In City Of The Hills, Candidate Avalanche In Oneonta, go figure.Five Common Council members retiring – not a record, Council member Dana Levinson reminded us: there were six retirements in 2016, but an exodus nonetheless.And the resulting ferment: Len Carson confirmed Thursday, Feb. 21, he was running in Ward 5, and within days, 11 more candidates emerged. Most were Democrats in that Democratic enclave, but three were Republicans, signaling party politics – missing since 2011 – may be coming back…
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March 2019 - Page 27
STATE OF CITY: ‘We’re Onta Something,’ Mayor Declares Editor’s Note: This is the text of Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig’s 2019 State of the City address, delivered Tuesday, March 5, at the Foothills Performing Arts Center. He also announced $2.3 million in grants through the city/state Downtown Revitalization Initiative. During the past year, some have questioned whether we have lost some of our momentum in revitalizing and reinventing the City of Oneonta. I want you to know that the answer to…
In other news: After Accident, 2 Teens Busted For Mushrooms ONEONTA – Two teenagers were arrested and charged with posessing three pounds of psilocybin mushrooms and five pounds of marijuana after locating a vehicle that had allegedly fled the scene of an accident over the weekend.…
Barbara Atwell Roberts, 87; Retired OR Nurse At Bassett Hospital RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Barbara Atwell Roberts, 87, formerly of Richfield Springs and a retired operating room nurse at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, died Feb. 21, 2019, of heart failure at Concord Hospital in Concord, N.H. She lived at Havenwood Heritage Heights in Concord for the past nine years. Born May 9, 1931, in Syracuse, Barbara Joan Atwell was the younger daughter of Harold Leon Atwell and Grace Jones Atwell. Raised…
Bound Volumes: Mar. 07 – 08, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Republican Convention – At a meeting of Republican Delegates from the several towns in the County of Otsego, convened at the Court House in Cooperstown, pursuant to previous notice on the 24th of February, 1819 – Arunah Metcalf, Chairman and William G. Angell, Secretary, Resolved, that this meeting proceed to nominate a candidate for Senator for the Middle District of this state, and five persons to represent this county in…
Hometown People: Mar. 07 – 08, 2019 OHS Junior Mahala Johnson Selected For ‘Students Inside Albany’ Program ONEONTA – Mahala Johnson, an 11th grader from Oneonta High School, has been chosen to attend this year’s Students Inside Albany program, sponsored by the League of Women Voters (LWV) of the Oneonta Area. This 19th annual Students Inside Albany program will take place from May 19-22, and will bring 60 students from across the state to Albany to get a first-hand education…
Dawn Adams Benjamin, 92; Worked At Huntington Library ONEONTA – Dawn Adams Benjamin, 92, a former clerk at the Huntington Library who raised eight children outside Oneonta, died peacefully on Feb. 26, 2019 at Fox Nursing Home in Oneonta. A number of weeks before, Dawn fell and broke her hip at her residence at St. James Manor, where she had lived for five years. Prior to that, Dawn lived in Otego for eight years, but she lived the bulk of…
SOUP’S ON AT EMPTY BOWLS LUNCHEON Orzetti At ‘Chesapeake Lobby Day’ In D.C. COOPERSTOWN – Leslie Orzetti, Executive Director for Otsego County Conservation Association (OCCA) will be part of a delegation to meet with New York Members of Congress in Washington, DC on March 6. The delegation is meeting to discuss the importance of maintaining programs to help protect water quality in the NY portion of the Chesapeake Bay watershed as part of Chesapeake Bay Lobby Day, organized by…
Future Requires ALL Forms Of Energy, Including Affordable, Plentiful Natural Gas To the Editor: Dan Buttermann’s letter in your editions of Feb. 21-22 headlined, “On Energy Future, State Must Pick Right Side,” has the right title but supports the wrong side – renewables only, no new gas. Unfortunately, the state (Governor Cuomo) shares Mr. Butterman’s view. Now the consequences are beginning to show. Con Ed announced no new gas hook-ups in Westchester County. A six-acre urban renewal project in…
Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.life – Betty Steele, top, gives Snowy something he hasn’t had in a while: a kiss. Center, Bethoven gives an affectionate lick to foster dad Ian Laschell, with foster mom Wendy. Bottom, Stacie Haynes, who got back from Beirut at 9:30 Tuesday, March 4, worked until past midnight getting the 13 rescued dogs settled at the SSPCA Shelter To BEIRUT and BACK On Mission Of Mercy, SSPCA Duo Rescues 13 Dogs By LIBBY CUDMORE HARTWICK SEMINARY – It was…
