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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, July 5, 2013
Volume 5, No. 41
City of The Hills
& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
‘The Porch’ – Family Focus – Hosts Wedding
JOB-GROWTH GOALS AIRED
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ered since 1941, when future mayor Roger G. Hughes and his wife Nella bought the homestead. “The bushes ver four generations and six weren’t always here,” said Linda’s states, Linda McNulty knows mother, Joan Duckwall. “When it what brings her family back would snow – and it snowed a lot in together at 1 Oak St. “This porch is the ’40s – my brothers and I would what everybody has in common,” she jump right off the porch into the said. snow piles.” Linda and her fiancé, Gary Bailey, It was a perfect locale, close both now living in Delaware, will be enough to walk to school, the grocery married on Thursday, July 4, on that Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA store and to Hughes’ Main Street same porch, where family has gathPlease See PORCH, A6 Bride and groom on “The Porch” By LIBBY CUDMORE
embers of the county Board of Representatives and its IDA (Industrial Development Agency) planned to meet at 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, to discuss privatizing the Economic Development Office, bringing it in line with Saratoga County’s muchpraised effort. For report, check WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
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Departing City Clerk Jim Koury hugs Council Member Maureen Hennessy after reading the roll call for the last time at the Tuesday, July 2, Common Council meeting. Koury left City Hall to pursue a new career. He has joined Wrestling Superstars Live! as charity initiatives coordinator.
Rainfall 3 Times Normal
JOB CORPS
REINTRODUCED
...And It Goes On
Courtyard Done, Khan Looks North
By LIBBY CUDMORE
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he just-ended June dropped 6.43 inches on Oneonta, triple last June’s 2.28, the National Weather Service at Binghamton reports. What’s more, the sun probably isn’t coming out tomorrow, or any time this week. The City of the Hills is stuck between almost-stationary weather systems in the Atlantic and the Ohio Valley, and warm, moist air is moving up the middle, dumping rain on the region, said Joanne LaBounty, Weather Service meteorologist. “And it’s going to be persistent for the next several days,” she said. Sudden downpours, here and there, have been dropping 2-3 inches of rain an hour. Though there was no damage in Oneonta, Kevin Ritton, county Please See RAIN, A7
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otelier Erfan Khan, who recently completed Courtyard by Marriott on Oneonta’s Southside, has turned his eyes north. According to the Town of Hartwick Planning Office, Khan has received approval for a three-story Fairfield Inn in Hartwick Seminary, in front of the Holiday Inn Express there that he also owns. TOOT, TOOT! If you see
this in time, head down to the Hometown Fourth of July at Neahwa Park to visit the historic Red Caboose, which the Greater Oneonta Historical Society is staffing for the day. S-O ENDORSES: Sustain-
able Otsego will introduce “several” candidates it is endorsing for the county Board of Representatives at a press conference at noon Tuesday, July 9, at 21 Railroad Ave., Cooperstown. FABULOUS NUPTIALS:
The Fabulous Beekman Boys – Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Dr. Brent Ridge – were wed Friday, June 28, on their Beekman Farm in Sharon Springs, a happening covered exclusively by People magazine.
Pauline Stamp, Oneonta Job Corps’ community relations director (top photo), showed this slide of Ezekiel Vega renovating a room at the former Homer Folks TB hospital that would be converted to The Bistro for students working there.
City Mainstay Rebounds From U.S. Budget Cuts By LIBBY CUDMORE
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he Oneonta Job Corps is back, and better than ever. At the end of January, Job Corps centers nationwide had suffered under a five-month program-wide budget shortfall, laying off staff, freezing hiring and enrollment. “It was really hard on people who were waiting to get in,” said di-
rector Chris Kuhn. “June seemed so far off to them, so they made other plans.” Fifty advanced training and honors students were moved out of their dorm and into the main building, and in that time, nearly half of the students completed their training, reducing the number of students on campus from 370 to less than 200. Renovations complete, here’s what But with funds rePlease See CORPS, A6 The Bistro looks like now. Hannah Bowen tends the counter.
In The Heat ‘Think Cold’ By LIBBY CUDMORE
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rank Monaco knew he had to do something about his drafty Shepherd Avenue home. “When the wind would come through, it would lift the linoleum right off the floor,” he said. Worse, it was getting difficult to keep the home warm on a retiree’s budget. “My heating bills were not comfortable,” he said at a press conference Please See HEAT, B4
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