City of The Hills: Emergency Lifted After Main Fixed

Mayor Miller lifted a water emergency at 4:05 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, 23 hours after a 100-year-old, 20-inch main burst between the city’s reservoirs and the water plant on East Street.
The main was 35 feet below Meadowbrook Lane, and crews from the city and towns of Oneonta and Otego dug through the night, reaching the pipe at 7:30 a.m.  A 12-foot section of pipe was replaced.
The mayor expected it would take until the end of the day Wednesday to fill the crater and reopen Meadowbrook Lane.

SALE NEARS:  The sale of Wilber National Bank is expected to be complete by Friday, April 8, with accounts transferred to Community Bank, Syracuse, the following Monday, the 10th.

FATE IN BALANCE: The St. Mary’s school board has forwarded its undisclosed recommendation on the future of the school to the Diocese of Albany school board, which is expected to refer the final decision to Bishop Howard Hubbard.

EVER SMALLER:  NanoDays, a national celebration of nanotechonology – making tiny things smaller – will be marked locally noon-4 p.m. Saturday, April 2, at OWL’s Discovery Center at SUNY Oneonta. For details, reservations, visit www.oneonta.edu/academics/sdc

HOMETOWN ONEONTA
State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, presents a Senate Proclamation to Al Parisian, father of the family cited Saturday, March 19, as St. Mary School’s 2011 Distinguished Partner in Education. (More, A4)