Useful Links

Contents

The Charters of Freedom

Democratic Party

Federal Government

Internal Revenue Service

New York State Constitution

New York State Government

New York State Department of Environmental
    Conservation


New York State Department of State (NYS
    Freedom of Information Law)

New York State Department of Taxation and
    Finance


Ontario County Government

 

 

Town of Canandaigua Government

City of Canandaigua Government

Voter Registration

Voter Information

Nongovernmental Web Sites Monitoring
    the U.S. Congress


Cooperative Extension Service

Ontario County History

Libraries

Miscellaneous Ready Reference Sites

 

The Charters of Freedom

The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States
The Bill of Rights

Democratic Party

Democratic National Committee
New York State Democratic Committee
Ontario County Democratic Committee
City of Canandaigua Democratic Committee

Federal Government  

USA.gov—the federal government's official Web portal
White House
United States Senate
Active Legislation in the Senate
Senator Charles E. Schumer
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
United States House of Representatives
House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk—legislative activities
THOMAS—legislative information from the Library of Congress
Federal Laws and Regulations
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court of the United States—Recent Decisions
GPO Access—Web site of the Government Printing Office

Internal Revenue Service  

Internal Revenue Service
IRS Forms and Instructions—listed by form and instruction number

New York State Constitution  

New York State Constitution

New York State Government  

New York State
New York State Government Information Locator Service
New York State Governor's Office
New York State Senate
New York State Assembly
New York State Legislature—bill text, status, summaries, sponsor memos, floor votes,
    laws of New York State
New York State Court of Appeals

New York State Comptroller- Information for Town Officials (pdf)

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation  

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation—the main DEC Web site
SEQR—Environmental Impact Assessment in New York State

New York State Department of State  

Department of State Home Page
New York State's Freedom of Information Law—Public Officers Law, Article 6, Sections 84-90

New York State Department of Taxation and Finance  

New York State Department of Taxation and Finance
Numerical List of Income Tax Forms

Ontario County Government  

Ontario County
Ontario County Board of Supervisors
Ontario Supreme and County Court (7th Judicial District)

Town of Canandaigua Government  

Town of Canandaigua
Canandaigua Town Supervisor
Canandaigua Town Clerk
Town of Canandaigua Court Clerk

Town of Canandaigua Comprehensive Plan (PDF file, 7.8 MB)

Town of Canandaigua Comprehensive Plan Appendices (PDF file, 19.8 MB)

City of Canandaigua Government  

City of Canandaigua
Mayor of Canandaigua
Canandaigua City Council
Canandaigua City Manager

Voter Registration  

New York State Board of Elections—voter registration information
Ontario County Board of Elections

Voter Information  

Voter Information page on this Web site

Nongovernmental Web Sites Monitoring the U.S. Congress  

GovTrack.us—"tracking the status of federal legislation and the activities of your senators and
    representatives"
washingtonpost.com's Congress votes database—"This site lets you browse every vote in the
    U.S. Congress since 1991."
OpenCongress—"brings together official government data with news and blog coverage to give
    you the real story behind each bill"—a site in its beta stage of development

Cooperative Extension Service  

Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Ontario County

Ontario County History  

A History of Ontario County, New York, and Its People (Volume 1), by Charles F. Milliken,
    published 1911
A History of Ontario County, New York, and Its People (Volume 2), by Charles F. Milliken,
    published 1911
Early Ontario County History on the Web site of the Hope Farm Press & Bookshop
History of the Town of Canandaigua
National Register of Historic Places, New York, Ontario County
Ontario County Historical Society
Ontario County Historical Summary
Ontario County, New York, on GenWeb
Ontario County Records and Archives Center—Ontario County Municipal Historians
Sovereignty and Treaty Rights: We Remember—an essay by G. Peter Jemison on the
    Canandaigua Treaty of 1794
The Canandaigua Treaty of 1794
The Trial of Susan B. Anthony for Illegal Voting—the famous trial that was held in the Ontario
    County Courthouse—written by Doug Linder

News Online  

The New York Times
WSJ.com—news Web site of the The Wall Street Journal
The Nation
washingtonpost.com—news Web site of the The Washington Post
latimes.com—news Web site of the Los Angeles Times
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
MPNnow.com—Messenger Post Newspapers' Web site
Finger Lakes Times
NPR—National Public Radio
UN News Centre
BBC News
Democracy Now!
Alternative Radio

Libraries  

Finger Lakes Community College Library
Geneva Public Library
Library of Congress
New York State Library
RIT Libraries
OCLC FirstSearch WorldCat—The Online Computer Library Center's catalog of library
    materials in Pioneer Library System libraries, including Wood Library. You will need to
    have cookies allowed on your Web browser for this site, and you will need your library card
    number (from a Pioneer Library System library) to log in. To use WorldCat to search for
    items only in Wood Library's collection, use the advanced search interface and set "Limit
    availability to" to library code "XEO".
Syracuse University Library
University at Buffalo Libraries
University of Rochester Libraries
Warren Hunting Smith Library at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Wood Library

Miscellaneous Ready Reference Sites  

Calendar and world time (timeanddate.com)
Canandaigua on Google Maps
Chicago Manual of Style Online
Currency converter (Oanda.com)
Google Language Tools—online translation
Information Please Almanac
Merriam-Webster Online—dictionary and thesaurus
NationalAtlas.gov
Official US Postal Service Abbreviations
US Copyright Office
US telephone area codes
US Postal Service Zip Code Lookup