Walkable Oneonta Envisioned With ‘Complete Streets’ Talk By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Maureen Blanchard and Lynae Wyckoff envision Oneonta as a walkable, bikeable, wheelchair-friendly city. “People want to live, work, pray, eat and shop in places that they can get to by walking or biking,” said Wyckoff, a senior health educator at Bassett. “By improving access to people of all mobility levels, cities see so many benefits.” The two representatives presented “Complete Streets: Is The City…
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2 COUNCIL MEMBERS DECRY ‘BABYSITTING‘ Y’s Summer Parks Program Removed From City Budget By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The YMCA Parks Program is on the chopping block to help closed a $338,067 gap already reduced from $2 million in the $15.2 million budget target Common Council is seeking to keep taxes stable in 2017. “We’re not a babysitting service,” said Council member Paul van der Sommen, First Ward. “We can’t justify the cost.” The Y’s Parks Program…
Council Debates Razing, Restoring Oneonta Ford Members Apply For Restore NY Grant To Tear Down Hulk At Market, Chestnut By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – There is no saving the Oneonta Ford building. “We’ve had people inspect it and structurally, it cannot support the additional two, three floors as part of the Market Street project,” said Sandy Mathes, CEO of Otsego Now. Mathes was responding in part to a letter sent by Karyl Sage and read by City Clerk…
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Vigil To Honor Gun-Violence Victims ONEONTA – A candlelight vigil to honor victims in the latest acts of gun violence, including Philando Castile, Alton Sterling and Dallas police officers, is planned at 5 p.m. Thursday, July 14, in Muller Plaza. “The focus of the vigil will be to mourn the recent unnecessary loss of lives of police officers and young black men and to respect their memory,” said NAACP leader Regina Betts. “We stand with loved ones, friends and colleagues…
COMMON COUNCIL REPORT Oneonta Common Council Approves Revised Charter ONEONTA – Six months after Mayor Gary Herzig appointed an ad hoc committee to revise the Oneonta City Charter, Common Council unanimously approved the local law amending the revised charter as presented. “I feel we did a good job of bringing this to a good place,” said Council Member Melissa Nicosia, Second Ward, a member of Mayor Gary Herzig’s ad hoc charter review committee. “Complains we heard were listened to, and…
Japanese Maple Planted In New Mayor Miller Park ONEONTA – On Arbor Day 2016, a Japanese maple was planted this morning in the budding Miller Park, which is beginning to emerge at the corner of Main Street and Lettis Highway in honor of late Mayor Dick Miller. Miller has been a big advocate of more trees in the city, citing their contribution to the urban landscape.…
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