Cookies and Cooperstown played a part on the Food Network on Monday.

The Cooperstown Cookie Co. was featured Monday night on the show "Unwrapped."

The episode, "Crazy for Cookies," looked at six cookie companies across the United States. Producers filmed the segment in Cooperstown last summer.

"Our team had a lot of fun filming in Cooperstown," "Unwrapped" researcher Shoshannah Tirk said in a prepared statement. "The classic shortbread cookie partnered with the classic American pastime, baseball, is a winning team."

They filmed at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and at Pathfinder Village in Edmeston, where the cookies are made.

"It was great to work with the Unwrapped’ film crew," Pati Drumm Grady, founder and president of the Cooperstown Cookie Co., said in a prepared statement. "It’s a wonderful opportunity to tell our story about classic baseball shortbread from baseball’s hometown."

The company was founded in 2004.

"Crazy for Cookies" will play again at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Company gives bank five-star rating

The National Bank of Delaware County has received another five-star rating from a national firm.

BauerFinancial gave the bank a five-star rating for its 71st quarter; it has received that rating for nearly 17 years, according to a news release from the bank.

"(National Bank of Delaware County) is an integral part of its marketplace," Karen Dorway, president of BauerFinancial, said in a prepared statement. "It’s a community bank that simply knows its customers and sets out to make a positive impact on the community."

The bank has offices in Walton, Andes, Hamden and Franklin, according to its website.

Wilber Corp. reports decrease in income

The Wilber Corp. had a minor decrease in net income for the first quarter of 2007 compared to the 2006 first quarter, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Wilber’s net income was $1.949 million ending March 31, according to documents filed late last month, compared to $1.953 for the same time a year ago. That’s a 0.2 percent decrease.

Earnings per share were 18 cents for both quarters.

"Our first-quarter 2007 earnings were flat relative to the same period in the prior year," said Douglas Gulotty, president and chief executive officer of the Wilber Corp.

Wilber bought Provantage, a mortgage company, in the beginning of 2007; Gulotty mentioned that purchase as a "step to improve the strategic position of the company."

"We believe that Provantage will prove to be a very fruitful strategic acquisition," Gulotty said in a prepared statement.

Wilber’s Board of Directors also declared a quarterly dividend of 9.5 cents per share; it will be payable May 25 to shareholders who were on record as of May 11.

Wilber Corp. had its annual shareholders’ meeting April 27. Gulotty, Olon T. Archer and Joseph P. Mirabito were elected for three-year terms to the board. The company has its headquarters in Oneonta and is the parent company of Wilber National Bank.

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