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Arrests:

Amanda M Moot, 34, of Hamilton, was arrested April 4 in Morrisville and charged with welfare fraud in the fifth degree and petit larceny.

Jacob M Fellows, 23, of Oneida, was arrested April 5 in Oneida and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree and a muffler exhaust system violation.

Robert G Raynore, 36, of Canastota, was arrested April 6 in Canastota and charged with offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree and possessing a forged instrument in the second degree.

William Ramsey, 52, of Cazenovia, was arrested April 6 in Wampsville and charged with unlawful surveillance in the second degree.

Dustin Darling, 39, of Chittenango, was arrested April 7 in Chittenango and charged with harassment in the second degree.

Joshua J Roberts, 29, of Bridgeport, was arrested April 7 in Sullivan and charged with harassment in the second degree, reckless endangerment in the second degree, and endangering the welfare of a child.

Raymond D Kelly, 32, of Syracuse, was arrested April 10 in Syracuse and charged with an unspecified violation of family court.

Jesse L James, 24, of Sherburne, was arrested April 10 in Wampsville and charged with criminal contempt in the first degree and criminal mischief in the fourth degree.

Stephanie K Karuzas, 38, of Oriskany Falls, was arrested April 13 in Nelson and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree.

Theodore J Fay, 46, of North Syracuse, was arrested April 14 in North Syracuse and charged with petit larceny and burglary in the second degree.

Stephen J Pierce, 51, of Chittenango, was arrested April 14 in Oneida and charged with disobeying a mandate of a court in the second degree.

Matthew F Relyea, 31, of Rome, was arrested April 15 in Rome and charged with failing to appear in court.

Connor S Hunt, 27, of Cazenovia, was arrested April 19 in Cazenovia and charged with disobeying a mandate of a court in the second degree, and harassment in the second degree.

Casandra E Jayson, 31, of Lenox, was arrested April 19 in Lenox and charged with assault in the third degree and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

Dalton J Tallman, 23, of Hamilton, was arrested April 21 in Madison and charged with a muffler exhaust system violation, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, no license plate or single license plate, and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree.

Eric H Brown, 51, of Chittenango, was arrested April 23 in Sullivan and charged with moving from lane unsafely, driving while intoxicated, failing to keep right in a two-lane road, and operating a motor vehicle with a BAC at or above .08 of 1%.

Justin J Savage, 35, of Oneida, was arrested April 25 in Lenox and charged with criminal contempt in the first degree, resisting arrest, and obstructing governmental administration in the second degree.

Shawn M Cornelius, 41, of Munnsville, was arrested April 25 in Munnsville and charged with harassment in the second degree.

Tammy L Learned, 54, of Canastota, was arrested April 25 in Wampsville and charged with falsifying business records in the second degree.

Zeke A Gross, 50, of Rochester, was arrested April 27 in Chittenango and charged with failing to appear in court.

Danielle M Mussachio, 28, of Oneida, was arrested April 28 in Wampsville and charged with failing to appear in court.

Timothy C Pitonza, 53, of Baldwinsville, was arrested April 28 in Cazenovia and charged with a speed violation, driving while intoxicated, and operating a motor vehicle with a BAC at or above .08 of 1%.

Fredrick J Canfield, 38, of W. Edmeston, was arrested April 29 in Garrattsville and charged with harassment in the second degree, burglary in the first degree, criminal contempt in the first degree, four counts of criminal mischief in the fourth degree, petit larceny, endangering the welfare if a child, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree.

Steven M Lafleur, 54, of Clay, was arrested April 29 in Sullivan and charged with a speed violation, unsafe movement of stopped motor vehicle, operating a motor vehicle with a BAC at or above .08 of 1%, driving while intoxicated, and drinking alcohol or using cannabis in a motor vehicle.

Mary B Husner, 38, of DeRuyter, was arrested April 30 in DeRuyter and charged with grand larceny in the fourth degree.

Emma A Kenney, 28, of New York Mills, was arrested May 1 in Sullivan and charged with drinking alcohol or using cannabis in a motor vehicle, speed not reasonable and prudent, moving from lane unsafely, operating an unregistered motor vehicle on a highway, operating a motor vehicle without inspection, operating a motor vehicle with a BAC at or above .08 of 1%, driving while intoxicated, aggravated DWI, and refusing to take a breath test.

Kyyle E Garrow, 20, of Canastota, was arrested May 1 in Wampsville and charged with violating probation.

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Jack Sessler

I am a 2003 Graduate of Cazenovia. I moved back to raise my family in 2011 after graduating from Williams College in Massachusetts and living in Buffalo and Syracuse for four years. My wife and I have three children who will be in grades 5, 3 and K next year. I’ve served on and currently serve on several Boards locally including the Cazenovia Public Library, the Community Memorial Hospital Foundation, the Cazenovia Community Preschool (currently Secretary) and the Cazenovia Community Foundation (currently Treasurer). Professionally, I am a Senior Vice President and Lead Commercial Lender for Berkshire Bank in East Syracuse.

