Upcoming Events at the Conesville Historical Society

CONESVILLE — 2025 PROGRAMMING: 

We are beginning to think about 2025 and we need your help, especially for choosing a day of the week for programs. There's also opportunities for you to organize and/or lead a program or workshop.

Please fill out this 2025 Programming Survey: https://forms.gle/tERMi5eLT4jWdKJL9 

UPCOMING FIELD TRIP: Jefferson Historical Society

Don't forget, this upcoming Tuesday July 23 at 6:00 PM, we will be meeting at Judd Hull to explore what the Jefferson Historical Society has to offer the community.

Meet us at 165 Main Street, Jefferson, NY. We hope to see you there!

UPCOMING GRAVESTONE WORKSHOP - a few spots left!

On Saturday July 27th, Marianne Greenfield will be leading a workshop on gravestone cleaning at the East Conesville Cemetery on Hubbard Road near 194 Hubbard Road (for GPS Purposes). Due to the heat, the time has changed to 10:00. A few spots are left, so please reach out to Debbie at 518-429-9724. Don't forget to bring 2 gallons of water and $10 to help defray the cost of the workshop.

DOLL HOUSE RAFFLE:

Tickets are now being sold for $1 each or six for $5. Think about a child you know who would love to receive a beautiful hand crafted doll house! 

We will be selling tickets at our events this summer.  We will then draw the winner on September 28th at the Old Stone Fort Festival. You do not need to be present to win.

All proceeds will go towards our celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.     

August dates to remember:

August 9th: Historic Marker Unveiling, Pop Up Museum, and Ice Cream Social at the Conesville Church (have items to contribute to the pop up museum? want to know more? reach out to us!). Museum begins at 5:00 pm, Unveiling Program at 6:30, Ice Cream Social at 7.

August 10th: Square Dance 7-10 PM at the Conesville Fire House***

August 12th: Board of Directors Meeting, 5:30 PM

August 20th: Field Trip to the Greater Fleischmanns Museum of Memories, 6:00 PM

August 27th: Field Trip to the Arkell Museum, 10:00 AM

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Roxbury Central School Honor Rolls

ROXBURY CENTRAL SCHOOL 4th   Quarter Superintendent’s List 2023-2024
Grade 4 Colton McLaughlin Grace Walker Grade 5 Mason Hubbard Isabell Sarter Grade 6 Noelle McLaughlin Ava Poniros Emlyn Smith Grade 7 Michaela Tucker
Grade 8 None Grade 9 Jillian Mosley Calleigh Porter Jessanie Sass Grade 10 Addy Hynes Grade 11 Jordan Johnston Kelly Kalleberg Logan Vamosy Lola Weil
Grade 12 Ivory Biruk Ryleigh Goodchild Teá Mattice Erin McPherson Dennis Slauson Naomi Wehmeir

ROXBURY CENTRAL SCHOOL 4th   Quarter – Honor Roll 2023-2024
Grade 4 Ira Brundage Raven Frano-Dorrance Gianni Giorgi Kaylie Hubbard Grace Hunter Hunter Shultis Rion Trahan Grade 5 Jintanagan Berg Chloe Burgwin Grade 6 Gina Galunas Grade 7 Kimyah Brown Brayden Hubbard Kaleb Vamosy Devon Zambri
Grade 8 Jada Biruk Courtney Bussiere Dominic Grieco Anthony Miraglio Erik Pettersen Kyle Speenburgh Sage Trocino Grade 9 Nicholas Ianniello Alyssa Jansen Madison Mattice Grade 10 Blake Albano Kathryn Cortese Gabriella Miraglio Sasha Shahova Aurora Stingel Grade 11 Angelina D’Antoni Austin Ernst Elizabeth Losee Michaela Wright
Grade 12 Taran Davis Miles Lalosh Dakota Frano

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Local Exhibits Invite Visitors For UpstateArt Weekend

STAMFORD – Angelina Rivas is enjoying her residency at ARTS & REC Inc.  at Osmos Station in Stamford. It is giving her time to experiment and discover a new dimension in her work. 

