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Volume 9, No. 13
City of The Hills
& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch Complimentary
Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, December 30, 2016
Beacon on Oyaron Hill HOMETOWN ONEONTA
2016 citizen of the year
hartwick’s MARGARET L. DRUGOVICH’S
‘ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE’ BEARS FRUIT
Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
This Christmas, the Bresee’s Rudolph landed at the Cooperstown Price Chopper, where store manager Kurt Krajewski kept an eye on him. Rudolph belongs to Greg Noonan, Cherry Valley.
First Night Offering Fun + Fireworks
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irst Night Oneonta fireworks will be lit at 10:17 p.m. New Year’s Eve over Neahwa Park, with dancing following until midnight at the Foothills Atrium. Activities in Foothills begin at 7 p.m. with bands, puppets, clowns, balloon twisting and other fun of all sorts for young and old. $10 buttons get you into all activities; kids free. TAKING HOLIDAY: Bassett Healthcare Network outpatient health centers, primary care centers and specialty clinics, with the exception of dialysis and convenient care, will be closed Monday, Jan. 2. For available services, see
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ON THE ROAD: Jody Taylor, county director of Weights & Measures, also plays in a band and his new song, “Thunderbird,” has been picked up in My Ford, the national magazine for Ford owners. Check it out at www.youtube.com IN MEMORIAM: Otsego County Clerk Kathy Sinnot Gardner’s mother, Anne Marie Sinnott, died New Year’s Eve at Focus Otsego after a long illness/
OBITUARY, A3
Hartwick College President Margaret L. Drugovich reviews her “Organizing Principle and Strategic Framework,” the plan from her first few weeks in office in 2008 that fully flowered during 2016. Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
College Excels In Construction, Curriculum, Community Leadership By JIM KEVLIN
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ext, the Center for Collaboration & Innovation. Four Hartwick College students are currently Stanford University Innovation Fellows, learning to be “agents of change” when they return to Oyaron Hill. Yes, President Margaret L. Drugovich, the energizer college president, is just going to keep on going and going.
And this, at the end of quite a year, where Hartwick completed its record $32 million “Campaign for Hartwick,” began building a $7 million “living-learning center,” adjusted academic offerings and added four new courses (with more to come), and increased incoming Class of 2020 enrollment by a quarter. Foremost, however, was its leadership in accelerating Otsego
County as “The Finger Lakes of Beer,” as its Center for Craft Food & Beverage took its client list over 50, receiving one $250,000 state grant and contributing to the atmosphere that won Governor Cuomo’s $3 million grant so building of Oneonta’s “food hub” can begin in the spring. All of this was recognized, with the college named Otsego Now’s “Partner of the Year” in the spring, and the Otsego Chamber of
Rock Executive Reflects On Year Of Loss By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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ach year, the tribute reel played before the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s induction ceremony gets longer. “The rock community is an aging community,” said Greg Har-
ris, Hall president, who was visiting family in Otsego County over the Christmas holiday. “We’re losing artists who appeal across multiple generations.” With the Dec. 25 death of “Faith” and Wham! singer George Michael, 53, Harris reflected on a year that has seen many rock icons and Hall of Fame members pass away, Please See HARRIS, A3 Greg Harris
Commerce naming Hartwick the Chamber/Excellus Breakthrough Award winner for 2016 in the fall. For a banner year in strengthening Hartwick College’s financial picture, enhancing its status locally and nationally, and innovating in ways that benefit all of Otsego County and its citizens, Margaret L. Drugovich has been selected as Hometown Oneonta, The Freeman’s Journal, and www.AllOTSEGO. com’s 2017 Citizen of the Year. Please See CITIZEN, A4
IN MEMORIAM
Robert W. Moyer, 84; 25-Year Wilber CEO By LIBBY CUDMORE
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t a banking conference in New York City, Bob Moyer, then president of Wilber Bank, and Doug Gulotty,
his right-hand man, had a problem. “Key Bank was on before us, and they gave this unbelievable presentation,” said Gulloty, who later would succeed Moyer as bank Please See MOYER, A3
HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD