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Edition of 05/09/2024

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Wooden Volunteers at Adaptive Basketball Clinic

Over the past few years, SUNY Oneonta’s Sport and Exercise Sciences department has developed a relationship with EDD Adaptive Sports, a non-profit organization that offers adaptive sports programs to children and adults with any disability. EDD Adaptive Sports programs allow people of all ages to participate in a variety of free athletic and sport-related activities, including basketball, biking, kayaking, soccer, swimming, pickleball, rowing, and yoga.…

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Cider Mill Preps for Its 168th Season

While visiting, guests can witness a remarkable piece of cider mill history—the fully restored turbine. Originally installed in 1872, the turbine has been meticulously restored to its former glory and is housed in a new water tank crafted by Unalam in Southern Otsego County.…

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Editorial: Let’s Reboot Mother’s Day

Editorial of May 9, 2024 Let’s Reboot Mother’s Day Here comes Sunday, and this one is our annual big day for all the moms in our midst. Showing up at around the same time as the also-annual cherry blossoms, fish runs, Kentucky Derby and the onslaught of black flies, which unhappily leave us itching, scratching, and swollen all the way to Father’s Day, on the horizon on June 16. Although Mother’s Day began, before the Civil War, with a bunch…

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The Partial Observer: HEAT Act Nothing But a Hot Mess

Who will pay for NY HEAT? The cost of a $672-million bailout for a few of the hundreds of thousands of utility customers currently in arrears will be borne by other utility customers. Every New Yorker will help fund subsidies for industrial solar and wind projects which could gobble up a million acres and yet fail to provide reliable electricity.…

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News from the Noteworthy: Spring Brings New Programs, Partnerships

Every day, Springbrook works toward unifying community members, employees, and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to ensure that everyone feels empowered to live their best life and is provided with every opportunity to thrive, which is why we are excited about new partnerships with the State University of New York at Oneonta, Hartwick, and Vêsucré LLC, and a new Employment Services office at the Ford on Main.…