Jerry Weaver, longtime Evening Sun writer, mourned
NORWICH – Jerry Weaver of Norwich championed and scrutinized agriculture in Chenango County for The Evening Sun for nearly half a century. He anchored the paper weekly from the Farm Page and was its longest running local columnist.
A great reporter was lost yesterday upon his death. “Second Cuttings” columnist Weaver, who was 92, passed away at Chenango Memorial Hospital.
The newspaper man’s original beat at the Sun included city government and schools. He wrote full-time for 27 years before retiring and beginning his column on a part-time basis in 1982.
“I intend to keep at it until I quit because of physical conditions or mental conditions or because I get fired,” he said on Agriculture Awareness Day back in 2001.
Weaver was recognized numerous times for promoting agriculture and was a recipient of awards and certificates of appreciation from, among other organizations, Chenango County 4-H clubs, Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Chenango County Farm Bureau.
“He was one of the earliest advocates of agriculture,” said Chenango County Farm Bureau President Bradd Vickers. “He did outstanding work seeking out people in farming that the community wasn’t even aware were out there.”
A former editor of The Evening Sun, Terry Bresina, said Weaver was always extremely popular with readers.
“He was interested in what people were doing. His approach to journalism was what people are doing, not people who are making news, but people who were living their lives, and doing interesting things along the way,” he said.
A complete obituary appears on Page 6.
A great reporter was lost yesterday upon his death. “Second Cuttings” columnist Weaver, who was 92, passed away at Chenango Memorial Hospital.
The newspaper man’s original beat at the Sun included city government and schools. He wrote full-time for 27 years before retiring and beginning his column on a part-time basis in 1982.
“I intend to keep at it until I quit because of physical conditions or mental conditions or because I get fired,” he said on Agriculture Awareness Day back in 2001.
Weaver was recognized numerous times for promoting agriculture and was a recipient of awards and certificates of appreciation from, among other organizations, Chenango County 4-H clubs, Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Chenango County Farm Bureau.
“He was one of the earliest advocates of agriculture,” said Chenango County Farm Bureau President Bradd Vickers. “He did outstanding work seeking out people in farming that the community wasn’t even aware were out there.”
A former editor of The Evening Sun, Terry Bresina, said Weaver was always extremely popular with readers.
“He was interested in what people were doing. His approach to journalism was what people are doing, not people who are making news, but people who were living their lives, and doing interesting things along the way,” he said.
A complete obituary appears on Page 6.
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