Thursday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY

to Dean Eisenhut's cousin,

KELLEY SWARTHOUT

visiting professor of Spanish

at Colgate University

and guest at the home of her grandmother, Heddy Eisenhut.


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It's Garbage Day!
28 degrees;

Two or three inches of snow have fallen overnight, but there's no precipitation right now.

WKTV predicts that: "On Thursday,( a ) lake band will drop southward further through Oneida and Herkimer Counties and into the Mohawk Valley. Again, heavy snow is likely within the lake band. Outside of it, there will be a couple periods of snow tonight and tomorrow, depositing perhaps up to an inch or so each time they develop. It will be chilly, but not too cold and breezy. Sporadic power outages are possible tonight where ice is still caked on powerlines. Into Thursday, here's our snowfall forecast for the day:



Lake snow will settle south of the Mohawk Valley tomorrow night, with additional accumulation possible. The bottom line for the next 24-36 hours: Occasional snow, with locally heavier snow underneath the lake bands.
It will turn much colder Thursday night and Friday, with lows from zero to the low teens and highs Friday only in the upper teens. Our next storm arrives Saturday."

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I've just received a "Hello and Thank You" Email from Ken McConnell, writing from his home in Wesley Chapel, Florida.

(Thanks, Ken!)

In a Happy New Year's note from Les Risley, who is enjoying LOOKING at our snow, this bit of "It's a Small World" News:

"Had an interesting talk on airplane yesterday... on way from Philly to Tampa. Couple had come from Syracuse , changed planes and were headed to Brooksville. It (after talking) was the former Jean Eastman that lived on Babbott Ave. Her mother ran nursing home. So, she knew where I lived and had graduated with Dan Condon so she knew Gil, Bernie etc. Small world, isn't it? She and her husband John Meyers will be married 60 years next September."

(That's neat, Les! Thanks for writing!)

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Although Routes 12 and 20 and 315 were nearly bare, yesterday, all of the side- and back roads were very rough and ice-covered.

Parking lots posed a particular problem for shoppers, who "stutter-stepped" down grades to keep from having their feet go out from under them!

There was just a tiny fraction of an inch of ice on twigs on Austin Road .........

.... but ice ......



........and rime coated bushes and trees at the top of Shanley Road at Paris Hill.

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Small picture;

GREAT BIG GOOD NEWS!

Mayor Jim Younes telephoned me, yesterday afternoon, to tell me that he and his wife, Maryanne, have indeed purchased the former "Hap's" building and that they will open a

DINER

ON FEBRUARY 8 OR 15!

They plan on being open Monday through Saturday from 6 - 2:00

and Sunday from 7 to noon.

And what will the diner be called?


"THE VILLAGE DINER"

(of course!)

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Not such Great News!

(but right across the road, at Fallon's Sangerfield Auto & Tire
- a full-service gas station -
gasoline was priced at 3 cents less, per gallon.)

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DRIVE CAREFULLY, EVERYONE

and have a great day!