Clinton & Kirkland Awarded $10million DRI Grant!
Exciting news for our community! On Thursday New York State Secretary of State Robert Rodriguez announced the awarding of the 2022 $10,000,000 Regional DRI (Downtown Revitalization Initiative) Grant for our region to Clinton & Kirkland in a ceremony held at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Representatives of local government and nonprofits as well as private citizens attended. Clinton Mayor Elizabeth Tantillo and Kirkland Deputy Supervisor Gary Colarusso accepted the award on behalf of the community. Smaller grants were awarded to the Villages of Cooperstown, Sharon Springs and Dolgeville.
This was Clinton & Kirkland’s third application for the grant. The effort has been led by CKIC (Clinton Kirkland Improvement Commission), Waterville Times Publisher Patty Louise and former Clinton Chamber of Commerce Director Jackie Walters. Projects proposed as part of the Clinton & Kirkland application were submitted by the village, the town, Hamilton College, private businesses and nonprofits, including Kirkland Trails, KAC, Kirkland Town Library and others. Not all the proposed projects will receive funding. Now begins a process which includes forming a local committee which will work with the state to identify the most promising projects and move them along to completion. Kirkland Trails’ proposals focus on constructing additional sidewalks in the village and adjacent town, a possible small trailhead park at the corner of Chenango Ave. and College Street and a bridge across Sherman Brook along the route of our planned Chenango Canal Trail.
Here is a link to CKIK’s website where you can find the entire 2022 Clinton & Kirkland DRI Application, which includes all the proposed projects: https://ckic13323.org
Here is a link to a good article in Thursday’s Rome Sentinel about Clinton & Kirkland being awarded the grant: https://romesentinel.com/stories/clinton-kirkland-to-get-10m-for-revitalization,169481
And finally, here is a link to a WKTV story on Clinton & Kirklands’ selection and the awards ceremony: https://www.wktv.com/news/local/kirkland-clinton-cooperstown-receive-state-grant-funding-to-revitalize-downtowns/article_350439e4-b941-11ed-a09c-87caf8530e17.html
Waterville Times: Take A Walk, Read A Book
Originally published on July 21, 2021.
Thanks for a successful work day!
Our knotweed cutting and raking work day was a great success. Thanks to everyone who helped by loaning tools or working at the site or both. The day began cool but sunny, and thirteen students from Mrs. Callaghan’s Environmental Science class came to work. The work crew, students and Mrs. Callaghan and KT members, got a great deal done in the hour and a half that the students worked. There are now piles of knotweed stalks gathered along the side of the trail awaiting the next work day (when the stalks will be burned).
Again, many thanks!
Gerry
Clinton Record – Kirkland Trails, Hamilton College update town board
KIRKLAND — Two guests took up the lion’s share of time updating the Kirkland Town Board who met for its monthly meeting in the Kirkland municipal building on Wednesday, July 15.
Sharon Williams, president of Kirkland Trails, Inc. updated the board on the groups progress in transitioning from Phase I to Phase II in developing a three-mile series of safe, walking and bicycle riding trails along the historic railroad and canal corridors of Kirkland running along Route 12B and 233, crossing Dugway Road and connecting to Route 315 in Deansboro to the Town of Marshall trail.
Rome Sentinel: Kirkland Trails NY receives permit to begin development of trail system
The Kirkland Trails NY committee has now received a permit from the state to go ahead and develop the historic Chenango Canal Trail for recreational use following an effort that’s taken close to a year.
Crews from the Town of Kirkland Highway Department will soon be out mowing and leveling the 2.5 mile trail to prepare it to eventually be covered by stone dust.
“We’re very excited we got the permit,” said Sharon Williams, president of the Kirkland Trails Board of Directors.
Times Radio Interview: Sharon Williams of Kirkland Trails
Click on any of the clips below to listen to the wonderful interview with President of Kirkland Trails Sharon Williams.
Aug 25th Raffle Winners!
Congradulations to Logan Matchum for being the winner of the Trex Mountain bike and Darcy Head for winning the Schwinn Scuiser! 
