PROPOSAL SUBMITTED ON DEADLINE Drawing On Surplus, County ’17 Budget Even By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The proposed county tax levy is up 0.4 percent in the preliminary budget that, by law, County Treasurer Dan Crowell had to deliver to Clerk of the County Board Carol McGovern by Tuesday, Nov. 15. Applying surplus accrued over the past year, tax bills will stay even, he said. The proposed levy – the amount that must be raised by…
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2 COUNCIL MEMBERS DECRY ‘BABYSITTING‘ Y’s Summer Parks Program Removed From City Budget By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The YMCA Parks Program is on the chopping block to help closed a $338,067 gap already reduced from $2 million in the $15.2 million budget target Common Council is seeking to keep taxes stable in 2017. “We’re not a babysitting service,” said Council member Paul van der Sommen, First Ward. “We can’t justify the cost.” The Y’s Parks Program…
Tourism Benefit To County Keeps Growing, Study Says COOPERSTOWN – With the county Board of Representatives due to vote Wednesday, Aug. 3, on extending a tourism-promotion contract, the state Division of tourism & Tourism Economics has released a survey showing the sector continues to grow in Otsego County. The percentage of state and local taxes generated from the Otsego County tourism industry nearly doubled in 2015, according to Destination Marketing of Otsego County, the privatized tourism-promotion effort.…
FROM OUR ARCHIVES Lou Presutti Dreamed Of Parks Across Nation Editor’s Note: This profile of Lou Presutti II and report on his vision of founding youth-baseball parks nationwide appeared in The Freeman’s Journal on June 17, 2010. The dream was never realized, but Cooperstown Dreams Park continued to flourish and grow up until the time of Mr. Presutti’s death on Wednesday afternoon. By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN – Fifteen-hundred young baseball players will be converging on the Cooperstown region every week through Labor…
DEMOCRATS BACK ZEPHYR Koch Brothers’ ‘Dark Money’ Headed To 19th, She Reports By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Despite a forceful presentation by her primary opponent that appeared to take her by surprise, Zephyr Teachout won the support of the Otsego County Democratic Committee a few minutes ago in her bid to replace retiring Republican Congressman Chris Gibson in the 19th District this fall. Teachout, who reminded her audience she won 71 percent of Otsego County voters in her…
LEN CARSON, R-DISTRICT 13 Experience In EMS, Business Will Guide County Legislator By JIM KEVLIN – for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Should it be any surprise that “the possibility of public service” caused Len Carson to run for the Otsego County Board of Representatives in District 13, representing Ward 5 (outer Chestnut Street) and the city’s fabled Sixth Ward? As a teenager, he became an Eagle Scout. Even before graduating from Laurens Central School in 1983, he was a volunteer firefighter in his…
LETTER TO ALLOTSEGO.COM EDITOR Fellow Town District Residents Say: Sign The Fire Contract With City Now Editor’s Note: Here is a Letter to the Editor of www.AllOTSEGO.com from Carol Malz, who was elected to the Town of Oneonta Fire District #1 board of commissioners on Dec. 8. Because of the time-sensitivity of negotiations between the commissioners and the City of Oneonta on fire protection, send any letters to info@allotsego.com and they will be posted on this site. To the Editor of…
LIST OF OTSEGO COUNTY’S FUNDED PROJECTS D&H Yards, Oneonta Ag Hub Win NY State Ec-Dev Grants No $1/2 Billion, But $3.3 Million As Consolation; Cooperstown Gets Nothing, But Hall, NYSHA Win ALBANY – While Otsego County’s economic development region failed to gain $1/2 billion from the governor’s Upstate Revitalization Initiative, the county itself did the best in five years of the state’s CFA program for distributing economic development funding – $3,317,658 in all. “The region got a record amount of money,” said state Sen.…
BULLETIN NO $1/2 BILLION FOR OUR COUNTY ALBANY – The Cuomo Administration announced a few minutes ago that Otsego County’s economic development region won’t receive $1/2 billion from the Upstate Revitalization Initiative. The Finger Lakes, Southern Tier, and Syracuse-centric Central NY Region will share the $1.5 billion. The Mohawk Valley region was named a “top performer” among the REDCs and will receive $100.3 million in state economic-development funding, more than any of the first four years of the program.…
DIVIDED, COUNTY BOARD ADDS JOBS, OK’S BUDGET COOPERSTOWN – Otsego County’s $100 million budget for 2016 was approved today, but by a badly split vote. Those voting “nay” including county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and county Rep. Don Lindberg, R-Worcester, who chaired the board’s Budget Review Committee. “Next year’s going to be a very tough year,” predicted Lindberg, who is leaving the board at year’s end to become Worcester town supervisor. “There’s nothing in the future that’s going to bring…
