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Volume 8, No. 39
& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, July 1, 2016
Complimentary
VISION in BLUE
Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
For the first time this year, all Oneonta High School graduates – young women as well as young men – wore blue graduation gowns. Principal Thomas Brindley said, with the state’s Dignity for All Students Act calling for greater sensitivy on transgender issues, the decision was made to provide the same color gowns to everyone. “We wanted to be out in front,” he said.
INSIDE: FOUR PAGES OF GRADUATION, PROM PHOTOS/B2-5
City of The Hills Pat Benatar Will Play At Hospice Gala
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at “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” Benatar is performing in Oneonta Friday, July 1, at the Catskill Area Hospice’s annual summer fundraiser. The doors open at 5 p.m. at the Sixth Ward Benatar Booster Club field on Scramling Avenue. Individual tickets are available for $125 at cahpc. org/patbenatar or by calling 432-6773 LINES DRAWN: Democat Zephyr Teachout and Republican John Faso will compete to succeed retiring Congressman Chris Gibson, R-19, in the Nov. 8 election after winning their respective primaries in the county and district-wide by large margins. REMEMBER, Oneonta’s “Hometown Fourth of July” begins at noon with a parade down Main Street. For more Independence Day activities, SEE B1
SHE’S THE TOPS: Oneonta teenager Katie Trahan just got word she’s been accepted into the Joffrey School Summer Program in NYC. She is daughter of Lisa and Eric Trahan.
HUSBAND ARRESTED AFTER 16 YEARS
Cold Case Heats Up Elizabeth Welsh Callahan’s brother Patrick Welsh, and sisters Dolores Lawton and Marie Valentine and her husband Steve, answer questions on the case at a Tuesday, June 28, press conference.
Muehl Says, ‘We’ll Get Lizzy Her Day In Court’ Lori Sternfels, Lizzy’s niece. “We used to always follow them in the car. I like to henever Dolores think that she’s sitting up in Lawton sees butthe biggest hot-air balloon terflies, she thinks of them all, watching over of her sister us.” Elizabeth Welsh For 16 years, Callahan. “Lizzy Lizzy’s family has loved butterflies,” been seeking jusshe said. “I have tice in her January a picture of them 2000 death, believin my home that ing her husband, always reminds Casey Callahan, me of her.” now 50, “And hot air Please See Casey Callahan’s balloons,” said ARREST, A3 mug shot Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA By LIBBY CUDMORE
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On Hot Day, Crowd Of 300 ‘Wrap-Around’ For Foothills, Alliance At County’s ‘Coolest Place’ With Oneonta Y Under Consideration By LIBBY CUDMORE
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t’s the coolest job in Otsego County – literally. “It’s 60 degrees in here, year-round,” said George Allen, president, said of
By JIM KEVLIN Northern Eagle Beverages’ enormous new warehouse space on Browne Avenue. Foothills Performing Arts Center “We have 68,000 square committee has formed to meet feet, and 75 percent of that with Otsego Now President Sandy is refrigerated.” Mathes to explore a “wrap-around” conThat’s not even mention- struction project to create a combination ing the keg room, which is home with the Oneonta Family YMCA. Please See CHILLY, A7 Please See FOOTHILLS, A6 Original artist’s rendering of Foothills
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