Tourism promoter: Focus different for 2021 By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Otsego County’s tourism efforts are being refocused on outdoor activities, fall weddings and vaccinated out-of-state residents, according to a presentation given to the Otsego County Board of Representatives at its May meeting. Harrington addressed the Representatives at their meeting, which was held via Zoom, because of the coronavirus pandemic, on Wednesday, May 5. She said the group is looking to increase late summer and fall tourism in…
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D&H Yards Debate Renewed Environmental Review Too Fuzzy, Gas Activists Advise Common Council By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Anti-gas activists from around Otsego County returned to Oneonta Tuesday, June 18, with the same message: The environmental review to allow redevelopment of the D&H Railyards is not detailed enough. And Mayor Gary Herzig repeated the same response he has since a stormy hearing Tuesday, March 5 at Foothills: If someone shows up with a plan to actually…
HE FEARED FOR BASSETT’S FUTURE Zakrevsky: I Was Told, Don’t Pipe Any Gas To Cooperstown By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – When Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky arrived a year ago, he was told not to bring natural gas to Cooperstown, he said to a Cooperstown audience Monday, April 9, in one of several “Town Hall” meetings he’s convening around the county. Asked afterward who told him, he said the leadership of Otsego 2000, board…
COLUMN ABOLISH OTSEGO NOW! By ADRIAN KUZMINSKI • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta In my column of Aug. 9-10, 2018, I suggested that Otsego County might follow the example of Tompkins County and set up an Energy Task Force. I had little expectation that anything would come of it, but, thanks to a bipartisan effort led by county Representatives Michelle Farwell and Meg Kennedy, that Task Force is now a reality. The Task Force will have to face the…
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It’s Unanimous: Town Board Rejects Gas Decompressor By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – At the urging of Otsego 2000 and 40 people who showed up at its monthly meeting, the Oneonta Town Board last night unanimously voted to oppose a $3.5 million state grant application for a gas decompression station at Pony Farm. “No member of the Town Board is in favor of the decompressor gas station,” declared Supervisor Bob Wood at the start of the meeting.…