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City of The Hills
& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, November 8, 2013
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fracking Impossible locally, data PROVE Allstadt, Northrup Say Too Little Gas Underground Here
CLARK, CROWELL ROMP
HOMETOWN ONEONTA
Lady Ostapeck poses with Ellen Elizabeth,the subject of an exhibit of never-before-seen photos during a reception and book-signing Friday, Nov. 1, at Foothills in Oneonta. Formerly of Fly Creek and Nader Towers, Lady is now at a retirement home in Herkimer.
County Voters Affirm Bipartisan Status Quo T
NY Says Yes, Otsego No, On Casinos
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tatewide, voters approved a change in the state Constituion to allow seven non-Indian casinos to be built Upstate, 642,001-477,177, or 57 percent to 43 percent. But Otsego County said otherwise, voting 409-275, or 60 percent to 40 percent, against expanding gambling. LIVE FROM FOOTHILLS!
State Sen. Jim Seward, RMilford, has partnered with SUNY Oneonta on a live broadcast/webcast of his second “Economic Development Summit” Thursday, Nov. 14, at Foothills. The webcast will allow students in county schools to watch the event in real time. COMING UP: “Variety
Tonite” by Theater To Go, an evening of Broadway music and dance to benefit Athelas Therapeutic Riding Inc., is at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Holiday Inn/Southside. Athelas uses horseback riding to help people with mental and physical challenges. $40. Call 783-2341 or 988-9044 for tickets. NO DUMPING! City
Hall is reminding the public that, to prevent flooding, it is unlawful to dump leaves, snow and other debris in the Susquehanna River or the city’s creeks.
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An elated Janet Hurley Quackenbush embraces hubby Mark when the tally was final: She’d won the Town of Oneonta seat on the county Board of Representatives.
Seward Declares ‘Great Night For Republicans’ By RICHARD WHITBY
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epublicans kept control and appeared to increase their strength of the Otsego County Board of Representatives on Tuesday, Nov. 5, posting a net gain of two seats
for a 9-5 majority in what state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, termed “a great night for Republicans.” “It says people agree with what we’ve been doing in the two years I’ve been chair,” said
Kathy Clark, District #3 Republican and the board’s current chairwoman. “We’ve dealt with some thorny issues that have been around for awhile – The Manor, a big one, the exit from MOSA and the completion of the microwave system for Please See VOTE, A6
Awaiting ‘Big Idea,’ Mayor To Go After Do-Able Ones By JIM KEVLIN
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ayor Dick Miller is looking for “a big idea.” Utica-Rome has one: nanotechnology, he observed in a pre-election interview. Unopposed, he was elected to a second term Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1,003-45.
Colorado Springs has one: fracking. Miller had just returned from visiting relatives in Colorado Springs, where he reported seeing pad after pad, hundreds, perhaps thousands, as far as the eye could see, sloping smoothly down toward the distant Arkansas River, surrounded by cornfield and grazing cattle. Please See MILLER, A7
By JIM KEVLIN
here will be no hydrofracking in Otsego County. Period. “It’s just not going to happen,” said Lou Allstadt, the former Mobil executive vice president and, previously, vice president of exploration & production, who was converted to the antifracking cause HOMETOWN ONEONTA on moving to Lou Allstadt, right, Cooperstown and Chip Northrup fulltime five say there’s too years ago. little gas to frack He and Chip here. Northrup, the Texas oilman and former ARCO planning manager, have reached the same conclusion. And they – along with geologist Brian Brock, Franklin, and retired IBM systems engineer Jerry Acton of Berkshire, Tioga County – detailed their findings Wednesday, Oct. 30, to 200 people who packed Cornell’s Hollister Hall. Please See FRACKING, A7
BYE, BYE FRACKING Check WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM for • Video of Jerry Acton presenting data • Lou Allstadt’s PowerPoint slides • Blogger Peter Mantius’ at-scene report
Housing Visions Plans 60 Homes In City By 2015 Developer Briefs Common Council By RICHARD WHITBY
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Mayor Miller holds up a poster he made up from an ad in the Wall Street Journal to make a point while SUNY CFO.
ity residents could be living in a new $15 million affordable-housing project – 40 units for seniors near Silver Creek, 20 for families on Center Street – as early as fall 2015. Ben Lockwood, director of development for Housing Visions of Syracuse, told Common Council Tuesday, Nov. 5, the plan is to acquire the necessary propPlease See VISIONS, A7
HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD
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