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It's Recyclables Collection day.
36 degrees and dry at 5:00 a.m.
The TWCNY morning weather forecast:
"Dry and Seasonable Today, Showers Return.
Our weather doesn't look half bad today as we'll see sun and clouds with a brisk breeze and highs in the upper 40s and low 50s.
Some extra moisture starts to lift in from the south Thursday which will return the threat for a couple of showers to the forecast. As a result, temperatures will be a touch cooler with highs for everyone in the 40s.
A well developed system will approach from the west on Friday with unsettled conditions lingering into the first half of the weekend and during this time period, temperatures should end up at or below average (highs in the upper 40s/near 50)."
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IN THE NEWS
Front Page Headlines from
THE WATERVILLE TIMES
"Time To Get Your Mud On"
"WCS Sets Tax Hike at 2%"
"Race Is On For Assembly"
"Basketball Photos"
"Students Awarded"
"Workshop Offered"
"WCS Project Approved"
To read more, please click HERE.
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from WKTV.
From the Observer-Dispatch.
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Here and There
"Think Spring!"
Judging by their smiles, Aubrey Hildreth and her dad, Jody, agree!
They had pulled up right next to me on Madison Street when I stopped to take a picture of the new arrangement on Suzette's front door.
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Trail markers are still there, in the field next to Osborn Avenue, but .......
.................... snowmobile suits have been swapped for sneaks and running gear.
(Some runners - like MaryBeth and Doug Plourde - travel so rapidly that I can't even focus my camera before they pass me!)
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Because yesterday was the first day of Trout Season, I took a tour of some of the favorite fishing spots.
The bench next to the Oriskany Creek was more accessible than it had been, last week, but the water was high and it's been so cold that I wasn't surprised to see the spot vacant.
Nor was there anyone at the handicap accessible platform next to the bridge in Deansboro. (I did notice that someone has trimmed several trees which, I imagine, had been snagging too many fish lines!)
It was at the new trout pools south of Forge Hollow that I spotted Bob Mayne ....
................... and, a few yards upstream, there was Helen. She turned to smile at me and I shouted, "Getting any bites?" and she gave a big grin and, nodding her head, said, "It's a good day!"
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Hundreds of Canada Geese were resting on the seasonal pond next to Sally Road.
In the Village, folks are wondering what's going on at the old Foodking / soon-to-be CVS store. There certainly is a lot of material stacked in the parking lot!
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TODAY'S EVENTS
WCS SPORTS
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AT THE LIBRARY
Finally, the weather is cooperating, and ....
.... the "Walking Group" will set out at 6:00!
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COMING EVENTS
In addition to the Talent Show at the High School on Friday, Highland Mudfest of Saturday and the Palm Sunday Ham Dinner at the Deansboro Fire House on the 13th, here are two
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
- for your Calendars -
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FOR THE RECORD
When I first read "Singular Discovery," originally published in The Waterville Times 157 years ago and seen here, yesterday, I was completely taken in by it and thought that I was discovering a long-forgotten and wonderfully exciting piece of local history.
Well ...... judging from my mail, several of you had the same disappointing and somewhat embarrassing experience!
I've just spent a frustrating and fruitless hour or so trying to find the follow-up article in which the editor of The Waterville Times identifies the very imaginative writer responsible for the tall tale. I know I've seen it, and I will dig more, later on.
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Last week I wrote that the big brown barn here in Whiskey Hollow had once been a sawmill and then a piano factory. It was during the time of its reconstruction, following the great "crash" of twenty years ago, that we found a stenciled marking on one of the interior walls reading
"Buckingham Piano Fortes, Waterville."
Here is an advertisement from an 1857 issue of The Waterville Times.
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Have a great Spring Day, everyone!
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