Andes Gazette

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By Mary Tucker
Nature played “Trick or Treat” on the unsuspecting residents of Andes, dumping 6 inches to 2 feet of heavy, wet snow in the village and surrounding hills. A “treat” for students who got “snow days”; a “trick” for adults with slick roads, fallen trees, broken branches, and power and telephone outages. The storm affected most of Delaware County, which was not ready for this type of storm in October.

By Buffy Calvert
We know them as master artisans-he with wood, she with a needle-who live at the top of Dibble Road in a house they built themselves.

By Valerie Brown
The Andes Library will begin Winter Hours on December 1, 2008. In an effort to be more efficient and save on our heating costs, the library will be closed on Mondays during the winter months

Rima Walker reviews The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

By Phyllis Galowitz
The sun is bright but I’m not anxious to do any gardening on this cold day. I’m happy to sit at the kitchen table and enjoy the almost winter garden, the birds feeding, the chipmunks and juncos cleaning up the fallen sunflower seeds and the bright, contrasting shadows on the leaf-carpeted floor of the woods behind my house, while Mahler’s Symphony #1 fills my ears.