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Oneonta Airport Will See Growth Over Next 20 Years, Consultants Say

Consultants: Oneonta Airport To Grow Over Next 20 Years By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – For years, it was believed that as many as 23,000 takeoffs and landings happened annually at the  Albert S. Nader Regional Airport since the 1980s. In reality, said Zach Staff,  McFarland-Johnson Consulting’s regional aviation planning manager, research for an updated airport master plan found annual takeoffs and landings over the last 30 years really averaged about 4,600. “People would go with the old number…

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Common Council Votes To Name Airport In Sam Nader’s Honor

Council Names City Airport After Ex-Mayor Sam Nader “This was the single greatest point of pride in my dad’s life,” said former mayor John Nader, as he accepted a plaque this evening after Common Council unanimously voted to rename the Oneonta Municipal Airport as The Albert S. Nader Regional Airport. Nader, president of SUNY Farmington, who drove up for the event,  read a statement from his father, who remarked, “I regret that I am unable to be with you tonight,…

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Chamber To Honor Job Corps, OCCA

Chamber To Honor Job Corps, OCCA Awards Planned At ‘Summer Soiree’ ONEONTA – Oneonta Job Corps and the OCCA (Otsego County Conservation Association) are recipients of the Otsego Chamber of Commerce’s 2018 “Sustainable Success” Awards, it was announced today. The award winners will be honored at the chamber’s Summer Soiree Thursday, July 19, at Oneonta Municipal Airport, beginning at 5:45 p.m.…

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Common Council Sets Workshop On Annexing Airport, Reservoir

Common Council Sets Workshop On Annexing Airport, Reservoir ONEONTA – With the idea of bringing the airport and Wilber Lake Reservoir within city limits, Common Council has invited the public a workshop on annexation Monday, March 27, after the Finance/Human Resources Committee meeting. The workshop will be conducted by Wade Beltramo, counsel for the NYCOM, the New York State Council of Mayors & Municipal Officials. The Oneonta Municipal Airport is currently in the Town of Laurens; the reservoir, in the…

Special Meeting Of Common Council To Consider FAA Grant For Airport

Special Meeting Of Common Council To Consider FAA Grant For Airport ONEONTA – Common Council is meeting in special session at 6 p.m. today to consider approving a $68,000 local share to enable a $1 million-plus Federal Aviation Administration grant for runway improvements at the Oneonta Municipal Airport and for updating the airport master plan, last revised in 2003. The special session was required to meet the FAA grant deadline, according to Airport Commission chair Dennis Finn.…

Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through March 30, new annual subscribers to “The Freeman’s Journal” and AllOtsego.com (or subscribers who have lapsed for two or more years) have an opportunity to help their choice of one of four Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.