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From Waterville Central School District:
Another great showing for our athletes at the Section III meet for Track & Field!
Our student-athletes finished as follows:
Adam Eastman: 4th in discus, 6th in shot put.
Jared Prindle: 8th in discus.
Nikko Recchio qualified, but was unable to participate due to injury. Thank you Nikko for being there to support your teammates and coaches.
Sydney Hasjdaz: 3rd in 100 meter, 3rd in long jump and second in 200 meter.
Ella Studdard: 3rd in the 1500 meter
Natalee Collins: 3rd in discus and 5th in shot put. Natalee also won the league championship in discus on Saturday.
Eleonore Collins: Section III girls discus champion and 4th in shot put.
Village taxes are now being collected at the Village Hall. Payments can be made in person during office hours, mailed, or placed in the outside drop box. If using the drop box or mailing, please include your entire tax bill and we will mail back the top portion of your tax bill with a paid date stamp.
Office hours are Mon, Tues, Thurs 8am-4pm, Wed 8am-12pm and 1pm -4pm, and Fri 8am-12pm.
In celebration of tomorrow's 15th Blogiversary on June 10th, enjoy the first post from At Home in the Huddle with a touch of insight on how this whole Waterville blog thing started. What has been interesting is following the transition of the blog to the library when Flip retired. To then include a separate, distinct Facebook page, and the likelihood of an Instagram account as it soon transitions to a new editor. As even email become a slow form of communication, and keeping up with the community became increasingly pressing, and we know most of our "readers" skim in this fast paced age. As photographs on the internet have become a simple task, and are taken with a cell phone camera nonetheless! The blog has certainly evolved, and will continue to. But we will always fully appreciate what was started in 2006 and the individual artistic and historical talents of P.S. Brown that made this blog a unique gem for our village.
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Saturday, June 10, 2006
At Home in the Huddle
This blog is about life in Waterville - a small village in Upstate New York that was first settled in 1792 - and is intended as an adjunct and continuation of a column called "In Timely Manner" which has appeared on a regular basis in the "Waterville Times" for the past two years or more.
In "At Home in the Huddle" the writer will include those social notes and items of interest to the residents of the community as well as to those who once lived in Waterville and also for the edification and/or amusement of those who may read this, in years to come, wondering what life was like in this little village, "long ago."
Although we venture from the hard copy of newsprint to the medium of the internet - an enormous leap in technology - we shall not take that same leap in style and shall continue, as we have in the past, to emulate the precision and prose of those who served this social purpose a century past. The advantages to the writer are several: space limitations and deadlines "Begone!" And - with considerable luck and perseverance - photographs can appear!
This series will assuredly include remarks about the ongoing Department of Transportation Highway Reconstruction Project, the status of crops in outlying fields, announcements of events planned and details of delights experienced at events past, bits of history and early days here, in the "Huddle," but it can be NOTHING without the readers' communiqués! We shall welcome them whether they arrive by post, by telephone or electronically! To make sure that the latter process can be completed, please note the new address: Homeinthehuddle@aol.com.
Please feel free to share the above URL with friends (or enemies) near or far and most especially with those of our number who are in the Armed Forces who may welcome this small piece of Home.
The primary topic of post office and coffee-shop conversation is the above-mentioned "Highway Reconstruction Project" which, in at least one respect, has turned back the clock in Waterville. If one looks at the picture at the top of the page, taken in 1875, and then stands in Main Street looking in the same general direction, you can see most of the same buildings and the same dirt road! And a rough one it is! Orange and white barrels and pylons mark what could be a gymkhanna course, but no racer would dare exceed Mr. Frank Snell's 1901 record speed of 15 miles an hour.
TIOGA's crews have been concentrating on work in at least three major areas: new granite curbing has been installed along most of Main Street, down Buell Avenue for a few hundred feet and around the Park.
Sidewalk paving on the South side of Main Street is nearly complete, but - on the North side - work has slowed due to the discovery of nearly a dozen 19th-century hatchways - stairways that led from sidewalk to basement levels of each building from the Hotel to Stewart's - for purposes of either delivering essential goods or - as some suggest - enjoying somewhat socially unacceptable forms of entertainment! Most of the old cellar doorways have been blocked up and, as soon as stairwells have been filled in, new sidewalks will be paved.
Grayish-pink brick paving stones - called "pavers" - have been laid between sidewalk and curbing from the former Moon's Barber Shop down to the bank building and around the corner onto White Street. The same will be installed on both sides of Main Street as far as the old Tyler Garage on one side and the Main Street Garage on the other. Square openings have been left for the planting of trees and placement of tree grates, and bases for the Victorian lamp posts are now quite visible.
We have been having an unecessarily generous amount of rain which, we trust, is appreciated as much by farmers as by those incurable optimists who declare that it "makes the colors brighter" and "keeps the dust down!"
Out in the coutryside, field are bright with crops and wildflowers. A particularly bright spot is a “lake” of pink “Gilley Flower” - sometimes called Ragged Robin - just South of Loomis Road next to Route 12. In other areas, the brilliant yellow of mustard makes up in beauty for its otherwise less-desirable presence and, in the village, the primary eye-catchers are frequent beds of Oriental poppies and banks of purple rhodendron.
(to be continued.)
This blog is about life in Waterville - a small village in Upstate New York that was first settled in 1792 - and is intended as an adjunct and continuation of a column called "In Timely Manner" which has appeared on a regular basis in the "Waterville Times" for the past two years or more.
