• First Meeting of the Elberta Arts Council

    The Elberta Arts Council met Saturday, November 6, at 1 pm, at the Conundrum Café, to brainstorm ideas for community arts projects and programs. Elbertians and Elberta fans are encouraged to submit ideas to the new Elberta Arts wiki, located at www.elbertaarts.wikispaces.com. To add content, simply join the wiki with your own username and password. Attendees at this first meeting were Michele Cannaert of Conundrum Café, Arthur Melendez, Christine Walsons, and Emily Votruba. To receive notice of future meetings or to send comments and suggestions, write to Michele Cannaert at mcannaert@conundrumcafe.com or write to elbertaarts@gmail.com. More

  • Elberta Village Council Election Results

    Tuesday, November 2, saw big changes to the Elberta Village Council. The Elberta Alert was on the scene at the library on Frankfort Avenue when the polls closed at 8 pm. The trusty election workers had put in a very long day and were probably only too happy to read the results and be on their way into the windy night. Elberta voting this year was a combination of the ancient and the modern, with large paper ballots filled out in pen in little cloth-curtained booths and then fed by the voter into the Optech Insight machine, which resembled R2D2… More