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Greenway Project Suspended, But Existing Trails Still Open By LIBBY CUDMORE • for AllOTSEGO.COM ONEONTA – For now, at least, plans to expand the Susquehanna Greenway are dead. “The city would have to come up with $40,000 just to do a redesign,” said Council member Melissa Nicosia, Second Ward, who brought the resolution to suspend the project from the Community Development Committee. “We would have to start the work by September and finish in January. It’s just not in the best interest…
IN MEMORIAM: Michael Tripp, 52; Worked For Otesaga, Otsego County COOPERSTOWN – Michael Scott Tripp, 52, who worked at The Otesaga and the county Highway Department for 25 years, died peacefully at home on Thursday, June 16, 2016. He was born on Sept. 1, 1963, in Cooperstown, to the late Robert and Rosalyn Tripp. He loved the outdoors – hunting, camping with family and friends, and especially a peaceful day of fishing.…
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Trustees Find A Few ‘Small,’ ‘Modest’ Issues In Hotel Plan Next Step: Public Hearing On ‘Special-Use Permit’ On 27th By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board this evening found all issues in the SEQR, Part II, form they were filling out on a proposed 22-room hotel at Glen and Railroad avenues were “small,” except two: traffic and possible siltation of Willow Brook, which they termed “moderate.” The trustees, at a special meeting to review requirements of…
IN MEMORIAM: Forrest ‘Frosty’ Misner, 80; NYSEG Retiree Loved Boating On Otsego Lake FLY CREEK – Forrest J. “Frosty” Misner, Jr., who worked for NYSEG for many years, passed away Friday morning, June 17, 2016, at his home on Bissell Road, surrounded by the comfort of his family. He was 80. Born May 8, 1936, in Sidney, Frosty was the only child of Forrest J. and Doris (Walker) Misner. Raised in Sidney, he was baptized at the Sidney Methodist Church and…
IN MEMORIAM: Christine Lent, 88; 4-Decade Aide At Center Street School ONEONTA – A graveside service is planned Thursday, June 30, for Christine S. Lent, 88, a former longtime aide in Oneonta city schools who passed away June 7, 2016, at Fox Nursing Home. The service will be at 2:30 p.m. at the Evergreen Cemetery, Otego. She was born Jan. 7, 1928, in Oyster Bay, the daughter of Harold J. Scrivener, Sr. and Christine (O’Rourke) Scrivener. Christine graduated from Hempstead…
I-88 Reopens After Car, Rig Collide ONEONTA – State police reopened I-88 between Exits 12 and 13 at 1:30 p.m. after clearing the wreckage after a car struck a tractor-trailer, causing it to burst into flames, earlier in the day.…
New Hotel’s SEQRA Application Review By Village Board Tonight COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board meets at 5:30 this evening at 22 Main (enter through Fair Street side) to review the SEQRA application on a 22-room hotel proposed for 28 Railroad Ave. SEQRA, the state Environmental Quality Review Act, requires the trustees to review a checklist of environmental, traffic and other possible impacts of the project, proposed by Perry Ferrara, owner of the Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum.…
Rotary Chooses Caroline Carter To Spend Year On Cote d’Azure ONEONTA – The Oneonta Rotary Club has awarded the prestigious Rotary Youth Exchange Scholarship to Caroline Carter from Oneonta High School. She will be leaving in August for Toulon, France, on the Cote d’Azure. Caroline’s host family has a son who also received a Rotary Youth Exchange Scholarship and is going to Japan.…