faculty about huge program cuts This sucks.
Name :   I want to Know
Location :
  
Date :
  august 2010
Message :
  How much the administrators salaries were raised by. So much for shared sacrifice
Name :   And, as pointed out on the
Location :
  Concerned Wells Alumnse Facebook
Date :
  www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114858718553337&v=wall&ref=ts
Message :
  *Not eliminated - about a dozen full time coaches and trainers in Phys Ed, which has no major; nor the astronomical funding of the Aurora Inn, Inc., which is in no way educational.* Also not cut but increased - administrators salaries.
Name :   Henry Wells
Location :
  http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_ac038c7a-aecd-11df-8363-001cc4c002e0.html?mode=story
Date :
  8/23/10
Message :
  Five tenured teaching positions terminated, three academic disciplines eliminated. The press release emailed to alumnae is full of misrepresentation and outright lies. There is no real plan. This is Clueless, Unethical, Leaderless Panic.
Name :   Task force wants to improve enforcement
Location :
  http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_678f196e-ac0d-11df-9946-001cc4c03286.html
Date :
  8/20/10
Message :
  Those of you missing George will find his photo on the front page of todays Citizen (print version). Another article about recent State Trooper activity in Aurora here - http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/08/finger_lakes_group_keep_pressu.html
Name :   ha ha ha ha ha!
Location :
  fantasy land if i belive this
Date :
  aug 18 2010
Message :
  http://auburnpub.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_5d54076c-aa63-11df-bb06-001cc4c002e0.html
Name :   L Holland
Location :
  Peacemaker?! Ha!
Date :
  August 13, 2010
Message :
  That has certainly not been our experience with Ryerson. http://auburnpub.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_504a558a-a685-11df-9dd5-001cc4c002e0.html
Name :   Please
Location :
  Wells
Date :
  Aug12
Message :
  Please let those rumors about Lisa, Leslie and Anne be true! It would be cruel to tease us about such a thing. They should have booted out years ago. What a party Aurora will have if it is true!!!
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  8/12/10
Message :
  Steve Golding is taking the job at Ohio University, but will continue to act as *financial advisor* to Wells. Rollo has been demoted several times but continues to earn over 100K for doing nothing but antagonizing alumnae students staff & faculty.
Name :   
Location :
  
Date :
  
Message :
  Ill believe that when I see the heads on the floor
Name :   Breaking news!!!
Location :
  Wells College
Date :
  Aug. 11
Message :
  Things are about to shake up here. Lisa, Leslie and Ann have been called to the carpet separately. The axe is about to fall. Heads are about to roll.
Name :   Wells an Editorial *Miss* in Citizen Today
Location :
  http://auburnpub.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_b47dd6aa-a40d-11df-b26c-001cc4c03286.html
Date :
  8/10/10
Message :
  *We hope school officials...are as honest and open as possible...* The paper can compel honesty! Why didnt they interview faculty staff students alumnae or villagers? Why no mention of the Faculty , Staff or Student Petitions to the Board of Trustees?
Name :   Jen
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  August 9
Message :
  Perhaps it is time for people to start protesting in a physical way. Stand in front of HER office and HER mansion and make HER repent. Or, just fire HER now!
Name :   Its more blessed to give than to receive
Location :
  And LMR is very blessed
Date :
  8/8/10
Message :
  LMR gives pay cuts,yet refuses to receive any cuts of her own. Such a sweet woman . Wells and Aurora are lucky to have her.
Name :   TO HELL
Location :
  GOES
Date :
  WELLS
Message :
  LMR has taken everything she already can. Faculty with Phd. gets a measley ,000pa while Lisa gets close to half million dollars per year with a MA, plus maid service, housing and traveling.
Name :   I confirmed a nagging fear that Lisa was an idiot in 2004 when she
Location :
  commissioned a firm to find a new W for Wells.
Date :
  She paid the firm thousands of dollars for a W that can be seen everywhere.
Message :
  The old W from Wells Fargo was unique.
Name :   Lisas hold on the board?
Location :
  that question has been asked here
Date :
  several times
Message :
  and no one who knows anything about it will speak up here. By embarrassing Wells like she does, LMR also embarrasses those on the BOT who condone her.
Name :   I am confused
Location :
  Wells
Date :
  Aug 8
Message :
  How much of a pay cut did LMR take? Seriously, what does she hold over the Board? Why would they continue to supoort her? Amen to all those who spoke up against LMR years ago.
Name :   Is Wells Running Dry
Location :
  http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_ce7a91ca-a29f-11df-a830-001cc4c002e0.html
Date :
  8/8/10 Citizen
Message :
  To off-topic: read the archives. College business bleed red ink. Inn lost 750K last year, an improvement over past performance! The college admin is cutting 500K from faculty pay to cover Inn losses. Wells doesnt serve edution, it pleases Pleasant!!
Name :   Not all faculty was/is afraid to stand up to LMR.
Location :
  Some resigned and some took her to
Date :
  court. It is the lame, lazy and inept Board
Message :
  that is really screwing, faculty,students and the institution as a whole.
Name :   A little off-topic but...
Location :
  does anyone know if the Inn
Date :
  
