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Article: Dolled up: Refurbished town lost its soul, critics complain
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- October 14, 2007
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AURORA, N.Y. - Early settlers called Aurora the village of
constant dawn, and it evokes that feeling today - historic lakeside
mansions dusted in a kind of timeless glow, an old-world red-brick
inn, ivy-clad buildings rising from the lawns of Wells College.
Even the village market with its perfectly perched baskets of
ripe vegetables seems almost too good to be true.
For some who live here, it is.
"How polished we are now, how shiny," says village historian
Sheila Edmunds. "But at what cost?"
The village of 700, listed on the National Registrar of Historic
Places, was anything but shiny six years ago. Paint peeled off old
mansions, the inn struggled to stay open and the college struggled ...