The Scriven Foundation's Otsego County Mini-Grant Program, Gov. Hochul's proposed Executive Budget, and Cornell Cooperative Extension's 2025 Parasite Fecal Analysis Roadshow are among the topics covered in this week's briefs.…
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The survey of registered voters 40 and older in New York’s rural areas mirrors findings of AARP New York’s other caregiving surveys. More than 70 percent of rural caregivers reported being stressed. Of the 70 percent who work, 62 percent have adjusted their schedules, 19 percent dropped to part-time and 13 percent left jobs to help an older loved one at home. …
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.…
The "Risk Less, Do More" campaign, estate planning with the Community Foundation for South Central New York, small business optimism and the Advanced Clean Truck regulations are among the topics covered.…
There is a need both for younger persons and for people who can work at non white-collar jobs—on farms and elsewhere. At the same time, there has been articulated resistance coming from the Otsego County Board of Representatives to accommodating any resettlement of immigrant/refugee persons to Upstate New York, as proposed by Governor Hochul (See FJ/HO April 2023).…
Main Street retailers do not have teams of lawyers, human resource personnel, or dedicated compliance staff, unlike their big box competitors, to keep up with the unending regulations from Albany. New York State government is responsible for public safety, not small business owners.…
The Local Planning Committee for the Town of Richfield’s NY Forward program will hold its third meeting on Thursday, August 22 from 5-7 p.m. at the Richfield Springs Central School, 93 West Main Street, Richfield Springs. The meeting is open to observers from the public, with an opportunity for public comment at the end of the meeting.…
To support local agriculture and farmland, Otsego Land Trust worked directly with farm families to submit four applications for the purchase of development rights through the Farmland Protection Implementation Grants program of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets. Governor Kathy Hochul announced on June 6 that all four OLT applications have been successful.…
Eight projects were announced for the Village of Cooperstown, a Round 1 winner of a $4.5 million NY Forward award. The Villages of Dolgeville and Sharon Springs, both Round 1 NY Forward winners with $2.25 million awards, received four and five projects, respectively.…
The LPC's first meeting will be held on Thursday, May 9 from 5-7 p.m. at the Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 West Main Street, Richfield Springs, and is open to the public.…