Icebox Interrupts Natural Gas Supply At Biggest Employers NYSEG Forces 4 Oneonta Institutions To Switch To More Expensive Fuel Oil By JENNIFER HILL• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With the bitter cold, NYSEG has flagged some of the region’s largest employers to heat with oil instead of natural gas, driving up their heating costs. “We have been burning oil since Tuesday evening,” SUNY Oneonta’ Chief Facilities Planning & Safety Officer Lachlan Squair said. “I’m fairly certain other places are doing the…
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MUCH-ANTICIPATED ANNOUNCEMENT KENNEDY UNVEILS ENERGY TASK FORCE AT CHAMBER SUMMIT Entity Will Develop County Policy On Economic Development, Environment By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In an announcement awaited with anticipation, county Rep. Meg Kennedy this morning revealed the 21 people who will comprise the Otsego County Energy Task Force. Charged by the county board, the task force will determine county government’s approach to the sometimes conflicting goals of economic development and environmental projection. Kennedy, who is…
Private Life Beckons To Lou Allstadt He Leaves Cooperstown Village Board, But Stays Involved In Public Affairs By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN ‘It’s been my longest job – at the lowest pay,” former Mobil Oil executive vice president Lou Allstadt told his colleagues Monday, Jan. 28, in resigning from the Village Board. Resigning, but it doesn’t mean he’s exactly retiring.…
AT WSKG, TALK Knell Sounds On Classical Music Locally By LIBBY CUDMORE It’s could be the day the music died – classical music, that is – in Otsego County. On Sunday, Feb. 3, Binghamton-based WSKG, which broadcast on 91.7 across much of the county – will convert from classical music and news programming to all-talk, including “Fresh Air” and “Morning Edition”. Sister station WSQX’s transmitter, which broadcasts into Cooperstown on 105.9, will also be all-talk. Other WSKG and WSQX affiliates…
HOMETOWN History Jan. 30 – Feb. 1, 2019 150 Years Ago There is no difficulty whatever in managing the finances of the government, provided Congress and the Secretary of the Treasury act as practical businessmen act in similar circumstances. Nothing should be attempted which cannot be done safely and surely. The government should be in a condition to defy all combinations of speculations, and all oppositions from any quarter. It won’t do to make experiments; neither will it do at…
William ‘Wes’ Ciampo, 92, Cooperstown; Battle of Bulge Vet Moved Here From N.J. COOPERSTOWN – William Wesley “Wes” Ciampo, 92, formerly of Ridgewood, N.J., a World War II veteran of the Battle of the Bulge and a retired real-estate title examiner, passed away Thursday night, Jan. 24, 2019, at Cooperstown Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing. He was born Feb. 8, 1926, in an ambulance en route to a hospital in Hackensack, N.J. After Wes was born, the ambulance turned around and…
Charles R. Bollinger, 81, Oneonta; Navy Vet, USPS Retiree, Crossing Guard ONEONTA – Charles R. Bollinger Jr., 81, a Navy veteran, Postal Service retiree and crossing guard at the former Center Street School, passed away peacefully in his home on Jan. 24, 2019. Charlie was born in Flushing, on July 20, 1937. His family and friends knew him endearingly as Chuck, Russ, or Poppy. Charlie served in the Navy aboard the USS Wren DD-568 from 1955 to 1958 and often…
Yum, Yum – Raccoon! A number of years ago now we mentioned in the column that each year in Danville, Ohio, not far from where we now live, the Lions Club holds a raccoon dinner. This year, according to the local newspaper, the dinner will be held on Monday, Feb. 4. In addition to the raccoon entree, for which almost 500 pounds of raccoon are prepared, the dinner will include mashed potatoes, dressing, raccoon gravy, mixed vegetables, and cake as…
Bound Volumes Jan. 30 – Feb. 1, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Information Wanted – In the year 1814, a young man of the name of Carlos L. Mallory, a native of Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, and then resident with David Woodward, of that place, as an apprentice to the tanning and currying and shoemaking business, left his home, and has never been heard of by his friends since that period. He is now, if living, 24 years of age, about…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Issues At Oneonta Hotel: Now What? Knell Sounds On Classical Music Locally Private Life Beckons To Lou Allstadt County’s 2nd Solar Farm About To Power On City of the Hills: 150-Plus Head To Debates At Energy Summit Cooperstown and Around: 150-Plus Head To Debates At Energy Summit EDITORIAL Like So Much Else At Hartwick, 1st Master’s Makes Sense COLUMNS/OPINION Planned Parenthood Hails, Right…
