Council Asked To Spend $44.5K To Fill Meg Hungerford’s Shoes ONEONTA – In a late resolution released a few minutes ago, Common Council will be asked this evening to authorize up to $44,500 to fulfill city Finance Director Meg L. Hungerford’s duties until her successor can be recruited. Of that, $10,000, at an hourly rate of $150, would be for Hungerford to be available on a consulting basis when she assumes her new responsibilities as Walton Central School finance director. …
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TWICE CONSIDERED FOR TOP JOB Meg Hungerford Resigns As City Finance Director By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www. AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Meg Hungerford, City Hall’s finance director who was twice considered for city manager during her decade here, has resigned, according to City Manager George Korthauer. The resignation is effective at the end of the month. The East Merideth resident has accepted a position as the business manager of the Walton Central School District. “Our loss is Walton’s gain,”…
Oneonta Photography Exhibit Now On Display At City Hall Wayne Wright, the Greater Oneonta Historical Society’s, shows off a two-lens stereoscopic camera that is featured in three panels from the “Oneonta Photographers, 1850-1900” he staged for GOHS during the fall now being installed in the City Hall lobby. The show features work from William Mereness, Perry Young and Howard N. Smith, who took some of the earliest images of Oneonta. At right, Wright shows Mayor Gary Herzig a stereoscope of…
Editorial for October 5, 2018 Isn’t It Time For City To Act, Or Get Out Of The Way? You know, of course: Creativity is making something out of nothing. Or, better, recognizing potential where nobody else does. The scoop in last week’s paper is a case in point: A group calling itself The Market Street Alliance is proposing a distillery in the former Oneonta Ford building, that dreary, long-empty, black-painted hulk at the foot of Chestnut Street, across from Foothills.…
Editorial, May 5, 2018 It’s Decision Time. But Is There The Will? Question: Can Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig’s administration make tough decisions? For one thing, whether or not to condemn the Twelve Tribes’ blighted Oneonta Ford property has been hanging fire since before Herzig took office. He’s now in his second term. There is state money in hand to demolish what is a public hazard and state money to prepare the site for new construction. All that’s hanging fire is…
IN MEMORIAM: Randy C. Bullis, 61; Lifelong Resident Of Otsego County HARTWICK – Randy C Bullis, 61, of Hartwick, a lifelong Otsego County resident, passed away unexpectedly March 9, 2018 at his home. He was born on Aug. 1, 1956, in Oneonta, son of the late Clayton and Bessie (Houck) Bullis. He graduated from Franklin Central School.…
Pastor Sivers Leaving Oneonta Common Council To Honor Cleric, Trailblazers at Tuesday Meeting ONEONTA – Rev. Teressa Sivers, pastor of the First United Methodist Church since 2008, has announced that she is leaving the Oneonta church in late June to lead the United Methodist Church in Ithaca. Common Council plans to honor Pastor Sivers’ Tuesday, as part of the ceremony for the 2018 Woman Trailblazers at 6:15 p.m. in City Hall. The Trailblazers are selected annually by the the City…
KORTHAUER VISITING DEPARTMENTS City Manager Greeted At City Hall Reception…
State of Emergency Declared In County By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Moments ago, the county Board of Representatives declared Otsego County is in a State of Emergency, echoing Governor Cuomo’s statewide declaration earlier this morning. County roads are closed to all non-emergency travel so that emergency vehicles have safe passage on the snowy roads. “We really need people to stay home,” said Rob O’Brien, the county’s 911 director.…
Snow Day Oneonta! Schools, City Hall Closed As Storm Stella Blankets State ONEONTA – With schools, the Huntington Library and City Hall closed, Oneonta has effectively taken a snow day for Winter Storm Stella. Governor Andrew Cuomo has declared a State of Emergency for all 62 counties in New York, and locally, Mayor Gary Herzig has asked all residents to avoid any unnecessary travel. “To protect the safety of all, Oneonta residents should stay home on Tuesday unless travel is essential,”…