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…
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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…
CGP Students Adopt ‘Christmas Families’…
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…
Smart Car, Deer Collide On Route 20 ↓ UPDATE: PHOTO A HOAX…
City Council May Vote On Fire Pact Tonight ONEONTA – Common Council members tonight will be asked to vote on the Town of Oneonta Fire District #1’s offer of a “mid-to high $800,000” contract for fire protection to cover the East End, Southside and West End sections of the town. “That’s a number below this year’s contract of $946,000,” said Mayor Gary Herzig. “They’re basing it on the historical formula, but without including ambulance billing and administrative costs.” Council members…
CCS Kindergartners Extend Tradition…
Online Poll 12.15.15…
East Worcester Firefighter Charged With Embezzling Department Funds EAST WORCESTER – Gregory B. Eager, 30, an officer in East Worcester Hose Company No. 1, was charged today with taking more than $83,000 from his fire department, the county District Attorney’s Office announced. Acting on a complaint received last month from a hose company officer that funds were missing from the department’s bank accounts, D.A investigators with assistance from state Department of Financial Services investigators found $83,097.12 had been embezzled from…
Property-Rights Activist Plans Rally At Courthouse COOPERSTOWN – Judy Pepenella, a founding board member of the Conservative Society for Action and the Long Island Coordinator for New Yorkers for Property Rights, will hold a property-rights rally and press conference at noon this coming Friday on the steps of the County Office Building on upper Main Street. “Otsego County has been using aggressive foreclosure methods to steal properties from residents with the excuse they owe back taxes,” a press released from…