Opinion

I’m writing about the washing out of West Bluff Drive in the Town of Jerusalem. It happened over one year ago, and nothing has been done to fix it! Many cars, trucks, and school buses used this road all the time, and since the Town of Jerusalem hasn’t fixed it, all this traffic has been pushed over to East Bluff Drive and Brown Hill Road. There are many houses being built out here and the construction traffic is really bad. Plus, more and more people are staying here year-round.

Approaching a new legislative session in January, we unfortunately continue to face the same set of challenges and crises that many of us fought to address at the beginning of 2022. In other words, the agenda remains the same.

This is to encourage others to support a pool at the Yates Community Center as the recent letter from Mr. LeVant did. I have been a proponent since the planning stages of the original Community Center. Penn Yan had several places to exercise, and the school has basketball courts already.

We are right in the Medicare plan change window until Dec. 7. So lately, I have asked quite a few people about their Medicare plan, and it is really shocking how little a lot of people know, even though their decisions can have far reaching financial consequences in their lives. A lot of people don’t even know the first thing about the difference between original Medicare and “privatized” Medicare Advantage, or the socalled Part C Medicare.

The 2022 midterm elections are mostly behind us, and we imagine most Yates County residents will join the members of the Finger Lakes Justice Partnership in feeling relief. Election season can be exciting in many ways, allowing us to put our values into action, but it can also bring anxiety for those of us whose civil and human rights feel constantly up for a vote. FLXJP is optimistic about the results, though local races didn’t go as some had hoped. All in all, it appears that democracy succeeded this year.