"Waterville...Under Construction"

That's the big, front-page headline of today's Utica Observer-Dispatch,
And there's a long article to go with it!

60 degrees F. at 6:00 A.M. and Today's NEWS Channel 2 Forecast calls for: Sun and clouds with a shower or two possible, especially around midday. High in the mid 70's. Tonight: Mostly clear. Low 50-55. (Lovely!)

Highway work should be able to proceed, uninterrupted, today. Curbing installation on Madison Street and Park Place seems nearly finished. Residents whose driveways have been steel bridges over the curbing ditch will be enormously pleased to have real pavement there, again. Similarly, some property-owners out on Sanger Avenue have been waiting for several days for their curbing ditch to be filled in: 'tho politely warned in advance by TIOGA that they would need to park their vehicles in across-the-road neighbors' driveways, little consideration was given as to exactly how they, themselves, should cross the ditch to reach said vehicles! Surely a plank or two, here or there, would be helpful?

And - in re: the new granite curbing - it's more than just sharp-looking! It IS sharp! Every few days another motorist, no doubt unused to the new configuration of "bulb-outs" or "bump-outs" on Main Street, misjudges distance by an inch or two and discovers either immediately (or, in some instances, an embarrassingly extended period of time later) that they have a very flat tire.

Had the spell of hot weather continued, we had thought of having Ms. Lynn Curtis give a detailed accounting of her recent trip to ALASKA with her friend, "Bodie" McCaffrey, but descriptions of glaciers and ice bergs will no doubt make more refreshing reading on another day. We also expect to hear all about someone else's travels in ICELAND, before the Summer's gone.

Those unable to leave town, at the present time, are encouraged to visit The Home Shoppe, in Green Acres Plaza, where a lovely "Cabin in the Adirondacks" awaits!

You might also be entertained, Wednesday evening, by attending the Waterville Historical Society's program at 7:30. Dick and Flip (Richard and Philippa) Brown have packed their laptop computers with just about ALL of the Society's vintage photographs and a great number of pertinent writings. They have also assembled some NEW old photographs: several pictures of the Sanger Mansion taken in 1950 and contributed by Anne Jasek.


Also new, the photographs contained in a 1908 "Souvenir of Waterville" album that appeared on E-bay a few months ago and started a village-wide search for the "mystery house" - courtesy Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carentz, who live there now. Because it became known that the house had been moved, and knowing that it was a common occurance, the Browns took pictures of a few others that are not where they were built.



Where is this house, now?