Arts Vibrancy Index

EDITORIAL How Can We Make 8th Most Vibrant Arts County Thrive? What? In a United States that some insist on characterizing as a burning dumpster, can there be good news? Well, here it is: Oneonta, as Otsego County’s “urban core,” has been ranked the eighth most-vibrant small community in America in Southern Methodist University’s fifth annual Arts Vibrancy Index Report. According to the Census Bureau’s American Factfinder, there are 16,360 towns in the U.S. Not all of them, of course,…