Gabby Milewczik and Susan Lettis look on as Kathy Varadi plants spring flowers in downtown Oneonta. (Photo by Marcia Kozubek) Plantings Spruce Up Main Streetin Time for Parade By MARCIA KOZUBEKONEONTA The annual Memorial Day parade has been a point of community pride in Oneonta, but empty planters downtown have had a lackluster appearance. Complaints about the vacant garden plots caught the attention of Susan Lettis, a member of the Oneonta Federated Garden Club. She said while the club remains…
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Main Street and Lettis Highway Get Facelift On Saturday, September 10, about a dozen SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick students joined several community volunteers in a long-overdue clean-up of the triangle at the intersection of Main Street and Lettis Highway in the City of Oneonta. “The city’s lack of funds and staffing had put the maintenance of this entrance to Oneonta on a backburner,” Mark Drnek, Mayor of Oneonta, said. “But a local resident, Wendy Slicer, saw an opportunity to engage…