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Ryan Pereira

Supervisor-elect Discusses Future Plans

Rivera’s victory is a sea change in the town, where in the 2023 election Republican Randal Mowers ran unopposed and in 2021 won with around 77 percent of the vote against Teresa DeSantis, who also just won a seat on the town board this month. Rivera will succeed his opponent, Interim Town Supervisor Brett Holleran...…
November 27, 2025

Town Board Reviewing Cannabis Retail Law

Town Board Reviewing Cannabis Retail Law ONEONTAThe Oneonta Town Board discussed Local Law No. 1, “Cannabis Retail Dispensary Law of the Town of Oneonta,” during its January 11 public hearing and meeting. The draft law seeks to provide zoning district locations and regulations governing cannabis retail dispensary establishments. “It is the express purpose and intent … to minimize the adverse impacts that cannabis retail dispensaries may have on adjacent properties and to provide standards for the placement, design, siting, safety,…
January 25, 2023

Pereira Runs For Clerk; Gibson For Town Justice

ONEONTA TOWN CANDIDATES SURFACE Pereira Runs For Clerk; Gibson For Town Justice ONEONTA – Oneonta businessman, Ryan Pereira, has announced he’s running for Oneonta town clerk in this fall’s elections. Another Democrat, Tim Gibson, has announced he’s running for town justice. Proprietor of My Father’s Place, the bar and restaurant in Emmons, Pereira, who will be running on the Democratic line, has over 20 years in the local hospitality industry.…
March 23, 2021

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 

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