Democratic Chairs Unite For Teachout Otsego’s Abbate Joins Consensus Democratic county chairs from across the 19th District met in Ulster County Saturday and emerged with a consensus that Zephyr Teachout should run to succeed U.S. Rep. Chris Gilbson, the Republican who is retiring at the end of the year. Teachout, who won the Otsego County nomination for governor against incumbent Andrew Cuomo in the 2014 Democratic primary, was in Cooperstown Wednesday, where she obtained the support of with County Chairman…
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DEC Lowers Fine Against City In Sewage Spill At Mill Race ONEONTA – Because of cooperation from City Hall, the state Department of Environmental Conservation is reducing a fine from $17,500 to $3,500 related to a sewage spill next to the Mill Race, according to Common Council’s agenda for its upcoming Tuesday meeting. The DEC reduced the fine because city crews discovered the leak, notified the state of the problem and repaired it, the agenda states. When it meets at…
Chamber Polls Its Members On Paid-Parking Expansion COOPERSTOWN The Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce has alerted members the Village Board is holding a public hearing at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan 25, on expanding paid parking five weeks from the Labor Day Weekend to Columbus Day Weekend. And the chamber is again surveying members on how they feel about expanding paid parking, and to e-mail the survey to hanna@cooperstownchamber.org “This is an opportunity as a business owner and/or resident of the Village…
IN MEMORIAM: Susan Stevens, 58; For 13 Years, Controller At Otesaga COOPERSTOWN – Susan Stevens, retired controller at The Otesaga, died Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015, at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home in Winston-Salem, N.C. She was 58. Locally, she resided in Pierstown. Born Dec. 23, 1957, in Framingham, Mass., Susan Mary Dunphy was one of three daughters of James Henry Dunphy, Jr. and Jean Louise Gillum Dunphy. After graduating in 1975 from Rutland Senior High School in Vermont, she…
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IN MEMORIAM: Elizabeth S. Swatling, 97; Husband Operated Fuel-Oil Businesses FLY CREEK – Elizabeth S. Swatling of Red Onion Farm in Fly Creek died early Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. She was 97. Bette was born on Oct. 18, 1918, in Albany to Satie and Joseph M. Schroeder. She married Roy K. Swatling on March 7, 1942, and lived in Herkimer before moving to Fly Creek in 1960. Roy, who operated Jensen-Baldwin Oil in Cherry Valley and Cooperstown, and similar businesses…
THE END OF A TAGLINE? ‘City Of The Hills’ Brand May Bump ‘Oneonta, Life Enjoyed’ ONEONTA – “Oneonta, Life Enjoyed,” greeted with some controversy a half-dozen years ago, may be going over the side. At Destination Oneonta’s annual meeting Wednesday evening, Sean Magee of Trampoline Advertising & Design, Glens Falls, outlined four new branding options, three built around the traditional “City of the Hills” tagline, that will be part of recommendations on downtown revival being prepared by the LA Group,…
SUNY Oneonta Among 14 Colleges On Money’s Fastest-Improving List ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta is one of 14 colleges and universities named to a new MONEY magazine list of public schools that stand out as “the most rapidly improving high-value colleges in the nation.” In the MONEY analysis, SUNY Oneonta was singled out for having an above-average graduation rate, for raising its graduation rates for all students by at least 10 percent from 2003 to 2013, and for reducing achievement gap disparities among…
IN MEMORIAM: John Rifenburgh, 84; World War II Vet Co-Owned Tally-Ho WEST DAVENPORT – John William Rifenburgh, 94, a World War II veteran and former co-owner of the Tally-Ho Restaurant in West Davenport, passed away Monday, Jan. 11, 2016., at Fox Nursing Home. He was born June 12, 1921, in Worcester, the eldest of six children and the only son of the late Walter and Mabel Estella (Phelps) Rifenburgh. On April 9, 1964, he married Barbara Cook in Bloomville. During…
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