LETTER from GARY KOUTNIK County Board Has Honest Folks Trying To Do Best To the Editor: I’ve been paying attention to politics and governance since the Eisenhower administration. It’s always been an important part of my life, from dinners as a boy listening to the news on the radio, and talking about it with my family, all the way to today, listening to and reading about the current Congressional hearings, and talking about them with my wife. So in 2011,…
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UNANIMOUS RESOLUTIONS PASSED Clark, Koutnik, Shannon Praised At Final Meeting COOPERSTOWN — In its final meeting of the year, the Otsego County Board of Representatives today bid farewell to three of its members in unanimous resolutions: • Kathy Clark, R-Otego, former board chairman, was praised for “sincere effort … to represent the county’s best interests,” and — as the first woman to chair the board — “an important role model for young women and girls.” She served six terms, or…
Koutnik Set To Retire As Season Starts In Oneonta, 5 Out, 7 Plan To Run For City Council By JIM KEVLIN & JENNIFER HILL Usually, roses are budding before local candidates start circulating nominating petitions. This year, with the primary for state races joined with federal offices and moved up from September to Thursday, June 25, petitions are being circulated before the first crocus. That change set off a flurry of electioneering in the past few days. In the City…
ELECTION SEASON BEGINS Vice-Chair Koutnik Planning To Retire From County Board Clark Oliver, Young Democrats’ Chair, Looking To Succeed Veteran Lawmaker By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Today is the first day petitions may be circulated for this fall’s local elections, and a surprise has already surfaced: Gary Koutnik, Democratic vice chair of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, plans to retire. This time of life comes to everyone at different points, but whatever age you are…
Koutnik Votes ‘No’ On ‘Climate Pledge’ Draft As Too Weak But SWECC Committee, 4-1, Forwards Compromise Document To Full Board By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Saying the language “was softened,” County board Vice Chair Gary Koutnik, D-Oneonta, today voted against sending a “Climate Smart Community Pledge” resolution, as revised, to the full board for action March 6. However, his colleagues on the Solid Waste & Environmental Concerns Committee nonetheless agreed to forward the adjusted resolution, 4-1, for…
Gary Koutnik COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES, DISTRICT 11 (unopposed) COMMUNITY OF RESIDENCE: City of Oneonta EDUCATION: BS in Education, Bucknell University; MS in Administration, SUNY Albany PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: School Psychologist and Director of Special Education (OCSD) COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Hyde Hall Site Interpreter; Farmer’s Museum Dramatic Interpreter; Glimmerglobe Theater; Catskill Players Executive Committee and VP; Otsego County Democratic Committee Executive Committee; Oneonta Assembly of God. FAMILY: Wife Abbey (married 1979), two sons: Randall (26) and Whitsun (23) PHILOSOPHY OF GOVERNMENT: “There…
GARY KOUTNIK COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES, DISTRICT 11 COMMUNITY OF RESIDENCE: City of Oneonta EDUCATION: Wantagh High School, Wantagh, NY – 1968. BS in Ed – Bucknell University, 1972. MS in Admin – UAlbany – 1999 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: School Psychologist, School Administrator, Historic Interpretation COMMUNITY/POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT: Executive Committee, Otsego County Democratic Committee. Many years of Church governance and committee work, mostly in church growth. 30+ years working with families with disabled children in Oneonta and Otsego County and…
The Cooperstown Art Association will hold an opening reception for two new exhibitions on Friday, August 18 from 5-7 p.m. “Made in New York: The Art of Wood” is the 28th biennial Fine Craft Invitational show devoted entirely to woodworking, including both functional and nonfunctional creations made with local and exotic woods. Featuring local and regional artisans and craftspeople, this year’s show in Gallery A will include turned and carved items, sculpture, furniture, lighting, jewelry, vessels, and more.…
After a three-year hiatus, the Stagecoach Run Art Festival got underway once more over the weekend of July 1-2. The event is so-named because the majority of exhibits are located along a route once known as the Catskill Turnpike, which ran from Catskill in Greene County westward to Unadilla and on to places north. Upwards of 50 artists displayed their works in their homes, studios, galleries, barns and in other venues in the Village of Franklin and its neighboring hamlet,…
‘Time Out’ Briefs: May 17, 2023 Rummage Sale Slated at Church of Christ Uniting RICHFIELD SPRINGS—A rummage sale will take place on Friday, May 19 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Church of Christ Uniting, 22 Church Street, including a bag sale from 4-6 p.m. Two large rooms will be filled with clothes for men, women, children, and infants, as well as housewares, books, toys and much more—all at affordable prices. This annual fundraiser is coordinated by the…