Ethics Complaint Against Richfield Board Dismissed With One Page Lacking, Oversight Committee Concludes It Can’t Act By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com RICHFIELD SPRINGS – The first complaint ever filed with the Town of Richfield Ethics Committee was dismissed this evening after the three members agreed there was insufficient content in the record for them to make a determination. “Can I refile?” asked Mike Reid, the town Planning Board member who raised so-far-unspecified allegations against Town Supervisor Nick Palevsky…
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READ ATTORNEY MERZIG’S OPINION Richfield Board Ponders Disputed Plan’s Future RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Oneonta attorney David Merzig has determined the Town of Richfield’s new – and disputed – zoning code might not survive a court challenge. And the town board plans to meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17, with new Town Attorney Peter Hobaica to determine whether and how to set it aside and perhaps start anew, said newly elected Town Supervisor Nick Palevsky. The plan, which envisioned the…
PROTECT RICHFIELD OUT PALEVSKY WINS, COUNTY AFFIRMS RICHFIELD SPRING – Former supervisor Nick Palevsky has regained the Town of Richfield helm, according to county Republican Chairman Vince Casale. Casale said today’s final count at the county Board of Elections was 366-355, giving Palevsky an 11-vote margin over independent David Simonds. His victory means control of the town board passes from council members associated with Protect Richfield, which formed to resist the Monticello Hills Wind Farm and championed a comprehensive plan…
2019 GENERAL ELECTION PALEVSKY WINS RICHFIELD HELM RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Former town supervisor Nick Palevsky was reelected this evening to lead the Richfield Town Board, blunting Protect Richfield’s effort to seize control of the town’s governmental mechanisms. It was a squeaker: Palevsky, 296, over David Simonds, 291. “I hope it holds,” said the prospective supervisor, noting it’s only five votes and there are 100 absentee ballots out there. “That’s the only thing I can say right now.” Palevsky’s fellow Republican…
ENDORSEMENT EDITORIAL Revisit Richfield Comp Plan: Elect Palevsky, Eckler, Bello In the lead-up to the Richfield Town Board adopting a new Comprehensive Plan & Zoning Code, people said they want to see the town come together. People observed that “nothing’s happened” in the Richfield Springs area in the past 20 years (or longer). Send Political Letters To info@allotsego.com By noon Monday, 10/28 People mourned the decline in enrollment of the Richfield Springs Central School, which graduated 29 seniors on June…
Richfield Candidate Looks Forward To 11/5 By JIM KEVLIN• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com RICHFIELD SPRINGS – The action now moved to Nov. 5, Election Day. Monday, Sept. 30, after two somewhat acrimonious hours of discussion, the Richfield Town Board, 3-2, approved a new zoning code that bans wind turbines and defines most of the town as agricultural/residential. Voting aye were three opponents of the Monticello Hills Wind Farm, Larry Frigault, Rex Seamon and Kane Seamon. Voting nay were Supervisor Paul Palumbo,…
NOV. 5 ELECTION LOOMS Richfield OKs Zoning, Maybe Not For Long After two hours of often personal exchanges, Richfield Town Board member Kane Seamon, right, makes a motion a half-hour ago to approve the proposed – and much-debated – zoning law that grew out of comprehensive plan approved last year. Board member Rex Seamon, left in top photo, seconded the motion, and the plan was enacted, 3-2, with Board member Larry Frigault, second from left, joining the majority. Town Board…
Fate Of Richfield’s Divisive Comp Plan Uncertain For Now 3 Wind-Farm Opponents Seeking To Push Vote Through, But Election Could Erase It By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com RICHFIELD SPRINGS – The fat’s on the fire in the Town of Richfield, and may be until a new town board is installed after Jan. 1. About 70 people descended on the RSCS cafeteria this evening for two hours of polite but divided opinion on a new comprehensive plan and associated…
2019 REPUBLICAN PRIMARY Absentee Ballot Count Affirms Palevsky’s Win COOPERSTOWN – The absentee ballot count affirms the Town of Richfield votes of June 25, the day of the Republican primary there. The final count has Nick Palevsky with 179, defeating David Simonds, 168, to succeed Town Supervisor Paul Palumbo when he retires at the end of the year. It also confirms Fred Eckler with 225 and Edward Bello with 208, knocking incumbent Kane Seamon, with 168, off the Republican ballot.…