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75 Cooled By Ice Cream At Fox Nursing Home Social Out of 130 total residents at the Fox Nursing Home in Oneonta, 75 gathered to enjoy an evening of ice cream and music to celebrate the end of summer. Nursing supervisor Chris Brooks organized the event, with the help of residents like Vivian Nelson, pictured at right, who helped create signs to get the word out for the event. Many nursing home staff members came back to the home on…
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Large Crowd Turns Out At Natural Gas Hearing By PARKER FISH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com WEST ONEONTA – According to Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky, Oneonta is running out of gas. “There is no more gas,” said Zakrevsky, summarizing the gravity of the situation. Oneonta has struggled with its gas supplies for several years, but now the situation is dire. Zakrevsky’s proposed solution: a compressed natural gas decompression station in the Oneonta Commerce Park, the renamed Pony Farm. Otsego Now submitted…
Council Member Eyes Short-Term Rentals By PARKER FISH • Special to AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With the end of the 2018 tourist season quickly approaching, Common Council member Michele Frazier is getting ready to tackle the city’s short-term rental laws. Room-sharing apps such as Airbnb and VRBO have raised concerns across the city about the standing short-term rental policies.…
Unatego To Sell School To Agzeit Unatego Central school board member Dick Downey was one of two board members to vote tonight against AgZeit’s proposal to redevelop the Otego Elementary School building into an indoor produce-growing enterprise. The board narrowed the building’s fate from four to two proposals: one from AgZeit, which intend to create an indoor farming facility; and The Kildonan School, which hoped to open a secondary school for students with Dyslexia. The board opted for AgZeit’s proposal,…
IN MEMORIAM: Irene M. Miller, 96; Local Elementary School Teacher MILFORD CENTER — Irene (McGunnigle) Miller died on July 27, 2018. She was 96. She was born and raised in Hicksville, NY on Long Island, one of 4 other sisters and 2 brothers. After high school she came to Oneonta to attend the then NY State Teachers College (Oneonta State Normal School) which is now SUNY Oneonta. She graduated with her Teaching Degree in Elementary Education and until her retirement…
IN MEMORIAM: Donna Jane Whitmore, 72; SUNY Oneonta Accountant For 30 Years LAURENS – Donna Jane Whitmore of Laurens passed away peacefully on July 26th, 2018 surrounded by her loving family. She was born on Oct 23, 1945 to Donald and Clara Scanlon and was the oldest of four siblings. She married her Toad (Ronald ‘Toad’ Whitmore) on December 10, 1966 and they were blessed with two daughters, Jodi and Julie. Donna worked at the State University College at Oneonta…
At Otesaga, Molinaro Decries Outmigration Candidate At GOP Women’s Luncheon COOPERSTOWN – Bottom line: New Yorkers are leaving New York State faster than any other states’ residents are leaving their states. Republican Marc Molinaro, the Dutchess county executive who is running for governor, today laid the blame squarely on his opponent, Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the incumbent. Taxes and regulations, increasing during eight years Cuomo has been in office, are responsible for driving outmigration, he said.…
Middlefield Farmer Gored By Bull, Dies MIDDLEFIELD – A Middlefield firefighter died Tuesday after being attacked by one of his bulls. A family member saw Eugene Wolfert, 68, lying in his pasture just before 11 a.m. on Tuesday, July 24, and called 911 while maintaining pressure on Wolfert’s wound. According to Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr. Wolfert had been apparently gored by a bull after the animal became aggressive for unknown reasons. “He had a bucket of grain with…
