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Phil Bresee Dies; Executive At Oneonta Department Store ONEONTA – Word has been received that Phil Bresee, one of three brothers who operated Oneonta’s landmark Bresee Department Store in its final decades, passed away Tuesday, July 24, 2018, at the Thanksgiving Home in Cooperstown, where he had resided in recent years. A full obituary will be forthcoming later today from the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, which is handling the arrangements.…
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IN MEMORIAM Susan (Ford) House Plantz, 84; Early City Leaders’ Descendant ONEONTA – Susan (Ford) House Plantz, descendant of Oneonta’s earliest leading citizens, passed away on July 22, 2018, at O’Connor Hospital in Delhi. She was 84. Susan was born in Oneonta on Sept. 12, 1933, the daughter of Alice (Ford) House and Dr. Leroy S. House. She was the granddaughter of Dr. Merton L. Ford who, in business with his father, Newton Ford, owned and operated Oneonta’s first drugstore.…
IN MEMORIAM: Neomia Smith, 85; Nurse At Fox, Amphenol Inspector ONEONTA – Neomia Smith (Lemon) was born in 1933 to Viola (Boyd) and Norman Lemon in Dorchester County, S.C. Neomia was the oldest of eight siblings. She learned at the early age of 12 to cook for her entire family and also helped alongside her siblings to tend the family gardens. Cooking and gardening would end up being her most cherished pastimes during her lifetime. Neomia had three children from…
Airport Hosts Chamber Soiree Honoring Job Corps, OCCA Oneonta Job Corp Academy Director Chris Kuhn, above left, accepts the NBT Bank Quality of Life Award from Jamie Reynolds, the bank’s regional executive and senior VP, this evening at the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce’s first Summer Soiree under a tent on the tarmac of Oneonta Municipal Airport. Inset, OCCA President Vicky Lentz, left, and Executive Director Leslie Orzetti accept a proclamation from state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, after the Otsego County…
City Council OKs Nick’s Diner Plan $230K CDBG Application Albany-Bound By PARKER FISH • Special To www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The audience filled the seats and spilled out into the hallway as the Common Council again debated, then approved Nick’s Diner’s application for a $230,000 CDBG grant. The vote enables Nick’s prospective owner Rodney Thorsland’s to submit the application to Albany for its approval. Thorsland’s request has been hotly debated in the past three Common Council meetings, with several community members…
SUNY Chancellor Pays Visit To Oneonta Campus State University of New York Chancellor Dr. Kristina M. Johnson visited SUNY Oneonta this morning, and answered questions in front of a large audience in the Welcome Center. Johnson, who was scheduled to visit in April but had to cancel, revealed that a she had suffered a 3rd degree heart blockage which prevented her from making the trip to Oneonta in the spring. Johnson joked about the issue, saying that the pacemaker that…
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IN MEMORIAM: Richard L. Collins, 88; Retired D&H Stationmaster, Dispatcher ONEONTA – Richard L. Collins, 88, a former D&H stationmaster and dispatcher, passed away July 14, 2018, at his home. He was born Aug. 27, 1929, and Central Bridge, the son of Leland and Frances (Neville) Collins. He married Jean Duham on July 15, 1950, in Glen Cove. She predeceased him on Sept. 27, 2012.…
