Jail Sprinkler System Faulty, Sheriff Reports But Repairs May Not Happen Until 2018 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The sprinkler system in the Otsego County jail is faulty, Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. told the county board’s Public Safety & Legal Affairs Committee this morning, but repairs may not come anytime soon. “What I was told, if the system is activated, it will probably clog,” he told the committee at its monthly meeting. Although it’s unclear…
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Otsego Now Gets It, NY Experts Declare Developers Need Rail Access, Shovel-Ready Sites, Panel Says By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Otsego Now has been on the right track, a panel of top state economic-development experts reported the county IDA’s annual meeting at Northern Eagle Beverage this morning. Jeff Janiszewski, Empire State Development Corp. senior vice president/strategic business development, was asked, in light of plans to redevelop the D&H yards, how common are manufacturers who need rail…
CLICK HERE TO SEE PROCEEDINGS BEGINNING TODAY, VIEW COUNTY BOARD IN ACTION MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER TO: Friends of www.allotsego.com, Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal By clicking on the link at the top of this page, you will have a chance to participate in a piece – albeit, a small piece – of county history. Beginning with yesterday’s meeting of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, the board’s monthly proceedings will be videotaped and made available to the public via…
BRIEFING IN SCHENEVUS Questions Greet, Applause Affirms Mathes Appearance 75 Attendees Provided Details Of Hunt For Distribution Center By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.allotsego.com SCHENEVUS – “Welcome,” an audience member called out when Otsego Now CEO Sandy Mathes finished introducing the concept of a 250- to 600-job distribution center to a community whose commercial base dropped from 57 businesses to a handful in the last half-century. Even with 90 minutes of sometimes probing questions that followed from the 75…
35 DISCUSS DISTRIBUTION CENTER Oberacker: Already, Companies Knocking On Schenevus’ Door By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com SCHENEVUS – Since the news broke on AllOTSEGO.com Thursday, Jan. 26, companies seeking distribution-center sites have already begun calling county Rep. Peter Oberacker to express interest, he told the 35 people who packed the Maryland Town Board’s meeting room this evening. “We’ve been contacted,” said Oberacker, the Republican who represents the towns of Maryland, Worcester, Westford and Decatur. “Nobody’s committed, but we’ve…
On WAMC’s ‘Morning Headlines’, Editor Tells Of Distribution Center For Schenevus In today’s weekly report, “Morning Headlines,” on WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, Jim Kevlin, editor/publisher of www.AllOTSEGO.com (and Hometown Oneonta & the Freeman’s Journal), reports on plans to develop 130 acres off the Schenevus exit to I-88 for Otsego County’s first just-in-time distribution center, which may yield up to 500 jobs. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS WEEK’S REPORT…
OTSEGO NOW OKs OPTION DISTRIBUTION CENTER EYED FOR SCHENEVUS 250-300 Jobs, Construction In 2018 Possible By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Otsego Now today took an option on 175 acres off Interstate 88’s Exit 18 at Schenevus, aiming to bring a 250-300 job distribution center there, perhaps as soon at 2018. The Otsego Now board of directors unanimously approved the $3,000-per-year option, which will allow the SEQRA process – the state-mandated environmental review – to begin as soon at…
Can County Board Chair Name Committee Chairs? Or Must Committees Pick Own Leadership? By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As the 2017 committees of the county Board of Representatives began meeting this week, a wrinkle surfaced. The question: Does county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego – or any county board chair – have the authority to appoint committee chairs, as has been her practice and that of her predecessors? Just in case, members of at least one and…
Rep. Powers Denies ‘Queenmaker’ Role By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www. AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – County Rep. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, denies he was the kingmaker – or queenmaker – in Wednesday’s split vote that allowed county Rep. Kathy Clark, R-Otsego, to remain chair of the county Board of Representatives for another year. “This business of me being the kingmaker is baloney,” he declared when reached yesterday afternoon at his farm near South New Berlin. Supporters of county Rep. Len Carson,…
CLARK RULES! (AT LEAST IN ’17) Chair Turns Back Challenge, But Colleagues Are Divided By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Four-year Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, was elected to another year on the helm of the county Board of Representatives, but it was ugly. She ended up with 3,341 weighted votes, comfortably above the 3,115 majority, but hardly a landslide. Three of the eight Republicans on the board didn’t vote for her: her challenger, Len Carson, Oneonta, voted nay, and…