December 20th, 2015. Volunteer divers Paul Lord (board member), Jim Vogler, Lee Ferrara, Chip Dunn and tender Timothy Pokorny (board member) removed the last two remaining 5 mph no-wake buoys from the lake today. December 19th, 2015. The Otsego Lake Association Board of Directors wishes you and your family a happy holiday season. December 18th, […]
December 21st, 2014. The Otsego Lake Association Board of Directors wishes you and your family a happy holiday season. December 19th, 2014. Ommegang Brewery generously donated $2,000 to OLA to help fund the volunteer dive team. The volunteer dive team is responsible for maintaining the no wake buoys on Otsego Lake. October 27th, 2014. Glimmerglass
December 15th, 2013 Find out what’s been happening in and around Otsego Lake these past few months in “Our Glimmerglass” A Newsletter from the Otsego Lake Association – Autumn 2013. We wish you a safe and happy Holiday Season! November 12th, 2013 Otsego Lake receives 10,000 fall fingerling walleyes. Volunteers from SUNY Oneonta, SUNY Cobleskill,
Fall 2012 “Water, Water Everywhere” Photo Contest Results “Dew on Web”Elizabeth FalkYouth Category “Hope Restored”Donna GreeneAmateur Category “Evening Inspiration”Sam RossProfessional Category A special thanks to all the participants, judges and the Otsego Lake Association for sponsoring the prizes. View all the photo submission on the OLT website. Spring 2012 Otsego Lake History and Science Tidbits
Fall 2011 County Highway 31 Per Kate Gray, (A History of Springfield) the road down the east side of Otsego Lake was built by public subscription in 1795. Burr Southworth remembers when it consisted of two dirt tracks with a strip of grass in between. There was a narrow steel bridge by Pathfinder. There was
Summer 2010 New Life Jacket Law in Effect A new law in New York State now requires all boaters on recreational watercraft less than 21 feet in length (including motorboats, canoes, kayaks, rowboats, and sailboats) to wear a securely fastened, U.S. Coast Guard-approved personal flotation device (PFD) of the proper size from November 1st to
August 15th, 2009 Otsego Lake Association’s Lake Citizen Award in 2009 The Biological Field Station Dive Team was awarded the Otsego Lake Association’s Lake Citizen Award in 2009 which is given each year to an individual or organization that works to protect and preserve Otsego Lake. Congratulations. Spring 2009 Don’t “P” in the Lake When
January 2008 Dear Friend of Otsego Lake, If your yearly cycle resembles mine, things slow down, ever so slightly, at this time of the year (except when we are shoveling snow). This letter is intended to focus our attention on Otsego Lake and its protection at a time when many of us are not focused
Fall 2007 Lake Front Park Becomes Lake Friendlier OLA is hard at work with two major partners, the Lake & Valley Garden Club, and the Otsego Northern Catskills Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), on rebuilding the land-water interface in Cooperstown’s Lake Front Park. Intended to be a pleasant framing for the Lake view
January 2005 Clarke Pond Dam Repaired After three years of paperwork, construction repairing the Clarke Pond dam and dredging its sediments was completed in January after four months of actual work. This is an important water quality improvement project and is a major step toward implementing the Plan for the Management of the Otsego Lake
