As Demand Dips, Farms Dump Milk For Pernat Family, This Is A First In 100 Years By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com FLY CREEK VALLEY – Since 1920, Mark Pernat’s family has sold milk from their Fly Creek Valley farm. “My dad always said, ‘If you make the milk, they’ll come buy it,’ said Pernat. But the truck didn’t come on April 5. “Our co-op called and told us we had to dump our milk and we would not be…
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IN MEMORIAM: Christel Burdt Dahl, 96; Immigrant Helped Parents Farm Locally FLY CREEK – Christel Burdt Dahl, 96, who immigrated from Danzig, Germany, in 1924, and helped her family develop a dairy farm in the Fly Creek Valley, passed away peacefully on April 13, 2019. Christel, the daughter of Richard and Franziska Burdt, was born on July 18, 1922, in the Free City of Danzi. She immigrated to the U.S. with her mother, who was joining her husband, who had…
Is It A Deer? Is It A Bobcat? A Mountain Lion, Perhaps FLY CREEK VALLEY – Visiting his parents from Saigon, where he’s now living, Jan Kuzminski Monday, Aug. 21, was taking a walk at dusk on Donlon Road when he observed a deer-colored creature crossing the road ahead. But the animal loped like a cat, and as it vanished into the underbrush, Kuzminski saw a 2-foot-long tail with a black tip, his mother, Antoinette, confirmed a few minutes ago.…