MISS: Though we may agree that current Cayuga County Legislature chairman's secretary Andrea Seamans would be a good choice to be the secretary to the new county manager, it immediately validates the concerns of many critics of the proposed manager concept.

Qualifications Committee chairman Paul Dudley has said that the managers' secretary position - though not yet formally created and posted - would be Seamans' if she was interested. By essentially giving the new position to Seamans before even hiring the county manager, that is one key position - perhaps the most critical person on a new manager's staff - that the manager will not be able to choose themselves.

Critics who suggested that the job description for the county manager allowed the Legislature too much control over the position will no doubt ask: If the new manager can't even select their own secretary, what other decisions will the Legislature make for its manager?

HIT: An auction and brunch Sunday helped raise money for a scholarship program for parents returning to school.

Adults returning to school face plenty of obstacles.

For those with children, the struggles are often insurmountable.

The Child Care Council of the Finger Lakes aims to help parents in Cayuga and Seneca counties find affordable child care to enable them to spend time in class and studying.

Education benefits more than a person's economic prospects, and it's the children who stand to gain in the long run.

MISS: Monday may have officially been the first day of spring, but it sure didn't feel like it around here.

Sure there was a little sunshine, but there was also a little snow, a little wind and temperatures that barely cracked 30.

Here's hoping milder temperatures come back to stay - sooner, rather than later.