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
There’s the possibility of more snow over the weekend, which means that you may not be able to park on the street in Oneonta if there’s a snow emergency. What many residents forget, is that when you can’t park on the street, you can park in the local parking structure and other lots for free, … Read more
An advisory from the City of Oneonta, various streets are scheduled to be patched today between 7am-3:30pm. City crews will be working throughout the city. Please use caution when encountering vehicles and personnel and obey all flaggers.
State Police closed down I-88 Near exit 9 in Sidney yesterday morning following a collision between a DOT Snowplow & a tractor trailer. The crash occurred at about 11:50, both vehicles slid off the highway, there has been no report of injuries, the investigation is continuing.
The Internal Revenue Service reminds you tax season starts this Friday, when the agency will begin accepting and processing 2020 tax year returns. The February 12 start date for individual tax return filers allows the IRS time to do additional programming and testing of IRS systems following the December 27 tax law changes that provided … Read more
Commerce Chenango in partnership with NBT Bank and supporting sponsor Preferred Mutual will host their annual Economic Outlook Briefing virtually on February 25th. Keynote speaker will be Kenneth J. Entenmann, Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for NBT Bank. This year’s presentation will help to define some of the economic impacts due to COVID-19. … Read more
Jeanet “Jan” Calhoun, MSN, RN, EMT, was honored last month as the Trauma Program Manager of Distinction for 2020 by the New York State Division of the American Trauma Society. Typically this award is given to managers of Level One or Level Two trauma centers in large city hospitals. In 2019, the Bassett Cooperstown Emergency … Read more