ON THE RECORD Lacking Pipelines, Con Ed Imposes Moratorium Downstate Editor’s Note: Gas shortages in New York State aren’t limited to Otsego County, give this excerpt from a Politico dispatch from a few days ago. ALBANY – Businesses, developers and homeowners looking to switch to natural gas from oil or get service for new construction projects in much of southern Westchester County are out of luck. Con Edison has officially imposed a moratorium on new firm service in southern Westchester, something it…
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With New Inspection In Hand, City Attorney Due Back In Court Editor’s Note: Here the summary of findings of an inspection of the former Oneonta Hotel conducted by code inspectors on Jan. 15. The city Board of Public Service declare an “emergency” at the building on Jan. 5, 2017, after an inspection. On Oct. 5, 2017, the board declared the apartment house “unsafe.” With the latest finding, City Attorney David Merzig is due back in county court, seeking an…
Cooperstonian Among Volunteers ‘Deployed’ When Tragedy Strikes By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN – On one of his Team Rubicon “deployments,” Frank Capozza and his team were “mucking out” a house destroyed by flooding and discovered the homeowner’s military uniforms hanging neatly – but now mud-covered – in a closet. Only three uniforms could be saved. “We brought them out and had them dry cleaned,” said Capozza. They sought out the man, a Korean War veteran, in his temporary quarters and…
Ban Straws? If You Want To Recycle More Plastic, Focus On Worst Abuser To the Editor: Let me weigh in on Amazon, Cuomo, the environment, and ignorance. First Amazon. Fourth-richest company in the world. Recent announcement of expansion in New York, thanks to the governor and his desire to continue to revitalize the Long Island City area which – if you have witnessed over the last 30 years – has become an extension of Manhattan. Not a bad thing perhaps, but…
Alumni Herring, Bard Join Unatego Hall Of Distinction UNADILLA – Herring Lumber Co. owner Charles W. Herring Jr. and Joseph Bard, retired executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of Rural & Small Schools, will be inducted into the Unatego Hall of Distinction Friday, Jan. 25. Charles Herring graduated from the Otego Central School in 1943 and soon thereafter enlisted in the Army Air Corps where he served with distinction as a gunner on a B-29 in the Pacific Theater. Following…
Hometown History Jan 25-2019 150 Years Ago Excerpts from a “Letter of Remembrance” addressed to the editor from Benj. Shove, a former resident of Oneonta: “At the age of eight years I became a resident of Oneonta by the removal of my father with his family to a farm on Oneonta Creek, about two miles from the village. In that and adjacent neighborhoods the most of my boyhood was spent. Oneonta is not only endeared to me as the…
Big Yankee, Plus Halladay, 2 More Could Draw Biggest Crowd, Katz Says Rivera Only Inductee To Win 100% Backing BY LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN – Jeff Katz thinks that this will be a record-breaking year in Cooperstown.“With Mariano Rivera getting in, I think it’s very likely we’ll break the all-time attendance record,” he said. Rivera, a career Yankees pitcher, was the first to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame unanimously by the 425 ballots cast by the Baseball Writers…
WHEN IN COOPERSTOWN & CITY OF THE HILLS Plot Undone To Set Bomb In Islamberg Four young men in the Rochester suburb of Greece were arrested this week after police learned that they were allegedly planning to bomb Islamberg, the small Muslim community in…
United Way Packs Gift Bags to Hang In Huntington Park Ethan Winner, an eighth grader at Oneonta Middle School, packs food in plastic bags for United Way’s “Warm Inside and Out!” program. The bags of food and warm clothing will hang in Huntington Park until the end of the month for people in need to help themselves. Click for full story. …
Many Dangers Found At Hotel City, Landlords Return To Court By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA – At 195 Main St., five of the 40 apartments don’t have kitchen appliances. Many are without operating smoke detectors. Window panes are cracked and fixed with tape. And suspended ceiling tiles cover the sprinkler system, rendering it inoperable in a fire. “There are still considerable violations,” said Mayor Gary Herzig. “We have an obligation to make sure everybody in the city lives in a building…