Born in Kansas City, she now lives and works in Los Angeles, California. It is a distance from the quiet and calm at Osmos Station, located at 20 Railroad Ave. in the village of Stamford. It is certainly miles away from the downtown Los Angeles studio she shares with two other artists and the Sharp Gallery that sponsors her work.

She is the July artist-in-residence and she has been utilizing the studio in Stamford to work with airbrushing techniques and creating in a new environment.

She paints florid, flowing and voluptuous allegorical forms with airbrush on wood panel, paper and canvas. This week she was working on paper, a change from canvas. 

She has been enjoying her surroundings and is eyeing the local swimming pool which she passed on her way to the grocery store. She is planning on visiting it as soon as her show here opens. First, she said, she must continue to create pieces for the show, which she is very excited about.

She is also enjoying the open, friendliness she has found in Stamford. As she was carrying her groceries from the store, someone stopped to offer her a ride.

The other artist exhibiting at Osmos is Chelsea Culprit. She was born in Paducah , Kentucky, but now lives and works in nearby Conesville. She will be showing her very large-scale paintings.

Her work oscillates between the craft traditions of her Kentucky upbringing, often coded female, vernacular, and domestic, and the heroic traditions of expressive and process-based paintings, from Abstract Expressionism to Gutai. She embraces monumentality and intuition, and always aims to push the boundaries of scale, process, and materials. Her recent paintings operate within, as the artist describes, a ‘drop cloth vernacular’: a process by which the artist moves between the floor and the wall, as layers of stamped lace accrue atop quilt-like elds of bright color. Culprit’s new abstractions em- body the liberation and movement central to her practice. Referencing histories of gendered labor, craft, and folklore, Culprit’s paintings stitch together myriad elements akin to the formation of an exquisite corpse or the process of collage; for Culprit, bodies are always in states of mythic transfiguration. This is Culprit’s first exhibition in upstate New York, where she has lived since 2021. 

The two solo exhibits are part of the Upstate Art Weekend 2024, July 18-21 that covers 10 counties. These two artists will bring people to the Stamford community. There are special hours for the weekend, July 19-21, each day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The two solo exhibits of Rivas and Culprit, which Cay Sophie Robinowitz believes compliment each other, opened at Osmos Station on Thursday and the exhibitions will be on view until Sunday, August 11; Friday, Saturday and Sundays noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment.

ARTS & REC Inc. is a non- profit, tax-exempt charitable organization designed to bring people to Stamford to enjoy and participate in the arts.

They were busy installing the exhibits on Wednesday and inviting the public to step into the atmosphere of two creative talents.

For more information, visit Instagram pro les @artsandrec_catskills and @osmos.online.

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Fire Destroys Hobart Home

By Liz Page

HOBART – Fire destroyed a two and a half story home at 394 Main Street in the village of Hobart Tuesday afternoon, leaving an elderly woman homeless. Firefighters from numerous departments were called in to do battle on the blaze in hot temperatures.

Hobart and South Kortright were called at 12:54 p.m. to flames coming from the windows of a home owned by  Karen Joy. Joy was away at the time of the fire, which was reported by Kenny Fuller, of KJBL radio. Fuller saw the smoke and turned around to investigate its source. He found flames coming from the windows of Joy's home and called 911.

Hobart Fire Chief Josh Mason called Stamford for a full response once it was confirmed a working structure fire, with flames from the windows. There were no injuries reported.

He said the Red Cross was called and the home has been razed. Joy lost everything in the fire. She has relatives nearby where she could stay, according to officials.

The fire had a big head start on firefighters and its cause is undetermined. Fire Coordinator Don VanEtten said the fire was believed to have started in the kitchen area at the rear of the home.

The fire was difficult to fight, due to the 90-plus degree heat index that require firefighters to rotate in an out and Mason said the metal roof over a shingle roof made it difficult to extinguish, because it was difficult to get to all the hot spots.

