It's Big Trash Day!
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78 degrees under bright sunshine.
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The results of yesterday's
Run-off Election in the Village of Waterville:
For Trustee:
Ostrander - 127
Campbell - 127
Another Run-off will be scheduled.
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The results of yesterday's
Run-off Election in the Village of Waterville:
For Trustee:
Ostrander - 127
Campbell - 127
Another Run-off will be scheduled.
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(Click: it's a link!)
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It's actually a balmy 52 degrees; breezy and drippy.
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The RUN-OFF ELECTION
REALLY WILL TAKE PLACE
TODAY
from noon - 9:00 at Municipal Hall.
REALLY WILL TAKE PLACE
TODAY
from noon - 9:00 at Municipal Hall.
"It was THIS LONG! But then my line broke!"
FISHING SEASON STARTS TODAY
I happened to see Mr. Bob Mayne, yesterday, and asked if Big Creek had been stocked, yet. He said, "No - probably not until around the 12th."
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A CLARIFICATION:
"Welcome to the Jungle"
Featuring 1st-4th grade students from Memorial Park School.
WILL TAKE PLACE
NEXT Monday evening at 7pm
WCS High School Auditorium
The show will be viewed and judged by members of the CNY Community Arts Council, as part of the local "It's a Zoo" Competition. Troupes that place in the competition will perform their show again during the weekend of May 16th and 17th at Hamilton College.
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"Perk" Stalter has brought this to my attention:
Featuring 1st-4th grade students from Memorial Park School.
WILL TAKE PLACE
NEXT Monday evening at 7pm
WCS High School Auditorium
The show will be viewed and judged by members of the CNY Community Arts Council, as part of the local "It's a Zoo" Competition. Troupes that place in the competition will perform their show again during the weekend of May 16th and 17th at Hamilton College.
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"Perk" Stalter has brought this to my attention:
On Saturday, April 5, Colgate University’s Upstate Institute will host a workshop on "Eminent Domain." (Of great interest to those who oppose NYRI!!)
The workshop will take place in Room 101 in the new Ho Science Center and will begin at 9am. Presenters include Scott G. Bullock, Senior Attorney for the Institute for Justice and Co-counsel in the 2005 landmark Supreme Court case Kelo v. New London, CT. Presenters will be followed by small group discussions. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
The Upstate Institute provides connections between Colgate University and the surrounding communities through the research conducted by our students, staff and faculty. Several of our programs are listed below and to the left. Our most recent newsletter provides additional information about our work.
(The name "Scott Bullock" rang a bell, so to speak - but this speaker's not ours.)
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In putting together material for the DEC, I dug out these three small artifacts that I had originally unearthed twenty-five or more years ago north of Hubbardsville next to the Sangerfield River in the area called "the Stillwater" - that's just about where you round the first curve in the river and cross a sandbar. I wish that I could find some REAL history about this site. I went there with the late "Pete" Peterson and his friend Syd Erickson and, as I remember the story, it went like this:
Back many hundreds of years ago - perhaps even a thousand or two - Native Americans had a large Summer encampment at the Stillwater. It was a trading place where those from the North came to trade pelts for nets and other materials woven from vines by the indians who lived farther South. The surrounding hills provided great supplies of flint for tools and the location was also close to the trail that lead to present-day Syracuse, where they would trade for for salt with which to preserve meat and fish.
The two darker artifacts are sections of flint arrow- or spear-heads. The lighter piece - to the upper left - appears to have been shaped for scraping skins and fits comfortably in either left or right hand!
I really would like to learn more about this area. If any blog-readers can tell me where to look for information I'd appreciate it!
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Last evening I attended a meeting at Municipal Hall with members of Cpl. John Sigsbee's family, representatives of Veterans' organizations, Mayor Jim Younes and the other Memorial Bandstand Fund Committee members. At the behest of the Sigsbees themselves, a group of "Veterans, Friends and Family" has established the "Cpl. John P. Sigsbee Memorial Fund" in order to provide a monetary contribution to the "Memorial Wall" at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky - home of the "Screaming Eagles" - in memory of John, and also to ensure a timely completion of Waterville's Memorial Bandstand, planned for summertime construction in the Park.
Three specific fund-raising activities have been planned. The first will be the collection and sale of used Ink Jet Printer Cartridges. Special containers will be placed at convenient locations throughout the community in a week or so. Please watch The Waterville Times (and here) for detailed information and for dates of specific events.
The Memorial Bandstand Fund Committee has known about this project for about a month and continues to express their gratitude to the Sigsbees, Veterans and Friends for choosing The Bandstand Fund as a recipient of their energetic fund-raising efforts.
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Thank You, also, to Joel and Mary Campbell for your Donation!
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Have a Great Spring Day, Everyone!
Thank You, also, to Joel and Mary Campbell for your Donation!
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Have a Great Spring Day, Everyone!
