COLUMN Pathfinder Success Due To Place, People, Purpose Editor’s Note: Here are remarks President/CEO Paul Landers delivered at the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce annual Gala & Celebration of Business Thursday, May 2, in Foothills’ Atrium. Pathfinder was named the chamber’s NBT Bank Distinguished Business of 2019. By PAUL LANDERS, Pathfinder Village President/CEO About 43 years ago, 30 families were told they needed to find a new school for their children because the State of New York was going to…
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DISTINGUISHED BUSINESS Businesses Sold On Pathfinder Village Residential Community Training, Placing Residents In Local Jobs By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta EDMESTON – When she was 16, Joanna Draper had a brain tumor removed and was in a coma for a month. Though she recovered, her short-term memory was all but gone, dashing her hopes of continuing to perform in musical theater. But now, you can find her serenading customers at the Pathfinder Village bakery and café,…
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EDITORIAL With Brainy, Creative Execs, Otsego County’s Future Secure A couple of months ago, Gerry Benjamin, director of SUNY New Paltz’s Benjamin Center and an expert on Upstate New York, saw the region’s economic future in nurturing and growing what we have. Craft brewing and yogurt production, in particular, are developing nicely, he said, although neither is generating sufficient jobs at sufficient salaries to begin replacing the manufacturing behemoth that was the Mohawk Valley. The advantage to incremental growth, of…
OMMEGANG’S NEW CAFE HOSTS Chamber Inducts 6 More Of Its Best Into Hall Of Fame Stacey Grady Is Elected President; New Executive Director Introduced CLICK FOR SLIDE SHOW OF CHAMBER FESTIVITIES…
ANNUAL GALA MAY 2 AT FOOTHILLS Chamber To Honor Pathfinder Village, Lester Grummons ONEONTA – The Otsego County Chamber of Commerce will honor Pathfinder Village and funeral director and community leader Les Grummons at its annual gala at 5:45 p.m. Thursday, May 2, at Foothill Performing Arts Center. Pathfinder will be named as Distinguished Business and Grummons as Citizen of the Year. Pathfinder Village, based in Edmeston, has a four decades’ long commitment to providing community-based and individualized service to…
IN MEMORIAM: Eleanor L. Wightman, 78; Worked For Pathfinder Village SCHUYLER LAKE – Eleanor L. Wightman, 78, a former home health assistant at Pathfinder Village and an active member of the Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church, passed away Monday, February 25, 2019 at Valley Health Services, Herkimer, with the loving support of her family at her side. She was born on July 22, 1940 in the town of New Lisbon, a daughter of the late Norman and Zida Underwood Chase.…
Baseball Hall, Stagecoach, Farmers’ Market Named To Chamber Hall of Fame COOPERSTOWN – In all, six business, including the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Cooperstown Farmers Market and Stagecoach Coffee were selected from 25 finalists to be the 2019 inductees into the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce’s 2019 Chamber Business Hall of Fame. Also named to the Hall of Fame were Pathfinder Village, The Cooperstown Bat Company and the Cooperstown Fire Department.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Young Professionals Networking Mixer NETWORKING – 6 – 8 p.m. Mixer featuring opportunity to sample beers, meet other young professionals, maybe win a door prize with Young Professionals Network of Otsego County. Cooperstown Brewing Company, 110 River St., Milford. 607-432-4500 or visit www.facebook.com/YoungProfessionalsNetworkYPN/ RUMMAGE SALE – 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Find good used clothing for women, girls, children, toddlers, babies, men, boys. Also, sheets, blankets, beach towels, bath towels, linens, curtains, kitchen utensils, toys, games,…