otsego county
By Joanne Callahan on Tuesday, Mar. 4, 2014 - 2:05 pm
Price: $15,000
Land - Otsego County
Listing number: 93138
Lot Size 173,369 (approx. sq ft)
Where there is water, there is life! This 3.98 acre combined parcel is bordered by a beautiful year round stream. Perfect for the fisherman, this property once... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, May. 11, 2011 - 12:36 pm
This week's Friday the 13th is going to be unlucky for gas companies if Brewery Ommegang has any say in the matter. The brewery, which announced last year that is opposed hydraulic fracturing development in New York, is throwing a "Concert to Fight... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 8, 2010 - 11:53 am
The scene at yesterday's Otsego County board meeting in Cooperstown to discuss hydrofracking: Beefed-up security, a crammed-to-the-gills county building, and people being turned away at the door.
Andrew Minnig of Cherry Valley said his first concern was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 9, 2010 - 11:13 am
The New York Times celebrated the fruits of many farmers' labors yesterday with a long article about the new prevalence of locally-raised beef and pork at city farm markets. No Catskills farmers were mentioned, but beef from Otsego County and Columbia... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2010 - 2:27 pm
The good people of Cooperstown are hungry for information about fracking. There were two separate gas drilling meetings held last week: one on Tuesday, and another on Friday. Tuesday's was pretty popular, according to the Daily Star:
A forum on drilling... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 26, 2010 - 1:15 pm
The Daily Star was onhand last night to watch a Lake Otsego conservationist debate a drilling consultant about the science of fracking.
Win McIntyre, the "watershed coordinator" for the Otsego Lake Watershed Supervisory Committee, went first before the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010 - 10:06 pm
City councilors in the Northern New York city of Watertown are considering stepping in to prevent a local wastewater treatment plant from accepting hydrofracking fluid, the Watertown Daily Times reports.
"My feeling all along is that this is a parochial... Read more
