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& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, February 7, 2014
City of The Hills
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In Oneonta, It’s Suddenly Water, Water Everywhere Mayor Miller Pumped Over City Capacity By JIM KEVLIN
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Rhett Mortland, BSide Ballroom chef, sports his first-prize chili-pepper apron at CANO’s Chili Bowl fundraiser Sunday, Feb. 2. More than 600 people packed the Wilber Mansion for the event.
Foundation Done, Tower Due To Rise
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ewman Development has told City Hall the foundation for 320-student Hillside Commons is complete, and modular units built off-site will be trucked in to the top of Blodgett Drive, beginning Monday, Feb.17. Completion is due by Aug. 15. The trucks, which will arrive between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. weekdays, may occasionally impede traffic on Lettis Highway, Maple and East streets, Bugbee Road, and on Blodgett Drive itself, according to a memo from Mayor Miller to Common Council. STAR VISITS: Renown novelist George Saunders stopped by the Green Toad Bookstore the morning of Thursday, Jan. 30, where he signed copies of his best-selling “The Tenth of December,” just out in paperback. OSCAR CONTEST: The Huntington Library is inviting patrons to participate in its Oscar contest: Whoever picks the most winners will win two tickets to Southside Mall Cinema. Pick up a ballot at the library. Deadline for ballots is Saturday, March 1, the day before the Oscars.
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Filmmaker Sean Gallagher, left, and Blacklist defense lawyer Scott Fein chat with SUNY Oneonta juniors Tiana Waller and Ashley Antwi after the SRO screening Monday, Feb. 3.
‘Blacklist’ Film Packs SUNY Hall By LIBBY CUDMORE
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n the eve of his 2008 SUNY Oneonta graduation, Sean Gallagher got a call he hadn’t been
’08 Grad’s Work Premieres Locally expecting. “If you ever want to tell the real story of the Blacklist,” Kathleen O’Mara told him. “Here it is.” Gallagher, a communica-
Even Then, Pretty Girls In Ads Helped To Sell Most Everything By JIM KEVLIN
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moke the G&G Cigar, 5 cents, Manufactured by T.D. Glen & Co., Oneonta, N.Y.,” reads the legend. But the image is of a lovely young lady in an above-theknee skirt, her slip showing, holding perhaps a flower, but certainly no cee-gar. No matter, Lynn Bissell will tell you. That the picture and text don’t match Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA on the “trade card,” an early Lynn Bissell looks at form of advertising, is beside the “magnum opus” of Please See CARDS, A6 his trade cards.
tions major, had completed a 20-minute documentary, “The Brothers of the Blacklist,” for his first Documentary Studies class. She gave him a box of
news footage, interviews, archival film and newspaper clippings detailing the events and aftermath of that morning of Sept. 4, 1992, when a 77-year-old Oneonta woman was Please See LIST, A5
or a while, City Hall has known it had twice as much water capacity as its 13,840 year-’round citizens and 9-month college students need. Until now, it didn’t matter. With the arrival of Sandy Mathes as the county IDA’s “single point of contact” for economic development, it Mayor Miller suddenly does, and Mayor Dick Miller is getting excited about what may soon be an in-demand asset. “I’m optimistic,” Miller said in an interview. (Engineering Technician Gino Huggins sat in to provide technical details.) “As Sandy looks at what’s here from a site point of view, the city is an enabler and a beneficiary.” On an average day, Please See WATER, A5
Airport Commission Takes Off $300K Strategic Plan First Step To Upgrade This ‘Regional Asset’ By JIM KEVLIN
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wo years ago, the future of the Oneonta Municipal Airport seemed pretty bleak. City Hall had let its arrangement expire with Brian Curpier’s Clipper Aviation, the long-term FBO (fixed base operator) who managed day-to-day operations, and was looking to extract itself from its 50-year entangle-
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Airport Commission chair Ed May, right, and member Dennis Finn examine artists’ renderings.
ment with the 1,700-acre flying white elephant on the hill. (The fence encompasses 54 acres.)
Today, it’s a different picture. Ed May, new chairman Please See AIRPORT, A6
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