I am running to give back to a school that has done so much for me, my family and my community. I will help the school continue and expand its commitment to excellence. I will also help ensure that CSD continues to provide the highest quality education for our students and parents, a rewarding and meaningful workplace for our talented staff, and by doing that, provide great value for the taxpayers that I will represent.

We need to ensure that CSD has the ability and commitment to meet each student where they are. My wife and I chose to move back and raise our family here in part because of the incredible economic and social diversity our district has. I firmly believe that it is one of the biggest assets of our community. I also acknowledge that it drives a broad spectrum of needs for our student body and for our staff. Supporting the students that need the most help while also making sure that the academic high-achievers have the opportunity and instruction to reach their potential is the biggest challenge a school like ours faces. I will be a part in making sure that we continue to meet that.

The BOE is the official policy-making body of the school district. The board is composed of seven members who serve a three-year term of office without pay.

BOE meetings are generally held on the third Monday of each month in the Board Meeting Room in the District Office in the Middle School. Meeting dates are listed on the district website and on the school calendar.

For more information, visit cazenoviacsd. com/board-of-education.

Election and budget vote

The BOE election and annual school budget vote will be held on May 17, from 12 to 8 p.m. in the Middle School Auxiliary Gym.

The proposed 2022-2023 budget totals $34,372,000 and represents a 4.64 percent spending increase over 2021-22.

The 2022-23 tax levy is a 2.33 percent increase over the 2021-22 tax levy.

“In our budget, our cost-saving measures include energy performance contracts, shared services, cooperative purchasing through BOCES, and alignment of resources through our strategic plan,” said BOE President David Mehlbaum in the district’s budget newsletter. “In addition, the district has put forth a budget that does not exceed the tax levy [limit]. For example, the Cazenovia Central School District continues to boast one of the lowest tax rates in our area, with some of the highest performing schools. To keep taxes low, the district also plans to increase the amount of appropriated fund balance by $436,575. This increase will provide cost savings to taxpayers by keeping the levy down.”

According to the district, the proposed budget reduces positions to address declining enrollment but maintains all existing academic, fine arts, athletics, and extracurricular opportunities for students.

In addition to the BOE candidates and the budget, residents will also be asked to vote on two other propositions.

Proposition #2 authorizes the district to borrow the funds to purchase three 65-passenger replacement school buses at a total maximum cost of $347,883, which will be offset by transportation aid.

Proposition #3 authorizes the levy of a library tax to support the Cazenovia Public Library in the amount of $470,038.68 and the New Woodstock Free Library in the amount of $182,285 for a total of $652,323.68.

The district’s Spring 2022 Budget Review/ Newsletter is available at cazenoviacsd.com.

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They would not leave. Not until the legend himself stepped out on the ice.

True, the Buffalo Sabres’ season was over. Despite a dramatic comefrom-behind overtime win over Chicago, the Sabres were missing the playoffs again, so why would anyone stick around one moment more than absolutely necessary?

Well, they had to see the man one more time. Not a player, or a coach, but an announcer, one whose voice they had heard for half a century chronicle the ups and downs of their hometown team.

Rick Jeanneret – or RJ, as the Sabres faithful call him – was finally retiring. As he said himself, his spirit was still strong, but numerous ailments made continuing the job too difficult.

Having announced one last Buffalo victory in “Oooooovertime”, as he would put it, he signed off, everyone around him fighting back tears as he left the booth. Except the fans wouldn’t leave until he took a curtain call on the ice.

So, escorted by a pair of Sabres players, RJ went to the ice, heard the roars one more time, and shook hands with every other player in blue and gold, the appropriate ending for a Buffalo sports institution.

Even from afar, and as a person who rarely shows that kind of emotion, I could feel the eyes welling up, too, as much for the symbolism of the moment as for the facts of it.

This was not the first time an announcer received a long and celebrated farewell. Ernie Harwell got it after regaling Detroit Tigers fans for most of his lifetime. Vin Scully richly earned every tribute thrown at him when he finally stepped away from the mike at Dodger Stadium.

Why is it that we cherish these announcers in a way we don’t even do with players? Probably because athletes, even the best ones, arrive and depart the scene, but the voices calling their games can stay for generations.

The cliché “soundtrack of our lives” perfectly fits this phenomenon. For certain fan bases, the link to their happiest and saddest moments is the people who gave them the first draft of history.

And that applied to Rick Jeanneret. He arrived in Buffalo in the second year of the Sabres’ existence and never left, so its entire history is reflected in the fluctuation of his voice – descriptive, highvolume at times, ecstatic, energetic, and totally unforgettable.

RJ saw (through the fog) Rene Robert score in the 1975 Stanley Cup final, most of Gil Perrault’s 500-plus goals, Pat “Lala-la-la-la-LaFontaine”, the excellence of Dominik Hasek, the joy of the “May Day!” victory in 1993 over the hated Bruins, the foot in the crease in 1999.

