Is your water brown?

If your water is looking a bit weird these days, it might be because the town is in the middle of its hydrant flushing schedule. The whole process takes about ten days -- or nights, actually, since the work is done between 10 pm and 6 am, when there's less demand on the water system.

The Village website has a detailed list of which streets are scheduled for flushing on which days, so click here to see the details.

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Has it really been ten years?

We got a postcard in the mail yesterday from the Webster Public Library which just made my jaw drop. It was an invitation to their tenth anniversary celebration on Saturday May 12.  I had to look at it several times to see if I was reading it correctly. Then I had to ask my husband last night if what it was saying was actually true.  The Webster Public Library has been in their “new” building in Webster Plaza for TEN YEARS ALREADY?

It sure doesn’t seem like it’s been ten years ago since the library moved from its home behind the Town Hall. But apparently it has, and the library invited US (and all of Webster, I suspect) to their anniversary party.

For those of you who maybe lost your invitations in the trash can, the celebration is scheduled from 2-3 pm on Saturday May 12, at the library in Webster Plaza, 980 Ridge Road.

I was so skeptical that it’s really their tenth anniversary that I looked up the library’s history on their website.  It’s actually rather interesting, telling the story of how the library bounced around several places since it was founded in 1929, before landing in its current location:

The town of Webster has been fortunate enough to have had a library in its community since 1929.  At that time the library was a single room in the high school building with 657 books, 365 borrowers, and a circulation of 6,246.  In 1957 the library moved to the Emil Reitz building on Main Street in the Village of Webster and in 1959 the library relocated, once again, to a new facility in a wing of the Town Hall on Ridge Road.  In 1975 a library was built at 1 Van Ingen Drive, located behind the Town Hall complex.  In May 2002 the library moved to its current location in a renovated department store in Webster Plaza, 980 Ridge Road.

These days the boasts more than 95,000 items in its collection, and a separate children’s room and teen area.  If you’ve never been there, this might be a great excuse to check it out.

See you at the party!

At least they're TALKING about fixing Ridge Road

Yesterday I received my weekly email from the Town Supervisor's office, with Supervisor Nesbitt's latest column (which be posts online and is reprinted in the Webster Herald and Webster Post, when they feel like it). Since this week's column speaks directly to issues near and dear to our hearts -- improvements to Route 104 and Ridge Road -- I thought everyone would be interested in seeing his comments here:

"On Tuesday, April 10th Gary Kleist and Don Hauza from our Engineering Department, Joe Herbst from our Highway, Glenn Cooke from WCCED, Barry Deane from the Town Board and I met with a number of representatives from the State Department of Transportation. We were informed that Route 104 from the Bay Bridge east to Phillips Road will be re-paved and re-striped this summer.

However, Route 404 is another story. Right now state workers are patching pot holes on 404 and I think it is not a forward way of fixing the long term problem. This summer they might look at fixing the intersections of Holt Road and Ridge Road and Phillips Road and Ridge Roads; a fix of re-paving that might last a couple of years.

At this time, in 2014, Route 404 is scheduled to get re-paved and the shoulders of the road fixed. In 2015 the intersections would be brought up to standards by improving the intersections with turn lanes and longer stacking lanes.

We did hear during our one-hour meeting that money was a problem and allocations needed to be made within districts within the state. We were also assured that Webster is receiving its share of money with a lot of the money being spent recently on the Bay Bridge."

Supervisor Nesbitt also addressed the continuing possibility of a Wendy's restaurant being built across from Town Hall on Ridge Road, a project which has been at a stand-still for quite a while. Click here to read what Nesbitt had to say about that.