SUNY Oneonta Names Provost After 4-Year Gap Dean At Misericordia To Fill Top Academic Post On July 8 ONEONTA – A dean at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pa., Dr. Leamor Kahanov, has been named SUNY Oneonta provost, the college’s top academic officer. She begins work July 8. She succeeds Maria Thompson, who resigned four years ago to become president of Coppin State University in Baltimore. Since 2015, there have been two interim provosts: Jim Mackin until Jan. 1, succeeded by…
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IN MEMORIAM: Sharron Lee Miller, 38; Wife, Mother Of 3 Worked In Oneonta PITTSFIELD – Sharron Lee Miller, 38, passed away on Feb. 13, 2019, at Bassett Hospital, with her family at her side. She was born on April 5, 1980, in Cooperstown, daughter of Alvin DeLong and Christine Ray. She spent her childhood in the New Berlin area and graduated from New Berlin Central School.…
Transit Hub Planning Study On Common Council Agenda Separately, DRI Grant Approvals Due In Early March ONEONTA – Common Council will be asked to approve a $155,000 contract for planning a transit hub around the Downtown Parking Deck when it meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall. Paid for with state money available through the DRI (Downtown Revitalization Initiative), the contract will be with Wendel, a consulting firm in Williamsville, the Buffalo suburb, for a Transit Hub Conceptual Planning…
SURPRISE LITTER IN GOOD HANDS Jasmine, Puppies Find Foster Home Jasmine, who gave birth to a litter of puppies at the Susquehanna SPCA last week, has found a foster home with Jeni Metch and her family. Jeni, a stay-at-home-mom, has become very close to Jasmine, close enough that the protective Mama will let Jeni pick up her puppies – as she is doing with Cocoa – so long as she keeps them close by. Colton and Wyatt, seen with mom…
Oneonta Man, 62, Airlifted From Walmart Parking Lot After Hit Crossing Route 23 ONEONTA – An Oneonta man with “serious injuries” was airlifted from the Walmart parking lot to a Binghamton area hospital last evening after he was struck by a car while crossing Route 23 on near the big box store, state police report. Steven A. Grant, 62, was reportedly injured at 6:54 p.m.…
SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES REPORT: Driver’s Multi-Crash Spree Ends When Truck Hits Tree ONEONTA – An Otego man was arrested Wednesday for leaving the scene of a crash in Oneonta, then crashing three more times before running his truck into a tree on Route 8, Otego, sheriff’s deputies report. Deputies identified the suspect in the Wednesday incidents as Robert H. Braun, 53, Otego.…
Is Additional Affordable Housing Needed In City? Council Committee Asks By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – A $10,000 Opportunities for Otsego proposal to determine the need for low- and moderate-income housing in the city and how to fill it met skepticism from a Common Council committee last night. Still, the Community Development Committee forwarded the proposal for discussion by the full Common Council, which next meets at 7 p.m. this coming Tuesday. OFO Housing Director Audrey Benkenstein…
Oneonta Must Prepare For State’s Marijuana Legalization, Mayor Says By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The legalization of marijuana is coming soon to the state and Oneonta should begin preparing for it. Similarly to the montana marijuana laws, then once the use of medical marijuana becomes legal in Oneonta, then there will also be rules to follow, in order to comply with the industry and the law. So, if you’re thinking of making the most of those…
Delgado’s To Host 1st In-County ‘Town Hall’ In Cooperstown Monday COOPERSTOWN – U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19th, will host his first in-county “Town Hall” meeting 12:30-1:30 Monday, Feb. 18 – President’s Day – in the ballroom at Village Hall, 22 Main St. This is Delgado’s first event in Otsego County since a thank-you reception he hosted in Oneonta after the Nov. 6 election. Last week, there was a “soft opening” of Delgado’s Otsego County office in Otsego Now’s headquarters on…
IN MEMORIAM: Betty Schlee, 76; Wilber Bank Senior Vice President WEST LAURENS – Elizabeth “Betty” A. Schlee of Laurens, 76, who rose to senior vice president during 30 years at Wilber National Bank, passed away Feb. 10, 2019, following a brief illness. She was born in Oneonta, on Jan. 21, 1943, the daughter of the late Robert and Wilma Schlee. Betty graduated from Laurens Central School. She wpent more than three decades at Wilber before her retirement.…
