State biologists are trying to better understand the wild turkey. The Department of Environmental Conservation is asking citizens to record their observations of turkeys this summer.

The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation is encouraging New Yorkers to participate in a survey for wild turkeys throughout the month of August.

VOORHEESVILLE — Joseph Cotazino leads the Orchard Park Neighborhood Association, which has donated food to the New Scotland Community Food Pantry at Thanksgiving, and adopted a family during the December holidays, for 27 years.