This week's briefs include the upcoming Otsego Lake Association annual meeting, a request for nominations for the Dr. Yoshiro Matsuo Compassion Care Award and more.…
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Award recipients, honors, Dean's and President's lists, scholarships, inductions and more.…
Letter from Leslie A. McGraw Editorial Was Appreciated Kudos for presenting such a strong and accurate picture of the employer’s side of this issue. We need to look at things from all sides before we form an opinion. I hope that we will see more of this in the future. Leslie A. McGrawOtego…
The Amateur 70 Mile Canoe Race continues to be one of the more popular among New York competitors and stages some of the new and prominent veteran paddlers. Unatego High School graduate Austin Henchey (Otego), known for his speed on the track, exhibited his speed on the water with a first-place finish in the Men’s Under 50 Amateur Endurance Race with partner Joseph Allison (Morris) for a time of 8:55:13 and a dominant 10-minute victory ahead of the second-place finisher.…
OTEGO—Gail Evelyn (Stimpson) Quick died peacefully with her family by her side on May 24, 2024 at the A.O. Fox Nursing Home, following a brief illness with cancer. She was born October 1, 1945 in Oneonta to Dorothy and Virgil Stimpson.
She graduated from Oneonta High School in 1963 and from SUNY Oneonta in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree. After teaching in New York and California, she worked as the director of the Delhi Campus Child Care Center for 16 years.…
Who will pay for NY HEAT? The cost of a $672-million bailout for a few of the hundreds of thousands of utility customers currently in arrears will be borne by other utility customers. Every New Yorker will help fund subsidies for industrial solar and wind projects which could gobble up a million acres and yet fail to provide reliable electricity.…
Kudos to “Hometown Oneonta” for giving the extra necessary space to tell this ongoing story. Much appreciated.…
Applicants for assistance from Kingdom Builders do not need to be Christians or practice a particular faith. They must own their home and be considered low-income according to official county guidelines.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 Don’t Let the Ticks Get You Down MOUNTAIN CLUB—6 p.m. Researcher Amanda Roome presents on different tick species and the diseases they pass. Learn to prevent tick bites, remove ticks and more at this Susquehanna Adirondack Mountain Club monthly meeting. Featuring a potluck dinner at 6, followed by the presentation at 7. Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut Street, Oneonta. Visit https://susqadk.org/meetings/ FUNDRAISER—4-9 p.m. “Dine Out For A Cause.” Enjoy a meal and support Helios…
OTEGO—Claude Robert Holbrook, “Bob”, “Eli”, “Mortimer”, passed away peacefully at his home and went to join his Lord and Savior Jesus on February 29, 2024.
Bob was born to Robert and Alta (Springett) Holbrook on December 17, 1938. He grew up in West Oneonta, New York. He operated a farm on the Baker Hill Family Homestead for many years. He loved the outdoors and was an avid deer hunter and fisherman. He started his own excavation business and gravel bank, and…