D&H Yards Debate Renewed Environmental Review Too Fuzzy, Gas Activists Advise Common Council By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Anti-gas activists from around Otsego County returned to Oneonta Tuesday, June 18, with the same message: The environmental review to allow redevelopment of the D&H Railyards is not detailed enough. And Mayor Gary Herzig repeated the same response he has since a stormy hearing Tuesday, March 5 at Foothills: If someone shows up with a plan to actually…
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from ART RORICK It’s Time To Move Forward On Upgrading D&H Yards To the Editor: I find your editorial of March 12-13, “Herzig: Act Today, Look To Tomorrow”, troubling. In my opinion, Mayor Herzig and the Common Council have not been transparent about the whole railyard development. From my standpoint as a Fifth Ward resident, this administration has done minimum communication for this development. The city has a 2014 document that the Greater Oneonta Economic Development Council worked on. GO-EDC…
COLUMN Press Ahead With Railyards, Or Oneonta, DRI In Doubt Editor’s Note: This is a comment on the DGEIS on the redevelopment of Oneonta’s D&H railyards, after the plan was pummeled at a March 5 public hearing at Foothills. Al Colone is founding president of Oneonta’s former National Soccer Hall of Fame. By AL COLONE • for Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal Dear Mayor Herzig and Common Council members: The 270 acres of the former D&H railyards are the…
FROM TODAY’S HOMETOWN ONEONTA, ON CITY NEWSSTANDS THIS AFTERNOON Railyard Foes Derail $2M In Good News Herzig’s Plea – Work Together – Falls On Deaf Ears In Packed Foothills Theater By PATRICK WAGER & JIM KEVLIN • From Hometown Oneonta ONEONTA – In his 2019 State of the State speech, Mayor Gary Herzig Tuesday, March 5, said everyone wants to get to “net zero,” but – “please” – don’t oppose a plan for the D&H railyards “to create much-needed jobs.” Particularly, “while…
D&H Yards Sold, In Public Hands Sale Opens Door To Development ONEONTA – The D&H railyards, focus of hopes for economic development in the City of Oneonta, is now in public hands. A newly created local development corporation, Oneonta Rail Yards (ORY), a subsidiary of Otsego Now, has closed on approximately 80 acres of land surrounding the Norfolk Southern rail yards, which extend from Cliff Street to Ceperley Avenue. ORY plans to seek shovel-ready status for any and all of…
IN MEMORIAM: Anthony Chicorelli, 93; Oneonta Native, World War II Veteran ONEONTA – Anthony Chicorelli, 93, a Navy veteran of World War II who retired from Allied Corp., died Thursday, March 30, 2017, from natural causes. He was born June 25, 1923, son of Eugenio and Alessandra (Pallottolo) Ciccarelli. Affectionately known as Tony to friends and family, he married Frances Louise Beach in 1942. Frances left this world too soon, on May 20, 1993, 69 years young.…
Key Economic Developer Visits D&H Yards As Closing Nears…
NY Ec-Dev Funds Look To Develop D&H Yards By JIM KEVLIN • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Dec. 19, 2014 Jeff House loves it when a plan comes together. The Thursday, Dec. 11, news of a $19,000 CFA grant for a market study of an “entertainment district” along Market Street is just the latest in a string of good news for downtown Oneonta: • Ten days earlier, a $200,000 CDBG grant was announced that will upgrade storm-water sewers along Market Street,…