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ONEONTA – Common Council a few minutes ago approved a law, 5-3, that will allow the raising of chickens within city limits.
Voting aye were Maureen Hennessy, Larry Malone, Bob Brzozowski, Madolyn Palmer and Chip Holmes.
Voting nay were Mayor Russ Southard and Council members David Rissberger and Mike Lynch.
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…
Oneonta Councilman Larry Malone Announces He Won’t Seek 2nd Term ONEONTA – Common Council member Larry Malone, a Hartwick College economics professor and protege of former Mayor Dick Miller, told his colleagues a few moments ago he won’t run for a second term this fall. “Working to improve our city with my fellow Council members has been tremendously rewarding,” he said at this evening’s Common Council meeting. “Our successes come from casting aside politics and always putting the interest of Oneonta citizens first. “When my term concludes, I will continue to help others discover Oneonta, for a visit, for college, or for the…
Life Sketches by Terry Berkson Little Caesar Hits The Highway Deporting an abusive rooster didn’t solve a plucking problem because my hens continued to lose their feathers and I was sure it wasn’t due to molting. Eventually, I caught Geezbrook, my prize Buff Orpington rooster, in the act with a telltale feather in his beak. I decided, as handsome as he was, that he would have to go to King’s Auction. Back on the farm, the remaining rooster continued the abuse, but I decided not to give him up because then I wouldn’t hear his crow in the morning, which…