NYCON Offers Management Grants To Non-Profits ONEONTA – Grants to “measurably improve” the management of non-profits in Otsego County are being accepted through March 1, NYCON Regional Director Andrew Marietta announced. For grant criteria, check http://tinyurl.com/OtsegoMiniGrantCriteria2016 For the application, check http://tinyurl.com/OtsegoMiniGrantApp2016 The Scriven Foundation has made $45,000 in grants available for general governance and management assistance, merger, crisis management, and scholarships to NYCON’s capacity-building conference. Grant award announcements will be made by March 31.…
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DEBATE AT HARTWICK CONFAB Can State Grow Enough Malt To Meet Breweries’ Demand? ONEONTA – What comes first, the chicken or the egg? At the end of the fourth annual Winter Farm Brewery Weekend Conference this afternoon at Hartwick College, that was the question.The state requires brewers licensed under the state Farm Brewery Act of 2012 to use 20 percent in-state ingredients in their beers, with that rising to 60 percent in 2018 and 90 percent in 2024. At the center…
IN MEMORIAM: Harriette Weeks, 80; Nurse At Bassett, ODY Central School SPRINGFIELD – Harriette D. Weeks, 80, surgical nurse at Bassett Hospital who then spent 23 years at school nurse at Owen D. Young Central School in Van Hornesville, died Wednesday, Jan. 13, 12015. She was born on May 16, 1935, the daughter of Edna and Kenneth Dunckel. She was one of three children. Survivors include her sister Audrey Nasby, sister in law Madeline Dunckel and family, several nieces and…
Democratic Chairs Unite For Teachout Otsego’s Abbate Joins Consensus Democratic county chairs from across the 19th District met in Ulster County Saturday and emerged with a consensus that Zephyr Teachout should run to succeed U.S. Rep. Chris Gilbson, the Republican who is retiring at the end of the year. Teachout, who won the Otsego County nomination for governor against incumbent Andrew Cuomo in the 2014 Democratic primary, was in Cooperstown Wednesday, where she obtained the support of with County Chairman…
DEC Lowers Fine Against City In Sewage Spill At Mill Race ONEONTA – Because of cooperation from City Hall, the state Department of Environmental Conservation is reducing a fine from $17,500 to $3,500 related to a sewage spill next to the Mill Race, according to Common Council’s agenda for its upcoming Tuesday meeting. The DEC reduced the fine because city crews discovered the leak, notified the state of the problem and repaired it, the agenda states. When it meets at…
Chamber Polls Its Members On Paid-Parking Expansion COOPERSTOWN The Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce has alerted members the Village Board is holding a public hearing at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan 25, on expanding paid parking five weeks from the Labor Day Weekend to Columbus Day Weekend. And the chamber is again surveying members on how they feel about expanding paid parking, and to e-mail the survey to hanna@cooperstownchamber.org “This is an opportunity as a business owner and/or resident of the Village…
IN MEMORIAM: Susan Stevens, 58; For 13 Years, Controller At Otesaga COOPERSTOWN – Susan Stevens, retired controller at The Otesaga, died Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015, at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home in Winston-Salem, N.C. She was 58. Locally, she resided in Pierstown. Born Dec. 23, 1957, in Framingham, Mass., Susan Mary Dunphy was one of three daughters of James Henry Dunphy, Jr. and Jean Louise Gillum Dunphy. After graduating in 1975 from Rutland Senior High School in Vermont, she…
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IN MEMORIAM: Elizabeth S. Swatling, 97; Husband Operated Fuel-Oil Businesses FLY CREEK – Elizabeth S. Swatling of Red Onion Farm in Fly Creek died early Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. She was 97. Bette was born on Oct. 18, 1918, in Albany to Satie and Joseph M. Schroeder. She married Roy K. Swatling on March 7, 1942, and lived in Herkimer before moving to Fly Creek in 1960. Roy, who operated Jensen-Baldwin Oil in Cherry Valley and Cooperstown, and similar businesses…