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2 Deans Appointed, Fulfilling SUNY Oneonta 5-Division Plan

2 Deans Appointed, Fulfilling SUNY Oneonta 5-Division Plan ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta will begin the academic year with two new founding deans, Jan Bowers and Joao Sedycias, completing a reorganization into five academic divisions begun last fall. Also appointed is Terrence Mitchell as the college’s first chief diversity officer. Classes begin Monday for the 2014-15 academic year.…

Artist Janet Wentworth Seeking Oneonta Heroes

Artist Janet Wentworth Seeking Oneonta Heroes For Portrait Series ONEONTA – Artist Janet Wentworth wants to make sure Oneonta’s notables get the recognition they deserve.  “I want to paint the unsung heroes, the under-represented, the never-represented,” she told Common Council earlier this evening. Wentworth, an artist and adjunct art professor at SUNY Oneonta, has received a grant to paint 10 oil portraits of Oneonta community members in the “classical style” to be displayed at The Fenimore Art Museum’s community gallery.…

HOMETOWN HISTORY, August 14, 2014

HOMETOWN HISTORY, August 14, 2014 125 Years Ago The Oneonta Phosphate Company uses material which has heretofore gone to waste. It is located about one mile east of the village. The superintendent of this company, Mr. A.B. Coffin, began the manufacture of phosphate about five years ago in the village of Middlefield. He gradually enlarged his works there till he was able to send out 240 tons a year. But the lack of railway facilities hampered him. Accordingly he came…

BOUND VOLUMES, August 14, 2014

BOUND VOLUMES, August 14, 2012 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement – For Sale, Twenty-six and three fourths of an acre of Land, lying about equally divided on both sides of the Great Western Turnpike Road, seven miles west of Cooperstown, in the Town of Otsego, being part of Lot No. 33, in Croghan’s Patent, formerly occupied by Samuel S. Munro, deceased. On the premises are a Log House, and a new Barn, 26 by 36 feet, with a thriving Orchard of…

Eldridge Opens Campaign Office In Oneonta

Eldridge Opens Campaign Office In Oneonta ONEONTA – Sean Eldridge, Democratic candidate for Congress in the 19th District, was in Oneonta this morning opening a field office at 152-154 Main St.  …