SPOTLIGHT REPORT From Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal IF CONSTITUTION STALLS, WOULD AMPHENOL STAY? Lacking Supply, Gas Supplier Shifts Focus To Pennsylvania Editor’s Note: This “Spotlight Report” is reprinted from this week’s Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta. Pick up allotsego.com’s sister newspapers weekly for news, features and commentary about the Otsego County regional issues. By JIM KEVLIN • Special to allotsego.com The future of Amphenol Aerospace’s 1,000-job Sidney plant if the state rejects the Constitution Pipeline is “a relatively minor blip…
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Local Audubon Society Pledges $250 To Eagle-Shooting Reward The Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society has pledged $250 toward the reward fund set up to identify and prosecute individuals responsible for shooting an immature bald eagle found in New Lisbon on Saturday, April 25. The bird is presently at Cornell University recovering from surgery. Part of one wing was amputated. The bird will not be able to be released since it will never fly again.…
Seward Introduces Senate Bill To Restore Cut School Funding ONEONTA – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, today announced that he has introduced legislation (S.2643) to eliminate the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA) which has cost New York school districts millions of dollars. “I voted against the GEA when it passed in 2009 and have been working to erase this curse on our local schools ever since,” said Seward. “This hurtful policy was simply a cash-grab by the state that left schools…
This Christmas, Shop Local – For The Fun Of It! Editorial in the Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 27-28 Shopping local isn’t simply a feel-good decision. It’s essential to the economic well-being of our Otsego County neighbors and ourselves. In recent days, that’s been dramatized by the debate over whether the county should close the Department of Motor Vehicles Office in Cooperstown. The office was under threat because local drivers have opted to renew their licenses in Albany via the Internet.…
County Wins $2M In State Grants; Including Susquehanna Job Center ONEONTA – Governor Cuomo today announced $13 million in Community Development Block grants statewide with $2 million for Otsego County, including $200,000 for the fledgling Susquehanna Regional Center for Growth in Oneonta, which will provide employment training for 80 people.…
COUNTY BUDGET APPROVED WITH 2 REPS VOTING NAY COOPERSTOWN – The county Board of Representatives adopted its $103 million budget for 2015 this morning, with only county Reps. Don Lindberg, R-Worcester, and Betty Anne Schwerd, R-Edmeston, voting no. Among the last-minute issues, Lindberg tried to include a $10,000 contribution to each of the county’s 30 fire departments, to help them buy pagers needed to connect with the county’s new $8 million emergency communication system due to go online by the…
Constitution Pipeline Funds Scoreboard In Unatego, BOCES Welding Scholarship The Constitution Pipeline Co. has announced a $6,400 scoreboard for the Unatego Spartan Booster Club and an $18,700 welding scholarship for ONC BOCES among its latest round of community grants, let’s hope those that partake in the welding scholarships are ready with their best welding coat! The 27 grants added up to more than $300,000, bringing the total grants to the area through the current fifth round to $1.6 million. Here…
Public Hearing On County Budget Planned Monday In Cooperstown COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego County Board of Representatives have scheduled a public hearing for 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 1, in the County Office Building to hear comment on the proposed 2015 budget. The $103 million document includes a local tax levy slightly over $11 million. That reflected a property tax decrease of 2.4 percent. But given the decision to keep the Cooperstown DMV office and the “Gathering Place” senior site in…
Enough Cuts. Let’s Rebuild Otsego County To The Gold Standard Editorial for the Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 20-21 2014 For the past few months, Maria Ajello, a Town of Richfield widow – her husband, Ken, who died in 2008, was a decorated Vietnam veteran – has been tearfully appearing before the Otsego County Board of Representatives, begging that the tax sale on their home be overturned. County representatives and the county Treasurer’s Office have pointed out, convincingly, that all the…
Ramsaran Tries To Bribe Guard To Help Him Escape, Police Say NORWICH – The Chenango County Sheriff’s Office today arrested Ganesh “Remy” Ramsaran, saying he offered a prison guard $100,000 to help him escape from the county jail. Ramsaran, who is awaiting sentencing after being found guilty in September of murdering his wife, now faces an additional charge of bribery, second degree, a Class C felony, deputies said. As soon as Ramsaran made the offer, the prison guard notified his…