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December 2015 - Page 8
LETTER TO ALLOTSEGO.COM EDITOR Fellow Town District Residents Say: Sign The Fire Contract With City Now Editor’s Note: Here is a Letter to the Editor of www.AllOTSEGO.com from Carol Malz, who was elected to the Town of Oneonta Fire District #1 board of commissioners on Dec. 8. Because of the time-sensitivity of negotiations between the commissioners and the City of Oneonta on fire protection, send any letters to info@allotsego.com and they will be posted on this site. To the Editor of…
LETTER TO ALLOTSEGO.COM EDITOR Town Board: Offer Would Raise Fire Fee Only 15¢ Per Thousand Editor’s Note: This letter from the Oneonta Town Board arrived too late for this week’s editions of Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal. Due to its timely nature, we are publishing it as the first Letter to the Editor of our website. To the Editor of AllOTSEGO.com: The Town of Oneonta is protected by two fire districts. West Oneonta protects the town basically west of…
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Fire Commissioners Low-Ball It, So Council Denies Fire Protection ONEONTA – Common Council this evening received an offer from the Town of Oneonta’s Fire District #1 offering even less for fire protection from the city than it paid this year. Council members rejected it handily. This leaves 15 days until, if no fire contract is agreed upon, the town’s Southside and East End commercial strip, and West End homes will be without fire-protection when the year ends. DETAILS IN THIS…
Land Trust Sticks With Brookwood Status Quo COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego Land Trust has brought plans to change the status quo of 22-acre Brookwood Gardens on Otsego Lake to a close. Meeting over the weekend, the Land Trust board determined none of the proposals received in response to an RFP process met its “requirements to actively protect the conservation values of the property,” Land Trust chair Harry Levine announced Tuesday, Dec. 15. DETAILS IN FREEMAN’S JOURNAL, ON NEWSSTANDS TODAY…
IN MEMORIAM: Marjorie L. Ofer, 85; Teacher COOPERSTOWN – Marjorie L. Ofer (née Betulius) passed away on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015, at Focus Otsego. She was 85. Her trajectory from a small farm in southern Indiana to retirement on the Upper West Side of Manhattan attests to her inviolable strength and belief in the possible. After graduating from Evansville College with a degree in education, she taught elementary school in Evansville, Ind.. Later in her career she obtained her librarian’s…
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Seward Announces $70,000 Grant For Remodeled Airport Terminal By IAN AUSTIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – At the ribbon cutting at the Oneonta Municipal Airport this afternoon, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, hailed the work with an announcement that he has secured a $70,000 grant to help complete the job. “First impressions mean a lot,” said Seward. “This terminal tells those who arrive in our community ‘this is a great place to live, to visit and to work.'” In remarks beforehand, Oneonta Job…
PHOTO A HOAX! Submittal Lifted From Crash-Test Video Chad Turner Writes: Jim, Looks like you have been fooled – the deer hit with the Smart Car is fake. This is an image from a crash test…
