Caroga Arts Ensemble to Perform at Cooperstown Summer Music Festival August 16

Caroga Arts Ensemble to Perform at Cooperstown Summer Music Festival on August 16

 

The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival continues its 24th season with a performance by the Caroga Arts Ensemble on Tuesday, August 16 at 7pm at the Otesaga Resort Hotel.

The Ensemble, a collective of top performers with local ties founded and directed by cellist Kyle Price, will present an eclectic program entitled ‘Musical Kaleidoscope’, consisting of repertoire ranging from bluegrass and classical to jazz and pop.

Price describes the performance as a “musical variety show”, drawing on the diverse talents and backgrounds of the musicians involved and offering something for everyone. Yet the program is more than the sum of its parts, as combining genres in this way brings new insight to every piece being performed -- as well as new energy to those doing the performing.

“A program like this inspires the musicians to discover the pieces, our fellow performers, and the audience in a new way,” says Price. “That energy and spontaneity is something that we thrive off of as performers.”

EVENT DETAILS:

Caroga Arts Ensemble: A Musical Kaleidoscope

Tuesday, August 16, 2022, 7:00-9:00pm, Otesaga Resort Hotel

A musical variety show offering an eclectic program including bluegrass, classical, jazz, and pop selections.

TICKET INFORMATION:

Tickets for this event are by donation. Tickets for this concert must be reserved in advance either online from www.cooperstownmusicfest.org or over the phone by calling Purplepass Tickets at 800-316-8559 and selecting Option 1. Please note there is a $2 service fee per phone order.

For all events, audience members must show proof of vaccination, including a required booster shot for those who are eligible.

ABOUT THE COOPERSTOWN SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL:

Founded in 1999 by flutist Linda Chesis, the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival has been bringing world-class chamber music performances to the Cooperstown area for 24 years. The festival has featured performances by the American, Juilliard, St. Lawrence, Jupiter and Jasper String Quartets, Stefon Harris, Bill Charlap, Kurt Elling, Simone Dinnerstein, Mark O’Connor, John Pizzarelli, the Sonia Olla Flamenco Dance Company, and many more. Concerts are held in venues across Cooperstown, including the grand Otesaga Hotel, The Farmers’ Museum and Christ Church (the church of author James Fenimore Cooper).

The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

See cooperstownmusicfest.org for details.

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Editorial: Pain, Part II

I wrote about Ryan and his late sister Kayla in last week's editorial. They were special people from a great family. I hope that everyone reading this goes to the celebration of life today at 5pm at the Timothy Murphy Park.

Ryan deserves the elevation, and his friends and family deserve catharsis.

Some comments were thrown about Monday's Middleburgh village board meeting opposing the donation of funds raised to the New York Wildlife Rescue Center by Mayor Bergan. Those comments were ignorant, wrong, and quite cruel under the circumstances. A few minutes of attention would have avoided the tangent.

Ryan and Kayla spent untold time at Wes Laraway's farm and rescue. Kayla was an outstanding, big-hearted person who did more through the rescue than most. Mr. Laraway has been tireless in his efforts to honor her legacy since her passing in 2016.

Mr. Laraway also has not taken a cent from his hours-- at all hours of the day and days of the week-- rescuing animals. The man's main fault is that he expends himself for the benefit of families and animals in need. Not only does he not take a salary, he donates more in a year in time, money, and sweat, than many people do in a lifetime. I can think of no better tribute to Ryan, who I knew since he was 6, than to have his family and friends present for a concert performed by his band, and the proceeds donated to the rescue. Trustee Bob Tinker and DPW head Nick Dunscombe correctly pointed this out during the meeting.

I've written about Wes many times in my editorials. The man is not perfect in politics. He is close to it in education. In animal rescue, he is first class. If it has scales, feathers, or fur (or even porcupine quills) and it lives in New York State, chances are that Wes Laraway has been out on a 2am call taking care of the animal.

Was there miscommunication from organizer Mike Bernard, who I've also known for a long time? Not any that I see. He's done something very kind for Ryan and his family. Any from Supervisor Laraway? Not unless I'm missing something.  We’re also doing our best to help, offering complimentary space in our paper. 

No one is profiting, except Ryan’s legacy.

