Supporters of Fired Coach Challenge Board at Heated Meeting By ERIC SANTOMAURO-STENZELRICHFIELD SPRINGS Tensions were bubbling at a Richfield Springs Central School District Board of Education meeting last Wednesday, May 6. Supporters of coach Chris Butler showed up in force to oppose the district’s decisions to remove him from coaching roles, first as a volunteer assistant softball coach and now also as a modified baseball coach. District officials declined to specify the reason for his termination, citing personnel issue confidentiality.…
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Joseph Hernandez, the presumptive GOP nominee for the New York State Comptroller race, says it is his business background that motivated him to seek the office.…
The budget is a decrease from the adopted $11,554,408.00 last year, largely attributed to a reduction in debt service obligations and calculations in grants.…
Amidst statewide contract negotiations for SUNY faculty and staff, around a hundred members of the SUNY Oneonta and local community gathered on campus to advocate for improved working conditions and compensation…
“New York’s so-called green energy experiment is quietly paving over the very greenspace that it claims to protect,” Assemblyman Chris Tague, who is running for the 51st State Senate seat, said at an April 17 press conference in Schoharie County.…
A colleague recently suggested—after a bit of a brouhaha about opinion pieces versus reporting—that we might consider penning an editorial explaining where our content comes from and how it is positioned in “The Freeman’s Journal,” “Hometown Oneonta” and on our website AllOtsego.com.…
From April 24 until this Friday, the area’s youngest and teenage artists have a gallery space of their own at the Cooperstown Art Association Galleries.…
According to state data from June 2025 prior to BEAD, Otsego County’s least well served areas are in the northeastern portion of the county. In particular, the Town of Roseboom’s population is about 98 percent unserved, according to state data.…
The Cooperstown Central School District has proposed a 4.7 percent increase for its 2026-2027 budget, with a 2.7 percent tax increase. The deficit budget will draw on the district’s reserves, with district officials saying rising costs are outstripping the district’s current ability to raise revenue or make cuts.…
Bringing together four descendants of a 19th-century local boy made international industrialist, businessman, and lawyer, Owen D. Young, “Relative Harmony” had around 30 community members snapping and clapping to dynamic sets incorporating country, jazz, and blues music.…
