Mom’s Service Built A Family, And A Community Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 4-5, 2014 Editor’s Note: Family and friends of Joan Moyer, the former Oneonta school board president and civic leader who passed away July 28, gathered over Thanksgiving for a memorial mass. This is an excerpt from the eulogy delivered by her son, Scott, raised in Oneonta but now living with his family in San Mateo, Calif. One of my favorite memories from my childhood involves my dad driving…
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48 Units Too Intense For Silver Creek Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 4-5, 2014 To the Editor: I am very concerned about Housing Visions’ planned development of the Silver Creek properties. I’ve always favored reasonable development of this area, but I have serious misgivings about the construction of 48 housing units there. First, I worry about the stability of the hillside. Can it physically support this much construction? We know what heavy construction of the Wilber Park Apartments did to that…
Why Did Leaf Pickup Break Down This Fall? Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 4-5, 2014 To the Editor: In talking with friends and neighbors this fall, every one of them commented on what a poor job the village has done in picking up leaves this year. Comments ranged from “just plain terrible; very disorganized” to “it was poorly managed and haphazard!” At three homes across the street from my house there were five piles of leaves that just sat there for…
Oneonta, Cooperstown County Reps Should Support Sharing Bed-Tax Revenue Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 4-5, 2014 To the Editor: Thank you to your newspapers for the repeated suggestion that the county Board of Representatives should reform the occupancy or “bed tax.” It is inexplicable that the board seems set on ignoring this commonsense appeal, including several representatives whose own districts will suffer greatly. Tourism is one of the primary industries of our County and is led by Cooperstown, the city and…
County Bed-Tax Windfall Should Be Everybody’s Windfall Editorial for the edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 4-5, 2014 There seems to be a consensus emerging on one thing: Otsego County’s government, which benefits to the tune of $1.4 million a year in bed-tax revenues, should share some of that with communities that host the bulk of the 500,000 people who visit here each summer. Those communities are the city and town of Oneonta, which together generate 30 percent of bed-tax revenues, the…
Husband Dedicates Mel’s To Wife’s Memory By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Dec. 4, 2015 Opening Mel’s at 22 was not just a dream come true for Brian Wrubleski – it was a chance to honor his wife, MaryEllen, who died Dec. 21, 2013, at age 53. “It had been a goal of ours for a long time,” he said as he stirred a batch of his homemade clam chowder in preparation for a Monday…
Christmas About To Become Ugly – For Fun Of It By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014 Matt Hazzard still thinks fondly on the Ugly Sweater That Got Away. “It had Winnie the Pooh and Tigger in Christmas hats next to a tree,” he said. “It was fantastic.” It didn’t survive the trip from Colorado to Cooperstown, but it is in that holiday spirit that the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce and the Clark Sports…
Bassett To Shift 40 Jobs To Downtown Utica By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014 Bassett Healthcare has located a five-story building in downtown Utica, and plans to move 40 “non-treatment” tech-support positions there from Cooperstown in the next year. That may expand to 125 over the next five years, according to Bassett’s spokesperson. The 50,000-square-foot M&T Bank annex was part of a complex that includes the landmark “Gold Dome” building, but that’s not…
Avanzatos’ Stella Luna Not Setting Yet By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Dec. 5, 2014 If you leafed through the real estate listings recently, you may have noticed that Oneonta landmark Stella Luna is for sale. But don’t worry. Vinne and Tony Avanzato aren’t closing their doors yet. “If the sale takes six months, a year, 10 years, we won’t close,” said Vinne. “We’ll still make the best food in Oneonta!” Though the listing just went public,…
Southside Mall Takes Stand To Save Thanksgiving Holiday For Families by LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Dec. 5, 2014 Southside Mall manager Luisa Montanti was already thinking ahead of this season’s hottest trend. No, it wasn’t a new toy or the latest fashion – it was taking a stance against opening the Southside Mall on Thanksgiving Day. “We weren’t seeing a bump in additional traffic; it was the same traffic spread over three days,” she said. “All…