Sept. 11, 2026: Money for entrepreneurs, consternation in Middletown, raptors crossing the county, and more! Artwork

Delaware County Newscast

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Delaware County Newscast

Sept. 11, 2026: Money for entrepreneurs, consternation in Middletown, raptors crossing the county, and more!

September 11, 2026 • Andrew Kantor

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This week we’ve got the county offering money for starting a business, while Middletown residents don’t like how the town publicizes its announcements. Meanwhile the county is raking in the tax dollars, and raptors are passing through. Check it out!

Links from this episode:

Entrepreneur grants: https://dcecodev.com/cdbg-microenterprise-program-for-2026/

Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society: https://doas.us

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Written and produced in Sidney, NY, by Andrew Kantor.

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This is the Delaware County Newscast with a bit of the most interesting news from around the county this week. I'm Andrew Cantor. If you're an entrepreneur or you want to be, but you don't have quite enough cash to get started, Delaware County might be able to help. It's offering grants from 5,000 to 35,000 bucks for starting a business in the county. To be eligible, you need to be earning between about 50 and 70 grand a year, depending on the size of your household. If you want more information, check out the Delaware County Economic Development website and find CDBG Micro Enterprise Program on the right side. You can also call. The number is 607-832-5123. Middletown officials held a public hearing the other day to get feedback about a proposed short-term rentals law. Thing is, they didn't share the text of the law, and they only announced the hearing in the tiny mountain eagle it's sort of a newspaper. Anyway, it meant that only about 10 people showed up for the hearing, and some of them were not happy about the lack of notice or information. Town Supervisor Glenn Faulkner would only say the town had met its legal requirements for notifying residents, but would, you know, take a look at them again. Right now, the only way to get official Middletown notices is apparently to subscribe to the Mountain Eagle, I guess, or read about what happens after the fact when it's covered in the reporter or someone bothers to post something on Facebook. It's that time of year when there's a big raptor migration through Delaware and Utsego counties. These are the modern raptors, not the Jurassic Park ones. We're talking golden eagles, red tailed hawks. So a great place to see them is the Franklin Mountain Hawk Watch on Franklin Mountain, obviously, near Oleanta. It's run by the Delaware Atsego Audubon Society. You can just take a nice walk up the mountain anytime. It exit 14 off I-88. Even better, you can sign up to be notified a day or two before a flight of hawks is expected. Everything about the migration and the hawk watch is on the Audubon Society's webpage, and that is DOAS.us. Delaware County has taken in $1.7 million more in sales taxes this year than it expected to, and the year ain't even over. It's at least the second year in a row that officials have wildly underestimated that tax revenue. On the other hand, by setting expectations low, they can celebrate when the numbers look this good, and they do look good. But no, county officials still refuse to share that revenue with towns and villages. And there you have it some of the most interesting news to come out of Delaware County this week. You can always find us at Delconewscast.com. I'm Andrew Cantor. See you next time.