Welcome back winter

STERLING - Snow angels, snowmen and snow plows were in plain view as winter announced its arrival by dumping 5.5 inches of lake-effect snow on northern Cayuga County on Monday morning.

Paul Kelley, the Sterling highway superintendent, said he had three trucks out from 3 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. yesterday, clearing snow off of nearly 80 miles of roadway.

“The snow was coming down right behind the trucks, so some roads we had to plow three or four times,” Paul Kelley said. “It started with a little slush in the northern end of the county and then it accumulated.”