At Home in the Huddle 2008: Friday

It's 43 degrees and dry.

From WKTV: "A storm system will brush the area with a few showers later Friday. This storm will throw some clouds at us through the afternoon. Then, at its closest approach, a few showers are possible, mainly for areas well south and east of Utica. Skies should clear a bit Friday night, leading to a sunny start to Saturday.
Then, things begin to change significantly. A strong cold front will plow through the area on Saturday afternoon and evening. It will bring a period of rain and a chance of thunderstorms with small hail. Rain may taper off to just a few showers for Saturday night and Sunday morning. But then, we expect numerous clouds and showers to develop Sunday afternoon. This, coupled with a chilly air mass will keep our highs in the 50s. In some cases, primarily in the Adirondacks, highs may only be in the 40s on Sunday!"

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Early dismissal today at WCS

The District will participate in a 1/2 day Staff Development on Friday, May 16th. HS/MS Students will be dismissed at 11:20 a.m. Elementary Students at 11:30 a.m.

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Both WKTV and the O-D note that today is the twelfth annual Ride for Missing Children.

The second annual Spring Bash Demolition Derby will take place at 2:00, on Saturday, at the Madison County Fairgrounds in Brookfield.

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The Waterville Central School District

ANNUAL BUDGET VOTE

will take place

TUESDAY, MAY 20

8:30 A.M. - 8:30 P.M.

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It's the little things that count:

the DPW checks ALL the flags, every day, to make sure that they're not wound around flagpoles!

A new dash of color in front of "Michael's" on W. Main Street.

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Even in the shade, wild apple trees still make puffs of white on hillsides.

An excited blog-reader called to report finding a new, pink trillium. Unfortunately - that's just the color that white trillium turn as they age.

In the woods: Bellwort.

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Many improvements are being made to this house on Madison Street .......

........... and repairs and refurbishments continue at the Mack residence on Berrill Avenue.

It was just about 100 years ago that the building, long the Osborne family home, was sold by a Miss Lucia Osborne to the Eastern Star for $6,000.

I had been told, years ago, that this house was built by Col. Osborne as a wedding present for his daughter, but - now - I doubt that. An article in The Waterville Times dated June 9, 1938, reprinting one that originally appeared in 1874, gives a description of the Colonel's home as well as other places in Waterville. I can't reproduce the entire article, here, but if you'd like it in PDF format I'll be glad to send it to you.

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A new perspective on Gasoline.

I don't think that the price of gasoline changed, yesterday, but I've changed my way of figuring
mileage.

Simple math: divide distance traveled by cost.

For instance, if I drive 100 miles and fill up at a cost of $25, that means that it costs me $1 to drive 4 miles. (Ouch!)

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(I thought I was the only one who had this marked
on a calendar, but apparently not!)

Counting down! Only five more days!