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County Board Freezes Hiring Until 2016 Budget Is In Place COOPERSTOWN – The county Board of Representatives today authorized a hiring freeze at least into the new year. No new workers will be hired until the county board rescinds today’s order. With hiring restricted for the time being, it presents an opportunity for the board to review its hiring process. There has been a number of calls in recent times for tests to be introduced especially when hiring for analytical…
SUNY Oneonta Artist Unveils Portraits Of 10 Local Heroes COOPERSTOWN – After piles of nominations and months of secrecy, artist Janet Wentworth Erickson will debut her portrait series, “Community Heroes in Portraiture” at a reception beginning at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9th, at The Farmers’ Museum’s Louis Jones Center. The public is welcome. The portraits will be hung at The Fenimore Art Museum. “Portraiture has been a practice since ancient times,” said Erickson. “From death masks to selfies, every community wants…
BROOKWOOD GARDENS’ FATE Land Trust Committee Gets ‘Several’ Proposals COOPERSTOWN – The deadline for RFPs on Brookwood Gardens passed at 5 p.m. today, and Otsego Land Trust Board Chair Harry Levine said “several” proposals for 11 acres of the prime lakeside property have been received. “I’m very encouraged,” said Levine, who said a Land Trust committee will meet Friday for an initial review of the 47 proposals that came out of the request-for-proposal process. He declined to get more specific on the number,…
Troopers Arrest Walton Man After Standoff Over Girlfriend WALTON – A Walton man is in custody after a standoff state police said was caused by domestic dispute and was resolved in part by use of a robot. Yesterday at 11:49 a.m., state police at Sidney received a report of a woman leaving her home after being threatened by her boyfriend with a gun on Lower Third Brook Road in the Town of Walton. An investigation determined that during a physical…
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Bob Hall Wins Fetterman Award, Joining Sports Center Pantheon By LIBBY CUDMORE • for AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – For Bob Hall, while growing up in Springfield, a trip to the Clark Sports Center was about as good as a day could get. “On Saturdays, my friends and I would get a parent to bring a carload of us down to the Clark Sports Center – it was next to the Baseball Hall of Fame back then – and we’d play all day.”…
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Republicans Sue To Knock Sharratt Off Hartwick Ballot COOPERSTOWN – The county Republican Committee is going back to court this week to try to knock another Democrat off the ballot, county Democratic Chair Richard Abbate said this evening. “They must have a lot of money for legal fees,” he said. According to Abbate, the GOP committee has filed papers challenging one of the petitions submitted by Juli Sharratt, the Hartwick Town Board member who won the Democratic primary for town…