Maryland Man Arrested On Hydrocodone Charge MILFORD – Kenneth Albert VanDenberg, 58, Town of Maryland, was arrested at Monday evening for selling hydrocodone to another person in the Town of Milford last April 29, Otsego County Sheriff’s Investigator Mike Ten Eyck reported today.…
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Public Hearing On County Budget Planned Monday In Cooperstown COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego County Board of Representatives have scheduled a public hearing for 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 1, in the County Office Building to hear comment on the proposed 2015 budget. The $103 million document includes a local tax levy slightly over $11 million. That reflected a property tax decrease of 2.4 percent. But given the decision to keep the Cooperstown DMV office and the “Gathering Place” senior site in…
Despite Legal Threats, Trustees Tighten Rental-Property Rules Cooperstown Trustees Adopt 5 New Ordinances By JIM KEVLIN • www.allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – In the face of threats of legal challenges, the Village Board tonight unanimously adopted one law that further regulates rental properties, and another that “sunsets” grandfathering provisions on those properties if neighbors complain. “Good actors and bad actors don’t deserve the same protections,” said Mayor Jeff Katz as the trustees prepared to vote on those two laws after a dozen…
Valerie Hitt Takes 3-Day Cancer Walk Off Bucket List By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 Valerie Hitt feels helpless no more. “I’ve had several personal losses from cancer,” she said. “And you feel so helpless. I wanted to do something different, something for a good cause. It seems like a good thing to do, since I can do it.” Hitt, the owner of Serenity Fitness, raised $2,300 to walk 60 miles around San…
Badly Injured, Jerry Colgate Out Of Coma By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 Jerry Colgate, CCS ’04, is coming out of an induced coma and his condition seems to be improving after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver in the early hours of Sunday, Nov. 9, in Charlottesville, Va., where he has been living. “He’s been doing very well,” his mother, Sarah Colgate of Cooperstown, said Tuesday, Nov.18. “The doctors here are…
Bassett Reaches Out: Jane Forbes Clark, Dr. Brown Calm Upset Neighbors By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 Bassett has reached out to its neighbors, and the neighbors – disgruntled as recently as Sept. 29 at a Village Hall hearing on simplifying the hospital’s planning challenges by placing it in a single “institutional zone” – seem satisfied for now. “They were in full listening mode,” neighbor Bill Waller, Beaver Street, said after he and…
Ag Commissioner Richard Ball: Farming Is Economic Development Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 20-21, 2014 Agriculture is increasingly understood in New York State as economic development, Richard Ball, the recently appointed state agriculture commissioner, told 200 people at NYSHA’S “Celebration of Our Agricultural Community” Saturday, Nov. 15, at The Farmers’ Museum. “We get to work and farm a couple of hours away from the biggest appetite in the country,” said Ball, himself a Schoharie County farmer. He concluded, “If New York…
AUTO DEALERS ECHO OBJECTIONS Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 20-21, 2014 Editor’s Note: Here are excerpts from auto dealers’ letters to the county Board of Representatives telling how their businesses would be negatively impacted by the closing of the Cooperstown DMV. This would be a hardship for us as we use the Cooperstown branch several times a month. The next closest DMV office is located in Herkimer, which is twice the distance. Please consider keeping the Cooperstown office open for all…
Knowledgeable Folks In County DMV Help Cut Through Albany Bureacracy Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 20-21, 2014 Editor’s Note: This is a letter from attorney Les Sittler, Fly Creek, to Kathy Clark, R-Otego, the county Board of Representatives chair. I read recently, with much concern, that the Board of Representatives of Otsego County is considering closing the DMV office in Cooperstown. As you may know, I have been an attorney practicing in the northern part of Otsego County since 1988.…
Enough Cuts. Let’s Rebuild Otsego County To The Gold Standard Editorial for the Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 20-21 2014 For the past few months, Maria Ajello, a Town of Richfield widow – her husband, Ken, who died in 2008, was a decorated Vietnam veteran – has been tearfully appearing before the Otsego County Board of Representatives, begging that the tax sale on their home be overturned. County representatives and the county Treasurer’s Office have pointed out, convincingly, that all the…