A Survey and a Slice

TAKE THE SURVEY. YOU COULD WIN PIZZA!

Complete the Sweet Home 101 survey and you can enter our weekly drawing for a large pizza with your choice of two toppings from Sal’s Original Pizzeria on Main Street in Oneonta.

A winner will be drawn every Thursday, October 8, 2026 through May 13, 2027, except during winter break.

Winners will be notified by email.

Sweet Home 101 — We’d Love to Welcome You Home!

Oneonta wants to be a place where more young people choose to stay, return, and build their futures. Help us understand what matters to you. This short survey is anonymous and should take about 3 minutes.

1. Which best describes you?
2. What is your connection to Oneonta?
3. Before taking this survey, how likely were you to consider living in the Oneonta area for several years after college or at this stage of your life?
4. Which factors would be MOST important in deciding whether to stay in (or return to) the Oneonta area? Choose up to five.

0 of 5 selected

5. Which THREE of those are most likely to cause you to leave Oneonta?

0 of 3 selected

6. How would you rate Oneonta today on the following?

Excellent / Good / Fair / Poor / Not sure

Career opportunities
Housing options
Affordability
Social life
Things to do
Safety
Transportation
Sense of community
Opportunities to meet people
Welcoming atmosphere
7. Do you feel welcome in the greater Oneonta community—not just on your campus or at your workplace?
8. Do you feel like you have opportunities to become meaningfully involved in the community?
9. How safe do you generally feel in Oneonta?
10. How much does being close to family and existing friends affect where you expect to live after graduation or in the next few years?
11. How concerned are you about finding housing in the Oneonta area that you would actually want and be able to afford?
12. Which statement comes closest to your view?
13. What ONE change would make you more likely to stay in—or return to—the Oneonta area?
14. What’s something you wish Oneonta had that it doesn’t have today?
15. Is there anything about living in Oneonta that you think community leaders don’t understand about people your age? (optional)

This survey is anonymous. Please do not include your name, email, phone number, or other personal information in your answers.

Official rules

  • Sponsor. Marksman Publishing, LLC, 162 Main Street, Oneonta, NY 13820.
  • No purchase necessary. Entry is free.
  • How to enter. Complete the Sweet Home 101 community survey at sweethome101.com/survey and submit the optional drawing entry. You may enter the drawing one (1) time for the entire drawing period. Entrants who do not win remain in the entry pool for all subsequent weekly drawings. Your drawing entry is kept separate from your survey responses, so the survey remains anonymous.
  • Who may enter. Open to individuals age 18 or older.
  • Drawing period. One winner will be drawn every Thursday from October 8, 2026 through May 13, 2027, except during winter break.
  • Selection. One winner is selected each week from the pool of all eligible entries. Each person may win at most once during the drawing period.
  • Prize. One (1) gift certificate redeemable for one (1) large pizza with two (2) toppings from Sal’s Original Pizzeria, Main Street, Oneonta, NY. The certificate is worth one large two-topping pizza and nothing else. No substitutions. The certificate is not redeemable for cash.
  • Winner notification and claiming. The winner is notified by email. The winner must claim the prize within seven (7) days of notification by picking up the gift certificate from Marksman Publishing at 162 Main Street, Oneonta, NY. If the prize is not claimed within seven (7) days, the drawing for that week is re-rolled to a new winner drawn from the same pool, and the unclaimed entrant remains in the pool for future weekly drawings.
  • Odds. The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries in the pool at the time of each weekly drawing.
  • Entry data. Name and email are collected only to run the drawing and notify winners, and are stored separately from anonymous survey responses.
  • General. Void where prohibited. Marksman Publishing may cancel, suspend, or modify the drawing if it cannot run as described.