The Onondaga County Health Department has released an advisory in regards to a recent discovery of West Nile Virus.

Looking more like an angel and using a gigantic pitcher rather than a cauldron, Mary Larkin, a “brew-ster” from Brewster, mixes up a batch of her bug and tick spray using all natural ingredients.

The ticks, inoculated with the bacterium when they bite infected mice, squirrels and other small animals, subsequently pass the pathogens to their human victims when they obtain a blood meal.

I enjoyed reading the two letters recently published in the Daily Local. One on Thursday, Aug.