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& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, June 8, 2012
Volume 4, No. 38
City of The Hills
Complimentary
MILFORD ACADEMY’S BIGTIME BANQUET
For Evening, Oneonta Becomes NFL Central By LIBBY CUDMORE NEW BERLIN HOMETOWN ONEONTA
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hen the first class of future NFL Angela Eardley, Oneonplayers and college football ta, co-owner of the standouts arrived in 2004 at Stallions, helped her Milford Academy, which had just been refootball players scoop located here from Connecticut, they were ice cream for attendees at OWL’s annual Ice convinced the Cream Social, held Sunbuilding was day, June 3, at the Boys haunted by & Girls Club. The night ghosts from before, the team won the cemetery its first game/PHOTO, A9
next door. “I told them, Donation Will ‘I need tough Fund Repairs guys to play football,’” reTo Curtis Park New Berlin Mayor counted Coach Bill Chaplick. leinman Performance Terry Potter points out the jersey of “They had to Partners’ President LeSean McCoy, who go live in the Alan Cleinman will just signed a $45 present a check for landscap- million contract with building.” One of those ing and repairs of Curtis the Eagles. future tough Park to Mayor Miller at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, June 7, at the guys was Jeremy Horne, wide receiver Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA for the Kansas City Chiefs, who will be a Milford Academy Head Coach Bill Chaplick strides across the lawn of the former New corner of Maple and Main guest of honor at Milford Academy’s Hall Berlin High School, taking over in 2004 by the former Yale Preparatory School of Milford, streets. Conn., as a boot camp of outstanding high school football players looking to raise their The donation, said Clein- of Fame banquet, which will be held in SATs to get into college. He’s cradling a football signed by the 2011 Falcons who boasted Oneonta for the first time this year: man, is a natural extension Please See NFL, A9 a perfect season of 12-0. of his company’s investment in the renovation of two historic buildings next to the park at corporate headquarters. ose for pictures sity, will give the keynote of ‘07, a former Albany with a Patriot, shake address. resident and a running back REFORM EXPLORED: hands with a Chief Attendees will also rub with the Kansas City Chiefs. Assemblyman Bill Magee, and maybe get some tips shoulders with: Tickets are $85, includD-Nelson, state Sen. Jim for next season’s pee-wee • Nico Koutouvides, ing appetizers, full dinner, Seward, R-Milford, and football league at the MilClass of ‘99, who played dessert and cash bar, as well Brian Sampson, executive ford Academy’s banquet at with the New England Patrias a chance to meet and director of Unshackle Up6 p.m. Thursday, June 21 ots in this past Super Bowl. mingle with famous Milford state, will discuss workers’ at the Foothills Performing • Ollie Ogbu, Class of Academy grads. Tickets are compensation reform when At Milford Academy’s annual Sports Banquet, Arts Center. ‘06, a free agent with the In- limited to 300. For tickets, the Citizen Voices business Oneontans can rub shoulders with NFL players UConn Head Football dianapolis Colts and former contact Coach Bill Chapgroup meets at 8 a.m. Friday, Jeremy Horne, Niko Koutouvides and Ollie Ogbu, Coach Paul Pasqualoni, Penn State star. lick, (607) 847-9260. and hear UConn Coach Paul Pasqualoni keynote. June 15, at the Carriage former of Syracuse Univer• Jeremy Horne, Class House on Southside Drive, Oneonta.
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NEW QUARTERS: The School at Springbrook’s graduating class, for the first time, will go through commencement exercises in the renovated gym Thursday, June 14, as the facility’s $15 million expansion nears its end. A grand opening of the completed project will be celebrated on Sept. 20.
Southside Mall Attracts Kay Jewelers, 3rd National Chain In Year
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ork begins Monday, June 11, to prepare Southside Mall to accommodate a Kay Jewelers, the nation’s largest jewelry chain, according to Mall General Manager Luisa Montanti. In the face of national economic conditions,
Kay will be the third such national concern drawn to the Oneonta retail center in the past year – first was TJ Maxx, then Dick’s Sporting
Goods, now under construction. And Montanti said it won’t be the last. “We attract shoppers from 40 miles around,” she said, noting that’s an unusual reach, and national chains are starting to recognize Southside’s significant draw.
That also explains the attraction of the Route 23 retail corridor to Syracusebased Metro Mattress, which opened its 40th outlet next to the Neptune Diner on Friday, May 25. Kay Jewelers, founded in 1916 in Reading, Pa., by two brothers, Sol and Ed-
mund Kaufman, will occupy the 2,800-square-foot space open since Border’s closed its local store last August. With 900 stores nationwide, Kay is a division of Sterling Jewelers Inc., headquartered in Akron, Ohio, the largest retail jeweler chain in the U.S.
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