Holy moly—the hardest part of tax season is over, thank God. It’s not a hard job, but there’s lots of pressure. Once they’re delivered, I have 24 hours to enter the tax payments into the computer and deposit them into the bank. This year, there was a little oops on the sewer district tax bills. The Sullivan County Treasurer and her staff worked side by side with me to get it fixed. I worked all weekend with spread sheets from the county to fix the mistake. As soon as I get the go ahead, I will send letters out. All the new tax bills are updated on www.taxlookup.net. If you call my office to ask a tax question and I am not there, please leave a message so I can call you back and help you. My number is 845/932-8360 ext. 17.

If you take a ride around the lake you will see people out on the lake ice fishing. I think when it comes to a sport like that, I still got a lot of Queens in me—no way would I stand on a frozen lake, but I did stand on the street corners with my friends for hours and froze. So the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil is saying an early spring; I don’t think he has the weather app. It’s currently snowing as I am typing, and it’s going to snow Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

I like the winter and shoveling snow, but I just do not like driving in bad weather.

The Cochecton Youth Commission has a lot of great events coming up. If you are a member, look out for emails. If not, send them a Facebook message and they can sign your kids up. All Cochecton Youth Commission events are free for the youth who live in Cochecton. Please check out the Facebook page New Cochecton Youth Commission—it is updated quite often.

If you go on the Lake Huntington page on Facebook you will see a lot of old pictures of Lake Huntington back in the day. Thank you Paul Genco for keeping that page up to date.

If you have any news that you want to get out there, please let me know.

Keep smiling and have a great week. You can email me at leeniebeans@citlink.net or call 845/252-3568 if you have any news. You can always check me out in community living.