‘Citizens’ Due For Reprise At Oneonta Council Objecters Ignored In Final GEIS, Email Says. But Mayor Disagrees By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Unhappy Concerned Citizens of Oneonta are expected back at tomorrow’s 7 p.m. Common Council meeting. Common Council is expected to act on the GEIS – generic environmental impact statement – on the D&H railyards redevelopment, and Citizens’ email sent out Sunday says it “dismisses every single comment brought by the public. “No changes were…
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Oneonta Projects Dominate Debate At County Board Mayor Defends GEIS On Railyards; Rep Lapin Takes On RSS Housing By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Oneonta issues – development plans for the former D&H Railyards and the 65-unit RSS housing project in the Sixth Ward – dominated today’s April meeting of the Otsego County Board of Representatives. Mayor Gary Herzig told the county reps that the GEIS – the generic environmental impact statement on the railyards that has…
Elephant In The Room Undergirds Discourse Dismiss Smokescreen Hype About Dubious New Jobs In last week’s editorial in this newspaper, Oneonta Mayor Herzig is quoted as saying: “We should not let those who are economically secure, by comparison, tell those who need jobs they can’t have them.” The mayor was reacting to the March 5 hearing he moderated at the Foothills in Oneonta, where a long series of speakers pushed back almost unanimously against the gas-expansion project proposed by the…
from Nicole Dillingham Otsego 2000 Is Challenging DGEIS Brownfield Findings To the Editor: The flood of editorials trying to divide our community regarding heavy industrial development in Oneonta are discouraging. They may help sell newspapers, but they lack integrity. This is not a choice between jobs or no jobs. It is not even a choice between development or no development. It is purely a choice about what kind of jobs and what kind of development is suitable. To answer this…
Editorial for October 12, 2018 Uncreative? With Full Plate, That Might Be Just The Thing ‘I’m not creative,” Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky told the Otsego County Board of Representatives at its October meeting on the 3rd, as he began to deliver an “economic update” on the economic-development organization’s 2018 accomplishments. While lacking creativity, Zakrevsky continued, he said he has the capacity to embrace someone else’s ideas and carry them to fruition. Credit Zakrevsky with self-awareness and frankness, both virtues.…
Study To Find Use For 200-Acre Site By JIM KEVLIN • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Dec. 19, 2014 Santa Cuomo didn’t have everything the Otsego County IDA wanted in his sack of state economic-development funding this year, but he has handed out $47,500 for a marketing study for Oneonta’s long-vacant 200-acre D&H Rail Yards. “We’re eager to get the process started,” said Sandy Mathes, CEO of the county IDA, after the governor announced this year’s awards Thursday, Dec.…