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…
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Hartwick To Honor Brooks By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Dec. 5, 2014 When John Brooks got home one night earlier this fall, there was a note from his wife, Joan, next to the phone. “It said ‘Hartwick wants you’ with a little smiley face,” he said. Brooks, the retired second-generation owner of Brooks’ House of BBQ, had been named the 2014 Hartwick Citizen of the Year by the college’s Citizen Board. The award will be presented…
Thanksgiving and Hospice: Blessings Abound Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 27-28, 2014 Editor’s Note: Lola Rathbone is president/CEO of the Catskill Area Hospice & Palliative Care. Thanksgiving is about family, traditions and a time to be thankful for life’s blessings. Hospice, too, is about family, traditions and a time to be thankful for life’s blessings. Thanksgiving comes once a year. Every day we are privileged to offer a wide variety of “Thanksgivings” to our Hospice families. Personally, one of my most…
Highway Crew In Near-Poverty As Town Officials Get Raises Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 27-28, 2014 To the Editor: Now is the time of year when towns approve their annual budgets for the coming year, and Town of Otsego residents should be aware of what was approved on Nov. 12. Raises have been awarded to some elected officials and part-time administrative employees, yet our hard-working, full-time, highway crew starts at a very low hourly wage, which has cost the town some…
Fundraiser Will Assist Injured Jerry Colgate By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014 As Jerry Colgate continues his recovery at the University of Virginia Medical Center following a hit-and-run accident, he continues to touch lives. “I was standing in my kitchen, making Thanksgiving dinner, and I got thinking about him,” said Mikal Sky-Shrewsberry, the former CCS board member. “I met him a few times, and he’s a very nice man.” She knew she had to…
Former Manor Employees Ratify 3-Year Contract With New Owner INDEX – Employees of Focus Rehab & Nursing have overwhelmingly approved a contract between the company and the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) through 2018, the company announced today. Secure working conditions are crucial for a happy workforce, which is why Deputy’s timesheet app is such useful software for employers. “We know that in order to give our residents the best care and to meet our expansive plans we need a…
Klugo’s Parkview Place Wins 2014 NY Preservation Award ONEONTA – Chip Klugo’s Parkview Place is one of seven “distinctive historic preservation projects” that received New York State 2014 Preservation Awards in Albany this afternoon. The awards were presented in the award-winning Academy Lofts in Albany, an abandoned school that has been transformed into a living and work space for artists as well as a community arts center and business incubator for creative enterprises. The citation praised Klugo and his architectural form, Johnson-Schmidt…
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Hartwick Citizen Board Picks John Brooks As Citizen Of Year ONEONTA – The Hartwick College Citizens Board has named John W. Brooks, retired owner of Brooks’ House of BBQ, as its 2014 Citizen of the Year. He will be honored during the College’s Community Holiday Gathering on Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, at Thornwood, the home of Hartwick College President Margaret L. Drugovich. For more information and to register for the event by the Tuesday deadline, visit www.hartwickalumni.org/holiday or contact Carrie…
Badly Injured, Jerry Colgate Out Of Coma By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 Jerry Colgate, CCS ’04, is coming out of an induced coma and his condition seems to be improving after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver in the early hours of Sunday, Nov. 9, in Charlottesville, Va., where he has been living. “He’s been doing very well,” his mother, Sarah Colgate of Cooperstown, said Tuesday, Nov.18. “The doctors here are…