Message :
  or the EB Morgan house are profitable now that they cut their season short,etc. Just wondering if any of Wells holdings are successful.
Name :   L Holland - Recently Rowland planted a ‘living fence’ and
Location :
  no one cried at public meetings claiming that it would ruin their life,
Date :
  no one went door to door with petitions spreading ugly lies,
Message :
  she didnt have to get a permit, no emergency calls to the CEO, the sheriff wasnt called repeatedly, no Stop Work Orders, she just planted her shrubs. Compare this to what we have been through - Aurora’s double standard in action.
Name :   Coming in the Sunday Citizen
Location :
  
Date :
  Wells Colleges financial health
Message :
  At Cayuga Countys only private four-year school,Wells College, staff layoffs and pay cuts have been made as the school has watched net assets drop from million in 2005 to million last year. The Citizens special report examines the severity of
Name :   Lisa has ways of getting back
Location :
  whatever pay is taken away.
Date :
  She gets perks, housing, maid, traveling
Message :
  How many members of faculty enjoys any of those? Yet, they are all more academically qualified than her.
Name :   Skeptic
Location :
  
Date :
  aug 5 2010
Message :
  LMR salary appx 300 thou, so 15 percent of that means Lisa must have taken a 45 thou dollar pay cut. I am sure she will share the pain w the faculty
Name :   From Facebook
Location :
  There is an emergency Board of Trustees meeting scheduled
Date :
  for this Thursday (August 5th).
Message :
  Additionally, faculty received an email from Leslie stating that salaries would be cut 12-15% effective for the fall; faculty will receive individual letters informing them of their specific salary cut.
Name :   Happy
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  Aug 4
Message :
  Hi. Has anyone seen GF? He seems quiet since March.
Name :   agreed....
Location :
  earth
Date :
  
Message :
  ....living in a small town can be a real bad scene when you have angered as many people in it as they have, no joy there for them
Name :   No envy
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  august 2
Message :
  To the genius that thinks we are jealous of PLR or LMR please explain. you haters is the new catch phrase for anyone who chooses not to think your way. Nobody is jealous of LMR or PR, they cant even muster the courage to walk the streets.
Name :   Just Me
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  Aug 2, 2010
Message :
  PTR may be planning to make Abbott House and brick Leffingwell House B&Bs. Wonder if she will gobble up Traceys foreclosed property.
Name :   Letting PTR running Wells would
Location :
  not be a bad idea. She would certainly
Date :
  shake the damn place up.
Message :
  Might allow LMR to run the dining room eh, aw uh, collect the money from the students when they go to the dining room.
Name :   It would appear that Johanna can think
Location :
  for herself. She does not allow people to let her hate others like most of you.
Date :
  You have no reason or basis for your hatred but envy,
Message :
  
Name :   
Location :
  
Date :
  
Message :
  anyone whos on the Board of trustees of a bankrupted college will have harm imposed to their own reputation or professional standing
Name :   Watchman
Location :
  still here
Date :
  July 31
Message :
  JOHANNA now speaks against LMR? What?! Must be that PTR and the Hoffman Wackos are finally ready to take over the college. And PS - Trustees dont have the guts to fight for whats right; they just quit. Several have very recently.
Name :   can someone on the inside
Location :
  
Date :
  8/1
Message :
  please, please explain the hold LMR has on the Board, and how it is that she has not been fired? It is mystifying. Are there no dissenters to her rule on the board?
Name :   Past Student
Location :
  What else must happen to Wells
Date :
  for the Board to act?
Message :
  Character, Morals, Ethics, Leadership and a good education are all rolling towards the lake. Save Wells! Save my alma mater!
Name :   Johanna
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  July 31
Message :
  It is about time that the Board take a stance on what is happening at Wells. The College has more embarassing stories in the last year than Enron in a life time. GET RID OF LMR and her cronies to solve Wells problems.
Name :   number 12
Location :
  