The current park use rules were set up during my tenure as Middleburgh's Mayor. They still work well. The rules aren't the problem, nor the organization of an event for a person many people in the community loved.

I hope that all of our readers will support the event and the rescue at PO Box 410, Middleburgh, NY 12122 or https://nywildliferescue.org/support-us/. Tell them the Mountain Eagle sent you.

Ryan and Kayla Urrey's lives mattered very much to me. I hope that their memory will be the same blessing that they were both in life.

-- Matthew Avitabile, Publisher

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Sharon Historical Society's Next Free Webinar - "Monticello - An in-depth look at Thomas Jefferson’s beautiful home and plantation"

Join us on August 8th at 7 PM for our next Free Webinar, "Monticello - An in-depth look at Thomas Jefferson’s beautiful home and plantation"

To register for this event, please click on the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/396559168147

About this event

The five-thousand-acre plantation, Monticello, was designed by Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and the only president trained as an architect. Jefferson began designing Monticello after inheriting land from his father at age 26. Jefferson's home was built to serve as a plantation house, which ultimately took on the architectural form of a villa. It has many architectural antecedents, but Jefferson went beyond them to create something very much his own. He consciously sought to create a new architecture for a “new nation”.

Work began on what historians would subsequently refer to as "the first Monticello"; in 1768, on a plantation of 5,000 acres. Jefferson moved into the South Pavilion (an outbuilding) in 1770, where his new wife Martha Wayles Skelton joined him in 1772. Jefferson continued work on his original design, but how much was completed is of some dispute. In constructing and later reconstructing his home, Jefferson used a combination of free workers, indentured servants, and enslaved laborers. Jefferson began rebuilding his house based on the ideas he had acquired in Europe. The remodeling continued throughout most of his presidency (1801–1809). Although generally completed by 1809, Jefferson continued work on the present structure until his death in 1826.

In this program presented by Ron Ketelsen, president of the Sharon Historical Society, you will learn all about Monticello, from the time of conception, the design and building, the decorations and furnishings, the outbuildings, and plantation, and the preservation of this treasured historic landmark. Ron will also take you on a virtual tour of Monticello.

This presentation will be both an “in person” presentation at the Sharon Free Public Library Community Room at 7 PM as well as available on Zoom.

A question-and-answer session will follow with Ron Ketelsen.

Sharon Historical Society

PO Box 363

Sharon Springs, NY  13459

(518) 860-5513

Email: sharonhistoricalsocietyny@gmail.com

Website: www.sharonhistoricalsocietyny.org

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Bassett’s School-Based Health Program Receives Excellus BCBS Grant to Fund Telehealth Expansion

Cooperstown, N.Y. – Excellus BlueCross BlueShield has named Bassett’s School-Based Health Center (SBHC) program as a 2022 recipient of their Community Health Awards. Jane Hamilton, RN, practice manager and Courtney Graham, FNP, accepted the funding on behalf of SBHC during a visit from Excellus BCBS regional president Eve Van de Wal to the Cooperstown SBHC in June.   Through a competitive application process, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield’s Community Health Awards provide funding to launch, expand, and sustain programs and services that promote health. These investments advance health equity by extending the reach of preventive health services or health-promoting programs to vulnerable populations. The health plan’s corporate giving follows all applicable laws and regulations and does not support funding organizations that conflict with its corporate mission, goals, policies, or products. The $5,000 funding will contribute to the ongoing development of telehealth within the SBHC system. Like many uses of remote meeting technology, telehealth received special attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the technology is an essential complement to in-person local providers well beyond its pandemic applications—especially within a SBHC setting. “Students utilize video visits to access a variety of pediatric specialties,” explains Hamilton. “This includes tele-psychiatry visits with a psychiatrist; medication follow-ups for ADHD or depression; concussion clearance by a pediatrician; and ongoing management of chronic illnesses, such as asthma and psychotherapy with school-based health mental health clinicians Without the need for these specialists to travel to schools throughout the region—or for students to travel to bigger medical centers—practitioners are able to see more patients and students are able to get appointments sooner.” Telehealth becomes even more important to those students with unusual or difficult-to-diagnose conditions. In 2021, Bassett’s SBHC started a telepulmonology program that connects students with rarer asthma and similar pulmonary conditions with sub-specialists in Rochester. The Excellus BCBS Community Health Award will help SBHC expand telehealth to other pediatric sub-specialties. “Providing access to high-quality health care is core to our mission as a nonprofit health plan,” states Eve Van de Wal, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Utica regional president. “We are proud to support the work of Bassett Medical Center’s School-Based Health Centers with essential community health funding to remove barriers to care and improve community health.”

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FENIMORE ART MUSEUM RECEIVES TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITIZATION GRANT

    

Cooperstown, New York – South Central Regional Library Council (SCRLC) has awarded a $5,557.50 Technology and Digitization Grant to Fenimore Art Museum to digitize a collection of microfilmed newspapers from Chenango County and Delaware County. The project was directed by Megan Culbert.

 

The newspaper titles include the New Berlin Gazette and the Delhi Delaware Express.  The newly digitized newspapers will be added to NYS Historic Newspapers, nyshistoricnewspapers.org, where Fenimore Art Museum has uploaded scores of other regional newspaper titles.

 

Newspapers serve as an incredibly important and sometimes rare resource for 20th-century social history. As a result, genealogists, local historians, and students studying the early culture and contemporary history of towns within Delaware and Chenango County will greatly benefit from free, publicly available online access to these resources.

 

Microfilm is a format of film, usually stored on a reel, that contains microphotographs.  Microfilm was a popular way of reformatting and storing newspapers because it is a stable format, slow to deteriorate, and requires significantly less storage space.  The reels are easier to digitize than physical newspapers, especially for old newspapers that are fragile and difficult to handle.

About The South Central Regional Library Council
The South Central Regional Library Council is one of nine Library Councils comprising the Empire State Library Network (ESLN). As a multi-type library consortium, SCRLC serves 69 members across 10,000 square miles in the counties of Allegany, Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, and Yates. SCRLC provides services to 18 academic libraries, 13 hospitals, 12 public libraries, library systems and their members, 6 school library systems and their members, 6 special libraries and 14 affiliate members. SCRLC reaches over 500 libraries in its service area. For more information about SCRLC, visit www.scrlc.org.

 

About Fenimore Art Museum


Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org. 

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Bassett Healthcare Network Invests Nearly $50 Million in Compensation Increases for Its Workforce

                                                                                             

Cooperstown, N.Y. – Bassett Healthcare Network in Central New York has undertaken a full compensation analysis for its caregivers and practitioners across eight counties, investing nearly $50 million into pay increases for its workforce. The analysis, accomplished in partnership with outside firms called Gallagher and Sullivan Cotter, has resulted in wage adjustments across the organization that are competitive across New York State. The project represents Bassett leadership’s intensified dedication to its caregivers and practitioners, recruitment and retention, and the health system’s surrounding communities.

“Bassett Healthcare Network is incredibly pleased to complete this important compensation analysis, a massive collaborative effort in support of our thousands of employees across the region,” says Dr. Tommy Ibrahim, President and CEO. “I can never say it enough – our caregivers and practitioners are the heartbeat of our organization and our most vital asset. Investing in our people is an investment in our patients and communities. I, along with our network board of directors, am 100 percent committed to making Bassett a best place to work nationally because our employees deserve nothing less.”

Bassett partnered with Gallagher to engage in comprehensive position reviews for every caregiver across the organization, examining job descriptions, years of service, education, experience, and market data among other details to put in place a new pay grade structure and harmonize job titles. More than 1,200 caregiver positions have been analyzed individually as part of the analysis. Meanwhile, a parallel assessment conducted by Sullivan Cotter will boost pay structures for Bassett’s practitioner population with a focus on improving incentivized compensation and rewarding quality.

 

“Our overall goal has been to make sure Bassett’s wages are in line with comparable job positions in our industry and region,” explains Christine Pirri, senior vice president and chief people and diversity officer at Bassett Healthcare Network. “Our Human Resources professionals have been diligently evaluating thousands of positions over many months to make sure we are rewarding all employees based on the market and their unique experiences and talents. We’re also paying everyone retroactively to when the analysis project began in January 2022.”

