Last month Party City and Famous Footwear opened this month Welcomes Dress Barn to the line up. Fairmount Fair has really had quite a face lift in 2011
Dressbarn stores offer casual, career and special occasion fashion apparel and accessories at value prices for women ages 35-55. Their goal is to help women look and feel her very best every step of the way. Dressbarn offers an engaging store experience, convenient locations, and fashion at great value.
The Camillus Erie Canal Park season officially opens Sunday May 1 with events from 1 to 5 p.m., complete with narrated boat tours over the restored 1844 Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct.
On Monday May, 30th, there will be a Veteran’s Dedication at the Municipal Building at 7:45 a.m. followed by The Camillus Memorial Day Parade at 9:30 a.m. in the Village of Camillus.
When the New York State Legislature restored $580,000 of aid to the West Genesee School District, Superintendent Chris Brown decided to use $392,000 to lower the tax levy from a 4.8 percent increase to 3.8 percent and put some back into reserves.
Camillus Mayor Michael Montero says Brown should have considered using it to bring laid off teachers back— the district has not changed its plan to reduce programming and eliminate 53 positions.
The Savvy Wine Cellar will be holding an innformational session called “The 411 on Rose Wines”, Wednesday April 27th 2011 from 7:00-8:00 pm. We suspect some tastings will be involved. 
For more info give them a call at 315 399-5133
Officals will contiuune to discuss establishing a “committee of representatives from the town’s emergency service providers in order to collaborate on purchases and streamline spending throughout the town.”
The Camillus Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring an Earth Day Cleanup. It is scheduled for Saturday, April 30th 2011 from 8:45-noon. Meeting at the Sim’s store parking lot.
If you would like to participate for a great cause, call 315 433-9015 or email mcapogreco@sylvanlearningcenter.org to sign up.
Maxwell Library is holding a Lego contest. The deadline for droping off your submissions is Saturday, April 16, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
All entries will be judged, and the winner will receive a Lego book!
The state has granted a request from the town of Elbridge to lower the speed limit.
Coming from Camillus, the 55 mile per hour zone will drop to 45 near Sunview drive. From there, it will go down from 45 to 35 and eventually 30 as you head toward the village line.
The Onondaga County Water Authority (OCWA) is continuing repairs to transmission mains which supplies water to customers in the Town of Camillus, Town of Geddes, and portions of the Town of Van Buren. The work, to be undertaken Wednesday, April 13th involves the replacement of a 24” valve and approximately 50 feet of 24” main. The work being completed is being done to address a leak located near the intersection of Milton Avenue and West Genesee Street in the Village of Camillus. Once this round of work is completed OCWA will have addressed a bottleneck in the transmission mains and should allow for future work to be completed with less disruption to the affected customers.
As a result of the shutdown and work to be completed on April 13th, flow to the water distribution system will be greatly reduced for several hours. OCWA is again asking customers to conserve water for the duration of the outage.
A map of this area where users will be asked to conserve water while the repair is being made is attached (see map) and indicates that customers affected include those in the following areas:
Town of Camillus
Westvale and Fairmount areas in the Town of Geddes
Village of Solvay
Village of Camillus
Jack’s Reef area and Warners area in the Town of Van Buren
Updates with respect to the timing of the repair will be posted on OCWA’s web site and notices will be provided to the local media as well. Also, conservation tips are posted on the OCWA web site (see tips) .