Date :
  
Message :
  SG - I wonder if Lisa took him to the woodshed for that comment.
Name :   To concerned
Location :
  Wells
Date :
  July 28
Message :
  Evrything Wells college does is embarrassing, starting with LMR.
Name :   Yeah
Location :
  we..s
Date :
  SG is an embarrassment
Message :
  but so are LMR & MVBD & AR
Name :   Concerned
Location :
  
Date :
  07/28/10
Message :
  How can SG still have a job at Wells? Its embarassing...
Name :   The man is a con artist. Listen to the way he speaks.
Location :
  He stumbles and stutters along eh, amm,
Date :
  to make sure that he tells the same lies.
Message :
  Wells and the administration is a perfect place for him. Fits in like a hand in glove.
Name :   I bet
Location :
  Wells
Date :
  July 24
Message :
  LMR will try to promote him.
Name :   wow
Location :
  11:40 mark in video below
Date :
  7/23/2010
Message :
  wonder what its like for this guy at his Wells job after this video became public? Exactly how big is a hairs breadth? This guy should know. Carry on, LMR
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :
  http://streaming.cns.ohiou.edu/president/20100527.html
Date :
  7/23/10
Message :
  He says it not quite 1/4 way through this presentation given while he was applying for a job at Ohio University, as mentioned here earlier. Unfortunate, to say the least, especially since he is still drawing a big salary from Wells.
Name :   According to Stephen Goulding
Location :
  CFO Wells College
Date :
  on May 27 hesaid
Message :
  Wells College is a hairs breath away from closing.
Name :   
Location :
  
Date :
  7.16.10
Message :
  there was an anti-fracking float.
Name :   You mean no snarky float this year?
Location :
  About the watershed meeting
Date :
  
Message :
  Info is linked through this site. Under News, on page two of the village July newsletter.
Name :   local
Location :
  main street
Date :
  7/15/10
Message :
  Aurorafest ok, but really not the same without Tudys float poking fun at something or someone!!
Name :   Just Me
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  July 15, 2010
Message :
  Please give details about watershed meeting in Binghamton.
Name :   Jen
Location :
  
Date :
  July 14
Message :
  The fireworks were great on Saturday. The run was fun. Enjoyed the blessing of the boats. Cute parade.
Name :   resident
Location :
  aurora
Date :
  7/14/10
Message :
  parade 20 mins.;scipio lodge- great gyros! Thunder Cannon wonderful music & superb fireworks
Name :   Not he same
Location :
  Aurorafest
Date :
  July 14
Message :
  Aurorafest was just not the same without Georgie pretending to run the show. hahaha just teasing. Aurora does not need him, hope he knows that now. Doesnt a small Texas town need to be messed up?
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :
  http://fingerlakesdailynews.com/articles/view/725914/
Date :
  7/14/10
Message :
  Over 10,000 expected for MacK-Childs barn sale this weekend. Drive carefully, brake for tourists.
Name :   who missed George?
Location :
  
Date :
  7/14/10
Message :
  where was Georgie and his golf cart this year at the fest? I didnt see him all day maybe he is mad he lost for mayor
Name :   So how was Aurorafest?
Location :
  Can those who attended the events give us some details?
Date :
  7/11
Message :
  Also,is anyone from the village planning on attending that watershed meeting in Binghamton? Its an impt. subject of vital interest to all residents.
Name :   July Newsletter
Location :
  http://aurorany.org/news
Date :
  today
Message :
  Thanks to the Fool on the Hill, the July 2010 Village Newsletter can be read by all online at the link above.
Name :   Webdog
Location :
  online
Date :
  all the time
Message :
  If anyone wants to scan the latest newsletter and send it as a .pdf file to admin@aurorany.org we can put it online for all to read.
Name :   
Location :
  
Date :
  7.6.10
Message :
  avery- one wont have the opportunity to read the newsletter unless one receives a water bill, and community communication at this time still controlled by farlow remains pisspoor. admin- can you put up auroraest schedule?
Name :   Fool
Location :
  On The Hill
Date :
  7-6
Message :
  and if one were to read the newsletter, one would see from the Mayors letter that the new village website is being constructed and is scheduled to be up mid to late July.
Name :   List of Aurorafest Events
Location :
  in the Village newsletter
Date :
  that came a few days ago,
Message :
  sent only to folks getting water bills. Info not online, site still has Tommys last newsletter. 3months+ after election, Wacky Jacky still gets paid for crap website promoting the Pleasant agenda. And Village Homepage still links to her commercial site!
Name :   Aurora and Aurorafest.
Location :
  
