Thursday morning - Garbage Day

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68.5 degrees F. We've had enough rain, now - it can stop! (We definitely need to go shopping at Morgan's, today, and buy a real rain gauge!) Although the National Weather Service still warns of flooding throughout this entire area, there are early-morning patches of blue sky and the AccuWeather 15 day forecast predicts fine weather for Firemen's Field Days.

The Deansboro-Waterville Lions Club Annual Golf Tournament is scheduled to take place on Saturday at the Sulphur Springs Golf Course. No one has said that the rain has necessitated a postponement, but it would not be surprising: many area links have developed an unecessary number of ponds and lakes.

Going into the second half of the Major League Baseball season, the RedSox will play Oakland at the Fenway tonight at 7:05. The game will be carried by ESPN and will be watched, no doubt, by Mr. Leonard Hayes - a man brave enough to wear his RedSox cap to Waterville! (Happy Birthday!)

The Yankees have another day off, but will take on the White Sox tomorrow night at Yankee Stadium.

"Round Town Tour"

By 7 o'clock all of those patches of blue sky had been obscured by low-hanging gray and there was a steady drizzle.







Helen Olmstead's yellow slicker was a bright spot on Stafford Avenue.



Back on Sanger Avenue, there was more activity than we'd expected, and - now that we think we know so much about all phases of highway reconstruction activity - our highly uneducated guess would be that there will be a great deal of sidewalk pouring taking place next week!





Alex was controlling traffic at one end of a sidewalk-prep stretch on the East side of Sanger Avenue.











Turf was being peeled up for new sidewalk sections at the Eastern end of the Park. (And we noticed that the roots of the ornamental crabapple trees were NOT being disturbed as much as many had feared.)


At the junction of Routes 12 & 20, in Sangerfield, the right-hand strip of the South bound lane - originally intended as a "Right Turn Only" lane - is being blacktopped.

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