Funding Denied, But RSS Says It Will Press Ahead On Riverside Apartments Altamont Developer Will Reapply, Despite Neighborhood Opposition By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – RSS didn’t get the state funding for its controversial Riverside Apartments, but that doesn’t mean it’s giving up. The state Office of Homes & Community Renewal didn’t approve the 64-unit complex for low-income housing, but Altamont-based Rehabilitation Support Services still plans to move forward, said Ed Butz, RSS managing director. “There are…
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NEW AT THE HALL OF FAME ‘Shoebox Treasures’ Tells You Everything About Baseball Cards By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to SUMMER DREAMS COOPERSTOWN – In looking through the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 200,000 baseball cards, curator John Odell happened upon his childhood favorite. “I had a 1968 card for Cookie Rojas, who played second base for the Phillies,” he said. “He wore glasses and his name was ‘Cookie’ – I thought that was the funniest thing in the world. All…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 30-31, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE For Calif. Baseball Family, Dream Come True Milford UM Awaits ‘Starkly Beautiful’ Church Net-Zero Apartments Planned For Cooperstown Unfunded, RSS Still Bullish On Riverside Project Son Succeeds Mom/Business Partner On MCS Board Village Adopts Noise Ordinance Just In Time SUNY-O’s College Foundation Praised Again EDITORIAL The Downtown That Was … And Might Be Again COLUMNS KUZMINSKI: Can Only Small Business Save Us?…
SUNY-O Foundation Among Best, Charity Navigator Says For 4th Time ONEONTA – The SUNY Oneonta Foundation has again received a four-star rating from Charity Navigator, making it only one of two foundations for educational/scholarship support in New York State with such a distinction, and the only one in Central New York. It is the College Foundation’s eighth consecutive four-star rating. Only four percent of charities evaluated in the U.S. received a four-star rating eight consecutive times.…
Saratoga Developer Looks At Griffiss If In Rome, Why Not Cooperstown? Editor’s Note: Last week, a BBJN.com article was excerpted here on a downtown developer building an apartment complex in Johnson City. This week, BBJN.com’s Eric Reinhardt reports on a Saratoga developer with a more ambitious project near Rome. ROME – A Saratoga Springs firm plans to develop a new, mixed-use apartment community with office and amenity-oriented space at Griffiss Business and Technology Park in Rome. Bonacio Construction Inc. will purchase 4.2…
COLUMN Can Only Small Business Save ‘Common’ For All? One of the landmarks of the early environmental movement was the essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” published in 1968 by the ecologist Garrett Hardin in Science. It can be to an individual’s private advantage, he points out, to exploit common resources at the expense of others. In the absence of other constraints, he argued, most people will take more than their share, out of greed or fear, eventually depleting the…
Up From The Ashes 2 Years After Fire, Milford Methodist Anticipating ‘Starkly Beautiful’ Church Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs, 3:5-6 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – It was about 4 a.m. on March 13, 2013. The 1930 Milford Methodist Church had burned down the night before in a raging fire that was seen for miles, and…
2 TRAGEDIES, 2 MONTHS APART Home, Family’s Mother Lost, But Millers Are Still Together Gofundme Drive Set Up To Help Dad, 3 Kids By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com PITTSFIELD – The carbon monoxide detector went off first, waking Richard Miller up last Tuesday, May 14, at about 1:30 a.m. Then, four smoke detectors on the first floor below him sounded, one after the other, as Richard bolted out of bed. He hurried into the hallway and as he rounded…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 23-24, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE One Dead, Deputy Breaks Legs In Head-On Onaquaga Found: Buzz Hesse Dream Achieved Onaquaga Found: General Clinton Didn’t Raze It All Lost, But Pittsfield Family Together After Fire Oneonta Voters OK School Budget, 2 To 1 Cooperstown School Budget Passes Easily EDITORIAL Delgado Elevates Mother’s Love In Colgate Speech COLUMNS DELGADO AT COLGATE: ‘Love Conquers All’ ZAGATA: Grid Mixes Good, Bad, Ugly…
Regatta, BASE Race, Hall of Fame Classic Weekend Highlights It’s a wet and wild weekend as the annual General Clinton Canoe Regatta brings everyone out to the shores – and waters – of the Susquehanna River. Though races run all weekend, the big one kicks off at 6 a.m. Monday, May 26. Follow the racers down the river, then enjoy a barbeque in Bainbridge. Brookwood Point, 6000 State Hwy 80, Cooperstown. Info www.canoeregatta.org. • The 11th annual Hall of Fame…
