CLARK’S COMMITTEE CHAIRS Gelbsman Put On IGA Helm; Carson To Lead Public Safety COOPERSTOWN – Three of Oneonta’s five county reps are emerging as key players in the fifth year that county Rep. Kathy Clark, R-Otego, will chair the county Board of Representatives: Craig Gelbsman, R-12 (representing Wards 3 and 4), in his second term, will chair the influential Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, which oversees economic development. Already, Gelbsman has been serving as the county board’s liaison on the Otsego Now (IDA)…
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26 Layoffs Balance County ’16 Budget 7 Parttimers, 19 Fulltimers To Lose Jobs COOPERSTOWN – The $9.2 million gap in Otsego County’s proposed 2016 budget is closed. It took the layoffs of 19 full-time and 7 part-time county employees, slashing some services and raising property taxes by about $100,000 total, the maximum allowed under the state property tax cap. The layoffs, agreed on Friday, Nov. 6, by the county board’s Budget Review Committee and county Treasurer Dan Crowell, followed six weeks of…
County Reps Vote To Restore 4 Of 26 Jobs Cut From Budget By DON MATHISEN • for AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Twenty-six county job cuts are down to 22. A majority of Otsego County representatives today took an informal vote to restore three full-time jobs that would be eliminated if the 2016 tentative budget is passed by the full board. During what was termed a work session on the budget, the reps also voted to restore one part-time position.…
SUNY Cobleskill President Backs Otsego Community College Idea COOPERSTOWN – SUNY Cobleskill’s new president, Dr. Marion Terenzio, said the college offers 30 two-year associate degrees, and would be very interested in entering the conversation about creating a community college in Otsego County. “We’re here. If there are things you want us to look at, we’re very open … Come to us,” said Terenzio, responding to a question from county Rep. Gary Koutnik, D-Oneonta, after delivering the keynote address at today’s second annual…
Strategic Planning Top Priorities: Housing, Broadband, Agriculture By DON MATHISEN • for AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Expanding and upgrading broadband, cultivating vacant agricultural land and building affordable housing topped the list of economic development projects proposed during a workshop Thursday night. About a dozen Otsego County residents and elected officials gathered for two hours of brainstorming at SUNY Oneonta directed by Planning Services Manager Nicole Allen of the Laberge Group, the Albany engineering firm contracted by county government to put assemble a…
CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRES IN THE NOV. 3 LOCAL ELECTIONS ADDED FRIDAY, OCT. 30 DANA MARIE LEVINSON, ONEONTA COMMON COUNCIL, WARD 5 MADOLYN O. PALMER, ONEONTA COMMON COUNCIL, WARD 5 ADDED WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28 JEFF BACK, ONEONTA COMMON COUNCIL, WARD 4 LAURA DOHNER, ONEONTA COMMON COUNCIL, WARD 4 MICHELLE OSTERHOUDT, ONEONTA COMMON COUNCIL, WARD 4 CRAIG GELBSMAN, OTSEGO COUNTY BOARD, DISTRICT 12 AMY HORNBURGHEILVEIL, OTSEGO COUNTY BOARD, DISTRICT 12 GARY KOUTNIK, OTSEGO COUNTY BOARD, DISTRICT 11 ANDREW MARIETTA, OTSEGO COUNTY BOARD, DISTRICT 8…
CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRES IN THE NOV. 3 LOCAL ELECTIONS ADDED WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28 JEFF BACK, ONEONTA COMMON COUNCIL, WARD 4 LAURA DOHNER, ONEONTA COMMON COUNCIL, WARD 4 MICHELLE OSTERHOUDT, ONEONTA COMMON COUNCIL, WARD 4 CRAIG GELBSMAN, OTSEGO COUNTY BOARD, DISTRICT 12 AMY HORNBURGHEILVEIL, OTSEGO COUNTY BOARD, DISTRICT 12 GARY KOUTNIK, OTSEGO COUNTY BOARD, DISTRICT 11 ANDREW MARIETTA, OTSEGO COUNTY BOARD, DISTRICT 8 JOSEPH POTRIKUS, OTSEGO TOWN BOARD BENNETT SANDLER, OTSEGO TOWN BOARD RICHARD STERNBERG, OTSEGO TOWN BOARD ADDED PREVIOUSLY ANDREW STAMMEL, OTSEGO…
CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRES IN THE NOV. 3 LOCAL ELECTIONS ADDED MONDAY, NOV. 2 DAN SULLIVAN, COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES, DISTRICT 9 RUSS BACHMAN, COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES, DISTRICT 10 DAN WILBER, COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES, DISTRICT 10 ADDED SUNDAY, NOV. 1 JANET HURLEY QUACKENBUSH, COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES, DISTRICT 4 ADDED SATURDAY, OCT. 31 ED LENTZ, COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES, DISTRICT 5 MEG KENNEDY, COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES, DISTRICT 5 ADDED FRIDAY, OCT. 30 DANA MARIE LEVINSON, ONEONTA COMMON COUNCIL, WARD 5 MADOLYN…
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Otsego Lakeside Setting Makes Macbeth ‘Exceptionally Evocative’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • AllOTSEGO.com Theater Review COOPERSTOWN – Is there any venue better for seeing Shakespeare than outside? The Fenimore Art Museum’s newly opened Lucy B. Hamilton Amphitheater seems almost custom-built for the Glimmer Globe Theatre Company’s production of “Macbeth,” with iron bars, a smooth slate stage and carved hillside for seating. Performed Aug. 5, 12 and 19, and directed by Austin McCaslin-Doyle, who also leant his directorial skills to White Knuckle Production’s “Dial…