Middlefield Farmer Gored By Bull, Dies MIDDLEFIELD – A Middlefield firefighter died Tuesday after being attacked by one of his bulls. A family member saw Eugene Wolfert, 68, lying in his pasture just before 11 a.m. on Tuesday, July 24, and called 911 while maintaining pressure on Wolfert’s wound. According to Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr. Wolfert had been apparently gored by a bull after the animal became aggressive for unknown reasons. “He had a bucket of grain with…
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Trustees Can’t Decide Pioneer Parking Issue Pioneer Street neighbor Rick Hulse urges the Cooperstown Village Board to restore parallel parking on the northern section of Pioneer Street at this evening’s trustees’ meeting. The trustees decided in June to re-evaluate parking on the section of Pioneer Street closest to the lake, and conducted trial periods for two different parking schemes involving angled parking on the east side of the street at Lakefront Park. Residents living on the street immediately voiced displeasure,…
2 PUBLIC HEARINGS TONIGHT Trustees May Act On Diagonal Parking, Hotel COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board will hold two public hearings at 7 tonight at 22 Main, and perhaps act on one or both of the plans under consideration, according to Trustee Cindy Falk: Diagonal parking on lower Pioneer Street. Option 3, which resulted from neighbors’ objections at last month’s meeting, would shift diagonal parking to the north. Under the previous plan, headlights would be shining into the livingroom of…
Airport Hosts Chamber Soiree Honoring Job Corps, OCCA Oneonta Job Corp Academy Director Chris Kuhn, above left, accepts the NBT Bank Quality of Life Award from Jamie Reynolds, the bank’s regional executive and senior VP, this evening at the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce’s first Summer Soiree under a tent on the tarmac of Oneonta Municipal Airport. Inset, OCCA President Vicky Lentz, left, and Executive Director Leslie Orzetti accept a proclamation from state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, after the Otsego County…
City Council OKs Nick’s Diner Plan $230K CDBG Application Albany-Bound By PARKER FISH • Special To www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The audience filled the seats and spilled out into the hallway as the Common Council again debated, then approved Nick’s Diner’s application for a $230,000 CDBG grant. The vote enables Nick’s prospective owner Rodney Thorsland’s to submit the application to Albany for its approval. Thorsland’s request has been hotly debated in the past three Common Council meetings, with several community members…
SUNY Chancellor Pays Visit To Oneonta Campus State University of New York Chancellor Dr. Kristina M. Johnson visited SUNY Oneonta this morning, and answered questions in front of a large audience in the Welcome Center. Johnson, who was scheduled to visit in April but had to cancel, revealed that a she had suffered a 3rd degree heart blockage which prevented her from making the trip to Oneonta in the spring. Johnson joked about the issue, saying that the pacemaker that…
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