Mayor Nader Returns To Scene Of Triumph YOUR NEWSPAPERS AVAILABLE THIS AFTERNOON AT THESE FINE ONEONTA, COOPERSTOWN STORES…
Fox Awarded $500,000 Grant To Study Transgender Health Results May Make Oneonta Center of New Specialty ONEONTA – Five practitioners from Fox Hospital’s Gender Wellness Center in Oneonta have been awarded $500,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program to study establishing a Transgender Center for Excellence within the Bassett Network. This is part of a national program to improve health and reduce disparities in wellness and longevity across the United States. Drs. Carolyn and Christopher Wolf-Gould, Dr.…
Gems From Willard Yager’s Indian Artifacts To Be Shown…
‘Authentically Oneonta’ Committee Appointed Blue-Ribbon Team To Develop $10M Plan ONEONTA – Mayor Gary Herzig has announced a blue-ribbon panel of some of the city’s top community leaders to plan how to best spend Governor Cuomo’s $10 million downtown revitalization grant received in July to help implement the “food hub” concept on Market Street. Herzig will co-chair the “Authentically Oneonta” steering committee with Ken Meier of the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Commission, and yesterday announced the following committee members:…
Lola Rathbone To Retire As Catskill Hospice CEO Former Tri-Town, O’Connor Exec Succeeds Her ONEONTA – Lola Rathbone, president/CEO of Catskill Area Hospital, announced a few minutes ago that she will retire in 2017 after 25 years with the organization. The Board of Directors has named Dan Ayres, former CEO of O’Connor Hospital in Delhi and Tri-Town Hospital in Sidney, to succeed her. Ayres, who will be relocating back to the area after heading Summersville Regional Medical Center in West Virginia for…
IN MEMORIAM: Bob Chase, 73; Lifelong Farmer, Army Veteran COOPERSTOWN – Robert Curtis Chase, 73, a life-long farmer, died peacefully at home on Sept. 16, 2016, after an extended illness with cancer. He was a twice-daily visitor to Jackie’s restaurant in Milford, operated by his daughter Jacqueline, where he would socialize with friends and family. He was born Jan. 22, 1943, in the Town of Butternuts, to parents Robert Curtis and Ruby May Kilts Chase. He was known as Bob,…
IN MEMORIAM: Marjorie Smith, 85; RSCS Librarian For Quarter Century RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Marjorie H. Smith, 85, Richfield Springs Central School librarian for 25 years, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, in Focus at Otsego in Index. Marjorie was born on April 16, 1931, in the Town of Barton, Tioga County, daughter of the late Fletcher J. and Mildred L. (Beebe) Hollenbeck. She was raised in Spencer, graduated from Spencer Central School, and earned a bachelor’s degree as a…
7th Annual Chobani Tennis Tourney Reaches $100,000 Pathfinder Goal COOPERSTOWN – This year’s Chobani Foundation Tennis Classic, the seventh, reached the fundraising goal of $100,000 for Pathfinder Village, the Edmeston facility for people with Down syndrome and disabilities announced. Sept. 6 play was organized by a volunteer committee led by co-chairs Bob and Pat Hanft of Cooperstown, who have guided the growth of the tournament since it began in 2010.…