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Caz girls break four school records at state qualifier
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Cazenovia girls indoor track and field standout Susie Pittman broke her own school record in the pole vault, clearing 10 feet 6 inches, and won that event during last Wednesday’s Section III state qualifying meet at SRC Arena.
Paige Biviano
In December 2023, Caroline Horvatits (left) and Anna Brummeler (right) launched From Scratch Kitchen and Farm to bring small-batch food service experiences to the Cazenovia community. Their menus are tailored to the season and utilize as many ingredients from local farms as possible.
by Phil Blackwell Helped in no small part by four school records and 12 season-best performances, the Cazenovia girls indoor track and field team closed its latest special season with a particular bang. The Lakers were a featured part of last Wednesday’s Section III state qualifying meet at SRC Arena, most notably Susie Pittman, who broke three of those school records and prevailed in her specialty, the pole vault. Earning first-team All-Central New York honors, Pittman won the pole vault with a school-record leap of 10 feet 6 inches. She dominated the field, clearing each height on the first attempt and being the only vaulter to exceed 10 feet. This was the fourth time this season that Pittman has set a new record in the pole vault, vastly upending the old mark
of 9’6” which had stood for 20 years. Pittman also broke a 13 year-old schoo mark at 400 meters as she ran the opening leg of the Lakers’ 4x400 meter relay in 1:00.42, topping the old mark of 1:01.0 that had stood since 2011. She was part of a fabulous foursome with Reid McMurtrie (1:00.72), Izzy StromerGalley (1:02.17) and Meghan Mehlbaum (1:03.70) all running personal best times to set a new school record. The group had broken the existing 2012 mark of 4:16.79 earlier this winter with a time of 4:13.12, then shattered that mark again with a new record time of 4:07.03 at the qualifier. Cazenovia finished less than a second behind the powerhouse Cicero-North Syracuse squad (4:06.28) in the overall 4x400, but the elation over the new mark was tempered with the disappointment of missing Records l Page 5
From Scratch Town tables proposed legislation Self-taught cooks start new business By kate Hill Staff Writer For the past few months, Caroline Horvatits and Anna Brummeler have been working to bring small-batch food service experiences to the Cazenovia community through their new business, From Scratch Kitchen and Farm. Until further notice, the self-taught cooks will be taking over the kitchen at Loka Leaf Tea Lounge every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to prepare and serve made-from-scratch dishes developed with health and sustainability in mind. Each From Scratch menu is tailored to the season and utilizes as many ingredients from local farms as possible. The Sunday “Kitchen Takeover” offerings are prepared in limited quantities and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Weekly menus are released
on Wednesdays. Horvatits and Brummeler met working at a coffee shop while studying at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. “We got to know each other in between pouring lattes and serving up food,” said Horvatits. “We have been cooking and working in food service part-time for over a decade. When I was 15 years old, I was diagnosed with a chronic health condition, and I began healing myself through food and diet. At this point, I can look back and say that this was the true beginning to my passion for food.” According to Horvatits, she and Brummeler have both honed their skills in the kitchen over the past couple of years. In 2022, the pair moved to the Cazenovia area with a business idea in mind and the intention of setting up and operating a small “hobby
farm” in Fenner. “In the first year, we set up a small vegetable garden and we were thrilled to harvest all that we could,” recalled Horvatits. “This felt like a luxury coming from city living. Being able to pick a vegetable from our own garden and cook with it was love at first sight. In 2023, we expanded our farm by growing everything from seed, raising a flock of chickens, inoculating mushroom logs, preserving food, and turning the gears to our business.” From Scratch Kitchen and Farm was officially launched in December 2023. “Caroline brings a passion that has driven this business from the very start,” said Brummeler. “Working on this together has allowed each of us to excel in our respective strengths. I enjoy taking on the visionary and creative side of the business From Scratch l Page 11
regarding mobile service facilities BY KATE HILL STAFF WRITER
On Feb. 12, the Cazenovia Town Board held a public hearing on a proposed local law to amend the town code with respect to commercial mobile service facilities. The proposed local law explains that while the federal government has regulated the commercial mobile industry, it has given local governments the power to regulate uses with regard to placement, construction, and other issues. According to the proposed legislation, the purpose of the commercial mobile service facilities section of the town code is “to establish predictable and balanced regulations for the siting of telecommunication facilities in order to accommodate the growth of such facilities while protecting the public against any adverse impacts on aesthetic resources and the public safety and welfare. The Town of Cazenovia wants to accommodate the need for telecommunications facilities while regulating their location and number, minimizing adverse visual impacts through proper design, siting and screening, avoiding potential physical damage to adjacent properties, and encouraging joint use of
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tower structures.” The section is also intended to minimize the number of telecommunications towers in the community by encouraging the shared use of existing and future towers and the use of existing tall buildings and other high structures to further minimize adverse visual effects from telecommunications towers. “This section is not intended to prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the provision of personal wireless services, nor shall it be used to unreasonably discriminate among the providers of functionally equivalent services consistent with current federal regulations,” the proposed local law states. Randy Nash, a resident of Rippleton Road, started off the public hearing by noting that he and other interested citizens submitted “quite a bit of information” for the town to consider when rewriting the commercial mobile service facilities section of the town code. One of the group’s major focus areas, according to Nash, was tower height. Nash questioned why the changes proposed by the group regarding tower height regulations had been left out of the proposed local law. Amendment l Page 9
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