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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, June 28, 2013
EVER STRIVING...EVER ONWARD
Bernie Williams’ “Go For It” and “Ritmo de Otono” have made it to the top of the Jazz Contemporary charts.
Foothills Tags Former Yankee Bernie Williams
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fter a year-long negotiation, Foothills Performing Arts Center Executive Director Huemac Garcia announced Tuesday, July 25, former New York Yankee and Latin Grammynominee Bernie Williams has been drafted to play a local concert this summer. Williams, who went to the World Series four times during 16 years with the Yanks, will bring his jazz-infused rock sound to Oneonta Friday, Aug. 2.
neonta High School seniors, top photo, from left, – Sophia Konstantine, Patsie Richardson, Matt Coville, Alexis DiBartolomeo and Madison Beckemeyer – step out to “Cotton-Eyed Joe” at the Holiday Inn/ Southside, where the senior prom was held Thursday, June 20, two days before graduation.
‘ONLY ONEONTA’: The Oneonta Jobs Corps planned to announce its “Only Oneonta” campaign at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 27, before the Oneonta Outlaws’ game at Damaschke Field. Job Corps’ director Chris Kuhn will throw out the first pitch. Enjoy the game, courtesy the Jobs Corps. START-UP NY: State Environmental Facilities Corp. President/CEO Matthew Driscoll held a local briefing at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Tuesday, June 25, on Governor Cuomo’s Start-Up NY program. $6,000 AWARDED: The Continental Pipeline Co. has awarded community grants of $1,000 for the 2013 Mayor’s Cup Soccer Tournament, and $5,000 for a fitness center floor at the Oneonta Boys & Girls Club.
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my Hait, left, Class of 2013 valedictorian, was one of two mace bearers – the other, Cami Cleaveland – who led classmates onto the stage at OHS’ Belden Auditorium on the morning of Saturday, June 22. For the first time in years, female grads wore white gowns, much more flattering than the gold that counterbalanced with the boys’ blue.
FOR FOUR PAGES OF GRADUATION, PROM PHOTOS, SEE B4-7
Janet Quackenbush Runs Schwerd, Miller Of A Mind On To Succeed Rich Murphy Semi-Private Job-Growth Entity Veteran Oneonta Board Member Looks To County
Board member, is seeking the Republican nomination for JAZZ AT MARKET: eeking “betthe Otsego County The New York Summer ter choices” Board of RepresentaMusic Festival Faculty Brass for her two tives’ District 4. Quintet will perform 10:30- daughters and their The seat is being va11:30 a.m. Saturday, June Quackenbush generation, Janet cated after three terms 29, at the Oneonta Farmers Hurley-Quackenbush, the by Rich Murphy, a Market on Muller Plaza/ veteran Oneonta Town Please See RACE, A9 PHOTO, A3 By JIM KEVLIN
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he idea of a flexible private-sector economic-development entity is taking on a life of its own. County Rep. Betty Anne Schwerd, REdmeston, who is leading the charge on the county government’s behalf, and Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller have hammered out a
list of talking points fleshing out the initial conversations. And Schwerd planned to press for a meeting between the IDA (Industrial Development Agency), with as many county representatives in attendance as possible, when the IDA met Thursday, June 27. Tentatively, she said, it would make sense to schedule such a meeting after the county board’s July Please See JOBS, A9
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