The new year is now underway, and Iron String Press continues to reach out to area officials—Otsego County’s movers and shakers—to find out what they are most looking forward to accomplishing in the months ahead. We’ll print their responses this month, as they are received, continuing with the following entities and those at their helm.…
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Iron String Press hears from Otsego County's movers and shakers about what lies ahead for their organizations in the coming months.…
70 Years Ago
A program on Americanism, directed by Mrs. Foster Crosby, highlighted the Christmas party of Sidney Chapter, DAR Wednesday in the Community House. Mrs. Crosby, in a reading on Communism in this country, described a devotee to Communism as a fanatic who lives only for his party, placing that above everything. She urged Americans to exert themselves to spread Americanism so others may realize how necessary freedom is in our way of life. Howard Dunbar, faculty member of Sidney…
In the mid-20th century, Oneonta was the mecca and the “place to be.” In this new paradigm, we’ll find reconnection to our vibrant past as well as to our possibility and potential.…
The final Priority Project Slate includes the Small Projects Fund, six public improvement initiatives and five private development/rehabilitation projects. Representatives from project lead Laberge Group guided LPC members through a final overview of the proposals under consideration, following which those proposals were identified as either “priority projects” or “pipeline projects”—those with potential but not quite ready yet—to be considered later in accordance with the NY Forward guidelines.…
The Village of Cooperstown Local Planning Committee met on Tuesday, August 22 to review projects submitted following an open request for proposals associated with the village’s New York Forward grant. On March 2, the Village of Cooperstown was awarded a $4.5 million NY Forward grant, one of three Mohawk Valley winners of the first round of the new state grant program created to invigorate and enliven downtowns in New York’s smaller and rural communities.…
On August 11, the results of the Village of Cooperstown New York Forward Community Survey were released. The report, which can be found in its entirety on the village website, was prepared by Highland Planning. The online survey—intended to gauge community members’ perceptions of opportunities within the Village of Cooperstown in order to inform the $4.5 million funding investment by the NY Forward program—was hosted on Survey Monkey from June 19 to August 7 and received 162 responses.…
Bound Volumes, Hometown History July 6, 2023 135 YEARS AGOFew places excel Oneonta in facilities for obtaining an education. About 20 years ago a union school was established with a building which most of the inhabitants thought extravagantly large; but three extensions have since been added, each in size almost equaling the original structure, besides a two-story building in the western part of the village. The entire system is now under direction and management of Prof. N.N. Bull, who has…
Accident Victim in Critical Condition COOPERSTOWN According to a report from the Cooperstown Police Department, on Thursday, June 8 at 4:50 p.m., officers were dispatched to a serious personal injury accident in front of 50 Lake Street in the Village of Cooperstown. Officers arrived on scene at 4:51 p.m. and found a pedestrian lying in the roadway unconscious, with serious head trauma. The victim, a 40-year-old male, had been struck by a vehicle travelling west on Lake Street. The vehicle…
Editorial On Being Polite Since the pandemic, and probably a bit before it, our once-comfortable world has been in a constant state of change. For some of us this is a very good thing; for others, possibly those of an older vintage, such changes are at times more difficult to understand. In the end, though, change is a good thing. It means we are learning, growing, improving and, at the very least, thinking, although we may not particularly agree with…