It's Recyclables Day

43 degrees and drippy at 6:30 Wednesday morning.

The WKTV Forecast: "A wet start to the day across all of Central New York. Grab the umbrella on your way out the door, as rain showers will continue throughout the day. While it won't rain from start to finish, we'll run the risk for showers through about midnight tonight.

Today's storm that's bringing the rain will pass to the east tonight. Slow improvements in our weather will start tomorrow with decreasing clouds. Lots of sunshine arrives for Friday, with highs returning into the upper 50s.

Another storm system approaches the area this weekend bringing us rain late Saturday and early Sunday."

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Donald J. Cossette
1933 - 2011


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Tuesday was a nice, dry day. Perfect for running .........



............. or sitting outdoors and chatting ........



............ or raking grit out of roadsides.



Roger Nichols was cleaning up his yard .......



............ while Linda and Archie went on a tour.

(If you think that Archie looks like Maggie it's because they're cousins!)

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I saw a little army of youngsters marching across Main Street and thought, at first, that they might be going to the Library - but no: they proceeded across S. Babbott Avenue and headed west on Main Street racing to get to the door of "Sticks 'n Stones." (It must be their new favorite store!)

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Crocuses are putting on a show, everywhere. These are on W. Bacon Street.

More and more hepaticas are blooming in the Fuess-Cleary Road woods.

(This picture shows why they are sometimes called "Liverleaf Plant."

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OPENING SOON: YAY!!!

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The Marquée Cinema

HAS ANNOUNCED SHOWTIMES FOR

"The Conspirator."

OPENING ON FRIDAY, APRIL 15.

Click the link to reserve tickets.

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The first Green Waste Collection will take place on

TUESDAY, APRIL 19.


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IT'S "KIDS' CLUB" AT THE LIBRARY, WEDNESDAY

3:15.

Every Wednesday come hang out and do something different with your friends and some new friends too.

April 13th: The Great Egg Drop

Drop in any Wednesday

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WCS SPORTS Wednesday, April 13 2011

4:30PM Boys VARSITY BASEBALL

Waterville Central School
@ Westmoreland High School
Westmoreland High School

4:30PM Girls VARSITY SOFTBALL

Waterville Central School
Westmoreland High School

4:30PM Boys VARSITY TENNIS

Waterville Central School
@ Morrisville - Eaton High School
Waterville H S Tennis Courts

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APRIL 16 ROTARY CLUB VILLAGE CLEAN-UP

Volunteers should meet at 9 a.m. at the Village Hall.
Vests and bags provided, we suggest folks bring gloves if they have them.
Volunteers will go out in pairs or small groups to work a section of the
Village. Usually we are out about 2-3 hours at most but in that short
period of time, we can pick up a lot of trash usually 15- 20 bags.


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Good Friday, April 22, 2011:

A community Stations of the Cross @ 10:00 A.M.

This will begin at the Methodist Church,
then process to the Harding Nursing Home
and onward to the other churches in the community,
ending at St. Bernard's on Stafford Ave.

This event began in 1968 and continues into its 43rd. year.

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FOR THE RECORD


Have a good day everyone!

It's Recyclables Day

43 degrees and drippy at 6:30 Wednesday morning.

The WKTV Forecast: "Our next storm system rolls in tonight, bringing us plain rain. While a snowflake or two can't be ruled out in the higher elevations, no accumulation is expected. Overnight lows fall into the upper 30s to lower 40s.

Rain showers and cool on Wednesday before dry weather returns on Thursday and Friday. More rain by the weekend."

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Donald J. Cossette
1933 - 2011


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Tuesday was a nice, dry day. Perfect for running .........



............. or sitting outdoors and chatting ........



............ or raking grit out of roadsides.



Roger Nichols was cleaning up his yard .......



............ while Linda and Archie went on a tour.

(If you think that Archie looks like Maggie it's because they're cousins!)

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I saw a little army of youngsters marching across Main Street and thought, at first, that they might be going to the Library - but no: they proceeded across S. Babbott Avenue and headed west on Main Street racing to get to the door of "Sticks 'n Stones." (It must be their new favorite store!)

