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Toys For Tots Boxes Out, Sign-Ups Required

Toys For Tots Boxes Out; Sign Up In Next 2 Weeks Sharron Wheeler sets up one of three Toys For Tots boxes in the Southside Mall this afternoon. Sponsored by the Marine Corps League, toys will be collected from now through Dec. 11.  People hoping to receive toys must sign up at the Holiday Inn Express between in the next two weeks Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to noon, and 3-7 p.m. If you would like to donate toys, keep an eye out…

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Police: Man Drove Car Into Gas Station

SUSPECT FACES BURGLARY CHARGE City Police:  Teen Stole Car, Rammed Mini-Mart With it ONEONTA – A Delancey man was arrested today, charged with driving a stolen car into the Oneonta’s Taylor’s Mini-Mart, Main Street, in an apparent attempt to rob the store. Police alleged he’d done the same earlier in the evening in the Delhi area. Wade D. Armstrong, 19, was arrested by Oneonta City Police early this morning after police located a red Subaru reported to be involved in a hit…

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Police: Utica Man Had 23 Bags of Cocaine

Police: Utican Arrested With 23 Bags Of Cocaine ONEONTA – Oneonta Police arrested a Utica man found with 23 bags of cocaine worth $2,300 after a raid at a house on Baker Street Wednesday afternoon. Kwame Wilson, 23, was arrested with the assistance of state police K9 Milton, after investigating a report of possible drug activity at 14½ Baker Street. At the scene police allegedly seized 23 individual packets of cocaine with a street value of approximately $2,300, $246 in cash and…

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On WAMC’s ‘Morning Headlines’, County Backs Pipeline; Local Spruce NYC Bound

On WAMC’s ‘Morning Headlines’, County Backs Pipeline; Local Spruce NYC Bound In Thursday’s weekly radio report on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, Jim Kevlin, editor/publisher of www.AllOTSEGO.com (and Hometown Oneonta & the Freeman’s Journal), reported on the Otsego County Board of Representatives’ vote urging Governor Cuomo to get behind the Constitution Pipeline.  Also, on excitement about an Oneonta spruce being chosen for the Rockefeller Center ice rink this year. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS WEEK’S  REPORT  …

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YMCA Parks Program Cut From City Budget Talks

2 COUNCIL MEMBERS DECRY ‘BABYSITTING‘ Y’s Summer Parks Program Removed From City Budget By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The YMCA Parks Program is on the chopping block to help closed a $338,067 gap already reduced from $2 million in the $15.2 million budget target Common Council is seeking to keep taxes stable in 2017. “We’re not a babysitting service,” said Council member Paul van der Sommen, First Ward.  “We can’t justify the cost.” The Y’s Parks Program…

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Linda D. Rowell, 55, Oneonta

IN MEMORIAM: Linda D. Rowell, 55, Oneonta ONEONTA – Linda D Rowell, 55, passed away at her home in Oneonta on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. Linda was born in Sidney, on Feb. 5, 1961, the daughter of Richard G. and Hilda Mae Williams Haynes. She was employed for many years at Bassett Specialty Care in Oneonta, and for the last 10 years as an associate at the Oneonta Walmart.…