Investigator May Be Hired In Jail Probe, Frazier Says Investigation Should Be ‘Professional, Complete,” Chairman Says As Personnel Records Scrutinized By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The county should hire an investigator to make sure the probe of the county Sheriff’s Department is “done in a professional and complete manner,” county Rep. Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, recommended this morning. Frazier, chair of the county board’s Public Safety & Legal Affairs Committee, made that announcement before his committee went into closed…
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City Woman Charged With Accepting $10.5K Unemployment While Working ONEONTA – State Police report arresting Carla M. Gagliano, 33, of Oneonta, Tuesday for receiving $10,500 in unemployment benefits when she was actually working at Astrocom,Town of Milford. She was chared with grand larceny, third degree, and offering a false instrument for filing, first degree.…
Victims Of Domestic Violence To Be Honored In OFO Exhibit ONEONTA – During National Crime Victims’ Right Week, April 2-8, Opportunity for Otsego’s Violence Intervention Program is preparing an exhibit at SUNY Oneonta to remember victims killed in an act of domestic violence. Honorees include Tifanne K. Wells of Oneonta, victim of a 2015 murder-suicide near Emmons, and Elizabeth Welsh Callahan of Goodyear Lake, whose husband is under indictment in her 2000 death in Pennsylvania. The exhibit, which opens with…
IN MEMORIAM: Eileen Charles Owen, 80 COOPERSTOWN – Eileen Charles Owen, 80, formerly of Cooperstown, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, at home in Bronxville following a lengthy illness. Born Jan. 12, 1937, in Brooklyn, to the late Richard and Kathryn Charles, Eileen lived in Garden City, Cooperstown and Albany before settling in Bronxville. She graduated from St. Angela Hall and Marymount Junior College. She worked as a medical secretary for many years.…
Sheriff Releases Personnel Records County Public Safety Committee Plans To Review Them At Thursday Meeting By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr. announced a few minutes ago that he did comply with a subpoena issued from the county Board of Representatives and released personnel records on two “use of force incidents” at the county jail, in 2016 and 2010. A press release from the sheriff said the 2016 incident involved use of force…
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Seward, Farmers At ‘Taste Of NY’ State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, samples maple vinegar produced by Ingles Maple Products in Richfield Springs during the New York Farm Bureau’s “Taste of New York” legislative reception in Albany this week. From left are John VanDerwerken and Rebecca Russell, both representing NYCAMH, and the senator who, among others, met with Otsego County Farm Bureau President Paul Greer, NYFB State Director, District 9, Darin Hickling and Harold Palmer, the beef farmer and Town…
IN MEMORIAM Rick Gibbons, 72; Riverwood Owner, Former President Of Local Chamber COOPERSTOWN – Herrick “Rick” Price Gibbons, 72, proprietor of Riverwood Gifts, the landmark downtown business, passed away on March 4, 2017. A gathering for celebration and reflection will be 1-4 p.m., Saturday, March 11, at Templeton Hall, 63 Pioneer St. His ashes will be scattered in a private ceremony this spring. The family asks that visitors dress in the hippy spirit Rick embraced: tie-dye, bright Hawaiian shirts, and…
County Treasurer Crowell Says He Won’t Run Again COOPERSTOWN – County Treasurer Dan Crowell has announced he won’t seek a third term, and will be “whole-heartedly” supporting his deputy, Allen Ruffles, former Key Bank branch manager, for the the job. Crowell said he is considering career options both in the military – he is a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve – and the private sector. Crowell issued this announcement at 12:51 this afternoon:…