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Tom Murphy

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Sheriff’s Office Called to Hartwick Meeting in First 10 Minutes

The Town of Hartwick’s town board organizational meeting the night of Monday, January 12 barely made it past the pledge of allegiance without incident. After a visit from two Otsego County Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicles with deputies speaking to opposing factions, the meeting proceeded with only a few raised voices over the following three hours...…
January 15, 2026
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Guest Editorial: The Tree Side of the Line Industry: How the ‘Hicks’ I Grew Up With Became the Quiet Knights Who Keep America Going

When I moved to upstate New York as a teenager—a land of old barns, stubborn winters and families with generations of calloused hands—I stepped into a different America. An America where kids were up before dawn, milked 60 cows, and threw on their Carhartt jackets (still smelling like hay) to go to school before most of us rolled out of bed.…
November 20, 2025
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Town Board Meetings Plagued by Infighting, Lack of Decorum

Over the last two months, Town of Hartwick residents have witnessed the resignations of Town Supervisor Robert O’Brien and attorney William C. Green, a call for the resignations of two board members, a deputy supervisor who cannot serve in that capacity due to a paperwork technicality and, most recently, the resignation of bookkeeper Raymond Holohan.…
December 19, 2024
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Controversy Dominates Town Board Meeting

Bryan LoRusso and several former Town of Hartwick employees want Hartwick Town Board member Chris Briggs to resign. A contingent of concerned Hartwick residents wants LoRusso, also a Town Board member, to resign. Hartwick Town Supervisor Robert O’Brien will be relocating before the end of the year, leaving that post unfilled. And the town’s attorney, William Green, has resigned, effective January 1, 2025.…
October 17, 2024
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CCS bully battle engages ‘Sweethearts’

CCS bully battle engages ‘Sweethearts’ Duo delivers message they’ve shared with 2 million nationwide Cooperstown High Alum Tom Murphy, left, and Iraq War vet Rick Yarosh, right, flank CCS Junior / Senior High Assistant Principal Amy Malcuria after a March 7 interactive anti-bullying assembly. The lights went out in Cooperstown High School’s Sterling Auditorium on the afternoon of March 7, not long after sophomores, juniors, and seniors had filed in for an afternoon assembly. The video screen went live…
March 10, 2022
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