HERZIG COMMITTED TO CLOSING BUDGET GAP ONEONTA – Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig, appointed last month but up for election next Tuesday for a term to begin Jan. 1, was interviewed by AllOTSEGO.com’s Don Mathisen on his plans. This is the third of five excerpts that will appear on this website daily through Saturday. Click the video below to watch Mayor Herzig discuss his plan to reduce Oneonta’s budget gap. TOMORROW, HERZIG ON ENTERTAINMENT…
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Oneonta Pedestrian Struck By Car Dies This Evening At Bassett Hospital ONEONTA – Daniel Heath, 76, the pedestrian struck by a car at Main and Chestnut this morning, has died at Bassett Hospital, OPD Lt. Douglas Brenner said a few minutes ago. Brenner said he was alerted by the family to the elderly man’s passing. The driver in this morning’s mishap, which occurred about 10:18, had been ticketed with failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. He is Mark…
JEFF BACK ONEONTA COMMON COUNCIL, WARD 4 COMMUNITY OF RESIDENCE: Oneonta 4th Ward EDUCATION: B.S. – SUNY @ Binghamton M.B.A. – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Construction Foreman- Heavy Construction Caterpillar Tractor, Peoria – Corporate Management Fyr-Fyter, Inc., Oneonta – President (30+ years) COMMUNITY/POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT: Oneonta Plumbing Board – Served under several Mayors Oneonta Airport Commission FAMILY: Kim Back (Married 35 years) Two Daughters, Ashley & Megan IN TWO OR THREE SENTENCES, EXPLAIN YOUR PHILOSOPHY OF GOVERNMENT. The structure and…
LAURA DOHNER ONEONTA COMMON COUNCIL, WARD 4 COMMUNITY OF RESIDENCE: Fourth Ward, Oneonta EDUCATION: Ph.D., Binghamton University PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Previous Experience as Licensed Tax Preparer and Insurance Agent; Currently Adjunct Professor; Owner/Manager Karma Day Spa, Main Street Oneonta COMMUNITY/POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT: Member of Rotary Club of Oneonta; Executive Board Member of Foothills PAC and Catskill Symphony Orchestra; President, VP, and Finance Chair of two major university Graduate Student Organizations. FAMILY: Married to Dr. Eric Dohner; we have 13 children combined. IN…
MICHELLE OSTERHOUDT ONEONTA COMMON COUNCIL, WARD 4 COMMUNITY OF RESIDENCE: Elm Street, Oneonta EDUCATION: A.A.S. Degree in Liberal Arts Broome Community College B.S English Education SUNY Oneonta MSEd Curriculum and Instruction University of New England Currently working on Certificate Of Advanced Graduate Degree: Advanced Educational Leadership/Administration University of New England PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Public School Teacher Public Speaking Public Relations Professional Development Presenter: New York State Association for Computing and Technology New York State Stem Collaborative New York State English Council…
AMY HORNBURGHEILVEIL COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES, DISTRICT 12 COMMUNITY OF RESIDENCE: City of Oneonta EDUCATION: Southwestern Michigan College, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, University of Chicago PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Managed a million-dollar import retail business; Coordinator for the Local Government Information and Education Network; Organized State Task Force on Land Use Issues; Money manager for multi-million dollar Barnes and Noble location; Personnel coordinator for several businesses; teacher/tutor City of Oneonta School District; adjunct lecturer, SUNY Oneonta COMMUNITY/POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT: Employee Oneonta City…
CRAIG GELBSMAN OTSEGO COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE, DISTRICT 12 COMMUNITY OF RESIDENCE City of Oneonta District 12 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE County Representative for District 12; Small Business owner for 25 years with 24-45 employees. Own real estate in city, town and other parts of county for 25 plus years. Entertainment business for 21years. COMMUNITY/POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT Current County Representative, member of the IGA committee(two years), member of Public Safety committee (two years), Chair of the Telecommunication/Broadband committee (two years), member of Administration committee (one…
GARY KOUTNIK COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES, DISTRICT 11 COMMUNITY OF RESIDENCE: City of Oneonta EDUCATION: Wantagh High School, Wantagh, NY – 1968. BS in Ed – Bucknell University, 1972. MS in Admin – UAlbany – 1999 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: School Psychologist, School Administrator, Historic Interpretation COMMUNITY/POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT: Executive Committee, Otsego County Democratic Committee. Many years of Church governance and committee work, mostly in church growth. 30+ years working with families with disabled children in Oneonta and Otsego County and…
BENNETT SANDLER CANDIDATE, OTSEGO TOWN BOARD COMMUNITY OF RESIDENCE: Fly Creek, Town of Otsego EDUCATION: MS in Landscape Ecology from Duke University; BSNR in Ecology from the School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Business Owner – Equity Energy LLC (Fly Creek, NY) Environmental Consultant – Envisualization (Fly Creek, NY) Business Manager – The Brookwood School (Cooperstown, NY) GIS Manager/Analyst – Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA) Remote Sensing/GIS Analyst – Earth Satellite Corporation (Rockville,…
RICHARD J. STERNBERG, M.D. CANDIDATE, OTSEGO TOWN BOARD COMMUNITY OF RESIDENCE: Cooperstown EDUCATION: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., 1974; State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine, M.D., 1978 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 36 years practice as an Orthopedic Surgeon. Retired March 2015 COMMUNITY/POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT: Village of Cooperstown Planning Board. Cooperstown Rotary and Rotary Foundation member. Temple Beth El (Oneonta), Finance and Ritual Committees. FAMILY: Two grown daughters – Marisa, 27, graduate Ithaca College ’11. Manager for ARC of Anne…