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Needy May Receive Thrown-Away Goods By LIBBY CUDMORE
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bandoned TVs, bags of barely worn clothes and halffinished boxes of Ramen Noodles were once a common site around SUNY Oneonta dorms the week after finals. “You find minifridges everywhere,” said Hannah Morgan, SUNY’s sustainability coordinator. Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA “People leave the craziest These hips don’t lie: things in the garbage!” Kurtis Breed and Jenny Back in her own college Reynolds promote days, Morgan recalled, she Zumba classes at the even pulled a Schwinn bike, Oneonta Family Y this summer during OH-Fest which she still rides. But dumpster divers, laSaturday, April 26, on ment – there will be no more Main Street/MORE PHOTOS, B3 thrills in pulling such treaPlease See GREEN, A6
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city contingent has neonta’s zip code is briefed NYCOM heavily stocked with managers on a New York Yankee proposed commuter tax and fans, the New York Times’ other measures to ease a new “Upshot” staff has financial gridlock, Mayor discovered in an interactive map that went live in recent Miller reported on returning days. from Albany. Using Facebook data, the Ways to address the city’s newspaper concluded 64 quandary – ultimately, dispercent of 13820 residents solution into the town – were back the Yanks, 13 percent discussed with Peter Baynes, the Boston Red Sox, and 5 executive director of the percent the New York Mets. Follow link to the map at state Conference of Mayors, WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM and his top staff, who will bring Oneonta’s ideas to the annual conference in Saratoga Springs next week. Miller was joined by Council members Chip Holmes and Larry Malone, and City Treasurer Meg Hunger- By LIBBY CUDMORE ford.
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Richard Murphy, chauffeured in a golf cart by Evan Sitts, leads off the Little League’s opening-day parade Saturday, April 26, River Street to Doc Knapp Field, renamed for a day in Murphy’s honor.
For Day, Little League Plays On ‘Rich Murphy Field’ By LIBBY CUDMORE
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fter 27 years as a coach and a manager for Oneonta Little League, Rich Murphy is finally ready to share his secret of success with the world. “I tell my players that the secret to this game is that you’re going to make errors,” he said. “It happens to everybody. It’s part of the game; you just have to let it go. Very few people understand that.” Murphy, a former
Oneonta Town Board member, county representative, will retire at the end of the season as manager of “CEECommunity dah ball,” Bank – not Coach the bank, Murphy tells you. the Little League team that he had coached since 1987. But the Please See COACH, A7 Murphy and wife Pat were thrilled by the honor.
Student Filmmaker Takes On Walmart In Grief, Mom Shares capability and punish her for not finishing it.” Heartbreak Of Heroin
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hat started as NEW HOURS: Effective complaints May 1, the Oneonta Transfer from friends Station will be open 7 a.m.-3 has become a rallying p.m., Monday-Friday, and cry for SUNY Oneonta 8-noon Saturdays. Longer senior Emily Knapp. summer hours are planned. “I grew up in Morris, so I thought of Walmart OFF TO SCHOOL: The as the place you go that Oneonta City School District Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA has everything,” she mailed kindergarten-regissaid. “But I knew a girl SUNY senior Emily Knapp and tration packets last week to who worked there and Tony Figuccio, her camera man parents whose children will be 5 by next Dec. 1. Parents she would tell me these from Binghamton, test out their who have not received them stories that made it very equipment on Chestnut Street. woman – they’d assign her the should call Eileen Lishansky clear she was being work that was beyond her discriminated against as a at 433-8232, extension 300.
Thus, her senior film documentary, “The Political Economy of Walmart in Central New York,” was born. The 30-minute documentary addresses such issues as living wage and local farming, as well as interviews with people who work at the Norwich, Cobleskill and Oneonta Walmart stores. “It’s a very timely, especially with
Parents, Sheriff, Teachers Asks State’s Help By LIBBY CUDMORE
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he downward spiral started with a trip to the dentist. “My son Jeremy had his wisdom teeth removed and the dentist prescribed him painkillers,” said his mother, Deb France. “Our world was turned upside down.” He first went to jail for theft at 18, and the family’s insurance HOMETOWN ONEONTA wouldn’t cover his treatment. He Deb France, backtried to commit suicide, and he was ground, listens to Please See FILM, A7 Please See HEROIN, A7 Milea Buffo.
HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD