Cherry Valley-Springfield's goalkeeper Anthony Brant, left, gets some defensive help from teammate Scott Sheldon in a Class D state regional boys soccer playoff game vs. Poland, Friday, Nov. 9, 2007, at Herkimer County Community College's Wehrum Stadium in Herkimer. Poland won 2-1 in overtime.
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CV-S Boys Soccer
Arctic Journey begins in Cherry Valley
March 29, 2007
CHERRY VALLEY – Who would have ever thought a journey across the Arctic Circle would begin in Cherry Valley?
The answer to that came by way of a phone call from the mother of one of two young cousins, Paul Lundkvist and Kevork Derderian, both from the Chicago area. The two young men, both in their 20s, according to Ricardo Sierra, executive director of the nonprofit Hawk Circle, of Cherry Valley, were trained at Hawk Circle recently in preparation of their July adventure across the Arctic Circle – following a phone call from one of the young men’s mother.
... moreNancy Erway: memory maker
Community Profiles - Nancy Erway: memory maker, memory keeper in Cherry Valley
12/14/2006
CHERRY VALLEY – Walk through the doors of Nancy’s Old and New shop on Main Street in Cherry Valley and you will be bombarded by many things, tangible and intangible. First and foremost, at first glance, you will be bombarded by...junk. Yes, junk. Good junk. Lots of junk. New junk, old junk. Everywhere you look you will see junk. Or is it? ...
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Fire destroys Young's barn - 2-19-2007
2-19-2007 Staff Report Cherry Valley fire crews went out twice this weekend to a barn fire on Wikoff Road. There were close to 2,000 bales of hay in the barn owned by Laverne and Lorraine Young, said Cherry Valley Fire Chief Kevin VanBuren. He said the barn was "fully engulfed" by the time crews got there Saturday night. "We didn’t stand a chance," VanBuren said Sunday. No animals were in the barn, VanBuren said, but there were tools and the hay... more at thedailystar.com
C.V. fire destroys barn, hay
CV-S plans project meets
2-22-2007
coopercrier.com
By CASEY CAMPBELL
Staff Writer
On Tuesday, the first public informational meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Room 145. The second building project presentation will take place Monday, March 5 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 145.
The Board of Education and Community Advisory Council will present details about the project at the meetings as well as take questions from the audience.
A copy of the presentation the Community Advisory Council made to the school board can be viewed here.
Information about the project is also available on the district’s website at www.cvscs.org/ under the "Board of Education" tab.
The project would cost $7.79 million and breaks the work down into three major areas: space reconfiguration, building systems maintenance and upgrading and exterior site work.
Space reconfiguration is slated to cost $2.35 million and focuses on shuffling the library, classrooms and administrative offices to improve the flow of the school, improve office efficiency and address safety concerns with the current layout.
The building systems maintenance aspect of the project would cost $1.85 million and involves repairing or replacing some of the "nuts and bolts" elements in the school. Examples include fixing leaks with the roof, upgrading the clock system and replacing one of the building’s boilers.
The third component of the project, exterior site work, would cost $1.7 million. It includes replacing the pavement and reconfiguration of the parking area and student drop-off zone to enhance pedestrian and vehicle traffic flow.
If approved, the project will have an estimated impact on the tax levy of slightly more than one-half of one percent, or about $23,107 per year over the 15-year life of the project. Estimates provided by one of the project’s engineers call for approximately $30,000 per year in savings brought about by energy efficiency improvements included in the project, reducing the annual impact from $53,107 to the $23,107 figure.
Chiba's Straw House
By D.M. SHEAN
CHERRY VALLEY
Why build a straw house? Ten years ago, the Chibas decided they would, in part because they could. Straw houses aren't permitted everywhere.
With the help of 100 friends, family members and neighbors, Kat and Kazuhire constructed a home out of 200 wire-cut bales of straw from western New York, building a strong connection to their community as they went.
"A straw bale house provided the rustic feeling of a renovated barn at a more affordable price,” Kat said the other day.
Containing 1,000 square feet of usable space, it has been a comfortable home for the couple and their three children, Josie, Koh and Scott.
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The World Is Discovering Dana Spiotta
Imagine. The phone rings and you’re told you’re a National Book Award finalist.
“I was thrilled and surprised,” said Dana Spiotta, who received that call on a lucky Friday the 13th in October.
...
More about the Rose & Kettle's author in residence at
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Mark D. Cornwell, New Town Board Member
When Mark D. Cornwell was 8 years old and growing up in Deposit, his Uncle Dave took him to work one Saturday at the state Catskill Fish Hatchery in Livingston Manor.
That’s when young Mark, now an instructor in SUNY Cobleskill’s Fisheries & Wildlife Program, knew what he wanted to do for a living.
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Dec. 14, 2006 Meeting
150 people packed the bleachers in the old high school gym on the evening of Thursday, Dec. 14.
Would the Cherry Valley town board adopt a “gold standard” wind-power ordinance that would halt Reunion Power’s 24-turbine East Hill project in its tracks? ...
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The Freeman's Journal - 2006 Citizen of the Year - Thomas Garretson
Cherry Valley Supervisor Guided Town Through Dangers To A New Consensus
By JIM KEVLIN
CHERRY VALLEY
Tom Garretson always liked people.
But for the first 35 years of his life, he didn’t see many of them.
“On the farm you hardly see anyone at all,” said the tall, lanky Cherry Valley town supervisor, “except your family.”
In 2006, it was quite the opposite, as he presided at packed meeting after packed meeting and debate raged over Reunion Power’s 24-turbine wind farm proposed for East Hill.
Given that he liked people, Garretson began the year – his first as supervisor, succeeding 38-year veterans Bob Loucks Jr., his father-in-law – wanting to make everybody happy.
Over the course of the year he discovered “at the end of the day, you might not make anybody happy.”
Having reached that conclusion, he realized there was no alternative to listening, thinking, reflecting, trying to keep an open mind but, in the end, coming to his own conclusion.
For safely ferrying his divided rural community from one threatened by runaway industrial wind-turbine development to one that is planning and in control of its future, and by doing so with patience, courtesy and growing wisdom, Tom Garretson was selected as The Freeman’s Journal “Citizen of 2006,” which will now be an annual designation...
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2-13-2007 $15 million Communications Grant
2-13-2007 By Tom Grace Cooperstown News Bureau COOPERSTOWN _ The Otsego County Board of Representatives and other organizations are working on a proposal to ask for federal money to modernize telecommunications in the county. At the board’s Feb. 7 meeting, Roy Althiser, the county’s communications director, said that groups, including area schools and the Otsego County Chamber, hope to work with the county in applying for a $15 million federal grant through the office of U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. The money would be used to upgrade the county’s emergency-communications system and to bring high-speed Internet and cellular-telephone service to all of the county, Althiser said...
Otsego groups teaming up for communications grant
thedailystar.com
1-25-2007 CV-S unveils $7.78 million capital project
1-25-2007
By CASEY CAMPBELL
Staff Writer
The board of education approved the scope of the project Thursday night during its regular business meeting and set a date for the referendum on the $7.78 million project, which will have an estimated impact on the tax levy of slightly more than one-half of one percent or about $23,107 per year over the 15-year life of the project...
more at
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