** VILLAGE OF WATERVILLE **

The Public Hearing for the proposed zoning change 

that was scheduled for September 3, 2014 at the Village Hall 

has been postponed until further notice.

From Brenda Knoeller, Village Clerk.

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TBT Special

August 28, 1993
Happy Anniversary, Allison & Rick.

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It's Garbage Day
59 degrees and overcast or foggy at 5:45 a.m.

The TWCNY Weather Forecast:

"Cooler and Quiet, Showers Return for the Weekend.

 Any clouds around to start the day will dissipate pretty quickly, as high pressure builds in and provides a good deal of sun for the afternoon.  High temperatures will climb just above the 70 degree this afternoon.

After a chilly night under a mainly clear sky, Friday looks good with sun fading some behind high and mid level clouds later in the day ahead of a warm front.  Highs will make the mid 70s Friday, and return to the 80s with higher humidity once again for the Labor Day weekend. 

Unfortunately, with the return of the warmth and higher humidity levels, the chances for a few showers and storms will also go up Saturday through Labor Day itself.  No one day, though, of the holiday weekend will be a washout, which of course is good news for all of you that have outdoor plans.  Our advice to you is to keep an eye to the sky, and the umbrella nearby throughout the weekend."

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IN THE NEWS

Page 1 Headlines from
THE WATERVILLE TIMES

"Assessor Changes Possible"
"BCS Moves To Shift Culture"
"Eagle Scout"
"Early Deadline"
"Basic Finished"
"School Items Wanted"
"Arrest Made In Burglary"

To read more, please click HERE.

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IN THE MAIL

From Carol Gilley, notice that the
Marshall Historical Society's August-September Newsletter 
can be read by following a link HERE.

If you would like to order a print of the 
Society's 20th Anniversary Map 
or any of the other historical printings online, 
please click here.

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From Jeff Reynolds, the next two photographs taken last week during the installation of the new fire hydrant on White Street. 

"Anatomy of a Fire Plug"

White Street and Library Lane

on the 12" main.

"Fashion conscious and OSHA compliant."
Mssrs. Bechy and Kelley of the DPW.

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White Street from a different perspective
as seen by the Flying Librarian early Tuesday morning.

(Thank you, Jeff!)

(Click to enlarge!)

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Elsewhere



Something new at Merri-Rose Florist on West Main Street.



Painting progress on Sanger Avenue.

The California Road wagon, in Summer splendor.

Kansas-style sunflowers in the Timlake-Tilbe border.



"Wild" hops covering a honeysuckle hedgerow, still growing where they were probably planted more than a century ago.

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FOR THE RECORD

My thanks to Sandy Leverich and Jenny Sparks who have invited me to visit their very special gardens this weekend!

Thanks, as well, to Lisa Belfield and the "Cruise-in" committee who are considering ways to accommodate less-ambulatory visitors to "Cruise-in" activities at the Firemen's Pavilion with either a special Handicap Parking area on Firemen's Field or an additional Trolley stop, there.  That will be greatly appreciated!

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COMING EVENTS

Please scroll down to the earlier blog post.

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MONDAY IS LABOR DAY!

Have a grand weekend, everyone!

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Vintage Labor Day Post Cards and Posters
from "Google."

It's Garbage Day

56 degrees at 5:15 a.m.

The Weather Forecast from TWCNY:

"More Great Weather, Warm and Muggy

The great weather will continue into the start of this upcoming week with more sun and even warmer temperatures today and Tuesday.  Highs will make the low to mid 80s Monday afternoon, and mid to upper 80s Tuesday!  Humidity levels will creep up a bit more so come Tuesday too.

Late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning it now appears a cold front will in fact slide through with some clouds and possibly a few scattered showers/storm.  In the wake of the front, a cooler and drier air mass will settle in later Wednesday into the last half of the week."  

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If you wonder what's come over the folks in these photos, 

you must not have heard about the 

"Ice Bucket Challenge," 

a freezy fad that's been flooding the country and has, so far, raised $70.2 million for the ALS Association.

To watch the full video on Facebook (complete with laughs!) please click HERE.

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"The Waterville Cross Country team was nominated by the Waterville Cheerleaders to do the ALS ice bucket challenge. Coach Cyndee Lachman accepted said challenge and in turn would like to nominate WCS Superintendent Chuck Chaffee, the entire Waterville Board of Education, and the lovely Sheri Salm Brennan. We have also contributed monetarily to ALS research www.alsa.org, and we hope you do the same."
(Courtesy of Meagan Timlake.)

