Wednesday

It's Recyclables Day!

45.7 degrees

and we're still here!
(Read about the Large Hadron Collider!)

From WKTV: "We're starting out in the 40s and 50s this morning but we will warm up into the afternoon. You can probably ditch the sweater by the afternoon with highs in the mid 60s, but it's going to cool off again tonight. In fact, freeze warnings are in effect for the Adirondacks tonight, where overnight lows will be near or below 32 degrees. This would put an end to the growing season up there. For the rest of us, only the outlying areas run the risk of frost tonight, but we do expect this to be the exception rather than the rule. Overnight lows in town expected to be in the upper 30s to near 40 degrees. Sunshine will continue on Thursday but with more seasonable temperatures. Unsettled weather looks to be returning Friday and the weekend."

Warming up for

FARMER'S MARKET

in the Park

11:00 - 6:00

A nice change, for sure!

And a nice bright spot on West Main Street.

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I received this good letter, yesterday, from David Desany!


As a former Watervillian who has not lived there in 15+ years, I found it amusing to see the reference to the “former Douge’s” – it of course is also the former Arnold Pughe’s Gas Station (I believe there was a recent reference to it in the “Times Past” section of the Waterville Times).

Arnold’s was the midway point for me every morning, as I made my 3-4 mile trudge through the snow delivering the Observer Dispatch (up the hill from Buell Ave, left on Main Street, left on Stafford Ave (all the way up to Mellingers on the hill), back down to Bacon St (stop at Arnold to warm up and play a video game), down Bacon all the way to Gail’s Feed, back to Conger Ave, to a right on Putnam Street and back home to the bottom of the hill on Buell).

Glad to see the property is coming back to life, it certainly prevented me from frostbite on many a chilly upstate NY winter morning (glad to be in Florida, but do still miss the home town!)

Thanks, Dave!

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If you hear that I have driven off the road and am in a ditch on Route 12B, this will probably be the reason!

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Craig Cipolla is an anthropologist/archaeologist and has been in the area for a week or more making precise (GPS) records of all of the gravestones, both marked and unmarked, in Brothertown Indian burying grounds. This will be the first time (that I know of) that this has been done: an enormous boon to historians!

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Have a great day, everyone!