EMS TRANSPORTS TO FOX ER TRIPLED FROM 1ST DAYS OF PAST SCHOOL YEARS Editor’s note: This article was reprinted from this week’s Hometown Oneonta, which is on newsstands this afternoon. By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com The number of Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta students who have been taken to Fox Hospital more than tripled this fall from the same four-week period in 2013, according to Assistant Fire Chief Jim Maloney. “There’s been a huge spike in calls this year,” he…
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Facts, Level-Headed Tactics Way To Lessen Student Rowdiness During the debate over Hillside Commons last year, one landlord was talking about how, as the academic credentials of SUNY Oneonta students rose – they are still rising – the damage to his apartments declined. Of course, it makes sense. The more students who are more focused on their studies, the less interest they have in Beer Pong and the like. While there is always elevated concern about mischief in college towns…
With Collaboration, College-Town Benefits Can Surely Outweigh Challenges •By MARGARET L. DRUGOVICH, PRESIDENT, HARTWICK COLLEGE• On Saturday night, Sept. 13, I accompanied Sgt. Branden Collison of the Oneonta Police Department on his patrol of the city. I was with him from 10 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. I asked to ride along because I have been paying close attention to the recent expressions of concern about the behavior of college students in the city. Knowing the many efforts we already pursue on…
A WILD NIGHT: ANGRY CITIZENS BERATE COUNCIL •By LIBBY CUDMORE•Hometown Oneonta The room was packed. The mood was tense. “I resent being held hostage by these students,” said Lisa Yelich, Elm Street. “I’m being told I have to keep my lawn furniture chained to my porch, that I can’t have flower pots because they’ll get smashed or stolen – this is the city I moved into?” “My porch furniture was stolen,” added Kim Baskin, Cedar Street. “I woke up to…
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Mohawk Valley Commission OKs Oneonta Projects The $11 million Upper Susquehanna Regional Ag Center. CADE’s related $200,000 Agricultural Microenterprise Program. The IDA’s Susquehanna Regional Center for Jobs on the fifth floor of 189 Main, a collaboration with SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College. The Big Three of the City of Oneonta’s projects seeking state economic-development funding in a round Governor Cuomo is expected to announce in September have received approval at the regional level. The Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Commission…
Craft Food, Beverage Organizers Greet Appalachian Commission Chair Gohl ONEONTA – Earl Gohl, federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, delivered the $123,525 check this afternoon to help launch Hartwick College’s new Center for Craft and Food Beverage, aim to assist the revival of hops growing, brewing and natural foods production in Otsego County. The money “will enable local businesses to more effectively produce, promote and distribute their goods,” Hartwick Provost and Vice President Mike Tannenbaum told the gathering. It…
Hartwick’s Craft Food, Beverage Center Will Receive $123,525 To Lower Costs ONEONTA – Appalachian Regional Commission Federal Co-chair Earl Gohl will be on the Hartwick College campus at 3:45 p.m. tomorrow to announce a $123,525 grant for the college’s Center for Craft Food and Beverage, the college announced this afternoon. The announcement will be made on the first floor of Bresee Hall. The goal of the center is to lower costs, enabling local businesses to more effectively produce, promote, and…
Newest IDA Staffer’s Focus: Making Microbusiness Work By LIBBY CUDMORE To help Otsego County businesses succeed, all you have to do is ask what they need. That’s the theory Dawn Rivers, the new office manager and director of the county IDA’s Susquehanna Regional Center for Jobs, is operating under. “It’s going to be important, going forward, to listen to people,” she said. “We will be much more successful in helping our economy thrive if we listen to what people want from…
This Year’s 15 Steele Interns Arrive Today At Hall of Fame COOPERSTOWN – Fifteen college students, the 2014 Frank and Peggy Steele interns, arrived in Cooperstown today to begin 10 weeks of study at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, through Aug. 8. The 15 include Sarah Harris, a Hartwick College student from the Capitol District. Now in its 14th year, the Steele Internship Program for Youth Leadership Development offers undergrads and graduate students an opportunity to work alongside HoF…