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Council To Allocate Funds For Plants For Miller Park

Council To Allocate Funds For Plants For Miller Park ONEONTA – Common Council is scheduled to allocate $15,000, mostly from donations from the Mayor Miller Memorial Fund, for plants and materials for a park planned in honor of the late mayor at the corner of Main Street and James F. Lettis Highway. A motion allocating $11,300 from donations in the the Miller Fund and $3,700 from the city’s Community Landscaping Fund is on the agenda for council’s Tuesday meeting, which begins…

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Bernie’s Backers Organize Locally

Bernie’s Backers Organize Locally Petition Drives In Oneonta, Coop By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta ONEONTA – The night “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” opened at the Southside Mall, Karen Anderson and Wendy Carrington were set up outside the theater, petitioning for their own hero – no, not Luke Skywalker. Bernie Sanders. “There was a long line at the movie theater, and we set all of our materials out so people waiting could look at everything,” said Harrington. Part of…

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Husband-Wife Physician Team Retires After 30 Years In Oneonta

Husband-Wife Physician Team Retires After 30 Years In Oneonta ONEONTA – After more than 30 years of providing patient care and serving the greater Oneonta community, Drs. Michael Levenstein and Deanna Palumbo have retired from primary care practice. The husband and wife team established Bassett’s first Oneonta-based health center in 1988 on Dietz Street, moving to 125 Main St. in 1994. Over the years, the practice Levenstein and Palumbo started grew from four providers to 19. Levenstein and Palumbo completed…

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Move Qualifications Out Of Charter, Panel Says

Move Qualifications Out Of Charter, Panel Says Residency Requirement Remains in Charter By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Mayor Herzig’s ad hoc Charter Review Committee last evening proposed removing the qualifications for the city manager from the charter, putting them in a job description, like all other positions.  That would allow Common Council to change them by a majority vote. “No other job has their requirements outlined in the charter,” said Committee member and Council member Melissa Nicosia,…

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Before The Super Bowl There Is The Chili Bowl

Before The Super Bowl There Is CANO’s Chili Bowl   ONEONTA – Chili lovers from around the area turned out in droves to taste the areas best chilies at the ever-popular Chili Bowl at CANO this afternoon. CANO’s biggest fundraiser, celebrating its 12th year,  sold over 430 bowls made by local artisans at the nearby Carriage House Art Studio. This year’s top prizes went to the Oneonta Bagel Company, who won the People’s Choice award with their Bungalow Bills Bayou Chili,…

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$1,000, $500 Checks Claimed As Winter Carnival Winds Up

$1,000, $500 Checks Claimed As Winter Carnival Winds Up Young Tim Feury this afternoon claims the $500 check from 2016 Cooperstown Winter Carnival Committee chair Marissa Davidson that he won by finding the Carnival Medallion – a golden football – Friday afternoon at Badger Park. For the ninth year, the prize was underwritten by The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta. Seated behind them are Jim and Teresa Donley and their daughter Deirdre. In photo at right, Carnival Committee member Shirley Tyler announces…

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Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through July 31st, new or lapsed annual subscribers to the hard copy “Freeman’s Journal” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or electronically to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.