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A ‘Brilliant’ win Willow Bank sailors earn Martha’s Vineyard schooner title
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Seven sailors from Cazenovia’s Willow Bank Yacht Club recently won the Schooner Class at the 34th Annual Pat West Gaff Rig and Schooner Race.
On Saturday Sept. 18, seven sailors from Cazenovia’s Willow Bank Yacht
Club won the Schooner Class aboard the celebrated schooner Brilliant at the 34th Annual Pat West Gaff Rig and Schooner Race. The 61-foot auxiliary
schooner Brilliant has been owned by the Mystic Seaport Museum since 1953 and is the platform for one of the nation’s oldest sailSchooner l Page 15
Madison County Historian releases first book, honors veterans of World Wars By kate Hill Staff Writer
This past August, Madison County Historian Matthew Urtz released his first book, “Honoring World War Casualties of Madison County, New York.” Published by The History Press, the book tells the stories of more than 190 soldiers who were killed in the service during the First and Second World Wars. Urtz uses newspapers, personal accounts, military records, census records, and more to describe the veterans’ pre-war lives, their experiences in the service, and how they died. The author will discuss his book at the Cazenovia Public Library (CPL) on Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. in the Betsy Kennedy Community Room. Urtz was appointed Madison County Historian in April 2010. He started researching the county’s World War I veterans in 2016 in preparation for the centennial of America’s entry into the war. The historian limited his research to veterans who were born in, lived in, were buried in, were educated in, worshipped in, and/or worked in Madison County. While digging up information, Urtz discovered that some soldiers with personal ties to Madison County were not listed in the New York State records. “Our county clerk at the time had this really neat
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Michael Silberberg, of Berkley Properties, LLC, presented his preliminary vision for two parcels within the village — 99 Albany St. (the former Napa store) and 103 Albany St.
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Madison County Historian Matthew Urtz recently published his first book, “Honoring World War Casualties of Madison County, New York,” which relays the stories of Madison County veterans who died in the First and Second World Wars. Urtz will discuss the book at the Cazenovia Public Library on Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. journal that listed everyone that came through Wampsville and went into the service, whether it was a man or a woman,” he recalled. “. . . I decided to start writing a paragraph about everybody that died while they were in service. The state lists that we had something like 60 people die, and I ended up finding 120 with ties to Madison County who died.” When he reached out to a publisher about his work, Urtz was urged to expand his book to include World War II veterans. Using the state records as a starting point again, Urtz worked to compile a list of World War II soldiers with ties to Madison County.
Village seeks input on two vacant Albany Street sites By kate Hill Staff Writer
“The state list didn’t incorporate a lot of the colleges,” Urtz said. “[It left out] a lot of young men that went through Colgate’s training program or Morrisville College, [which] had a program where they brought students up from Brooklyn.” Urtz said he ended up with about double the number of names that were on the state’s list. “From there, it was just researching the stories behind them and what happened,” he said. “It’s only folks that died while they were in service, so there were no happy endings,
[but] we did find a whole lot of compelling stories.” The amount of space in the book dedicated to each soldier varies depending on the available information. For each person, Urtz aimed to provide where they lived and what their life was like before the war, their tie to Madison County, where they were educated, whether they were married and had kids, where they trained and served, how they died, and where they were buried. Urtz explained that while some of the World War I veterans featured in Book l Page 13
On Oct. 3, the Village of Cazenovia Board of Trustees held a public hearing to receive input on a proposed grant application for funding to redevelop two parcels within the village downtown — 99 Albany St. (the former Napa store) and 103 Albany St. (formerly a gas station). The property assessment list provided by the village describes 99 Albany St. as a 3555 square feet vacant commercial property and 103 Albany St. as a 1571 square feet vacant commercial property. The Cazenovia Area Community Development Association (CACDA) is applying on behalf of the village to the Empire State Development Corporation for the Restore NY Communities Initiative grant program, which provides municipalities with financial assistance for the revitalization of commercial and residential properties. The program encourages community development and neighborhood growth through the elimination and redevelopment of blighted structures. According to CACDA Executive Director Lauren Lines, the program emphasizes economically distressed areas but also “gives weight” to rural areas. The village’s application for Restore NY grant funding for the 99/103 Albany Street Redevelopment Project is not to exceed $2,000,000. One of the requirements of the application, which is due Oct. 11, is a public hearing. Before the board opened the public hearing, Lines provided some background on the grant program, which she said was last offered in 2017. This time around, it is being offered in two Board l Page 4
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community news: Cazenovia Garden Club already thinking spring.
sports news: Caz football moves to 4-0, beats Clinton.
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