SFCU Sponsors Financial Literacy Lessons For Kids ONEONTA – With a free online curriculum, Sidney Federal Credit Union aims to help local students learn money management. “More than ever, it’s important that kids develop sound financial skills to prepare them for the real world,” said Morgan Vandagriff, co-founder of Banzai, an award-winning financial literacy program. “Sidney FCU realizes that, and they’re doing something about it.”…
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Tree Lighting Goes Virtual ONEONTA – The annual Christmas tree lighting will be held virtually this evening, with Santa lighting the tree in a video broadcast at 6:30 p.m. on Destination Oneonta’s Facebook page. Following the tree lighting, there will also be performance by holiday music by “country sweetheart” Krystal Lee, of East Meredith, recorded at Foothills Performing Arts Center.…
‘Code Blue’ Fears Spur Shelter Idea By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Main Street Baptist Church has stepped up to provide a home shelter on “Code Blue” nights this winter, when temperatures are below freezing, or the wind chill makes it feel that way. The only obstacle is $40,000-50,000 – a one-time sum needed to enable Catholic Charities to run the program. Once it gets going, the state will fund it. So a fundraising effort was launched this week,…
READ BARBARA ANN’S RESIGNATION Carolina Bound, Heegan Leaving Successful Legacy By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Barbara Ann Heegan, Otsego County Chamber of Commerce president since 2012, has resigned to accept a similar position at the Greenwood (S.C.) Chamber of Commerce. “I am proud of what we have accomplished as a team on behalf of our members,” she said in her resignation letter. Her last day will be Monday, Dec. 28. Al Rubin, who is serving his…
BULLETIN Barbara Ann Heegan Resigns From Chamber ONEONTA – Barbara Ann Heegan, veteran president of the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce, has resigned to accept as similar position at the Greenwood (S.C.) Chamber of Commerce. PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR DETAILS…
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Reprinted From This Week’s Hometown Oneonta, Freeman’s Journal SUNY Over Hurdle On Reopening Plan Enough Agree On 20% In-Person Classes By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The stumbling block is gone, it seems. Enough faculty members have volunteered to teach 20 percent of the in-person, “dual modality” classes called for in SUNY Oneonta’s plan to reopen on Feb. 1, 2021, according to David Lincoln, president of the local chapter of the United University Professions (UUP). “That’s correct,” said SUNY…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Dec. 03-04, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Thanksgiving Hosts Stricken SUNY Over Hurdle On Reopening Plan Democrats Back Away From Coup Grayish Black Friday Sign of 2020 Season City Clerk Powell Retires, Assistant Will Succeed Her EDITORIAL End of Coronavirus Is Near, Multiple Vaccines Tell Us If You Want Public Office, You Ought To Say Why Publically COLUMNS MCREYNOLDS: The Joys, Challenges of Retirement STERNBERG: Doctor In The House…
Grayish Black Friday Sign of 2020 Season By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com For Oneonta’s Bonnie Johnson, this year’s Black Friday gave her the opportunity to try something she hadn’t in years past. “It was nice to sleep in!” she said as she browsed shoes the day after Thanksgiving at JC Penney. “Usually I have to get up early.” Mindful of masks and social distancing, shoppers nonetheless flocked to the Southside Mall on Friday, Nov. 27, although it was…