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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, June 21, 2013
Volume 5, No. 39
City of The Hills
& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
New City Clerk Comes Home To Oneonta Doug Kendall Spent Year Commuting To New Bedford Whaling Museum By LIBBY CUDMORE
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ven when downsizing forced him to take a job in New Bedford, Mass., Doug Kendall’s heart stayed in Oneonta. “We love Oneonta,”
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he Oneonta Board of Education planned to appoint Joseph J. Yelich, Waverly Central School superintendent, to the Oneonta City School District’s top job at a special meeting 8:30 a.m. meeting on Wednesday, June 19. Yelich’s appointment is for a three-year term, with a salary of $150,000 for the 2013-14 school term. PIPELINE ON TRACK: The application for the Constitution Pipeline was submitted to FERC on Friday, June 14. Details at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM PEACE OF MIND: Family Planning of South Central New York will mark National HIV Testing Day by offering free anonymous rapid HIV testing and counseling noon-4 p.m. Thursday, June 27, at 37 Dietz St. NRDC TO RESCUE! Through Catskills Mountainkeepers, the Natural Resource Defense Council is providing legal aid to Advocates for Morris, and may do the same for anti-fracking groups throughout the state/DETAILS, C1 REMEMBERING AL: New York City saxophonist Chad E. Smith will play at a “100th Birthday Bash” to honor the late Al Galladoro at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 20, at the B-Side Ballroom.
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Can Private Sector Do The Job Better?
PEEK INSIDE BRESEE’S
School Chief From Waverly To Lead OCSD
So when Jim Koury announced that he was leaving the city clerk position he’d occupied for two decades – last week, he announced he’s joining Wrestling Superstars Live as their charity and promotions coordinator – Kendall Please See KENDALL, A6
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The Rev. Ken Baldwin examines the key to the city he received from Mayor Miller at a ceremony honoring the pastor and his wife, Nancy, before the Oneonta Outlaws’ game Friday, June 13. The Baldwins are moving to a retirement community in Fairport.
he said. “We’ve come to really enjoy being here.” Every week for the last year, Kendall left his wife Jacqueline and son Andrew at home while he made his commute to the New Bedford Whaling Museum, where he was registrar.
hip Klugo of Klugo Oneonta LLC, developer, leads a tour through the former Bresee’s Department Store Tuesday, June 18, during a visit of the New York State Urban Council to the city at the invitation of City Manager Mike Long. Oneonta’s Bunny Joseph, left, and Jim Salengo, Schenectady, were among the curious. That afternoon, the visitors participated in a discussion in the Foothills Atrium.
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wenty-five years ago, a fractured contingent of economic development advocates from Rochester – from the city, The Freeman’s Journal Monroe County, Miller talks to couna couple of large ty IGA committee. towns and various agencies – flew out to Indianapolis on a factfinding mission. “One person met us with a shuttle bus,” Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller told county Rep. Betty Anne Schwerd’s Intergovernmental Affairs Committee Monday, June 17. “The person spoke for Indianapolis with one voice.” Please See JOBS, A6
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Baseball Ever Inspiring To SUNY’s Bill Simons By LIBBY CUDMORE
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ot even chicken pox could keep William Simons from participating in the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball & American Culture, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in May. “When my son Joe was
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or details of the Wednesday, June 19, discussion between the Otsego County Board of Representatives and the IDA on retooling the county’s economic-development effort – it occurred after this edition went to press – visit WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
Scholarship Keeps Joey’s Memory Alive CCS’ Jozef Field 11th ONC BOCES Recipient
young, he gave me chicken pox,” said Simons. “I taped my remarks on a FisherPrice tape recorder and they played it at the symposium.” The annual symposium was Wednesday-Friday, May 29-31 and featured over 60 papers, with a keynote address, “Baseball, Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Casey and Me,” by The Capras are striving to Please See SIMONS A7 keep a scholarship going.
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he Capra family took a tragedy and made it into a tradition. When Joseph A. Capra, known as “Joey” to his parents, Joe and Mary of West Oneonta, died in a late night car crash on Sept. 12, 1982, his parents took the
insurance money and put it into a scholarship fund to give other boys a chance to follow a budding welding career cut tragically short. “We’ve sent 10 BOCES students to the Hobart School of Welding,” said Joe. The 11th, CCS’ Jozef E. Field, son of Amy and Fred Field, Hartwick, Please See JOEY, 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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An Evening with Victoria Wyeth
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A lively discussion featuring three never-before-seen studies from Andrew Wyeth’s final painting Stop (2008). Victoria discusses artistic subject ma�er and technique interspersed with personal memories and family stories. She will also be signing copies of her grandfather Andrew’s autobiography. Tickets: $40 per person. Visit our Museum Shop or order online at our website.
Gallery Talks
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Victoria Wyeth leads an interactive, one-of-a-kind discussion through the Fenimore’s exhibition, The Wyeths: A Family Legacy. Spaces are limited. Tickets: $35 per person. To register, call (607) 547-1461 or order online at our website.