Read about the Cooperstown Chamber's "Scoop it Up" online auction, loss of funding to Destination Oneonta, the upcoming Rural and Small Business Seminar, new acquisitions by Fenimore Art Museum and an upcoming gallery opening in Gilbertsville.…
Read about the Cooperstown Chamber's "Scoop it Up" online auction, loss of funding to Destination Oneonta, the upcoming Rural and Small Business Seminar, new acquisitions by Fenimore Art Museum and an upcoming gallery opening in Gilbertsville.…
Kaler Carpenter, program manager of the Youth Clubhouses operated by Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego Counties, summarized his organization’s contributions at a Common Council meeting on October 17, 2023.…
If you want to see the City of Oneonta’s government in act-ion, attend a Common Council meeting. They are open to the public and are held the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 7 p.m.…
To address the controversy about parking, the mayor’s office is designing an illustrated parking map which will be available as a brochure throughout the business district soon. That map will be displayed as a poster on the city’s trash cans.…
Collaboration in the achievement of goals is a formula for success, and it’s been the informing principle of these past 22 months of my term as mayor. So, what does that look like? What examples can we provide?…
In the City of Oneonta, it is safe to say that the municipality needs a progressive-minded mayor that will help turn the city around to help make progress. The city has underfunded employees such as the police and firefighters, bus drivers, and other public workers who aren’t in the official position.…
Letter from John Hamill Apology to Mayor Mark Drnek I would like to formally apologize for calling the mayor of the City of Oneonta a “photo hog” in a statement that was published two weeks ago. John HamillOneonta…
For the fastest way to get to the best, most cost effective, informed, and supportable determination of strategies to address the City of Oneonta’s problems and promise, we need a new paradigm of community participation.…
How many photo ops can one mayor have? One? Maybe a dozen or more? On Mayor Drnek’s Facebook page, he’s got more photo ops than policies to help end the drug epidemic as well as the homeless problem and other issues in the City of Oneonta.…
New York State Archives recently announced the winners of the 2023-2024 Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund grant program. The Archives awarded 87 grants totaling $5.2 million for municipal projects related to inactive records, files management, management of historical records or digitization.…