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& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, July 12, 2013
Volume 5, No. 42
City of The Hills
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT OVERWHELMS
Seward Grant To Fox Puts ‘Gold Standard’ In Reach
In Just 5 Months 5-Year Campaign Nearly Complete By LIBBY CUDMORE
Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
It happened as anticipated in last week’s edition: Former Mayor Roger G. Hughes’ granddaughter Linda McNulty married Gary Bailey on the Fourth of July on her grandfather’s porch at 1 Oak St., a family gathering spot for generations. Mayor Dick Miller performed the ceremony.
Educator New Superintendent Of City Schools
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oseph Yelich is on the job as new superintendent of the Oneonta City School District. Formerly Waverly Central School superintendent, he replaces Mike Shea, who retired at the end of 2012. David Rowley, retired Edmeston school superintendent, had served in an interim role. SUNY REAFFIRMED: SUNY Oneonta has received reaffirmation of its accreditation for a 10-year period by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education Association. THE TOUGHEST: At LEAF’s Tuff eNuff 5K obstacle race on the Fourth of July in Neahwa Park, Mathew Robinson, 17, Oneonta, won the recreational class; Ben Gollin, 17, Oneonta, won the competive class/RELATED STORY, B1 AMONG BEST: The 2014 Fiske Guide, which assesses 300 of the nation’s 7,000 colleges annually, has added Hartwick College to its roster of “best and most interesting colleges,” Hartwick announced.
Christian Hotaling of Oneonta and Kellie Hart, from Florida, watch fireworks reflected in Hodge’s Pond.
W Josie Palowski snuggles with dad James, struggling to stay awake until the fireworks.
FUN ON THE FOURTH
Gloria Smith, Oneonta, and her children Madilynne and Colby Smith, break through the Mill Race tunnel during LEAF’s Tuff eNuff 5K that drew 500 contestants to Neahwa Park on the Fourth of July.
GULOTTY TO LEAD JOB-GROWTH INITIATIVE
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hen Fox Hospital’s $1.5 million “Gold Standard of Patient Care” campaign was launched Wednesday, Feb. 8, it was anticipated to be a five-year effort. What a difference five months HOMETOWN ONEONTA makes. Seward and By Monday, Hospital AdminJuly 8 – exactly istrator Remifive months later llard announce – the campaign the news. had passed the $1 million mark. And with state Sen. Jim Seward’s announcement he’s secured an additional $250,000 state grant, the drive topped $1.3 million. The “Gold Standard of Patient Care” is within striking distance. The $1.5 million is the local share that, added to a $8.3 million state Please See FOX, A7
IN MEMORIAM ► Former Oneonta City Fire Chief and Sixth Ward leader Frank Russo passed away/B7 Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
Economic Development = Fracking, Says SO-Backed Candidate Kosmer
oug Gulotty, former Wilber Bank president/CEO, is about to be named to a six-month position to create a public-private entity to replace Otsego Pro-Sustainability Group County’s Economic Development Office. The county IDA (the industrial development agency) is planning to make that appointment when it meets at By JIM KEVLIN 7:30 a.m. Thursday, July 11, at old city hall on Oneonta’s Main Street. COOPERSTOWN The initiative – Gulotty will be named interim IDA director – was agreed at a Wednesday, July 3, meeting of hen his colleagues say IDA members and the county board’s Intergovernmental “economic developAffairs Committee. Ten county reps attended. ment,” they really mean After the Thursday meeting, for particulars of the fracking, county Rep. John Kosmer Gulotty appointment, go to said Tuesday, July 9, at SustainWWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM able Otsego’s press conference to
Endorses 5 For County Board Positions
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endorse five candidates for the county board. “We aren’t going to let them de-link themselves from fracking,” said the first-term Fly Creek Democrat. When asked to what degree the county Board of Representatives is pro-fracking, Kosmer named six of the 14 incumbents he believes fall into that category, all Republicans: board Please See ENDORSE, A7
HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD