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New In Town, Grummons Got To Know Everyone

DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN New In Town, Grummons Got To Know Everyone Funeral Director To Be Honored At Annual Chamber Gala May 2 By JIM KEVLIN • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – Everybody knows Les Grummons. “I always liked to be involved,” said the Oneonta funeral director who is the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce’s Eugene A. Bettiol Jr. Distinguished Citizen of the Year.  “I was always that way.” He will be honored Thursday, May 2, at the chamber’s annual…

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With Brainy, Creative Executives, Otsego County’s Future Secure

EDITORIAL With Brainy, Creative Execs,  Otsego County’s Future Secure A couple of months ago, Gerry Benjamin, director of SUNY New Paltz’s Benjamin Center and an expert on Upstate New York, saw the region’s economic future in nurturing and growing what we have. Craft brewing and yogurt production, in particular, are developing nicely, he said, although neither is generating sufficient jobs at sufficient salaries to begin replacing the manufacturing behemoth that was the Mohawk Valley. The advantage to incremental growth, of…

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Chamber To Honor Pathfinder Village, Lester Grummons

ANNUAL GALA MAY 2 AT FOOTHILLS Chamber To Honor Pathfinder Village, Lester Grummons ONEONTA – The Otsego County Chamber of Commerce will honor Pathfinder Village and funeral director and community leader Les Grummons at its annual gala at 5:45 p.m. Thursday, May 2, at Foothill Performing Arts Center. Pathfinder will be named as Distinguished Business and Grummons as Citizen of the Year. Pathfinder Village, based in Edmeston, has a four decades’ long commitment to providing community-based and individualized service to…

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To Sounds of Christmas Music, Village Memory Tree Decorated

To Sounds of Christmas Music, Village Memory Tree Decorated Teri Henderson of Burlington Flats, top photo, directs the Edmeston-Burlington Area Church Choir this afternoon after the decorating of a Catskill Area Hospice Memory Tree on the front lawn of Cooperstown Village Hall, 22 Main.  At left, Lisa Berryment of Edmeston, Karen Fish of Burlington Flats and Becky Bennett of Edmeston and the rest of the choir sing a selection of seasonal favorites.  (Mrs. Fish said “Heaven’s Child” is her favorite.) …