Oneonta Hotel, City Due In Court Tuesday By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Accusing 195 Main Street owners Melania and Nicolae Pervu of “gross negligence” and warning that they are “approaching criminal behavior,” the City of Oneonta will ask County Judge John Lambert to shut down the former Oneonta Hotel during a hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 5. “The situation has now passed far beyond dirty rugs and stained ceiling tiles from a leaking roof,” wrote David Merzig, city…
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2nd C-O Leak Came From Old Hotel, Mayor Reports ONEONTA – The carbon monoxide leak at 189 Main St. that drove employees from their offices and sent six people from the hospital came from the boiler in the basement of the former Oneonta Hotel, Mayor Gary Herzig reported this afternoon. “My understanding is that the hot water boiler was venting carbon monoxide,” said Herzig. “It was getting into the ventilation system for 189 Main.” On Friday, a malfunction in the…
WOMAN HOSPITALIZED; 5 OTHERS TESTED AT FOX 2ND C-O LEAK EMPTIES OUT 189 MAIN ST. Building Next To Oneonta Hotel By LIBBY CUDMORE & IAN AUSTIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – A woman was hospitalized at late morning today and all the office and professional workers at landmark 189 Main St. were once again evacuated for high levels of carbon monoxide, the second time in four days. The building was also evacuated Friday due to carbon monoxide from a…
City Inspector Allegedly Threatened When Boiler Malfunctioned In Hotel ONEONTA – Nicolae Pervu, owner of the former Oneonta Hotel at 195 Main St., allegedly threatened a City of Oneonta Code Enforcement Inspector after he reported to the scene of a malfunctioning boiler that filled the building at 189 Main with carbon dioxide. “Our inspector left the building because he felt threatened by Mr. Pervu,” said Mayor Gary Herzig. The issues began with the Oneonta Fire Department responded to 189 Main, where…
Carbon Monoxide Blamed For Death Of Security Guard Patients Recall Wade Bostwick Fondly By LIBBY CUDMORE • From The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta MILFORD – When Kerry Hall took her son, J.T., then 10, into Bassett Hospital, it was a struggle to get him to communicate with his doctors. “He was scared, he wouldn’t let the doctors near him,” she said. “He was just sitting in a corner.” But Wade Bostwick, veteran Bassett security guard, knew what to do.…