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CBS Declares Fracking A Go By JIM KEVLIN
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Jordan Glassberg, and Lindsey Weintraub, pitch in as part of SUNY’s 5th annual Freshman Service Day on Monday, Aug. 20/MORE
t was a single sentence in a longer report on fracking on Sunday’s CBS Evening News. “CBS News has learned that New York is close to making a decision about fracking and is expected to roll out guidelines after Labor Day,” intoned anchorman Jeff Glor. Fracking foes greeted that sentence with consternation, but with determine to fight any such decision in the courts. Cooperstown’s Lou Allstadt, the Please See FRACKING, A7
1st City Manager About To Happen By JIM KEVLIN
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neonta’s first city manager will be announced sooner rather than later, according to Mayor Dick Miller, who met with the first two of three or perhaps four finalists when they visited the City of the Hills earlier this week. Now that the public phase – the final phase – has begun, the mayor said it’s important to bring
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LAST WEEK: Briggs Pool in Wilber Park will be open 1-7:30 p.m. daily Friday-Friday, Aug. 24-31, then will close for the season. JERRY’S HERE: Local segments of the Labor Day Weekend’s Muscular Dystrophy “Show of Strength” Telethon will be broadcast 7:30-8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 2, on channels 23 and 27. YOUTH GRANTS: It’s time to apply for the Kiwanis Club of Oneonta’s annual Young Child Priority One $300 grants for not-for-profit activities that benefit children age 6 and under. Send letters to Kiwanis Club, YCPO, Box 490, Oneonta NY 13820 by Sept. 12
matters to a conclusion as promptly as possible, perhaps as soon as September. Given that the candidates hold jobs elsewhere, it’s a courtesy to them; but they may be in the running for other jobs, and a prompt offer once the top candidate has been identified will help ensure he or she doesn’t slip away, Miller said. At the recommendation of the city’s search consultant, James Mercer of the Atlanta-based Mercer Please See MANAGER, A6
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r. Cornell West, the Princeton professor, author and commentator, will keynote at SUNY Oneonta’s 20th anniversary recognition of the Black List at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 4, at the Hunt Union Ballroom. Free; public welcome. “Truth, justice and love have West been central to his life’s work, and these themes also resonate as we reflect on the Black List and the progress our campus has made,” said college President Nancy Kleniewski.
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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, August 24, 2012
Volume 4, No. 49
City of The Hills
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While her husband runs the Red Caboose, Hannah Masterjohn is a consultant for a San Francisco based solar energy firm.
Ex-Mayor’s Daughter, Son-In-Law Take Lead In Growing Movement Native Oneontans Range World, Then Return, Invest
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neonta inspires everything Tim and Hannah Masterjohn do. Hannah, daughter of former mayor Kim Muller, was born and raised here. “After we had our twin girls,” Tim said, “we wanted to get out of Washington D.C. and back into a community where we felt comfortable raising a family.” Tim and Hannah, owners of the newly opened Red Caboose restaurant on – as it happens – Muller Plaza, are part of a new crop of young native Oneontans moving back to the area to open businesses. “There’s a lot of small business growth and young professionals coming back to the area,” he said. “We really liked the small-town feel. Oneonta has good school systems and parks, and beautiful geography – it’s really kid-friendly.” Masterson, a career chef, worked in restaurants “from Massachusetts to California,” many of them 5star establishments. “I’ve opened restaurants with three different groups,” he said. “I’ve worked as a manager and I’ve washed my fair share of dishes.” He brought with him chef Eric Fleischer, whom he worked with in D.C. “When we moved up here, this wasn’t the plan,” Tim said. “But then the location became Please See HOME, A6
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Mang’s Bob Carey and Barbara Ann Heegan, Otsego County Chamber executive director.
‘Peace Of Mind’ For Chamber Mang Wins Contract For Health Insurance By JIM KEVLIN
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Proprietor Tim Masterjohn mixes one of the Red Caboose’s signature cocktails, The Caboose Cosmo.
he Otsego County Chamber has gotten out of the health-insurance business. Mang Insurance, which administers health insurance for the SIGN UP: Broome, Check www. Chenango otsegocounand Delaware county tychamber. org or call chambers, 432-4500. and the Cherry Valley chamber, has taken over the Otsego Chamber’s program as well, it was announced Monday, Aug. 20. Mang’s representative Bob Carey said his company assumes any liability associated with such a program, providing “peace of mind to the chamber.” Mang, he said, “has done it successfully and can do it right.” Please See PEACE, A8
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