 

The full sweep compensation evaluation and adjustment comes on the heels of Bassett recently increasing its minimum wage to $16 an hour. One year ago, in July 2021, the network increased its minimum wage to $15. Other initiatives are being prioritized by the organization’s leadership to boost retention and recruitment. Bassett, which is celebrating its 100-year anniversary this year, recently launched a new series of ads that underscore the institution’s legacy and more than century-long commitment to building healthy rural communities.

“When Dr. Mary Imogene Bassett – one of the first female medical directors in the history of the United States – founded our hospital in Cooperstown, she had a vision to pioneer advanced health care to our rural communities,” says Dr. Ibrahim. “I know she would be proud to see how we’ve carried out this tremendous legacy and continue to build upon it every day. What was originally a state-of-the-art research hospital nestled in Cooperstown is now a large health care system that spans eight counties and 5,600 square miles throughout Central New York – roughly the size of the state of Connecticut.”

Bassett Healthcare Network includes five hospitals (three of which are designated critical access hospitals), over two dozen community-based health centers, more than 20 school-based health centers, two skilled nursing facilities, a durable medical equipment company, a home health agency, and other partners in related fields. The institution is affiliated with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and has established innovative relationships with companies like Optum.

 

“Opportunities are vast at Bassett for people seeking careers in many disciplines, both clinical and non-clinical,” says Pirri. “Join our team and make a difference in the lives of our communities every day. Join Bassett’s amazing legacy.”

Bassett Healthcare Network is hiring in all locations. Visit www.bassett.org/careers to explore opportunities across the region and apply today. 

 

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Town of Halcott Legal Notice: Public Hearing

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

 

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing shall be held by the Town Board of the Town of Halcott at the Halcott Grange Hall, 264 Route 3, Halcott Center, NY 12430, on August 15, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. to present Local Law 1-2022, The Solar Energy System Pilot Law of the Town of Halcott. Regular board meeting to follow. 

 

 

By Order of the Halcott Town Board

 

Patricia Warfield

Town Clerk

Dated: July 18, 2022

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Opinion: Vaping a Dangerous Path for Youth

By Jennifer Hill

Community Engagement Coordinator

Tobacco Free Communities | Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie

As most know, vaping is a nationwide epidemic. In New York State, vaping or e-cigarette use among high school students spiked in just four years, from 10.5% in 2014 to 27.4% in 2018. This past spring, faculty and staff in Schoharie County public high schools observed 80-90% of students vaping. More worrisome is how often youth vape. The 2021 National Youth Tobacco Survey found that 2.55 million youth used e-cigarettes, with 44% of high school e-cigarette users vaping on 20 or more days a month and 28 percent using e-cigarettes every day. More than 8% of middle school students who vape use e-cigarettes every day. 

It has long been argued that it's the smoke and not the nicotine that kills, but addiction to nicotine, especially during adolescence, can cause long-term harm to brain development and respiratory health. Nicotine has been found to impact attention, learning, and memory negatively. The e-liquids in vapes often have high concentrations of nicotine. JUUL, one of the largest e-cigarette companies, sells pods which contain 20 cigarettes worth of nicotine. People who vape are also more likely to smoke cigarettes, an ironic twist on the tobacco industry's claim that vaping helps people quit smoking. 

E-cigarettes also allow users to inhale nicotine continuously while cigarettes have smaller, measured amounts and allow for smokers to take longer breaks in between smoking each one.  Teenagers who start vaping can become addicted within days. Students often have behavioral problems if their e-cigarettes are confiscated after being caught vaping at school because the effects of withdrawing from high concentrations of nicotine can be acute.

E-liquids often contain other harmful ingredients, including metal particles and chemicals found in cigarette smoke that can cause irreversible lung damage. In addition, e-cigarettes contain hazardous materials, including liquid nicotine, and are not biodegradable, which harms the environment.

As with regular cigarettes, the tobacco industry markets e-cigarettes primarily to youth, knowing that once youth start vaping, they will be long-time customers. Adding sweet, enticing flavors to e-cigarettes is key to addicting youth, which has prompted parents, schools, healthcare providers, and other organizations to push for bans on flavors in e-cigarette. In 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) restricted flavors in cartridge-based e-cigarettes, such as Juuls, to just menthol and tobacco, but the flavor ban didn’t apply to disposable e-cigarettes, such as Puff Bars. It's no surprise that with flavors like Blue Razz and Banana Ice, Puff Bar has overtaken Juul as the favorite e-cigarette for teens. The 2021 National Youth Tobacco Survey cited above reported 85% of the 2.55 million youth who vaped used flavored e-cigarettes, demonstrating the continuing availability of flavored vapes.

