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Eckmair was specifically acknowledged for her involvement in a research project which ultimately quashed an Army Corps of Engineers plan to install a series of dams in the Butternut Valley. According to the citation, these dams would have created a 7-mile-long lake, thus “flooding the entire village and most of the Butternut Valley and over 4,000 years of Native American civilization.” Congress deauthorized the monies appropriated for the plan in 1979.…
But for the Gilbertsville area’s strong resistance to a long-standing Army Corps of Engineers plan to dam up the area, the tour would not have taken place at all, as, like the sad fate of some Catskill Mountain towns, Gilbertsville and other nearby towns and villages would today be under water.…
A native of Bainbridge, Newman has lived in Gilbertsville since 1989. She graduated from Binghamton University in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in English and rhetoric, after which she obtained her law degree from SUNY Albany Law School in 1994.…
In Other News ONEONTA—Opportunities for Otsego, a community action agency focused on alleviating poverty in the county, recently held a Point-in-Time meeting in conjunction with the Oneonta Police Department to give a count of the homeless on Thursday, January 26. Blankets, provided by the Southern Tier Homeless Coalition, were given to the OPD to give to any unsheltered individuals they encounter. The official results of the Point-in-Time count will be released in April by STHC, the organizers of the count…
RIBBON CUT AT 10 TODAY Seward Sends $50,000 For Copes Corners Park By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COPES CORNERS – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, has obtained a $50,000 state grant to help the Town of Butternuts continue to upgrade its Copes Corners Park, it was announced at the ribbon-cutting on this park this morning. The grant was announced by Jeff Bishop, Seward aide, who was representing the senator, who is recuperating from an operation at his Milford home.…