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ELECTION NIGHT 2016 Otsego Town Voters Reject Professional Roads Chief FLY CREEK – An 18-year-old with no experience but sufficient vote will continue to qualify to run the Town of Otsego Highway Department. An Otsego Town Board proposal to professionalize the roads chief position was roundly defeated, 899 (56.76 percent) to 685 (43.24 percent), in today’s balloting. Town Supervisor Meg Kiernan, who returned to the town’s top job Jan. 1, after a four-year hiatus, had proposed and championed the idea,…
Oneonta Woman Charged With DUI After Otsego Crash ONEONTA – An Oneonta woman was arrested for driving while impaired by drugs after she drove her car off Route 28 in the Town of Otsego, state police report. The suspect is Deborah Perkins, 53. An investigation determined that Perkins was driving while impaired by drugs when she crashed, and a search revealed that she unlawfully possessed about six grams of marijuana, troopers said. In situations like this, those who are being…
New Plan For Hickory Grove Packs Town Of Otsego Hearing…
Laurens Man Killed By Falling Tree OTSEGO – A Town of Otsego Highway Department worker was killed Monday morning when he was struck by a falling tree. Adam C. Burgess, 27, of Laurens, was working on Bissell Road in the Town of Otsego on Monday, Nov. 23 as part of a three-man crew cutting and clearing roadside trees when he was accidentally struck by a falling tree. He was transported to Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown and pronounced deceased at 10:40…
Reval Notices Arrive In Cooperstown, But It Doesn’t Mean Taxes Will Rise By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – If you own a downtown business or high-end mansion, your property taxes may be going up, but don’t jump to any premature conclusions, according to Mayor Jeff Katz. Property owners in the Village of Cooperstown and Town of Otsego have begun receiving new assessment notices in their mailboxes in the past few days, the result of a joint village-town assessment underway…
Highway Crew In Near-Poverty As Town Officials Get Raises Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 27-28, 2014 To the Editor: Now is the time of year when towns approve their annual budgets for the coming year, and Town of Otsego residents should be aware of what was approved on Nov. 12. Raises have been awarded to some elected officials and part-time administrative employees, yet our hard-working, full-time, highway crew starts at a very low hourly wage, which has cost the town some…
Town Of Otsego Overestimated Revenues, State Auditors Find FLY CREEK – The Otsego Town Board “did not adopt realistic budgets; budgets varied significantly from the actual results each year,” state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli concluded in an audit of town finances released over the weekend. The Town of Otsego includes the Village of Cooperstown west of the Susquehanna River. An analysis showed divergences at high as 64 percent between estimated and actual revenues over four years. In her response to DiNapoli, Supervisor Anne Geddes-Atwell…
