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Bassett Opens School-Based Clinic, Its 20th, At Richfield Springs Central RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Bassett Healthcare opened its 20th school-based health center yesterday, serving K-12 students at Richfield Springs Central School. Bassett President/CEO Vance Brown praised the program in a ceremony attended by parents, teachers, students and local and state representatives. “Especially in the new environment of population health and preventive care, this mission of being in a community with boots on the ground doing community health improvement is what this…
State Ag Commissioner Ball, Future Entrepreneurs Confer…
Former SUNY Chancellor Wharton Interviewed By Chartock On WAMC COOPERSTOWN – Retired SUNY Chancellor Clifton R. Wharton Jr. was interviewed on his new memoir, “Privilege & Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer,” this afternoon by WAMC-FM President Alan Chartock. Wharton, who has summered on Otsego Lake for the past two decades, was greeted by an SRO crowd when he spoke on his book Sept. 20 at The Fenimore Art Museum auditorium LISTEN TO DR. WHARTON’S WAMC APPEARANCE…
SUNY Oneonta Athletes Pledge Not To Tolerate Bullying, More ONEONTA – The student athletes of SUNY Oneonta have pledged to “step up, speak up and take action” as part of an initiative to bring awareness to not being bystanders and to intervene to promote safety and protect those that may be in harms way, the college announced today. To this end, 2015 graduate and captain of the women’s tennis team, Brynn Sussman, produced a video that speaks to Bystander Intervention,…
IN MEMORIAM: Pastor Tom Gratton, 80; Expert On Tending Multi-Racial Churches SCHENEVUS – Pastor Tom A. Gratton, who over a long career developed strategies to successfully tend multi-racial congregations, past away early Tuesday morning, Oct. 13, 2015, at Bassett Hospital. He was 80. Born Oct. 9, 1935, in Pittsburgh, Pa., he was a son of James and Minnie (Ross) Gratton. Raised in Pittsburgh, he later moved to Rhode Island. Called to the ministry, Pastor Tom brought countless people to the…
Just In Case, Greater Plains Pupils Evacuated, Told About Emergencies…
IN MEMORIAM: Leland W. Utter, 87; Navy Veteran Leland W. Utter, 87, of Lake City, Fla., and formerly of Schenevus, passed away Oct. 11, 2015, at the New York State Veterans Home, Oxford. He leaves survivors in Oneonta and Cooperstown. He was born Nov. 14, 1927, in the Town of Maryland, the son of William H. and Ruby (Ritchey) Utter.…
86-Year-Old Motorcylist Dies Near Schuyler Lake SCHUYLER LAKE – State Police at Richfield Springs reported yesterday they are investigating a fatal motorcycle crash in the Town of Exeter at 4:30 p.m. Monday. An investigation determined that Herbert L. Black, 86, of Remsen, was operating his 1998 Honda Valkyrie motorcycle northbound on Route 28 when he entered a curve in the roadway. Black was unable to maintain his lane and struck a street sign on the east shoulder. He was ejected and suffered…
EDITORIAL MV500 Plan Condemns Otsego To Low-Salary, Seasonal Jobs Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from this week’s editorial in Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal, on newsstands in Oneonta, Cooperstown and beyond this afternoon. Otsego County has been dealt out of the Utica-Marcy STEM and nanotechnology boom in the MV500 application submitted to the state Monday, Oct. 5, a huge disappointment to anyone who cares about economic development locally. That can’t stand. MV500 is a six-county team – Otsego…