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Common Council To Consider Billboard Ban, Merger Study ONEONTA – Two controversies – unhappiness over internally illuminated billboards and a proposed joint town-city study of consolidation – will be addressed when Common Council meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday. One motion, proposed by Council member Mike Lynch, calls for a one-year moratorium on the billboards. DC Marketing has erected two along I-88, one near the Lettis Highway exit, the other next to the Hampton Inn. Other entities are now considering additional…