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#1 DISTRIBUTION CENTER SITE IS, YES, SCHENEVUS Engineers Pick It From 86 Sites With 2 Miles Of I-88 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Peter Oberacker walks the Kinch's 130-acre property in February 2017, when it was first proposed for a distribution center. A study, revealed today, affirms it is the best such site in the county within two miles of an I-88 exit. (AllOTSEGO.com photo) COOPERSTOWN – County Rep. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, (and Otsego Now then-President Sandy Mathes)…
EDITORIAL From All, Best Wishes For A Speedy Recovery $10 MILLION MAN: State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, is flanked by, from left, MVREDC chairman Robert Geer, Empire State Development Corp. President Howard Zemsky, Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig and Assemblyman Bill Magee, D-Nelson, when the City of Oneonta was named the first DRI community on July 20, 2016. (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com) Editor's Note: This editorial is reprinted from this week's editions of Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman's Journal, on newsstands now. The…
EDITORIAL April 20, 2018 NYSEG Must Provide Full Range Of Energy OTHERWISE, OUTMIGRATION INEVITABLE From NYSEG Facebook page An Otsego Now contingent returned from a March 14 meeting reassured NYSEG’s new president Carl Taylor would help ease local energy shortages. Let’s not be prophets of doom, but we’re all thinking people who can more or less put the pieces of the puzzle together. In her March 29-30 column, our colleague, columnist Cathe Ellsworth, alerted us to an Albany Business Review…
CLICK HERE FOR PROFILE OF AIDA EXEC Jody Zakrevsky Hired As Otsego Now CEO By LIBBY CUDMORE • www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Jody Zakrevsky, the former executive director of the Amsterdam IDA, has joined Otsego Now as the full-time CEO. Zakrevsky, who joined the Amsterdam IDA in 2011, oversaw the development of The Edson Street Industrial Park, which includes tenants such as Losurdo Foods, Washburns Ice Cream/Refrigerated Lines, Mohawk Signs, Town & County Bridge and Rail, Bush Carpentry & Millwork and Northeast…
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Otsego Now Gets It, NY Experts Declare Developers Need Rail Access, Shovel-Ready Sites, Panel Says Northern Eagle Beverage President George Allen, host of today's Otsego Now's annual meeting, welcomes the 50 attendees. The subsequent panel included, at front table from left, MVREDC Executive Director Mike Reese, Fulton-Montgomery Community College President Dustin Swanger, Empire State Development Corp. VP Jerry Janiszewski, and state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford. To Allen's left is Devin Morgan, Otsego Now board chair. In the foreground are, at…
D&H Yards Sold, In Public Hands Sale Opens Door To Development Otsego Now CEO Sandy Mathes, left, shows what the D&H yards have to offer to Phil Fontana, Norfolk Southern's regional economic-development officer, who visited March 23. (AllOTSEGO.com photo) ONEONTA – The D&H railyards, focus of hopes for economic development in the City of Oneonta, is now in public hands. A newly created local development corporation, Oneonta Rail Yards (ORY), a subsidiary of Otsego Now, has closed on approximately 80…
Brooks BBQ Bottling Booms; Space Needed Bob Harlem alerts the Otsego Now board of directors this morning that Albany County and Cobleskill are seeking to lure an expansion of the Brooks BBQ bottling plant. With Harlem were fellow county Development Corp. board member Jamie Reynolds, left, and Jim Jordan of Richfield Springs, the architect. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com) 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…
Otsego Now Committee Goal: Full-Time CEO Hanft: Provision Will Blunt Momentum Otsego Now chair Devin Morgan, left, and board members Rick Hulse, center, and Craig Gelbsman after voting aye on the committee minutes at Thursday's meeting. (AllOTSEGO.com photo) 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…
