AllOTSEGO.com EDITORIAL Make The Call. Avert Disaster Please, Congressman, Senator, Convince Governor To Approach Dreams Park Owner Cooperstown Dreams Park’s decision to cancel the 2020 season was only announced Friday. Two days before, county Treasurer Allen Ruffles, who chairs the county Emergency Task Force, had called Mike Walter, Dreams Park COO, and received no inkling such an economy-shattering decision was in the making. It’s not locked in concrete. It’s not too late to turn it around. Four men may be…
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GRANTS KEY TO DRI SUCCESS City Hall Funding 4 Projects To Install Upstairs Apartments By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – City Hall this afternoon announced funding to renovate the upstairs apartments on four downtown buildings, a key step forward in the $10 million state-funded Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) now entering its fourth year. Apartments will be built above Joseph Grigoli’s Sal’s Pizzeria, 285 Main St.; Peter Clark’s Shops at Ford and Main, 250 Main St., Russ Scimeca’s…
Political Races Aplenty In 2020 Lawyer Challenges Delgado; Jim Powers In Assembly Run By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Having filled a vacancy on the Millbrook Village Board in 2017, Republican Kyle Van De Water, a Poughkeepsie lawyer, ran for a full term in 2018. As he knocked on doors and handed out literature, he discovered volunteers for Democratic Congressional candidate Antonio Delgado had gotten there before him. And Delgado’s army of volunteers also handed out literature for the…
OTHER VOICES Downtown Business Improvement District Can Help City Thrive By DANNY LAPIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com “What does Downtown Oneonta need?” This is a question I’ve heard and asked nearly every day since I moved to the City of the Hills in mid-2015. Answers vary but they usually fall within three categories: more people, fewer storefront vacancies, and more stuff to do. In 2017, the City of Oneonta received a $10 million award through Governor Cuomo’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative.…
Lofts On Dietz Suit Amended In Light Of Geo. Wilber Will Century-Old Bequests Limits Use To Municipal Purposes, Filing Says By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – George I. Wilber, who left what is now the Dietz Street parking lot to the City of Oneonta on his death in 1922, limited its use to municipal purposes only, according to a court filing this afternoon. As a result, City Hall was in violation of the Public Trust Doctrine by…
EDITORIAL From All, Best Wishes For A Speedy Recovery Editor’s Note: This editorial is reprinted from this week’s editions of Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal, on newsstands now. The news that state Sen. Jim Seward’s cancer is back – his office issued a press release Wednesday, Nov. 6 – brings two immediate reactions. One, fingers crossed. Advances in cancer-fighting research can mean five years, 10 years – and more – of active living. Everyone’s got a story of a…
EDITORIAL From All, Best Wishes For A Speedy Recovery Editor’s Note: This editorial is reprinted from this week’s editions of Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal, on newsstands now. The news that state Sen. Jim Seward’s cancer is back – his office issued a press release Wednesday, Nov. 6 – brings two immediate reactions. One, fingers crossed. Advances in cancer-fighting research can mean five years, 10 years – and more – of active living. Everyone’s got a story of a…
2ND ANNUAL WORKFORCE SUMMIT: Otsego Has Jobs; No One To Do Them However, Workforce Training $$, ‘Knowledge Economy’ Offer Hope By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Otsego County has more jobs than workers to do them. That message surfaced from a number of presenters at today’s Pathways to Prosperity, the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce’s second annual Workforce Summit at SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Hall: Madhuril Kommareddi, Governor Cuomo’s new Workforce Development director, appointed in May, reported the…
Delgado Answers: Impeachment, Distilleries, Farmers, Favorite Beer By JENNIFER HILL • Special to AllOTSEGO.com Calling Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony last week “incredibly important” in an afternoon press conference call today, Rep. Antonio Delgado suggested he would support impeaching President Donald Trump if the president continued to “steamroll” the House’s investigations of him. “I will weigh progress in our public hearings against the obstacles Trump is putting up,” Delgado said. “If that reaches an impasse, then we have to make…
10 CHESTNUT NEIGHBORS OBJECTED Developer Withdraws Application For ‘Grove,’ 12-Apartment Project By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The developer of “The Grove,” Josh Edmonds, said today he has withdrawn his application for the 12-unit apartment house at 10 Chestnut St. “It didn’t seem productive to keep the application in progress at this moment,” said Edmonds, a partner in Simple Integrity, the contracting and construction company. The project, located between Chestnut Street and Pine Boulevard, a half-block up…
