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Low Turnout At Hearing Clears Way For ’19 Budget

Low Turnout At Hearing Clears Way For ’19 Budget Due to the snow, perhaps, no member of the public appeared at the public hearing on Otsego County’s 2019 budget, which began at 6 p.m. this evening in Courtroom #1 in Cooperstown.  Above, county board Chair David Bliss, left, gave the floor to Clerk of the Board Carol McGovern to officially convene proceedings.   The budget keeps the tax increase under the state tax cap, and includes $500,000 in raises for 104…
November 27, 2018

Raises Possible For Supervisors, County Representatives

PUBLIC HEARING AT 6 TONIGHT Raises Possible For Supervisors, Representatives By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The culmination of a two-year study designed to bring department-head and county-rep salaries into line will be presented this evening at the public hearing on Otsego County’s 2019 budget. The public hearing will be at 6 p.m. in the county courthouse on upper Main Street, Cooperstown. The salary plan, developed by averaging maximum-minimum salaries in 16 similar Upstate counties, would increase…
November 27, 2018

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

For a limited time, new annual subscriptions to the hard copy of “The Freeman’s Journal” or “Hometown Oneonta” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or digital-only access to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice: Friends of the Feral-TNR, Super Heroes Humane Society, or Susquehanna Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 

Visit our “subscribe” page and select your charity of choice at checkout