Springbrook Hikes Pay To Cuomo’s 2019 Level Goal: Attract Employees, Lower Turnover ONEONTA – Springbrook is getting ahead of Governor Cuomo’s minimum-wage increases, raising its “direct support professionals” to the 2019 level, effective New Year’s Day. Otsego County’s third largest employer, Springbrook provides residential living for disabled children and adults on its Milford Center campus and group homes around the region. The wage increase for its DSPs is a $1.2 million investment, Springbrook said in announcing the wage hikes today.…
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January 2017 - Page 15
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Rep. Powers Denies ‘Queenmaker’ Role By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www. AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – County Rep. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, denies he was the kingmaker – or queenmaker – in Wednesday’s split vote that allowed county Rep. Kathy Clark, R-Otsego, to remain chair of the county Board of Representatives for another year. “This business of me being the kingmaker is baloney,” he declared when reached yesterday afternoon at his farm near South New Berlin. Supporters of county Rep. Len Carson,…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, JAN. 6 Contradancing For All CONTRADANCE – 7:15-10:30 p.m. Otsego Dance Society hosts. Music by Traverse, Casey Mullaney calls. No partner or experience needed. All dances taught. Newcomers welcome at 7:15 for an introduction to some basic steps. Suggested donation $8 adults; $4 students and teenagers; kids 12 & under free. First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 965-8232, 547-8164, www.otsegodancesociety.blogspot.com THEATER – 7 p.m. Auditions are open for the Orpheus Theater’s production of “Steel…
Tim Johnson To Retire, Sells Autumn Cafe To Carringtons Tim and Andy, owners of the landmark Autumn Cafe in downtown Oneonta, have announced that they will be retiring after 37 years and on Jan. 16 “will be passing to torch” of the restaurant to Wayne and Rebecca Carrington, owners of The B-Side Ballroom. Regular business hours will continue until Sunday, Jan. 15, when an informal fare-thee-well party is planned at 3 p.m. All are welcome to attend to send them off…
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Women’s Rally To Echo D.C. Event COOPERSTOWN – Otsego County Women’s Rally and Candlelight Vigil is being organized at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, at the Otsego County Office Building on upper Main Street in sympathy with the Women’s March on Washington, the day after Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration. Lynne Mebust of Cooperstown is leading the effort.…
On WAMC’s ‘Morning Headlines’, Editor Details All News Fit To Print This Week In today’s weekly report, “Morning Edition,” on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, Jim Kevlin, editor/publisher of www.AllOTSEGO.com (and Hometown Oneonta & the Freeman’s Journal), ticks off all the news that packs two newspapers’ first editions of 2017, and remarks how, despite the New Year’s Day murder, how rare untimely deaths happen locally, except for heroin overdoses. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS WEEK’S REPORT…
IN MEMORIAM: Elaine M. Emrich, 75; Survivors Include 11 Great-Grandchildren RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Elaine M. Emrich, 75, passed away peacefully Tuesday evening, Jan. 3, 2017, at Bassett Hospital. She had the comfort of her loving family at side. She was born on Sept. 6, 1941 in Leonardsville, daughter of the late Mark and Bertha Innes Mahardy. She graduated from Richfield Springs High School, Class of 1960.…
Clark Removes Carson From Key Committees COOPERSTOWN – Elections DO have consequences. County Rep. Len Carson, R-Oneonta, who fell short in his attempt yesterday to replace Kathy Clark, R-Otego, as chair of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, lost his committee chairmanship and was removed from the board’s two key committees. As board chair, Clark appoints the committees at the county board’s annual reorganization meeting.…
