Hamdi Ulukaya Distributes 10% Of Chobani Stock To Employees Some May Become Millionaires, New York Times Reports NEW BERLIN — The 2,000 full-time employees of the yogurt company Chobani were handed quite the surprise on Tuesday: an ownership stake that could make some of them millionaires, the New York Times is reporting. Hamdi Ulukaya, the Turkish immigrant who founded Chobani in 2005, told workers at the company’s plant here in upstate New York that he would be giving them shares…
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Edmeston Girl Crowned ’16 County Dairy Princess EAST SPRINGFIELD – Rileigh Mumbulo of Edmeston was crowned Otsego County Dairy Princess April 3 after a 52nd annual pageant and banquet in the East Springfield fire house. Sandra Mravlja of Springfield is alternate, it was announced today. Rileigh, 15, is the daughter of Kevin and Fawn Mumbulo. She lives and works on her family’s 40-cow dairy where she is involved in all aspects of the farm. She is also very active in…
Otsego Electric Coop Elevates Its Longtime Attorney To CEO HARTWICK – Timothy R. Johnson of Edmeston, former legal counsel to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, has joined Otsego Electric Cooperative as chief executive officer. A lifelong Otsego County resident and OEC attorney for almost 30 years, the new CEO succeeds Steve Rinell, who resigned.…
Quinn Bernegger Is Beadle Bamford In Tri-Cities Opera’s ‘Sweeney Todd’ COOPERSTOWN – Quinn Bernegger, CCS 2009, will perform the role of Beadle Bamford this weekend in the Tri-Cities Opera production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Sunday at the Forum Theatre, 236 Washington St., Binghamton. Click here to buy tickets Quinn, who attended Middlebury College, is the son of Sandy Peevers, Cooperstown, and Jim Bernegger, now…
Red Sox’s Shestakofsky Succeeds Horn At HoF COOPERSTOWN – Jon Shestakofsky, Boston Red Sox manager of media relations & baseball information, has been named vice president/communications & education at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Beginning today, he succeeds Brad Horn, who is entering a fellowship program this summer at the University of Florida. A 2005 graduate of Wesleyan University and a native of Belmont, Mass., Shestakofsky joined the Red Sox in 2007. Most recently, he was liaison with media, players and…
Sun Shines On OH-Fest At Pre-Concert Street Fair…
‘Men of Morris’ Surprise Pioneer Park Passersby The Bouwerie Boys of New York City engage in mock battle a few minutes ago in Cooperstown’s Pioneer Park, part of an annual tour of Welsh dancers organized by the Binghamton troupe, The Men of Morris. At right, Madelin Bolton, 3, of Boston, visiting the Baseball Hall of Fame with her parents, tentative puts a $1 bill in a hat passed by Axel Naar, thus gaining herself a year’s good luck. The dancers,…
‘Partners In Preservation’ Attracts 22 History Groups “Partners in Preservation,” the second annual history fair organized by OCHA, the Otsego County Historical Association, attracted 22 historical societies that set up booths in the Springfield Community Center. New this year were Otego, Gilbertsville and Roseboom. In top photo, Caren Kelsey, president of the Hartwick society, holds up a memento of the old depot in Hartwick hamlet that is being sold this year as a fundraiser; upcoming projects include raising money to…
‘True Colors’ Communicated Through Art, Poems At CANO…
Oneonta’s Erik Miller Joins NADO Board ONEONTA – Erik Miller, director of the Southern Tier East Regional Planning Development Board in Binghamton, was elected to a two-year term on the board of directors of the National Association of Development Organizations at NADO’s annual meeting April 13 in Washington D.C. Miller, an Oneonta resident and candidate for city mayor in 2010, was previously OCCA executive director locally.…
