Fence Book

Cary Socci: - owner of Future Fence Co. in MamaroneckCary Socci began his career in the fence installation industry at the most legendary concert in the country’s history.

It was 1969, and the then 20-year-old and a friend were commissioned by Bronx-based Gun Hill Fence Co. to fashion three miles of chain-link fence around the perimeter of Woodstock.

The city of Watertown will need to spend $16,700 to fix the marble fence outside Flower Memorial Library, City Manager Mary M. Corriveau said.

Library officials had scheduled to have minor repairs done to the wall this summer, but their plans were accelerated when a Department of Public Works employee drove a piece of machinery into the relic.

At Austin Park there are three baseball fields, but only one of them has enough fencing to keep most players and game attendants safe.

To correct what some see as a safety hazard, Skaneateles Rotary Club members attended Thursday night’s town board meeting seeking approval to make headway on adding fencing to Sims Field.

“This is all that’s here, this backstop,” rotary member Peter Adams said to the board. “Our proposal would be to duplicate the north field. It’s where we want to be in terms of safety.”

Days after an Auburn girl was fatally injured sledding at Syracuse's Westcott Reservoir, a fence went up. But some say even that's not working.

"Come up with plan or a solution, as to what we can do to prevent this issue from ever happening again," Common Councilor Thomas Seals.

Taylor Denson died January 13th. She was sledding down the big hill and slammed into a parked car. Since then, fences and new signs have gone up. But Common Councilor Thomas Seals says....it's not enough.