At Home in the Huddle 2008: Tuesday

It's 33 degrees with light snow falling.

Several schools in the area are closed,

but NOT Waterville.

WKTV predicts that: "Wet snow and rain will taper to some light snow showers and flurries (Tuesday) afternoon and evening. We'll see a scattering of snow showers and flurries from time to time both Wednesday and for Thanksgiving with high temperatures in the mid to upper 30's. Any accumulations in this timeframe should be light to minimal. A colder shot of air is expected by the weekend."

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In my morning E-mail, this welcome letter that reads:

"Greetings from Boston!!"

"We just want to say thank you to all of you in the community! We are not only amazed by what the doctors are doing here but we are equally amazed at what everyone is doing for us back home. We can't begin to show our appreciation for all the support that you have given us through this. It is really helping us get through all of this knowing all the people that care. We are very lucky to live in a community with such great people. A special thank you to all that helped out and made the benefit happen.

David is feeling tired and nauseous and does not want to eat or drink anything(as hard as that is to believe). He did manage to eat a couple of pancakes this afternoon which the doctors were happy about. They are giving him several antibiotics and an IV of anti rejection medicine right now with more to come soon. It is expected that he will feel his worse in the coming days before the new bone marrow takes. The doctors are very pleased with his progress so far.

The boys are coming out here on Wednesday and will be with us on Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving!! "

Lynne and David Lemery

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I've just received this E-mail from Kevin Ford:

"I have had the honor of attending the New York State Conference on Leadership and Student Activities in Saratoga Springs with 3 Waterville students and 10 of my own Poland students. The Waterville students have racked up some very prestigous honors. Emily Gallagher was one of five students selected from 800 students in attendance for the Dale Hawley Leadership Award, and was also re-elected to represent Oneida, Madison, Herkimer, and Otsego counties on NYS CLSA State Board. Alex Meszler was selected to receive the Student Leadership Recognition award, he was also one of 5 students honored with this award out of 800 in attendance. The Waterville students also placed 3rd in the banner competition and 2nd in the Scavenger Hunt out of 57 NYS schools. Waterville was also selected to the NYS CLSA Honor Council. They are one of the 2 schools to have received this honor every year that it has been awarded. Waterville should be very proud of these students for their involvement with student council that has brought great honor to our small community.

Thank you,

Kevin Ford

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I waited 'til it was very dark, yesterday afternoon, for the lights on Main Street to turn on - no such luck ........

.... but I found new displays on Tower Street, at the Pumilias' ........

........... and on Sanger Hill Road.

Pam Brown has begun decorating her Babbott Avenue porch ........

... and the windows of the "Wheeler Block" glowed.

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In this morning's O-D I found this article, which will be of interest to many Watervillians: "Route 12B Changes Called Off in Clinton."

Also, the Oneida Indian Nation Land Trust is in the news, again.

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