IN MEMORIAM: Harold F. Lent, 96; Otego Native Worked For Bendix ONEONTA – Harold F. Lent, 96, who retired from Bendix Corp. in Sidney after 31 years, passed away on Nov. 4, 2018 at Fox Hospital. He was born Jan. 14, 1922 on Colburn Avenue in Otego, the son of Frank George and Nancy Ulena (Hammond) Lent. Harold graduated from Otego Central School in 1939. He married Bernice Ida Briscoe on Jan. 15, 1943, in Otego. She predeceased him July 1953. …
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Catskill Symphony Honors Vets With Concert At SUNY The Catskill Symphony Orchestra held a Veterans Day performance this afternoon in the Hunt Union Ballroom at SUNY Oneonta. Above, guest Conductor Timothy Perry, Binghamton, leads the orchestra and the audience in “The Star Spangled Banner” as a salute to upcoming Veterans Day, Sunday, Nov. 11. At right, Hartwick College President Margaret Drugovich, right, and Beth Steele, the college’s director of Advancement Communications, watch Dave Irvin, East Meredith, play the double bass during…
Mall’s Holiday Show Heads Into 2nd Day In addition to getting a jump on your Christmas gifts, the Southside Mall’s annual Craft & Vendor Show seemed to be a great way to run into people you haven’t seen in awhile, evident in the big hug, top photo, that Jan Hendrickson of Oneonta gives to Laurens’ Genesis Bushnell, 14, who was there with mom Amie Bushnell. They were in front of the bright lights of the K&C Crafts booth, tended by…
Council Considers Right-Of-Way To Sixth Ward Housing Project ONEONTA – Common Council Tuesday will consider a motion to swap property to allow a right-of-way to the Duane Street site now under consideration for a 64-unit housing development. Council meets at 7 p.m. in City Hall. The project, proposed by Rehabilitation Support Services, met opposition from Sixth Ward neighbors at the last two meetings of the city Planning Commission. The proposal includes 15 beds for residents in recover from addiction to alcohol…
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Halloween Hurrah Hosts Happy Haunters Oneonta’s Teegan Buffington, Ella Harper, Aaden Lathan, Isabella Villanti, Zyair James, Micheal Grant, Quincey Speller and Nathan Woytach sit atop the Greater Plains Elementary parade float at the start of the annual Halloween Parade this evening in Oneonta. At right, Virginia Sauter, Tanya Pledger and other member of Jillian’s Dance Arts dance down Main Street to the sounds of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com) …
2 ONEONTAS REACH 5-YEAR FIRE PACT Council, Town Board Must Adopt Agreement By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Town Supervisor Bob Wood and Mayor Gary Herzig met this morning to propose a five-year fire contract, with the town paying $1.15 million in 2019. “It wasn’t a difficult thing,” said Wood. “The current contract of $1.1 million had no formula in place, so we looked at a modified version of the old formula to come up with this…
Missing Man Found Dead ONEONTA – Steven Kassirer, 53, the man whose car was found abandoned near the State Trooper barracks on Oneida Street was found dead late yesterday afternoon, State Trooper Aga Dembinska, Troop C public information officer, announced today. His body was found in the brush behind the Safelite Auto Glass, where his car was found parked last week. According to police, he was last seen by his family in Irondequoit on Saturday, Oct. 20, after leaving his father’s funeral, and was…
BULLETIN ONEONTA TOWN FIRE DISTRICT GONE A’GLIMMER ONEONTA – A few moments ago, the Oneonta Town Board of Fire Commissioners met for the last time, and the Fire District is gone that allowed the city’s Oneonta Fire Department to serve Southside and other town neighborhoods since the early 1980s. Specifically, the commission, which dissolved on Dec. 31, passed a $400,000 budget for next year, about one-third of what the district has been paying.…
With Kaddish, Interfaith Prayer, County Mourns Pittsburgh Dead By CATHY NARDI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Unity among the diverse community members was the subject of Tuesday’s vigil for the 11 Jewish worshipers killed in Pittsburgh by a white supremacist gunman during services on Saturday, Oct. 27. The message of solidarity was given to a crowd of supporters who were hard-pressed to fit inside Temple Beth El in Oneonta. “Tonight we morn the victims,” said Temple Beth El president, Ken…