Brent Trimbell of Lasting Impressions Landscaping was nearby with an excavator and brought it in to help pull the building down so firefighters could get to the areas that were still burning and extinguish them completely.

Joy's home is an older home with a lot of partitions and balloon construction which allowed the fire to spread quickly, according to fire officials.

Water was shuttled by tanker as the village of Hobart was on a conserve water advisory, which took time to establish. There was a ready supply of water from the dam in the village.

It is estimated that 75 firefighters responded to the scene, including six fire coordinators, Headwaters EMS, AMR and the Hobart Emergency Squad along with state police and the state Department of Transportation which helped with traffic control with Route 10 shut down through the village of Hobart. 

On the scene with Hobart  were firefighters from South Kortright, Stamford, Bloomville, Delhi, Bovina, Andes, Grand Gorge and Roxbury. Departments from Margaretville, East Meredith and Schenevus were called in to standby.

Firefighters were on scene for six hours.

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The Roxbury Arts Group Announces Loco7 Dance, Puppet Theater Residency

Open house July 27, 2:00-4:00pm at the Roxbury Arts Center

5025 Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury,  NY 12474

607-326-7608 or roxburyartsgroup.org

The Roxbury Arts Group is thrilled to be hosting Loco7 dance puppet theatre at Roxbury Arts Center for a residency in support of the development of new work from July 18-28th, 2024.   On Saturday July 27th from 2pm to 4pm, Loco7 will host a free and  interactive open house experience at the Roxbury Arts Center, 5025 Vega Mountain Road in Roxbury.  This interactive event is free and open to the public and will feature live performances, interactive shadow puppet workshops, meet and greets with the artists, and children's workshops. 

Founded by Colombian-born artist Federico Restrepo in 1985, Loco7 aims to be a public association where artistic expression and cultural community meet. The company explores the junction of race, culture, history, and media in New York and throughout the global community.

The residency at Roxbury Arts group is an opportunity for Loco7 to develop new work exploring themes linked to the natural environment.  With this developing work, Loco7 aims to shed light on the interconnectedness between humans and animals while showcasing the beauty and fragility of our shared world. During the special open house event in Roxbury, Loco7 will share portions of their children's series "The Adventures of Seucy and Boto", a family-friendly theatre production that adapts mythological tales from the Amazon Jungle.  

In addition to the open house event,  Loco7 will offer a number of other opportunities for the general public to witness their creative process unfolding during this residency period. On Saturday July 20th, 2024 Loco 7 will be performing on the hour between 12-4 in and around Veterans Park as part of the Headwaters Music and Arts Festivals.  In between performances they will also host a puppet crafting station, inviting festival-goers to participate in creating basic paper puppets depicting the transformative journey from a caterpillar to a butterfly.

Then on Friday July 26th, 2024 Loco 7 will be facilitating a shadow puppet workshop with students participating in Camp Feathers in a Notebook in Roxbury.  Then on Saturday July 27th, 2024 Loco7 will perform at  the round barn, Pakatakan market between 9am and 1pm.  

Join Roxbury Arts Group and Loco7 dance puppet theater in discovering the beauty of the rainforest and the significance of friendship in preserving its splendor at an Open House event on Saturday July 27, 2024 from 2-4pm at the Roxbury Arts Center 5025 Vega Mountain Road More information at roxburyartsgroup.org.

Loco7's residency is in partnership with Roxbury Arts Group, is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts - Special Opportunities to Targeted Opportunities, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. All programs offered by the Roxbury Arts Group are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the NYS Legislature, the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation, the Robinson Broadhurst Foundation, The Community Foundation for South Central New York, the Tianaderrah Foundation, Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Delaware National Bank of Delhi.

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106 Local Golfers Compete in Delaware County Men’s Amateur Golf Championship

Justin Harris and Dave Arehart

The 2024 flight winners

Harris Wins Fourth Straight Title

DELHI  – The 59th annual Delaware County Men’s Amateur Championship golf tournament was held at the College Golf Course at Delhi from July 12-14, 2024. One-hundred and six local golfers competed in seven different flights. To participate, players must be a resident of Delaware County or a member of a golf club in Delaware County.

