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HELP NEEDED
"Please help me! I Want to Go Home!"
(courtesy of Mary Campbell.)
"A sweet young male kitty seems to be lost on Brothertown Rd. between the Carroll and Campbell homes! He is very friendly and is need of someone to claim him or make him a new home. We have cats of our own and they are not excited to welcome another feline into their homes. Please contact Christine Carroll or Mary Campbell if you know who he belongs to or to offer a home. Please note - the photo shows an all black cat, but he does have a bit of white on his chest and belly."
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It's 66 degrees and overcast at 6:30 a.m.
Today is Garbage Day
Tuesday is "Big Trash" pickup
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The WKTV Weather Forecast:
"Scattered Showers and Storms,Hot & Humid Through Midweek
We have a hot and humid start to the week with most areas approaching 90 and some spots climbing into the low 90s over the next couple of days. With a front slowly moving in from the west we keep this hot and humid air in play and the risk for pop up showers and storms today with more widespread showers and storms in the coming days.
Tuesday and Wednesday will bring more rain and stronger storms with highs going from the 90s to the 80s and by late week back into the 70s.
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Sunday afternoon, on Sally Road at around 4:00.
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Saturday must have been "Family Day" at the Beaver Creek Golf Course in Sangerfield!
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The most activity seemed to be taking place on East Main Street where an endless "bucket brigade" of goods from the CVS store on Sanger Avenue kept arriving.
I don't know how they did it, but at 10:00 on Sunday morning, the new CVS store opened!
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Across the street from the new CVS store, the former Waterville Times office has a new owner - Mr. John Brouillette - and a new coat of paint!
The Baptist parsonage, on White Street, is also being painted.
A new sign on White Street -
complete with solar electrified lighting.
(I especially like the "Tinged with Gold" treatment around the hop sprig. That's the title of a very good book about Hop Culture in the United States by Michael Tomlin and includes many references to Waterville.)
--- and there's new grass in front of St. Bernard's!
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Out in the Country .....
Grain is taking on a golden - or amber - tinge.
Throughout the countryside, hay is being baled or rolled.
Will the corn be "knee-high by the Fourth of July?"
It's hard to tell from a distance, so I went for a walk in a cornfield next to California Road. There wasn't anyone else around to test the theory, so --- here's a picture of my knees. You can't really see them, but the photo does answer the question!
In this particular field the corn is already "waist-high," 'tho that's not the case everywhere.
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Elderberry bushes are in bloom .......
............. as are giant Catalpa Trees, covered with bunches of elegant white flowers.
You'll soon be able to spot the bright orange blooms of "Turk's Cap" lilies hiding in the shadows next to Loomis Road......
................ and, 'though much more rare, Showy Lady slippers can still be found in swampy spots.
Time was, "Showies" grew in great numbers and huge quantities were gathered to fill enormous vases that flanked the stage in the Eastman Auditorium at Graduation.
June 1950.
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IN THE MAIL
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IN THE MAIL
According to Library Director Jeff Reynolds, Tuesday night's "Bike Rodeo" was a Big Success!
"60+ kids got fitted with free helmets, compliments of AAA and the Oneida County Health Department! Many thanks to those two organizations!
All the riders rode through a course where they learned from Jill and Amanda about stop signs, cross walks, how to use coaster brakes, signal turns, etc.
Next year, we may have a BMX club coming to teach tricks!"
(Thanks, Jeff!)
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IN THE NEWS
- from WKTV.
- from the Utica Observer-Dispatch
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A "Letter to the Editor" originally published in the Utica O-D:
"Waterville concerts simply outstanding
Waterville music students recently entertained parents and grandparents with the most spectacular spring concert we have ever witnessed.
On June 3 we attended the Waterville Middle School concert with students in grades 4 through 6. We were so impressed with the talents of these children, some of whom had picked up an instrument for the first time in 4th grade.
On June 5 we went back for the high school concert. The talent was amazing.
The concert band was so outstanding that if you closed your eyes you would have thought you were at the symphony.
The percussion ensemble would have made you think you were attending the best rock concert you ever attended and the jazz band made you want to get up and dance. The swing choir, men’s and women’s chorus and mixed chorus performances were outstanding.
I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge and thank those who have brought these students to the place they are at now: Christine Goux, band director; Jessica Lotyczewski, choral director, Mrs. Anne Hagerty-Powles, elementary school choral director, and Patrick Mashetti, band director. Thanks for outstanding leadership and dedication to teaching.
CHRISTINE BELOUIN
Rome"
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JULY CALENDARS
The Village of Waterville
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The Waterville Public Library
For interactive Calendar, please click HERE.
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COMING EVENTS
Thursday, July 10 at 7:00 p.m.
An Old Fashioned
"Concert in the Park"
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ALSO ON JULY 10 AT 7:00
ALSO ON JULY 10 AT 7:00
Friday, July 11
"Crushing June"
in the Garden at the Waterville Public Library
at 6:00 p.m.
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Saturday, July 19
WATERVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT "FUN DAY"
Music, Food, Beer, Poker Run, BBQ, Softball.
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Elsewhere
At the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute
Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, about 1692–1765)
The Wedding at Cana, about 1725
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and Hamilton Village Concerts.
FOR THE RECORD
Anyone would have had a good time visiting with Helen Tower Brunet and her daughter, Pam, because they are both delightful ladies! But for me, adding six generations of Tower Family History to talk about - from 1802 until the 1950s - the time that I spent with them on Friday was an even more memorable occasion!
Helen, center, a sixth-generation Watervillian, is the great-granddaughter of Charlemagne Tower and author of "Nellie and Charlie: A Family Memoir of the Gilded Age." She had not visited her home town for twenty years or more and Pam, Charlemagne Tower's great, great-granddaughter (and "selfie" ace!) had not been here since she was a child.
They both thoroughly enjoyed their visit to Waterville, driving up and down all of the streets of Helen's youth, admiring the new Library, the Victorian lamp posts along Main Street and - especially - the Memorial Bandstand. After dinner at "Michael's" we three went back to the park and sat on the bandstand steps and talked on and on about all of the generations of Towers that lived here, their love of the Village, evidenced by their generosity, and imagining what it would have been like to know all of them and live here with them - " 'way back then."
(Thank you both for all the stories, the great memories and the super "selfie!")
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A Fourth
of July Parade, 'way back then.
sometime after 1873, when the "new" Presbyterian Church was dedicated and before 1906 and the arrival of the granite watering trough.
sometime after 1873, when the "new" Presbyterian Church was dedicated and before 1906 and the arrival of the granite watering trough.