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Crocuses are putting on a show, everywhere. These are on W. Bacon Street.

More and more hepaticas are blooming in the Fuess-Cleary Road woods.

(This picture shows why they are sometimes called "Liverleaf Plant."

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OPENING SOON: YAY!!!

**********************************

The Marquée Cinema

HAS ANNOUNCED SHOWTIMES FOR

"The Conspirator."

OPENING ON FRIDAY, APRIL 15.

Click the link to reserve tickets.

*********************************

The first Green Waste Collection will take place on

TUESDAY, APRIL 19.


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IT'S "KIDS' CLUB" AT THE LIBRARY, WEDNESDAY

3:15.

Every Wednesday come hang out and do something different with your friends and some new friends too.

April 13th: The Great Egg Drop

Drop in any Wednesday

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WCS SPORTS Wednesday, April 13 2011

4:30PM Boys VARSITY BASEBALL

Waterville Central School
@ Westmoreland High School
Westmoreland High School

4:30PM Girls VARSITY SOFTBALL

Waterville Central School
Westmoreland High School

4:30PM Boys VARSITY TENNIS

Waterville Central School
@ Morrisville - Eaton High School
Waterville H S Tennis Courts

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APRIL 16 ROTARY CLUB VILLAGE CLEAN-UP

Volunteers should meet at 9 a.m. at the Village Hall.
Vests and bags provided, we suggest folks bring gloves if they have them.
Volunteers will go out in pairs or small groups to work a section of the
Village. Usually we are out about 2-3 hours at most but in that short
period of time, we can pick up a lot of trash usually 15- 20 bags.


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Good Friday, April 22, 2011:

A community Stations of the Cross @ 10:00 A.M.

This will begin at the Methodist Church,
then process to the Harding Nursing Home
and onward to the other churches in the community,
ending at St. Bernard's on Stafford Ave.

This event began in 1968 and continues into its 43rd. year.

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FOR THE RECORD


Have a good day everyone!

44.2 degrees at 5:30 Tuesday a.m.

April 12, 1861

"The bloodiest four years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay. During the next 34 hours, 50 Confederate guns and mortars launched more than 4,000 rounds at the poorly supplied fort. On April 13, U.S. Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort. Two days later, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to quell the Southern "insurrection." History.com

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WKTV meteorologists predict that: "Behind the cold front, cooler and seasonable temperatures return on Tuesday with a few leftover showers. Highs will only be in the mid to upper 50s.

Clouds and rain showers on Wednesday, before the weather quiets down for Thursday and Friday."

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Yesterday afternoon, it was 79 degrees and sunny on Main Street!

Patches of Blue Scilla (Scilla Siberica) have begun to make "puddles" and "ponds" on lawns.......

............ while out in the country tractors have appeared.

I've seen several Kildeer making low-level approaches over fields. This bird's name is derived from it's best-known song, which is is a loud kill-dee, kill-dee, kill-dee, given as males perform wide circle-flights over their territories in early spring.



Slow down and listen: the "peepers" are peeping in all of the swampy areas!

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SPECIAL NOTICE

Town of Sangerfield Residents

WATCH YOUR MAIL FOR YOUR SURVEY

The Town of Sangerfield is in the process of developing a long range plan and seeks your input in order to learn how well the Town meets the needs of its residents, what services are valued and where improvements can be made.

To gather this information a survey has been developed by the Town’s Comprehensive Planning Committee. This survey is anonymous and will be used by the Town for guidance, ideas and is required by New York State for grants and funding requests.

You will be receiving one survey per residence in the mail soon.

Additional surveys are available at the Town Hall and the Waterville Public Library and anyone is welcome to pick these up.

Return all surveys by May 25th by mailing to the Cooperative Extension address provided on the survey OR place them in the drop-box available at the Town Hall or Library.

YOUR input and ideas are needed!

PLEASE ... check the mail for this survey and take a few minutes to fill out and return. We appreciate each and every one of your views. If you have any questions, please contact one of the following Comprehensive Planning Committee members or come to our next meeting on April 27 at 7:00 at the Sangerfield Town Hall.

