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Leah Elwood of Goodyear Lake coaxes granddaughter Adison Mowers of Oneonta to join her cousin, Glada Ratchford, visiting from New York City, on the Easter Bunny’s lap Saturday, March 30, at Southside Mall/MORE
Fifty years ago Saturday, April 6, Fred Delello’s 744 won him a slot on the U.S. Bowling Team in an international tournament in Mexico. It also put him on the front page of Bowling magazine and an article entitled, “Small Town Mr. Big.”
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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, April 5, 2013
Mayor: YEARS OF FAME Student Housing A Boon Hilltop Commons Needed, He Avers By JIM KEVLIN
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he Parks and Recreation Commission approved plans for SUNY Oneonta sorority Pi Delta Chi to plant a Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Neahwa Park. Pending review by the city’s attorney, the sorority can begin scouting locations for the garden. Laura Van Houten, representing the group, said she’d like to get flowers planted by May, with two of her sorority sisters staying in town this summer to tend the garden.
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Can-Opener Cut Almost Sidelined Ace Bowler By LIBBY CUDMORE
HOUSING HEARINGS:
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The city Planning Commission is planning meetings on the Blodgett Drive 325-student housing project at 6 p.m. April 10 (on engineering issues) and 17 at OHS, Room 317 (on SEQR documentation). Enter via the gym entrance.
can of soup almost ruined Fred Delello’s chance to play in the 1963 Professional Bowlers Association’s national tournament, 50 years ago Saturday, April 6. “I almost didn’t go,” he said. “I was opening a can of soup and I cut my finger.” But the Rick’s Restaurant
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The LEAF Council on Alcoholism and Addiction has received a mini-grant from the state Council on Problem Gambling to advise parents on preventing problem gambling. Check www.leafinc. org, call 432-0090, or follow on Twitter: @LEAFCouncil.
Wife Nancy tends cut that almost kept hubby Fred Delello from the nationals.
fter two months of keeping his own counsel, Mayor Miller has declared himself foursquare behind Hilltop Commons, the 325student housing Miller complex proposed for Blodgett Drive. “I can see no basis for not supporting the project,” he declared at the end of a five-page, single-space memo delivered Tuesday, April 2, to Common Council. “In fact, I feel it would be responsible not to support it.” The memo, however, was not mentioned at that evening’s Common Council meeting, either by Miller or any of the Council members. The mayor had declined to comPlease See MAYOR, B6 HITTING HIGH NOTE
team, including Bruno Scavo, Bob Hayes, Joe Signor and Joe Chicorelli, had already paid for the trip, so he bandaged himself up. “We saved all our winnings; we had to go,” he explained. And bowled one of the best games of his career. Delello took the national high triple with a three game total score of 744, landing him on the cover of Bowling Please See 50TH, B6
Budget Ax Threatens County’s Vulnerable By JIM KEVLIN
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nless there’s a reprieve from Albany, three of Otsego County’s cornerstone institutions – Springbrook, Arc Otsego and Pathfinder Village – are facing cuts of more than $1.7 million. “You can’t ask people to do more, then pull the rug out from under them when they do more,” is how Springbrook CEO Patricia Kennedy reacted to the
GO TO GRAD SCHOOL:
The SUNY Oneonta Graduate Studies’s Instant Admit Day is 10-6 Wednesday, April 10, in the Netzer Building. Details, e- mail gradstudies@oneonta.edu.
development. Her programs, aimed at helping young people with autism, are facing a $900,000 cut, although expansion plans to open two houses in Sidney and one in Oxford by fall will cushion the impact, she said. “Organizations that have already become very lean shouldn’t have to take as big of a cut,” said Lynne Sessions, communications director for Arc Otsego, which cares for the developmentally disabled. Arc Please See CUTS, B6
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The first OHS student to perform in the All-Eastern Honors Ensemble in Hartford, Conn., this weekend, Lauren Wallen, 17, daughter of Danya and Jay Crossman, practices with Megan Dyer, OHS vocal director/STORY, B7
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