Focus Employee Arrested For Theft, Needle Possession INDEX – A Focus Otsego employee has been arrested for possessing a hypodermic needle and for stealing money from a co-worker’s car, the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department reports. Karina Preston, Oneonta, was arrested Dec. 15 after a co-worker complained he had witnessed her go into his truck in the Focus Otsego parking lot without his permission. According to the police report, he and his fellow co-workers watched Preston as she searched “through my property between the seats and…
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2 Employees Plead Guilty In Neglect Case At Focus By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com FLY CREEK – Two more employees of Focus Otsego have pleaded guilty for their part in neglecting a 94-year-old resident for over 41 hours last Memorial Day weekend. LPN Amanda Gus and CNA Sarah Schuyler plead guilty to falsifying business records during their appearance yesterday before Judge Gary Kuch in the Town of Otsego court. As part of her plea, Schuyler admitted to “never approaching” the woman,…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, DEC. 22 Practice Public Speaking TOASTMASTERS MEETING – 6-7 p.m. Improve speaking and leadership skills and have fun in supportive Toastmasters club. Green Earth Natural Foods, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Info, oneonta.toastmastersclubs.org SOUTHSDIE MALL SANTA – 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Southside Mall, 5006 State Highway 23, Oneonta. COOPERSTOWN SANTA – 1-4 p.m. Christmas Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown. Info, cooperstownchamber.org/santas-house-in-cooperstown/ CLICK FOR MORE HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO…
Rector Inducted At Christ Church Parishioners Applaud Father Boston …
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UNATEGO SCHOOLS $1.5 MILLION SHORT AUDIT REVEALS UNEXPECTED GAP OTEGO – As it begins to prepare its 2017-18 budget, the Unatego Central School District has discovered an accounting error has left it almost $1.5 million short of where it thought it was on its finances. Superintendent of School David Richards said today that a review of Unatego finances released last night found that as a result of a non-cash accounting error in 2010, compounded by expenditures made following that error…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21 Jazz Night At The B-side Ballroom JAZZ MUSIC – 7 p.m. B-Side Ballroom, 1 Clinton Plaza Drive Oneonta. Info, bsideballroom.com/agenda-calendar/ CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR – 10:30-11:30 a.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org/calendar SOUTHSDIE MALL SANTA – 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Southside Mall, 5006 State Highway 23, Oneonta. COOPERSTOWN SANTA – 1-4 p.m. Christmas Cottage, Pioneer Park, Cooperstown. Info, cooperstownchamber.org/santas-house-in-cooperstown/ DISCUSSION GROUP – 3-5 p.m. Discussion of Current Events. Cooperstown Village Library, 22…
Chief Nayor Gives Final Report, Receives Standing Ovation…
IN MEMORIAM Robert E. Covert, 85; Retired Officer Was Police Chief’s Dad HARTWICK – Robert Ellis Covert, 85, a retired police officer and father of Cooperstown Police Chief Michael K. Covert, passed away Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, at his home on West Hill, after suffering from Alzheimer’s for 10 years. He was born Sept. 19, 1931, at Hackensack Hospital in Hackensack, N.J., a son of Ellis Anderson and Edna May (Ockenholt) Covert. After graduating from high school, Bob joined the Navy…
Goal: Repair Aging Sewer Plant SEWARD BRINGS $2M TO VILLAGE…