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Volume 10, No. 39

City of The Hills

OBERACKER HERALDS ‘HUGE’ STEP

$50K Study Funded For Schenevus Plan Parker Fish/HOMETOWN ONEONTA

Accountant Johna Peachin speaks out against a $230,000 CDBG grant for Nick’s Diner.

Mayor Puts Nick’s Diner Vote On Hold ONEONTA

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unning into further opposition, Mayor Gary Herzig again delayed action at the Tuesday, July 3, Common Council meeting on a $230,000 CDBG grant to allow restaurateur Rod Thorsland to reopen Nick’s Diner, the historic eatery once frequented by workers going back and forth to the D&H yards. Details at

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FASO IN TOWN: Congressman John Faso, R-Kinderhook, toured the Custom Electronics battery plant in Oneonta Monday, July 3, with CEO Michael Pentari and state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, to discuss expansion plans for the plant. See photo at

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Findings To Help Sell Distribution Center Location

NEW SUNY PRESIDENT INTRODUCED IN STYLE

By JIM KEVLIN SCHENEVUS

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tsego County has skin in Schenevus’ game: $50,000 worth. The Board of Representatives Thursday, July 5, was expected to act on the recommendation of its Intergovernmental Affairs Committee to allocate those dollars for a feasibility study of placing a distribution center at Interstate 88’s Exit 18 in Oberacker the Town of Maryland hamlet. The idea’s chief promoter, county Rep. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, called the Please See SCHENEVUS, A9

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SUNY Oneonta’s new president, Barbara Jean Morris, was introduced to the City of the Hills in style, as grand marshal of the Hometown Fourth of July Parade. She began work on Monday, July 2/MORE PHOTOS, A3

Drone School At Oneonta Airport Launched By PARKER FISH ONEONTA

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elatively unknown to the consumer market just five years ago, drones are now foreseen as a $100 billion industry.

First Class, For 10 Students, Begins July 23 And with its new drone flight classes due to convene for the first time Monday, July 23. Oneonta Job Corps Director Chris Kuhn is now interviewing 27 applicants and will pick 10 to make up the first class.

“Upstate New York has kind of become the Silicon Valley for drone innovation,” he said. “Our drone program is the only program of its kind for all of Job Corps. It’s good for Oneonta, it’s good for the drone

industry, and most of all, it’s great for our Job Corps students.” SkyOp of Canandaigua will provide the curriculum. Jobs Corps is collaborating with Hudson Valley Community College on the instruction. The goal: to teach students how Please See DRONES, A9

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FUNDS RAISED: The Fox Hospital Foundation raised $34,000 during its 19th annual Golf Classic on Monday, June 25, at the Oneonta Country Club.

Tale Of Internment Punctuates Protest

NEW AT OFO: Audrey Benkenstein, the former director of Adult and Continuing Education at DCMO BOCES, has joined Opportunities for Otsego in the newly created position of housing director.

By LIBBY CUDMORE

HALFWAY DONE: Monday, July 2, was the 182 day of the year.

Her Grandad Held During WWII

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or Liane Hirabayashi, the “Families Belong Together” march hit close to home. “My father was one of about 120,000 people who were wrongly imprisoned by the U.S. government because of their descent Please See RALLY, A11

HOMER OSTERHOUDT, 1918-2018

3 Developers Have Plan For Otego School

Hall’s Foremost Fan Dies COOPERSTOWN

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omer M. Osterhoudt, 100, who mixed concrete to build the Baseball Hall of Fame and attended all Inductions since 1939 except three, passed away peacefully Saturday, June 30, 2018, at Woodside Hall. He was born on Jan. 17, 1918, in Oneonta, the son of Maurice C. and Catherine Hopkins Osterhoudt. Later that year, the family moved to 98 Lake Homer in 2012 Please See OBITUARY, A6

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he Kildonan School’s proposal to put a program to teach dyslexic children in the vacant Otego Elementary School has generated a lot of interest. But the decision on the future of the school will not be an easy one. In addition to Kildonan, which is a 501c3 tax-exempt organization, two dePlease See OTEGO, A11

HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD

Like a good Neighbor, StAte FArM iS there. ® with…

Melissa Manikas, Agent Cooperstown, NY 13326 607-547-2886


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