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City of The Hills
Grants Aplenty In City By LIBBY CUDMORE
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County Loses 1,094 People, Census Finds
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tsego County lost 1,094 population since Census 2010, a 1.76 percent drop, according to updates to the 2010 Census released in recent days. It ranks 34th among the state’s 62 counties in population loss. In all, Upstate counties lost 65,638 people, or 1.04 percent. Downstate gained 43,330 people, or 0.33 percent. Overall, the state lost 22,308 people, or 0.12 percent. MEETING VOTERS: Common Council member Paul van der Sommen will host his first First Ward meeting Thursday, March 31, at Valleyview Elementary School. Melissa Nicosia’s first Second Ward meeting is Monday, April 4, at Oneonta Middle School. Both are at 7 p.m. NEW MURAL: The Greater Oneonta Historical Society will unveil a third mural, “Brown’s Hardware,” on the Dietz Street wall at 6 p.m. Friday, April 15, during the first Fabulous Friday of the season. “Gallin’s” and “Laskaris’” have already been installed.
ew equipment in kitchens, new facades in stores, new apartments for residents and even a little golf when the weather is bad. With the flood of grants Oneonta has received in the past year, it’s almost a new Oneonta. “We have more grants now than we have in the past,” said City Hall’s Community Development Director Bill Kerbin. “We’re really looking to help businesses create a more vibrant downtown.” In total, there are 16 active grants, ranging from money for housing rehabilitation to the new downtown “Streetscape,” micro-enterprise grants and funding for new roofs on downtown buildings storefronts. Marty Brunswick, owner of the new Roundhouse Indoor Golf, requested $35,000 in micro-enterprise grant funding for the two Golf Simulators. “They cost $85,000 Please See GRANTS, A2
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Gavin Tandle, 2, of Oneonta, rides Merry the Dog on the Empire Carousel with dad Michael after finding the Golden Egg in the Easter Sunday egg hunt at The Farmers’ Museum. The Golden Egg contained a year-long pass to the carousel, which is marking its 10th anniversary this year. His mom is Michelle.
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riving home to Scranton, Pa., after services at St. Innocent’s Ukrainian Orthodox Mission in the basement of St. James Episcopal Church, Rev. Fr. Vasil Dubee was caught in a storm on I-88. “The rain was coming in sideways,” he said. “It was like a hurricane. Driving past Unadilla, I could see the Susquehanna River swelling over the banks.” He prayed to St. Innocent, the patron saint of the church, who, in 1825, would travel between his church in Unalaska to Rev. Fr. Vasil Fox and Pribilof Dubee’s first islands in the Ber- assignment as ing Strait in just a priest brought a small canoe. “I him to Oneoncould only imagine ta’s St. Innothe storms he must cent Mission. have encountered,” said Dubee. But by his exit at Sanitaria Springs, the rain stopped and his journey was clear. His prayers, he believed, had been answered. In October 2015, Dubee, 30, was ordained, and two months later he arrived Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA at St. Innocent’s, his first assignment. Wearing traditional vestments, Rev. Father Vasil Dubee The parish was founded in 1997 as reads the psalter in the basement of St. James EpiscoPlease See PRIEST, A2 pal Church, which is hosting the Ukrainian Orthodox Holy Innocents Mission as it gets a foothold in Oneonta.
College Presidency Luring Collaborators Plan To Revive John Nader To Long Island Newest Development Around Pursuing Dream, He Bids Hometown Adieu, For Now
dale’s president Thursday, March 24. “People have to do more than just serve hen John S. Nader themselves. I hope in some moves into the way I’ve been able – and President’s House will be able – to emulate at SUNY Farmingdale “on that.” or about July 15,” he will John Nader’s appointbe taking along life lessons ment marks the culminalearned from his venerable tion of a 34-year academic father, 96-year-old Sam John S. Nader career at SUNY Delhi, Nader. rising from economics pro“My father has shown – not just to fessor, to dean of liberal arts to, for me, but to other people – the way to the past seven years, provost. be committed to goals beyond oneThe departure from his native city self,” the son said in an interview afalso marks the culmination of a civic ter he was appointed SUNY FarmingPlease See NADER, A7 By JIM KEVLIN
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esidents at Winney Hill Commons are getting a few new neighbors, as broker Rodger Moran and entrepreneur Jim Tomaino have begun reviving a development that, 13 years old, is still Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Greater Oneonta’s newest. Rodger Moran shows off the two newest houses on School House “Since we started in Road, “a big step forward in 2003, I’ve always advercompleting the Winney Hill Comtised the development as mons Development.” Oneonta’s newest,” said Moran, associate broker With affordable housing one with the Benson Agency. “That of the biggest concerns in the continues to be true.” Please See HOUSING, A3
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