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July 15 - Extended Tax Day
The Waterville CSD campuses are ONLY open for essential school business. Therefore, our sports fields, Fitness Center, playground, and tennis courts remained closed until further notice. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding
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On Monday, July 13, 2020 the New York State Education Department provided a framework for the reopening of schools. NYSED will provide additional guidance to schools on Wednesday, July 15
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A questionnaire regarding Internet access and transportation is being mailed home today. Parents, please complete the questionnaire and mail it back to the school by Friday, July 17.
Waterville Historical Society is now open Wednesdays
from 10 to 4. Please observe masks and social distancing.
Our first public program of the season will be held Saturday,
July 25 at 2 pm. Terry McMaster will present:
A Nest of Rascally Rebels: Scots-Irish Revolutionaries of Currybush
“In the early 1750s a few Scots-Irish families from central
Massachusetts and south-central New Hampshire began
trickling into an unsettled region about halfway between
Schenectady and Fort Hunter, into what is today the Town of
Princetown, Schenectady County. Those families greatly
contributed to the cause of American Independence, the Scots-
Irish being particularly critical of British control over the
American colonies. We will explore seven families who settled
in what was then called "Corry's Brook," their patterns of
intermarriage and frontier lifestyle, and their fierce
participation in fighting the British during the American
Revolution.”
Terry McMaster is an independent researcher examining
ethnicity, settlement patterns, family connections and military
engagement throughout the Mohawk and Upper Susquehanna
Valleys prior to and during the American Revolution.
Terry is primarily researching the citizen soldiers who fought
for and protected the homes and families of colonial Tryon
County, the alliances and conflicts between Loyalists, Indians
and Revolutionaries, and the part played in their lives by
family ties, ethnic variation and religion. He is especially
interested in the emigration of Ulster Scots to New England
and New York, and their sizable impact on the "War of 1776."
He is also involved in a large-scale Y-DNA project that traces
Scots-Irish genetic and population patterns in Northern Ireland
and America. He has presented his research at Fort Plain
Museum’s "American Revolution in the Mohawk Valley" annual
conference, at the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium at the
University of Toronto, at the Oriskany Battlefield
Commemoration and at historical societies throughout upstate
New York.
Terry’s ancestor Capt. David McMaster was a member of the
Tryon Co. Committee of Safety, led the 6th company of the 3rd
Regiment, Tryon Co. Militia, and fought at the battles of
Oriskany and Johnstown. His ancestors were living in Cherry
Valley at the time of the attack on Nov. 11, 1778. He is a
photographer, artist and teacher, and works as an addiction
therapist at Capital Counseling, Albany, NY.
- AROUND TOWN -
A foggy, but pleasantly cool summer morning
Enjoy looking back 14 years to July 2006, thanks to At Home in the Huddle. In the middle of the Main Street renovation as well as several shifts that have taken place over the years.
Waterville Superintendent of Public Works, Gene Ostrander; Mayor Jim Younes, D.O.T. Engineer in Charge Dan Kentile, and TIOGA'a Jack Bennett
The formerly annual Waterville Field Days, parade, kiddie parade, softball tournament and more!
Back when Michael's Fine Food & Spirits was open on Main Street, as you might have noticed from the first picture.
For more details and memories flip through the At Home in the Huddle posts of 2006 and forward, as the blog once began to detail the work and changes of our village.Thanks to all who contribute to keep it rolling today, 14 years later. We'll be back Friday with some updated photos of these same locations.