Among those making solo splash appearances on Facebook have been Mark Barnes, Dan Friebel and Jarrod Waufle.

(More photos and videos are welcome!)

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Here & There

Seen on Maiden Lane (now South Babbott Avenue) ...........

 

..............  mixed bouquets of flowers next to the old Methodist Church.

Old barns, too, make interesting backgrounds for Goldenrod..........

................ Jewelweed .............

........... and Elderberries, just starting to ripen.

Next to Route 315 just about across from California Road, slow down to enjoy a field of Sunflowers!

Ditches are crowded with bouquets of Goldenrod and Joe Pye Weed .......

........ and also a white variety of Joe Pye (Eupatorium) called "Boneset" .........

.......... and "Turtlehead."

Coming soon - "Japanese Knotweed."

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OTHER COMING EVENTS

This Week at the Library

It didn't really rain on Carnival Day, last Saturday, 

but  - "just in case" - 

all events, except the "bounce house," were moved inside 

and everyone still had a great time!

For more photos, please click HERE.

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This will be a slow week, 

with only one special event scheduled before Friday.

TUESDAY   

"Teens -  Special-effects Makeup" at 6:00 p.m.

Join us as make-up artist M.Perkins shows you the tricks of special effects make-up. Learn how to use adhesives, fake scars & blood, use makeup for detailed artwork, and more effects

Ages 10 & up | Sign up at the library

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FRIDAY

Previously unscheduled, 

this special gathering of the Old Timers

will be the last of the season.

**  Book Signing from 1:00 - 4:00 **

Local Author Stephanie Barnes.

"The bell finally rang. Pedro jumped out of his chair and headed for the door. He looked over his shoulder to see if Julio was coming. When he turned back around, he almost ran directly into Miss Hollis. 'Excuse me, miss.' 'Pedro, I have a job for you.' Enter the world of Pedro Rodriguez, a seventh-grader in a small city with a complicated family life. In this story, Pedro learns that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one reason that some kids his age have trouble paying attention in class. In the process, he also improves his research skills."

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"Family Movie" at 6:30 p.m.

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SATURDAY

"Public Stargazing" 

at dusk

at the Barton-Brown Observatory.

All stargazing events are free, are open to all ages, 

begin at dusk and are weather permitting. 

You do not need to be a library patron to attend these events.

Photo by Jody Hildreth.

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AT WCS

MONDAY:  Fall Modified Sports Begin

TUESDAY:Board of Education Meeting at 6:30

WEDNESDAY:  7th Grade Orientation

FRIDAY: 7 -12 grade Student Schedules Mailed

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WCS SPORTS

For full Sports schedule, please click HERE.

For complete WCS Calendar, click HERE.

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FOR THE RECORD

Yesterday.

About a year ago.

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More when it happens!

Good News w' add-on

Joel has been located and is OK!

"Thank you everyone for reposting Heather's notice and for all your wonderful moral support.

Chris Rudecoff & Russ Kahn "

Special FB request.

It's 65 degrees and overcast at 6:30 a.m.

Today is Garbage day.

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(I rarely "lift" posts from Facebook without the writer's permission, but in this case I'm going to. The following was posted yesterday by H. Faye "Heather" Kahn. I know that some blog readers live in or near New York City / Brooklyn .....  please spread the word!)

"HELLO This is a photo of my brother JOEL KAHN who has been MISSING since this morning. He was last seen wearing a long-sleeved pink shirt & jeans on Kings Highway & McDonald Ave at 6:30AM (on 08/20) in Gravesend, Brooklyn, NY where his cell phone was found. If you are in the tristate area &/or have seen this person please contact Detective McGurk at 718-946-3352. Otherwise please be on the lookout! Thank you for your help!"

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The TWCNY Weather Forecast:

"Unsettled Today & Friday, Warm and Humid

Unsettled weather will stick around for today and Friday with the ongoing threat for scattered showers and thunderstorms. Temperatures each of these days will top out in the mid to upper 70s. 

A few lingering showers are possible on Saturday with drier weather building in by Sunday as high pressure tries to reestablish itself out of Eastern Canada. Highs will sneak back up to around or just above 80 with slightly less humidity. "

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Alan C. Crumb
1934 - 214

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IN THE NEWS

"Oriskany Falls Woman Charged with Burglary."
From the Utica Observer-Dispatch.

"Second Arrest in Sangerfield Burglary"
- also from the O-D.

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Front Page Headlines from

THE WATERVILLE TIMES

"WCS Reduces Tuition Rates"

"Residents Get Fracking Vote "

"Pride In Their Work"

"At The Finish"

"Madison Meeting Scheduled"

"Raccoon With Rabies In Augusta"

"Manager At White’s"

To read more, please click HERE.

