Thursday morning

49.5 degrees. It's Garbage Day, again!





Don't get distracted! Pedestrain Crossing Signs; Library this way signs; Bike Route signs; new, higher, larger Street Signs.
I know it's all better and safer, but I sort-of want to say "Enough, already! We want to be able to see the new trees and the lamp posts when they get here!"

Remember that tomorrow is the last day to enter the Library's SCARECROW Contest! Judging will take place on Saturday and the winner will be having Pizza from the New York Pizzeria for supper and watching a video from ECCO!

WCS Girls' Varsity Soccer is at Morrisville-Eaton at 4:30 this afternoon.
Boys' Varsity Soccer plays Morrisville-Eaton on Brothertown Field at 7:00.

On Friday - Boys' Varsity Football plays Oriskany at 7:30 at Brothertown Stadium.

Saturday might not be too bad!

In the morning - from 10:00 'til noon - join the Bandstand Committee, the Bandstand Designers, and other folks you know for a lively "brain-storming" session in the Program Room at the new Library. Bring paper, pen/pencil and a calculator. High-calorie Energy Fuel will be provided!

Any time it's wet out...

People who are used to brick paving stones have said, repeatedly, that the pavers can be very slippery when they're wet. (I'll take their word for it; they don't have to show me.) Tom Stiles of Stockwell has gone one step farther, however, in proving that the new TREE GRATES are also slippery! Day before yesterday, rushing out of Morgan's Hardware, he was - all in a split second! - 1. on his feet; 2. in the air; 3. flat on his back! Ouch!! (It's a good thing he's young and bounces easily!)

The new - or would-be-new - owners of Foodking were expected to visit the store, yesterday afternoon. Perhaps there will be something to tell you about, later on!

I'm also waiting for confirmation of a really nice bit of news: watch for an "add-on!"


And here it is!!!


Joseph Falk, President of the Waterville Historical Society, has announced that an Anonymous Benefactor has stepped forward to purchase the Society's home building on White Street from the longtime owner, the Village of Waterville. Used for many years as the Village Hall, and leased to the Society for the past three years, the municipality could not legally GIVE the building away; it could lease it or sell it. The Society has already made several improvements to the property - a handicap accessible restroom (on the main floor!) was installed two years ago and, this past summer, the barn behind the old church building became a museum display area for numerous pieces of antique hop equipment. The benefactor's $15,000 gift to the Society will really be a gift for the entire community: the history of whole Waterville area is as rich in fascinating discoveries as that of any other settlement in this part of New York State and now it will be kept "alive" so that more than just a handful of old folks can know what it was like here in those golden years when Waterville was the center of international hop commerce and called itself "The Hop Capital of the World"!