Thursday

Maundy Thursday


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It's Garbage Day!

29 degrees and starry-clear.

While there was snow in the air a great deal of the time, yesterday, there was no real accumulation in or around Waterville. Up in Barnes Corners, though, 8" fell and 6" in Old Forge!




WKTV: Our large upper level storm system will slowly lose its influence on our weather over the next couple of days. Snow showers and flurries will subside this evening with lingering cloudiness after midnight. Lows will be 25-30.

With some instability lingering around the region tomorrow we still will see some cloudiness, but more sunshine will mix in than what we've experienced in recent days. Temperatures will rebound to near 50 for Thursday afternoon highs.

Partly to mostly cloudy skies will be the rule for Thursday Night. On Friday a new storm system will push to the south of the area with some extra cloudiness but little, if any, precipitation. Highs will again approach 50.

January 9

February 9

March 9 - Spring fog.


April 9

Wild Leeks

While I was looking at the supply of leeks, I spotted a little Hermit Thrush looking at me!


There were a pair of them and, according to Jody Hildreth, they're usually the first of the thrushes to come in the Spring.


Just now, I've heard the first Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
hammering on one of the metal roofs in the neighborhood or the township sign!


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Hiding in a swampy spot, the daphne - or Spurge Laurel - should be in bloom, by now!



Canada Geese are setting up housekeeping on local ponds.

Work is under way at the old "Exchange" in Sangerfield on an addition that will accommodate the kitchen at the future home of "Michael's Fine Food & Spirits."

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IN THE MAIL

From Brian Bogan: "A check for $1543 was presented to Mary Beth Plourde of the Waterville Food Pantry by the Jr. Optimists and Octagon clubs because of the Donkey Basketball game."

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Many area residents are saddened to learn of the death of David E. Tallman, of Oriskany Falls, who passed away Tuesday in Syracuse.

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Some of the Stimulus Funds to repair area roads and bridges will find its way here:

• $972,000 toward resurfacing about nine miles of Route 12B through the towns of Marshall, Augusta and Kirkland.
• $3 million to paint and wash state highway bridges in Oneida, Madison, Herkimer, Hamilton, Fulton and Montgomery counties.

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Now well into its second - if not third - printing, historian Dick Williams' "Farms and Barns of Kirkland, New York," has started a trend: first, Marshall historian Dorothy McConnell began assembling material for a similar project and now Mabel Bushee, historian for Sangerfield Township, has announced that she will be making the same sort of study. She has prepared surveys to send out (and to be published here, on the blog, at a future date.) If YOU grew up on one of the farms in the township or currently own one, please be thinking of information to give to her. This would include the names of former owners or the acreage or the crops grown or livestock raised. Any old photographs of barns that can be borrowed will be especially helpful!

More to come!

As historian for the Village of Waterville, I'm "pecking away" at an illustrated history of the buildings in our Triangle Historic District and the people who built them as well as the two other Waterville structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places - the Charlemagne Tower Homestead (now the Harding residence) and the Masonic "tower" building built by Ruben Tower. I, too, would appreciate any older photographs of any of the buildings and stories of people who lived in them!

WEEKEND EVENTS

The annual Ecumenical "Way of the Cross" will begin at the United Methodist Church on Tower Street at 10:00 A.M. Friday Morning.
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Fish Fry at the American Legion from 4:30 - 7:30.


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EASTER EGG HUNT
for preschoolers

at Hardings at noon on Saturday
sponsored by the Waterville Rotary Club.

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Grace Episcopal Church, Waterville
10 a.m. Easter Sunday

St. Bernard’s Catholic Church, Waterville
Holy Thursday, Mass 7 p.m., Adoration, 8 to 9:45 p.m., Night prayer 9:45 p.m.; Good Friday morning prayer 9 a.m., Liturgy of the Word 2 p.m., Stations of the Cross 7 p.m.; Holy Saturday Easter vigil 7 p.m.; Easter Sunday Masses 8:30 and 10:30 a.m.

SouthGate Ministries
Easter Sunday Service - 10:00 A.M.

Congregational United Church of Christ of Deansboro
Maundy Thursday, Communion Seder, 6:30 p.m.; Easter Sunday, Celebration of the Resurrection, 8:45 a.m.

Three Steeples Parish at Paris Green
Easter vigil supper, Saturday, 6 p.m., in the Cafe; Easter Sunday, Sunrise service on the Green, 7 a.m., Celebration of the Resurrection, 10:30 a.m.

St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Oriskany Falls
Holy Thursday, Mass 5 p.m., Adoration 8 p.m.; Good Friday, Adoration 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Liturgy 2 p.m., 5 p.m. Stations of the Cross; Holy Saturday, 11 a.m. to noon, confessions, noon, Blessing of the Food, 4 p.m. Easter vigil; Easter Sunday Mass 9:30 a.m.

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A YEAR AGO!!

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FOR THE RECORD




Have a Great Day

and a

Really Nice Easter!

I'll be taking an extra-long weekend, but will check my Email now and then, just in case ....!