IN MEMORIAM: Ralph J. Sobers, 64; Fisherman ONEONTA – Ralph J. Sobers, 64, an avid fisherman and the Susquehanna Bass Club’s Angler of the Year in 1997, retired from the physical world Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, to hunt and fish with the angels.…
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County Envisions Future From Ground Up Summary Meeting Due Next Week…
EDITORIAL After 3 Years, It’s Time To Properly Implement City Charter Read the city charter: Meg Hungerford does not have the qualifications to be Oneonta city manager. Efforts to put her in that position regardless damaged the last year of the Miller Administration, and continuing efforts to do so are preventing the implementation of a sensible city charter approved by 75 percent of the voters. It’s past time for Mayor Gary Herzig to close the door on the Hungerford option…
Efficiencies, Including Center Street School Closing, Equal Tax Rebates MILFORD – Eligible homeowners in the ONC BOCES region – some in the Oneonta and Cooperstown school districts – are slated to receive a tax rebate check due to the successful completion of an efficiency plan. The state announced checks would be mailed starting next Tuesday. The Oneonta City School District was able to contribute $300,000 in savings by closing the Center Street School, the largest single efficiency.…
FOX RECRUITS NEW PRESIDENT ONEONTA – A several-months’- long national search for a new Fox Hospital president has ended with the selection of a health care executive from Paterson, N.J., who has over two decades of leadership experience across all sectors of the patient care delivery continuum. Jeff Joyner, previously System Vice President for Operations at St. Joseph’s Healthcare System, Paterson, N.J., has been named president of Fox Hospital effective Jan. 1, 2016, Bassett Healthcare Network President/CEO Dr. Vance Brown…
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SUNY Cobleskill President Backs Otsego Community College Idea COOPERSTOWN – SUNY Cobleskill’s new president, Dr. Marion Terenzio, said the college offers 30 two-year associate degrees, and would be very interested in entering the conversation about creating a community college in Otsego County. “We’re here. If there are things you want us to look at, we’re very open … Come to us,” said Terenzio, responding to a question from county Rep. Gary Koutnik, D-Oneonta, after delivering the keynote address at today’s second annual…
Mathes To Brief Common Council On Development Projects In City ONEONTA – Sandy Mathes, Otsego Now president, will discuss Oneonta economic development projects he has been working on with the city at Tuesday’s Common Council meeting, Mayor Gary Herzig announced this evening. “While all are in very preliminary stages, there is much potential here,” said the mayor. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the second-floor Common Council chambers at City Hall.…
IN MEMORIAM: Martin J. Bloodnick, 86; Retired After 33 Years At Long Island RR LAURENS – Martin J. Bloodnick, 86, who retired to Laurens after a 33 year career with the Long Island Railroad, passed away peacefully at home Tuesday, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015. Martin was born on Nov. 20, 1928, in Ozone Park, the son of late Francis and Margaret Bloodnick (Rydholm). He married Dorothy A. Barratt on Oct. 8, 1950, in Christ the King Catholic Church in Queens.…
OHS Troupe Stages ‘Odd Couple’ From Male, Female Perspectives…
