Planning To Retire, Bob Wood Has High Hopes For Southside By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com By the time he retires on Dec. 31, the Town of Oneonta’s municipal water system will be complete, and condos and houses on Southside Drive will be emerging, veteran Town Supervisor Bob Wood is predicting. Simply, “the city does not have any more available land,” said Wood in an interview Friday, March 5, on announcing his retirement. A handful of developers have already…
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BOUND VOLUMES March 4, 2021 210 YEARS AGO The revenues of the state school fund may for the present be estimated at $36,427.64, arising from the following sources: $20,160.64 interest on bonds and mortgages; $10,665.00 dividends on bank stock; $1,600.00 collections from quarters used for dormitories; $4,000.00 net proceeds of the clerk’s offices of the Supreme Court. (Ed. Note: A portion of clerk’s fees for legal proceedings retained in excess of expenses was diverted to education) March 2, 1811…
HOMETOWN HISTORY February 18, 2021 150 Years Ago Learn All You Can – Never omit an opportunity to learn all you can. Sir Walter Scott said that even in a stagecoach he always found somebody that could tell him something that he did not know. Conversation is frequently more useful than books for purposes of knowledge. It is therefore a mistake to be morose and silent among persons whom you think to be ignorant, for a little sociability on your…
HOMETOWN HISTORY February 11, 2021 150 Years Ago Home & Vicinity: It is fortunate for people desiring to locate in Oneonta that plenty of desirable building lots are in market at reasonable prices. Buyers can take their choice as to streets and localities. E.R Ford, T.D. & H. Watkins. S. Huntington, S. Wood, C.L. Michael. H. Wilcox, J.H. Peters, H. Baker and S. Parish all have good lots ready for purchasers, many of them finely located. All of these men…
Thank You Seward, Well Done! On Dec. 31, 2020, James L. Seward of Milford – everyone’s “Gentleman Jim” – retired from the New York State Senate, where he had served Otsego County since Jan. 1, 1986. Because of COVID-19, few of his constituents had the chance to say: Farewell – and thank you. When offered the opportunity, many of us – his fellow legislators, community leaders, top corporate executives and businesspeople, and citizens to whom he reached out and helped…
Thrift Store, Adoptions New Ways To Donate To ‘Save a Life’ Campaign By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – From now until the end of the year, when you get a good deal at the Susquehanna SPCA Thrift Store, you’ll be helping the shelter reach their $100,000 goal in the annual “Save a Life” campaign. “You can donate $50, or you can go shopping with it,” said Stacie Haynes, executive director. “It’s a really exciting way to donate.”…
HOMETOWN HISTORY November 26, 2020 150 Years Ago Highway Robbery – Early last Wednesday morning Mr. Moak, driver of the Schenevus Stage, was accosted by a suspicious looking individual near the Russel Bridge who asked for a tobacco chew. Mr. Moak said he did not use the weed, whereat the robber demanded of Mr. M. his money and the mail bags. His request was not acceded to by our modern John, who dismounted from his coach and struck the would-be…
BOUND VOLUMES November 12, 2020 200 YEARS AGO We are indebted to the politeness of Mr. Luca, the Deputy Marshal authorized to take the Census of this County, for the following statement of the population of this Village (Cooperstown): 371 Free White Males; 387 Free White Females; 1 Male Slave; 2 Female Slaves; 6 Free Colored Males; 16 Free Colored Females; Total population 783. Female Fashion: The Weatherfield Grass Bonnet, which obtained a premium at the Hartford Fair, has been…
Plan Fixes Oneonta Deck, Razes Eyesore By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Done right, said Liz Colvin, a transport hub can transform an entire city. “In Binghamton, the bus station was in a really low-income neighborhood and it was not a nice place to be,” said Colvin, Wendel Companies’ senior project manager assigned to the Oneonta project. “But with our plan, they took a whole city block, redeveloped it, and now there’s retail, a diner that people…
$1.25M Federal Grant OK’d For Developing Richfield Springs Site Funding Allows Andela Products Expansion RICHFIELD SPRINGS – The U.S. Commerce Department has approved a $1.2 million grant to establish the Richfield Springs Eco-Industrial Business Park, Otsego Now, the county’s economic development agency, announced today. The Economic Development Administration grant, to be matched with $325,000 in state funds and $875,000 in local funds, is expected to generate more than $10.5 million in private investment, the announcement said.…
