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Satellite DMV Space: Progress or Just a Ploy?

Early voting began Saturday, October 28 and Election Day itself is just five days away from this paper’s publication date. Benton and his supporters are crying foul after Basile’s announcement, contending this is just a last-minute campaign ploy—that she has not gone through the proper channels to make such a claim, nor have costs associated with the satellite office been included in the county’s 2024 budget.…
November 2, 2023

Editorial: Who Will You Choose?

Election Day is just 19 days away and early voting starts October 28. If you’re like us, your head is swimming with questions about the race for Otsego County clerk. Experience and departmental knowledge versus energy and vision. Republican versus Democrat. Jennifer Basile versus MacGuire Benton.…
October 19, 2023

County Races Few and Far Between

With Election Day less than a month away, there’s no time like the present to take a look at what choices other than Otsego County clerk voters will have to make at the polls this year.…
October 12, 2023

Village Democrats pick March slate as one trustee seeks to move future elections to November

Village Democrats pick March slate as one trustee seeks to move future elections to November By Ted Potrikus Cooperstown’s upcoming mayoral and trustee elections take place this year on March 15, but if one village trustee has his way, subsequent year voting would move to align with general elections held in November. Trustee MacGuire Benton says he wants the date change to expand voter access as “democracy comes under attack across America.” “Right now village residents can vote from noon…
January 27, 2022

Pastor: Ask God’s Guidance In Time Of National Division

ELECTION DAY MESSAGE Pastor: Ask God’s Guidance In Time Of National Division Editor’s Note: The Rev. Paul Messner, pastor of the county’s Lutheran churches, including Oneonta’s Church of the Atonement and Hartwick Seminary’s Evangelical Luther Church, sent out this Election Day message to his flock. Today is Election Day.  I hope you will be doing your civic duty and going to vote – if you haven’t already.  The news companies are reporting that prior to today nearly 100 million Americans…
November 3, 2020

Rotary Pancake Feast Is Underway All Day

AT DOUBLEDAY, POLLING PLACES Rotary Pancake Feast Is Underway All Day Patrons Clyde Sanders and Stephanie Adams, above, chat with Barbara Boulanger, proprietor of Cooperstown’s Doubleday Cafe, which this year is hosting the Rotary Club’s Election Day Pancake Feast, which will be underway until 6 p.m. this evening.  Inset, Rotarian Susan Miosek mans the “warming station” at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” church hall, where pancakes can also be picked up; (also at polling places in the Clark…
November 3, 2020

GOP – And One Democrat Gather For Pancake Feast

GOP, And One Democrat,  Gather For Pancake Feast Dave Bliss, Republican chair of the Otsego County Board and a Rotarian, pours coffee for state Sen. – and candidate – Jim Seward, R-Milford, a few minutes ago at the traditional Cooperstown Rotary Club Election Day pancake breakfast at the Vets’ Club. With the senator are, from his left, daughter-in-law of two months Kelly Ann, daughter Lauren, wife Cindy and son Ryan. Seward is being challenged today by Democrat Joyce St. George,…
November 6, 2018

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