‘Single Point of Contact’ Will Report On Economic-Development Progress ONEONTA – Sandy Mathes, Otsego County’s “single point of contact” for economic development, will discuss “The Good, the Bad & the Ugly” of attracting jobs here at 8 a.m. Wednesday at the Carriage House in Southside Oneonta, 790 Southside Drive. The forum is hosted by Citizen Voices, and the public is welcome. A little more than a year into a three-year process, Mathes will talk about progress, issues and roadblocks. Additionally,…
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Study To Find Use For 200-Acre Site By JIM KEVLIN • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Dec. 19, 2014 Santa Cuomo didn’t have everything the Otsego County IDA wanted in his sack of state economic-development funding this year, but he has handed out $47,500 for a marketing study for Oneonta’s long-vacant 200-acre D&H Rail Yards. “We’re eager to get the process started,” said Sandy Mathes, CEO of the county IDA, after the governor announced this year’s awards Thursday, Dec.…
Broadband Plan Set: IDA May Let Contract With Telecom Firm By JIM KEVLIN • HOMETOWN ONEONTA/The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 4-5, 2014 The future in Otsego County is not now. But it could be now in the next 2-3 years. The IDA-commissioned Broadband Feasibility Study has found a $30 million public-private high-speed system can happen in Otsego County, and the agency is prepared to contract with a “telecom” to implement it as soon at the IDA’s Thursday, Dec.…
Broadband Plan Readied IDA To Let Contract With Telecom Firm Editor’s Note: This article appeared in the Dec. 4-5, 2014 editions of The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta. By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com The future in Otsego County is not now. But it could be now in the next 2-3 years. The IDA-commissioned Broadband Feasibility Study has found a $30 million public-private high-speed system can happen in Otsego County, and the agency is prepared to contract with a “telecom” to…
IDA Names Middleburgh Telephone As ‘Telecom’ In Broadband Initiative By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com ONEONTA – The IDA board this morning named Middleburgh Telephone as the private entity in a four-part partnership that will seek to implement a $30 million program to provide broadband Internet service throughout Otsego County. “Their credentials, their experience, the breadth of the company is a testimony to the organization,” said IDA President Sandy Mathis. Middleburgh Telephone is part of the Independent Network Operations Consortium, which…
WORK UNDERWAY TO UPDATE COOPERSTOWN’S MASTER PLAN People To Be Surveyed Saturday At Farmers’ Market, Pioneer Park COOPERSTOWN – The Saratoga Springs consultant hired to develop a downtown revitalization and economic development strategy will be collecting data this Saturday from residents and visitors at The Cooperstown Farmers’ Market and in Pioneer Park. Elan Planning, Design & Landscape Architecture by the village and the county Industrial Development Agency to help solicit community input in the development of an updated Comprehensive Master…