In Thanks, All Adoptions $23 Anonymous Donation Helps SQSPCA Top $100K Challenge COOPERSTOWN – With the support of a “generous” anonymous donor and community supper, the Susquehanna SPCA has surpassed the $100,000 dollar-for-dollar matching challenge, bringing the shelter $223,000 closer to the new shelter’s $5 million price tag. An anonymous donor funded the challenge to help the Shelter Us campaign meet its goal. “Thanks to the generosity of this anonymous donor – and to an incredibly supportive community that continues…
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GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING/Friday, May 22 $100M Loan Program Created For Women, Minority Businesses ALBANY – Governor Cuomo today launched the $100 million New York Forward Loan Fund to provide flexible and affordable loans to help small businesses, focusing on minority and women-owned small businesses, that did not receive federal COVID-19 assistance. The state will take a smart, targeted approach for distributing these loans, focusing on businesses with 20 or fewer employees and less than $3 million in gross revenues. Businesses interested…
CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION $100,000 Match Offered To Shelter Us Campaign INDEX – With construction underway at the new Animal Shelter here, Susquehanna SPCA today announced receiving a $100,000 challenge grant, which will match every dollar contributed to the $5 million project between now and Aug. 1. “To have an anonymous donor offer us a challenge grant of this magnitude at such a crucial time for our project is truly amazing,” said SQSPCA Executive Director Stacie Haynes.…
CLICK HERE TO DONATE FOR NEW SHELTER ‘Shelter Us’ Campaign Ups Goal To $5 Million By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – It hasn’t been easy, but in the year since the Susquehanna SPCA launched its “Shelter Us” capital campaign to build a new animal shelter, more than $3.2 million has been donated towards the project. “We’ve had a lot of support, and we’re so grateful,” said Stacie Haynes, executive director. “But it’s always challenging. We’re trying to…
Cuomo, Legislature Approve $102 Billion F20 Budget Overnight HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS 2% Tax Cap Permanent School Aid Up $1 Billion Plastic Bags Are Banned Limousine Law Tougher Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ALBANY – The state today has a 2019-2020 budget agreement that makes the 2 percent property tax cap permanent, and adds $1 billion to education funding. Other notable components include tougher regulations on limos after the 20-fatality crash in Schoharie County, a ban plastic bags in supermarkets, public financing…
FUNDRAISING DRIVE OVER $1 MILLION Site Bought For New Shelter INDEX – Just six weeks old, the $2 million “Shelter Us” fund drive passed the halfway mark in recent days, giving the Susquehanna SPCA confidence to buy land for its new headquarters. The SPCA has closed the deal on two acres of land at 5088-5082 Route 28, CPA Judith Brown’s former office and the building next door. “We’re finalizing everything withour construction management team. We are planning to break ground…
Science One Named For $5 Million Donor IBM Exec Janet Perna’s Gift Largest Ever To SUNY Oneonta’s College Foundation ONEONTA — SUNY Oneonta’s Science One building will be named the “Janet R. Perna Science Building” in recognition of a distinguished alumna who has announced that she will give $5 million to the College at Oneonta Foundation. The SUNY Board of Trustees approved the new name at its meeting today, making the action official in accordance with the SUNY Naming Opportunities Policy…
BULLETIN Couple Who Lost Property In 2014 Tax Sale Sues For $10M+ COOPERSTOWN – A Long Island couple who lost their summer home in the 2014 annual tax auction when their delinquent-tax payment was refused are suing the County of Otsego, County Treasurer Dan Crowell and other county entities for more than $10 million. The notice of the federal suit, filed by Robert and Donna Force, was read into the record at this morning’s county board meeting by Clerk of the…
7th Annual Chobani Tennis Tourney Reaches $100,000 Pathfinder Goal COOPERSTOWN – This year’s Chobani Foundation Tennis Classic, the seventh, reached the fundraising goal of $100,000 for Pathfinder Village, the Edmeston facility for people with Down syndrome and disabilities announced. Sept. 6 play was organized by a volunteer committee led by co-chairs Bob and Pat Hanft of Cooperstown, who have guided the growth of the tournament since it began in 2010.…
ONEONTA WINS $10M – ALL OF IT Cuomo Administration Delivers Downtown Development Bonanza By JIM KEVLIN & LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Governor Cuomo couldn’t make it, called away from a City of the Hills appearance by a collapsing crane on the Tappan Zee Bridge project. But he sent the check. $10 million. Howard Zemsky, Empire Development Corp. president, announced at 3:45 p.m. that Oneonta has won the special multi-million allocation earmarked for downtown redevelopment in the whole Mohawk…