Conversation On Hold: Consultant Waiting For Town, City Water Plans By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Dec. 26, 2014 At the GO-DEC meeting on Monday, Dec. 15, Fred Krone invited Town of Oneonta Supervisor Bob Wood and City Hall to talk to him “bright and early” the next morning. And Krone followed through. “I reached out to Bob Wood the next day,” he said. “We’re meeting Jan. 7, and I’m reaching out to City Hall.” Krone, the co-founder…
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Fresh, Brainy Town Board Needs Issue: Create Greater Oneonta Editorial for The Freeman’s Journal/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 18-19 2014 Say you were elected to the Oneonta Town Board, determined to prevent fracking from happening in the town. Then, you discover, there’s no natural gas under the town. Now what? You’re bright, energetic. You get along well with your equally brainy and motivated colleagues, who find themselves in the same quandary. That came to mind Monday evening, Dec. 15,…
Oneonta Town, City Should Join In Regional Water Authority The Oneonta Town Board is energetically seeking to make a historic mistake that will have increasingly negative impacts on Greater Oneonta for decades to come. Southside neighbors are being asked to approve a water district that would allow construction of a water plant in Emmons’ Fortin Park. Let’s hope, for their good and that of the whole, that they say no. Right now, downtown Oneonta, step by step, is coming back.…