Chenango Greenway Conservancy volunteers Dr. Tom Holmes, Izzy Harper, Colgate Fellow Ayden Simpson, Spencer Colley, Maddie Collins, Heyden Blackburn, NYS Wildlife Officer Jim Willis, John Killean and Will Wright participated in a community clean up in Norwich. (Photo by Inez Mourtarde.)

NORWICH – The Chenango Greenway Conservancy is very pleased to report that, by working together with many members of the community, we completed a thorough cleanup of the Railway corridor through the center of the City of Norwich in late July.

The Greenway’s Chenango Heritage Rail Trail (CHRT) team, in cooperation with the New York Susquehanna & Western (NYSW) Railway, the City of Norwich DPW, the Summer Youth Employment Program at The Place, and numerous community volunteers spent several days carefully picking up very large amounts of trash and disassembling several large encampments that had grown up along the Railway right-of-way over a long time.

The CHRT team would like to thank the Business Improvement District for the use of their equipment and the many other community members who worked together to make this event possible. Building on that success, the Greenway CHRT team is working to organize similar cleanup events along the course of the proposed rail-trail through Oxford, Greene, and Sherburne later this year.

The Chenango Greenway Conservancy is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) public charity organized in 2006 to develop a network of multiple use recreation trails in and around the City of Norwich. The organization oversees close to 500 acres of land in the greater Norwich area that is maintained for public outdoor recreation including the Riverwalk Trail in the City of Norwich, the Stone Quarry, Patsy’s Riverview and Three Amigos. To learn more about the Chenango Greenway Conservancy and become a volunteer or a member, find them on Facebook or visit the Chenango Greenway website, www.chenangogreenway.org.

- Information from the Chenango Greenway Conservancy