Thursday, November 17, 2011

It's Garbage Day!

37 degrees and dry at 7:00

The forecast from WKTV: "A big cool-down in the works for (Thursday) and Friday. The air will be cold enough to generate lake effect snow showers. With an anticipated westerly wind, most of the snow showers are expected to occur north of the Mohawk Valley. The NWS has issued a lake effect snow watch for Northern Oneida and Lewis Counties for late Thursday and Thursday night.

Warming up and drying out just in time for the weekend. Aside from a brief shower late Sunday, the weekend is expected to stay dry.



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IN THE NEWS

"Heroin Ring Busted in New Hartford." from WKTV.

Similar article in the Observer-Dispatch.

For more news from the Village of Waterville and the Waterville Central School District, click for The Waterville Times!

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YESTERDAY'S VIEWS



Rainy and gray.



There's plenty of water in the pond at the foot of Grant Hill, but there was no sign of activity!



In the village, "friendship" lights are making their appearance -
at the Bogans' on Babbot Avenue ............



............ the Neff home on Berrill Avenue ...........



.......... Joan Albert's on East Bacon Street.........



........... Dick Hughes' on Sanger Hill Road ........



................ and in "Whiskey Hollow."


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EVENTS


TONIGHT: PRIZE SPEAKING CONTEST #138

7:00 p.m. at the High School

Last year I went hunting in the digital archives of The Waterville Times for early press releases about the contest. The most informative that I found was that of 1873 --- 138 years ago --written just as the "new "Union School" at the corner where the Municipal Hall now stands was ending its first year.


There was great anticipation for the competition between the two "literary" societies - the Whittier and the Irving, with all of the students belonging to one or the other - and Putnam Hall was "filled to overflowing" with villagers eager to hear original compositions, orations and even - on one occasion - to witness demonstrations of what must have been synchronized calisthenics!

(First prize in oration and declamation, at the end of the year, was a Webster's Unabridged Dictionary; in Calisthenics, the winning society was presented with "the silver dumb-bells.")

The evening was referred to as a "reunion" of the two societies, but I could not learn when they had actually originated. "The Grammar and Academic departments of the school are divided into two literary societies known, respectively, as 'the Whittier Society' and 'the Irving Society.' These societies assume charge of rhetorical exercises (debates) on every Friday afternoon, each in competition with the other and each acting as critics of the other." May 8, 1873.


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IN DEANSBORO TONIGHT

The Marshall Historical Society at 7:00 p.m.

Guest speaker will be Jack Henke
on the topic of recording oral history.


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AT THE WATERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Family Movie Night * Thursday, November 17th



6pm | Free Movie. Free Popcorn.| Movie: Cars 2


also


Kids Movie Matinee

11:00 a.m. on November 19

"Winnie the Pooh"

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REMINDER

Hunting Season Opens at Sunrise on Saturday!


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Whether you're hunting or just walking on a woodsy trail,

Please Dress Safely!



Orange is "in"!

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Have a good weekend everyone!

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