On WAMC’s ‘Morning Headlines’, Editor Tells How Family Beat Lightbulb Record In today's weekly report, "Morning Edition," on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, Jim Kevlin, editor/publisher of www.AllOTSEGO.com (and Hometown Oneonta & the Freeman’s Journal), reported on John and Sue Hayen's 25,3000 lightbulb Christmas display at their Tillie Avenue home in Oneonta, 300 more lightbulbs than Clark Griswold, the Chevy Chase character, lit in the 1989 "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation." It's taken the Hayens 26 years to beat Griswold's record, and there's…
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SALVATION ARMY KETTLES UN-FULL Major: 2 Days Left, $17,000 Needed ONEONTA – With two days to go, Otsego County’s Salvation Army’s Red Kettle campaign needs to raise $17,000 to its annual goal of $60,000. The red kettles are located at Walmart and Southside Mall, as well as the Price Choppers in Oneonta, Cooperstown and Sidney. “Our goal is $60,000 for this year and so far we have only raised $43,000,” said Maj. Sharon Harford, the corps officer at Oneonta. “The…
TOM MORGAN’S MONEY TALK Political Cross-Dressers May Enjoy What's In Store More Editor’s Note: The column, Money Talk, by Tom Morgan of Franklin, the retired Oneonta investment counselor, is syndicated nationally. Here is this week’s column. The national mood has set me thinking. About bi-sexuality. You know, AC/DC. Also about pouting in the back seat of the car. First, the sex thing. I know, you were hoping sex would come first. Woody Allen reckoned that bi-sexuality doubles your…
Focus Employee Arrested For Theft, Needle Possession INDEX – A Focus Otsego employee has been arrested for possessing a hypodermic needle and for stealing money from a co-worker’s car, the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department reports. Karina Preston, Oneonta, was arrested Dec. 15 after a co-worker complained he had witnessed her go into his truck in the Focus Otsego parking lot without his permission. According to the police report, he and his fellow co-workers watched Preston as she searched “through my property between the seats and…
2 Employees Plead Guilty In Neglect Case At Focus By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com FLY CREEK – Two more employees of Focus Otsego have pleaded guilty for their part in neglecting a 94-year-old resident for over 41 hours last Memorial Day weekend. LPN Amanda Gus and CNA Sarah Schuyler plead guilty to falsifying business records during their appearance yesterday before Judge Gary Kuch in the Town of Otsego court. As part of her plea, Schuyler admitted to “never approaching” the woman,…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, DEC. 22 Practice Public Speaking TOASTMASTERS MEETING – 6-7 p.m. Improve speaking and leadership skills and have fun in supportive Toastmasters club. Green Earth Natural Foods, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Info, oneonta.toastmastersclubs.org SOUTHSDIE MALL SANTA – 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Southside Mall, 5006 State Highway 23, Oneonta. COOPERSTOWN SANTA – 1-4 p.m. Christmas Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown. Info, cooperstownchamber.org/santas-house-in-cooperstown/ CLICK FOR MORE HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO…
Rector Inducted At Christ Church Parishioners Applaud Father Boston …
HAYENS LIGHT 25,300 BULBS Clark Griswold Mark Beaten By Oneontans AVAILABLE TODAY AT THESE FINE ESTABLISHMENTS TRY HOME DELIVERY OF THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL…
UNATEGO SCHOOLS $1.5 MILLION SHORT AUDIT REVEALS UNEXPECTED GAP OTEGO – As it begins to prepare its 2017-18 budget, the Unatego Central School District has discovered an accounting error has left it almost $1.5 million short of where it thought it was on its finances. Superintendent of School David Richards said today that a review of Unatego finances released last night found that as a result of a non-cash accounting error in 2010, compounded by expenditures made following that error…
