The scholarship committee will be reviewing these letters and making decisions in early spring 1999. This summer the local chapter of the American Cancer Survivors group donated and planted a tree near the picnic area. However, the tree was damaged and did not survive. Friends of Rogers has replaced the damaged tree. The DEC is responsible for protecting New York's natural resources.
Bats are black or brown and swoop at night.
Sometimes they give us a fright. Dracula, rabies - we want none of these. A great egret spent a few days here in mid- September. Great egrets are found throughout New York State and most of the Eastern U.S., but only sporadically are they seen inland north of the mid-Atlantic states. Several were also reported in the Herkimer-Ilion area of the Mohawk River.