IN MEMORIAM: Mary Jane Belrose, 75; County Office For Aging Social Worker COOPERSTOWN – Mary Jane Belrose, 75, of Middlefield Center Road, for many years a social worker t the county Office for the Aging, passed away peacefully on Tuesday evening, Jan. 21, 2020. She had the comfort of her husband and loving family at her side at the time of passing. Jane was born on March 17, 1944, in Brooklyn, a daughter of the late Joseph H. and Teresa…
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TRUSTEES PLAN FEB. 24 VOTE Public Hearing Positive On Bassett 143-Car Lot James Connors, principal engineer at The Chazen Company, explains changes to the proposed Riverside Drive parking lot, including a three-way stop, expanded crosswalks and sidewalks, and a reduction in parking spaces from the original 170 to 143, eliminating the spots to ensure stability of the slope, during a public hearing at the Cooperstown Village Board this evening. The project, which will be gated employee parking, was met with generally…
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Public Hearing Tonight On Bassett Parking Lot COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board is planning a public hearing on Bassett Hospital’s proposed 150-space parking lot at Susquehanna and Walnut at 7 p.m. this evening during its January meeting. The plan will require demolition of the four homes now on Riverside Drive.…
HUNDREDS PACK BASSETT HALL EMTS SALUTE BEST OF BEST Everyone who was anyone in the world of Otsego County EMTs – hundreds of them, past and present – gathered at Bassett Hall in Cooperstown for four hours this afternoon and evening to celebrate Fred Lemister, primer inter pares in the local EMS world, who recently stepped down after 48 years of service to Cooperstown’s emergency squad, where he responded to 9,600 ambulance calls. Even more significant, a top-notch instructor, he…
Mary Margaret Robbins Breaks Democrat Lock She’s First Republican To Run For Village Board In A Decade By JIM KEVLIN • Special To www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns, whose years-long battle against Lyme Disease, culminating in a heart transplant last summer, inspired the community, was nominated this morning by village Republicans to run for the Village Board in the March 18 elections. The party’s sole nominee for the three open vacancies represents the first time in almost a…
Gabriel Truitt Trial Accelerant Isopropyl Alcohol, Expert Arson Witness Testifies By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To ALLOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Video evidence, District Attorney John Muehl said, placed accused arsonist Gabriel Truitt inside his Tru Cuts Barber Shop at 4:30 a.m. the night of the fire that killed John Heller. “He walks in the back door, turns to the right and squats in front of a cabinet,” Muehl said in his opening remarks. “He lights a lighter, takes out two bottles,…
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Gabriel Truitt Trial Investigator Testimony: Accelerant Under Door By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To ALLOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Just before the noon break, District Attorney John Muehl brought Bill Haynes, an origin and cause investigator with Sotera Investigative Group, to the witness stand in the case against Gabriel Truitt, the Oneonta man accused of setting the fire that killed John Heller at his 5 Walling Avenue apartment in December 2018. “The way the burn and char pattern on the inside of…
Proceedings Underway In Truitt Court Case District Attorney John Muehl, above, makes his opening remarks to the jury during the opening day of the People Vs. Gabriel Truitt, now underway at the Otsego County Courthouse in Cooperstown. Truitt, seen at right, is charged with arson in the first degree and murder in the first and second degree for his alleged involvement in the fire that claimed the life of John Heller at 5 Walling Ave. in Oneonta on Dec 29,…
