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One of the Downtown Renaissance’s goals is to promote events like the City of the Hills Festival and other Main Street happenings, raising awareness of the many ways to enjoy Oneonta. Thanks to creative local businesses and engaging events, there’s a constant hum of activity downtown, and the renaissance aims to play a key role in highlighting these special aspects of our community.…
“This year, the [COTH Festival] committee decided to kick off the festival with a block party at CANO Friday night,” said Von Stengel, “and limit the festival to Main Street only Saturday afternoon instead of hosting vendors, performances, and activities on Main Street and CANO simultaneously Saturday and Sunday. This way, our organizers and volunteers are not spread thin and we can focus our energies [on] bringing more attendees to Main Street on Saturday for businesses.”…
FESTIVAL—5-9 p.m. “City of the Hills Festival.” Block party at Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Avenue, Oneonta. Visit https://www.cityofthehillsfest.org/…
It’s especially exciting to see how the Downtown Renaissance has sparked a wave of community-driven initiatives, such as the Oneonta Storefront Project, which fills vacant storefronts with art, and downtown business owners collaborating on promotions like sidewalk sales. Organizers and artists already doing cool things like the second Saturday Nighttime Alley Market have been able to harness their efforts to something bigger with the Oneonta Downtown Renaissance, too.…
On Saturday, August 24 from 4-8 p.m., music, vendors selling arts and handmade goods, art installations created by Megan Joubert and other local artists, food by AJ’s Smokin’ BBQ and art activities for kids, like making fairy wands, will pop up outside on CANO grounds.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, MARCH 4 Meet & Greet with the City of the Hills Festival Organizers MEET & GREET—5:30-7:30 p.m. “City of the Hills Fest Social Mixer.” Learn about the festival, get involved, meet the people behind the scenes, volunteer, become a vendor, sponsor the festival and more. Hosted at Wakeman Coffee West End, West Gate Plaza, 107 Winney Hill Road #1, Oneonta. cityofthehillsfest@gmail.com or visit https://www.facebook.com/cityofthehillsfest…
CANO’s City of the Hills Festival Returns On Saturday, September 17 from noon to past midnight, Community Arts Network of Oneonta (CANO) will bring back the popular City of the Hills Art Festival. “This is the largest committee we have ever had. Due to the pandemic, there hasn’t been a festival in 3 years, so we decided to extend the festivities, said Hope Von Stengel, Executive Director, CANO. There will be a mural unveiling, yoga, activities for adults and children,…
Miller’s homecoming takes surprising turn with CSO By PHOEBE SMITH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Oneonta native Cassandra Miller said she never imagined leading the Catskill Symphony Orchestra when she returned home two years ago, but now that she has officially been upgraded from interim to full-time executive director, she is excited about upcoming plans. Miller, who had been in an interim role since March, spoke with AllOtsego not long after she shed the tag in July. “(I hope to) bring…