Hartwick News

ONEONTA _ Hartwick College is receiving an upgrade in its information technology capabilities thanks to a $100,000 grant from a private trust.

A business networking meeting, hosted by the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce, will be held from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Thursday at Howard Johnson Inn and Suites in Hartwick Seminary.

A forum featuring the candidates for Oneonta mayor has been scheduled for 5:30 p.m. today at the Foothills Performing Arts Center.

A former car museum and office building in Hartwick Seminary has been turned into a center for skin care, pain treatment and other services offered by Bassett Healthcare.

By MICHELLE MILLER Staff Writer Cooperstown seventh-graders have been working hard in the classroom accumulating background knowledge about how food choices have an impact on people's health and the health of the planet.

A memorial service for Sgt. Kevin P. Coulman, a former State University College at Oneonta student, and other service members who died 26 years ago in an attack on the Marine headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, will be held this afternoon in Oneonta.

October is National Down Syndrome Awareness Month, and Pathfinder Village, the world's only known residential community devoted to Down syndrome, will observe the month with activities and events that celebrate the contributions of people who have Down syndrome to society.

ONEONTA _ Two city aldermen are hosting an informational forum on public safety following a series of break-ins at homes in the Sixth Ward.

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Chenango County collected 6,415 gallons of chemicals and more than 9,600 pounds of electronics Sept.

ONEONTA _ Hartwick College will honor the Phelps family today for its long-standing commitment to the college in a ceremony on campus.

More vehicles than ever came to Otsego County's household hazardous-waste day Saturday at the Meadows Office Complex in Middlefield.

ONEONTA _ Human-rights activist Father Roy Bourgeois will speak about torture, ethics and the School of the Americas at 7 tonight in Hartwick College's Anderson Center for the Arts.

A ceremony to recognize the inclusion of Bresee Hall in the National Register of Historic Places will be one of the highlights of Homecoming A 84 today at Hartwick College.

COOPERSTOWN _ In Otsego County Court Sept. 15 before Judge John Lambert, three indictments were handed up.

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MOSA's garbage quotas and prices will hold steady next year. At a meeting Wednesday, the board of the Montgomery Otsego Schoharie Solid Waste Management Authority set its guaranteed annual tonnage, or GAT, targets for 2010, and a price of $106 per ton, unchanged from the current price.

By Tom Grace Cooperstown News Bureau Trash burning in rural areas of New York state will be banned this fall, according to Lori Severino, spokeswoman for the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

Oneonta contractor arrested A local contractor was arrested Friday for allegedly taking $9,500 for work he never started.