Date :
  7/5/10
Message :
  What was, and now what is...its all so sad. Lisa has a lot to answer for. I wonder how she lives with herself.
Name :   What? Arent you having a parade?
Location :
  It was a genuine
Date :
  
Message :
  representaion of small-town America of a bygone era.But I suppose that all changed after you-know-who came to town.
Name :   Oh, goody.
Location :
  http://www.facebook.com/pages/AuroraFest/323196708804?ref=ts
Date :
  Less than a week to go and I find a Facebook page for...
Message :
  what used to be our Aurorafest, saying: nothing. No schedule, no ideas, no fun. Folks- this needs to die off for a while so it might get resurected someday as a community party again, not a staged event for bored tourists and the Aurora Inn Inc.
Name :   Hens not
Location :
  Roosters
Date :
  Independence Day
Message :
  Many towns/villages have ordinances that allow hens but not roosters. Tudy had peacocks for years, yes? They are louder than hens and roosters! But, the village may or may not have ever passed ordinances surrounding backyard egg layers. Ask the VB for inf
Name :   Dog lover
Location :
  with cats
Date :
  Independence Day
Message :
  Laws about dog control are under the Ag and Markets section of state laws: http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us/AI/AILaws/Article%207%20%28Circ%20950%29%20-%20Dangerous%20Dogs.pdf Nuisance barking is addressed.
Name :   Fool
Location :
  The Hill
Date :
  7/2/10
Message :
  there are a number of areas on the East side of Rt.90 zoned as agricultural-residential. Map may be viewed at the clerks office.
Name :   Thats very interesting
Location :
  Somehow I cant envision
Date :
  
