Brooks BBQ Bottling Booms; Space Needed Albany County, Cobleskill Poaching Jobs; Otsego Now To Offer Shovel-Ready Site By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Brooks BBQ’s bottling business has taken off, and it needs an extra 150,000 square feet of space in the next two years to accommodate the growth, Otsego Now’s board of director was advised this morning. And Otsego Now has just the place: The shovel-ready site at the former Pony Farm. “You could be in…
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Otsego Now Committee Goal: Full-Time CEO Hanft: Provision Will Blunt Momentum By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.allotsego.com ONEONTA – The Otsego Now board of directors, at its monthly meeting Thursday, approved minutes of its new Reorganization Committee that includes among the committee’s goals: “engage in a search and hire a full-time CEO.” The 2-5 vote came over the objections of board member Bob Hanft, immediate past chairman. He said including that line in the Reorganization Committee’s 11 “duties and responsibilities”…
Landlords, Council Raise Concerns About DRI Projects Get Full Story In Hometown Oneonta On Newsstands Wednesday Afternoon…
BRIEFING IN SCHENEVUS Questions Greet, Applause Affirms Mathes Appearance 75 Attendees Provided Details Of Hunt For Distribution Center By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.allotsego.com SCHENEVUS – “Welcome,” an audience member called out when Otsego Now CEO Sandy Mathes finished introducing the concept of a 250- to 600-job distribution center to a community whose commercial base dropped from 57 businesses to a handful in the last half-century. Even with 90 minutes of sometimes probing questions that followed from the 75…
Hartwick Again To Host Brewers’ Winter Meeting 100 Due On Oyaron Hill This Weekend ONEONTA – Hartwick College’S Center for Craft Food & Beverage will again host the Farmer Brewer Winter Weekend conference, this weekend, co-sponsored by Otsego Now and the Craft Maltsters Guild. More than 100 farmers, brewers, and maltsters from across the country will attend the two-day conference to explore the science behind their craft from “grain to glass,” and discuss the opportunities and challenges of working with…
Governor Sends $417,000 To Raze Oneonta Ford Hulk ONEONTA – The Cuomo Administration today announced a $477,915 allocation to be used toward the demolition of the former Oneonta Ford building at Chestnut and South Main to make way for the new Susquehanna Regional Food & Beverage Hub. Concidentally, at an Otsego Now hearing this morning on taking the property by eminent domain, spokesmen for its owner, the Twelve Tribes, testified $150,000 offered for the property is insufficient; the governor’s announcement came…
Otsego Now, Twelve Tribes Spar Over Eminent Domain By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – As the plans for the Mohawk Valley Food & Beverage Innovation Center move forward, negotiations for purchasing the former Oneonta Ford building have grown tense. “We’ve engaged in good-faith negotiations with the owners,” said Otsego Now CEO Sandy Mathes. “We’ve shared info, appraisals and environmental issues that need to be remediated.” But with the option of eminent domain on the table, a packed public hearing was held…
After Debate, Chair’s Appointment Approved But Changes Coming, Marietta Predicts By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – There was lively debate in open session about the process of choosing new Otsego Now board members. But, after a 20-minute executive session called by board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, county reps at today’s special meeting voted unanimously to confirm Cheryl Robinson, the NYCM vice president, to the board of the economic-development agency. She will succeed the Richfield Springs architect, Jim…
AllOTSEGO.com EDITORIAL Block Clark, Delay Making Otsego Now Appointments You may remember a year ago, when Kathy Clark, R-Otego, Otsego County Board of Representatives’ chair, forced through the appointment of a favorite, Rick Hulse, who had been defeated for election a couple of months before, to the Otsego Now board of directors. She forced party discipline on newly elected Republicans – Meg Kennedy, David Bliss, Len Carson, Meg Kennedy, Peter Oberacker and Dan Wilber – who bristled at being told…