FINE FOOD, FUN FOOD Plenty Of Food – Who’s That At The Next Table? At Morey’s Family Restaurant, your booth neighbor might be a man dressed in a brocade jacket, pajamas and bedroom slippers, smoking a pipe and sitting in a high-back chair next to a roaring fire, a dog sitting at his feet. A girl with long blond curls in a long frilly nightgown stands next to him. The room he is in looks like a parlor room in…
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5 Applicants Want Funds In Round 2 Of DRI Effort ONEONTA – Five building owners in downtown Oneonta applied for $400,000 in Downtown Revitalization Funds aimed at creating affordable upper-floor housing. The deadline was Friday, July 12. Next, said Mayor Gary Herzig, the selection committee will meet and review the applications. “I hope we can fund them all,” he said.…
SUNY ONEONTA’S NEW PROVOST Training Olympic Athletes, Kahanov Tutored In Diversity By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Before becoming a faculty trainer, Dr. Leamor Kahanov was a trainer of Olympic women athletes. But her first career with the U.S. volleyball, bicycle and archery teams in the mid to late 1990s helped inform her second one. “I got to see interesting parts of the world and the diversity of ideas in treating athletes,” said SUNY Oneonta’s new provost…
HOMETOWN History July 19, 2019 By TOM HEITZ & SHARON STEWART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com 150 Years Ago Jacob C. Dietz, of Anamosa, Iowa, is spending a few weeks here among the homes and haunts of his early life, and is greeted most cordially on all hands. In childhood, youth and early manhood, “Jake” had the way that always wins and keeps many friends. Now that he comes back to us broadened-out by the whole-souled progressive manhood of glorious Iowa,…
HARTWICK’S NEW PROVOST Bill Ehmann Sees Potential In Generation Z’s Strivings By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Bill Ehmann believes students will guide the school’s future as much as the faculty will guide theirs. “Students are always changing because economic forces are always changing,” said Hartwick College’s new provost and vice president/academic affairs, who arrived on campus July 1. “We have to keep adapting to them.” To adapt quickly to change, Ehmann said, students need to have…
BARBARA JEAN MORRIS IN TANZANIA SUNY Oneonta President Heading Up Kilimanjaro…
Tonight, Planning Commission Briefed Developer: Artist Lofts Transform Downtowns By JENNIFER HILL • Special To AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Oneonta is the right place at the right time. That was Hudson Valley developer Ken Kearney’s assessment to a packed Chambers in Tuesday’s Common Council meeting of the positive impact his proposed development, Lofts on Dietz Street, would have on Oneonta’s downtown. With evidence of positive results from two recent developments with artist lofts and middle-income apartment in Peekskill and Poughkeepsie, Kearney’s…
‘Celebration Of Local Musicians’ Going Public In Oneonta Aug. 4 ONEONTA – Al Cleinman is taking the “Celebration of Local Musicians” public. The music festival, held in Cleinman’s backyard in 2016 and 2018, will be re-launched as a public event 1-8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, at Maple Street Park, at the end of Maple Street near Bugbee School.…
HoF, Delgado Send Regards, Too Oneonta Baseball Fans Say Thank You, Sam! Outgoing National Baseball Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson, above, a speaker at this evening’s recognition at “Mr. Baseball” and “Mr. Oneonta” Sam Nader’s 100th birthday celebration at Damaschke Field, snaps a photo of Sam with fan PJ Harmer. Former mayor Nader, who turned 100 on July 8, brought the Yankees minor league franchise to the City of the Hills 50 years ago, and both milestones were recognized…
ALL SAFE AFTER APARTMENT FIRE Cheeseburger The Cat Found Safe In Closet By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Cheeseburger, the cat, survived last night’s apartment fire and was reunited with her owner, Matthew Baker, 26, today. Baker’s landlord, Darren Cooke, found Cheeseburger hiding in a bedroom closet of the second-story Mayrose apartment on Lewis Street when he went in today to look for her. The cat was shaken but unharmed. “I’m just elated,” said JoanAnn Omelia, Baker’s…
