City of the Hills City passes firefighter accord The Oneonta Common Council unanimously passed an agreement between the city of Oneonta and the Professional Oneonta Firefighters, Local 2408, as it pertains to alleged violations of collective bargaining agreements at the council’s meeting Tuesday, May 4. The Common Council also authorizing two three-year contracts with Castella Waste Management of New York. Mental health month helpers May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. User-friendly accurate information on mental illness and helpful resources…
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ALBERT COLONE RECOUNTS FAMILY’S STORY COVID? It Could Have Been Worse Editor’s Note: The COVID-19 pandemic has Albert Colone, founding president of the former National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, musing about the immigrant experience, when times were REALLY tough. This is the first of two columns on the immigrant experience of his grandparents, Frank and Lucia (Valentini) Colone. COVID-19, which hit America hard starting in early 2020, turned our worlds upside down. I haven’t been able to hug…
For Whom The Bell Tolls Chris Gustafson, top, counts the chimes as Rev. Mark Montfort rings the church bell at First Presbyterian Church in Oneonta this morning. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the passing of Brenda L. Utter, Morris, who was the first COVID related death in Otsego County. In the year since Utter’s passing, 55 residents have died from COVID-19, and this morning members of the congregation took turns ringing the bell in memory of those lost. “This…
MALATRAS VISITS DEWAR ARENA Chancellor: SUNY-O Ready For Our Students To Return By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – “Testing is the secret sauce to our success,” SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras said today at a noontime press conference as students begin returning to SUNY Oneonta in advance of the Feb. 1 start of the spring semester. This coming semester, all students will be required to take a weekly swab test, “and we are using the number one saliva…
Artware, Oneonta Downtown Staple, To Close In February…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Jan. 7, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Cuomo Calls Out Fox New Senator Joining Salka To Stem COVID Overreach Thanksgiving Bubble Pops: County COVID Cases Drop 31 In Day Next Generation Buys Rudy’s City Hall Seeks $500,000 To Redo Oneonta Theatre EDITORIAL In COVID Year, Leaders Did Step Up COLUMNS DELGADO: I’ll Focus On What 19th District Needs McREYNOLDS…But I Wasn’t Afraid Of ‘The Troubles’ STERNBERG: COVID Transforming Calls…
Festival of Lights Opens In Neahwa Park…
There’s Still Time To Reach Shoeboxes For Seniors Goal…
RECORD SET THIS THANKSGIVING Lord’s Table, St. Mary’s Serve Up 800 Meals In a collaboration of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and the Lord’s Table, 600 meals – turkey with all the trimmings – had already gone out the door for delivery by noon Thanksgiving Day, when curbside pickup began. Above, Volunteers Rosemary Collie and Keton Kling, both Oneontans, shuttles bags of food to the Lord’s Table. “We were averaging about 10 meals a minute.” said event overseer Mary Southern, seen…
NEAHWA CEREMONY MOVED Unbowed By Storm, Veterans Honor Fallen…
