They are the champions! Meet the Laurens Central School Jaguars SA-1 Winter Guard, fresh off their championship turn at the Mid York Color Guard Circuit’s competition on April 2 in Clifton Park. Top row, left to right, Athena Saggese, Sophie Gilmore, and Mackenzie Budine; center row, left to right, Sierra Rondeau, Natalie Davis, Mallory Kovacs, and Alexis Cole; lower row, left to right, Alicia Stevens, Isabella Failla, Emma Hughes, and Mackenzie Louden. Read all about their victory and all the work it takes to keep the team at peak performance in our story HERE.
North American Cashmeres, junior apprentice program among Hulse Hill’s treasures Christine McBrearty-Hulse takes a moment to check in with one of her farm’s North American Cashmere Goats The chickens, Christine McBrearty-Hulse said, were “the gateway drug to farming” when she thought it would be fun to raise a few. Hulse Hill Farm, on Route 28 midway between Cooperstown and Fly Creek, still has chickens, but also pigs, barn cats, a rabbit, and goats of various age gathered in spacious fenced-in fields, with the farm’s North American Cashmere goat herd at the core of her farm products. “It’s a true homestead…
Margaret “Peg” “Peggy” Kane Carney, 86, died Tuesday, August 13, 2024 at home, after living for a dozen years with Alzheimer’s disease. She was predeceased by her parents, Donald and Helen (McLaughlin) Kane; her brothers, Charles and James Kane; her husband, John J. Carney Jr., and her granddaughter, Kaitlin Carney. …
We all know that the punishment for animal cruelty is weak, and it is discouraging to those of us fighting for the cause, but I can report firsthand that when there is a case of suspected animal cruelty, we often have multitudes of people reaching out because they care about animals.…