Justin Harris, playing out of the Ouleout Creek Golf Club in Franklin defended his title to win the championship flight, which consists of the most skilled players. This is Harris’ fourth straight County Tournament win, he scored 215 after the three rounds of play. He also won the Rex Waring Lowest Round Award for his score of 69 on Friday’s round. The runner-up of the championship flight, Todd Carrington, playing out of Davenport, scored a 224. Brad Anderson of Delhi was close behind in third place with a cumulative score of 229. 

Other flight winners:

Senior Blue Tee Winner: Kurt Swenson, 235 (Stamford)

A Flight Winner: Mike O'Donnell, 232 (Davenport)

B Flight & Senior White Tee Champion: Frank Fiumera, 240 (Hancock)

C Flight Winner: Scott VanTyle, 257 (Delhi)

D Flight Winner: Alex Triebe, 267 (Downsville)

Gold Flight Winner: Richard Johnson, 230 (Sidney)

Gold Net Winner: Lars Updale, 199 (Deposit)

The top players from each flight were honored at an awards ceremony outside of the Delhi clubhouse on Sunday afternoon. Scores for all flights and players are available on the College Golf Course at Delhi’s website, golfcourse.delhi.edu.

The Delaware County Men’s Amateur Championship is one of the longest-running county-level championship tournaments in the state. This year was the 59th anniversary for the tournament, which is sponsored by the Delaware National Bank of Delhi, Clark Companies and other local organizations.

Dave Arehart, General Manager and head golf pro at the College Golf Course at Delhi, said, “Once again it was great to see golfers from all around the county and neighboring courses competing in the annual Delaware County Men’s Amateur Golf Championship. There are divisions by golf ability and a senior flight making it fun for all – this is what makes this event so unique. Next year we are celebrating our 60th year and it promises to be special!

Thank you to all the players, volunteers, and staff. Congratulations to all the winners and overall Champion Justin Harris. This marks his fourth in a row with an impressive 1 under par 54-hole score.”

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The Roxbury Arts Group Announces 2024 Headwaters Music and Arts Festival

STAMFORD — The Roxbury Arts Group announces the Headwaters Music and Arts Festival this Saturday July 20th from Noon to 6pm in Stamford, NY.   Enjoy a kaleidoscope of sights and sounds as you stroll through Stamford, NY’s historic Main Street encountering performers, artist exhibitions,  and invitations to make art or share your favorite art experiences.  Schedule and information are available at roxburyartsgroup.org or by calling Headwaters Center for the Arts at 607-214-6040.

One special guest artist is the not-to-be-missed Dance puppet theatre company Loco7, who are in residency at the Roxbury Arts group this summer.  Loco7 will be performing an excerpt of a new work which explores the profound interconnectedness between the natural world and its influence on both wildlife and humanity in and around Veterans park on the hour between 12pm-4pm.  In between performances they will  host a puppet crafting station, inviting festival-goers to participate in creating basic paper puppets the depict the transformational journey from a caterpillar to a butterfly.  

Other performers include: acoustic duo, 13 For Life, spoken artist Amy Randall, singer songwriter Azalea Twining, performance artists Djahari Clark (Director/Choreographer) and David Kammerer (Musician), Tenor and lute player Frederic self-accompanied Tenor, John Muccino vocal and piano, Joe Sings,  Singer and guitarist Karen Anderson, Country singer Kyle Faraci, saxophonist Michael Waters, non-binary singer/songwriter Moppy, Acoustic Rock & Ethereal Soul artist Pam West, pop guitar and drums duo, The Sawtelles and Jazz standards from Those Darn Cats.

Art projects will include a community portrait project with Mark Burnham, The Queen of the Catskills Photo Pop Up, The Art Experience Booth, Loco 7’s puppet workshop and more

Come out to Stamford on Saturday and be inspired to create and collaborate with family, neighbors and friends this Saturday July 20, 2024 starting at noon until 6pm up and down Main Street Stamford, NY.

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