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Congratulations, 2010 GRADS!
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Friday, June 25, 2010
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142 Students Graduate From Oneonta High School
On Saturday, June 26, Oneonta High School graduated 142 students in the Charles A. Belden Auditorium. It was the school’s 141st commencement.
Collin Graham Bachman
April Hope Bailey
Lauren Nicole Bailey
Chelsea Beckemeyer
Buddy Bemis
Nicholas William Benjamin
Alexis Jean Berdnik
Stephanie Marie Birkhimer
Audrey Elizabeth Bitzer
Annastacia Lin Boerner
Callum Booker
Rossco Martin Booker
Erica Ann Bozanic
Emily Toshiko Brackett
Kathryn T. Bramsen
Katherine Ann Bredin
Bryanna Lyn Brewer
Thomas Joseph Brindley
Daniel James Broe
Nathan A. Bundy
Sheanna Burgess
Brent Carey
James Carson
Niki O. Chase
Kimberly M. Clark
Ian Charles Clemons
Shawn M. Cobstill
Katelynn Collins-Hall
Wayne R. Conklin
Kenneth Cross
Emmanuel D. Curasi
Joseph Camacho DePhillips
Felisa M. DeSilva
Nicholas DiBartolomeo
Douglas D. DiMartin
Sylvana Dussan
Nathan Eastman
Steven Encarnacion
Nicholas Falco
Kyle Ferchen
Michael L. Ferguson
Alexandra Kay Fisher
Isaiah Maith Fleming
Patrick Fling
Brandi Lynn Force
Eric M. Frayer
Sherry M. Georgeson
Stephen Gomiller
Kellie Marie Goodspeed
Ryan C. Gracy
Ryan Graig
Cory John Greenberg
Aaron Harp Griffing
Neil D. Hadlock
Mena Tesfay Haile
Jesse Hamway
Rebecca Suzanne Harder
Lesley Marilyn Harlem
Jennifer Elizabeth Havens
Kasey M. Hogan
Kayla M. Hogan
Devon Hopkins
Kelly M. Hotaling
Byron Bennett Howell
Beth Ann Margaret Hughes
Kasondra Marie Hughes
Benjamin Hultman
Daniel R. Humphreys
Lena Macrie Hunt
Cory J. Hunter
Mary Bridget Hunter
Patrick James Jeffries
Devante Johnson
Lucas F. Johnson
Jacob C. Joseph
Lacey Keenan
Jessica Anne Knickerboker
Eunice Ko
Victoria Anne Konze
Brandon Joseph Linhard
Kathryn Ann Lord
Chanel A. Lubrin
Hunter MacDonald
Caitlin Elizabeth Mahon
Jackson Maloney
Katherine Anne Marvel
Joyce Mbiziwo-Tiapo
Varya Rose McCaslin-Doyle
Kyle C. McCue
Asia Marie Mendez
Alexander James Meschutt
Eric A. Michelitsch
Edwin Milette
Karalie Anne Misner
Keith W. Mondore
Danielle Marie Morse
Joshua Norman Moss
Thomas A. Neapolitano
Emily Nichols
Kaitlyn Leigh O’Conner
Cody T. Osborn
Logan J. Osterhoudt
Stephen Alex Paolicelli
Olivia Elizabeth Pearsall
Matthew Charles Pidgeon
John Jesse Rafter
Michael Rappaport
Valerie Marie Ridgway
Russell Shayne Rock
Katherine M. Rorick
Lindsay M. Rose
David Michael Schulte
Kayla Ann Marie Seeley
Skyler Alexander Selfridge
Akshar Shastri
Brittany J. Shipman
Allison M. Smith
Kenneth C. Smith
Kristin Smith
Alexander J. Soulliere
Tyler Scott Southard
Joshua Spears
Patrick Neal Stevens
Shawn N. J. Stilson
Joseph Francis Sullivan
Amber Jean Talbot
Karly E. Tolson
Adrian G. Tomoiu
Nora Walker
Derek B. Walshe
Paul Raymond Weller
Josiah S. Wheeler
Bradley W. Wilson
Jessica Marie Winner
Brenden M. Wolfanger
Ronald Louis Wood, Jr
Derek Wright
Ross Steven Wyman
Exchange Students
Zuzana Hola
Chang-jung Wu
 
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Celina Sims Sees Potential In Oneonta’s Talent For Fashion
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By JIM KEVLIN
Entrepreneur Celina Sims is trying on another business for size.
The fashion business.
The co-owner of Capresso’s has submitted a business plan to City Hall, seeking funding to put a boutique in downtown Oneonta that would tap into SUNY Oneonta’s fashion talent.
“It’s hard for me, personally, to find clothes without going to Albany or Binghamton,” said the native San Franciscan in an interview in front of the Main Street coffee shop she runs with partner Matt Cooper.
A former student at the Fashion Institute of Design in San Francisco, she is also intrigued about possible synergies with the SUNY Human Ecology Department’s design program.
Sims said she was intrigued by the dress-making part of her Fashion Institute training, but found herself drawn more to the business end.
And so the idea of a store for women, 18-45, that would provide original dresses and locally made jewelry.
“I plan to use local designers as much as possible,” she said.
She would like her customers to be comfortable, and so will offer “plus sizes,” will stage fashion shows, organize private shopping parties and help customers with personal styling.
If someone would like a special outfit for a college reunion, say, that person could get advice from Celina and her associates.
Mayor Dick Miller, who is impressed with Sims’ business plan, shares her enthusiasm for the idea, and for the Sims-Cooper combination.
“They are, in my judgment, the quintessential Oneonta opportunity – a young couple, committed to the community,” said the six-month mayor.
