IN MEMORIAM: Frances M. Niles, 83; ‘Granny Fran’ To Many Unatego Fans OTEGO – Frances M. “Fran” Niles, 83, who worked 20 years at Otego Elementary School, passed away peacefully on March 7, 2020 at Fox Nursing Home in Oneonta. She was born Oct. 21, 1936, the daughter of James and Helen (Sweeney) Mauro. Fran was born and raised in Brooklyn. She worked for many years in New York City. While working at KLM Dutch Airlines, which afforded her the…
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CRAMPED CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LOOKS TO OTEGO Space, Blessed Space, Inspires OCA’s Pupils By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The cafeteria at Oneonta Christian Academy is also a locker room and study hall. “We don’t have enough classrooms for each grade level,” says OCA Administrator Chris Cleveland. The school has 97 students, and Cleveland expects that number to grow. “We are only limited by our size. 100 is our max and we’re getting pretty close.” In part, that because…
3 Bidders Seek To Buy Vacant School Oneonta Christian Academy Pleads For Otego Elementary By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com OTEGO – The Oneonta Christian Academy is running out of room. “We are only limited by our size,” Elizabeth Cook, director of programming and 12th-grade English teacher, told the Unatego Central School Board Monday, Oct. 28. The OCA was one of three bidders trying to convince the school board to sell them the Otego Elementary School, which it closed…
Oneonta Christian School Looks At Otego Elementary Unatego Central Board Also Considers Housing, IT Firm For School It Closed OTEGO – Three new plans for the former Otego Elementary School building, including one from the Oneonta Christian Academy, will be presented to the Unatego Central school board at a special meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28. The entire board will hear the presentations, ask questions, and then make a decision at a Nov. 4 meeting on which proposal to…
Unatego To Sell School To Agzeit Unatego Central school board member Dick Downey was one of two board members to vote tonight against AgZeit’s proposal to redevelop the Otego Elementary School building into an indoor produce-growing enterprise. The board narrowed the building’s fate from four to two proposals: one from AgZeit, which intend to create an indoor farming facility; and The Kildonan School, which hoped to open a secondary school for students with Dyslexia. The board opted for AgZeit’s proposal,…
Otego School Sale Possible In 2 Weeks By PARKER FISH – Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com OTEGO – At its first public meeting since the June 30 deadline for RFPs, the Unatego Central school board last night agreed in front of a packed crowd to hold a public hearing on three perspective buyers for the former Otego Elementary School building at 5:30 p.m. Monday, July 30. The school board may choose a buyer that evening. Each applicant will be given 15 minutes…
Kildonan To Bid On Otego School Program For Dyslexic Students Would Employ 25, Have $1.25 Million Budget OTEGO – The Kildonan School, known nationally for educating dyslexic children at its Dutchess County campus, announced today it is about to submit a proposal to buy the former Otego Elementary School. A team from Kildonan toured the school on June 7. At first, the facility would employ 25 people, with a total estimated payroll of over $1.2 million. Based in Amenia, Kilonan…