On Thursday, January 16, around 70 Otsego County residents, business owners, and community leaders met in the Morris Conference Center at SUNY Oneonta to listen to state, county, and town representatives give their annual “State of the County” addresses. The meeting opened with New York State Assemblyman Joe Angelino, Assembly District 101, discussing his goal to stabilize population loss in Upstate New York.…
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The Rev. Stacey Mitchell, pastor of UUSO, said, “We are so honored to host the NAACP celebration this year” and welcomed an audience of nearly 200 people. There was standing room only in the church. Poletta Louis, president of the local NAACP chapter, announced the theme of the 2025 MLK celebration as “Mission Possible: Protecting Freedom, Justice and Democracy.”…
Reports that Otsego Lake had frozen over prompted an e-mail to the SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station Tuesday morning, January 21.…
A seed swap, Singing Valentine messages from the City of the Hills Sweet Adelines, auditions for roles in "A Crazy Little Cafe Called Love" and the application period for 2025 Arts in the Community Grants are among the topics covered in this week's news briefs.…
AHA Regional Executive Michael Draine presented the award to Joan R. MacDonald, DNP, MSN, RN, chief nursing officer, vice president of Patient Care Services, and vice president of Operations at A.O. Fox Hospital on Thursday, December 5.…
“The Seneca County Supreme Court granted our motion to intervene, giving us full party status, and we moved to dismiss SMI’s second lawsuit as untimely because the statute of limitations had passed before the second suit was commenced,” Zamelis explained.…
At the start of 2024, Medicare slashed payments for a major segment of home medical equipment providers by 20 percent. These rates—already too low before this year’s cuts—now fall catastrophically short of market realities. A perfect storm of supply chain disruptions, rising fuel costs for equipment delivery and service calls...…
When Aboud arrived in New York, he couldn’t speak a word of English. He’d enter an eatery and cluck like a chicken in order to get a plate of scrambled eggs. Life was rough, but much better than back in Aleppo.…
Anthony, the Friday morning Price Chopper-pick-up-volunteer, arrived at the Price Chopper in Cooperstown a bit before 8:30 a.m. He walked into the “back of the house” to a cold room, where he located the cart with “fresh recovery” items ready for him to bundle into his car and bring to the Cooperstown Food Pantry.…
My vision is the embrace and celebration of Oneonta’s creative spirit. It makes us unique, and we are blessed with an abundance of creative neighbors. That, in a nutshell, is the goal and the road map to our renaissance.…