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Springbrook, D&H Rail Yards Big Winners of CFA Funding

SPRINGBROOK, D&H YARDS AMONG BIG CFA WINNERS By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com ONEONTA — A $400,000 renovation to upgrade Springbrook’s residential facilities was awarded today through the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council’s Consolidated Funding Application. In all, four of the eight Otsego County projects were funded, a total of $700,000 towards economic development and job growth for the region. “It’s a positive step forward,” said IDA president Sandy Mathes.  “Our projects were all linked directly to job growth.”…

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Why Did Leaf Pickup Break Down This Fall?

Why Did Leaf Pickup Break Down This Fall? Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 4-5, 2014 To the Editor: In talking with friends and neighbors this fall, every one of them commented on what a poor job the village has done in picking up leaves this year. Comments ranged from “just plain terrible; very disorganized” to “it was poorly managed and haphazard!” At three homes across the street from my house there were five piles of leaves that just sat there for…

Bassett To Shift 40 Jobs To Downtown Utica

Bassett To Shift 40 Jobs To Downtown Utica By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014 Bassett Healthcare has located a five-story building in downtown Utica, and plans to move 40 “non-treatment” tech-support positions there from Cooperstown in the next year. That may expand to 125 over the next five years, according to Bassett’s spokesperson. The 50,000-square-foot M&T Bank annex was part of a complex that includes the landmark “Gold Dome” building, but that’s not…

Mars Rover Visits ‘Cooperstown’

Mars Rover Curiosity Visits ‘Cooperstown’ MARS – The Mars Rover Curiosity just completed it’s first two-day autonomous drive on Monday, Dec. 8, and, like many tourists, stopped by Cooperstown — but it’s a Cooperstown a long way from home. ‘Cooperstown’ is NASA’s name for a rocky outcropping on Mars that bears candidates for examination with the instruments on Curiosity’s arm.  These studies will help assess the geology of the main destination for the rover, an outcropping known as Mount Sharp.…

Ashley Cooper’s Latest Paintings Depict Husband’s Deployment Bridged By iPad

Ashley Cooper’s Latest Paintings Depict Husband’s Deployment Bridged By iPad By JIM KEVLIN • Special to allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN In 2012, the Coopers’ seemingly serene existence, in their Lake Street home that backs up on Glimmerglass, was jolted as the father of the house, Bassett’s Dr. Shelby Cooper – he is also a lieutenant commander in the Navy – was deployed to Afghanistan for nine months. “All of your paintings are about anxiety,” said his artist wife, Ashley Norwood Cooper, sitting…

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Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through July 31st, new or lapsed annual subscribers to the hard copy “Freeman’s Journal” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or electronically to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.