Message :
  an ordinance that would allow chickens amongst million dollar lakeside homes. Not too good for the old property values!
Name :   Livestock in
Location :
  Aurora
Date :
  July 1, 2020
Message :
  In general, people who live on the east side of Main Street may keep livestock. People living on the west/lake side must get a variance to keep livestock. But what animals are considered livestock and in need of a variance for lakeside living, I am not ce Name :   Even Moore
Location :   Aurora
Date :   6-28-10
Message :   Laws are for those that choose to follow them. Its the honor system around here.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Where can I find specifics
Date :   June 28, 2010
Message :   about Wells Colleges so-called Culinary Immersion program? It sounds like a desperate and half-baked idea to me. But, I would like to know more.
Name :   Crying foul
Location :   There must be a village ordinance
Date :   6/28
Message :   about keeping livestock/fowl within town limits. Having said that, I saw a cow grazing in someones yard off Main st.
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   www.leagle.com/unsecure/page.htm?shortname=innyco20100618368
Date :   See background - www.aurorany.org/PTRlawsuit.html
Message :   Suit against PTR & hubby Frautchi for breach of repsonsibility & improper transactions (i.e., cheating shareholders out of lots of money) drags on. New: Frautschi involved Overture Foundation (!) & PTR brought Wells Trustee Geo Slocum into the dirty deal.
Name :   Hey tired
Location :   Aurora
Date :   June 28
Message :   Guess what? They now have chickens! I say sicem on a chicken and watch those feathers fly.
Name :   tired
Location :   close to zwigards
Date :   2/tired
Message :   there is a noise ordinance, but no enforcement. village is lacking the long arm of the law. dont think county dog guy responds to just barking complaints.
Name :   The irony is that Wells has classes
Location :   in hotel managment/hospitality
Date :   6/24
Message :   If PTR is around, why doesnt she oversee some quality control, like she used to at her doll factory?
Name :   UNSATISFACTORY
Location :   Aurora Inn
Date :   
Message :   same thing happened to Dories by the Health dept. Whos in charge ??
Name :   the tradition continues.....
Location :   Health Dept inspection Aurora Inn
Date :   june 2010
Message :   â€¢ Aurora Inn,391 Main St., Aurora; unsatisfactory.Food service worker was stacking and wrapping cookies with her bare hands. She was told to throw the cookies that she had touched in the garbage. She gave them to another person to eat. (same ratin
Name :   fz
Location :   Aurora
Date :   6.23.10
Message :   We got one of those letters too. It means nothing, now they are going to cobble up something to get the CEO off their back. It will leave an ugly unsafe mess just below the waterline. Green?
Name :   Ellis Heads Wells College’s Wealth Management Center
Location :   http://www.bankinvestmentconsultant.com/news/wells-ellis-miller-bernal-2667426-1.html
Date :   Say what?
Message :   What are LMR/PTR doing? This guy has no teaching experience to speak of but is going to design courses to feed students in Wealth Management Industry? Thats sure not the program the faculty & students thought they were getting here.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Next door to that shameful mess
Date :   7 months AFTER another broken promise
Message :   http://www.scribd.com/doc/33433232/Zwigard-Letter-Re-Geothermal This was not their first broken promise. The Zwigards word is worthless. The mess is worse than ever. Gunderson never should have allowed this.
Name :   In a nutshell
Location :   
Date :   June 22
Message :   They are pawns of PTR. When they moved here they took sides in an issue that was none of their business. They are now paying the price. Their kids call it KARMA.
Name :   In a nutshell, whats wrong with the Zs?
Location :   Not in Aurora
Date :   6/21
Message :   they sound like scofflaws who dont seem to have much pride of place in their home/village.Weird considering shes a realtor,he an architect.
Name :   More info at this website
Location :   http://www.flspca.org/whotocall.html
Date :   First Day of Summer
Message :   and the Ledyard number listed for dog control officer Carl Collier 364-5707, call re dogs at large, dogbites, excessive barking. Also NYS Police & County Sheriff MUST respond to complaints of animal neglect and cruelty.
Name :   Dog lover
Location :   Nearby
Date :   Fathers Day
Message :   Link to NY States dog laws; Carl Collier is Cayuga County dog control http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=@SLAGM0A7+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=26282447+&TARGET=VIEW
Name :   Rollo Article
Location :   http://www.lansingstar.com/content/view/6259/373/
Date :   6/19/10
Message :   What kind of business do they think will be taught at Wells? I thought entrepreneurship was to be central to new program? Not in the new directors backgrd. Maybe theyll need to hire more faculty. Meanwhile, they just fired the guy who taught accounting.
Name :   Now that shes a resident
Location :   Im surprised PTR allows it.
Date :   
Message :   Vicious, barking dogs dont fit the image shes trying to cultivate for Aurora.
Name :   LauraJenLidaClareSusanneBillPamJohnJayMaryJackWillLizKateNickMattJulia
Location :   The Zwigard Dogs Bark All Night
Date :   June 2010
Message :   AND all day! They snarl and snap at passerssby, they have bitten people, they threaten children & old folks, they run into the road, they killed a fawn, and they never stop barking. And all this behavior receives positive reinforcement from their owners.
Name :   cathy zimdahl
Location :   across the street
Date :   june 19
Message :   zwigards curs are the worst dogs who ever lived. they bark all night. I hate them. I wish they would
Name :   L Holland
Location :   Aurora
Date :   June 15, 2010
Message :   I wonder if Rowland has lost any sleep over the past 5 nights, listening to the Zwigard dogs bark, out on the porches, all night long - the dogs obviously hate being left alone in that house.
Name :   She
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   Is a huge presence wherever she goes.
