It’s always the perfect time for ice cream at the Polar Bear Homemade Ice Cream parlor! Above, Joseph Dalton, who has known owners Heather and Michael Ross for over 40 years, get a cone of soft-serve with his grandchildren Daniel and Olivia Jagielo, from Macy Jordan, Franklin during The Polar Bear’s customer appreciation day. (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com
The annual OWL Ice Cream Social was the place to be this afternoon and families flocked to Fortin Park to enjoy dancing, arts & crafts, martial arts and dancing demonstrations and of course, ice cream! Above, Amelia Mosher Campoli, Oneonta harnesses a passing breeze to make a giant bubble at one of the children’s activities stations. Right, Noah Pfeiffer, Oneonta, does his best at enjoying a bowl of brownie sundae ice cream, courtesy of Stewart’s Ice Cream. (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com)
SPRING FEST – 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Features music and events including the Ross Park Zoomobile and a Fishing Derby by Trout Unlimited. Copes Corner Park, on Rte. 51 between Gilbertsville and Mt. Upton. Info, www.townofbutternuts.org/copes-corners-park/
FLOWER SHOW – 5-7 p.m. Opening reception of The Cherry Valley Flower Show on display to June 4. The Cherry Branch Gallery, 25 Main St., Cherry Valley. Info, call (607)264-9530 or email info@cherrybranchgallery.com or visit cherrybranchgallery.com
It was a wet and windy day for OWL’s ninth annual Ice Cream Social, hosted this afternoon by the Oneonta World of Learning at Fortin Park, where its new headquarters is opening in the next few weeks. But that didn’t keep people like Elsa Marigliano and Kylie Gregory from enjoying the afternoons’ offerings including crafts, bubbles, face painting, dancing by Stanley Wade, a percussion circle, magic by Bobert the Great, and of course, ice cream! (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com)
Oneonta’s Pearl Robinson and Lena Hunt scoop up samples of vanilla ice cream that was made at the Greater Oneonta Historical Society using an old-time ice cream churn that was brought out for the Fabulous First Friday festivities. (Ian Austin/allotsego.com)