Dr. Connie Brown, an equine veterinarian who also bred a number of winning Thoroughbreds, died May 15. She was 71. Born July 22, 1953, to the late Coney and Jewel Cornett, Brown was raised in ...

Madonna and Child in a Landscape” was acquired by the Reverend Louis van Ess, rector of Saint James Episcopal Church in Oneonta and a Hartwick College professor, in the 1950s.