Chenango County will receive approximately $6 million dollars to upgrade communications throughout the county. The money is part of over $29 million in grant funding awarded to several counties as announced by Governor Cuomo recently. The funding will be used to build new communication tower sites, supgrad the county’s 911 communications center, and add more … Read more
An Oneonta artist whose work features the beauty in tragedy, will be featured at Munson-William-Proctor Arts Institute’s first exhibit of the year, starting Feb. 27 Richard Friedberg’s sculpture exhibit ‘Terrible Beauty’ showcases work inspired by natural disasters and explosions, like the one on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. … Read more
An Oneonta man is now the third winner of the Great U.S. Treasure Hunt. The event is a nationwide hunt where items can be found by decoding a message in one of four chapters of an E-book titled “The Great U.S. Treasure Hunt” that can be purchased from Amazon. Kristian House deciphered a code hidden … Read more
The Oneonta Department of Public Service is has been working on a water main break on Hazel Street. Hazel Street may still be closed to local traffic only. Residents may experience a change in water color, pressure and/or loss of water. This is a common, temporary occurrence and is not a cause for alarm. Water … Read more
The City of Oneonta has been removing snow from the edge of the roadway and sidewalks on Main St and surrounding streets overnight and will continue to work through the early morning and should be done around 8:00 this morning. During the Main St removal portion, Main St will be closed from Elm St to … Read more
The Chenango Sheriff’s Department continues to receive complaints involving unemployment insurance fraud, where people are reporting that someone has apparently filed for unemployment compensation in their name. If you become a victim of this unemployment insurance fraud, please contact your local law enforcement agency, and also report the fraudulent activity with the NYS Department of … Read more
City of Norwich Emergency Management Director A. Wesley Jones is retiring mid April. Jones joined the City as the Assistant Emergency Management Officer in 1995 and two years later, he took the position of Director of Emergency Management. serving the city of Norwich for a total of 26 years.
Windsor Virtual students received a surprise from fellow in-person classmates as part of celebrating school Kindness Week. Palmer Elementary staff and in-person students made cards and posters and took photos of themselves holding them up. They then delivered them to all 31 of the school’s fully remote students. School Counselor Sandra Tredo, says the effort … Read more
Chenango County has received more doses of vaccine, according to Director of Environmental Health Isaiah Sutton 300 new doses are in, 200 of which will be allocated to residents 65-years and older, while the remaining 100 will go to educators. Sutton also said the impact of gatherings for the big game this past weekend won’t … Read more
Its Girl Scout Cookie time, and thanks to COVID 19, there will be fewer of the familiar stands you usually see outside your local grocery store. Cookie sales are going virtual, with online ordering and in many areas, orders placed with the NY/Penn Council could be delivered by GrubHub. Whether you love the classics like … Read more