CRASHES PEPPER COUNTY AFTER SNOWSTORM HITS Crashes were peppering Otsego County’s main arteries this afternoon, as the first big winter storm, on Thanksgiving, the busiest traffic weekend of the year, began in earnest Snow began in earnest at about 10 a.m. With snows coming in from the southeast, Oneonta was hardest hit first, but by mid-afternoon the whole county was feeling the impact. Between 3 and 3:40 on Route 28 between I-88 and Cooperstown, at least three cars were off…
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Despite Legal Threats, Trustees Tighten Rental-Property Rules Cooperstown Trustees Adopt 5 New Ordinances By JIM KEVLIN • www.allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – In the face of threats of legal challenges, the Village Board tonight unanimously adopted one law that further regulates rental properties, and another that “sunsets” grandfathering provisions on those properties if neighbors complain. “Good actors and bad actors don’t deserve the same protections,” said Mayor Jeff Katz as the trustees prepared to vote on those two laws after a dozen…
Town Of Otsego Overestimated Revenues, State Auditors Find FLY CREEK – The Otsego Town Board “did not adopt realistic budgets; budgets varied significantly from the actual results each year,” state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli concluded in an audit of town finances released over the weekend. The Town of Otsego includes the Village of Cooperstown west of the Susquehanna River. An analysis showed divergences at high as 64 percent between estimated and actual revenues over four years. In her response to DiNapoli, Supervisor Anne Geddes-Atwell…
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Enthusiastic Frank Rollins Fans Find Mementos In His Archives COOPERSTOWN – Hundreds of Cooperstonians are taking trips down memory lane at this hour, looking through thousands of the remaining images from Frank Rollins photo archives and buying those memories for 25 cents apiece. Rollins, who was hired as a Cooperstown school teacher in the late 1950s, and for the next half-century took tens of thousands of photos – from street scenes, to school plays, to formal graduation portraits, to sporting…
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70 Pack Cooperstown Village Hall For Underground Railroad Lecture COOPERSTOWN – Hartwick Seminary Academy, forerunner of Hartwick College, and Isaac Newton Arnold in particular loomed large this afternoon as Harry Bradshaw Matthews, director of Hartwick’s U.S. Colored Troops Institute, detailed the county’s role in the Underground Railroad that ferried a half-million slaves to freedom in the decades before the Civil War. Arnold, born in Hartwick in 1815, attended the academy, was tutored in the law by Cooperstown attorneys, then moved to…
POLICE ARREST SUSPECT IN COLGATE HIT AND RUN A 22-year-old woman, Ashlie Shanice Well, is in jail after police say she hit a pedestrian and didn’t stop to help, NEWS29 and the Daily Progress are reporting. She is charged with felony hit and run, resulting in a personal injury. Charlottesville police say Wells hit Cooperstown native Jeremiah Thaddeus Colgate, 28, of Charlottesville on Sunday, Nov.9, at 2:40 a.m. …