Brian Barnes, Phil Barnes Jr., Heath Zwahlen, Bob Harding, Rocco Padula, Terry Tanner, Matt Sudol, Martin Kelly, John Ferriter, Bill Lachmann.

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From the Observer-Dispatch, Tuesday, April 12th:
"Hon. Donald J. Cossette
Oriskany Falls

Hon. Donald J. Cossette, 78, former Mayor and Trustee for the Village of Oriskany Falls, passed away Monday, April 11, 2011, at Community Memorial Hospital in Hamilton.

Arrangements with the Kloster-Northrop & Bentz Funeral Home, Waterville, will be announced in the full obituary in Wednesday's paper.

Oriskany Falls Rotary Club
April 11, 2011
President Donald Cossette

"Dear Friends,
The calling hours for President Donald Cossette will be on Thursday, April 14, from 2-4 PM and 7-9 PM, at the Bentz Funeral Home in Waterville NY. The Oriskany Falls Rotary Club will be gathering as a group at 6:30-45 in the parking lot of the Waterville Food King, to pay our respects to Kathleen and her sons.
The funeral services will be held on Friday at 10 AM at the St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Oriskany Falls NY, presided by Father Kelly.

The Special Award presentation at Harding Nursing Home on Wednesday, April 13, has been canceled but will be rescheduled later in the spring.

Please keep Kathleen and her family in your prayers as they get through this week. They need kind and comforting thoughts as well as a gentle hand from above watching over them in their time of need."

Deirdre Purdy
PP Exec. Secretary
Oriskany Falls Rotary

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This year's MPS Musical

"The Ever After"

has been rescheduled.

It will be held on

Friday, April 29th at 7pm in the MPS Gymnasium.


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IN THE MAIL

"Welcome to Waterville!"

A blog reader sent me this photograph of a young lady (actually, a mannequin) who spent Sunday welcoming motorists who entered the village by way of Stafford Avenue.

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Jody Hildreth returns to "Rainbow Falls."

Thank you for taking us with you, Jody!

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WCS SPORTS Tuesday, April 12 2011
3:30PM

Boys VARSITY GOLF

Waterville Central School
@ Canastota Central Schools
Kanon Valley Country Club

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FOR THE RECORD

Time to get the bikes out!


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Have a great day, everyone!

55 degrees at 6:30!

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IT'S GARBAGE DAY!

WKTV's Weather Forecast: "Warm air continues to arrive on Monday, with temperatures flying into the mid 70s by the early afternoon. There may be a few early morning rain showers but most of the morning and early afternoon looks dry. We may even see some sunshine. The more sunshine we see, the better chance for thunderstorms during the afternoon. A cold front will bring a round of thunderstorms late Monday. Any thunderstorms that do develop have the potential to be on the strong side with gusty winds and small hail.

Behind the cold front, cooler and seasonable temperatures return on Tuesday with a few leftover showers."

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Friday and Saturday were both so warm and sunny that all doorways seemed to burst open and winter-weary residents exploded onto streets and sidewalks in celebration.....

.............. and the first of the Fuess-Cleary roadside hepaticas bloomed.

Friday was a big day along the Oriskany and Big Creek.

I saw the DEC's "trout truck" and entourage of fishermen at the dugway a little before noon...........

............. and an hour or so later, after stopping in Deansboro, they were at the usual spot on Route 315.

Helen was there, ready to do the "honors."

The next three photographs, taken a couple of years ago, show what happens next.

First, a big "net" is dipped into one of the trucks fish tanks ...........

........... then it's carefully passed down the rip-rap banking to Helen ...........



.......... who quickly frees the trout into the water.

News that the streams had been "stocked" traveled fast: by Saturday anglers were everywhere!

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IN THE NEWS

from the Daily Star, Cooperstown.

"Rogers Center to Reopen in May"

"Towns Could set Trend With Fracking Bans"

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Note: The Observer-Dispatch's new policy makes it impossible for me to give you a direct link to individual articles. Therefore, I'll have to either give you just the headline or just a recap of the press.

