Thursday

(I'm chuckling over this:)

Today in Waterville: it's a "Recyclables" Day.
"Garbage" is tomorrow!

And it's a Bbrrrrrisk! morning - 51 degrees under blue sky at 6:00 a.m.

The BLOG is getting a late start because the writer has been immersed in the Music Boosters web page.

(That's what I wrote a year ago today! And this morning - July 5, 2007 - it IS 51 degrees, but cloudy, and I HAVE been immersed in the Music Boosters web page hoping for more photos taken during the Parade or an update on last evening's activities. )

There aren't any new postings - perhaps the site is getting overloaded? - but I hope that "our" kids did, indeed, get to see the concert and fireworks at the Mall. As anyone who's following their travels knows, by now, the threat of storms caused the evacuation of the Mall in the late afternoon, but the crowds were allowed back in a few hours later. The Waterville Marching Band wasn't scheduled to arrive there until 9:00 P.M., so let's hope that they got to have a really fun evening, after all! Today they're off to the beach! It'll be cloudy - but maybe that's not a bad thing.

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Last year in Waterville.

Today, roadwork continues on Route 315. There's a stretch between Steve Cleary's driveway and the Petersons' that has not gotten it's surface layer of "blacktop," yet and - right now - traffic is slowed at the Buell Avenue end of the road with crews filling and smoothing the "shoulders" in the Northbound lane.

Today's forecast from WKTV:

• Thursday: A mix of sun and clouds with afternoon showers and thunderstorms possible. High in the upper 70s to near 80.
• Thursday night: Partly cloudy with scattered showers or thunderstorms possible. Low in the low 60s.
• Friday: A mix of clouds and sun with a few showers or thunderstorms possible. High: 78, Low: 55

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"Rusty" sent this great photograph of Two Babes from Brookfield!

Cornflower is blooming on West Hill.

A sign in the Park.

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ALSO:

Today at 1:30 P.M. at the Waterville Public Library

a showing of Peter Brian Falk's

"The Loomis Gang"

Free, and Open to the Public.

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On Saturday

Loomis Gang Country Tours

start at 9:00 A.M.
at the Waterville Historical Society.

$5.

Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social 1:00 - 3:00
Hop Exhibit, barn open and Old Time Kids Games

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Elsewhere: The Utica Observer-Dispatch has lots of coverage of events leading up to the 30th running of the "Boilermaker!"

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