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Craft Food, Beverage Organizers Greet Appalachian Commission Chair Gohl ONEONTA – Earl Gohl, federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, delivered the $123,525 check this afternoon to help launch Hartwick College’s new Center for Craft and Food Beverage, aim to assist the revival of hops growing, brewing and natural foods production in Otsego County. The money “will enable local businesses to more effectively produce, promote and distribute their goods,” Hartwick Provost and Vice President Mike Tannenbaum told the gathering. It…
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2 Veteran Local Officials Accept State Jobs COOPERSTOWN – Word surfaced in recent days that two key government officials are leaving for new positions: • Scott Fickbohm, Burlington Flats, longtime district manager of the USDA’s Soil & Water Conservation District, Phoenix Mills, has accepted a position overseeing state Department of Ag & Markets programs in 13 Central New York counties, including Otsego. Among many other initiatives he helped develop the Canadarago Lake Watershed Protection Plan. • Psalm Wyckoff, Westford, county planner under…
Enhanced Habitat For Migrating Birds Near Completion In Hartwick Seminary By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com HARTWICK SEMINARY – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, hosted a press briefing behind the Cooperstown Fun Park here this morning to draw attention to a 14-pond wildlife enhancement project now underway. The project was initiated by Fun Park owner Bob Hickey and his father, also Bob, who passed away in June, on 20 acres of former farmland between Route 28 and the Susquehanna River. The…
Hartwick’s Craft Food, Beverage Center Will Receive $123,525 To Lower Costs ONEONTA – Appalachian Regional Commission Federal Co-chair Earl Gohl will be on the Hartwick College campus at 3:45 p.m. tomorrow to announce a $123,525 grant for the college’s Center for Craft Food and Beverage, the college announced this afternoon. The announcement will be made on the first floor of Bresee Hall. The goal of the center is to lower costs, enabling local businesses to more effectively produce, promote, and…
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HOMETOWN HISTORY, May 18, 2012 125 Years Ago The Normal School – A free country never yet had too many schools, nor has human ingenuity ever yet devised a method of investment which returns so heavy an interest as the money devoted to the good cause of education. The establishment of this school in Oneonta is an event of supreme importance in the history of this community and of this locality. It means advantages not to be estimated, not merely…
HOMETOWN HISTORY, May 25, 2012 100 Years Ago All arrangements have been completed for the big event of next Monday and Tuesday evenings at the Oneonta Theatre, when the City Club of Oneonta, assisted by other first-class talent and under the direction of Mr. Dolan, will give a grand Minstrel entertainment. Manager Dolan has had 15 years of experience in the work and his firm conviction is that the Oneonta Minstrel show will be by all odds the finest in…
HOMETOWN HISTORY, June 1, 2012 125 Years Ago The Local News – A job printing press now approaching completion at the machine shops of Miller & Co. on Mechanic Street is destined to bring a fortune to the inventor, if the press accomplishes all that it is intended it shall. The press is built upon principles differing materially from the average jobbing press, printing from a self-feeding roll of paper, and making several times as many impressions per minute as…