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Planning Reunions Revived School Spirit Kathy More Hewlett Is OHS’ 2014 Alumni Of Year
Recruited by Madolyn O. Palmer to the OHS Alumni Association, Kathy More Hewlett reconnected with her latent school spirit.
SUNY students Gabriella Donato and James Dipaoli have enlisted their fraternity and sorority in an alcohol and substance-abuse aware walk Saturday, Oct. 4, but LEAF Director Julie Dostal has challenged them to do one better/
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of the Year, to be fully recognized during the upcoming Alumni Weekend, Friday-Sunday, Oct. 3-5. etting active in the OHS She graduated in January 1974 Alumni Association was a after doubling up in her junior year chance for Kathy Hewlett on history and home economics, to experience high school all over with the latter discipline being again. particularly practical in the years “I feel like I missed a lot, graduatthat followed. ing early,” she said. “This is a way “When I was working for the Kathy in ’74 of redeeming myself.” alumni association at SUNY, we Hewlett – Kathy More when she were setting up one of their dinPlease See ALUMNI, B4 Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA graduated in 1974 – is this year’s Alumni By LIBBY CUDMORE
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Chickens a la Oneonta? DUO IN EYE OF ROWDINESS STORM
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Summit Aim: To Make City More Inclusive
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ith hopes of making Oneonta a more welcoming community for all, the local chapter of the NAACP and the city’s Commission on Community Relations & Human Rights are sponsoring a summit on diversity at Foothills on Saturday, Nov. 8. Starting at 8:30 a.m, “Oneonta – An Inclusive Community” will discuss a variety of diversity issues, including racial profiling, equal access to housing and employee discrimination. “We want to make a difference,” said Regina Betts, VP of the Oneonta NAACP. “Ten years from now, we want to see a more inclusive Oneonta.” The public is invited. WARD MEETING: Fourth Ward Common Council member Mike Lynch will hold a neighborhood meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in the Center Street School gym. AID FOR ARTS: Now’s the time to apply for state Decentralization Grants, $100,000 of which is available in amounts up to $5,000 to Otsego, Chenango and Broome arts organizations. Deadline is Jan. 7. Details at www.chenangoarts.org
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When rowdy students make mischief, SUNY Oneonta’s Steve Perry and Hartwick College’s Meg Nowak are the go-to people on their campuses.
When Trouble Knocks, Perry, Nowak Answer By JIM KEVLIN
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or Steve Perry, the lowest point in 30 years of trying to keep the student rowdiness under control came in the mid-1990s: One year, SUNY Oneonta “dismissed” 300 students at mid-year,
sending them home for poor grades and out-of-hand behavior. That was a breaking point, the campus’ vice president/student development recalled in an interview in his office in the Netzer Administration Building. So in 1996, SUNY Oneonta administrators put Please See TROUBLE, A7
t’s not a matter of which came first – the chickens or the ordinance. It’s about which one will go on the chopping block. “There’s a lot of concern about where our food comes from,” said City Council member Bob Brzozowski. “People want to know that their chickens are cared for, what they’re fed and the quality of their lives. It’s the obvious solution.” Under the proposed amendment to municipal code Section 1, Chapter 68: • Up to 10 “Daddy Al” chickens would Dicka helps his be allowed grandaughters, within city Jade Dicka and limits. little Adara Mar• Roosters, tinoli feed his flock of chickens the outdoor slaughtering of chickens and the sale of the eggs are prohibited. • Chickens must be kept in an appropriate-sized pen 25 feet from another dwelling, not in a front yard or allowed to free-range unsupervised. The movement was started by Howard Lichtman, who wanted to add chickens to his River Street Please See CHICKENS, B4
HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD Open Daily, 10am-5pm 5798 Route 80, Cooperstown
Dorothea Lange’s America ON VIEW THROUGH DECEMBER 31 FenimoreArtMuseum.org Dorothea Lange, Five tenant farmers without farms, Hardman County, Texas, 1938. All works are from the collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg. This exhibition was organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions.