50 At Foothills For Artspace Public Forum By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – If you call yourself an artist, you are welcome at Artspace. “People think they have to have a fine arts degree to consider themselves an artist,” said Anna Growcott, Director, consulting and strategic partnerships for Artspace. “But we don’t feel that way. If you think you’re doing something creative, we agree.” More than 50 citizens turned out for Artspace’s public forum this evening, concluding the…
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WORKFORCE SUMMIT 2018 Knowledge Worker, Not Industry, Is Our Future, Speaker Says Cleinman Wins Seward’s Support To Launch ‘Come Home’ Campaign By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – After a rousing salute to “knowledge-based industry,” a local businessman with a national clientele, Al Cleinman, today announced he intends to lead a “Come Home to Oneonta” campaign. Cleinman was addressing the Workforce Summit at The Otesaga, where attendees learned we have more jobs than people. The day was organized…
Arrest Made In Pig-Neglect Case By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – An Oneonta man was arrested and charged with torturing animals after Otsego County sheriff’s deputies rescued his four emaciated pigs Monday from an un-insulated shed on Fisk Road in Laurens. Jared J. Talbot, 21, was arrested today following a civilian complaint that led deputies to his property, where four pigs were found living without food or water and in an improper shelter.…
Hamden Historian Receives Oneonta DAR’s Recognition…
Artspace, Meet Artists! Focus Groups Underway Today, Thursday By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Whether they were painters, metalworkers, glassblowers or sculptors, many of the 31 gathered at the first Artspace focus group had one thing in common. They were all using their own homes as their creative space. “I do wood-burning at my dining room table,” said Anne Vrooman. “I practice my dance and music in my living room,” said Elizabeth Raphaelson, owner of the Underground Attic.…
EDITORIAL FROM THIS WEEK’S FREEMAN’S, HOMETOWN ONEONTA The Center Will Hold – If You Vote Nov. 6 Editor’s Note: Below is the introduction that set the stage for this week’s editorials: Endorsing Democrats Andrew Cuomo, Bill Magee and Chad McEvoy, and Republicans John Faso, Jim Seward and Richard Devlin in the Nov. 6 election. Reasons for our endorsements are detailed in this week’s Hometown Oneonta & Freeman’s Journal, available on newsstands today. Click here and read the full report that…
WORKFORCE SUMMIT 2018 There ARE Jobs In Select Fields, Conference Told By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The good news is, if you want a job as a registered nurse, retail supervisor of information security analyst around here, you’ve got it. The bad news is, young people aren’t participating in the workforce as before, and people generally are leaving the area. Overall, if you really want to work, go into the hospital and healthcare fields. That was…
IN MEMORIAM: Louis R. Kilts, 74; Oneontan Worked In Maintenance MOHAWK – Louis R. Kilts, 74, of Mohawk, an Oneonta native who leaves several survivors in Otsego County, died Friday Oct. 12, 2018, at Bassett Hospital. Louis was born on Jan. 28, 1944, in Oneonta to Earl R. Kilts and Lilian Anderson Kilts. He worked in maintenance throughout his life.…
CLICK TO SEE DEPUTY RASO’S LETTER DEVLIN READS LETTER TAKING SON OFF HOOK Fernandez Uses Expletive As Rancorous Debate Ends By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr., ended this evening’s rowdy League of Women Voters’ debate in the packed Fenimore Museum Auditorium with a blockbuster. Having faced criticism from his challenger, retired state trooper Bob Fernandez, on how Devlin handled the case of his prison-guard son, Ros, the sheriff read a letter…
Seward Lists Achievements; St. George Introduces Self…