Schwerd Letter Says IGA Won’t Act On IDA Request A Friday, May 30, letter from county Rep. Betty Anne Schwerd, R-Edmeston, to the county IDA said her Intergovernmental Affairs Committee “is not taking action at this time” on the IDA offer to take on the county’s Economic Development Office. READ SCHWERD’S LETTER TO IDA…
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1st 12 START-UP NY Firms Named The first dozen businesses participating in Governor Cuomo’s tax-free START-UP NY program were announced today, none in Otsego County, whose sites are still in the approval stage. As reported in the Albany Times Union, the 12 are: • Aesku NY, Inc., CoachMePlus (Virtuvia, LLC), Clearview Social, Inc., Decision Pace, Inc., Heads Up Display Inc., Lineagen, Inc., Nupur Technologies, LLC, and Sinapis Pharma, Inc. will be sponsored by the University at Buffalo. • Datto, Inc.…
Rep. Schwerd Says Committee Will Seek Alternative To ‘Single Point Of Contact’ By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – The county Board of Representatives’ committee in charge of economic development has decided not to collaborate with the IDA’s “single point of contact” strategy. County Rep. Betty Ann Schwerd, R-Edmeston, who chairs the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, told the county board this morning the IGA is interviewing two consultants to take on the tasks formerly performed by the county Economic Development Office. Schwerd…
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Judges Hear Fracking Arguments, Mum The state Court of Appeals in Albany this afternoon listened to arguments pro and con on the legality of Middlefield and Dryden’s fracking ban, but gave no hints as to which way it may go in a case that could determine where potentially lucrative — and potentially hazardous — hydrofracking for gas might happen, Newsday reports.…
Receptions Planned To Honor Bassett’s Bill Streck COOPERSTOWN – The Bassett Healthcare Network is planning three public receptions Friday, June 13, for people to join in saluting President/CEO Bill Streck, who is retiring July 1 after three decades building the eight-county system he leads. The receptions will take place in Cooperstown on Bassett Hospital’s terrace, 7:30-9 a.m., noon-1:30 p.m. and 4-5:30 p.m. “Without Bill there would be no network,” said Dr. Thomas Q. Morris, who chairs the board of trustees. Streck…
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NY’S HIGHEST COURT TO HEAR TOWN FRACK-BAN ARGUMENTS The state Court of Appeals, New York’s supreme court, will hear oral arguments at 2 p.m. today in Albany on whether towns can ban hydrofracking. The case before the court involves bans passed by the towns of Middlefield and Tompkins County’s Dryden. READ THE SYRACUSE POST STANDARD’S REPORT READ JULIE HUNTSMAN’S OP-ED IN TIMES UNION …
COOPERSTOWN CONSIDERING COMMUNITY SOLAR PROGRAM COOPERSTOWN The Village of Cooperstown and Town of Otsego have begun discussing a “community solar program,” Village Trustee Lou Allstadt, the clean-energy advocate, told a program sponsored by Sustainable Otsego in the county Courthouse this evening. The idea of the program, described earlier by Jessica Azulay, with the Alliance for a Green Economy, would be to create a community solar farm that would share the energy and cost savings community wide.…
Seward Joins Senate In Passing Packet of Benefits For Veterans State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, today joined the rest of the state Senate in a resolution honoring World War II veterans on the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. With Seward’s support, the Senate today also approved a packet of pro-veteran legislation, including exempting veterans’ posts from paying state taxing on fuel oil. In recent years there have been changes with organizations similar to www.disabledvets.com who tried their…
