In COVID-19 Crisis, Pentaris Finds Opportunities By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Everything was going great. A year ago, in collaboration with BriteShot, a TV and movie-industry lighting company in New York City, Custom Electronics was packaging its stand-alone lithium-ion battery packs to illuminate “Blue Bloods,” “Law & Order” and other hit TV shows. The product, called The Luminator, made the future look particularly bright for Custom Electronics and its President/CEO Michael Pentaris. Then coronavirus arrived, and…
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Theresa’s Emporium Lifts Oneonta’s Morale By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Theresa Cyzeski believes that, as Christmas approaches, Oneonta could be a destination not just for holiday shopping, but for holiday cheer. “We could be like a Hallmark movie,” she said. “I had such a blast doing the scarecrows with the college students. Why couldn’t we have people downtown decorating light poles or making snow sculptures?” A Main Street staple for more than a decade, Theresa’s Emporium…
IN MEMORIAM: Irma D. Cortese, 75; Pursued Insurance Career In Dallas ONEONTA – Irma D. (Boglioli) Cortese, 75, of Oneonta, who pursued a career in insurance in Dallas, passed away Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, in Oneonta. She was born on Jan. 25, 1945, in The Bronx, daughter of the late Constantino and Ray (Hausman) Boglioli. Irma was raised in Pearl River. She married Frank Cortese, and they welcomed their son Francis Paul, before moving to Dallas in the mid 1970s. …
NEAHWA CEREMONY MOVED Unbowed By Storm, Veterans Honor Fallen…
Applebee’s Patrons Alerted To Possible COVID Infestation If You Dined There Nov. 5-9, Per Schedule Below, Please Monitor Symptoms Until 11/23 ONEONTA – The county Department of Health is reporting a potential exposure to COVID-19 at Applebee’s Southside Mall location: An employee last worked there Monday, Nov. 9, tested positive for COVID-19 and is isolating at home. As a precaution, the restaurant closed yesterday for deep cleaning, hiring a professional sanitation service to disinfect from top to bottom. It was…
IN MEMORIAM J. Taylor Hollist, 84; Local Mormon Leader, SUNY Math Professor ONEONTA – Joseph Taylor Hollist, 84, a SUNY Oneonta math professor who in 13 years as Oneonta branch president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began construction of the West Oneonta meetinghouse, died Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, at the Albany Medical Center of multiple complications following surgery. Taylor was born on Nov. 14, 1936, in Phoenix, Ariz., the oldest of 10 children to Jennie Brown…
STATE POLICE CAUTION: Expect ‘Traffic Delays’ Near Enormous Pine Rockefeller Center Awaits Local Fir By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com WEST ONEONTA – As crews finish wrapping the 75-foot tall pine tree on “Daddy Al” Dick’s property here, state police have issued an alert of traffic delays and lane closures over the next tomorrow through Thursday on Route 23 here as the tree is cut down and prepared for the journey to Rockefeller Center, where it will become the…
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TRY NEW VENUE TOMORROW (SATURDAY) Oneonta Farmers Market Inside Foothills For Winter ONEONTA – This Saturday, the Oneonta Farmers Market will find their new winter home inside atrium of Foothills. “The walkway space we usually use for the winter market was too close for social distancing and improperly ventilated,” said Meg Kennedy, market president and owner of ARK Floral. “It wasn’t a safe space with the pandemic going on.”…
LETTER from BUZZ HESSE Early History Here Involved ‘Savagery’ Editor’s Note: Proceed with caution here. Some of the descriptions are pretty rough. To the Editor: I would like to address the controversy surrounding the “Sullivan Expedition of 1779” plaque erected in 1912 in Neahwa Park by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Oneonta Chapter. Common Council member Luke Murphy, who is seeking a review of the plaque, has referred to some of the language and ideas on the marker as…
