At its monthly meeting on Nov. 21, the Liverpool Village Board of Trustees will host public hearings regarding the passage of three local laws. One of the ordinances under consideration would allow the village to add two stop signs on Third Street, one at the corner of Birch Street and one at Balsam Street.
Because Third Street presently has no stop signs, motorists often exceed the speed limit when driving the road which connects Oswego Street to Hickory Street, said Mayor Gary White. “They’re using it as a cut-through to avoid traffic lights,” he said.
The local law would also lift certain prohibitions against parking on Fourth Street between Outlook and Hickory streets.
The public hearing is scheduled for 7:03 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21, at the Village Hall, 310 Sycamore St.
At the same meeting, the board will conduct hearings on two other proposed local laws, one to impose a moratorium on applications and actions on site plans, use variances, area variances and special-use permits relating to professional offices in the village. The final law being considered would provide for the renumbering and indexing of the village municipal code.
Residents are encouraged to attend the Nov. 21 hearings to express their views on the proposed laws.
Museum seeks volunteers
Joan Cregg, president of the Historical Association of Greater Liverpool (HAGL), appeared at the village board’s Oct. 21 meeting to report that the group seeks volunteers to staff the Willow Museum next summer.
Trustee Dennis Hebert has volunteered to oversee the museum several times in 2012, and Cregg encouraged the other trustees and interested residents to follow his example.
“We’re getting hard-pressed to keep the museum open every weekend in June, July and August,” Cregg said. The facility, which commemorates the German immigrants’ craft of willow-weaving, is open from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays every summer.
Since 1992, HAGL has maintained and staffed the Willow Museum, which is located at 314 Second St., on the east lawn of the Gleason Mansion. The structure represents a 19th century basket-making workshop. The small wooden building which originally stood on Oswego Street was donated to the association by the Hurst family.
Interested volunteers should call Liverpool Village Historian Dorianne Elitharp Gutierrez at 451-7091.