Many e-cigarettes are found in small shapes and designs that look like pens, USB drives, asthma inhalers, and other objects, so their users can vape undetected. E-cigarette companies unabashedly call it "stealth vaping" and give advice on how different designs and brands can help the user avoid getting caught. The intended audience is, of course, youth.

While the FDA and New York State have taken measures to reduce youth e-cigarette use through national and state policies, local efforts are needed to combat the epidemic of teen e-cigarette use.  Tobacco Free Communities: Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie works with community organizations, schools and young people  to reduce youth e-cigarette use and prevent youth from initiating tobacco use in our tricounty area. Our youth program, Reality Check, empowers high school students to counter the tobacco industry's deceptive marketing practices that aim to addict them to their harmful products. For more information, contact Reality Check Coordinator, Nicole Schuck at Nicole.Shuck@sphp.com or go to our website, www.gotobaccofreedos.org. 

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Verona Quartet to Perform at Cooperstown Summer Music Festival on August 8

[August 1, 2022] The Verona Quartet, one the most exciting current interpreters of the string quartet literature, will perform at the Otesaga Resort Hotel on Monday, August 8 at 7pm as part of the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival’s 24th season. 

 

The Veronas, whose name pays homage to William Shakespeare and represents the ensemble’s commitment to storytelling through music, will bring their signature luminous sound and delicate craftsmanship to regale Cooperstown audiences.

 

Recent winners of the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, the ensemble has garnered top honors at nearly every significant chamber music competition in recent years, offering new and compelling interpretations of lesser-known works alongside well-loved classics. Their Cooperstown program consists of Puccini’s relatively unknown gem Crisantemi, Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 18 no. 1, and Dvorak’s eternally beloved “American” Quartet.

 

“The Verona Quartet has rocketed to chamber music superstardom because they are consistently delivering dynamic performances that connect with audiences,” says Festival Founder and Artistic Director Linda Chesis. “They really have something to say, and you will want to be there to hear it.”

 

EVENT DETAILS:

 

Verona String Quartet

Monday, August 8, 7:00-9:00pm, Otesaga Resort Hotel

The award-winning quintet presents a program of hidden gems and chamber music classics. 

 

Program

  PUCCINI  Crisantemi

  BEETHOVEN  String Quartet No. 1  in F Major Op. 18 No. 1

  DVORAK  String Quartet No. 12 in F Major Op.96 “American”

 

TICKET INFORMATION:

Tickets are $30 for adults and $15 for students and children. Tickets for all events must be purchased in advance either online from www.cooperstownmusicfest.org or over the phone by calling Purplepass Tickets at 800-316-8559 and selecting Option 1. Please note there is a $2 service fee per phone order.

For all events, audience members must show proof of vaccination, including a required booster shot for those who are eligible.

 

ABOUT THE COOPERSTOWN SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL:

Founded in 1999 by flutist Linda Chesis, the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival has been bringing world-class chamber music performances to the Cooperstown area for 24 years. The festival has featured performances by the American, Juilliard, St. Lawrence, Jupiter and Jasper String Quartets, Stefon Harris, Bill Charlap, Kurt Elling, Simone Dinnerstein, Mark O’Connor, John Pizzarelli, the Sonia Olla Flamenco Dance Company, and many more. Concerts are held in venues across Cooperstown, including the grand Otesaga Hotel, The Farmers’ Museum and Christ Church (the church of author James Fenimore Cooper).

The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

See cooperstownmusicfest.org for details.

