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SUNY Plans To Make 100 Hires This Year

SUNY Plans To Make 100 Hires This Year By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With over 6,000 students in attendance, SUNY Oneonta needs staff who value more than just the job at hand, said Dia Carleton, chief human resources officer. “We’re not looking at just their job skills,” she said. “We look to see if they may have something to contribute to our campus community.” According to Carleton, there are currently 16 position openings at the university,…

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FOSSIL FUELS: Stanford Says, Recapture CO2

COLUMN FOSSIL FUELS: Stanford Says, Recapture CO2 Editor’s Note: This is the first of occasional articles, from university public-relations departments, on research into burning fossil fuels more cleanly. Here, Stanford University tells how faculty there are targeting “super-emitters.” In the United States, most electricity from the grid comes from power plants that run on coal or natural gas. These plants generate 35 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. Climate scientists say we need to reduce global…

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Good News, Jobs Aplenty; Bad News, No Housing

EDITORIAL Good News, Jobs Aplenty; Bad News, No Housing Anyone who’s paying attention around here has come to a double conclusion: ►One, pretty much every employer, big or small, has vacancies that can’t be filled. ►Two, if new employees are hired, they often can’t find a convenient, affordable place to live. No workers. No worker housing. A double bind. If misery loves company, then economic developer Jody Zakrevsky, CEO of Otsego Now, went to a jobs forum hosted by Congressman…

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Expert: More, Higher Paying Manufacturing Jobs

Expert: More, Higher Paying Manufacturing Jobs By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com ONEONTA There are more manufacturing jobs available in Otsego County and they pay well, according to Christian Harris, Binghamton, the state Labor Department’s labor market analyst for Otsego County. “Right now there are 42 open jobs for supervisors, operations workers and industrial engineers,” he told THE JOB SCENE. “These are jobs maintaining the production line or working on the process of the production, and, on average, make…

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This Week — Feb. 6-7, 2020

THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Feb. 6-7, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE D.A. Expecting 50% Dip In Prosecutions 700-Plus Fans Sign Petition To Save CCS Football Seward Invites DOT Chief To Lettis Crash Scene 2020 Winter Carnival Features Mac, Cheese, More Salka Plans Local Rally Against Bail Reforms THE JOB SCENE Help Custom Electronics Power The Future Big Job At Bassett: Keeping Many Jobs Full Expert: More, Higher Paying Manufacturing Jobs SUNY Plans To Make…

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BENNETT: Acquittal Emboldens Trump, For Now

COLUMN WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Acquittal Emboldens Trump, For Now No, Chicken Little, the sky is not falling. Donald J. Trump has dodged the impeachment bullet just as he dodged the Mueller Report. He may feel emboldened to continue to ask others to dig up on his opponents; to continue to look the other way as Russian trolls do dirty work for him; to continue to require Republican politicians to swear fealty and kiss his pinkie ring. He will…

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In State Of The City, Herzig Revisits DRI, Charts Steps Ahead

LET’S GET IT DONE! In State Of The City, Herzig Revisits DRI, Charts Steps Ahead Editor’s Note: This is the full text of Mayor Gary Herzig’s State of the City speech, delivered this evening to Common Council in Oneonta City Hall. It is Herzig fifth annual assessment of the city’s health. By GARY HERZIG • Mayor of Oneonta In 2018, Hartwick College’s president Margaret Drugovich introduced me to a young lady named Nadya Zhexembayeva, a 2001 graduate of Hartwick College.…

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Two More Arrested In Walmart Vandalism

Two Men Arrested In Walmart Vandalism ONEONTA – State police have arrested the other two men accused of vandalizing the Walmart craft aisle in early January. Jamie R. Sophie, 21, and Nathaniel Rubera 21, both of Unadilla, were arrested and charged with the felony of Criminal Mischief in the third degree and the misdemeanor of Conspiracy in the fifth degree for allegedly entering the store on Jan. 8, and opening bottles craft paint to damage more than $250 worth of…

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Evelyn Jacobs, Oneonta; Centenarian, Retired RN At Fox Hospital

IN MEMORIAM: Evelyn Jacobs, Oneonta; Centenarian, Retired RN At Fox Hospital ONEONTA – Evelyn Jacobs, 100, a registered nurse at Fox Hospital for 20 years, passed away peacefully on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. She was predeceased by her loving husband of 45 years, Albert Rowe, then married Larry Jacobs, who she was loved by for 12 years until his passing. An Oneonta native, Evelyn was a graduate of Binghamton General School of Nursing in 1943, then served as a Fox…

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Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through July 31st, new or lapsed annual subscribers to the hard copy “Freeman’s Journal” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or electronically to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.