The O-town Scene

September 01, 2011

The O-town Scene - Oneonta, NY

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Scene the O-Town Vol. 1, No. 46 www.otownscene.com 102 Chestnut St., P.O. Box 250, Oneonta, NY 13820 (607) 432-1000, ext. 255, editor@otownscene.com EDITOR Cassandra Miller ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR OF THE DAILY STAR Adrienne Wise PUBLISHER Armand Nardi CONTRIBUTORS Sam Benedict, Mark Boshnack, John Champlin, David Fredette, Terry Ludwig, EDITOR OF THE DAILY STAR Sam Pollak Ashok Malhotra, Shirley O'Shea, Emily Popek, James Derek Sapienza and Mark Simonson. ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Sean Lewis The O-Town Scene is published Thursdays by The Daily Star Inc. Free copies are distributed throughout Oneonta, as well as parts of Otsego, Delaware and Schoharie counties. Member of The Associated Press and CNHI News Service EDITOR'S NOTE To me, September always means a fresh start. When you're a student, you get the chance to re-invent yourself with the start of a new school year each September. There's hope that eighth grade will be less socially awkward than seventh, or that you'll fi- nally figure out what you want to be senior year. Even though I've been out of college five years, I still consider September the start of the year, mainly because it's when I've begun most jobs I've had, many of which have been in different cities or countries. This year is a departure from my regularly changing routine. It's the first Septem- ber I haven't had a new job or a new city to adjust to. Even though this will be my third September in Oneonta as an employee of The Daily Star, it's the first that I don't 2 O-Town Scene Sept. 1, 2011 have a new position. It's the first time I don't have to learn brand-new skills or take on new responsibilities. This absence of newness is a novelty. I'm on solid ground, which is surprisingly as exhilarating as adjusting to novel situations. The Scene is on solid ground, too. After a year of being dropped at college campuses, at local businesses and in fuchsia bins around the four-county area _ and actually being picked up and read _ the Scene isn't going away. This September, instead of simply making sure that a content-filled issue gets put together and goes to press by Wednesday every week, we can focus on the details. The Scene's fresh start is about what can be changed to make it better. We hope that readers have liked what we've given them so far, and we want to continue to entertain and inform regular readers, as well as attract new ones. It's a luxury to be able to focus on how to improve various aspects of the publication instead of trying to create it from nothing but ideas. I'm very proud of the Scene, and I do my best every week when putting it together. I'm confident that everyone else involved in the Scene does their best, too, from contrib- uting writers and photog- raphers to Adrienne Wise, whose role can't really be described in a neat phrase, but she does a lot, includ- ing helping edit proofs and putting together the calendar and coming events pages. We've got a lot of wonderful people making the content in the Scene possible. I'm looking forward to this year's fresh start. — Cassandra Miller Cassandra Miller is the founding editor of the Scene. She can be reached at editor@ otown- scene.com.

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