STULIGROSS: MANOR SALE TO BE COMPLETE IN WEEK INDEX – Otsego Manor, the county nursing home, will change owners Wednesday, Oct. 8, moving from public to private hands, county Rep. Kay Stuligross, president of the Local Development Council that negotiated the sale, announced today. “Otsego Manor prides itself on being ‘home’ to all its residents. That doesn’t mean their home away from home, but the place where they really feel at home when they need skilled nursing care,” Stuligross said.…
Online home of The Freeman's Journal and Hometown Oneonta
Advertisement
AllOTSEGO - Page 1796
Condition Of Injured SUNY Oneonta Student Improves From ‘Critical’ To Just ‘Serious’ ONEONTA – The condition of Tyler Giancola, the SUNY Oneonta student critically injured in a fight in the early morning hours of Sunday, Sept. 17, has been upgraded from “critical” to “fair” condition in the neurological intensive care unit of Albany Medical Center. Giancola, 21, was in a medically induced coma. His attacker, Joseph Schof, 18, has been charged with second-degree assault.…
Chicken Ordinance, ‘Hospital Zone’ Explored In This Week’s Newspapers…
SOLAR FARM PLAN PROPOSED TO SAVE COUNTY $100K A YEAR By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – The county Board of Representatives this morning heard a presentation on a 10-acre solar farm on Route 11 north of Laurens predicted to save the county $100,000 on its annual utility bill. Daniel Leary of SolarCity, Cranbury, N.J., proposed a “power purchase agreement” on the project at a former gravel pit that, through “remote rural metering,” would allow the county to offset 20 percent…
Pen That Abolished MOSA In County Hands…
Honey Harvesters Hail Sweet Product Of Hives By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com For Otsego County beekeepers like John McCoy, fall is the sweetest time of the year – the honey harvest. McCoy, owner of McCoy’s Pure Raw Honey, overlooking Oneonta from Route 28, is in the middle of what the industry calls “extraction” – he collects over 2,000 frames from his nine beekeeping locations throughout Otsego County and culls the sweet nectar he built his business on. “This year, we’ve…
Cooperstown Bat Uses Wood Twice – For Its Product, And To Heat Plant By LIBBY CUDMORE • AllOTSEGO Waste not, want not is how Tim and Connie Haney see it. “We’ve paid for the wood,” said Connie. “We might as well use it.” The owners of the Cooperstown Bat Company will tell two-thirds of the wood used in making their custom bats gets turned into sawdust. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be useful. After two brutally cold winters…
TRUSTEES, 4-1, SIGNAL ‘NAY’ TO VILLAGE HOSPITAL ZONE By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – It was only a procedural vote, but the 4-1 tally made it clear: The village’s proposed hospital zone, in preparation since April 2013, is going nowhere. The vote, on Part One of a related SEQR application, was called tonight during the Village Board’s monthly, and turned out to be the only vote related to the Bassett Hospital neighborhood as trustees grappled with regulatory complexities. Only Trustee Cindy Falk,…
Schoharie Gets $1 Million More To Prevent Flooding In Future MIDDLEBURGH – Schoharie County, which to date has received $23.1 million in aid to help with its recovery from damage suffered in 2011 from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, today received an additional $1 million to cope with its continuing revival. The money was announced at a press briefing her this morning, that included U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19; state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and Assemblyman Pete Lopez, R-Schoharie. …
Sunny Skies, Harvest Dinner Draw Hundreds Downtown COOPERSTOWN – For the third year in a row, delightful fall weather drews hundreds to Growing Community’s Community Harvest Dinner that continues until 7 this evening on Main Street, which was closed off between River and Fair streets for the celebration. How many was the question on everybody’s lips. There were 40 tables seating 10 each, but dozens more – perhaps a couple of hundred – sitting on adjoining lawns and curbs and coming and…