CLICK HERE TO SEE PROCEEDINGS BEGINNING TODAY, VIEW COUNTY BOARD IN ACTION MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER TO: Friends of www.allotsego.com, Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal By clicking on the link at the top of this page, you will have a chance to participate in a piece – albeit, a small piece – of county history. Beginning with yesterday’s meeting of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, the board’s monthly proceedings will be videotaped and made available to the public via…
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REPUBLICAN HOUSE PASSES OBAMACARE REPEAL, 217-213…
Faso Says He Is Voting For Obamacare Repeal Otsego County’s congressman, John Faso, R-Kinderhook, announced today he will vote for the Republicans’ replacement for Obamacare, the American Health Care Act. The vote is anticipated sometime this afternoon. “After careful review of the changes to the American Health Care Act, I believe that this legislation addresses my concerns and I will support the AHCA as amended,” the congressman said in a statement. Here is the CNN synopsis of how the ACHA will effect…
Short Shorts Show Candidates’ Divides Did Dress Code ‘Shame Bodies,’ Or Put Students In Frame Of Mind To Learn? By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Short shorts enlivened this evening’s League of Women Voters’ forum. “What’s enough?” asked citizen Richard Blabey, referencing the in-school mini-furor when eight female students who showed up at the high school in short shorts on April 11, the first day when temperatures got into the 70s, and were taken out of class and…
ATTENTION, COOPERSTOWN READERS Posting of questionnaires by the five candidates for the CCS Board of Education has been rescheduled for Thursday afternoon. Please check back at that time.…
IN MEMORIAM Jeremy Allen, 86; Businessman In Kenya And, Later, Oneonta ONEONTA – Jeremy Allen, 86, a polo player, race car driver and businessman in his native Kenya before moving to the U.S. and in 1986 buying Robynwood Adult Home in Oneonta, passed away peacefully on May 1, 2017. Born Oct. 16, 1930, in Nairobi, Kenya, to Brian and Lorna (Henley) Allen, Jeremy spent his youth in Kenya where he developed a lifelong love of nature and agriculture. He spent his…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, MAY 4 Discover The Outdoors OTSEGO OUTDOORS – 4:30 p.m. Learn how you can connect with nature year round. The go on a bike ride, hike, or do some paddling on Gilbert Lake. Includes refreshments. Glibert Lake State Park, 18 CCC Rd., Laurens. Info, www.otsego2000.org/2017/04/27/launching-otsego-outdoors/ LOCAL HISTORY – 7 p.m. “Lose the Battle, Win the War: Women’s Fight to Vote in Cooperstown,” a presentation with the League of Women Voters exploring the movement in Otsego County…
Fallen Limbs Surround Irish Hill House, Cars Today’s story offers a very important reminder to those in the local area to always remember to get a tree service company in denton tx to look at the condition of your trees around this time of year. They will be able to check the health of the tree as well as how safe it is. When they see a diseased or dead tree, they will remove it to help improve the health…
LEAF’s Julie Dostal Honored, As Are Cooperstown ‘Great 8’ AVAILABLE AT THIS FINE ESTABLISHMENTS TRY FREEMAN’S JOURNAL HOME DELIVERY…
READ MILFORD SUPERINTENDENT’S STATEMENT Silence About Threat Called ‘Unacceptable’ Milford Superintendent Berates County Board By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Failure over four months to alert Milford Central School about Sgt. Ros Devlin’s alleged threat to “shoot up” MCS and Oneonta schools is “totally unacceptable,” the school’s new superintendent, Mark A. Place, told the county Board of Representatives this morning. “Each day we are held responsible for keeping safe over 400 students and 100 employees,” Place said,…