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Chris Kjolhede

Invasive Species: Pesky Plants: Coltsfoot Not Easy to Rein In

Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) is a small perennial plant that is invasive in much of the northeastern United States. It crops up in areas where the soil has been disturbed, such as roadsides and building sites. Coltsfoot’s value to wildlife in our area is very small. It spreads by both sending out underground shoots (rhizomes) and by seeds carried on the wind after the bloom.…
May 29, 2025

Valentine’s Soirée Raises More Than $250,000.00 for School-Based Health

School-Based Health staff and school superintendents pose with the event’s honorary guests, Chris Kjolhede, MD, MPH, and Jane V. Hamilton, RN. Bottom row, from left: Denise Hernandez, Corinne Smith, Jane Hamilton, Dawn Calkins, Paul Arandia, Courtney Graham-Arandia, Emily Wentworth, Kristen Stanford, Denise Dye, Ann Marie Mills, Susan Converse. Middle row: Chris Kjolhede, Janet Erickson, Gloria Robinson, Kerri LeBlanc, Jessica Gaske, Betsy Duerheimer, Michelle Nieves. Top row: Holly Bennett, Ruthanne Van Buren, Brittney Hanford, Tammy Loucks, Janet Erickson, Kristen Wager, Leah…
April 20, 2023

Methodists At Fly Creek Pray Peacefully Together

from JULIE HUNTSMAN, CHRIS KJOLHEDE Methodists At Fly Creek Pray Peacefully Together To the Editor: We appreciate this paper’s coverage of local dissent from the global United Methodist Church’s “Traditional Plan” which passed by a slim majority at the church’s conference in February of this year. To those not acquainted with the issue, the Traditional Plan continues the UMC Book of Discipline’s codified discrimination of people identifying as LGBTQ.   Those so identifying are not turned away from church, but…
May 22, 2019

Delgado Appoints 3 From Otsego County To Healthcare Pan

Streck, Kjolhede, Smith Named Delgado Appoints 3 From Otsego County To Healthcare Panel Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19th, included three Otsego County representatives to a 19th Congressional District Health Care Advisory Committee he announced yesterday to advise him on “skyrocketing costs of healthcare and on healthcare legislation before the House.” They are Bassett Healthcare Network President Bill Streck, Dr. Chris Kjolhede, director of Bassett’s School-Based Health Center Program, and Sue Smith, Otsego County Health Department deputy director.…
May 11, 2019

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