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SULLIVAN: Projects on the Horizon in Northern Otsego

Column from Dan Sullivan Projects on the Horizon in Northern Otsego Over the past several years, the Town of Richfield and Village of Richfield Springs have built a coalition of residents, civic groups, and local government officials to form a revitalization plan for the two municipalities. Momentum began to build back in 2015, with the formation of a Joint Town/Village Comprehensive Plan Committee. Working with a professional planning firm, under a grant secured by Otsego Now, a Joint Comprehensive Plan…

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Richfield community creates park

Richfield community creates park By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com RICHFIELD SPRINGS – About 15 people gathered Sunday, May 24, on Main Street in the village to turn the site of a formerly blighted home into a “pocket park.” The property at 177 Main St. had been abandoned years ago, one of a handful of old houses in the area that had gotten too run down and where the former owners could not afford to restore it. The Greater…

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$1.25M Federal Grant OK’d For Developing Richfield Springs Site

$1.25M Federal Grant OK’d For Developing Richfield Springs Site Funding Allows Andela Products Expansion RICHFIELD SPRINGS – The U.S. Commerce Department has approved a $1.2 million grant to establish the Richfield Springs Eco-Industrial Business Park, Otsego Now, the county’s economic development agency, announced today. The Economic Development Administration grant, to be matched with $325,000 in state funds and $875,000 in local funds, is expected to generate more than $10.5 million in private investment, the announcement said.…

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At Full Strength, Andela Using ‘Phase 1’ Guidelines

THE NEW NORMAL • DAY ONE At Full Strength, Andela Using ‘Phase 1’ Guidelines Cynthia Andela, president of Andela Product & Ruby Lakes Glass, Richfield Springs, and Bob Walrath, Mohawk, demonstrate the glass recycling companies’ commitment to 6 feet of social distancing as the company was back at full strength Friday, the first day of Governor Cuomo’s Phase One of the “new normal.”  The company’s 20-person workforce had been at half-strength during April, but with PPP funding and its customers…

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State CFA ’19 Grants Announced Thursday

CLICK FOR FULL LIST OF PROJECTS State CFA ’19 Grants Announced Thursday ONEONTA — A $420,000 grant so Andela Products Inc. can expand into the Richfield Springs Industrial Park leads off the list of grants Otsego Now is hoping to receive in this year’s round of state economic development funding, to be announced Thursday in Albany.…

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Andela To Break Ground On 100,000-Square-Foot In 2020, President Says

Andela To Break Ground On 100,000-Sq.-Ft. Plant In 2020, President Says Development May Be ‘Eco-Commerce Park,’ Using Geothermal Heat, But Also Natural Gas By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Andela Products and its subsidiary, Ruby Lake Glass, expects to break ground in 2020 on a 100,000-square-foot building on a 40-acre parcel just south of the village owned by Otsego Now, company President Cynthia Andela told a gathering of businesspeople this morning at the Richfield Springs Community…

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Andela Planning $5M Development Outside Richfield

Andela Planning $5M Development Outside Richfield Speaking To Chamber, Company Owner Says IDA Site Leading Contender Of 3 By PATRICK WAGER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Andela Products, the glass recycling company, is planning to a $5 million business park on 55-acres south of the village and to increase its workforce by almost 50 percent, company President  Cynthia Andela told the Richfield Springs Chamber of Commerce tonight. “We are a diamond in the rough.  We have the energy.…

Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through March 30, new annual subscribers to “The Freeman’s Journal” and AllOtsego.com (or subscribers who have lapsed for two or more years) have an opportunity to help their choice of one of four Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

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