HEAT from the EARTH Geothermal Pioneers, Kuzminskis Now Heat For Just $100 A Month By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com FLY CREEK – Sitting on their front porch on a warm evening, Adrian and Antoinette Kuzminski can look out at the green field across the road from their home in Fly Creek Valley. Or, looking at it another way, at their home heating and cooling system. “We get our heat from the earth,” said Adrian. “We’ve had geothermal for…
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Big Guys Keep Little Guys From Thriving, Delgado Says By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Coming off a week of “Town Halls,” with students, small-business owners and farmers, U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, said in a teleconference press briefing this morning that while there were “critically important” national issues, most people in his district want to know “how do we improve the area.” In discussing how to improve the area, Delgado often framed his responses in big…
from DICK DOWNEY As Otsego County Dithers, China Plans 700 Coal-Fired Power Plants To the Editor: Oneonta needs natural gas. The latest skirmish in local Gas Wars is over a decompressor station in the old D&H railyards. NYSEG’s gas feed to Oneonta is seasonally limited. There’s no guarantee of supply to large users during protracted cold spells. NYSEG won’t upgrade the feeder line for years to come. Businesses and our local IDA support the decompressor station; the anti-gas faction oppose…
COLUMN Chasing The Elusive Free Lunch By MIKE ZAGATA • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal When it comes to energy, and most everything else, there is no free lunch. At present, the City and Town of Oneonta are looking at geo-thermal energy to heat buildings and huge batteries to store solar energy. Solar energy and wind power are also being touted as our saviors with regards to climate change. What do the facts tell us? Geothermal heat as an…
2 Oneontas Dip Toe Into Geothermal Consultant Explores Applying Method To Main St., Southside By JENNIFER HILL • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal WEST ONEONTA – Geothermal energy fever is sweeping Greater Oneonta. First the city and now the town are “seriously considering” going geothermal, using heat from beneath the earth to warm above-earth homes. Jay Egg, a geothermal system consultant, met at length with City Manager George Korthauer and other staffers Tuesday, April 9, and is due back at…
from LARRY BENNETT Don’t Denigrate Environmental Efforts To the Editor, An as Otsego 2000 board member, I find you putting words in Henry Cooper’s mouth similar to Dan Quayle’s attempts to channel JFK. Regarding your idea that Otsego 2000 is a job killer and, by extension, a take-the-food-out-of-the-mouths-of-children villain: New York State’s dumping of state-required but unfunded entitlements on towns and counties push our local property taxes ever upward. This has proven to be a much more effective way to…
Water-Line Replacement In Oneonta May Pioneer Geothermal Breakthrough By JENNIFER HILL • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – Oneonta could soon become a world leader in renewable energy. The City of Oneonta and Jay Egg, CEO of Geo Egg, a Florida-based geothermal design and consulting company, are about to sign a $10,000 contract for a feasibility study on paralleling a geothermal heating system with the water main being installed in South Main Street over the next eight months.…
COLUMN ABOLISH OTSEGO NOW! By ADRIAN KUZMINSKI • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta In my column of Aug. 9-10, 2018, I suggested that Otsego County might follow the example of Tompkins County and set up an Energy Task Force. I had little expectation that anything would come of it, but, thanks to a bipartisan effort led by county Representatives Michelle Farwell and Meg Kennedy, that Task Force is now a reality. The Task Force will have to face the…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta March 28-29, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE City, Otsego 2000 Eco-Park Dialogue Sought Father John Rosson Retires From St. Mary’s Cooperstown Distillery To Double In Size Hall, Legion Collaborating On Centennial WAS JUSTICE ACHIEVED? CASALE: ‘Gotcha’ Politics May Backfire SWAN: Accountability Is Up To Public’ EDITORIAL All Richfield, Not Just Faction, Should Map Future COLUMNS ZAGATA: Fossil Fuels, Renewables Explained COLONE: Press Ahead With Railyard Development BIERITZ: Donate! 25…
The Young Turks Benton On Cooperstown Board; Oliver, Wells Aiming For County By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – Community engagement doesn’t have a minimum age requirement. MacGuire Benton, 21, of Cooperstown, and two Oneontans, Clark Oliver, 21, and Wilson Wells, 23, have all thrown their hats into the ring of local politics. “Our age group is horrible about voting,” said Oliver. “And I think part of that is that we don’t have people who…
