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CITY OF THE HILLS: Mar. 14 – 15, 2019

Ian Austin/HOMETOWN – ONEONTA – Al Rubin acknowledges applause after winning the Catskill Symphony’s Guest Conductor Contest Saturday, March 9, at SUNY Oneonta’s field house, and helping raise a record $46,321

Oneonta Loses

Joe Campbell,

Voice Of City

ONEONTA

Joe Campbell, the Voice of Oneonta for 50 years on “WDOS, the Star station,” passed away at 4:05 a.m. March 6, 2019, in Cooperstown after hearing “The Campbells are Coming” on the bagpipes.
An institution in his adopted hometown for a half-century, he also taught fifth and sixth grade in city schools for 35 years.
Arrangements are in the hands of the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrabono Funeral Home.

 

►CITIZENS VOICES plan to discuss a TED Talk video on nuclear power and Global Warming on March 13.
►A HAMPTON INN just south of Dollar General in Hartwick Seminary, was approved by the Hartwick Town Planning Board.
►COUNTY TREASURER Allen Ruffles of Cooperstown, an Army Reservist, departed for a year-long deployment in the Horn of Africa.

 

 

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