Hometown Oneonta 03-11-16

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City of The Hills

& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch

Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, March 11, 2016

Complimentary

$20 Million Aims To Fix Fox Hospital Finances The Balance Intended For ‘Center Of Excellence’

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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ust before his retirement last year, Fox Hospital President John Remillard and his board of directors applied for $21.4 mil-

lion in Essential Healthcare Provider funding. And now, just three months into new President Jeff Joyner’s tenure, the hospital has received the money,

which will be used for debt restructuring and a new, for now unspecified, “Center for Excellence.” “Now that Fox knows the application was successful, it can begin

in earnest to develop, with Bassett, plans for how and where best to accomplish strategic growth,” said Joyner. Fox was one of over two dozen hospitals to apply for the funds. Please See FOX, B6

ASSAULT ON CHARTER ENTERS NEW PHASE

Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA

Former Fox Hospital President John Remillard gets a hug from SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski, his former board chair, as he receives the Eugene A. Bettiol Jr. Distinguished Citizen Award at the Otsego Chamber annual dinner/ MORE PHOTOS, A7

19th District Race Comes To Oneonta

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split in county Democrats brought the party’s two candidates seeking to succeed U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19, to Oneonta in recent days. Zephyr Teachout, who won Otsego County over Governor Cuomo in the 2014 gubernatorial primary, met with voters at Foothills Sunday, March 6. Will Yandik, the Ulster County farmer and town board member, met potential supporters at Stella Luna Thursday, March 3/PHOTOS, A2

BYE, BYE WINTER: In another sign the bad weather’s almost behind us, Daylight Saving Time arrives at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 12. Turn clocks forward an hour. FOR NANCY: Flags around the county were at half-staff Tuesday, March 8, on the passing of former First Lady Nancy Reagan. CRISIS CENTER: Paul Marshall, director of Christian-based Crisis Net pregnancy centers in Utica, will speak about forming one here at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at Calvary Hill Retreat, 290 Chestnut St. Public welcome.

DAYS OF JUDGMENT Council Committee, Public Get 1st Look At Possible Changes By LIBBY CUDMORE

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Mayor Herzig takes a final tour of Cherry Street homes that will soon be razed. Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA

End To (Some) City Blight In Sight As Abandoned Hulks Come Down, 60 Units Of New Housing To Rise By LIBBY CUDMORE

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y the end of the week, Oneonta will have six fewer vacant, abandoned houses. “Housing Visions closed on the houses last Friday and started

the work on Monday,” Mayor Gary Herzig said Tuesday, March 8. “I can see them working on the house at Spruce Street from my window.” The six demolitions – plus one rehab – are part of Housing Vision’s “Oneonta Heights” project, which will see 60

units of affordable housing for families and seniors added to the city’s housing stock. At Columbia and West, four derelict buildings will be demolished and replaced by two 4-unit buildings and one 2-unit building. On Spruce, crews began Please See BLIGHT, B7

roposed revisions to the City Charter will make their public debut. On Thursday, March 4 at 4 p.m., John Nader, chair of Mayor IS CHARTER ON Herzig’s ad hoc CHOPPING BLOCK? Charter Review Committee, will present proposed revisions to the Common Council during a special meeting of the Legislative Committee. “This will give the Council an opportunity to ►Attend Comask questions mon Council comand make committee meeting at ments,” said 4 p.m. Thursday, Herzig, who March 10. appointed the ad ►Editorial: hoc committee as Refocus energy on soon as he was saving, not erodappointed mayor ing, charter. last fall. The Legislative Committee is chaired by Council Please See CHARTER, A7

‘County’s Thoreau’ Cooperstown Lawyer Devin Morgan Arrested In Protest Assumes Otsego Now Chairmanship By JIM KEVLIN NEW LISBON

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ob Eklund, the New Lisbon town board member, has again put his adherence to Thore-

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evin Morgan of Cooperstown, an intellectual au’s “Civil Disobedience” property attorney with an on the line. Albany firm, is the new Monday, March 7, he was chairman of the Otsego arrested again while object- Now board. ing to plans to store liquefied In the combined posipropane in the salt mines tion, he succeeds both Morgan under Seneca Lake, this time Bob Hanft, chairman of with Bill McKibben, the county IDA, and Joe Bernier, chairman Please See EKLUND, B7 of the related county Capital Resources

Eklund Joins McKibben At Seneca Lake

Corp., who – “to encourage fresh leadership” – did not seek reelection at the annual meeting of both boards Thursday, March 3, in Oneonta. Morgan’s election was unanimous, according to a press release. He has been on the board since 2014. Both Hanft and Bernier will continue serving on the Otsego Now board and, hence, the IDA and CRC boards. Bernier will serve as secretary of both boards. Please See MORGAN, A6

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