MASKIN, HERZIG IMPRESSED Delgado Meets With OFO, Says Session ‘Illuminating’ ONEONTA – U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, today met with the poverty-fighting Opportunities for Otsego’s board of directors and staff. The freshman congressman called the meeting “illuminating and deeply important to understand the headwinds facing thousands of Upstate New Yorkers experiencing poverty and homelessness.” OFO CEO Dan Maskin said he was “honored” to have Delgado visit the organization, adding, “I was thoroughly impressed that he took the time to listen…
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Mayor’s Eyeball Survey Found Parking Aplenty In 20 Tours Of Dietz Lot, He Never Found Fewer Than 80 Vacant Spaces By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – When Mayor Gary Herzig says there’s plenty of space in the Dietz Street parking lot to accommodate the three-story Lofts On Dietz and its 66 artist studios and apartments, he knows what he’s talking about. “I’ve walked the lot, starting in April, probably 20 times,” he said a couple of days…
HERZIG PRAISES PREDECESSOR ‘Sam Nader Day’ Declared To Mark His Contributions ONEONTA – Mayor Gary Herzig today issued a proclamation declaring Wednesday, July 8, Sam Nader Day in the City of Oneonta, in recognition of the former mayor’s “too many to count” contributions to the City of the Hills. Here is the text of the proclamation: “In recognition of the “too many to count” contributions, made by citizen and Mayor Albert “Sam” Nader, to the well-being of the people of…
1ST DRI HOME RUN 40 ARTIST LOFTS, 26 APARTMENTS, PLANNED ON DIETZ Father-Son Development Team Will Brief City Council July 16 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Attention, Oneonta: The Lofts on Dietz are coming. Common Council will vote Tuesday on making Parkview Development & Construction, Inc., a father and son development team from the Hudson Valley, Ken and Sean Kearney, the “preferred developer” on a local version of Artspace – 40 lofts for artists and another…
5-Officer Wedges Needed To Diffuse Problems In Crowds City Couldn’t Handle Trouble At OH-Fest, Chief, Mayor Find By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – If one person gets hurt in the OH-Fest crowd, it takes five people, including law enforcement and EMTs, to reach them, according to City Police Chief Doug Brenner. “We form a wedge to move through the crowd,” he said. “But if there’s 10 people fighting, we’re quickly overwhelmed.” Such concerns were…
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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…
CHAMBER ANNOUNCES LINEUP State Of State Includes Senator, Both Mayors, Chair Of County Board ONEONTA – The Otsego County Chamber of Commerce today announced the lineup for its annual State of the State Breakfast, scheduled as it’s been traditionally done on the day after New Year’s Day. The headliners are state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, Cooperstown’s new mayor, Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and her Oneonta counterpart, Gary Herzig, and David Bliss, chairman of the Otsego County Board of Representatives.…
Public Hearing 11/14 On New Fire District Agreement Wood, Herzig Reached Ups Ratepayer Fees By 1.8 Percent By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com WEST ONEONTA – The Oneonta Town Board has scheduled a public hearing for 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, after which it can vote to create a new fire district, ending more than two years of uncertainty on whether 80 percent of the town would continue to be served by the city’s paid, fulltime Oneonta Fire Department.…
Folks Flee Upstate, USDA Exec Learns Fewer Students For Hartwick College, Jobs Available But Unfilled, Hazlett Told By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Not only did the USDA assistant secretary for Rural Development learn about Upstate declining population at her visit to Hartwick College this morning, she got a sense of the impacts. In her opening remarks, Hartwick President Margaret L. Drugovich reported a 17 percent decline in high school graduates between 2009 and 2017, and some…