Bringing Broadband Here Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 11-12, 2014 Editor’s Note: This is the cover letter from FARR Technologies CEO/Partner Peter Rasmusson to the county Industrial Development Agency, an overview of the proposed $30 million public/private plan to bring high-speed Internet to the whole of the county. Broadband access is arguably one of the most important aspects of any thriving community today. With broadband access, our educational system, our economic-development efforts, our healthcare and our business climate are all enhanced.…
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County Will Go It Alone •By JIM KEVLIN• Hometown Oneonta/The Freeman’s Journal For the time being, anyhow, the County of Otsego doesn’t intend to participate in the “single point of contact” economic-development strategy. The county Planning Department has been renamed the Planning & Economic Development Department, and will continue handling the small-business programs that the former county Economic Development Office did under Carolyn Lewis, who resigned last August. The county IDA (Industrial Development Agency) “is doing the big grants,” said county Rep.…
WORK UNDERWAY TO UPDATE COOPERSTOWN’S MASTER PLAN People To Be Surveyed Saturday At Farmers’ Market, Pioneer Park COOPERSTOWN – The Saratoga Springs consultant hired to develop a downtown revitalization and economic development strategy will be collecting data this Saturday from residents and visitors at The Cooperstown Farmers’ Market and in Pioneer Park. Elan Planning, Design & Landscape Architecture by the village and the county Industrial Development Agency to help solicit community input in the development of an updated Comprehensive Master…