Gaining Eagle Scout rank involves a project that benefits the community, and in Fowble's case, he also carried on a family tradition. To Elena Doyle for overcoming personal setbacks and opening two Main Street food-oriented businesses in Oneonta. Her achievements recently gained recognition from Working Woman Network, a national organization that promotes women's achievements in business. She was among 11 finalists chosen from 400 nominees in the network's Entrepreneurial Excellence Award program. With the regional honor, she received a plaque during ceremonies in New York City and a chance for a national award at a Los Angeles ceremony in April.
Congratulations are indeed due on the noteworthy honor.
But we in the Oneonta area already had a hint about the delicious success of Elena's Sweet Indulgence. To C-SPAN for including James Fenimore Cooper in its series on 46 American writers. Cooper scholar Hugh MacDougall said the author gave Americans a means of reflection of themselves and Europeans, a sense of America. From now until December, C-SPAN will air programs weekly on writers from the country's pilgrim days to the Vietnam War. On April 23, the network will telecast its program on Cooper from locations in Cooperstown.