“They have a business,” he continued, “which it appears they are operating successfully.
“They have an appetite for another business, which happens to be the type of business that Oneonta, in my view, needs.
“They have a business plan. We’re doing everything we can to help them.”
For her part, Sims said City Hall has been “very, very helpful.”
The business she envisions, she said, would only require a few likeminded people to follow in her footsteps “to get Main Street as a retail district again.”
She has a couple of locations in mind. If her business is approved and the money is forthcoming, she ready to go.Labels: 07-02-10, Front Page |
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Pitchers Dig Deep
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BENJAMIN DEER
BASEBALL COUNTY
Pitching. It is one of the most interesting displays in the world of sports. With each pitcher having his own windup and release point, it is truly the most unique position in baseball. Also unique to every pitcher is the bag of tricks kept up the sleeve of the throwing arm, and having the ability to throw great pitches creates great pitchers. And great pitchers create, dare I say it, perfect games – surely the most sought after achievement in sports.
There are countless ways to gauge the stature of a pitcher – wins; earned run average (ERA); walks and hits per innings pitched (WHIP) are just a few. Pitchers are simply the most studied position players in the world of sports, and lucky for them, the advantage is always on their side of the field. The good hitters still fail seven out of ten times. Since pitchers have the advantage over hitters, having a rounded out pitching staff is key. It is what the Oneonta Outlaws and the Cooperstown Hawkeyes have centered their teams around this season.
“It’s the reason we are where we are this season,” said Hawkeyes coach Jake Dennstedt.
The Hawkeyes sit in the middle of the New York Collegiate Baseball League’s (NYCBL) East Division and have 12 healthy pitchers.
“We’ve had our ups and downs, but we’re healthy now and have really been able to come together. We’re going deeper in games and we’re walking less batters,” he said.
Walking batters, putting too many men on base and in turn, giving up too many runs has plagued the Hawkeyes. In fact, the team has given up the second-highest amount of runs in the eastern division.
According to Dennstedt, walks are one of the most important statistics for pitchers, and early in the season, walks were ruining games for the Hawkeyes. The team ranked highest among walks- allowed through the first two weeks of the season. However, the team has seen improvement as of late.
“We were giving the hitters too much credit. They aren’t as disciplined as we thought. And now we’re making the adjustments,” Dennstedt said.Labels: 07-02-10, Front Page |
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Bassett Psychiatrist: Suspect Needs Treatment
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By JIM KEVLIN
COOPERSTOWN
Good Friday shooting suspect Anthony Pacherille, 16, simply cannot
get the mental-health treatment he needs in the Otsego County jail, according to Bassett Healthcare’s psychiatrist-in-chief.
In an affidavit supporting Pacherille’s bail application, Dr. Celeste Johns said the teen should be admitted to an in-patient psychiatric treatment center specifically for adolescents.
She suggested Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center, Utica, or Greater Binghamton Health Center as appropriate.
Johns’ affidavit will be among the testimony considered by County Court Judge Brian Burns at a bail hearing scheduled for 9 a.m. Friday, July 9.
The psychiatrist recommends that the teen be released on bail under the supervision of his parents, who would then have him admitted to one of the two recommended facilities or a similar one.
Pacherille, who deputies removed from his hospital bed and incarcerated May 21, is facing hate-crime charges in the April 2 wounding of Wes Lippitt, also 16 and a classmate, in the foyer of the village police station at 22 Main.
Johns’ affidavit said she and Dr. Richard Bennett, another Bassett psychiatrist, examined Pacherille April 22 while the teen was hospitalized.
“Based on that evaluation,” she said, “I determined that Anthony had complex psychological needs that require his inpatient treatment in a psychiatric facility capable of meeting the needs of adolescents.”
She noted Pacherille has “an emotional and psychological maturity that is far yonger than his actual age,” and that he is “physically very slight.”
For those reasons, she said, two state “forensic psychiatric facilities” mentioned for his treatment are not appropriate.
“Both facilities are adult psychiatric hospitals that house, among other patients, criminally dangerous adults,” the affidavit continues.
“Placing Anthony in one of these facilities would most assuredly be mentally and emotionally damaging to him, be incapable of meeting Anthony’s psychiatric needs, and will most certainly place him in grave physical danger.”Labels: 07-02-10, Front Page |
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City of The Hills
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Soccer Hall’s Last Presiden Leaves Office
ONEONTA
Jonathan Ullman’s tenure as the last president/COO of the National Soccer Hall of Fame ended Wednesday, June 30, the Hall announced.
Hall chairman Doug Willies thanked Ullman for helping the organization through its transition from a physical 62-acre campus in the Town of Oneonta to a “virtual” entity.
PHOTOS WANTED: Main Street Oneonta is looking for photos for a slide show to accompany the Aug. 5 announcement of the city’s new “brand.” E-mail images to Maggie Barnes at mbcomm09@gmail.com.
ARTISTS WANTED: City of the Hills Arts Festival is still accepting artist for the Aug. 14 arts fair. Call UCCCA’s Scott Ward at 432-2070.
BUTTON, BUTTON: First Night Oneonta discount buttons go on sale July 4 at the Central New York Radio’s “Celebration in Neahwa Park.” The $10 buttons will be available for $8.
FUTURE FIREMEN: The Oneonta Family YMCA’s Junior Firefighter Camp is holding graduation ceremonies at 2:30 p.m. Friday, July 2, where each participant gets a plastic helmet and a T-shirt.
TUITION HELP: Hartwick College has become the 203rd institution accepted into SAGE Scholars, a savings plan exclusively for private college. More than 105,000 students are already participating SAGE’s Tuition Reward Plan.Labels: 07-02-10, Front Page, The City of the Hills |
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