OHS Schools Cutting Classes For Neediest By JENNIFER HILL • Special to AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Oneonta High School students may be happy to hear that there won’t be any summer school this year, but Superintendent Joseph Yelich sees it as a bigger problem. “We used to have 200 students attending summer school, but it’s now down to 50,” he said. “Some kids will go the first day of summer school and not show up after that. It costs $150,000 to…
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Hovis’ Novel Updates Adam, Eve Story By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Ink, said George Hovis, has a way of getting under your skin. In the ’90s, the SUNY Oneonta English professor worked as a process chemist in an ink factory in Charlotte, N.C. “Ink got into my subconscious,” he said. “And it came out as the ink on the skin of these characters.” His debut novel, “The Skin Artist,” just released from SFK Press, follows Bill…
Joseph’s Broadway Photographs Move Here From Lincoln Center ONEONTA – The return of the native – from Broadway. Photographer Stephen Joseph’s latest exhibit, “Broadway Revealed: Behind the Theater Curtain,” to open at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 9, at Hartwick College’s Foreman Gallery, does for New York City what Joseph did for his native City of the Hills in “Oneonta 360.” An approach honed here – presenting panoramas of relatively intimate spaces – is applied in “Broadway Revealed” to theater’s behind-the-scene…
LIBBY’S BEST BETS Relay For Life; Woodstock, Baby, And Spring Fling Rain or shine – hopefully shine – the annual Relay for Life will celebrate cancer survivors, remember lives lost and raise money for the American Cancer Society with family fun, raffles, fireworks, as well as a Survivor Walk and the lighting of luminaria. 4-10 p.m. Saturday, May 18, Wilber Park, Milford. • It’s not really spring until the Cooperstown Rotary Club throws their Annual Spring Fling! Plenty of vendors,…
80 New Trees Planted Near Oneonta High School Volunteers Steve Londner and Dave Hutchison work together planting a sapling in conjunction with the Department of Environmental Conservation’s “Trees for Tributaries” initiative which planted 80 small trees and shrubs along the S-curve near Oneonta Hugh School this morning. Founded in 2007, the goal of the program is to plant young trees and shrubs along stream corridors to prevent erosion, increase flood water retention, improve wildlife and stream habitat, and protect water quality…
Animal Friends Visit A.O Fox Nursing Home…
Annual R.I.F Event Delights Young Readers…
SPEAKING OF SPORTS Morell Breaks OHS Record At Yellowjacket Invitational ONEONTA – With an AP exam on Friday, May 10 and another one scheduled for Monday, May 13, Bradley Morell still had time to break a school discus record at the Yellowjacket Invitational on the Lloyd Baker Field. With a toss of 163’ 8”, Morell eclipsed his season best set last week of 160’ 0”. The previous record was held by Jim Hurtubise in 2003, and was 163’ 3”. Morell…
Council Committee Split On Study Is City Hall Secure? Question Stirs Debate By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – How secure is City Hall and its related facilities? That question stirred a lively debate over whether to spend $16,500 on a “facility-security study” at last night’s meeting of Common Council’s OPEC, the Operations Planning and Evaluation Committee. Council members Michelle Frazier and John Rafter opposed the idea, and OPEC chairman Dave Rissberger, backed up by City Manager George…
DETAILS FROM PROSECUTOR: DECATUR TWINS ASPHYXIATED 16 DAYS APART By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com DECATUR – Kimberly Steeley’s infant twins, Bonde and Liam, both died from asphyxiation, according to District Attorney John Muehl. “At first, everyone thought Bonde died of SIDS,” said Muehl. “Then 11 days later, Liam died of the same condition.” Steeley, 27, Decatur, was indicted on two counts of second-degree manslaughter, one for each child, for recklessly causing the death of her children last June.…
