Margaretville

By Geoff Samuels
The community home for developmentally disabled people at 123 Church Street in Margaretville was vacated on Monday morning, November 19.
Diane Galusha, communications director at the Catskill Watershed Corporation who lives on that street, said that two large vans were parked in front of the three-story Victorian house early that morning with “a lot of activity going on,” and later that evening, the place was dark.

A Cookie Exchange is planned at the Fairview Public Library in Margaretville on Wednesday, Dec. 19 at 5:30 p.m.

The library’s first annual Cookie Exchange is an event to help get community members into the holiday spirit, by visiting with friends, old and new. Visitors will share homemade cookies and sample baked

goods made by everyone else.
Participants should bring three dozen cookies to share; then they will take home with as many cookies as they bring.

By John Bernhardt
At crunch time for the New York Knicks, the ball finds the hands of Carmelo Anthony.  In Miami, with the game on the line, expect the ball in the hands of LeBron James.  The same can be said for Trevor Holdridge of the South Kortright Rams. 

Holdridge, a senior and the only returning starter from last year’s Section IV champions, came up huge with the game on the line in last Friday’s season opener in South Kortright. Holdridge scored 11 points in the final period, swishing six of six from the foul line, as the Rams bested Margaretville, 60-52.

Margaretville — Opening this past week at the Longyear Gallery is the annual gallery “Holiday Show” featuring the artwork of all Longyear members. An artists’ reception will take place Saturday, Nov. 24, from 3 to 6 p.m. Special holiday small works, framed and unframed, will also be available in the gallery where Longyear artists will be presenting their watercolors, prints, monotypes, photographs, drawings, ceramics, objects, and small oil paintings.

By John Bernhardt
If experience is a foundation to build upon, then Margaretville Coach Kyle Holden can begin building the Blue Devils’ basketball house.  Holden returns seven players, three who started, from last season’s 8-10 team.  Good size, bench depth and quality previous experience has Holden and his Blue Devils thinking big this year.

By John Bernhardt
“Little things make big things happen.”
Legendary UCLA college basketball coach John Wooden could have been talking about this winter’s Margaretville boys’ basketball team when he made this famous statement several decades ago. Margaretville moves into the upcoming hardwood season with a roster only eight strong. Even so, Coach Jeremey Marks is expecting big things from the Blue Devils.

Margaretville Central School has announced its Honor Roll for the first marking period of the 2012-2013 school year.

By Brian Sweeney
A temporary “flood wall” erected behind the Freshtown Supermarket in Margaretville on Sunday was dismantled Monday because there was no permit for the structure.

The floodwall was put into place as the Freshtown owners were attempting to protect their store from potential flooding predicted when the effects of Hurricane Sandy moved through the area.

Fairview Public Library will join hundreds of libraries throughout the country on November 3 for the fifth annual celebration of gaming in libraries – International Games Day @ your library.
Like so many other libraries across the country and around the world, Fairview will offer special gaming programs and events suitable for the whole family.  

The weather-delayed semifinal Section IV, Class D boys’ soccer game between Margaretville and Elmira Notre Dame will be held on Thursday, Nov. 1 at 3 p.m.

Due to the field availability of the field, the game will be played at the Hall of Fame field off Route 23 in Oneonta.

The game was originally scheduled to be played Tuesday, Oct. 30 but was postponed when Hurricane Sandy closed area schools.