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🌱 How Watkins Glen neighbors can still help Seneca Santa this week

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In today's newsletter:

  • How Watkins Glen neighbors can still help Seneca Santa this week
  • What strange sounds are echoing beneath Watkins Glen’s drinking water source?

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Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

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  • Tuesday: Cloudy, with a high of 29 and low of 25 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Breezy and not as cold, temps: high: 41, low: 25.
  • Thursday: Mostly cloudy and windy, with a high of 45 and low of 36 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Seneca Santa prepares for final days of 2025 campaign (weny.com) — Families in Watkins Glen and across Schuyler County can still get involved in the Seneca Santa campaign, which is wrapping up its 2025 push to help 204 local children. The all-volunteer program is accepting toy donations through December 19 and cash gifts by mail to its Watkins Glen P.O. box, ensuring kids ages 2–12 wake up to presents on Christmas morning.
   

• The mystery of the Seneca Drums persists (cornell.edu) — If you drink tap water in Watkins Glen, scientists are studying the Seneca Lake depths that supply it, from mysterious booming “Seneca Drums” to unusually high chloride levels. A Cornell-led team is probing methane, strange pockmarks, and long-term chloride trends to better understand what’s happening beneath the surface of the region’s largest Finger Lake.
   

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