Yet there were also the everyday pleasures, all those times RJ got into a round of fisticuffs, often involving future broadcast partner Rob Ray, and every time a shot floated off the ice, found the net and it was “Top shelf where Momma hides the cookies!”

All of that is past history now. It’s difficult to imagine any announcer, no matter how good or how beloved, staying with any franchise for 30 years, much less the 51 that RJ logged through a string of delightful Buffalo winters.

Part of it is simply the evolution of media. What was once a radio-only medium evolved into television, and now the trend is toward streaming services. It’s almost impossible to imagine the same kind of tribal, parochial loyalties to particular play-by-play voices that we’ve seen before.

This was part of what made RJ’s last season so particularly emotional. Back on April 1 (no fooling), his name went up in a banner right alongside the Sabres legends, just where he belonged, and the inspired Sabres rolled past Washington.

It only figured that the last game would include a late comeback and an OT game-winner, for after years of bad teams and bad management decisions, Buffalo, at long last, seems to have a team, led by Baldwinsville’s own Alex Tuch, ready to make serious noise and end a decade-long playoff drought.

With any justice in the world, Rick Jeanneret can live long enough to see his beloved Sabres chase the one shiny silver trophy it never claimed all those years he chronicled them.

Maybe somewhere RJ taped a clip of proclaiming that Buffalo won the Stanley Cup. Here’s hoping he did, and that we hear it.

Phil Blackwell is sports editor at Eagle News. He can be reached at pblackwell@ eaglenewsonline.com.

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Nearly all earthworms in the Northeast today are non-native, and these European and Asian invasives are altering the soil structure and chemistry of our forests.

They consume the critical layer of organic matter that supplies vital nutrients for plants and provides food, protection and habitat for wildlife. However, jumping worms are especially concerning. These Asian exotics devour organic matter more rapidly than their European counterparts, stripping the forest of the layer critical for seedlings and wildflowers. Jumping worms grow twice as fast, reproduce more quickly and can infest soils at high densities.

In areas of heavy infestation, native plants, soil invertebrates, salamanders, birds and other animals may decline. Jumping worms can severely damage roots of plants in nurseries, gardens, forests and turf. They, along with other invasive worms, can also help spread invasive plant species by disturbing the soil. Jumping worms are widespread across much of the Northeast, Southeast and Midwestern US, and the first records date to the late 19th century. Unfortunately, relatively little is known about them compared to European earthworms.

Where to find them?

They can be found on the soil surface and in the leaf litter, making them easy to find. They can live anywhere from urban parks and suburban backyards, to rural forests. You are very likely to find them in compost piles and along roads.

A highly invasive species

Many worm species can reproduce without mating, which means a single worm can start a whole population. Because jumping worms are more aggressive and their populations can grow faster than the common European species, they may outcompete existing worm populations. Adults die prior to winter, but their young survive harsh New York winters in tiny, resilient cocoons. Cocoons are very small and dirt colored, so they are nearly impossible to spot with your own eyes. Cocoons can be spread easily in potted plants, and on landscaping equipment, mulch, tire treads and even hiking boots.

What to look for:

Worms are smooth, glossy gray or brown; 1.5 to 8 inches long

Crazy behavior! They jump and thrash wildly when handled, moving more like a threatened snake. They can also shed their tails in defense.

Clitellum (the narrow band around their body) is smooth to the body, unlike most other species which have a raised and pink colored clitellum. Their clitellum completely encircles the body and is often cloudy white to gray colored. Body looks metallic.

Soil signature Jumping worms leave distinctive grainy soil full of worm castings. The soil becomes granular and looks like dried coffee grounds.

Timing Best time to find them is late August or September when they are largest.

Stop the spread.

We currently have no viable earthworm control methods, but we CAN prevent their spread!

Do not buy or use jumping worms for bait, vermicomposting, or gardening.

Only sell, purchase, or trade compost that was heated to appropriate temperatures and duration following protocols for reducing pathogens.

Clean compost, soil and debris from vehicles, personal gear, equipment, and gardening tools before moving to and from sites.

Dispose of all live worms in the trash or place them in a bag and leave out in the sun for at least 10 minutes. Then throw bag away.

Be careful when sharing and moving plants. Always check for worms and know where your plantings come from. Buy bare root stock when possible.

Check your property for earthworms using a mustard pour (it won’t harm your plants!) Mix a gallon of water with 1/3 cup of ground yellow mustard seed and pour slowly into the soil. This will drive any worms to the surface. If you have jumping worms, report it and avoid moving plants or soil from your yard.

Report Your Sightings

If you see jumping worms, please report your sightings to nyimapinvasives.org

CCE is warning people to be aware of an invasive species known as jumping worms.

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Adapted from CCE fact sheet prepared by Karen Ceballos.

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