EDITORIAL How Often Can We Help Something 1st-Rate Happen? Solicitations, by phone, mail, email or in person, are a pesky part of 21st century life. The advantages the Susquehanna SPCA’s “Shelter Us” campaign for $3 million to build a new animal shelter are: one, the people who are running it are our neighors – we know them. And, two, everything about it is first rate. Anita Vitullo of Clinton, Staffworks’ president and philanthropist to the pet world, underscored the many ways…
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WATCH FOR PROGRESS AT SHELTER SITE $2M DOWN, $1M TO GO By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com INDEX – So far, 100 individual contributions have been made to the new Susquehanna Animal Shelter, and more of the kind is needed to reach the new fundraising goal of $3 million, according to SSPCA Executive Director Stacie Hayes. “It’s the individuals we have to count on,” said Haynes in the afterglow of Saturday, Aug. 24’s upbeat groundbreaking ceremony on the site…
CLICK TO DONATE TO ‘SHELTER US’ Ground Broken, And $2M Raised, For New Shelter With Success, ‘Shelter Us’ Finds $3M Will Be Needed, And Sets New Target By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com INDEX – There was plenty of good news, high spirits and benefactors aplenty at today’s groundbreaking on the new Susquehanna SPCA shelter on Route 28. Plus a new goal to strive for. First, it was announced the $250,000 matching grant from Staffworks President Anita Vitullo has…
Razing Makes Way For Animal Shelter by LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to AllOTSEGO.com INDEX The Susquehanna SPCA is just over the halfway point. “We’ve received $1.9 million in our Shelter Us campaign,” said Stacie Haynes, executive director. The campaign will help build the SQSPCA’s new shelter, which will have a groundbreaking ceremony at the new site at noon on Saturday, Aug. 24. (The acronym was changed from SSPCA to avoid confusion with four other SPCAs.) Tweedie Construction, Walton, began the…
Otsego Planning Board OKs Animal Shelter Plan DETAILS IN THIS WEEK’S FREEMAN’S, HOMETOWN…
EDITORIAL • July 11-12, 2019 County Board’s ‘Green Light’ Resolution Was Litmus Test – And Democrats Failed It First, it should be said that there’s a troubling lack of interest this year in running for the Otsego County Board of Representatives, whose reach, from road building to social services, touches all 60,094 of us. In the 14 districts, there are only three contests coming out of the June 25 primary: In District 2, the one-term Democrat, former Morris Town Board…
Otsego Chamber Policy Declares Independence Regarding Energy Issues Renewables Supported, But Decompressor, Too By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Otsego County businesspeople support all energy options – renewables, yes, but also the controversial decompressor station proposed for West Oneonta – states a county Chamber of Commerce “Energy & Infrastructure Policy” released in the past few days. The statement came bottom-up from the Oneonta-based organization’s countywide membership, said Chamber President Barbara Ann Heegan, who also chairs the Economic…
D&H Yards Debate Renewed Environmental Review Too Fuzzy, Gas Activists Advise Common Council By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Anti-gas activists from around Otsego County returned to Oneonta Tuesday, June 18, with the same message: The environmental review to allow redevelopment of the D&H Railyards is not detailed enough. And Mayor Gary Herzig repeated the same response he has since a stormy hearing Tuesday, March 5 at Foothills: If someone shows up with a plan to actually…
from GAYLORD DILLINGHAM What Are Litterers Thinking When They Toss Beer Cans? To The Editor: Although I understand that I am not alone in my annoyance and frustration over the never-ending problem of litter around Lake Otsego, it also puzzles me that anyone would cavalierly hurl a Budweiser can or McDonald’s wrapper out a car window without the slightest regard to consequence. Maybe they think: When snow melts so do all cans, bottles and plastic wrappers. Garbage of all kinds,…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 9-10, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE New Oneonta Slogan: ‘We’re Onta Something’ Cooperstown Noise Law: 88 Decibels Is It Concertgoers To Help Pick New Conductor HoF President Mead’s Mantra: Teamwork Relay for Life Message: You Have Friends First UM May Vote To Reject Limits On Gays EDITORIAL Stop the Rot! Village Should Buy CVS, Redevelop It While At It, Fund Strong Merchants’ Association COLUMNS LANDERS: Key To Success:…