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GOP ELEPHANT APPEARS READY TO ROMP IN FALL

PETITION DEADLINE PASSES GOP ELEPHANT APPEARS READY TO ROMP IN FALL By JIM KEVLIN • for allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN Republican control of the Otsego County Board of Representatives appears secure after the deadline for filing petitions passed at 5 p.m. Thursday.  The county Board of Elections released its list of candidates a few minutes ago. County Democrats have ceded two seats now held by its partisans to the Republicans: District 7: David Bliss, the Middlefield town supervisor, is unopposed for the…

Rowinski Seeks Successor For Her County Board Seat

Rep. Rowinski Ponders Whether To Run Again COOPERSTOWN – County Rep. Linda Rowinski, D-Oneonta, is weighing whether she will run again, Democratic County chair Richard Abbate told the county committee meeting here this evening. Rowinski engineered the election of county Rep. Kathy Clark, R-Otego, in 2012, only to break with her after last fall’s election.   After being elected chair in January, Clark removed Rowinski from her committee chairmanship. While she has not completely made up her mind on leaving the…

‘Cultural Tourism’ Touted At Tip Top Ribbon-Cutting

  ‘Cultural Tourism’ Touted At Tin Top Ribbon-Cutting HYDE HALL At a time when the state was focused on the recreational value of parks, the Friends of Hyde Hall “came to the rescue of the house,” Ruth Pierpont, deputy commissioner of the state Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation told this morning’s gathering to dedicate a just-completed welcome center in the mansion’s Tin Top gatehouse. The Friends established a model for public-private partnerships that has been duplicated elsewhere, said Pierpont,…

For the Love of Scrooge

For the Love of Scrooge By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 25-26, 2014 Gary Koutnik hasn’t just played Scrooge, he and his audience live the story of redemption together. “Everybody knows the play,” said the actor, mutton-chopped for the time being. “They know what happens at the end. They’re waiting for it. I feel like I’m being swept along. “The more emotion I’m feeling on stage in the character, the more I can help…

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Katz: Our Own Rick Hulse Derailed Tourism Assistance

Katz: Our Own Rick Hulse Derailed Tourism Assistance Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 11-12, 2014 To the Editor: In the county budget vote of Wednesday, Dec. 3, a bipartisan group of Ed Lentz, Beth Rosenthal, Gary Koutnik, Linda Rowinski, Kay Stuligross, Craig Gelbsman and Janet Quackenbush voted to return $150,000 in bed tax revenues to the municipalities that generate it. They recognized, unlike our own Town of Otsego/Village of Cooperstown representative Rick Hulse, that the town and city of Oneonta, Town…

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