There will be a Public Hearing on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2001 at 6:30 p.m. at the Village Hall, 155 Washington Avenue to receive public comment on a proposed Local Law.

The proposed Local Law is to provide a definition for commercial vehicles. The proposed text of this law is:

Commercial Vehicles - Includes but shall not be limited to any vehicle other than a personal passenger vehicle or suburban or a motorcycle which is primarily designed, constructed, used or maintained for the transportation of goods, merchandise or other property or for the livery or transportation of goods, merchandise or other property or for the livery or transport of passengers for hire or compensation, whether on a profit or non-profit basis, or for the livery or transport of children to or from school or camp or as the power unit for the hauling of freight or cargo by trailer or semi-trailer or any combination of trailers or semi-trailers or any type of non-motorized trailer unit. Commercial vehicles shall also include but not be limited to buses, ambulettes, delivery vans, taxis and limousines.

A meeting of the board of trustees will follow this hearing. It is anticipated that this meeting will start at 7:30 p.m.

Driving around our village at night is very enjoyable. The holiday decorations throughout our village add to the joy of the season. Thank you. In a few days we will be celebrating the beginning of a new year. Enjoy the season but - please do not drink and drive. The life you save might be your own and someone else's.

Village offices will be closed for a half-day on Friday, Dec. 29, in observance of New Year's Eve. However, there will be regular garbage collection.

Village offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 1, 2001 for New Year's Day and there will be no garbage collection.

Last week in the early morning hours of Wednesday, we had a dusting of snow. To serve our residents, the Department of Public Works had sanding trucks on the road at 4:00 a.m.

This "early" snow brought to mind memories of past winters. Often times, it has been said that the winters of yesterday were more "severe". Someone brought to my attention an article that appeared in a Long Island newspaper in 1847.

"The extra ordinary weather on New Year's induced the Editor ... to compile the following table comparing the temperature of that day with the First of January of the preceding eight years:

Year	7 a.m.	3 p.m.
1847	42	61
1846	24	39
1845	36	49
1844	26	37
1843	21	30
1842	30	40
1841	25	26
1840	14	17
1839	15	25