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Waller To Discuss Legacy Artists at the Art Garage Sept. 12

The gallery will open at 4 p.m. with light refreshment. Seating is limited and reservations are recommended via leartgarage@gmail.com or by texting (315) 941-9607. CrazyCool!!! also features outsider artists Lucia Phillips (Hartwick), Zena Gurbo (Gilbertsville/Brooklyn), and George Hymas (Pierstown), and guest artist Lewis Danielski (London/Middlefield). Visitors are reminded to park on gallery lawns rather than on the town road.…

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NY State Assembly Recognizes Local Historian for Her Work

Eckmair was specifically acknowledged for her involvement in a research project which ultimately quashed an Army Corps of Engineers plan to install a series of dams in the Butternut Valley. According to the citation, these dams would have created a 7-mile-long lake, thus “flooding the entire village and most of the Butternut Valley and over 4,000 years of Native American civilization.” Congress deauthorized the monies appropriated for the plan in 1979.…

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Parade, Fireworks Celebrate GFD’s 150th Anniversary

The GFD’s “attack truck,” known as “Big Mike,” was accompanied by the department’s other vehicles—a tanker and a brush truck. The GFD was joined in the parade by other area departments and their fire engines: Sidney, Morris, South New Berlin, and Wells Bridge. The Sidney contingent also included a 1929 Model-A Ford.…

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Otsego 2000 To Present Walking Tour of Gilbertsville

The Gilbertsville Historic District, which was first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, was inspired by a plan to place dams that would flood the Butternut Valley, destroying the historic landscape. In the Village of Gilbertsville, this is just one example of the advocacy that has led to action in the areas of education, natural resources and human rights.…

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Gilbertsville Gearing Up for Hullabaloo Number Two

Approximately 30 vendors will be selling their wares at Hullabaloo, many of them homemade, home-grown or home-produced. Browsers and shoppers will find foraged mushrooms, eggs, sourdough maple syrup, blown glass, local cider, jewelry, candles, soaps, fresh vegetables, locally grown beef, pottery, crystals, flowers, and more.…