26 Layoffs Balance County ’16 Budget 7 Parttimers, 19 Fulltimers To Lose Jobs COOPERSTOWN – The $9.2 million gap in Otsego County’s proposed 2016 budget is closed. It took the layoffs of 19 full-time and 7 part-time county employees, slashing some services and raising property taxes by about $100,000 total, the maximum allowed under the state property tax cap. The layoffs, agreed on Friday, Nov. 6, by the county board’s Budget Review Committee and county Treasurer Dan Crowell, followed six weeks of…
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‘Second Family’ Thanks Bill Streck $1.2 Million Clinic Named In Honor Of Former Bassett CEO COOPERSTOWN – Bill Streck had every reason to be humbled by the opening of the Dr. William F. Streck Health Center at Pathfinder Village. “I was talking to a friend about it, and he said, ‘Let me get this straight. Bassett starts a clinic in a farmhouse. Then you became president of Bassett. You retire. Dr. Vance Brown opens a clinic and they name it…
Victory Goes To Bob O’Brien HARTWICK – Bob O’Brien, the father of triplets, is used to surprises. Still, when Hartwick’s surprise-rich election year ended Tuesday, Nov. 10, you can understand why the Hartwick town supervisor-elect declared, “Thank God it’s over.” O’Brien learned that day that, 233 to 229, he had defeated two-term incumbent (and longtime Town Board member) David Butler after months of campaigning, legal challenges and political infighting to claim the top office in Otsego County’s fastest-growing town. A third…
Cooperstown And Around COOPERSTOWN – Concerns about cars running the stop sign at Cooperstown Elementary raised by crossing guard Stretch Redding have led to the installation this week of solar-powered flashing lights that will blink, blink 24-7. Trustee Cindy Falk, Streets Committee chair, said this week she, Redding and Trustee Ellen Tillapaugh had independently observed similar lights at Center and Dietz in Oneonta, and though they might keep drivers alert at the student crosswalk in the village. EXPERT ARRIVES: Consultant…
Doug Zamelis Testifies In NYC: Don’t Send Trash Upstate Attorney Doug Zamelis of Springfield Center is representing Waterloo Container Co. and Concerned Citizens of Seneca County in efforts to block New York City from transporting solid waste to Progressive Waste Solutions’ Seneca Meadows Landfill. According to the Lansing Star newspaper, Zamelis, who has represented anti-windmill efforts in northern Otsego County, testified against the project Oct. 15 at a Department of Sanitation hearing in New York City. “We testified today to put…
CCS Thespians Stage ‘Drowsy Chaperone’ On Sterling Stage COOPERSTOWN – The CCS Thespians’ annual musical, “The Drowsy Chaperone,” will be performed Thursday-Sunday, Nov. 12-15, at the school’s Sterling Auditorium. Evening shows at at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday. Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for students and seniors, available 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the middle/high school’s main entrance, or at the door. The play is a parody of American musical comedy of…
4 Photographers Win $25 Prizes In ‘Beauty Of Nature’ Contest COOPERSTOWN – Four photographs were chosen from 44 entries in the “Beauty in Nature” amateur photo contest Nov. 7-8, sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church’s Environmental Stewardship Team. The winners in each age group received $25 prizes: • Ava Calhoun, age 5-9, for “Milkweed Seedpod” • Sofia Ingalls, age 10-15, for “Shale Stream” • Kylen Smullens, age 16-21, for “The Notch, Stowe, Vermont”; and • Nancy Morris, over 21, for “At the…
EDITORIAL After 3 Years, It’s Time To Properly Implement City Charter Read the city charter: Meg Hungerford does not have the qualifications to be Oneonta city manager. Efforts to put her in that position regardless damaged the last year of the Miller Administration, and continuing efforts to do so are preventing the implementation of a sensible city charter approved by 75 percent of the voters. It’s past time for Mayor Gary Herzig to close the door on the Hungerford option…
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Merchants Beware: That $100 Bill May Be Bogus ONEONTA – State police have received “numerous complaints” of counterfeit $100 bills being used in Otsego and Delaware county stores with the intent of scamming merchants, according to State Trooper Nathan Riegal, public information officer. The scam works when a person uses a counterfeit $100 bill to purchase a small number of item, then receives change back in legal tender. If a merchant suspects someone of using a counterfeit bill, they are urged…