Name :   Taxpayer
Location :   Aurora
Date :   6/11/10
Message :   I think she might treat Leffingwell House as a bed-sitter. She moved into a penthouse suite in WI not long ago, and built a home in some exclusive compound down in FL. But she plans to be a presence in Aurora again. That was clear at the DOT meeting.
Name :   L Holland
Location :   
Date :   6 - 11 - 2010
Message :   I doubt that Rowland is moving in. The house is too small and there is no elevator.
Name :   
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   I would salute her float with tomatoes
Name :   I mst say, she is very brave. I wonder if
Location :   she will make Aurora her summer home?
Date :   6/10
Message :   Maybe even join in the parade, and build her own float? You could have a field day with jokes about that one!
Name :   Guess who is moving
Location :   into Leffingwell House?
Date :   6/10/10
Message :   Im pretty sure there has been no property tranfer notice in the newspaper, and so no sale. However, Pleasant Rowland got up and spoke at the DOT meeting this afternoon at the Inn as though she were an Aurora resident.
Name :   Just Me
Location :   Aurora
Date :   June 10 1020
Message :   The movers at Leffingwell House are unloading household goods and taking them inside under the direction of Pleasant Rowland. Potted shrubs are aligned on the north side of the driveway, awaiting planting. Apparently Rowlands visit 2 weeks ago was prelude
Name :   Observer
Location :   
Date :   June 10 2010
Message :   Has the Leffingwell house been sold? I see movers in front of it.
Name :   uh-oh
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   furniture being moved into Leffinwell house.......will Pleasant be living among us?
Name :   Miriam
Location :   class of 1984
Date :   June 6
Message :   A Wells friend told me to look into the crisis at Wells. I did. To me it is simple. New president. New Dean. New admin. If you want to save Wells, we need to have CHANGE! Real change though.
Name :   accountant
Location :   
Date :   
Message :   If Wells endowment is down to 30 million, how low a figure can it drop to and still have the school stay in business? will they let it drop to zero before they close the doors?
Name :   What is the future for Wells; for faculty over age 60? Does Lisa know that
Location :   this is age discrimination?
Date :   Would she like to be taken back to the EEOC?
Message :   Well, at least Leslie-Bernal would be gone if age 60 is used to cut faculty/staff. The woman is even more incompetent than Lisa. Blind leading the blind.
Name :   Once More
Location :   http://www.aurorany.org/news
Date :   http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-wells-college
Message :   Info for concerned alumns who might want to ask a whole lot of questions at Reunion this coming weekend, and a petition for those who want to join in the Wake Up Call for Wells College.
Name :   Ihave a question
Location :   Wells
Date :   
Message :   Only one question for Mike: When will the board fire Lisa?
Name :   CNY Alumna
Location :   Mike McGreevey, head fundraiser at Wells, has scheduled
Date :   a reunion Q&A session on the Strategic Plan for Fri afternoon,
Message :   June 4, at 2:30 in the Chapel. It would be great if lots of alums would read the plan ahead of time & show up with specific questions ready. Otherwise, the administration presentation could eat up the entire hour...
Name :   Lisa graduated from Wells,
Location :   and has had 17 years of high income employment from Wells.
Date :   
Message :   It IS an act of self interest and selfishness for her not to resign NOW. The whole thing has gotten away from her and she cant correct it. But shell still keep collecting that fat paycheck for as long as she can.
Name :   LMR has been firing so many people
Location :   When will she fire herself or
Date :   step down so a more competent
Message :   President can take the reigns of Wells. She Lisa so selfish that she would rather close the College than step aside?
Name :   http://wellscollege.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/message-from-wcaa-president-carrie-bolton-92/
Location :   http://www.ohio.edu/president/news/vpfa-candidate-information.cfm
Date :   Memorial Day Weekend
Message :   Steve Golding the Wells *Special Advisor to the Pres for Finance and Planning* brought in from Cornell not long ago is looking to leave. And Alumnae Association Pres Carrie Boulton sounds less than confident in the Strategic Plan.
Name :   Good luck to all graduates
Location :   As they leave to begin their new lives
Date :   I hope and pray LMR will also leave to
Message :   to begin her life somewhere else. I know that it will not and cannot be as President of another institution of Higher Learning
Name :   And in the midst of it all...
Location :   http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/05/wells_college_grad_does_not_al.html
Date :   Graduation Day
Message :   ... the meaningful business of educating young people continues in Aurora ... for as long as the faculty can hold the institution together against the machinations of PTR and LMR.
Name :   Watchman
Location :   still here
Date :   May 28
Message :   Thats not fully accurate. A 13.5% paycut is also on the table (really near 18.5% when added to last years pension benefit reduction of 5%), along with phased retirements and probable terminations. The axe will come in a combination of all three.
Name :   Wells Faculty
Location :   Aurora
Date :   May 29, 2010
Message :   given a choice by administration. All 60 yrs old plus can teach half time at half pay or 10 to 15 percent of faculty can be fired.
Name :   Wells Workers
Location :   Aurora
Date :   May 28, 2010
Message :   the people who keep the college running find they cant gets parts for machinery,etc from suppliers because Wells hasnt paid its long outstanding bills owed these vendors.
Name :   LMR and her cronies have made
Location :   Wells a cesspool of
Date :   difficulty and heartache
Message :   for staff, faculty and students.
Name : The Board of Wells always ignores
Location : the grouses of students.
Date : The board always supports LMR
Message : She has them bought. She can do no wrong.

