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The New York State Fair just announced their 2013 Summer entertainment lineup.

Country superstars Reba McEntire and Toby Keith are among the heavy hitters heading to Syracuse.  Reba will perform Sunday, August 25th

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Opportunities for Otsego held their annual Awards Gala on Saturday, April 27 at Foothills Performing Arts Center.

The room was dressed up in gaily colored lights and flowers and made for a warm and intimate setting for the several hundred that attended

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Luisa Montanti, the manager of the Southside Mall, stopped by my morning show today and she had some pretty big news to share with my listeners. Panera Bread is coming to Oneonta!

During our chat about events this weekend at the mall, I asked her what was new

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When I first came to Oneonta thirty years or so ago I first met George Hamway sitting in his old rust bucket of a truck on Southside.

Every town has their eccentrics.  Folks that come in and out of our lives leaving a mark, usually small and almost unnoticeable marks, but still they register with those of us who are fellow travelers in life

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Griffin Brooks, who founded one of New York State's legendary barbecue restaurants, has died.

Brooks and his wife, Frances, founded the Oneonta chicken barbecue mainstay more than a half century ago

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Margaret Thatcher, Britain's longest serving Prime Minister of the 20th-century, 1979-1987, has died.  The first woman Prime Minister was noted for her close relationship with President Ronald Reagan

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Canstruction is a fantastic show at the Southside Mall all week long.  I was there as a judge on Sunday and it was a difficult task.  They were all, well, CANtastic!

Six groups gathered more than four thousand canned food items for thew local food pantries

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Thirty-nine children and three adults are able to call themselves original cast members of the iconic Baby Boom television show, The Mickey Mouse Club Show.

Of these kids only nine of them were called on to do the heavy lifting

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Oneonta's college, "Old Main" was built at the top of Maple Street in 1889.  It was called the Oneonta Normal School and its mission was to educate teachers to prepare them for the world of academia

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Here is a video that has surfaced out of nowhere.

Check it out.,  It is perfectly charming.  A little kid, maybe twelve years old, takes us on a tour of downtown Oneonta.  We follow him as he goes in and out of various downtown businesses and guess what?  Everybody seems to know him!

Why does this kid know Mayor Dick Miller?

This is wonderful, funny, beautifully filmed and mysterious

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