Thursday w/ add-on announcement

as of 9:30 ....

 MILLERS MILLS ICE HARVEST

has been

CANCELLED.

The ice is just not thick enough to hold the ice cutting equipment and crowds of people.

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Congratulations to

Colleen (McNamara) and Mike Greene

whose new little girl

Caitlin Margaret

was born yesterday morning.

She arrived weighing 7 lbs. & 13 3/4 oz. and was 20 3/4 " long

and is the grandaughter of Tom and Kate McNamara of Buell Avenue.

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It's Garbage Day!

32.9 degrees.

There's no precipitation right now, but there is a thin coating of ice shining on the front porch railings and the shrubbery.

• Thursday: Morning snow showers tapering off to scattered flurries. Light additional accumulation, except in the Adirondacks where several more inches are possible before Noon. Cloudy. High in the upper 20s.
• Thursday night: Decreasing clouds. Low near 20
• Friday: Mostly cloudy. High: 34, Low: 26
• Saturday: Snow developing. Chance of thunderstorms. High: 36, Low: 24

"Big Creek" is right up to its banks; there are ponds where they shouldn't be ...........


... the Sangerfield River is coming awfully close to Loomis Road,
and "Lake Sangerfield" is back again!


The "pea soup" fog was thick, all day yesterday, and residents told stories of Tuesday night travels at a snail's pace, head and shoulders hanging out of car doors and windows, searching for the edge of the pavement - or, "Are we a corn field, again?"

The "snow dump" on Firemen's Field has been melting, fast, and is the same color as the rest of the remaining snow. It's time for a fresh topping!


This remote-controlled, solar-powered sign has been placed just south of Sangerfield next to the northbound lane of Route 12 should there be another occasion to warn motorists that Route 12 is closed between Waterville and New Hartford. (There's probably a matching sign somewhere in New Hartford, but I havn't seen it.)


Fairly early yesterday morning on Route 315. It appeared that
someone's day had started out badly, but it sure made ME smile!

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A few weeks ago there was a query about the logging that's taking place 'way out behind the Library: I saw Mr. Allen and asked if this meant "something big," and he assured me that it was just ordinary logging and that as long as he was around "Mayer's Woods" was safe from a similar fate!

But major logging is also in progress next to Loomis Road ...........

....... east of Osborn Avenue, out next to Fuess Cleary Road and at several other locations.
Perhaps this accounts for the greater-than-usual number of skunks and other woods creatures that have been seen (or smelled) recently.

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"X marks the spot" - that's where the bronze plaque of the Historic Triangle District is located.

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John Peck, who now lives in Florida, sent a note yesterday in re: the Historic District. He said that he remembered that "in grade school about 1963 (give or take a year or two) going on a field trip to an old house on Main Street where the shopping center is now. Don't remember the name of the house and there may have been 2 but they were very big with fireplaces in almost every room."

Thanks for that, John! At first I thought of the "Foodking" parkinglot, but now realize that you must have been to see the Osborn Mayer house that was built by Amos Osborn in 1811. It had been quite a showplace, but by the time that John and his classmates saw it, it had become a rather shabby apartment house and it was demolished right about then to make room for a grocery store.


The late Hilda Barton tried to save the building - she at least got one of the many mantlepieces and it happens to have been stored in the barn here in the Hollow for many years!

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Have a good day, everyone!