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By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com
IN WARRENSBURG
WARRENSBURG — Local resident John Wulfken grabbed a branch off a bamboo-like dense shrub that had recently grown to be about 25 feet long at the town landfill. “This is nothing,” he said, looking at various six-foottall stands of Japanese Knotweed circling the landfill. “I can show you places that are really infested with this fast-growing weed.” John Wulfken talked Aug. 12 of how Japanese Knotweed is now spreading through the hamlet of Warrensburg, taking over back yards, vacant lots, and threatening property values as its roots grow horizontally underground, sending up dense shoots that quickly crowd out other plants. “People don’t understand what a threat this can be, and how hard it is to get rid of it,” Wulfken continued, observing that it often grows
Matt Doheny visits Oscar’s Sadie and Travis Burnett and their mother Jodi watch an antique hot-air water pump operate at the Warren County Heritage Festival held Saturday Aug. 11. Tom Davis owns the wood-fired 1886 machine. Photo by Barbara Whitford
By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com WARRENSBURG — Hundreds attended the debut edition of the Warren County Rural Heritage Festival & Youth Fair on Saturday Aug. 11, an event that celebrated local history as it
showcased the accomplishments of 4H youth. The fair attracted all ages, with its displays and demonstrations of traditional skills, tools and crafts of bygone days, as well as the familiar youth fair talent show, horse show and youth produce and craft competitions. The fair was a first-ever collabora-
tion between the Warren County Historical Society and the 4-H program of Cornell Cooperative Extension.The day-long event featured a square dance, horseshoe competitions, 19th century games and story telling. There were 4-H exhibits and displays by Cornell Cooperative Extension in the county fairgrounds beside and in
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Warrensburg leaders to fine-tune property upkeep law
CHESTERTOWN
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POTTERSVILLE
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By Thom Randall
WARRENSBURG
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BOLTON
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EDITORIAL
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PUBLISHER’S COLUMN
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CLASSIFIEDS
Supervisors take on croquet
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Index
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COUNTY NEWS
Heritage Festival attracts all generations
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HISTORY COLUMN
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WARRENSBURG — Local residents confronted the Warrensburg Town Board with their criticisms of the proposed town property maintenance law, and the panel agreed to reconsider some of the pending or-
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dinance’s provisions. A workshop meeting to re-examine the ordinance has been set for 4 p.m. Wednesday Sept. 5, and the public is invited to attend and observe. Criticisms were aired that the property maintenance law might be too strict, be selectively enforced, or be a burden on some homeowners to
comply with. Town officials countered that the proposed law was primarily a tool to force cleanup of abandoned and foreclosed properties in town. Town Supervisor Kevin Geraghty said the law was also an effort to protect the property values of neighbors of unkempt properties. The proposed ordinance forces
property owners to mow their grass, remove dead limbs, trim their shrubs, repair unsound structures, and dispose of trash. Not only are structures required to be kept in good repair, but their overhangs, gutters and canopies must be painted to prevent weathering. Fences and retaining walls, CONTINUED ON PAGE 19
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