April 10, 2008 07:40 am Butternuts sex offender charged BUTTERNUTS _ A Level Two sex offender was arrested in Otsego County on Monday for allegedly harboring a teenage runaway from Chenango County. John M. Sloan, 30, of Butternuts, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor. Sloan was allowing a 15-year-old girl to hide inside his home after he was advised by police that she was a runaway, according to deputies. Sloan was convicted of third-degree rape in 2000 for having sex with 15-year-old girl in Oneida County; he was 23 at the time. Catskill talk tonight at Hartwick ONEONTA _ Wes Gillingham, program director for Catskill Mountainkeeper, will give a talk titled "The Future of the Catskills: Can Catskill Mountainkeeper Help?" at 7 p.m. today in the Strawbale House at Hartwick College's Pine Lake Environmental Campus. The talk is part of the ongoing "Conversations at the Lake" series. Gillingham will discuss his work with Catskill Mountainkeeper, a nonprofit advocacy organization whose mission is to protect the ecological integrity of the Catskill Mountain range and the quality of life of those who live there. For more information, contact Pine Lake Program Coordinator Dan Morse at 431-4520 or morsed@hartwick.edu. Anti-tobacco speaker set at CV-S CHERRY VALLEY _ Anti-tobacco advocate Rick Stoddard will be at Cherry Valley-Springfield Central School this morning to speak to students. The 8:15 a.m. presentation will be a milestone for Stoddard, as he will pass the 1,000,000 mark in the number of youths he has reached, school officials said. Stoddard's talk is the culmination of a weeklong program at CV-S to mark the school's tobacco-free campus policy.
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