According to a CFES Brilliant Pathways news release, the five local schools were among 34 in the U.S. and Ireland that achieved the 2023-24 honor “for exemplary work in preparing their students for college and rewarding careers.”…
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The biennial festival has become a highly anticipated event on the Otsego County Fall Tourism schedule, drawing more than 1,500 attendees to the beautiful and historic Village of Cherry Valley. Kite flyers, kite makers, and members of kite clubs from all over the Northeast and Canada will be coming for the entire weekend, filling the skies over Cherry Valley with kites of every size and description.…
“We have a wonderful selection of Irish and Scottish wool sweaters, capes and scarves, as well as a vast assortment of tea from around the world,” said owner Susan Murray-Miller. “Plus items for health, wellness, and spirituality, spirit balls, friendship hearts, lots of incense and jewelry, crystal and smudge kits, peace flags, and many more unusual finds.”…
Eckmair was specifically acknowledged for her involvement in a research project which ultimately quashed an Army Corps of Engineers plan to install a series of dams in the Butternut Valley. According to the citation, these dams would have created a 7-mile-long lake, thus “flooding the entire village and most of the Butternut Valley and over 4,000 years of Native American civilization.” Congress deauthorized the monies appropriated for the plan in 1979.…
On Tuesday, September 3, Tweedie Construction Company of Walton began removing the rubble at 18 Richards Avenue in Oneonta. The property is owned by CJMDF Enterprises at 14 Chester Street, Oneonta.…
Iron String Press is a business, just like all the other for-profit and non-profit entities throughout Otsego County. We have rent and utilities to pay, a professional staff to support, printing and mailing costs, and a host of other expenses. We are providing a viable community service and, in the current economic climate—just like all these other businesses—our bottom line is ever top-of-mind.…
The village trustee meeting on Monday, July 22 begins. I read my request and the questions start. I had the representative from the banner company come to town to answer any questions the trustees had. I used the words “Hometown Heroes,” so they wanted to know why just veterans. My reply was that I was only working with veterans—that anyone else who wanted to take on others could.…
September 8-14 is Direct Support Professional Recognition Week. We want to take this opportunity to express gratitude to direct support professionals for their outstanding leadership and unshakable dedication to creating inclusive and supportive communities.…
This week's news briefs include information about a new COVID vaccine, various workshops, an upcoming meeting of the Oneonta Democratic Club, the Grand and Glorious Fall Fair and more.…
While JD Vance may have done well in school, what he definitely added to his Yale Law School class was the diversity of being former military, not from an Ivy League school (the largest source of Yale Law School entrants) and, as he wrote, distinctly not from the middle class. He was, as he put it so eloquently in his book, a “hillbilly.”…
