‘OUR’ OUTLAW RULES •By LIBBY CUDMORE• It looked like it was all over for Alex Cross, The Oneonta Outlaw. His opponent, Eric Corvis had him on all fours, sitting on him like a bench, reading aloud from the book he brought into the ring. “It’s storytime!” he announced to the booing crowd. “But I’m afraid there’s no happy ending for you.” Corvis blew a kiss to Cross’ girlfriend, Rachel, in the front row. She booed him and cheered louder…
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A WILD NIGHT: ANGRY CITIZENS BERATE COUNCIL •By LIBBY CUDMORE•Hometown Oneonta The room was packed. The mood was tense. “I resent being held hostage by these students,” said Lisa Yelich, Elm Street. “I’m being told I have to keep my lawn furniture chained to my porch, that I can’t have flower pots because they’ll get smashed or stolen – this is the city I moved into?” “My porch furniture was stolen,” added Kim Baskin, Cedar Street. “I woke up to…
Son Loves James Brown, Tells All •By LIBBY CUDMORE• Hometown Oneonta Just a few weeks before James Brown died, he had a message for his son, Daryl: “I know you’re going to write a book about me. But could you wait until I’m gone?” Daryl was at the Green Toad on Saturday, Sept. 13 to promote that book, “My Father The Godfather.” The book, which came out earlier this summer, coincided with the release of the James Brown film biography,…
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Dr. Brenner Celebrates SUNY Presidents, Values By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com ONEONTA – “This isn’t your grandparent’s college, or even your parents,” said Dr. David Brenner, the retired associate director of academic affairs at SUNY Oneonta. But one thing has remained across generations — the college’s commitment to values. Brenner was on hand to discuss these values and the history of the college at a luncheon celebrating “Red Day,” the 125th anniversary of SUNY Oneonta’s founding as a Normal School on…
CITY MANAGER DECISION TONIGHT ONEONTA – Common Council will hold a special meeting at 8 this evening “to receive and act upon a recommendation of the committee conducting the search for Oneonta’s next city manager,” the City Clerk’s Office announced today. Check back later this evening to learn the outcome.…
‘Green Chemistry’ Wins Professor Bennett Rare Patent By LIBBY CUDMORE If Dr. Jacqueline Bennett had left the lab, she would have missed the “gold glitter” reaction she’d been waiting for. “I was writing and I looked up to see gold glitter falling out of the test tube,” said the SUNY Oneonta associate professor of chemistry. “I thought I was hallucinating.” She quickly repeated the test, then again, then again. “I had to convince myself it was real,” she said. That…
SUNY Oneonta of the Future: Big Data U By JIM KEVLIN Last year, sociology professor Brian Lowe’s “Animals and Society” class read Jon Mooallem’s “Wild Ones,” where the author draws conclusions about how humans are coming to grips with the extinction of wild animals, polar bears, a type of butterfly and whooping cranes in particular. “Its central theme,” as the review in Mother Jones had it, “has more to do with the qualities we project onto animals than the creatures…
Mohawk Valley Commission OKs Oneonta Projects The $11 million Upper Susquehanna Regional Ag Center. CADE’s related $200,000 Agricultural Microenterprise Program. The IDA’s Susquehanna Regional Center for Jobs on the fifth floor of 189 Main, a collaboration with SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College. The Big Three of the City of Oneonta’s projects seeking state economic-development funding in a round Governor Cuomo is expected to announce in September have received approval at the regional level. The Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Commission…
