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Child Care Council Hosts Parent Coffee Hour

Parent networking session will address the topic of “Play without Electronics” (Oriskany, NY) Do you ever wish you could get together with other parents to discuss common child-rearing questions and concerns? If so, then the Child Care Council is sponsoring the event for you! Join the Child Care Council on Monday, Sept. 20 at 7 [...]

Class Offered on How to Lay Block Pavers

(Oriskany, NY) Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oneida County will be offering a class on “How to Lay Block Pavers for a Sidewalk and/or Patio Mini Garden” on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 6:00 pm to dusk. Free of charge. The class will be conducted outside next to the butterfly house. Steve Drake, owner of Drake’s [...]

Oneida County Names Three Dairy of Distinction Award Winners

Oneida County Cornell Cooperative Extension is pleased to announce that three local dairy farms have received the Dairy of Distinction Award. Since 1984 the Dairy Farm Beautification Program has been sponsoring this award which recognizes well maintained and attractive farm operations. This years winners will join the prestigious group of 41farms throughout Oneida County that [...]

2010 Tomato/Potato LATE BLIGHT Update

(Oriskany, NY) Late blight is a highly contagious air borne disease that caused the Great Potato Famine in the 1800’s and wiped out much of last year’s tomato crop. The cool, damp weather that we had last year, provided the perfect environment for the disease to take hold and spread quickly. Late Blight has been [...]

Herb and Flower Fest a Success

(Oriskany, NY) Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oneida County Master Gardeners would like to thank all who came out to the 14th Annual Herb & Flower Festival held at the Parker Scripture Botanical Gardens in Oriskany, NY on Saturday, June 26. A total of 1,330 folks attended the event. Fifty vendors sold plants, garden tools, wares, [...]

County Residents MVCC Graduates

(Utica, NY) The following Oneida County residents were candidates for graduation at Mohawk Valley Community College. MVCC held its commencement exercises on May 21. From Oriskany Falls: Jessie Rocker. From Sherrill: Joseph Luckette.

Local Sweet Adelines Chapter Dissolves

Three new groups emerge By Margo Frink (Oneida, NY) After 31 years of harmonizing barbershop style, members of Sound of Silver Chorus have decided to call it quits. “After much discussing and agonizing, the 19 singers voted to dissolve the local chapter of Sweet Adelines International,” said Rose Hosp. “In many attempts to sign on [...]

Destito secures millions for State Preparedness Training Center

State budget includes over $42 million for training facility in Oriskany (Oriskany, NY) Assemblywoman RoAnn Destito (D-Rome) announced that the final state budget includes over $42 million in funding for the New York State Preparedness Training Center at the former Oneida County airport in Oriskany. The money will be used to expand the center to [...]

Arcuri, Schumer, Gillibrand Push to Move Marcy Nanotech Project Forward

Call on Army Corps to Remove Roadblock in Draft Wetlands Permit Stalling Further Development of Site (Washington, D.C.) In a letter on Thursday, June 17, 2010, U.S. Rep. Michael Arcuri (NY-24) and U.S. Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) called on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Buffalo District Commander LTC Daniel Snead [...]

Teens Learn Plant Container Design

(Utica, NY – June 11, 2010) Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oneida County staff and Master Gardener volunteers educated over twenty teens on “Annual and Perennial Container Design” this past Thursday at the Oneida County Office Building located in Utica. The teens were from the YouthBuild program, operated by the Workforce Investment Board of Herkimer, Madison [...]

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