IN MEMORIAM Dr. Eugene D. Milener III, 90; Hartwick Economics Chairman ONEONTA – Dr. Eugene Darden Milener III, 89, formerly of Oneonta and Cooperstown, and retired chairman of Hartwick College’s Economics Department, died on Jan. 8, 2020, in Naples, Fla. He chaired the City of Oneonta’s Bicentennial Celebrations Committee helped found the tennis club on Rose Avenue. Gene was born in Baltimore, Md., on May 3, 1930. He was the only child of Eugene II and Eleanor. The family moved…
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FUNDRAISING UNDERWRITES LESSONS Tennis Club Goes Private, Aims To Train The Future By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In 2017, Phyllis Orlowski discovered a worrisome trend in Oneonta in 2017: not many kids knew or were learning how to play tennis. There was no equipment, like racquets, balls and ball hoppers available and there was no motivation to even plat the sport. In July, Oneonta High School’s Varsity Tennis coach, who commutes from Cooperstown, she began reversing…