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EDITORIAL MV500 Plan Condemns Otsego To Low-Salary, Seasonal Jobs Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from this week’s editorial in Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal, on newsstands in Oneonta, Cooperstown and beyond this afternoon. Otsego County has been dealt out of the Utica-Marcy STEM and nanotechnology boom in the MV500 application submitted to the state Monday, Oct. 5, a huge disappointment to anyone who cares about economic development locally. That can’t stand. MV500 is a six-county team – Otsego…
THE COUNTY BEAT How Did $5 Million Boon Become $9 Million Gap? Treasurer Explains County’s Changing Fortunes By DON MATHISEN • for AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – How did Otsego County go from a prospective $5 million surplus with last year’s sale of Otsego Manor to a $9 million budget gap? The question is being raised as county representatives prepare the 2016 budget. According to County Treasurer Dan Crowell, the surplus never materialized. It evaporated when Otsego Manor legacy costs proved to…
Foliage At Mid-Point In Otsego County…
Third Top Executive Resigns At City Hall HR Director Kathy Wolverton Steps Aside ONEONTA – Kathy Wolverton, personnel director, has become the third top executive to leave City Hall in recent months. Mayor Gary Herzig and Common Council accepted Wolverton’s resignation yesterday afternoon. “While we are sad to have Ms. Wolverton leave City Hall, we expect that her decision to pursue new challenges will prove rewarding,” Herzig and Common Council member Larry Malone, Human Resources Committee chair, said in a statement…
State Agricultural Commissioner Due At Hartwick Entrepreneurship Class ONEONTA – The state agriculture commissioner, Richard Ball of Schoharie, will speak with students in Hartwick College’s Entrepreneurship class this coming Friday. Ball was invited by Lecturer in Business Scott Schwartz, after the two met recently at Schoharie County Family Farm Day. Ball is not only the state’s agriculture commissioner, but also a farmer and businessman. “Commissioner Ball’s visit is perfectly timed to emphasize how our campus theme, Food and Community, overlaps with…
Seward Launches New Home Page VISIT OTSEGO COUNTY’S SENATOR’S NEW WEBSITE…
California Bans ‘Redskins’ As Public-School Nickname California became the first state to ban public schools from using “Redskins” as a team name, nickname or mascot on Sunday in a move applauded by Native American activists, the Associated Press is reporting. Signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown (D), the California Racial Mascots Act, authored by Assemblyman Luis Alejo (D), outlaws schools’ use of the slur effective Jan. 1, 2017. The issue was confronted in the Cooperstown Central School District two years ago, when it…
IN MEMORIAM: Elaine Beck Schaeffer, 62; Formerly With Interior Design Firm In NYC COOPERSTOWN – Elaine Beck Schaeffer of Cooperstown passed away suddenly at Bassett Hospital on Thursday evening, Oct. 8, 2015. She was 62. The funeral service is Thursday. Elaine was the loving wife of Charles and beloved mother of Scott and Elyssa. Born in Philadelphia, she was the daughter of Kenneth and Phyllis Beck. Elaine spent her early formative years with her family in Nice, France. She was educated…
DJ, Author Chuck D’Imperio Wins GOHS’ 20th Albert Morris Award ONEONTA – The Greater Oneonta Historical Society today announced DJ and author Chuck D’Imperio will receive this year’s 2015 Albert E. Morris Award. The award will be presented at a reception 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, at the Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St. The public is welcome. D’Imperio is the 20th recipient of the award, named in honor of the city of Oneonta’s first mayor. The honoree will be recognized…