WETLANDS: Q&A
Q: Will the Town of Webb allow someone to build in a wetland?
A: The Town does not have the jurisdiction to regulate wetlands.
Q: So if my property is in the Town of Webb, we can go ahead and fill in or build in the wetland?
A: The previous answer was the Town doesn’t have jurisdiction, the answer was not that you can fill it in.
Q: What do you mean? Continue reading
Hoops: Varsity squad starts season with impressive tourney win Basketball… basketball… EVERYWHERE! Well, not exactly everywhere. Not yet, anyways. But college hoops are well under way, with Syracuse, currently ranked third in the nation, poised for a great run.
Meanwhile, the NBA owners and players finally figured out how to divvy up approximately four billion in revenue. Must be rough.
While most of us are trying to stay afloat, these guys took their sweet time splitting up a king’s ransom, making sure to hit the airwaves with a full slate of games on Christmas Day. Ho-Ho-Ho.
And, locally, our high school hardwood enthusiasts are heating things up, starting with an appearance in the holiday weekend Remsen Tip-Off Tournament. How did they fare? Read on, and see for yourself. Continue reading
Thanks to today’s twenty-four-hour-a-day news bombardment, it’s hard not to notice all the media speculation about one particular job. The Presidency.
What type of person makes for a good president? Someone highly educated or one in touch with regular Americans? Where should a president put his focus? What kind of ideas should he (she) have?
Questions like this are asked everyday, and answered in several ways, in newspapers, on radio, in social media, and on television.
One thing our president needs to be has nothing to do with policy or party affiliation.
Today’s president needs to be an innovator.
A friend recently offered this observation: Someone knowledgable of the past would seem best able to improve the future.
Although we often learn from our mistakes, we probably don’t want our president getting too much education of this kind while in office. Continue reading
It was quite cold outside so my brother and I decided to engage in an all-out war in the warmth of our Limekiln Lake home.
It was not the sort of fighting one would typically think brothers would be involved in, but more of our own reenactment of what occurred in WWI Somme trenches.
Down the long hallway (or Hellway, which I am sure is how our cat and dog would have described it) we constructed a series of forts.
These forts were made from kitchen chairs, blankets and pillows and set up in barricade-fashion. Continue reading
Helen Estabrook and the Town of Webb School's Helen Estabrook Tree
Helen Estabrook is a much honored and well known member of the Old Forge community. She is a retired teacher from the Town of Webb School and was a dedicated member of the school’s Board of Education for 13 years.
In front of the school is a new sign, and to its left is a newly planted small tree which honors Mrs. Estabrook for all her years of service to our school.
Most of you familiar with Mrs. Estabrook, know her for the wonderful teacher she was.
But outside of her career at school she has led a very interesting life in our community. Continue reading
I know winter official begins on December 22, however we normally see some signs of winter by October-but not this year.
This extended fall season has given some of us more time to prepare for the winter that will eventually come.
Folks in Denver are currently experiencing below 0 temperatures and the snow is falling. That storm may make its way east by the end of the week.
They keep forecasting snow in the area but so far there has hardly been enough to even cover the ground.
I’m not complaining. This week when I was out walking I saw frogs jumping into brooks. If it gets any warmer I’m sure the peepers will start calling.
The Beavers have been busy putting up some very big food piles. It doesn’t freeze up pretty soon they will get sour.
Open waters of Limekiln Lake at sunrise
The birds are still feeding on natural stuff in the wild so not too many birds are coming to my feeder.
Today (12/5) I saw Black-capped Chickadees and Siskins working the cones at the top of a big Hemlock by the Green Bridge.
They had cleaned out the White Spruce cones by the parking lot and moved to the Hemlock cones which were the next to ripen.
Next to ripen will be the Larch and White Pine cones and during the winter the Red Spruce cones will be ready to eat. Continue reading
Okay, so maybe I was the gal who, a couple of years ago, reluctantly signed up to be a Fa(r)cebook User…
Pay special attention to the ‘User’ part, because I now associate it with the drug addiction term.
Casual Users seem to turn into addicts with these social network sites, and before they know it they can rarely complete an eight-hour work-shift without constantly checking their User accounts.
So anyway, at first I deemed this stuff strictly for teens until I was coerced by friends to join Fa(r)cebook.
And honestly? It was lots of fun to catch up with old friends and touch base with out-of-state family members.
The pictures were the most entertaining of all, and I truly enjoyed the hysterical posts of my kids.
Before I knew it I had acquired hundreds of “friends” and I felt obligated to check in at least several times per week to see what everyone was up to. Continue reading