- LOCAL SPORTS -
There's lots of local pride to be had lately!
CONGRATULATIONS
Girls Basketball
on the CSC III Title!
Coach Larry Stockwell's 9th League Title and 435 win during his 33 seasons coaching.
Tues. Feb. 2
Waterville 43 - Sauquoit 40
Lindsay Mogle/Observer-Dispatch
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The Girls Basketball team plays again for Senior Night on Fri. Feb. 5th
The Girls Volleyball Team
will play the first round of Sectionals against Little Falls
will play the first round of Sectionals against Little Falls
Tonight @ 6 pm
Sauquoit MS
(Waterville's gym ceilings are too short)
Sauquoit MS
(Waterville's gym ceilings are too short)
Boys Basketball
Mon. Feb. 1
Waterville 71 - Sauquoit 60
- IN THE MAIL -
Carol Gilley, Marshall Historical Secretary
invites you to browse their current newsletter,
Save Your Bottles & Cans!
Among all of the flurry surrounding the Whitesboro seal,
P.S. Brown sent this piece:
In his “Annals of Oneida County,” published in 1851, Judge Pomroy Jones included the following excerpt from “Two Lectures delivered before the Young Men’s Association of the City of Utica by William Tracy in 1838.”
(Although there is no indication of just when this historic incident took place, it’s important to remember that Judge White, who was born in 1732/33, was around fifty years old when he came to this area in 1784, and probably even older when the famous Wrestling Match took place.White died in 1812. PsB)
In an anecdote about Judge White, Tracy wrote: “ An Oneida, of rather athletic form, was one day present at his house with several of his companions, and, at length, for amusement, commenced wrestling. After a number of trials had been made, in which the chief came off conqueror, he came forward and challenged the settler to a clinch with him. This was done in a manner, and with a degree of braggadocio, that convinced the Judge that if he refused the encounter, it would subject him to the constant inconvenience of being brow-beaten by the Indian, and cost him the trouble of being believed a coward, In early manhood he had been wrestler, but he had become quite corpulent, and for years unused to any athletic feats. He felt conscious, however, of great personal strength, and he concluded, that even if he should be thrown, yet as a choice of evils, the being thrown would be a lesser on, than the acquiring of a character of cowardice by declining. He therefore accepted the challenge, and took hold with the Indian, and by a fortunate trip, succeeded almost instantly in throwing he. As he saw him falling, in order to prevent the necessity of ever making another trial of his powers, and of receiving any new challenge, he contrived to fall with all his weight, he then constituting an avoirdupois of some 250 pounds, upon the Indian. The weight for an instant drove all the breath from the poor fellow’s body; and it was some moments before he could get up. At length he slowly arose, shrugged his shoulders and with an emphatic ‘Ugh! You good fellow, too much.’”
Jones then remarked: “I need not add, that he was never afterward challenged.”
- AT THE LIBRARY -
While it may be unseasonably warm,
you never know what weather will develop in CNY...
Join the library tomorrow night to learn how to make your own fingerknit headband.
