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December 2017 - Page 12

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KATZ WON’T RUN AGAIN

  COOPERSTOWN MAYOR RETIRING KATZ WON’T RUN AGAIN COOPERSTOWN – Jeff Katz, mayor of Cooperstown for the past six years – in many ways a transformational mayor – today said he won’t run for a fourth two-year term in village elections in March. “I’ve been mayor for six years, trustee for seven before then,” he said in an interview with The Freeman’s Journal.  “Thirteen years is a pretty longtime to do this.  And they were pretty intense years. I feel…

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SUNY Student Arrested For Attempted Murder

SUNY Student Arrested For Attempted Murder By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www. AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – A SUNY Oneonta student is under arrest for first-degree attempted murder after police allege that he had stabbed his girlfriend in the off-campus apartment they shared. Julian D. VanCourt-Wels, 20, Schenectady, was arrested after police responded to a 911 call of a stabbing at 30 Maple St., Apartment 2, in Oneonta. According to Police Chief Doug Brenner, police found a female victim sitting on…

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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, DEC. 11

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, DEC. 11 Save A Life, Make A Donation COMMUNITY BLOOD DRIVE – 1-6 p.m. Make a lifesaving donation at The Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 1-800-RED CROSS or visit www.redcrossblood.org/give/drive/driveSearchList.jsp?zipSponsor=foothillsallotsego BOOK CLUB – 1-2 p.m. Discuss crime fiction novels by Sue Grafton and/or John LeCarre. Suggested reading includes “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” “The Honorable Schoolboy,” and “Smiley’s People.” Cooperstown Village Library. Call 607-547-8344 or visit www.facebook.com/VillageLibraryOfCooperstown/…

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Friends, Family Honor Gene Bettiol’s Legacy

Friends, Family Honor Gene Bettiol’s Legacy Mourners filled Foothills’ Bettiol Theater Sunday to say goodbye to Eugene A. Bettiol, Sr., the foremost developer of Southside, who passed away Saturday, Dec. 2, at age 85. Speakers included state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, Bettiol’s lawyer Joseph Pondolfino, former county judge Jeannie Scarzafava, and Gene’s grandchildren. Music was provided by John Thompson. At right, Huemac Garcia and wife Suzanne give their condolences to Betty Bettiol, Gene’s widow, in the receiving line following the…

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IN MEMORIAM: Foster Lloyd Brown, 86; Author, SUNY Professor

IN MEMORIAM Foster Lloyd Brown, 86; Author, SUNY Professor ONEONTA – Foster Lloyd Brown, SUNY Oneonta professor and best-selling college textbook author, passed away Dec. 1, 2017, at Albany Medical Center, of complications following heart surgery. He was 86. He was born May 26, 1931, in Wheeling, W.Va., the eldest of three children of Durward B. Brown, a Methodist minister, and Dorothy Rine Brown, an author. Upon graduation from Shinnston High School in 1949, he served in the Navy. Degrees included a…

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Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through July 31st, new or lapsed annual subscribers to the hard copy “Freeman’s Journal” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or electronically to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.