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IDA Ends Broad Band Project, Puts Pony Farm On Fast Track Rebuffed By County, Board Focuses On Own Priorities ONEONTA – The Otsego County IDA has received 20 queries from small businesses with expansion plans, but will now forward them to the county after a key committee has decided not to participate in “single point of contact” economic development. “We remain open to cooperating,” said Sandy Mathes, the IDA’s CEO, at the end of an action-packed meeting. “But we are…
BOUND VOLUMES, June 5, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Dispatch from Charleston, S.C.: Valuable Prize – Arrived at this port yesterday, the large and elegant British ship Pelham (late Capt. Boyd), Alexander Taylor, prizemaster, prize to the privateer Saucy Jack, Capt. Chazal, of this port. Her cargo consists of dry goods, hardware, &c, and is invoiced at 13,000 pounds sterling. The Pelham was captured on the 30th April, off Cape Nicholas Mole, after a well contested action of upwards of two…
BOUND VOLUMES, June 5, 2014 200 YEARS AGO Dispatch from Charleston, S.C.: Valuable Prize – Arrived at this port yesterday, the large and elegant British ship Pelham (late Capt. Boyd), Alexander Taylor, prizemaster, prize to the privateer Saucy Jack, Capt. Chazal, of this port. Her cargo consists of dry goods, hardware, &c, and is invoiced at 13,000 pounds sterling. The Pelham was captured on the 30th April, off Cape Nicholas Mole, after a well contested action of upwards of two…
IN MEMORIAM: Dr. Alfred Jaretzi III, 94; Bassett Physician Of International Repute COOPERSTOWN Word has been received that Dr. Alfred Jaretzi III, 94, a former Bassett Hospital physician whose work on the thymus gland won him an international reputation, died last Thursday. He had homes in New York City and Essex, Conn. Locally, he was a founding member of the Village Planning Board. A memorial service will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 18 at the Knickerbocker Club in New…
Schwerd Letter Says IGA Won’t Act On IDA Request A Friday, May 30, letter from county Rep. Betty Anne Schwerd, R-Edmeston, to the county IDA said her Intergovernmental Affairs Committee “is not taking action at this time” on the IDA offer to take on the county’s Economic Development Office. READ SCHWERD’S LETTER TO IDA…
1st 12 START-UP NY Firms Named The first dozen businesses participating in Governor Cuomo’s tax-free START-UP NY program were announced today, none in Otsego County, whose sites are still in the approval stage. As reported in the Albany Times Union, the 12 are: • Aesku NY, Inc., CoachMePlus (Virtuvia, LLC), Clearview Social, Inc., Decision Pace, Inc., Heads Up Display Inc., Lineagen, Inc., Nupur Technologies, LLC, and Sinapis Pharma, Inc. will be sponsored by the University at Buffalo. • Datto, Inc.…
Rep. Schwerd Says Committee Will Seek Alternative To ‘Single Point Of Contact’ By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – The county Board of Representatives’ committee in charge of economic development has decided not to collaborate with the IDA’s “single point of contact” strategy. County Rep. Betty Ann Schwerd, R-Edmeston, who chairs the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, told the county board this morning the IGA is interviewing two consultants to take on the tasks formerly performed by the county Economic Development Office. Schwerd…
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Judges Hear Fracking Arguments, Mum The state Court of Appeals in Albany this afternoon listened to arguments pro and con on the legality of Middlefield and Dryden’s fracking ban, but gave no hints as to which way it may go in a case that could determine where potentially lucrative — and potentially hazardous — hydrofracking for gas might happen, Newsday reports.…