Column by Terry Berkson Bunnies Don’t Crow One Easter, when I was about nine years old, I bought six peeping chicks from the pet shop around the corner and secreted them under a 100-watt bulb in a cardboard box in the cellar. “They’ll bring rats!” my aunt Edna shouted when she discovered them on a trip to the washing machine. Aunt Edna did most of the housekeeping and was always against bringing in any pets. I begged her to let…
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Police: Noise Complaints Rise 50 Percent In City By JASON BIRKELBACH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Two months into the colleges’ fall semester, calls to the police complaining of noisy parties and rowdy neighbors have increased 50 percent from last year, Oneonta Police Lt. Doug Brenner told Oneonta Common Council this evening. The number of complaints filed this fall jumped from 107 in the same period 2015 to 154 this fall. Brenner said he issued 27 tickets to landlords throughout the whole 2015-16 college…