Saturday

It's 17 degrees, and WKTV's weather headline reads:

"Cold Weather Makes a Comeback!"

• Saturday: Mostly cloudy in the morning then flurries and squalls arriving late in the afternoon. Turning breezy and colder late. High in the upper 20's.
• Sunday: Frigid and breezy with areas of lake effect snow, especially across the North Country. High 0-10. Overnight lows below zero.
• Monday: Mostly cloudy with snow showers. Cold. High: 16. Low: 6

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You may read and leave tributes to John Sigsbee at the
Utica Observer-Dispatch
and at WKTV

or you can express your feelings by flying the
"Red, White and Blue."


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(Morgan's True Value Hardware has a new supply of American Flags.

There's no reason not to have one!)

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ALSO TODAY:

You may take donations for the
Clothing Give Away
to the basement of St. Bernard's Church
today between 9:00 and noon.

Tomorrow morning,
"Mohawk Valley Living"
continues with its Road Trip to Oriskany Falls.

You can watch Part I on You tube, HERE.

In Part II, they'll be following the Chenango Canal,

going through Lyon's Mills

and heading to the Hotel for lunch.

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In re: the little "farm stand" shack on Route 2o that I asked about --- one reader wrote " (it) was built by the Jacobson Brothers and they had a stand where they sold strawberries. This had to be in the late 70's early 80's."

However, Don Hazard said: "I don't recall the stand in operation and that goes back to '54 when I returned from the service, first as a postal clerk in the old post office in the Candee building and later driving a fuel truck for G.L.F. ( to become Agway in '64)"

........ and then Jack Litz sent me this great picture.

"I don't know about the stand on route 20 but my grandparents (Fordyce & Howard Early) had the farm stand on Sanger Avenue next to the Dairy Isle (currently "Roc's"). Growing up across the street my sisters and I picked corn, peas, strawberries, dug potatoes, everything they grew we helped harvest. They sold cheese off the wheel and when they would go to town and we got to "tend" the stand. I'm pretty sure more cheese and strawberries were eaten than sold. Notice the A&P store where CVS is now.

Something wonderful is happening to this "fix-er-upper" on Route 315!
We'll be watching the transformation.

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Skywatchers have been keeping an eye on Mars as it moves close to the moon.
If it's cloudy - or during the daytime - scan the
Mohawk Valley Astronomical Society's new website.

Because more and more Watervillians are becoming interested in what's above them - and not always looking ahead or at the ground - I'm going to add it as a regular link in the sidebar.