Message : Needs students?? Isnt the enrolment up?
Name : alum
Date : May 26
Message : Wells is history even if they get some short term money. Last I knew, a college needed students. I am starting to believe that the trustess and Lisa want Wells to close, so they can hand over the property to PTR cult group. Sounds crazy, but no more so th
Name : The Mona Lisa has lost her smile.
Location : The men were allowed in and the
Date : promise of a boost in revenue did not follow.
Message : Rid the institution of Lisa and her band of destroyers.
Name : Students, Alumni and others of Wells
Location : rise up, speak up and let your voices be heard. Down with Lisa and her cronies.
Name : Have you all seen this?
Location : http://www.aurorany.org/StudentNoConfidence.html
Date : 5/24/10
Message : LMR hasnÕt just alienated faculty, village residents and alums. More importantly, for the future of Wells College, she has alienated current students, and they, unlike the stupid incompetent trustees, have figured her out. Pass the Petition - get LMR OUT!

Date : 5.24.10
Message : ptr hasnt given a cent to the real wells or the college endowment. she has only funded her business and so-called beautification projects. not a penny for education in aurora.
Name : Disagree
Date : 5/24/10
Message : Pleasant would not come here for graduation a week ahead of time. No good can come of her being back in Aurora. Whats next for this place?
Name : Relax, shes proabaly just there for comencement.
Location : If they just wanted a chek form her, she wouldnt have to come all the way there.
Date : 5/23
Message : How much has she given to Wells/the endowment in the past?
Name : Dont worry, Rowland is weak
Location : Aurora
Date : may
Message : Her feelings will get hurt and shell pack up her dolls and go home (or the Hoffman Institute) - again.
Name : sick at heart
Date : Just like before
Message : PTR will offer the checkbook, and LMR will offer the reins of Wells. PTR will call the shots and PTR will dictate the future course of Wells College. All because LMR aint up to the job. Hell of a way to run a college.
Name : When you say the Hags
Location : of the Village of Aurora
Date : May 22
Message : are asking ptr for money, you must mean Lisa Ryerson, Meredith Van Duyne and Ann Rollo. Those hags will weep a river if ptr doesnt pony up to cover their incompetence.
Name : Fool
Location : On The Hill
Date : 5-22-10
Message : Shes at Leffingwell House right now.
Name : Do not weep for PTR hags of the Village
Location : of Aurora.
Date : Pleasant has what you all
Message : so desperately seek. Go and ask her for some money.

Date : 5.22.10
Message : rowland is in aurora right now, and has been here for several days. wonder why?
Name : Curous Citizen
Location : Aurora
Date : May 20 2010
Message : Didnt Wells College hire some major testosterone from Cornell to advise the adminsitration? Success and failure can happen independently of hormone-driven brain power.
Name : The college admin need some diversity, namely men
Location : since its now a co-ed institution
Date : 5/20
Message : how about it being reflected in its administration? The on-going antics at Wells is a little like Sorority Sisters Gone Wild. They could use a little testosterone!
Name : SOS
Location : Wells
Date : 5-19-10
Message : Also announced at the same meeting: Ann Rollo- V.P. for Communications, Susan Sloan- Director of Admissions/Financial Aid, Leslie Miller- Provost Cindy Speaker-Assistant Provost
Name : Thought I heard it all
Location : At Wells
Message : Meredith VanDuyne was named Chief of staff. WTF is that? Guess they are running Wells like the U.S. Gov. in the HOLE!!
Name : Send this link:
Location : www.aurorany.org/news
Date : Today - May 17, 2010
Message : to your alumnae friends & acquaintances. Time is of the essence! If the crazy Strateic Plan goes forward Wells may disappear within 3 years. Time for the Board to stop, think & get new leadership. Do it now - help protect our local economy.
Name : L Holland - youve got to be kidding!
Location : Cowardly anonymous calls made to the sheriff & CEO
Date : May 15, 2010
Message : to alert them that we were planting shrubs?! It wasnt a murder & we werent planting a body, only shrubs. What is wrong with these people - havent they anything better to do? What a waste of sheriffs/CEOs time.
Name : www.aurorany.org/news
Location : Links all the info you might want to read
Date : before signing petition to Trustees which asks for
Message : Search for New President; AND STOP - cuts to core programs & faculty; admin restructuring that will consolidate power into fewer hands; costly new programs in athletics and business; expensive non-core areas such as hospitality businesses and consultants.
Name : just read about hydrofraking
Location : it seems poor central NY beinf assauted from all sides
Date : 5/14
Message : between the wind farms,CAFOs and now this.But how can you stop it Its ugly,noisy,noxious,toxic.The F.lakes relies on tourism and farming,and thats incompatible with gas mining.
Name : Please consider signing this petition ASAP
Location : http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-wells-college
Date : Today - online
Message : Alums are asked to give their class year. Non-alum upporters are also welcome to sign. It seems that understandably intimidated Wells employees can sign online without their names being made public.
Name : question raised...
Message : how can anyone think of LMR as an effective leader after she has alienated so many people? Faculty, village residents, and alums, just to name a few. Shes gotta go, for the good of all
Name : Inside Higher Ed
Location : http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/05/11/wells
Date : May 11, 2010
Message : Article online yesterday.
Name : Watchman
Location : still here
Date : May 11
Message : It it true that Pat Parnie Purcell Wahlen -- old Roger Purcells Wells Wife -- has quit the Trustees? Anybody know why? She came in saying we were all wrong about Lisa. Maybe she changed her mind? If so, why not stay and fight, dammit!?!
Name : Wells
Location : The paper says Going forward, the college intends to avoid using the endowment fund or its interest to sustain operations.
Date : Yet the BOT
Message : approved taking 3 mil out of the endowment. 10 percent of the endowment! You decide on Rollos veracity.
Name : how much
Location : Wells
Date : May 11
Message : of Ann Rollos quotes in the Citizen are accurate? Does anyone know if any of it was based on truth? Not rhetorical..
Name : Wells board cuts budget
Location : http://www.auburnpub.com/news/local/article_292b0846-5cb1-11df-adc5-001cc4c03286.html
Date : 5-11-10
Name : Taxpayer
Location : http://issuu.com/meg181/docs/wells_college_draft_strategic_plan_may_2010?mode=a_p
Date : 5-10-10
Message : Link to strategic plan (faculty had 1 day to review it before Trustees came). On p.24 - Aurora Inn Inc becomes unbrella corp AII to oversee college properties. Somewhere I read AII will have its own Board of Directors. Hmmm.
Name : why doesnt Wells just get out of the hotel business
Location : And while theyre at it, why not get out of for-profit biz altogether
Date : 5/9/10
Message : and just concentrate on running the college?They should sell their assets(village property)to stop the bleeding.
Name : hey Skeptic
Location : Aurora
Date : May 9
Message : Join the real world. The Inn is a money waster. Lisa is a money waster. Get rid of them both and save the college and village from financial ruin. Many knowledgeable people have been saying this for years, but they were regarded as haters or traders. No,j
Name : L Holland
Location : Strategic Plan on page 42
Date : May 9, 2010
Message : 766,903 dollars - its right there under Aurora Inn,Inc. losses, pg. 42. Giving money to Wells is flushing money down the toilet that is the Aurora Inn.