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Here & There



After much scraping and repair work, painting has begun on the former "Home for Homeless Ladies" on Putnam Street.


The house was built for George Putnam and was one of the first that was built after the street was opened in the mid-1860s. It is believed that Mr. and Mrs. Putnam occupied the house for several years, selling the house in the late 1880s to Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Tower.  Mrs. Tower and her son, George, lived there until the early 1920s. George lived on until the early 1930s. He left the house and some money for the Home for Homeless Ladies which opened in 1934. (From "A Walking Tour of Putnam Street - 1971.)

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Putnam Street is one of several streets in the Village that have two major pipelines capable of providing residents with municipal water - one line runs under the sidewalk and the other, currently in use, is beneath the street. Because Putnam Street will be milled and re-paved this Autumn, the Village DPW has been switching the water supply from that line to the one beneath the sidewalk so that, should there be a need to do any digging/repairing in the future, the new pavement would not need to be dug up. 

The DPW is also installing a new hydrant  next to the White Street entrance to the Waterville Public Library.

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My thanks to Mary Fanning for telling me about the new sign at Dan Maine's shop on Madison Street. It's a beauty!

A sight to see: hundreds of Hop Vines in the six-acre Hop Yard at the Mosher Farm south of Route 20 on Route 26.

A flowering "Rose of Sharon" hedge at the Marris residence on Grant Hill.

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COMING EVENTS

At the Library

THURSDAY

"American Girl Movie" at 6:00 p.m.

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FRIDAY

Farmers Market 3:00 - 7:00

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SATURDAY

NOON - 3:00 P.M.

Families can celebrate the end of summer (and all the reading they did) with our annual carnival! We’ll have carnival games, face painting, food, bounce house/slide and more! Fun for the whole family.

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ALSO ON SATURDAY



8:30 - 1:30
WATERVILLE MUNICIPAL HALL

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LOOKING BACK
August 23, 2007

By late morning.

That evening.

Since then, the space once occupied by Putnam Hall has been a "vacant lot." Now, however, Mr. Dave Sullivan proposes to construct two or three apartment buildings on the property.

Architect's drawing of the first of the proposed units.

One of the first steps will be for the Village Board to change the zoning of the property from its current status - "Industrial" - to "Planned Development."

A PUBLIC HEARING 
will be held at the Waterville Municipal Hall
at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 3
before the regularly-scheduled Village Board Meeting
(delayed from Monday due to the Labor Day Holiday.)

A ground plan of the entire proposed project can be seen at Municipal Hall.

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TBT
August 8, 1933, courtesy of Louie C. Langone

Bill Fuess, Waterville farmer, holding shotgun which he used to protect milk he delivered to milk plant.

"1933 Milk Strike - from The Waterville Times.

 On Tuesday, August 8, 1933, Capt. Steven McGrath lead 50 or more state troopers in the most unnecessary violence and destruction ever exhibited in Waterville.

 Early that morning a crowd of 200 to 300 spectators gathered on Osborne Avenue despite a warning issued the night before not to congregate.

 The crowd was orderly and those involved in the milk strike did not seem to be in an ugly mood. The troopers arrived at 9:30 AM and immediately assembled in front of the Borden Plant. They marched down Osborne Avenue to the intersection of White Street where Capt. McGrath, who had been injured in a milk strike in Boonville, ordered the crowd to disperse.

Without giving the people time to more than turn around the troopers fell upon them, belaboring them with clubs, smashing windshields and windows of cars parked along the street and in driveways as far as the Freight House on Putnam Street.

Although several people were beaten by the troopers’ clubs, there were no serious injuries.

The troopers left late in the morning after threatening a repetition of the dose the next day if any crowd congregated near the Milk Plant.

A protest meeting was called by the Village Board, School Board and Sangerfield Town board at 2  that afternoon in Municipal Hall. A telegram deploring the acts of violence was sent to Gov. Herbert H. Lehman."

Some readers may not be familiar with the term "Milk Strike." I found the following article which I think helps to explain the activity and its purpose. It's from an Iowa publication, but is still pertinent.

"Farmers on Strike"

From Iowa Public Television.

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FOR THE RECORD

In reply to the question I asked last week: 
"WHY does the blog get so many 'hits' from the Ukraine? "

I received this answer, sent anonymously:

 "It's because of all two of us Ukrainians who live in Waterville, dear (that is basically just my mum and I)."

Thank you! 

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More when it happens.

Have a good weekend, everyone!