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General News: Black Bear Roams Village, NYMA
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| The bear eats from a garbage bin on Wood Avenue in Cornwall-on-Hudson. Photo by Jaclyn Schultz. |
May 07, 2009
A small black bear was spotted roaming around Cornwall and Cornwall-on-Hudson on Wednesday in an apparent quest to eat leftovers in residents’ garbage cans.
Captain Watts, the superintendent of the New York Military Academy, said his wife called him around 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday and said there was a bear walking in the couple’s front yard on Faculty Road. “I didn’t believe her,” Captain Watts said in a phone interview. “But I went home and saw him at a bin for the trash that he had ripped open.”
Captain Watts said the small black bear looked between three-and-a-half to four feet tall and didn’t seem at all aggressive. Nevertheless he stayed inside his vehicle and tried to wave the bear away. The bear looked at him, walked around, went back to the trash bin, then eventually wandered off into the ravine behind the school.
A unit of the Cornwall-on-Hudson police department responded to a call from Captain Watts and officer Antinori followed the animal as it made It’s way from Idlewild Park Drive across the village and down to the river. Village police chief Charles Williams says that there is not much else to do but keep the animal moving away from populated areas. He said his officers would call the Department of Environmental Conservation if the bear went up a tree.
As it made its way down toward the river, a resident of Wood Avenue, Jaclyn Schultz, took this photo of the bear going through her neighbor’s garbage.
Officer Antinori reports that he followed the bear until it went into the woods south of the Cornwall Yacht Club. Captain Watts said that after the bear sighting he warned cadets to be on the lookout for its return and several people said they thought they may have seen the animal wandering the campus earlier in the week.
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