Fly Creek General Store Vandalized At 2:45 p.m. on Monday, September 26, a man was walking around the Fly Creek General Store. “He’s a regular here, but he seemed a little out of it,” said Tom Bouton, owner of the store. “He came in wanting cigarettes, then went outside and just started to wander around the street and the store.” The man then threw himself into the large glass window of the store, then into a smaller window and finally…
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Suspect In Mask-Sign Defacement Suspect ID’d By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In the end, damage to 11 of the Village of Cooperstown’s mask-ordinance signs totaled just under the $250 threshold for a felony charge. “The total damage came to $238.74,” said Cooperstown Police Chief Frank Cavalieri. On Tuesday, Oct. 6, Village Police arrested Luke Smith, 45, Cooperstown, for spray-painting Xes across four large and seven small “Masks on Main” publicizing the must-wear mandate between Main to…
Cooperstown Man, 45, Charged In Vandalism Of ‘Mask On Main’ Signs COOPERSTOWN – A 45-year-old, Luke Smith, 67 Chestnut St., was arraigned in Otsego Town Court this afternoon on charges of spray-painting big Xes on 12 “Mask on Main” signs late Monday night in Business District. Five of the signs were 24- by 36-inch sandwich boards at the entry to Cooperstown’s downtown, designed to alert visitors that mask-wearing is required on Main Street sidewalks between Fair and Chestnut streets, and…
Arrest Made In Mask-Sign Vandalism By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A Cooperstown man has been arrested and charged with criminal mischief after 10 of the Village’s “Mask on Main” signs were found yesterday with black X’s spray-painted on them. According to Police Chief Frank Cavalieri, the alleged vandal, a white male, was arrested following an investigation after the three large signs were found dumped and vandalized in front of the District Attorney’s office. Seven of the…
Cooperstown’s ‘Masks On Main’ Signs Vandalized Village Police Seek Suspects By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown Police are investigating the vandalism of the Village’s three “Masks on Main” signs after they were found with a black X spray-painted over them. “We believe it happened last night,” said Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch. “We noticed it first thing this morning.” The vandalized signs were at the perimeters of the downtown where the mask ordinance is in place, including…
Police Seek Tips On Smashed Door ONEONTA – Police are reviewing surveillance footage in hopes of identifying the “college age male” responsible for shattering a glass door near Razzle Dazzle on Main Street.…
State Police Seeking Tips In Unadilla Cemetery Vandalism UNADILLA – State Police are seeking the identity of the person responsible for carving out the name on a gravestone in the Evergreen Hill Cemetery here. One name and part of the date on the Goodrich tombstone appear to have been scratched out with a chisel or a power tool. A member of the family alerted police to the vandalism last week.…
54 Headstones Vandalized In Hartwick Cemetery HARTWICK – 54 Headstones in the Hartwick Cemetery, some of them over a century old, were broken and desecrated overnight in an apparent act of vandalism. “It’s terrible,” said Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. “It’s an absolute disgrace. People are upset. This is their loved one’s place of rest, and it’s been disturbed.”…