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& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
Volume 6, No. 31
Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, April 25, 2014
City of The Hills
MAYOR SEEKS INPUT IN JUNE
Complimentary
Veterinarian’s New Clinic Including Animal Rescue
Charter Makers Return To Fray THE HEIGHTOF FASHION
The expanded Oneonta Veterinary Hospital has wildlife rehabilitation services for little ones like Squirley at its East Main Street locale/ SEE A3
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They See Advice As Way To Help City Governance Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
Oneonta’s Andrew Stanton and his sister Jennifer pick up trash around the viaduct Saturday, April 19, part of a neighborhood clean-up organized by the Oneonta YMCA Teen Center in honor of Earth Day. The group collected seven bags of trash from the embankment leading to the railroad tracks.
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ere they come to save the day... The Charter Commission, which brought the city’s 100-year-old founding document into the 21st Century, is headed back into the breach. “They only have the best in mind for Oneonta,” said Laurie Zimniewicz, Ioxus Plans Chairman a former commission Second Plant, Zimniewicz member who ac30 New Jobs cepted Mayor Dick Miller’s invitation to chair a commitoxus is planning a tee to review the new charter in the second production site wake of City Manager Mike Long’s in Pony Farm Industrial resignation. “They want Oneonta to Park in the Town of Oneonta succeed in all ways. I’m looking forand will hire 30 new people, ward to working with them again.” the company announced. The “they” Zimniewicz is The news follows the Please See CHARTER, A7 company’s announcement that the Long Island Railroad plans to use Ioxus ultracaCounty Roadwork pacitors to provide wayside traction power in its system. The Pony Farm building had previously been used by Covidien for storage.
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$300 SCHOLARSHIP: The Reminiscers’ Car Club of Oneonta is offering a $300 scholarship to a graduating senior planing to pursue further education in automobile repair/restoration. Application forms at ONC BOCES or from Dick Powell, 431-9029. Winner to be announced at Reminiscers’ 40th Annual Car Show on Fathers’ Day, Sunday, June 15, at Neahwa Park.
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t the SUNY Oneonta Human Ecology Department’s annual Earth Day Fashion Show Monday, April 21, students Marielle Genoves, Brianna McLoughlin and Zubaida Azam (above) strut their eco-friendly dresses made from recycled materials.
Potholes, Potholes, Potholes, And New Bridge On Rt. 11C By LIBBY CUDMORE
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ravelers trying to take Hartwick Seminary’s Route 11C bridge across the Susquehanna will find that the bridge saga is not over yet. Completing repairs to the former truss bridge damaged March 20, 2013, when a 13-foot, 4-inch tall truck carrying bottles bound for Ommegang became entangled in the 10-foot, 3-inch structure, tops county FUNDING FUN: Apply Highway Supt. Ron Tiderencel’s toby Friday, May 20, for Arc do list for 2014. Otsego Summer Wishes Fit In January, temporary approaches & Fun Recreation Grants, were laid down to get the bridge up to $250. Applications are reopened for traffic, but with spring www.arcotsego.org Please See COUNTY, A6
In left photo, designer Amelia Graj, right, stands with Madison Blodgette, Marykate Plew and Brittany Rendon, who modeled her creations.
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That’s one way to get going in the morning! Here, Meg Perez models a dress made of coffee filters and bright beads.
NY Barns Inspire, Prize-Winning Professor Declares
benches and coffee tables as staff tried to pack more chairs into rows. “It’s a thrill to see this many people r. Cindy Falk’s 20th annual Suhere,” said SUNY Oneonta Presisan Sutton Smith Prize lecture, dent Nancy Kleniewski. “We’ve “Barns of New York,” drew a never had a crowd like this bebigger crowd than anyone was anticifore.” pating. Falk, Cooperstown Graduate Students and public packed SUNY Program professor of material culOneonta’s Morris Conference Center Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA ture (and a Cooperstown village Thursday, April 17, sitting on piano Please See FALK, A6 Professor Falk at Smith lecture. By LIBBY CUDMORE
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