City Council May Consider Murphy Severance Saturday ONEONTA – Acting Mayor Maureen Hennessy has called for a special meeting of Common Council for 9 a.m. Saturday in City Hall; the public is welcome to attend. No agenda was released, but the meeting could be to act on a severance counter-offer from suspended City Manager Martin Murphy. A return call from Hennessy for particulars was being awaited at this hour. Murphy was suspended by a 5-2 vote, with one abstention, at a…
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Klugo Seeks To Redevelop Former Stevens Hardware ONEONTA – Representatives of Chip Klugo, who saved the Bresee’s building, converting it to the high-end Klugo’s Parkview Place, will be before Common Council tonight, seeking to take his vision to the next level. The developer’s architect, Elise Johnson-Schmidt, and her associate, David Anderson, were en route from Corning this afternoon to asked Council members to endorse their application to redevelop the former Stevens Hardware, next to Bresee’s, into apartments on the upper floors…
Roadwork Races HoF Induction Clock…
HOWARD C. TALBOT OBITUARY Calling Hours Tuesday, Funeral Wednesday For Retired Baseball Hall Of Fame Director COOPERSTOWN – Howard Chase Talbot, Jr., retired National Baseball Hall of Fame director – the equivalent at the time of today’s president – from 1976 to 1993, passed away with his family by his side Saturday evening, July 18, 2015, at Bassett Hospital. He was 89. Born Oct. 6, 1925, in New Berlin, Howard was the son of Howard C. Talbot, Sr. and Gladys…
Firefighters At SFCU Headquarters SIDNEY – The Oneonta Fire Department at 8 a.m. was called to respond to a fire at the headquarters her of Sidney Federal Credit Union, where smoke was reported issuing from the upper two floors. No further details were immediately available, but a witness at the scene said no flames were visible. Whatever the source – perhaps lightning from last night’s downpour – the situation was reported under control by 9:30.…
IN MEMORIAM: Howard Talbot, 89; Directed Hall Of Fame For 17 Years COOPERSTOWN – Howard Chase Talbot, Jr., retired director of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, passed away with his family by his side Saturday evening, July 18, 2015, at Bassett Hospital. He was 89. Calling hours are Tuesday and the funeral Wednesday. (See below) A revered figure in the Cooperstown community, he served as Hall director – then the equivalent of president – from 1976 to 1993. Initially hired…
Ommegang Parent To Partner With West Coast Craft Brewer COOPERSTOWN – Duvel Moortgat, Brewery Ommegang’s parent company, has added another brewer, Firestone Walker Brewing Co. of Paso Robles, Calif., to its expanding affiliation with quality craft brewers in the U.S. The deal, announced Thursday, was datelined Paso Robles and Kansas City, Mo., where Duvel last year acquired the Boulevard Brewing Co. At the time, Ommegang then-president Simon Thorpe, now Duvel Moortgat USA president, said the Boulevard acquisition was part of a plan…
COUNCIL VOTE SUSPENDS CITY MANAGER MURPHY By JIM KEVLIN • for allotsego.com ONEONTA – After barring public comment before a packed house, a split Common Council this evening voted, 5-2, with one abstention, to suspend City Manager Martin Murphy, who has served as City Hall’s top executive for 10 months. Three Council members, Bob Brzozowski, Chip Holmes and David Rissberger, argued that due process had been circumvented and Murphy was the victim of emotions gone out of control. Meanwhile, a four-vote bloc…
First Director Of Hartwick College’s Craft Food, Beverage Center Arrives ONEONTA – Aaron MacLeod, the first director of Hartwick College’s Center for Craft Food & Beverage, is completing his first week on campus today. MacLeod has most recently served as a chemist at the Canadian Grain Commission’s Grain Research Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he was responsible for providing quality assurance for malting barley grown in western Canada and conducting research on factors affecting malting and brewing quality. The Center…
67 East St. Demolition Marks Beginning Of Greener Entrance To Hartwick College…