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CAMPAIGN GOAL: BUILD NEW SPCA Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
Oneonta Octane’s Lloyd Johnson, Schenectady, dribbles past Binghamton Bulldog’s David Haye, Spring Valley at the professional basketball league’s first Oneonta home game on Sunday, Nov. 25 at the Boys and Girls Club. The Octane lost 149123.
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he developer of a 64unit housing development on River Street has asked to have the project removed from the city Planning Commission agenda at its Wednesday, Nov. 21, meeting, Mayor Gary Herzig said. Rehabilitation Support Services made the request after Common Council chose not to move forward on a land swap necessary for a right-of-way into the property and therefore is not “fully in control of the property,” he said. More on
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STUDY APPROVED: Common Council Tuesday, Nov. 20 unanimously approved a $20,000 contract with REVPAR International Inc., Alexandria, Va., to explore if a boutique hotel would be feasible in downtown Oneonta. Details at
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HCP Architects, Albany, prepared this preliminary artist’s rendering of the new Susquehanna SPCA.
Plan: Break Ground Next Spring, Move In Year Later By LIBBY CUDMORE HARTWICK SEMINARY
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hen Stacie Haynes first arrived at the Susquehanna SPCA, the new executive director walked through the building and made a list of what needed work. Among the issues she found were a leaky roof and poster hiding mold in what would become the surgery room. “It’s all pressboard in there,” she said, “There’s not enough stainless steel, so you can never really disinfect every inch.” Repairs were done but, three years into her tenure, Haynes and her board of directors recognizes the
shelter has far outgrown the repurposed motorcycle shop that has served as the shelter since 1981. This week, they launched the 100-year-old Otsego County institution’s first capital campaign, hoping to raise $2 million ►TO DONATE, to build a see ad on Page state-ofA5 or follow the-art, link from 21st-cenAllOTSEGO.com tury facility a mile north of the current site. “It’s a serious number,” she said. “We have to rely on supporters that we already have, but we’ll have to make some new friends too.” Pleasse See SPCA, A3
Staffworks CEO To Match Donations Up To $10,000 By LIBBY CUDMORE
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Staffworks CEO founder Anita Vitullo, impressed by Susquehanna SPCA, has offered to boost to its fundraising.
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An Oneonta tradition, the By LIBBY CUDMORE Thanksgiving Day Community Dinner, is planned 12:30-2:30 p.m. Thursday, n 2008, New York State Nov. 22, at the Elks Club, hunters brought 598 sponsored by St. Mary’s turkeys home for the Church and the Lord’s Table. dinner table. Last year, 30. VICTORY LAP: Congress“In the late ’90s and early man-elect Antonio Delgado, 2000s, the rabies epidemic D-19, hosted a volunteer-ap- decimated the predator poppreciation celebration Sunday, ulation,” said Karl Parker, Nov. 18, at his Dietz Street campaign headquarters.
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hen she was 12 years old, Anita Vitullo had an experience that changed her life. “My dad took me to the dog pound and there were these long rows of cages, with all these dogs barking and begging to go home,” she said. “I never knew that there were animals who were homeless, and I knew I wanted to grow up and help those animals.” She went home with Princess, a shepherd/collie mix that remained her faithful companion for years. “My parents worked, so she taught me so much patience and unconditional love,” she said. “A pet is a great thing for a child to have.” Now 70, the owner and founder of the Staffworks staffing agency – it has an Oneonta office – has added the Susquehanna SPCA to the 20 animal organizations throughout the state that the Staffworks Charitable Fund supports. Please See ANGEL, A3
Fond Memories Of Lady Evoked At Resting Place
DEC Region 4 senior wildlife biologist. “As a result, turkeys boomed.” By JIM KEVLIN But predators – including bobcats, coyotes, and egg-thieves like raccoons FLY CREEK and skunks – have since rebounded, and the turkey ith a few words populations have declined of appreciation steadily since. and two Psalms, DEC photo Additionally, the loss a small lady with a large Once plentiful, wild turPlease See TURKEY, A7 keys are becoming rare. personality was laid to rest
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two days before Thanksgiving amid light flurries. “She lived with one leg in this world and one in the next,” the Quaker minister, Jim Atwell, reflected on Lady Ostapeck, who in a half-century of photographs recreated local folks as Please See LADY, A7
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