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VOLUME 2: NUMBER 6
JUNE 2022
Violet Festival Blooming Again in Dolgeville by Carol Vogel
Everyone loves a local outdoor festival, so mark your calendars for June 10, 11, and 12, 2022 for the Violet Festival in Dolgeville! This year’s theme is all about fairytales and is named “Once Upon a Violet”. The theme will encompass the Saturday morning parade and will also flow throughout the village-wide house decorating contest. Kicking things off with the Opening Ceremonies at 6:30 pm on June 10th, the 3-day festival has something for everyone. With live entertainment, craft and food vendors, a parade,
contests, garage sales, demonstrations, pageants, and fireworks, the festival will be a fun event for the whole family! Crystal Napier, the president of the Violet Festival Committee was excited to speak about the Festival getting back to normal after cancelations in June of 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid Pandemic. “We canceled in 2020 and 2021, so it’s been two years”. Crystal added “Once people heard we were going to have it, they were excited to not only participate but to be able to attend.” The Festival has been a
Photo by Dave Warner - Members of the Dolgeville High School marching band participate in a past Violet Festival parade.
highlight in Dolgeville for over 20 years, celebrating the village’s history, local artisans and vendors. The excitement can be felt in
the town, as preparations are being made after the two-year hiatus. Violet Festival weekend is a highly anticipated family
d’Ovine Intervention by Katie Drake
Like a scene out of The Sound of Music, the steep hills above Sherman Street are alive with the sounds of nature. Atop that hill overlooking the City of Little Falls stands an old, rugged wooden cross in one of St. Mary’s oldest cemeteries. It’s a beautiful reminder that
this is where some of our city’s families were laid to rest in the late 1800s. The cemetery has been full for many years now, which means they are no longer burying people there. When that happens, religious institutions, like Holy Family Parish, which owns the old St. Mary’s Cemetery,
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event and is always popular among Dolgeville Central School alumni to Please See VIOLETS Page 3
struggle with the upkeep and maintenance. Until now. If you walk through today, you’ll see the cemetery is kept up beautifully. Who, you may ask is mowing all the grass, so well in fact that it appears that each of the gravestones has been expertly trimmed? A flock of 135 sheep that’s who. Forty ovines at a Please See SHEEP Page 5
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