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Walkway to Neahwa By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA Mayor Gary Herzig likes to imagine Neahwa Park a little closer to home. “If we (City Hall) could acquire the Bettiol
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Tentrr founder & CEO Michael D’Agostino holds the big scissors aloft ahead of the ribbon-cutting at the new Tentrr manufacturing plant in Oneonta during their open house on Thursday, March 22.
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CANDIDATE FORUM: Larry Sharpe, the Libertarian candidate for governor, will hold a Town Hall event 6 - 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 4 at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union.
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On a GOHS panel on Urban Renewal, the mayor was flanked by SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski, left, and Hartwick Professor Carly Ficano.
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hen Temple Beth El president BT Bank will be Ken Sider moved to honored as the Oneonta, he had a lot NYCM Insurance of questions. Distinguished Business of “I grew up in a the Year at the Otsego Counsheltered Jewish ty Chamber of Commerce community, going to annual dinner, Thursday, Ken Sider Jewish summer camps May 3, at Foothills. and schools,” he said. NBT was cited for creat“I knew there were other religions, ing its downtown Oneonta but churches were foreign to me. So Regional Financial Center, moving 14 employees of its when I moved here in 1984, I was Mang Insurance Division to surprised by the number of churches, its One Wall Street building, and wanted to know more about Christianity.” and adding a credit analyst He began attending church services and cash-management speSunday mornings, going to a different cialist for 16 new full-time church each time. “I wondered why, if positions downtown. Please See RELIGIONS, B7 ONEONTA ON FILM: Footage of Oneonta was used in the sci-fi thriller “Altered Hours,” directed by SUNY Oneonta alumni Bruce Wemple. The footage was captured by local filmmaker Chris Chase. The film is available on Amazon streaming. COOPERSTOWN EXTENDED HOURS: The Greater Oneonta Historical Society at 183 Main Street is now open noon - 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m - 4 p.m. Saturday.
lot between Foothills and Stella Luna, one idea we had is to extend the park right up to the sidewalk,” he said. “It would be accessible by pedestrians, bike and car, through a beautiful, grand entrance.” With $2.25 million in state DRI and CFA funding set aside for a re-design of Market Street, Please See NEAHWA, A3
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t may be one of a kind this political season. The seven candidates (so far) seeking the Democratic nomination in a June 26 primary to run against U.S. Rep. John Faso, R-Kinderhook, will be debating in Otsego County 7-9:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 12, at Cooperstown Central’s Sterling Auditorium. Please See DEBATE, A7
OHS student Liz JacobCarter, right, and SUNY students Mia Reid-Espinal and Laurel Fox chant in the streets as the marchers head to Muller Plaza.
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400 Rally In Oneonta, 300 In Cobleskill the world has changed,” he said. “But we have reached a tipping point. We are changONEONTA ing the world again, because we are what is right with hen Dan ButAmerica.” termann, now a The march, Saturday, March city school board 24, was one of hundreds of member and Assemsister marches held bly candidate, was in in solidarity with school, the only things the national March he had to think about for our Lives in were math problems Washington D.C., and cursive writing. aimed at bringNow a parent of ing awareness of three daughters, he gun violence in told the 400 proschools, as well as testers gathered in pressure Congress Muller Plaza as part into enacting stronof Oneonta’s “March ger gun laws. For Our Lives” that Counter-rallies he has to worry about were organized in whether or not his other parts of the girls will come home Daniel Buttercountry, but none that day. locally. mann voices Toby Green, Milford, drew 40 bullet “When my little “Our congressconcerns for holes in his sign to show how quickly girls ask me about Please See his daughters’ an AR-15 could kill innocent people. school safety, I know RALLY, A7 safety. By LIBBY CUDMORE
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