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D&H Yards Sold, In Public Hands Sale Opens Door To Development ONEONTA – The D&H railyards, focus of hopes for economic development in the City of Oneonta, is now in public hands. A newly created local development corporation, Oneonta Rail Yards (ORY), a subsidiary of Otsego Now, has closed on approximately 80 acres of land surrounding the Norfolk Southern rail yards, which extend from Cliff Street to Ceperley Avenue. ORY plans to seek shovel-ready status for any and all of…
CCS Budget To Be Aired Tonight; Tax Levy Increase Would Be 2.8% COOPERSTOWN – CCS Superintendent Bill Crankshaw’s public information meetings on the proposed 2017-18 budget begin this evening at 7 p.m. in Hartwick Town Hall. In the current document – it is a draft, subject to adjustment – total expenditures rise 3.38 percent to $19,061,927. The proposed tax levy would rise 2.8 percent. (That number was incorrectly reported as 4.05 percent in this week’s Freeman’s Journal.) The budget, and two…
Photographer, High-Tech Executive Honorees At Hartwick’s Graduation ONEONTA – Hartwick College’s 2017 Commencement speaker will be renowned professional photographer Hilary Duffy, ’91, and Dell Technologies’ Chief Integration Officer Rory Read, ’83, P’09, will be presented with an honorary doctor of laws degree. The ceremony will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 20, on Elmore Field.…
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IN MEMORIAM: Richie Schaefer, 81; Friends Included Foxcare Participants STAMFORD – Richard “Richie” Ambrose Schaefer, 81, who developed a group of friends working out at Foxcare Health in Oneonta, passed away March 31, 2017, at Bassett Hospital. He was born June 12, 1935 in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, the son of Ambrose and Hedwig (Duroff) Schaefer. Richie loved being part of rural New York and spent 51 years in the Stamford area.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, APRIL 10 Fishing In Reservoirs? What You Need To Know FIND HOLY WEEK SERVICES HERE! TROUT UNLIMITED MEETING – Features presentation “The NYS Water Releases Legislation and the NYC Reservoir System,” by retired, region 3, fisheries biologist Tony Bonavist. The Plains, 163 Heritage Dr., Oneonta. Info, Dave Plummer 563-1978 or email dplummer@stny.rr.com OPEN PLAY – 3:30-7:30 p.m. Work on your 3-D Print designs. NY Room, Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, hmloneonta.org/calendar/…
ARC Otsego On A Roll At 3rd Annual Bowl-A-Thon Save…
Elmo Joins Bunny’s Easter Ride Elmo joined the Easter Bunny yesterday at the first of the Leatherstocking Railroad Historical Association’s holiday train rides, departing from the Milford Depot. The two will ride the Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley rails from Milford to Cooperstown again at 1:30 p.m. today, and again next weekend, at 1:30 Saturday and Sunday, April 15-16. (Cheryl Clough/AllOTSEGO.com)…
‘The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna! ” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the king of Israel!” JOHN 12:12-13 Faithful Worship Together…