From the Observer-Dispatch, March 29, 2011 'UTICA – Two men are facing drug charges after their vehicle was stopped Saturday night along the 1600 block of West Street.

Joseph Pare, 23, of Elmwood Avenue, Waterville, and Matthew Cowburn, 23, of Mohawk Street, Clayville, allegedly possessed crack cocaine while in the vehicle. Pare was charged with two counts of misdemeanor seventh degree possession of a controlled substance, police said.

Cowburn was charged with seventh- degree possession of a controlled substance and passing through a red light, police said."

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WCS SPORTS TODAY

Monday,
April 11 2011

4:30PM Boys VARSITY BASEBALL

Canastota Central Schools
@ Waterville Central School

4:30PM Girls VARSITY SOFTBALL

Canastota Central Schools
@ Waterville Central School

4:30PM Boys VARSITY TENNIS
Hamilton Central School
@ Waterville Central School

4:30PM Boys VARSITY TRACK AND FIELD

Waterville Central School
@ Canastota Central Schools
High School Track

4:30PM Girls VARSITY TRACK AND FIELD

Waterville Central School
@ Canastota Central Schools
High School Track

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AT THE LIBRARY

841.4651

Knit 2gether * Every Tuesday @ 7pm

For all of the want to be knitters, beginners, advanced or anywhere in between. This is a weekly meeting where you can come relax, chat and knit with fellow knitters.


Evening Story Hour *
Thursday, April 14th 6:30pm | Ages 2-6 | Sign Up

Spring is in the Air. Celebrate the beginning of Spring with springy books, Sunshine Handprints and eat "dirt" cups!

Peepapalooza! Peep Diorama Contest *
April 1st - 30th All Ages. Registration Required.

Get yourself a whole heap of Peeps and create a depiction of a favorite scene or character from a book.
The one rule is that all the characters in the diorama must be played by Peeps.

Dioramas will be accepted and displayed at the library throughout the month of April. Winners will be announced April 30th.

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IN THE MAIL

Once Upon a Time there lived in Waterville a man named Amos Osias Osborn. He was a lawyer, but also a writer and a naturalist. Throughout his lifetime he roamed the countryside around the Village making notes about rocks and fossils, trees and plants and writing extensively about the most scenic spots he'd found. He especially liked waterfalls. And now, 115 years after his death, photographer Jody Hildreth is searching out those places. Blair's Brook (or "Blair Brook") on the side of Tassel Hill, was high on Osborn's list, but he also remarked about the place that my husband and I always called "Rainbow Falls," and the falls at the outlet of Bailey Lake, and another particular waterfall. The last one has been harder for Jody to find: determining the location was hard enough, and getting property-owners' permission to trespass on posted land was just as challenging. But on Friday afternoon, after a strenuous hike, he got there, and took these pictures! (Click to enlarge!)

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Jody's next trek was to another spot mentioned by Osborn, but this time the approach was much easier. Although the falls IS on private property, it can actually be seen quite easily from Route 12: it's on a meandering creek that flows through pastureland on the east side of the highway just a bit north of the Daytonville Road cut-off. Jody calls it "Flat Rock Falls."

(Thank you, Jody!)

Tomorrow - another visit to "Rainbow Falls."

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"Google Images" photo of a Black Squirrel.

Several times in the past couple of months I've seen a black squirrel around or on maple trees just beyond the St. Bernard's Cemetery on Sangerhill Road. I wonder if anyone else has seen any?

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Personal Note:

I had a super-fine day, yesterday!

My 12-year-old grandson, Iain, came from Ballston Lake to help me celebrate my 74th birthday. He brought his folks with him, of course, plus a bouquet of forsythia and pussywillows, lots of fun cards, other goodies and a made-from-scratch Banana Cake with thick Cream Cheese frosting.

I don't think Iain ever stops smiling!

His dad, Rick, and mom, Allison, are smiley people, too, as well as helpful!
They even set up my hop poles!

Special "Thanks!" to them and to all the blog-reading and FB friends who sent greetings!
I appreciate ALL of them!

(And - to make the day perfect - the Redsox won last night's game, 4 - 0!)

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Have a great day, everyone!