Jail Sprinkler System Faulty, Sheriff Reports But Repairs May Not Happen Until 2018 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The sprinkler system in the Otsego County jail is faulty, Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. told the county board’s Public Safety & Legal Affairs Committee this morning, but repairs may not come anytime soon. “What I was told, if the system is activated, it will probably clog,” he told the committee at its monthly meeting. Although it’s unclear…
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READ MILFORD SUPERINTENDENT’S STATEMENT Silence About Threat Called ‘Unacceptable’ Milford Superintendent Berates County Board By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Failure over four months to alert Milford Central School about Sgt. Ros Devlin’s alleged threat to “shoot up” MCS and Oneonta schools is “totally unacceptable,” the school’s new superintendent, Mark A. Place, told the county Board of Representatives this morning. “Each day we are held responsible for keeping safe over 400 students and 100 employees,” Place said,…
IN MEMORIAM: Betty Anne Schwerd, 66; Former County Representative EDMESTON – Betty Anne Schwerd, 66, of Edmeston, the former District 10 representative to the Otsego County Board and Burlington town supervisor, died Saturday, March 18, in Cooperstown. As a Republican and Conservative, she served five two-year terms on the county board, representing Burlington, Exeter, Plainfield and Edmeston, until a primary loss in the 2015 elections. Prior to that, she served for six years as town supervisor. A full obituary is forthcoming.…
FURIOUS LOBBYING FOR CHAIRMANSHIP Some Say Rep. Powers Shifts To Clark; Others, Outcome Still Too Close To Call By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Furious lobbying is underway this evening as support for the next chair of the Otsego County Board of Representatives sea-saws between incumbent Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and Len Carson, R-Oneonta. Word was circulating that county Rep. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, who mounted an unsuccessful challenge to Clark last year, had just this evening agreed to…
After Debate, Chair’s Appointment Approved But Changes Coming, Marietta Predicts By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – There was lively debate in open session about the process of choosing new Otsego Now board members. But, after a 20-minute executive session called by board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, county reps at today’s special meeting voted unanimously to confirm Cheryl Robinson, the NYCM vice president, to the board of the economic-development agency. She will succeed the Richfield Springs architect, Jim…
GILBERTSVILLE PROPERTY Couple Who Lost Farm To Taxes Sues County By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The gavel fell in August 2014, but ripples from that Otsego County tax-delinquency auction are still being felt. A Long Island couple who that day lost their farm in Gilbertsville – their intended retirement home – are now suing the County of Otsego and the county Treasurer’s Office in federal court for what may be more than $15 million in damages.…
Condescending, Arrogant Editorial Fails To Heal Tensions To the Editor: In last week’s editorial, “Republicans Romped. Now, What Are They Going to Do?,” much was made of the results of the recent election for the Otsego County Board of Representatives. It was pointed out that county Republicans did very well, putting the Republicans, with 4,600 weighted votes, well ahead of the Democrats, with 1,627 weighted votes, in the county’s system of weighted voting.…
GOP Challenging Signature Of Voter With Cerebral Palsy Democratic Chair Asks Rick Hulse To Withdraw Lawsuit By JIM KEVLIN • for allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Since he has Cerebral Palsy, Patrick Dewey is unable to sign his name: Instead, he uses a rubber stamp with his “mark” above it. That’s not good enough for the county Republican Committee, according to Democratic Committee chair Richard Abbate of Cooperstown. In a lawsuit challenging the petitions of Democratic candidate Andrew Marietta, who is running against Republican county…
Katz: Our Own Rick Hulse Derailed Tourism Assistance Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 11-12, 2014 To the Editor: In the county budget vote of Wednesday, Dec. 3, a bipartisan group of Ed Lentz, Beth Rosenthal, Gary Koutnik, Linda Rowinski, Kay Stuligross, Craig Gelbsman and Janet Quackenbush voted to return $150,000 in bed tax revenues to the municipalities that generate it. They recognized, unlike our own Town of Otsego/Village of Cooperstown representative Rick Hulse, that the town and city of Oneonta, Town…
County Bed-Tax Windfall Should Be Everybody’s Windfall Editorial for the edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 4-5, 2014 There seems to be a consensus emerging on one thing: Otsego County’s government, which benefits to the tune of $1.4 million a year in bed-tax revenues, should share some of that with communities that host the bulk of the 500,000 people who visit here each summer. Those communities are the city and town of Oneonta, which together generate 30 percent of bed-tax revenues, the…