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THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012
Anti-Fracking Speaker Packs Oneonta Hall
Deborah Rogers, an economist who served on a Federal Reserve advisory committee, packed the 200-seat production theater last evening for her talk, "Shale Promises Or Shale Spin? The Economics Behind Hydrofracking," at the Foothills Performing Arts Center. For a similar presentation in Ithaca in January, click here
'New City' Might Gain Added $1.7M
In Sales Tax, But County Would Lose
A "new city" of Oneonta – combining the existing city and town – could gain as much as $1.7 million in additional sales-tax revenues, but that would cause a readjustment that would require the County of Otsego to distribute as much as $15 million to county municipalities, county Treasurer Dan Crowell told Citizens Voices, the business-advocacy group that met this morning at the Carriage House on Oneonta's Southside.
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Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com
At the end of the first four qualifying rounds of national competition in St. Louis, Mo. Thursday, Robokronos, Otsego County's robotics team, placed 25th out of 100 Curie Division teams, with a total score of 71 to 16 in the Rebound Rumble. Here, RoboKronos drivers Chris Lentner and Jerry Li with mentor Alex Jean-Charles (all in green behind the glass) maneuver RoboKronos robot 4203 against another opponent on the competition field. The local team also won an "Extreme Makeover: Pit Safety" from Team 1319 of South Carolina, including high quality safety glasses, a garbage can, broom and dustpan, a fire extinguisher, a banner and a first aid kit.
Robokronos 25th In Qualifying Round
At Robotics Competition in St. Louis
Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com
COOPERSTOWN
Gary Kuch, former CCS High School principal, has announced his retirement as Worcester Central School superintendent, a position he has held for three years.
In retirement, Kuch, husband of Village Trustee Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, will continue his duties as Cooperstown village justice and Otsego town justice.
Kuch To Retire As Worcester School Chief
Gary Kuch
ONEONTA
The National Weather Service is offering a Basic SKYWARN training class for would-be weather spotters 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 3, at SUNY Oneonta's Morris Conference Center.
SUNY Oneonta, Otsego County Office of Emergency Management and the weather service are co-hosting. Seating limited; registration recommended. E-mail bgm.skywarn@noaa.gov or call 729-1597, Ext. 4.
Become A National Weather Watcher
Mike Lynch, Oneonta city councilmember and deputy mayor, addresses Third Ward residents last evening in Center Street School during one of his periodic ward meetings. Topic one was how to encourage city residents to vote "yes" on a proposition on the May 15 school ballot to keep the school open for a year. But residents also expressed concern over the state of neighborhood streets and questioned whether the former Italian Kitchen restaurant was being fully converted into student apartments.
Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com
How To Save Center School School Debated
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012
RoboKronos In Finals Saturday
Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com
RoboKronos driver Chris Lentner covers his face in frustration at the end of the second round of the FIRST Robotics Championship, when a joystick malfunction left Robot 4203 motionless for most of the match. The team lost the third round, but gave a strong performance in the fourth round today, leaving the team in 70th place. The finals are Saturday afternoon. Next to Lentner is fellow driver Jerry Li.
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012
Oneonta, Cooperstown Parades
Open Little League Season Today
Paul Lawrence, manager of the Country Club Auto team in the Oneonta Little League, directs his team into line at the start of this morning's Little League parade, which marched from Carbon Street down River Street to Doc Knapp Field for opening ceremonies. In Cooperstown, the Little League parade stepped off from Cooperstown Park at 11 a.m. and marched to the Clark Sports Center for opening ceremonies.
Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com
SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2012
After 9 championship games, golf-ball sized hail and a tornado, RoboKronos Team 4203 finished 70th overall at the FIRST Robotics Championship in St. Louis. MO. Though the team did not place in the finals, team captain Charlotte McKane summed up the team's feeling about the experience. “It's even fun to lose,” she said. from left:
Chris Lentner, Jerry Li, Barbara Agoglia, Griffen Rule, David DePauw, Paul Agoglia, Amy Hait, David Tannenbaum, Charlotte McKane Alex Jean-Charles, Chase Thomas, Charles King and Dylan Davidson.
Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com
RoboKronos Returns To Oneonta
From St. Louis, Inspired, Fulfilled
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012
Thomas Mirabito, Sr., 93, Sidney; Turned
Family Company Into Regional Presence
SIDNEY
Thomas J. Mirabito, Sr., 93, who oversaw the growth of James Mirabito & Sons oil company into Mirabito, the regional gasoline and fuel supplier whose convenience stores dot the region, passed away Wednesday at Wilson Regional Medical Center, Johnson City. For full obituary, click here
Assembly Candidate Bikes Into County
Brian Maher, 26, mayor of Walden, Orange County, who is running in the 101st Assembly District – in Otsego County, it includes Maryland, Westford, Middlefield and Springfield – arrived in Cooperstown at 6 p.m. today on a 168-mile bicycle trip across his snake-like district. Since the new district includes only two towns in his opponent Claudia Tenney's Utica-based district, he considers the 101st "up for grabs." The two will face off in the Republican primary Sept. 11. No Democratic candidate has yet surfaced. Friday, Maher (and campaign financy director Ian Miller in a van) planned to make it to Little Falls, then Ilion on Saturday en route to a wrap-up rally at 2 p.m. that afternoon in New Hartford.
Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com
Strolling down Main Street, Cooperstown, this afternoon, Congressman Chris Gibson, a Republican running in the reconfigured 19th District, which now includes Otsego County, ran into Democrat Paula DiPerna, who ran against then-incumbent Republican Sherwood Boehlert in the mid-1990s. A lively debate on cap-and-trade ensued. Mayor Jeff Katz, center, had been showing the congressman around. Gibson had gotten to Cooperstown Thursday evening to attend the GOP county committee's annual dinner at The Otesaga, and was hosted at a luncheon today by U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, whose district has been shifted to the north, out of Otsego County.
FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012
Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com
Congressman Gibson Spends 2 Days
In Cooperstown, Part Of New District
