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Downtown Expert Rallies MSO By LIBBY CUDMORE
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ometimes, all it takes is a coat of paint and an awning to remake a downtown. Boarded-up windows re-paned with glass. Striped awnings arched out over clean sidewalks. Apartments built where empty
swimming pools once languished. Randy Crawford, architect and preservation planner with Crawford & Stearns, Syracuse, showed slide after slide, building after building that his company has renovated to a packed house Tuesday, Jan. 29, at MSO’s annual meeting at the Elks. Please See MSO, A7
Preservation architect Randy Crawford briefs the MSO annual meeting on what can be done for downtown Oneonta. Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
ANTI-FRACKERS ROIL DEMOCRATS SUNY Oneonta student Katherine Wansor, who plays Josephine, the lead female role, rehearses for the weekend’s performance of “H.M.S. Pinafore,” which features Omri Schein, ’02, who went from Oneonta to stardom as a character actor/DETAILS, B1
Mayor Seeks 2nd Term City Committee Will Back Him, Nader Declares
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eputy Mayor Mike Lynch, radio executive George Wells and OFD Capt. Tim Maloney will be vying for votes as part of the Catskill Symphony Orchestra’s annual Cabaret Conductor Contest at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 3 in the SUNY Oneonta Alumni Field House. The event is the CSO’s major fundraiser/DETAILS, B2 D.C. TO HERE: U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson will headline the Catskill Regional Teacher Center’s ninth annual Legislative Forum on educational issues 4:30-5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, at Bugbee School Auditorium, State Street. Public welcome. FOOD, SHELTER: The United Way has received $21,300 in supplementary funds for emergency food and shelter, $14,475 for Otsego County and $6,818 for Delaware. To apply, contact 432-8006 or uwaytf@ stny.rr.com. Applications due by Feb. 8. VENDORS SOUGHT: The Oneonta Farmers’ Market is accepting applications from prospective vendors (within 50 miles) selling produce, cheese, specialty foods and hand-made crafts. Application forms at www. oneontafarmersmarket.com
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All eyes were on Jeffrey Smetana, vice president, Newman Development Group, Binghamton, as he briefed a packed city Planning Commission meeting Wednesday, Jan. 16, in City Hall on a 320-student state-of-the-art housing project on Blodgett Drive, overlooking the SUNY Oneonta athletic fields. The project, which supplanted townhomes the college was planning to build, would add an estimated $15 million to the tax rolls. The next day, reporter Libby Cudmore and photographer Ian Austin toured Twin River Commons, Binghamton, the model for the local project/FOR THEIR REPORT, SEE B1
‘Wearable Art’ Sturdy Stuff By LIBBY CUDMORE
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hen Patrick LaDuke needs materials for Dr. Annacleta Chiweshe’s “Wearable Art” fashion class at SUNY Oneonta, he can usually be found at Bruce Hall Home Center
in Cooperstown. “The plumbing section has the best stuff,” he said, gesturing to his “Xenomorph” dress, complete with an elongated glowing, L-light headdress. The tattered black silk piece was inspired by Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA H.R. Geiger’s “Alien” in Patrick LaDuke’s “wearable Please See ART, B8 art” is on display at SUNY.
earing he had received the blessing of the Otsego County Democratic Executive Committee to run on that ballot line, Mayor Miller has made it public: He’s running again. As an independent who ran on the “Collaborate for Oneonta” ticket – he then won the Democratic primary – in Miller 2009, Miller said in his Friday, Jan. 25, announcement he would again also welcome the endorsement of city Republicans. “Together we have proven that the City of Oneonta can make significant progress on many fronts in difficult times,” the mayor said. “If elected again in November this year I look forward to collaborating with the same groups, in the same spirit, for another four Please See MILLER, A7
‘Friends’ Aim To Keep Oneonta Theatre Alive By JIM KEVLIN
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n the wee hours of Sunday morning, Jan. 27, Oneonta Theatre proprietor Tom Cormier was working alongside a skeleton crew, sweep-
ing and cleaning up after Floodwood Bluegrass Jamboree’s concert the night before. That afternoon, Patrice Macaluso, president of the Friends of the Oneonta Theatre (FOTOT), anPlease See FOTOT, A7
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