Work Starts On Lower Wilber Park Pedestrian Bridge ONEONTA – The Lower Wilber Park Pedestrian Bridge will close Friday as Eastman Associates begins a replacement project.…
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Klugo’s Parkview Place Wins 2014 NY Preservation Award ONEONTA – Chip Klugo’s Parkview Place is one of seven “distinctive historic preservation projects” that received New York State 2014 Preservation Awards in Albany this afternoon. The awards were presented in the award-winning Academy Lofts in Albany, an abandoned school that has been transformed into a living and work space for artists as well as a community arts center and business incubator for creative enterprises. The citation praised Klugo and his architectural form, Johnson-Schmidt…
County Wins $2M In State Grants; Including Susquehanna Job Center ONEONTA – Governor Cuomo today announced $13 million in Community Development Block grants statewide with $2 million for Otsego County, including $200,000 for the fledgling Susquehanna Regional Center for Growth in Oneonta, which will provide employment training for 80 people.…
Broadband Plan Readied IDA To Let Contract With Telecom Firm Editor’s Note: This article appeared in the Dec. 4-5, 2014 editions of The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta. By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com The future in Otsego County is not now. But it could be now in the next 2-3 years. The IDA-commissioned Broadband Feasibility Study has found a $30 million public-private high-speed system can happen in Otsego County, and the agency is prepared to contract with a “telecom” to…
IDA Names Middleburgh Telephone As ‘Telecom’ In Broadband Initiative By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com ONEONTA – The IDA board this morning named Middleburgh Telephone as the private entity in a four-part partnership that will seek to implement a $30 million program to provide broadband Internet service throughout Otsego County. “Their credentials, their experience, the breadth of the company is a testimony to the organization,” said IDA President Sandy Mathis. Middleburgh Telephone is part of the Independent Network Operations Consortium, which…
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COUNTY BUDGET APPROVED WITH 2 REPS VOTING NAY COOPERSTOWN – The county Board of Representatives adopted its $103 million budget for 2015 this morning, with only county Reps. Don Lindberg, R-Worcester, and Betty Anne Schwerd, R-Edmeston, voting no. Among the last-minute issues, Lindberg tried to include a $10,000 contribution to each of the county’s 30 fire departments, to help them buy pagers needed to connect with the county’s new $8 million emergency communication system due to go online by the…
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George Saunders Crafts Aphorism For Chipotle’s ‘Cultivating Thought’ ONEONTA – National Book Award finalist and New York Times best-selling author George Saunders joins fellow authors Malcolm Gladwell, Toni Morrison and Sheri Fink as part of the Jonathan Safran Foer-curated “Cultivating Thought” series at Chipotle Mexican Grill, which features short stories on the company’s drink cups and take-out bags. Saunders, an Oneonta resident, writes: “Hope that, in the future, all is well, everyone eats free, no one must work, all just sit around feeling…
Pastor Mel Collects 125 Christmas Hams ONEONTA – After the success of his annual Thanksgiving turkey give-away, retired pastor Mel Farmer hopes to provide a hearty Christmas ham for 125 Otsego and Delaware county residents and families. Farmer, the former pastor at the River Street Baptist Church and the host of the “Gospel Hymn Request Hour,” started the program four years ago, giving away 75 turkeys to needy families. But word got out and the donations flooded in, and two years ago, he…