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Custom made wood products their specialty who live right here in the community. There’s You may have missed something special about Finger Lakes Wood the Adirondacks, and we Products in Dolgville if help bring that into your you go to Southern Girl, home.” Zipps, Stewarts, George Lumber, or even Green Bucky Johnson worked Acres. The fact is, I’ve for Rawlings for 21 years been to all of those as the log buyer and a places many times and supervisor. “I made rough didn’t realize that this blanks for the baseball business is just west of bats. I’ve always been North Helmer Avenue on in the woods hunting or Cavalli Street. cutting trees. It’s just how I was brought up.” Brendt & Bucky Johnson bought the former Johnson’s father Buryford Farms from was a logger, and his Bill Alguire & Frank grandfather worked Herrigshaw in 2021, for Rawlings in 1958, and they said along with splitting the blocks to their inventory came make the billets by hand. a legacy of supporting “it’s pretty neat - a lot of local logging families & history,” he said. providing customers with unsurpassed quality. On Bucky and his brother their website, they state, Brendt had always talked “When you purchase about having some kind wood products from of forestry business. “I us, you’re buying high- really didn’t want to get quality, sustainable into the logging aspect wood products from the of it. It’s dangerous, and knowledgeable folks I watched my father get By Dave Warner
Photo by Dave Warner - Finger Lakes Wood Products is located at 50 Cavalli Street in Dolgeville.
hit with a tree, and it’s nothing I wanted to mess around with.” He said that he did have a passion for sawmilling, and his brother said, ‘If you find something, let’s do it.’ It so happens that the former owner of Buryford Farms contacted him and said that the place would be coming up for sale. “I told my brother, and we went for a tour; he
told my brother the price, and we thought it over. He asked, ‘What do you think?’ And I said, let’s do it.”
is the owner, but he’s put the business in his hands. “Luckily for me, I have Rachel to oversee that side of the business. Lumber, flooring, and all “I was pretty excited to of that. There’s just so come aboard. My brother much involved.” is involved in a lot of businesses, including an He buys the logs, insurance company, a measures them, grades logging company, and an them, puts them on underground directional the deck for his guys, drilling business.” answers all the calls from log suppliers, and Bucky said that he likes it because his brother Please See WOOD Page 3
On the Set at the Little Falls Movie Filming of “Wallace Peebles Paranormal Inspectre” By Denise Louise Gregorka
the crew, with a lot of laughter and a relaxed atmosphere.
for a comedy.”
Have you heard? Little Falls has once again been chosen as a place The Executive Profor filmmaking! ducer How fun to think that our city is being utilized more and more by filmmakers. Michael Flores, executive producer, and Steven Nesbit, director, welcomed my visit on the set of their comedy “Wallace Peebles Paranormal Inspectre.” It was a bright February day here in Little Falls when I caught up with the film crew. As I walked onto the set located in an old industrial building, which is now the home of Ace Hardware, I immediately noticed the great rapport among
He told me that he is using mostly local actors. He stated, “We try to use as many local sources and people as we can.” He is Michael Flores has been very happy to be filming in the film business in Little Falls and added, for over twenty years, “The area has been starting out as an actor, more than welcoming. which he still does, but The George family at has also segued into Ace Hardware here are writing, producing, & wonderful people.” directing. He explained, “The movie is a fun The Director comedy about a crew of people trying to make The film’s director, Steve a reality show based Nesbit, who is from the on their paranormal U.K., wrote this film with investigations.” He said that they do a breaking- his writing partner, Karl of-the-fourth-wall, similar Hall, also from the U.K. to what they do in ‘The This is their fifth filmOffice’ where they actually writing together. speak to the camera and connect to the audience. Nesbit, who also acts in He stated, “It’s a lot of the film, explained to me fun; It’s a great vehicle Please See FILM Page 2
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