Date : 5.9.10
Message : i have an acquantaince whose family used to give wells six-figure gifts. she got visited by mike mecgreevy begging for more money. she asked him point blank for info about the inn costs. he admitted the losses were enormous, a major problem.
Name : KAH
Location : Aurora
Date : 9 May
Message : Well, Ive also seen that 700K figure in student minutes (available on line) quoting President Ryerson in meetings held last week. And I believe it was indicated that the 700K figure was a significant reduction of the Inns deficit compared to past years.
Name : Skeptic
Date : mothers day 2010
Message : I have trouble believing it costs Wells /yr to keep the Inn open.If it really did, Wells would close the Inn. Its that simple. I think that number is an error.
Name : K A Hindenlang
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/05/with_endowment_revenues_down_w.html
Date : 9 May 10
Message : And scroll thru the reader comments to find (accurate) info about Aurora Inn creating 50% of the colleges annual deficit. Thats just the Inn -- not the empty Market, the struggling Dories, the shadow of the former Fargo or closed Pizzaurora.
Name : Lisa Ryersons Fiasco
Location : Wells College
Date : May 8, 2010
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/05/with_endowment_revenues_down_w.html
Name : Jennifer
Date : May 8 2010
Message : Why??? Why wont the trustees just fire Lisa? Why?
Name : Auburn Citizen
Location : www.auburnpub.com/news/local/article_6b2c856e-595d-11df-b2af-001cc4c002e0.html
Date : May 7, 2010
Message : Wells College cutting staff... Rollo wouldnt give a solid number of total layoffs...*We care deeply for people...When we have to eliminate a position and a person loses a job, we care - its hard.*

Location : aurora inn
Date : 5 PM may 7
Message : students protesting (to trustees) in front of Inn
Name : more amazed every day
Location : Facebook
Date : 5/7/10
Message : if even half of what is on that Concerned Well Facebook page is true, the college is in real trouble. will the Trustees fire LMR? or is it too late already?
Name : Here is the link:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114858718553337&ref=ts
Date : 7-7-10
Name : Webdog
Location : online
Date : all the time
Message : When archiving last set of posts they were removed from GuestBook. Most but not all got saved here http://aurorany.org/ArchiveFive.html (Sorry admins, this is not my best thing.)