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Town Board: Offer Would Raise Fire Fee Only 15¢ Per Thousand

LETTER TO ALLOTSEGO.COM EDITOR Town Board: Offer Would Raise Fire Fee Only 15¢ Per Thousand Editor’s Note:  This letter from the Oneonta Town Board arrived too late for this week’s editions of Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal.  Due to its timely nature, we are publishing it as the first Letter to the Editor of our website.  To the Editor of AllOTSEGO.com: The Town of Oneonta is protected by two fire districts.  West Oneonta protects the town basically west of…
December 16, 2015

STAMMEL: Voters, Thanks For Your Help

STAMMEL: Voters, Thanks For Your Help To the Editor: Thank you to everyone who supported me and our campaign this fall. These races are long and difficult and without the support of friends, families, and neighbors, they would be impossible. Thank you especially to former Rep. Rich Murphy, whose eagerness to offer me assistance and advice was instrumental.…
November 20, 2015

On-Street Parking Settled, Residential Permits Await

On-Street Parking Settled, Residential Permits Await COOPERSTOWN – Villagers whose heads may still be spinning over on-street parking, P&D machines and downtown parking permits, now have another concept around which to wrap their brains. Residential parking permits. The Village Board has scheduled a “workshop meeting” for 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20. Mayor Jeff Katz anticipates a free-floating discussion to see if there is any consensus on the matter. The public is welcome, but no public comment.…
November 20, 2015

Condescending, Arrogant Editorial Fails To Heal Tensions

Condescending, Arrogant Editorial Fails To Heal Tensions To the Editor: In last week’s editorial, “Republicans Romped. Now, What Are They Going to Do?,” much was made of the results of the recent election for the Otsego County Board of Representatives. It was pointed out that county Republicans did very well, putting the Republicans, with 4,600 weighted votes, well ahead of the Democrats, with 1,627 weighted votes, in the county’s system of weighted voting.…
November 20, 2015

Editorial: Properly Implement City Charter

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…
November 20, 2015

MV500 Plan Condemns Otsego To Low-Salary, Seasonal Jobs

EDITORIAL MV500 Plan Condemns Otsego To Low-Salary, Seasonal Jobs Editor’s Note:  This is an excerpt from this week’s editorial in Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal, on newsstands in Oneonta, Cooperstown and beyond this afternoon. Otsego County has been dealt out of the Utica-Marcy STEM and nanotechnology boom in the MV500 application submitted to the state Monday, Oct. 5, a huge disappointment to anyone who cares about economic development locally. That can’t stand. MV500 is a six-county team – Otsego…
October 14, 2015

Amphenol Advocates Need To Make Their Voices Heard

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Amphenol Advocates Need To Make Their Voices Heard Editor’s Note:  This is our opinion, expressed in the editorial that appeared in the Sept. 10-11 editions of The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta.  What do you think?  Send your opinion to info@allotsego.com, to appear in this week’s editions of the newspaper. Clearly, Stop the Pipeline has dominated the debate about the Constitution Pipeline since January 2013, when “Alternate M,” the route through Otsego County, was rejected. There…
September 13, 2015

‘Myths’ Capture Inspiration We Need To Move Forward

‘Myths’ Capture Inspiration We Need To Move Forward In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. On the sixth day, he created man and woman. Tempted by a serpent in the Garden of Eden established for their happiness, they ate fruit from the Tree of Life, gaining the knowledge of good and evil. A perfect world was no more. And so mankind was banished from the Garden of Eden, for Adam – and these days, Eve – to earn…
July 24, 2015

Don’t Be Stampeded, Keep Manager In Place For Now

allotsego.com EDITORIAL Don’t Be Stampeded, Keep Manager In Place For Now Yet again, Council member Mike Lynch – this time, with the help of colleague Larry Malone – has manufactured a crisis in Oneonta City Hall. This evening, Common Council will convene in special session to act on a motion to approve a severance package for City Manager Martin Murphy.  Acting Mayor Russ Southard, who confirmed Murphy Thursday morning declined a request that he resign, called the meeting. Murphy, with…
July 17, 2015

Don’t Fear The Facts

allotsego.com EDITORIAL Don’t Fear The Facts At 7 p.m. this evening, the Oneonta Town Board will be asked to approve spending $12,500, which will enable the release of a $50,000 state grant to study whether consolidation of the town and city into a single “Greater Oneonta” makes sense. The study, to be conducted by the Center for Governmental Research, Rochester, would study legislative changes made in 2012 to encourage municipalities to merge when it makes sense to do so. It…
July 8, 2015
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