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County Bed-Tax Windfall Should Be Everybody’s Windfall

County Bed-Tax Windfall Should Be Everybody’s Windfall Editorial for the edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 4-5, 2014 There seems to be a consensus emerging on one thing: Otsego County’s government, which benefits to the tune of $1.4 million a year in bed-tax revenues, should share some of that with communities that host the bulk of the 500,000 people who visit here each summer. Those communities are the city and town of Oneonta, which together generate 30 percent of bed-tax revenues, the…

Bassett To Shift 40 Jobs To Downtown Utica

Bassett To Shift 40 Jobs To Downtown Utica By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014 Bassett Healthcare has located a five-story building in downtown Utica, and plans to move 40 “non-treatment” tech-support positions there from Cooperstown in the next year. That may expand to 125 over the next five years, according to Bassett’s spokesperson. The 50,000-square-foot M&T Bank annex was part of a complex that includes the landmark “Gold Dome” building, but that’s not…

WORK UNDERWAY TO UPDATE COOPERSTOWN’S MASTER PLAN

WORK UNDERWAY TO UPDATE COOPERSTOWN’S MASTER PLAN People To Be Surveyed Saturday At Farmers’ Market, Pioneer Park COOPERSTOWN – The Saratoga Springs consultant hired to develop a downtown revitalization and economic development strategy will be collecting data this Saturday from residents and visitors at The Cooperstown Farmers’ Market and in Pioneer Park. Elan Planning, Design & Landscape Architecture by the village and the county Industrial Development Agency to help solicit community input in the development of an updated Comprehensive Master…

Neighbors: Ban Buses, Trucks In ‘Village Core’

Neighbors: Ban Buses, Trucks In ‘Village Core’ By JIM KEVLIN What began as a petition drive to divert tour buses from River and Lake streets has grown into an effort to ban not only heavy buses but heavy trucks from the “village core.” The scope widened over the course of collecting 57 signatures, Chip Northrup, River Street, told the Village Board at its July meeting on Monday the 28th. “The village has the opportunity, for the first time, to address…

22 Main St Upgrade

Village Applies For $½ Million To ‘Jumpstart’ 22 Main Upgrade By JIM KEVLIN The Village Board has applied for a $500,000 CFA grant that, if approved, would “hugely jumpstart” a $2 million planned renovation of 22 Main, the historic Village Hall, according to Mayor Jeff Katz. The grant, plus the village’s $166,000 match, would pay for one-third of the work. CFAs (for consolidated funding applications), administered through the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Commission (one of 13 statewide), are the Cuomo…

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