Town May Follow City’s Suit Southside Could Become Geothermal Energy Center Jay Egg, CEO, Geo Egg, inset photo, speaks about heating Southside Mall with geothermal energy at a packed Oneonta Town Board meeting this evening in West Oneonta, as Town Board member Randal Mowers listens. “The writing is on the wall,” Egg said about future energy use. Municipalities and counties like Westchester are already declaring moratoriums on expanding natural-gas use while the state is green-lighting renewable energy. The Town of…
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Chief Brenner Joins LEAF Council Board ONEONTA – Police Chief Douglas Brenner has joined the board of directors of LEAF Council on Alcoholism & Addictions, it was announced today. “We are pleased Chief Brenner has joined our board”, said board President Tara Barnwell. “Almost every sector of our community is now represented and he will be a huge asset”. Brenner, who was appointed police chief in July 2017, has since served on the Otsego County Opioid Task Force.…
196 Oneonta Students Win Susan Sutton Smith Awards ONEONTA – A total of 196 students with 3.9 GPAs or higher received 2018-2019 Susan Sutton Smith Awards for academic excellence, SUNY Oneonta announced today. Student award winners receive a certificate, a gift card to the campus bookstore, and an invitation to attend the annual Susan Sutton Smith Lecture and reception. Dr. Tracy Betsinger, associate professor of biological anthropology, will deliver this year’s Susan Smith Lecture titled, “Babies Are Us: What Can…
50 GATHER AT BEVERAGE EXCHANGE Democratic Candidates Kick Off Fall Campaign To applause, Democratic County Chairman Aimee Swan, standing at center, introduces city, town and county candidates from across Otsego County seeking office in the Nov. 5 local elections at a kick-off rally now underway at the Beverage Exchange in downtown Coopertown. (In the foreground are Oneonta Democrats Rick Pavlick, right, and Kate O’Donnell, left.) At right, Jill Basile, county rep candidate from District 14, Oneonta, attending with husband Vinnie,…
Two Dozen Join Veteran On Walk To Neahwa Park By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Since March 1, Frank Romeo has braved 80 mph winds, ice storms and other Upstate winter hazards on his mission to bring awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder on his statewide “Walk With Frank” campaign. “This is one of the nice days!” he said this morning in Neahwa Park, where he walked with two dozen under overcast skies, with temperatures hovering in…
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‘Walk With Frank’ Advocate Arrives In Oneonta Tonight ONEONTA – Frank Romeo, the Vietnam veteran who is walking across New York to raise awareness of PTSD, will arrive in Oneonta tonight. Romeo will be at the Oneonta Vets Club 5-7 p.m. tonight for the weekly fish fry dinner. At 10 a.m. Saturday, Gene Schmitt has organized a local walk, where supporters will walk with Frank to the Vietnam Veteran’s memorial in Neahwa Park.…
FORMER CHAIR RETIRING Clark Doesn’t File Petitions For Reelection Brockway, Ogden Vie In District 3 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A dominant actor appears to be leaving the political stage: By today’s 5 p.m. deadline, county Rep. Kathy Clark, R-Otego, the former two-term board chairman, had not filed petitions to run again for her District 3 seat. Absent an independent filing, it appears that either Republican Rick Brockway, the outdoors columnist and farrier from Laurens, or…
COLLEGE PROVIDING ROTARY SPEAKERS Hartwick E-Hub Students Share ‘Liberal Arts In Action’ Rotarian (and Hartwick College president) Margaret L. Drugovich, above, introduces Hartwick students Allison Taft and Taylor Diepold, who spoke at today’s the Oneonta Rotary Club luncheon at The Elks Club. Each Thursday this month, Hartwick is providing luncheon speakers to the local club. Today’s topic was the “E-Hub Experience: Liberal Arts in Action” initiative. Economics Professor Kristen Jones, at left, explains how uncertainties in the future of the…
