New Council Convenes
…And Gets Good News
![After a year of turmoil in City Hall, a newly elected Common Council (six of the eight members are new, plus a new mayor) convened tonight with good cheer and got good news: Jim Martin, a consultant with the LA Group, Saratoga Springs, who has been collecting information on downtown Oneonta, gave preliminary results and said "there is much to build on." Listening from left are Council members John Rafter, John Ficano (behind Martin), Russ Southat](https://www.allotsego.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/new-council-.jpg)
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