Views from Around New York State Hunting contests should not be allowed in New York From: The Albany Times Union. It would be convenient to misconstrue a bill in the state Legislature to ban wildlife killing contests in New York as some kind of anti-hunting measure. It is not. As even many hunters and fish and game officials are realizing, the waste and bloodlust of these indiscriminate killing events threaten to harm the image of hunting as a valid wildlife…
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JUSTICE for GILLIAN Sister, Senator Plan Rally For Parole Reform By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – When David Dart was sentenced for the murder of Gillian Gibbons, her sister Jennifer Kirkpatrick remembered a chilling message he gave her in the courtroom. “He looked right at me and said, ‘I’ll be back,’” she recounted. Now, 30 years after Gillian’s death, Jennifer is mounting a campaign to keep her convicted killer in prison. “My goal is to let the community…