Top Hotelier Joins Otesaga JIM MILES IN LEADERSHIP AT WILLIAMSBURG, HERSHEY/B1
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& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, October 19, 2012
Volume 5, No. 5
City of The Hills
Complimentary
Ramsey Clark To Launch ‘I Am’ Movement In City
REDISTRICTING READY
Plan Gives Students R Majority In Ward 5
By JIM KEVLIN
amsey Clark. Keep that famous name in HOMETOWN ONEONTA mind as you read on. Joe Stillman reA year ago, Oneonta’s views “I Am.” Joe Stillman was among 100 filmmakers who Tom Shadyac, director of Jim Carrey in “Liar, Liar” and “Bruce Almighty,” Please See “I AM,” A5
HOMETOWN ONEONTA
Newspaper folks who may have felt a little embattled in recent years got a lift from Cindy Seward, state Sen. Jim’s better half, at the Otsego County Chamber’s Small Business Banquet Thursday, Oct. 11, at The Otesaga: Her jacket, from Jane Morgan’s Little House, Aurora, was bedecked with newspaper clippings/MORE PHOTOS, A3
1st Met Live! Opera Lures 70 To Foothills Site
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onizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” – “The Elixir of Love” – brought 70 opera fans to Foothills’ second-floor theater Saturday, Oct. 13. “The seating was great and the sound/visual first rate,” said Mayor Miller, who is also president of the Foothills board and attended the first local Met Live! HD performance of the Metropolitan Opera. The next Met Live! performance, Verdi’s “Otello,” is at 12:55 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27. Tickets at foothillspac.org. FUTURE THINK: The Future For Oneonta Foundation will announce this year’s Property of Merit winners at its annual luncheon Monday, Oct. 22, at Foothills. GOURMET TO GO: Humphrey’s Gourmet to Go, in the former Phoenix Cafe, 437 Main St., will open with a ribbon cutting at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18. AIDING ABSENTEES: The county Board of Elections in The Meadows will be open until 7 p.m. on Oct. 22, 24 and 30, and Nov. 1, and 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays, Oct. 27, and Nov. 3, to process absentee applications.
SPOOKY ONEONTA!
Non-Students Outnumbered By Hartwick By JIM KEVLIN
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nly 35 of 5,000 SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College students are registered to vote in Otsego County, and most of those are holdovers from the 2008 presidential elections, probably not even here any more. That’s according to Josh Simons of SUNY New Paltz’s Center for Research, Regional Education & Outreach, consultant to the city’s Simons Redistricting Commission, which has issued its preliminary plan to redraw Oneonta’s eight wards. But that plan puts a student majority in Ward 5 (north of Chestnut), mostly from Hartwick College: 64 percent of the 1,694 residents of that ward are college students, or 1,100 of the total. Under the proposal, another four of the eight wards have sizeable minorities of students: Ward 2 (SUNY Oneonta, 821, or 46.5 percent); Ward 3 (Maple/Elm, 805, or 46.3 percent), Ward 4 (Center Street, 669, or 38 percent) and Ward 7 (Church Please See CHARTER, A7
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Living dead in the second annual Oneonta Zombie Walk Saturday, Oct. 13, are, from left, Val Ogden of Milford, Jen Ogden of Mount Vision, Chelsea Southwick and Matthew Southwick, both of Milford, Amber Henriksen of Sidney, Nate Southwick of Milford, Tom Fink and Doug Barrett, both of Oneonta, Jessica Shipley of Hartwick, Peter Jungermann and Steve Benavides both of Oneonta, Crystal Henriksen of Sidney and William Lipari of Otego. In top photo, Hartwick College student Haley Cox is waylaid by, yes, zombies in downtown Oneonta.
Jail Ministry Gives Sheriff Devlin A Surprise Thank You By LIBBY CUDMORE
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heriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr., lets God into the Otsego County Correctional Facility, and the Jail Ministry appreciates it.
“In a lot of places, 12-step programs and Bible study aren’t allowed,” said Co-Chaplain Doug Coddington, Richfield Springs. “To allow us to come in is a great blessing. He’s a great supporter of this ministry.” And so at its 53rd annual
meeting Thursday, Oct. 11, at Holiday Inn Southside, the Jail Ministry surprised the sheriff with a plaque expressing its appreciation, accompanied by applause. The sheriff and his wife Please See DEVLIN, A6
Sheriff Devlin (with wife Laurie) was surprised and pleased with the Jail Ministry’s appreciation. Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
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