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Water-Main Work To Close Church Street, Oneonta, Thursday ONEONTA – Church Street will be closed to through traffic from Center Street to Walnut Street from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday while the city’s Department of Public Service completes a water main tie-in. Questions, call the City Engineering Department, 432-6465.…
2 Catholic Charities Offices Put Under Oneonta’s Administration ONEONTA – Offices in Oneonta, Delhi and Cobleskill have combined into a single agency called Catholic Charities of Delaware, Otsego, and Schoharie counties, based in Oneonta. The change took place July 1, but was announced by the diocese today. Lynn Glueckert, the Oneonta director, has been named executive director of the three-county effort. She said the merger will make the smaller Delaware and Schoharie operations stronger by allowing Oneonta to handle their…
Common Council Rejects Adding Citizens To City Manager Search ONEONTA – Common Council, 6-1, this evening rejected suggestions it expand its search committee for a new city manager to include two members of the public. Unanimously, Common Council did vote to expand the search committee to include the whole council, not just its Human Resources Committee. “What we’ve been through,” said Council member Russ Southard, HR committee chair, referring to working 18 months with the first city manager, “makes us…
Council Will Vote On Motion Adding 2 Members Of Public To Aid In Search ONEONTA – City Clerk Doug Kendall has distributed the agenda for tonight’s special Common Council meeting, and it includes a motion to add “two non-council members to the City Manager Search Committee.” Council members will then go into executive session “to discuss those proposed as non-council members” on the committee. Council will then go back into regular session to “appoint those recommended by Common Council” to…
City Mayor Calls Special Meeting On Expanding Search Committee ONEONTA – Mayor Dick Miller has called a special meeting of Common Council for 7 p.m. Monday at City Hall to “discuss the city manager search and the possibility of expanding the membership of the committee.” The mayor acted after three members of the Charter Revision Committee, at Tuesday’s Common Council meeting, asked him to add citizens with expertise to the search committee after concerns were raised about the search’s objectivity.…
Congressman In County Today, Saturday In the next 24 hours, you may run into U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19, at various spots around Otsego County. He is due at 7 this evening at the Oneonta Outlaws game in Damaschke Field, throwing out the first pitch. At 10 a.m. Saturday, he will be at Sidney Airport, recognizing the facility’s importance to the community during a celebration seeking to raise funds for the entity. Noon will find the congressman in Schenevus, where…
WATER LINE BREAK CAUSES ONEONTA WATER SHORTAGE ONEONTA – The City of Oneonta is experiencing a raw water supply shortage after a 10-inch supply line from the Lower Reservoir to the Water Treatment Plant broke. Residents are being asked to conserve water until an update is issued. DETAILS OF WATER EMERGENCY…
This Summer, 75 Sandwiches Made Daily For Hungry Kids By LIBBY CUDMORE It doesn’t matter if you’re from Oneonta or elsewhere, if your family is rich or poor, if you’re seven or 17 – if a kid is hungry, Catholic Charities and the First United Presbyterian Church will have lunch ready. “We realized there was no summer feeding program in Oneonta,” said Nadine Stenson, one of the program’s coordinators at the “Red Door” church. “There’s been a huge need for food…
This Band KNOWS: Music the Best Medicine One day a week, Dr. Jessica Carlson gets to trade in her surgical scrubs for rhinestone-studded leggings and spike heels. No, she’s not going to a fancy party or the hottest nightclub – she’s going to rock. Carlson, a fourth-year resident in surgery, is the lead singer of Gradient, a rock ’n’ roll cover band made up of rockin’ docs from Bassett Hospital. “Music is the best medicine,” said Robbie Graham, bassist and addiction…