IDA Names Middleburgh Telephone As ‘Telecom’ In Broadband Initiative By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com ONEONTA – The IDA board this morning named Middleburgh Telephone as the private entity in a four-part partnership that will seek to implement a $30 million program to provide broadband Internet service throughout Otsego County. “Their credentials, their experience, the breadth of the company is a testimony to the organization,” said IDA President Sandy Mathis. Middleburgh Telephone is part of the Independent Network Operations Consortium, which…
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COUNTY BUDGET APPROVED WITH 2 REPS VOTING NAY COOPERSTOWN – The county Board of Representatives adopted its $103 million budget for 2015 this morning, with only county Reps. Don Lindberg, R-Worcester, and Betty Anne Schwerd, R-Edmeston, voting no. Among the last-minute issues, Lindberg tried to include a $10,000 contribution to each of the county’s 30 fire departments, to help them buy pagers needed to connect with the county’s new $8 million emergency communication system due to go online by the…
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George Saunders Crafts Aphorism For Chipotle’s ‘Cultivating Thought’ ONEONTA – National Book Award finalist and New York Times best-selling author George Saunders joins fellow authors Malcolm Gladwell, Toni Morrison and Sheri Fink as part of the Jonathan Safran Foer-curated “Cultivating Thought” series at Chipotle Mexican Grill, which features short stories on the company’s drink cups and take-out bags. Saunders, an Oneonta resident, writes: “Hope that, in the future, all is well, everyone eats free, no one must work, all just sit around feeling…
Pastor Mel Collects 125 Christmas Hams ONEONTA – After the success of his annual Thanksgiving turkey give-away, retired pastor Mel Farmer hopes to provide a hearty Christmas ham for 125 Otsego and Delaware county residents and families. Farmer, the former pastor at the River Street Baptist Church and the host of the “Gospel Hymn Request Hour,” started the program four years ago, giving away 75 turkeys to needy families. But word got out and the donations flooded in, and two years ago, he…
Lentz Will Ask Colleagues To OK Tourism-Impact Aid COOPERSTOWN – County Rep. Ed Lentz, D-New Lisbon, said a few moments ago that he intends to make a motion at Wednesday’s county board meeting to distribute $150,000 in tourism-impact aid to municipalities that bear the brunt of Otsego County’s largest industry. “We have significant support,” said Lentz, an attorney and farmer. “Do we have a majority? I’ll tell you on Wednesday.” The communities that generate the largest amount of the $1.4…
Constitution Pipeline Funds Scoreboard In Unatego, BOCES Welding Scholarship The Constitution Pipeline Co. has announced a $6,400 scoreboard for the Unatego Spartan Booster Club and an $18,700 welding scholarship for ONC BOCES among its latest round of community grants, let’s hope those that partake in the welding scholarships are ready with their best welding coat! The 27 grants added up to more than $300,000, bringing the total grants to the area through the current fifth round to $1.6 million. Here…
Hulse: I Support Tourism Impact Aid COOPERSTOWN – County Rep. Rick Hulse, R-Otsego, a few minutes ago issued a statement saying Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz is “incorrect in his assertion that I do not support Tourism Impact Aid.” “In fact, I fully support a better distribution of bed tax money to benefit our County and specifically the Town of Otsego and Village of Cooperstown,” he said in a statement. The statement continues:…
Sign Of Success At Cooperstown Distillery…