Last month I wrote a diary about the comments made on Facebook by some people regarding the recent school budget vote our district had. This month I want to follow up by writing a little bit about the political climate in my small "town." I am using town in quotation marks because the place I am talking about is a Zip Code not the actual town which is much larger. However for simplicity's sake I will use the word town to refer to where. If you see the word Town with a capital T that will refer to the larger administrative division that governs my town.
Just as a primer, counties in New York State are divided into different subdivisions. The largest subdivision is a Town. Within Towns, you find incorporated villages and hamlets. Many zip codes in Towns contain both villages and hamlets. I live in zip code that is comprised of two hamlets and one incorporated village. Personally, I live in one of the two hamlets and thus not governed by the village government. My little place of abode in total (village and hamlets) has less than 8,500 residents as of the last census.
With the exception of when I was away at college, I have lived in my hometown for virtually my entire life but I never paid much attention to the politics of the town. Once my family decided to open a business here, I started following things much more closely, and boy was I amazed at what I found out.
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