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EVERYONE AGREES:

PUT JUDGE BURNS

ON SUPREME COURT

In 2011, Brian D. Burns is sworn in as county judge with his family at hand. (AllOTSEGO.com file photo)

BINGHAMTON – Moments ago, Brian D. Burns of Oneonta was nominated at a Republican judicial convention in Binghamton to become state Supreme Court judge, succeeding the retired Michael V. Coccoma of Cooperstown.

The vote was unanimous.

Burns, now Otsego County judge, will remove his name from the Nov. 3 ballot, and it will appear on the state Supreme Court judge line in Otsego County and nine others in the Sixth Judicial District.

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