OTSEGO COUNTY CHAMBER SMALL BUSINESS AWARD Click For Reservations To Nov. 21 Otesaga Banquet • PROSPERITY POURED FOURTH One Door Closed, Another Opened On Rustic Ridge By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com BURLINGTON – In 2008, Rick Bennett took a chance. Following the realty-fueled stock market crash, he lost his job at Titan Mobile Homes in Sangerfield – the day before Thanksgiving. “I had always made wine as a hobby, but my wife Laura said, ‘This might be your…
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INFORMATIONAL MEETING 11/14 County Manager Decision Is Near The first of two informational meetings on creating a county manager for Otsego County is at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, at Oneonta City Hall. County Rep. Meg Kennedy, C-Hartwick, who chairs the county board’s Administration Committee, announced the second will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the Otsego County Courthouse in Cooperstown. A public hearing on the creation of a county manager position was set for 10 a.m. Wednesday,…
OTSEGO COUNTY CHAMBER BREAKTHROUGH AWARD Click For Reservations To Nov. 21 Otesaga Banquet • Father Said, ‘Say Hi To Folks,’ Mother Advised, ‘Be A Leader’ By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Helios Care is not this captain’s first ship. A native of Weirton, W.Va., Dan Ayres, with a Marshall University journalism degree and three years at his hometown Weirton Daily Times, joined the Navy in 1982, retiring from the Navy reserves a quarter-century later as a commander.…
LETTER from R. SCOTT DUNCAN If Laws Don’t Work, Let’s Try A Little Tenderness To the Editor: It always amazed me to see the picturesque and charming villages in Vermont. How is it that the townsfolk work together to create what I think are charming well keep towns? What you see with your eyes effects your health. This is an ancient concept that has now been proven by modern science. Isn’t that one of the reasons we live in the…
COLUMN THE VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT The Haves And The Have Nots Possibly the most important outcome of the recent meeting to discuss the future of the Schenevus Central School District is a quote from the superintendent: “The District’s revenues are inflexible.” She went on to say, “the District does not have property wealth or the income wealth to raise taxes enough to cover the deficit.” Finally someone in a position of authority has admitted the truth! We live in…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Nov. 14-15, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK BEST of THE BEST Helios’ Day Ayres, ‘Man With A Plan’ Dad Said ‘Talk To Folks’; Mom, ‘Be Leader’ Door Closes, Opens Onto Rustic Ridge FRONT PAGE Rare Races Possible In Cooperstown Oneonta Parking Reforms In Works 3rd CSO Prospect’s Focus: Tchaikovsky County Manager Decision Is Nearing EDITORIAL From All, Best Wishes For Speedy Recovery COLUMNS ZAGATA: The Haves And Have Nots BENSEN: In…
3RD CONTESTANT FROM POLAND CSO Prospect To Focus On Tchaikovsky Works Editor’s Note: Maciej Żółtowski, the third candidate to become the Catskill Symphony Orchestra’s next conductor, will perform at 7:30 p.m. this Saturday, Nov. 16, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom. Tickets at door or via https://catskillsymphony.net/ This article appears in this week’s Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal, on newsstands now. By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – For Maciej Żółtowski, conducting is a kind of enchantment.…
HOMETOWN History Nov. 15, 2019 150 Years Ago The Democratic Victory and What Will We Do with It: A new and grave responsibility now devolves upon the Democratic Party, which for the first time in 17 years will soon hold all the departments of the state government, Legislative, Executive and Judicial. As we shall well or ill use this opportunity, will be our political future. Our opponents, smarting under defeat, and consequent loss of power and patronage, affect to believe…
Column ONEONTA MAY BE AHEAD OF CURVE In Our Brave New World, No Parking Lots Needed! Editor’s Note: In sending this along, Oneonta’s Laurie Zimniewicz observed, “Based on these predictions, Oneonta is ahead of the curve regarding the parking spaces at the Dietz Street lot,” focus of a public debate on whether 80 parking spaces should be given up to allow construction of the Lofts on Dietz, 64 artists’ lofts and studios, and middle-income apartments. Auto repair shops will go…
OTSEGO COUNTY CHAMBER BREAKTHROUGH AWARD Click For Reservations To Nov. 21 Otesaga Banquet • Helios’ Dan Ayres, ‘Man With A Plan’ Hospice Successor Prepares Long-Term Care For Future By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – By 1995, Dan Ayres – “Dan, the man with a plan” – had been vice president/support operations for five years at Fanny Allen Hospital in Winooski, Vt., when the news broke: The small community hospital was about to be merged into the much…
