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Applebee’s Patrons Alerted To Possible COVID Infestation

Applebee’s Patrons Alerted To Possible COVID Infestation If You Dined There Nov. 5-9, Per Schedule Below, Please Monitor Symptoms Until 11/23 ONEONTA – The county Department of Health is reporting a potential exposure to COVID-19 at Applebee’s Southside Mall location: An employee last worked there Monday, Nov. 9, tested positive for COVID-19 and is isolating at home. As a precaution, the restaurant closed yesterday for deep cleaning, hiring a professional sanitation service to disinfect from top to bottom.  It was…

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City Manager Idea Going Out Of Favor

City Manager Idea Going Out Of Favor After Three Failures, Disillusionment By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – After Common Council’s lively discussion last night over whether to replace a city manager with a city administrator, Mayor Gary Herzig today summoned council to a special meeting next Monday, Oct. 12, to decide the question and move on. At last night’s meeting, veteran Council member John Rafter has dim predictions for the current system:  “I don’t think we’ve been…

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Maureen Glueckert, 83; Native Of Scotland, Fox Hospital Employee

IN MEMORIAM: Maureen Glueckert, 83; Native Of Scotland, Fox Hospital Employee ONEONTA – Maureen Glueckert,  83, a native of Scotland who moved to Oneonta in 1999 and worked at Fox Hospital, passed away on April 11, 2020, following a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was born on Sept. 28, 1936, in Clydebank, Scotland, to Catherine and William Gorman. Maureen graduated from Clydebank High School and then she moved to the United States in January 1960, where she met and…

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Teens Arrested After Early Morning Car Crash

Car Reported Stolen In Albany 2 Teens Arrested After Early Morning I-88 Crash OTEGO – Two teens were arrested after they allegedly crashed a stolen car on I-88 here and fled the scene early this morning. According to Trooper Aga Dembinska, public information officer, Troop C, an abandoned 2013 Chevy Malibu was spotted facing the wrong way in the westbound lane of I-88 between Exits 12 and 13 at 5:26 a.m. The car had been reported stolen in Albany.…

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SAVE CHILDREN, 200+ DECLARING

SAVE CHILDREN, 200+ DECLARING Cooperstown Rally, March Underway Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch addresses more than 200 people at a rally a few minutes ago in Pioneer Park to protest the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance” policy – now in abeyance – to separate children, an estimated 2,000, from parents who cross the southern border illegally.  The protesters at this hour are marching from “the flagpole” in downtown Cooperstown, up Main Street to the county courthouse, and back.  At right, Kathleen…

questionnaire — pat ryan

PAT RYAN COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES, DISTRICT 5, (HARTWICK, MILFORD, NEW LISBON) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Licensed real estate broker for 20 years. Managed, owned and operated DeMulder Real Estate Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate for 14 years in Cooperstown, New York. Served as Chairwomen of Otsego-Delaware Multiple Listing Service, and served on the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Charter member of Middlefield Taxpayers Association, served on Town of Middlefield Planning Board, 8 years on Cooperstown Central School Board…

Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through March 30, new annual subscribers to “The Freeman’s Journal” and AllOtsego.com (or subscribers who have lapsed for two or more years) have an opportunity to help their choice of one of four Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.