Notes from around town

 We're all used to Christmas lights, indoors & outdoors. But Halloween lights?

Yeah, it's a thing.

Just up the street from ye scribe's base, some folks living in a basement apartment set up some Halloween lights (orange, of course), with some matching decorations in front of their abode. It's so cool. We'll see if they leave the lights up all weekend, not just through tomorrow.

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We're also used to some jabroni embodying Dr. Seuss' infamous Grinch at Christmas, stealing from others for no rational reason.

Well, there's room for a Halloween Grinch, it seems, and this has 0 to do with one of the made-for-TV sequels to Seuss' seminal holiday tale.

Seems a parent in Glens Falls took his kids to Kensington Road Elementary, and helped himself to the school's pumpkin patch. WNYT offers a happy ending to this tale....

Hopefully, the parent will have seen the news report. I could understand if he couldn't afford to actually purchase the pumpkins, but as the report shows, the kids were encouraged to turn a negative into a positive with the paper pumpkins and acts of kindness.

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With Election Day right around the corner, you're going to be bombarded, if it hasn't happened already, with mailers from various candidates running for office.

At home, the Rensselaer County GOP is using a tactic from the national playbook to protect incumbent county executive and Trump wanna-be Steve McLaughlin by smearing his Democratic challenger, Sherri Silverman. McLaughlin refused to debate Silverman, and is resorting to this in order to win a 3rd term? What is he so afraid of? The County GOP shamelessly admitted their anti-Silverman mailer was filled with photoshopping in order to get their point across, but, like, a 10 year old could figure that out without reading the fine print.

For all the positive things McLaughlin has touted in radio ads, he nullifies it with this juvenile stunt. To his credit, he doesn't wear bronzer, like his idol.......!