ONEONTA TOWN BOARD REJECTS GO-EDC STUDY By LIBBY CUDMORE • for allotsego.com ONEONTA – 24 hours after Common Council voted unanimously to pay its $12,500 share of the Local Government Efficiency Grant to study cost-saving measures between the town and the city, the Town Board refused to even bring the resolution, prepared by GO-EDC’s Bill Shue and Al Colone, to a motion for vote. “We don’t respond to ransoms,” said Town Board member Andrew Stammel. “These are two activists who don’t live in our…
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Oneonta, Cooperstown County Reps Should Support Sharing Bed-Tax Revenue Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 4-5, 2014 To the Editor: Thank you to your newspapers for the repeated suggestion that the county Board of Representatives should reform the occupancy or “bed tax.” It is inexplicable that the board seems set on ignoring this commonsense appeal, including several representatives whose own districts will suffer greatly. Tourism is one of the primary industries of our County and is led by Cooperstown, the city and…