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Word Thursdays at Bright Hill

Word Thursdays featuring Meg Kearney & Stacey Lawrence will broadcast live on Zoom and Facebook Live at 7 pm on Thursday, August 11, 2022. To attend the event on August 11, please click this link just before 7 PM:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746 Or visit Bright Hill's Facebook page at 7 PM to view the live stream. RSVP to the event on Facebook here. Or visit the event on our website here. Suggested donation is $3, and free to students. Donations to Bright Hill are gratefully accepted via Paypal by visiting this link, https://paypal.me/brighthillpress, by check made out to Bright Hill Press Inc, and mailed to 94 Church Street, Treadwell, NY 13846, or by credit card by personal appointment by emailing info@brighthillpress.org. Virtual "donation jar:" https://paypal.me/brighthillpress

FEATURED WRITERS

Meg Kearney’s latest poetry collection, All Morning the Crows, was winner of the 2020 Washington Prize for poetry and spent seven months on SPD’s poetry bestseller list after its release in 2021. In addition, Meg is author of An Unkindness of Ravens and Home By Now, winner of the 2010 PEN New England LL Winship Award; it was also a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year. Other works include her heroic crown, The Ice Storm; three verse novels for teens; and her award-winning picture book, Trouper, illustrated by E.B. Lewis. Meg’s poetry has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s “A Writer’s Almanac” and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” series, and included in the 2017 Best American Poetry anthology (Natasah Tretheway, guest editor). A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she lives in New Hampshire and directs the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program in Massachusetts. Visit www.megkearney.com.

A young widow and cancer survivor, Stacey Z. Lawrence is a veteran public high school teacher of Poetry, Creative Writing & Drama. Her work can be seen in The Comstock Review, Eunoia Review, Flora Fiction, Broad River Review, Vita Brevis, Dream Noir and others. She was both long- and short-listed for the 2019 and 2021 Fish Prize in Poetry judged by Billy Collins. Stacey has a BA in Drama from William Paterson University, an MA in English and MAT in Speech & Theater from Montclair State University and was awarded a fellowship to the Robert Frost House in 2016. She was a coach and mentor for the national PoetryOutLoud competition and the NJ Governor's Awards. Stacey co-founded the drama company Stage Right Productions & was former director of the social action performance troupe Impact Theater. In 2012 she worked with playwright Naomi Patz to direct the debut of Karel Svenk’s devastating Holocaust parody, The Last Cyclist. She is the creator of student programs The Write Stuff and Write in the Wood & the former lead singer of the bands, Test Pattern and Three In Motion. An avid hiker, Stacey has a writing cottage in the Catskill mountains. She is the mother of two incredible daughters and 4 cool cats. Fall Risk is her first book. staceyzlawrence.com

To be considered for open mic please email info@brighthillpress.org

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Cornell Cooperative Extension Delaware County Seeks Applications for Board of Directors and Issue Committees

Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) is a dynamic education system that extends Cornell University’s land-grant programs to citizens all across New York State. With a presence in every county and New York City, CCE puts research into practice by providing high value educational programs and university-backed resources that help solve real-life problems, transforming and improving New York families, farms, businesses and communities.

Stakeholder involvement is fundamental to all aspects of CCE’s work in New York State. Volunteers are charged with representing the interests of all citizens who might benefit from the work of Extension in that area.

CCE Delaware County has an active and involved Board of Directors and we are currently seeking persons with an interest in serving as a member of this important group. Candidates to serve on the Agriculture, 4-H and Human Ecology issue committees are also being sought. Eligibility requirements include being a Delaware County resident age 18+ and the ability to attend meetings held 4 to 6 times a year at the CCE Office in Hamden, NY. Individuals who bring a diverse perspective and are supportive of diversity are strongly encouraged to apply. Yearly elections take place at our annual meeting.

For more information:

Call: 607-865-6531 or email kmg289@cornell.edu

Cornell Cooperative Extension is an employer and educator recognized for valuing AA/EEO, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities and provides equal program and employment opportunities. 

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Drumming at Landis on Wednesday, August 3

Drumming is back at Landis!

Join us at 6:30 PM this Wednesday, August 3, to drum! We’ll be in or near the Peace Pavilion at Landis to drum with leader Art Teale. Art is a dedicated musician (his group is Waitin’ on Bob) and a well-respected handyman in the area who welcomes seasoned drummers and newbies for a fun and relaxing experience. 

Please bring:

A. drum (or a plastic bucket that makes a nice sound when struck), or rhythm sticks or other rhythm instrument

A chair or if you prefer, a lawn blanket to sit on

Water (stay hydrated, people!)

Bug stuff to repel both mosquitos and ticks

Drumming is free for everyone.

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