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Obstruction Clearance Project Proceeds Amidst Public Concern

Many of the more than a dozen area residents in attendance were there for another reason, however: to hear updates on, and to voice concerns about, the airport’s runway obstruction clearance project. The project has been an ongoing topic of distress within the community since April, when the Common Council approved a resolution to accept a Federal Aviation Administration grant.…
October 30, 2025

Airport Expansion Plans Prompt Neighborly Concern: Part One

“For every project we do here, there’s several steps,” Kamerbeek explained. “We need to do a design…then we need to do an environmental study to make sure that what we’re changing is not impacting the environment. We need to get funding from the [Federal Aviation Administration] and then from the local government from the City of Oneonta, and then we need to execute it. Those projects take years. So you need to keep on it. You need to be in…
August 21, 2025

County Hears Airport Concerns, Debates DMV

The Otsego County Board of Representatives meeting on Wednesday, August 6 started out with a bang. Following a short address by Edward Dawyot and mirroring similar remarks made by a group the night before at the City of Oneonta Common Council meeting, numerous individuals brought to the board’s attention their concerns over proposals for expansion of the Oneonta Municipal Airport.…
August 14, 2025

First Oneonta Common Council Meeting of 2019 Opens On Somber Note

First Common Council Meeting Of 2019 Opens On Somber Note By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Common Council opened its first meeting of 2019 on a somber note, with Mayor Gary Herzig calling for a moment of silence in honor of former Oneonta firefighter John D. Heller, who lost his life while rescuing his fiancée and four nephews from a house fire last Saturday, Dec. 29. Herzig said about Heller, “I think we can all feel that…
January 2, 2019

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

For a limited time, new annual subscriptions to the hard copy of “The Freeman’s Journal” or “Hometown Oneonta” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or digital-only access to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

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