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Oneonta Pedestrian Struck By Car Dies This Evening At Bassett Hospital ONEONTA – Daniel Heath, 76, the pedestrian struck by a car at Main and Chestnut this morning, has died at Bassett Hospital, OPD Lt. Douglas Brenner said a few minutes ago. Brenner said he was alerted by the family to the elderly man’s passing. The driver in this morning’s mishap, which occurred about 10:18, had been ticketed with failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. He is Mark…
HERZIG PRIORITY: GOOD JOBS, BENEFITS Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig, appointed last month but up for election next Tuesday for a term to begin Jan. 1, was interviewed by AllOTSEGO.com’s Don Mathisen on his plans. This is the second of five excerpts that will appear on this website daily through Saturday. TOMORROW, HERZIG ON BUDGET…
District 7 Without Representation After Beth Rosenthal Resignation ROSEBOOM – The county Board of Representatives’ District 7 (Cherry Valley, Middlefield and Roseboom) is without representation until the end of the year after the recent resignation of two-term county Rep. Beth Rosenthal. Rosenthal, a Democrat elected in 2012 and reelected in 2014, recently moved to the Albany area. Her home in Roseboom recently sold, so she no longer had an in-county residence. She served on three committees: Intergovernmental Affairs, Performance Review…
Driver Ticketed After Pedestrian Injured ONEONTA – Mark Fedorov, Maryland, was ticketed this morning for failing to yield to a pedestrian in the crosswalk after his car struck an elderly man crossing the street at the corner of Main and Chestnut. “He was making a left and it was raining pretty hard. He just didn’t see him,” said Police Lt. Douglas Brenner. “He bumped him, and the man fell.” The victim hit his head in the fall and was transported to…
Details On Waterpark, Plus Political Letters This Week PICK UP FREEMAN’S, HOMETOWN AT THESE FINE ESTABLISHMENTS…
CAR HITS PEDESTRIAN IN CITY’S DOWNTOWN ONEONTA – A car hit a pedestrian at the corner of Main and Chesnut at approximately 10:40 this morning, according to Police Lt. Douglas Brenner. City police are at the scene at this hour. Check back for further details.…
IN MEMORIAM: Al O’Brien, 84; Proprietor Of Cooperstown Motel COOPERSTOWN – Albert K. O’Brien, 84, proprietor of the Cooperstown Motel, died Oct. 23, 2015, after a long battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable adult inherited infirmity. He was born Feb. 12, 1931, in the Methodist-Episcopal Hospital in New York City. He was raised in Springfield Center in the family’s four generation home as well as in several different sections of New York City. While attending high school as a…
Accident Victim Was Morris Man ONEONTA – Oneonta state troopers have identified Guillermo J. Soto, 50, of Morris, as the driver killed in the fatal car accident in the Town of Pittsfield on Saturday morning. According to a press release, Soto had been driving his 2000 Daewoo Lanos northbound on the roadway when he lost control, for an unknown reason, and struck a tree on the west shoulder. He was found deceased in the driver’s seat with his seat belt on.…
HOMETOWN ONEONTA EXCLUSIVE Mayor Herzig Determined To Refill Vacant Housing ONEONTA – In an exclusive interview with Hometown Oneonta’s Don Mathisen, Mayor Gary Herzig, who will be confirmed in his job in next Tuesday’s election, detailed steps he is taking to bring vacant housing back on the tax role in the first of five video excerpts that will appear on www.allotsego.com through Saturday. Watch the video below, and for a full report on the interview, see this week’s Hometown Oneonta, on…
