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City of The Hills
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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, November 29, 2013
Usually Tidy Oneontans Look A Little Scruffy – For A Cause By LIBBY CUDMORE
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f some of your friends and neighbors look a bit more manly this month, go ahead, ask them about their beards. “My daughter Mary-Pat tells me I should grow a handlebar mustache,” said George Wells, market manager, Town Square Media, who’s growing a Fu Manchu for the month. “She said she’ll even buy the wax.”
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No, it’s not a creature from the future, but from the past. Helen Rees peers through a stereopticon viewer at the GOHS Antique Show & Appraisal Clinic, which packed them in Saturday, Nov. 23, at Holiday Inn/Southside.
Can Fracking Be Profitable Around Here?
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ooperstown’s Lou Allstadt and Chip Northrup, who presented data at Cornell last month showing too little natural gas for fracking to be profitable in Otsego County, plan to reprise the program in Oneonta. The session has been scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17, at Foothills.
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Wells said he and other usually tidy Oneontans who are looking a little rough around the edges are participating in “No Shave November,” a Facebook campaign started in 2009 by the American Cancer Society to raise awareness of prostate cancer and funds towards a cure. The campaign encourages participants to “embrace our hair, Ever-tidy which many cancer patients lose, and Jamie Reynlet it grow wild and free.” olds is ofPlease See BEARDS, A6 fering it up.
Wonder OF IT ALL!
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Santa Claus greets young Cadi Koren at the conclusion of the annual holiday parade down Main Street on Saturday, Nov. 23. Behind her are Joan Medley and Gavin Koren.
Jamie Tranvaag, Isabella Villanti, Julianna Brzezinski and Haley Utter strut with Jillian’s Dance Arts one of the 36 acts in Oneonta’s Holiday Parade.
By JIM KEVLIN
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a greeting to a serviceman or woman, drop it off at state Sen. Jim Seward’s office at 41 South Main St. The county Democratic Committee Executive Board endorsed Sean Eldridge, Shokan, spouse of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, to run against U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19, next year, when it met Thursday, Nov. 21. CELEBRATE! The Otsego
County Chamber’s Holiday Open House is 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4. NBT Bank is hosting again at its Wall Street office. RSVP at 432-4500.
MURAL PAINTING: Artist
Carol Mandigo will be painting murals that will adorn the History Center’s Dietz Street side inside the building 10-noon and 1-3 Saturday, Nov. 30, and noon-3 the following Tuesday.
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Hannah Phillips with daughters Stella and Carden await the arrival of Santa.
SUNY Profs Await Raises Faculty Briefing Due Next Week
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DEMS FOR ELDRIDGE:
Town Square Media executives George Wells, right, and Steve Dillon are looking a little scruffier this month.
The voice of the Santa parade, “Big Chuck” D’Imperio, lends his vocal talents to announcing organizations as they enter Muller Plaza.
Leading the parade with the “Oneonta: Life Enjoyed” banner were Sarah Hansen, Kalei Walk and Emma Goff, all of Oneonta.
hristmas is coming early to SUNY Oneonta. Step One of campaign will raise salaries of “more than a third” full-time, Kleniewski tenure-track, teaching faculty, who will be briefed Wednesday-Thursday, Dec. 4-5, on how $250,000 set aside by President Nancy Kleniewski will be distributed. The president’s spokesman, Hal Legg, said Tuesday, Nov. 26, that the idea of giving raises to professors beyond the United University Professions contract has been under consideration for two years, but was put on hold until the UUP and SUNY achieved a system-wide labor Please See RAISES, A6
When It Snows Here, You Better Be Good!
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ith the first snowfall, City Hall has issued a list of dos and don’ts that Oneontans should remember/SEE A6
HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD