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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, August 22, 2014
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KLENIEWSKI SAYS:
SUNY Opens Doors Students’ Success Most Gratifying, President Avows
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College students arriving on campus in the next days will have no idea of the beehive of activity in recent days to complete reconstruction of West Street before their arrival. Here, DeNinis Construction’s Xavier Murray, Binghamton, clears debris.
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sked to recall a memorable story as she begins her seventh year as SUNY Oneonta’s president, Nancy Kleniewski told about a student – let’s Kleniewski call her Kate – who entered under the EOP program. (That stands for Educational Opportunity Program.) Kate planned to study fashion, but during her first semester “she took a chemistry class. The chemistry professor” – Bill Vining – “realized how smart Please See PRESIDENT, A3
Hartwick Wins $123,000 For Hops Program
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arl Gohl, Appalachian Regional Commission co-chair, delivered a $123,525 check Thursday, Aug. 14, to Hartwick College for its fledgling Center for Craft and Food Beverage, aim to assist the revival of hops growing, brewing and natural foods production in Otsego County.
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CAMPAIGN OFFICE: Sean Eldridge, Democratic candidate for Congress in the 19th District, opened an Oneonta campaign office Saturday, Aug. 16, at 152154 Main St. FIGHT INVASIVES: The OCCA is seeking volunteers to hand-pull invasive water chestnuts from the north end of Goodyear Lake at 9 a.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 22-23, at the state boat access at Portlandville. Info at 282-4087. HOPS MINI-TOUR: For those who were closed out of NEHA’s Aug. 2 hops field day, a mini-workshop, from Oneonta’s Northern Eagle Beverages to Hager Hops’ yard in Pierstown is planned 9 a.m.-noon, Friday, Sept. 19. RSVP by Friday, Aug. 22, at ans74@cornell.edu.
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SUNY Oneonta VP Tom Rathbone surveys Fitzelle Hall’s futuristic atrium.
$26M Bring ‘Modern Pedadogy’ To Fitzelle By LIBBY CUDMORE
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n the wide, open expanse of the lounge, students can grab a quick, locally sourced sandwich or a customized Chobani yogurt and relax. In the brightly lit labs, students can build the latest robots and design tomorrow’s computer programming. And in the small, intimate corners, study groups can draw charts and make notes on the whiteboard walls. This is The New Fitzelle Hall, and it’s officially open for learning as of an opening reception 10 a.m.noon Monday, Sept. 25. “This building sends an Please See FITZELLE, A7 Rathbone details “lecturette” features.
Mohawk Valley Commission OKs Oneonta Projects
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he $11 million Upper Susquehanna Regional Ag Center. CADE’s related $200,000 Agricultural Microenterprise Program. The IDA’s Susquehanna Regional Center for Jobs on the fifth floor of 189 Main, a collaboration with SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College. The Big Three of the City of Oneonta’s projects seeking state economic-development funding in a round Governor Cuomo is expected to announce in September have received approval at the regional level. The Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Commission Wednesday, Aug. 13, announced the Please See PROJECTS, A6
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