Good Monday Morning!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

TO KENNY DITCH TODAY

AND MIKE DITCH TOMORROW!!
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42.4 DEGREES F. / 5.8 C. and drippy.

It's Garbage Day

and

Tomorrow is BIG TRASH!

(Yes: I'm trying to be "on vacation," but there are some things, here, that you'll want to see, so I'll just get the week going for you.)

FROM WKTV: "Good morning Central New York! A soggy start to our Monday, with unsettled weather as we move into the first week of December.

A wet start to the day across Central New York. Bring the umbrella heading out to work this morning.

A cold front will pass through the area late this morning, bringing an end to the wet weather. The rain will come to an end near noon, possibly ending as a few wet flakes of snow, especially on the hilltops. Cooler, drier air builds in to Central New York later today. Temperatures will top out in the mid 40s this morning, before gradually cooling through the lower 40s and upper 30s as we head into the afternoon. A few breaks of sunshine later today are also possible.

A weak disturbance drops in from the northwest late tonight. Look for plenty of clouds during the overnight with light snow by daybreak. Overnight lows in the upper 20s. Little accumulation expected by the morning commute.

Scattered snow showers continue for Tuesday morning with little to no accumulation. An area of high pressure moves back in Tuesday night into Wednesday with partly sunny skies.

As we head toward the end of the work week, a large storm is expected to form in the Gulf of Mexico and track into the northeast. Our current projections bring the center of this storm near or just to the west of Central New York. This is a poor track for snow; we expect a heavy rain event. There will be some lake effect on the back side of this storm heading into the weekend.

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Vail Fleischmann

1929 - 2009

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WCS CLASS OF 1989

"Over 40 classmates attended the WCS Class of 1989 reunion Saturday, November 28th at the Blue Flag Room. Between classmates, their guests and past teachers, a total of 75 people attended the reunion. We kicked off our reunion weekend Wednesday night at Michael's, had a Class of '89 float in the Parade of Lights, spent Friday night at Stinker's (where the band dedicated a number of songs to the Class of '89), we cheered on a team of classmates (who did us proud & proved after 20 years they can still play ball) in the alumni basketball tournament Saturday morning and then had the reunion Saturday night. The highlight of the reunion was a class dvd of over 600 photos set to music which was made by Cathy (Winfield) Marriott. The dvd brought lots of laughs and some sentimental tears. It was such a fun weekend reminiscing and seeing old classmates that we can't wait for the 25th!" from Jennifer Neff.

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ANOTHER REUNION!

Paula Skipton, Ashley (Burback) Ryan, Emily Alcott, Shane Dunn.

Paula Skipton, a WCS exchange student from San Jose, Costa Rica during the 2002-2003 school year, made her first return visit to Waterville this Thanksgiving. Paula reunited with classmates whom she had not seen since leaving Waterville six years ago. Paula lived with Jan and Charlie Fischer, in Deansboro, during the year she spent here from August 2002 - August 2003. from Ashley Burback Ryan.

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The Waterville Public Library will present a

READING AND BOOK SIGNING

by

JIM BOGAN

author of

"Big Creek Valley"

at 4:00 P.M. on December 3rd.

For more Library Events, please click HERE.

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Some daytime views of decorations..........


........... at the corner of Main St. and 315 .........



............... on Stafford Avenue ...........



............ E. Bacon Street ...........



............. Elmwood ...........



............ and White Street, where Elinor Petrie was hanging lights yesterday afternoon.




Dale Meszler and I managed to get the Bandstand prettied up with old-fashioned swags on Friday afternoon.



By dark, it looked just the way this Photoshopped view had shown us that it would!

(Gosh, that's pretty!)


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FOR THE RECORD


Have a good week, everyone!

Sometimes, it's just nice to take time off from one routine to sift through "what's out there." Two things that I found over the weekend, have occupied me for HOURS - you might enjoy them, too:

Troy Bishopp's blog and his essays at "The Grass Whisperer,"
and an amazing collection of photographs by "VKEITH"
the locations of which are all indicated on Google Earth.
(Scroll down the righthand column of her Panaramia page to "Central New York" - that's just the beginning!)

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I'll be checking my email, so if you have an announcement or a photo that you want everyone to see, send it along and I'll post it!)