Lutz Feed, Fox Hospital Receive Chamber Small Business Kudos ONEONTA – Lutz Feed Co. and Fox Hospital will be honored at the Otsego County Chamber’s annual Small Business Banquet Thursday, Oct. 16, at The Otesaga, chamber President Barbara Ann Heegan announced a few minutes ago. The KeyBank 15th annual Small Business of the Year goes to Lutz Feed, Lower River Street, Oneonta, one of the anchor institutions of the farming industry in Otsego County. The Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Breakthrough Business of the Year…
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Elks Maintain Principles At 100 To the Editor: Saturday, Sept. 6, the Oneonta Elks Lodge #1312 had an evening celebrating a Century of Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love, and Fidelity. Our centennial – one of the most exciting times in the history of our lodge – provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tell the Elks’ story, share what we have done over 100 years and reveal our plans for the future. A special “thank you” to the community, Oneonta Mayor Richard Miller,…
County Will Go It Alone •By JIM KEVLIN• Hometown Oneonta/The Freeman’s Journal For the time being, anyhow, the County of Otsego doesn’t intend to participate in the “single point of contact” economic-development strategy. The county Planning Department has been renamed the Planning & Economic Development Department, and will continue handling the small-business programs that the former county Economic Development Office did under Carolyn Lewis, who resigned last August. The county IDA (Industrial Development Agency) “is doing the big grants,” said county Rep.…
‘An Echo Of God’s Compassion’ •By LIBBY CUDMORE• AllOTSEGO.Life On 9/11, just a few short hours after they watched the World Trade Center towers collapse, the Right Rev. Mark Sisk, then the Episcopal bishop of New York, and his archdeacon Michael Kendall waited at Roosevelt Hospital. “We were waiting to give comfort to the injured,” said Sisk, who with his wife, Karen, attended the 9/11 ecumenical community service at Cooperstown Methodist Church, marking the 13th anniversary of the national…
Cooperstown Santa’s 2nd Home, Saint Nick Reveals In New Book •By JIM KEVLIN• The Freeman’s Journal For years now, you’ve seen Santa Claus around town all year long, perhaps manning the information kiosk in Pioneer Park, volunteering at The Farmers’ Museum, or at one community event or another. Kids noticed it, too, and it raised questions in their young minds, and that troubled Santa. “They know it’s me,” he said in an interview the other day. The result, years in…
A WILD NIGHT: ANGRY CITIZENS BERATE COUNCIL •By LIBBY CUDMORE•Hometown Oneonta The room was packed. The mood was tense. “I resent being held hostage by these students,” said Lisa Yelich, Elm Street. “I’m being told I have to keep my lawn furniture chained to my porch, that I can’t have flower pots because they’ll get smashed or stolen – this is the city I moved into?” “My porch furniture was stolen,” added Kim Baskin, Cedar Street. “I woke up to…
LAURENS – Marsha Rochelle Rudko of Laurens, 70, retired teacher, passed away peacefully Sept. 17, 2014, following a very short battle with brain cancer. She was born Sept. 2, 1944, in The Bronx, and lived most of her life on Long Island before settling in Laurens. For the past few years, she worked as a teacher’s aide at Opportunities for Otsego’s Head Start Program. She is survived by her beloved family: husband Heinz “Buddy” Rudko; son Robert of New York;…
Frank Russo, Delaware Sheriff Mills Win United Way’s Donovan Award ONEONTA – Frank Russo, Oneonta Family Y executive director, and Delaware County Sheriff Tom Mills were recognized as recipients of the United Way of Delaware & Otsego Counties’ Alan Donovan Award at the 2014 campaign kickoff breakfast yesterday at the Plains at Parish Homestead. Other nominees – George Allen, Northern Eagle Beverages; Scott Clark of the Clark Companies, Delhi; Scott Davis of Country Club Automotive; John Ray, general manager, Hannaford’s,…
SUNY Oneonta Wins HEED Award Recognizing Commitment To Diversity ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta learned today is has received the 2014 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. As a recipient of the annual HEED Award, a national honor recognizing U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion, SUNY Oneonta will be featured along with 82 other recipients in INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine’s November…
2 College Presidents Invited To Forum On OH! Fest Issues By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com ONEONTA – The two college presidents, SUNY Oneonta’s Nancy Kleniewski and Hartwick’s Margaret Drugovich, have been invited to Tuesday’s Common Council meeting to discuss the rowdiness at the end of last year’s OH Fest by students heading back to campus from Neahwa Park. LISTEN TO THE GREATEST HITS OF THE READY SET AND OUTASIGHT The day-long event, sponsored by both colleges and the city – the next would…
