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It's Garbage Day
63.5 degrees at 5:30 a.m.
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IN THE NEWS
From the New York Times
(very early this morning.)
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From the New York Times
(very early this morning.)
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From WKTV
from the Utica Observer-Dispatch
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WINS NATIONAL FIRE CHIEF AWARD
How many of you remember Jona (Joan) Olsson, former resident of Gorton Lake, who had a carpentry shop in the Candee block for several years?
click this link!
Jona Olsson of the Latir Volunteer Fire Department in Questa, N.M."
Congratulations, Jona!!!
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NEW in SANGERFIELD!
Tim Bartlett's Golf Course Club House in Sangerfield
is now open.
"The bar is open daily at 4pm with a happy hour from 4-6pm.On Tuesday nite (Aug. 7th) chicken riggies along with salad & bread for $7.
Out on the Course, Tim plans on having the other 4 holes done sometime this summer and then the 9 hole course
will be complete !!"
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NEW in DEANSBORO
"The Williams Family Deansboro Hotel"
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COMING EVENTS
(Click this link for the complete August schedule.)
Monday Movie Matinée at 1:00 p.m.
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Wednesday Movie Matinée at 1:00
To be Announced
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Friday Family Movie at 6:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, August 8
FARMERS MARKET 11:00 - 7:00
CONCERT IN THE PARK
George Devaney - Blue Print
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Thursday, August 9
at the Waterville Public Libtrary
sponsored by AARP
9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
(click the link for complete information.)
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Saturday, August 11
The Waterville Historical Society
220 East Main St.
- Collectible and Used item sale
- Chicken BBQ which starts at 11 a.m.,
- Bakesale
- Loomis gang tours
(Tickets for the tours are going fast so if you wish to attend, please call and reserve a seat - 841-4018.)
The Society is asking for more collectibles and used items for the sale. They can be dropped off at the Society building on E. Main Street on Wednesday between 10:00 and 4:00. If you need to have them picked up, please call Joe Falk at 841-4018.
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Also on Saturday, August 11
OTHER MARSHALL DAY EVENTS
- The 80th reunion of the Deansboro Grade School
- Vintage vehicle show
- Kids' bike decorating parade at noon
- Firematics
- Bake sale
- Free cotton candy for the kids
- Chicken barbeque by Deansboro Fire Dept
- and Library book sale
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It was beastly hot and humid on Saturday morning. I drove past the MKJ Farm on Route 12B in Deansboro. The gates were not scheduled to open until 3 o'clock, but there was plenty of pre-concert activity in progress.
Up the road, closer to Deansboro, Pat Hughes was just bringing an armload of freshly picked summer squash from the fields to his roadside stand where two of the signs read
"Eat Well" and "Eat Local".
I stopped, again, at the Kountry Kafe, drawn by the irresistible aroma of Chicken Barbeque being tended by Rachel Eisenhut and Brandon Savicki.
(Of course I took some home, and it was as delicious as it smelled!)
"Rose of Sharon" bushes covered with hibiscus-like flowers in all shades of white-to-pink-to-lavender-to deep purple and magenta are in bloom, everywhere.
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In Case you were wondering.......
A bit of Oriskany Falls History
Sent to me by my good old friend Tom Anthony, who lived
in Hamilton for many years, and is now in Maine.(How he came by this information, I have no idea!)
"Do you remember the Mirror Bar in Oriskany Falls?"
They made a passing fair pizza against the backdrop of this stunning, hand carved
mahogany bar with marble footrails and giant lion's heads of wood on each corner.
It was simply astounding. There was no plausible reason why it was in O'Falls,
and I assumed it probably was bought for a song when they took down a hotel in
Utica or something. At any rate, it was there until maybe 1975, when it
disappeared. I have just learned that it now resides in Seattle.
It is on Aurora in Shoreline, in a place called the Drift Inn Casino."
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Have a great day, everyone!
