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To the Oneonta Outlaws and Cooperstown Hawkeyes. Let’s hear it for the boys. Let’s give the boys a hand. Sure, both teams got knocked out in the first round of postseason playoffs for the New York Collegiate Baseball League, but they sure did have a good first season.
The Outlaws finished in second place and the Hawkeyes in fourth in the Eastern Division, and both provided enjoyable family entertainment for two months.
After the Oneonta Tigers left a bitter taste by packing up and moving to Connecticut in February, area officials and businessmen brought in NYCBL teams to keep the tradition of high-caliber baseball in the area.
Unlike the major-league affiliated O-Tigers, the players in the collegiate league were not paid to play. They also lived in homes with area families.
The players participated in community service that included hosting baseball camps for children and helping to build a new playground at Wilber Park in Oneonta.
Host families welcomed these college kids, all of whom will be going back to school in August, into their homes and around their children.
Also new to Damaschke Field this year was the addition of a beer tent. There’s something about enjoying a cold beer with friends while watching a ball game that, for some, makes for a lovely summer evening. The teams seem like a good fit for the area, and we’re looking forward to enjoying more games in future seasons.
To puppies! They just make you smile. And although we don’t like to see any sick puppies, we like to give kudos to organizations that take care of them. That’s just what the Angel’s Gate animal hospice and Pilots N Paws do.
Five sick pups flew in to the Oneonta Airport last week to get medical attention from Angel’s Gate Hospice & Rehabilitation Home for Animals in Delhi, which met the puppies and brought them to Crescent Pet Lodge in Oneonta, where they were examined and treated by Dr. Joan Puritz.
Pilots N Paws is a charitable group with an online meeting place for pilots and other volunteers who help transport rescue animals by air.
Angel’s Gate is the nation’s first residential hospice for animals and has been caring for terminally ill and handicapped animals for almost 20 years.
Hurray for making puppies healthy.
To Springbrook and its construction of a $22.5 million expansion that had its groundbreaking ceremony last week.
The initiative is expected to create 112 jobs ranging from maintenance positions to teachers.
The expansion will include an autism school for 36 students, including 24 new-to-Springbrook children from New York state who are in out-of-state facilities or at risk of leaving the state.
The school and home for the developmentally disabled is creating employment opportunities and making a name for itself as a premier facility in the United States.
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Center helps victims of child abuse and neglect
We learned some good news about some terrible news in a story by reporter Joe Mahoney in Tuesday's Daily Star.
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Chamber made excellent choices on service awards
A special committee selected by the Otsego County Chamber has made two excellent decisions regarding the organization's annual awards for service to our communities.
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Cheers
To Michael Shea, Terry Bliss, and the passage of the bill to allow Otsego's exit from MOSA.
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A sad tale may come to an end with arrests
People are almost always sad, and sometimes outraged, whenever something awful happens to a fellow human being.
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Pill abuse should be a priority for police, pols
Sens. Charles Schumer of New York and Mark Pryor of Arkansas proposed a bill this week to help police combat a disturbing trend of increasing prescription drug abuse.
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More needs to be done to aid vets with PTSD
The recent story of Stamford grandmother Melody DiGregorio grieving the loss of her grandson, Air Force veteran Edward "Drew" Snyder, brings home the debilitating and often-unreported effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on our service men and women.
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Area 'shocked' at underage drinking? That's shocking
It has been referenced so often that it has become a cliché.
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School's new lease on life a welcome development
It is a big place designed to echo with the sounds of young people in a healthy learning environment.
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Cheers
To the Central American Youth Ambassadors Program, to Ray Preston and to the NCOC building trades class and the Prattsville Fire Department.
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Mitt's not at fault for loopholes in tax code
As the longtime frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has faced withering attacks from rivals seeking to upset him.
Continued ... - Saturday, January 28, 2012
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Rest in peace, Naples and Stalter
Our area recently lost two important and influential members of our community: Oneonta surgeon Dr. Kenneth D. Stalter and newly elected Sixth Ward Council Member Mike Naples.
Continued ... - Friday, January 27, 2012
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Case closed on 2 years of turmoil
"Case closed."
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Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller was referring to possible criminal charges against fired police officer Michael Breen on Wednesday, but Miller just as easily could have been talking about the more than two years of turmoil the city has endured with its police department. - Thursday, January 26, 2012
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Obama played his cards right Tuesday
Despite a daunting economy and a challenging re-election campaign, on Tuesday night President Barack Obama displayed what Mark Twain called "the calm confidence of a Christian holding four aces" in his State of the Union address.
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Searching for votes instead of honor
Say what you will about John McCain, the Republican nominee for president in 2008 who inflicted an ignorant Sarah Palin upon an unsuspecting nation.
Continued ... - Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Cheers
To MLK Jr. Day events, Diana Nicols, and Jordan Beers and Mariah Ruff.
Continued ... - Monday, January 23, 2012
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Dignity not enough to show in speech
After weeks of watching the often unseemly, if not downright humorous, antics of the Republican candidates for his job, President Barack Obama should have little trouble providing at least one thing Tuesday night in his State of the Union address. Dignity.
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Tension with Iran is better than war
The dispute between Iran and the U.S. appeared close to boiling over into outright war last week, when a bomb in Tehran killed an Iranian nuclear scientist and Iran sentenced an accused Iranian-American spy to death.
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Let's hope no funding means no drilling
When it comes to state approval or disapproval of hydrofracturing in New York state, we certainly hope that no news is good news.
Continued ... - Thursday, January 19, 2012
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Testing is no way to judge teachers
Like him or not _ and according to the latest polls, more then 70 percent of New Yorkers do _ you've got to give Andrew Cuomo credit for guts.
Continued ... - Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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When all kids win, they lose at life
For three decades, many children have been taught that whatever they do in the classroom or athletic field is just fine.
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Center helps victims of child abuse and neglect
