Nick’s Diner Owner, Heegan, Zakrevsky To Advise Delgado The Goal: To Help Small Businesses Prosper KINGSTON – Nick’s Diner proprietor Rodney Thorsland, Oneonta, as well as Jody Zakrevsky, Otsego Now CEO, and Otsego Chamber President Barbara Ann Heegan will represent the county on Congressman Antonio Delgado’s 19th District Small Business Advisory Committee, it was announced today. All 11 counties in the district are represented. “The district is home to more than 27,000 small businesses and self-employed owners, and I am…
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FIRST SERVICE AT 10:45 SUNDAY After Year Of Driving Past It, Visitors View New Methodist Church…
Lost Art Of Blacksmithing Lives At Farmers’ Museum …well, not completely lost, as Lucas Novko, Oneonta, (top photo) a blacksmith/interpreter at The Farmers’ Museum, demonstrates this afternoon during the first day of the Blacksmithing Weekend. Inset, John Patterson, New Lisbon, describes how the functions of blacksmiths (making useful and decorative tools) and ferriers (shoeing horses) separated after World War II, when workhorses were phased out, and horseback riding for pleasure moved to the fore. Listening are David Martin and Melissa…
Compassionate Friends Striving To Ready Garden By Graduation To complete the work begun by a work party today, Compassionate Friends of the Oneonta has scheduled a second work day for 10 a.m. Saturday, June 22, to plant and clean the Memorial Garden behind Oneonta High School in time for the next weekend’s graduation. Weeding here are Diana Friedell and Michael Haehnel, who worked with the OHS Class of 2002 to build the Memorial Garden, and with the Class of 2004…
OPEN HOUSE 3-6 SATURDAY At Covenant Service, Congregation Opens Door On New Chapter The Milford Methodist Church Building Committee gathers this evening after a Covenant Service, where the congregation recommitted itself to a new chapter in the local church’s 150-year history. Front row, from left, are Al Dubreuil, Emily Mattison-Welsh, Pastor Sylvia Barrett, Lola Rathbone, committee chair, Tom Rathbone and Sandy Andrews; top row, from left, state Sen. Jim Seward, Bill Triolo, Russell Freer and David Meade. Inset, Pastor Sylvia,…
Allan, Patricia Pullis Named Grand Marshals At 4th Of July Parade Couple Leaders In Local Agriculture Milking 300 At Holsteins At Roedale SPRINGFIELD CENTER – The Springfield Fourth of July Committee today announced Springfield residents Allan and Patricia (Pat) Pullis will be co-grand marshals of this year’s 105th event. The Pullis’ Roedale Farm is one of few producing dairy farms remaining in the Town of Springfield. The 900 acres of rolling green hills sustain 140 registered Holsteins, and provide milk,…
Eagle Scout Beautifies SUNY Oneonta Bus Stop…
SCROLL DOWN FOR FULL LIST Clark Foundation Board Approves 215 Scholarships First-Year Awards Amount To $826,600, Aiding Students In 13 Districts, BOCES; Next Year’s Total Will Be At $3.9 Million COOPERSTOWN – The Clark Foundation board of directors Monday approved first-year college scholarship grants to 215 students, totaling $826,600, Foundation President Jane Forbes Clark announced today. The scholarships will assist students in 13 school district: Cherry Valley-Springfield, Cooperstown, Edmeston, Gilbertsville-Mount Upton, Laurens, Milford, Owen D. Young, Morris, Mount Markham, Richfield…
Back To Nature Milford 3rd Graders Release Trout They Raised Into Schenevus Creek Students from Mrs. Polomcean’s third grade class at Milford Central School bid farewell to a school of 50 brown trout that they have been raising in their classroom by releasing them into Schenevus Creek earlier this morning. Above, as fellow students sing “Bye Bye Trout,” Topanga Miller releases of of the fish under the watchful eye of Mike Zurn, Franklin, from Trout Unlimited. At right, Katelyn Smith…
Brindisi, Scanlon Join 19th Representative Delgado Sponsors Resolution Celebrating Colgate’s 200th Today, U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, and two of his colleagues introduced legislation applauding his alma mater, Colgate University, on its 200th anniversary. He was joined by his Upstate colleague, Rep. Anthony Brindisi, the Utica Democrat, and Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, a Colgate alumna and Democrat who represents the Philadelphia suburbs. A member of the Class of 1999, Delgado delivered this year’s commencement address at the university, which has…