In "At Home in the Huddle" the writer will include those social notes and items of interest to the residents of the community as well as to those who once lived in Waterville and also for the edification and/or amusement of those who may read this, in years to come, wondering what life was like in this little village, "long ago."
Although we venture from the hard copy of newsprint to the medium of the internet - an enormous leap in technology - we shall not take that same leap in style and shall continue, as we have in the past, to emulate the precision and prose of those who served this social purpose a century past. The advantages to the writer are several: space limitations and deadlines "Begone!" And - with considerable luck and perseverance - photographs can appear!
This series will assuredly include remarks about the ongoing Department of Transportation Highway Reconstruction Project, the status of crops in outlying fields, announcements of events planned and details of delights experienced at events past, bits of history and early days here, in the "Huddle," but it can be NOTHING without the readers' communiqués! We shall welcome them whether they arrive by post, by telephone or electronically! To make sure that the latter process can be completed, please note the new address: Homeinthehuddle@aol.com.
Please feel free to share the above URL with friends (or enemies) near or far and most especially with those of our number who are in the Armed Forces who may welcome this small piece of Home.
The primary topic of post office and coffee-shop conversation is the above-mentioned "Highway Reconstruction Project" which, in at least one respect, has turned back the clock in Waterville. If one looks at the picture at the top of the page, taken in 1875, and then stands in Main Street looking in the same general direction, you can see most of the same buildings and the same dirt road! And a rough one it is! Orange and white barrels and pylons mark what could be a gymkhanna course, but no racer would dare exceed Mr. Frank Snell's 1901 record speed of 15 miles an hour.
TIOGA's crews have been concentrating on work in at least three major areas: new granite curbing has been installed along most of Main Street, down Buell Avenue for a few hundred feet and around the Park.
Grayish-pink brick paving stones - called "pavers" - have been laid between sidewalk and curbing from the former Moon's Barber Shop down to the bank building and around the corner onto White Street. The same will be installed on both sides of Main Street as far as the old Tyler Garage on one side and the Main Street Garage on the other. Square openings have been left for the planting of trees and placement of tree grates, and bases for the Victorian lamp posts are now quite visible.
We have been having an unecessarily generous amount of rain which, we trust, is appreciated as much by farmers as by those incurable optimists who declare that it "makes the colors brighter" and "keeps the dust down!"
Out in the coutryside, field are bright with crops and wildflowers. A particularly bright spot is a “lake” of pink “Gilley Flower” - sometimes called Ragged Robin - just South of Loomis Road next to Route 12. In other areas, the brilliant yellow of mustard makes up in beauty for its otherwise less-desirable presence and, in the village, the primary eye-catchers are frequent beds of Oriental poppies and banks of purple rhodendron.
(to be continued.)
including this end of school year treat from a bus driver at the Dairy Creme
What was soon to become the Babbott Field playground
"Last Saturday, the Bandstand's original "designers," Park-view property owners and members of the Parks Commission had a chance to see a 3-D display that Philip had created: unfortunately, we don't have the technology to insert that here, so give you the next best view! This was shown to the members of the Waterville Historical Society on Wednesday evening and received enthusiastic applause.
The final plans for the structure were prepared by T. Karram Design & Construction Consultants of Waterville from sketches submitted by the following "designers:" Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Falk, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Sambora, Ms. Susannah Quayle, Mr. Donald Brown, Ms. Jennifer Dobmeier Dapson, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Youngs, Mr. Louis Langone, Ms. Jean B. Davis and Ms. Wendy Sexton along with committee members Mabel Bushee, Dale Meszler and Philippa Brown.
It was their original assignment to design a bandstand that would look as if it had been built in the late 1800s, during Waterville's golden age as "Hop Capital of the World," but that could be constructed of contemporary materials that would be far more resistant to damage and need much less upkeep than wood. It is the Committee's intent to initiate a major Fund-raising campaign in the Autumn - once the two-year, $5,000,000.00 Highway Reconstruction Project is finished - and see the structure built next Summer in celebration of the completion of this major "stepping-stone" in Waterville's history."
A smiling face we couldn't resist from ONE YEAR LATER in 2007...
June 10, 2007
Flip found Patty in a familiar scene- one we would expect 2021 Patty would be excited to be working back to after months cooped up post-surgery!
Also on June 10th 2007. What a start indeed!
Also on June 10th 2007. What a start indeed!
Tomorrow will have extra-special significance: not only will Dick get to have his Damned Fine Party, but ..............
You'll notice the Damned Fine Party was held at Michael's Fine Food when it was located on Main Street.
When another Damned Fine Party was held in 2019, Michael's Fine Food hosted at their catering location at Four Eleven Tower which operates along with their location at the corner of Route 12 and 20 in Sangerfield.
"At Home in the Huddle" will celebrate its first birthday!
Dick thought that the blog was just about the most clever thing I'd ever done. He was my #1 fan and he'd be saying, "A whole year? You've done good, Doll!" He'd be pleased.
When another Damned Fine Party was held in 2019, Michael's Fine Food hosted at their catering location at Four Eleven Tower which operates along with their location at the corner of Route 12 and 20 in Sangerfield.
Four Eleven was first transformed to Celebrations on Tower by the "Event Divas" from a long time standing as one form of shop or another. Just a smidgeon of multitude of changes that occur, even in small town Waterville, over a span of years.
There will be no Blog Post on Friday.
Instead, take a long walk down memory lane in the blog archives
or browse through "Heaps of History" thanks to the Browns of Whiskey Hollow