Window On Future: $26M Brings ‘Modern Pedagogy’ to Future By LIBBY CUDMORE In the wide, open expanse of the lounge, students can grab a quick, locally sourced sandwich or a customized Chobani yogurt and relax. In the brightly lit labs, students can build the latest robots and design tomorrow’s computer programming. And in the small, intimate corners, study groups can draw charts and make notes on the whiteboard walls. This is The New Fitzelle Hall, and it’s officially open for…
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WORK UNDERWAY TO UPDATE COOPERSTOWN’S MASTER PLAN People To Be Surveyed Saturday At Farmers’ Market, Pioneer Park COOPERSTOWN – The Saratoga Springs consultant hired to develop a downtown revitalization and economic development strategy will be collecting data this Saturday from residents and visitors at The Cooperstown Farmers’ Market and in Pioneer Park. Elan Planning, Design & Landscape Architecture by the village and the county Industrial Development Agency to help solicit community input in the development of an updated Comprehensive Master…
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, 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…
Who’s Who Among Local Democrats At Opening Of Sean Eldridge’s Office VIEW DENNIS LAUGHLIN’S SLIDE SHOW OF THE EVENT…
Community Bids Pastor Doug Deer Farewell…
Craft Food, Beverage Organizers Greet Appalachian Commission Chair Gohl ONEONTA – Earl Gohl, federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, delivered the $123,525 check this afternoon to help launch Hartwick College’s new Center for Craft and Food Beverage, aim to assist the revival of hops growing, brewing and natural foods production in Otsego County. The money “will enable local businesses to more effectively produce, promote and distribute their goods,” Hartwick Provost and Vice President Mike Tannenbaum told the gathering. It…
HOMETOWN HISTORY, May 18, 2012 125 Years Ago The Normal School – A free country never yet had too many schools, nor has human ingenuity ever yet devised a method of investment which returns so heavy an interest as the money devoted to the good cause of education. The establishment of this school in Oneonta is an event of supreme importance in the history of this community and of this locality. It means advantages not to be estimated, not merely…
HOMETOWN HISTORY, May 25, 2012 100 Years Ago All arrangements have been completed for the big event of next Monday and Tuesday evenings at the Oneonta Theatre, when the City Club of Oneonta, assisted by other first-class talent and under the direction of Mr. Dolan, will give a grand Minstrel entertainment. Manager Dolan has had 15 years of experience in the work and his firm conviction is that the Oneonta Minstrel show will be by all odds the finest in…
HOMETOWN HISTORY, June 8, 2012 125 Years Ago The Local News – The new printing press being constructed at Miller’s machine shops has one feature at least that works like a charm – it takes off a finger or a thumb or a thumb nail with all the readiness of an old-style machine. The inventor tested it himself. A Normal School building, a chair factory, a knitting mill, a new church, and very many of houses, all in course of…
