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LETTER from MICHAEL WHALING And by The Way, Pesticides Still Used On Lakeside Links To the Editor: As spring slowly approaches, golf season will begin and pesticides applied to the Leatherstocking Golf Course on the sloping west shore of Cooperstown’s drinking water source and Susquehanna River headwaters. While this practice has been previously challenged by this writer and others, the Biological Field Station has been silent. Their only comment was: “Nothing was found” in their testing. While this is good…
NATURE INSPIRES Sharon’s Michael Whaling Master Of Wood, Stone By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When Susie Weil, longtime Smithy Pioneer Gallery trustee, saw Michael Whaling’s first chair, she urged him to take an example to her girlhood friend, Aurelia “Thistle” Brown, at the Windspread Gallery in Northeast, Maine. “Go see her,” she urged; the two had been girlhood volunteers together at the American Natural History Museum on Central Park West. “I will call ahead and let…
POEM TO THE EDITOR Rill Mischief Underground splashing, a steady hollow gurgle under glassy bubble ice and this winter’s snow. Uneven at first, then the steady rhythm of the search for downhill. Water always takes the easy way, especially when no one is watching. MICHAEL WHALING Cherry Valley…