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Gateway Park To Be Dedicated To Former Mayor Dick Miller

Gateway Park To Be Dedicated To Former Mayor Dick Miller ONEONTA – Miller Park will be dedicated to the memory of former Mayor Dick Miller at 11 a.m. Tuesday.  The public is welcome. Located at the intersection of Lettis Highway and Main Street, behind the Benson Hughson Agency, the park was proposed and partly funded by the former mayor’s friend, Al Cleinman, principal in Cleinman Performance Partners, the city consulting firm.…

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Bill Mason Appointed County Highway Chief

Bill Mason Appointed County Highway Chief He Brings 24 Years NY DOT Experience By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Bill Mason, the retired DOT engineer who has served as interim county highway superintendent for the past four months, was appointed to a four-year term yesterday by the Otsego County Board of Representatives. He succeeds Ron Tiderencel, who retired in April. In an interview this morning, Mason said his first order of business will be to develop an “asset…

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State Fire Chiefs Plan Worcester Seminar On Dangers In Hoarders’ Burning Homes

State Fire Chiefs Plan Worcester Seminar On Dangers In Hoarders’ Burning Homes WORCESTER – The state Association of Fire Chiefs has organized nine programs across the state on the topic, “Collyer’s Mansion and Hoarder Home Fires: A Firefighter’s Worst Nightmare,” including one in Worcester. It will show the dangers of a hoarders home covering not only the fire risks but also the hygiene risks too. It will discuss steps of how to get through to a hoarder and then discuss…

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Resident Marks 24th Month Since Losing Home To Taxes

Resident Marks 24th Month Since Losing Home To Taxes County Reps Unswayed By Citizen’s Plea By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As she has at every county Board of Representatives’ meeting since losing her home in the county’s annual tax sale in August 2014,  tearful Maria Ajello, formerly of the Town of Richfield, pleaded to get her home back for the 24th time at this morning’s  meeting. She noted that, for two years as of today, she has appeared…

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Carl Mondillo, 72; Guitarist, Played Pool With The Best

IN MEMORIAM: Carl Mondillo, 72; Guitarist, Played Pool With The Best ONEONTA – Carl Anthony Mondillo, 72, remembered by friends for his guitar-playing and pool-playing skills, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, with his loving wife, Sandra at his bedside. Carl was the son of Tony and Pauline Mondillo of Schaffer Avenue.  After graduating from high school in 1962, Carl joined the Army and was stationed in Germany. He married Sandra Lehman of Lowville on July 20, 1974.…

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Rash Of Burglaries Strikes Center City

Rash Of Burglaries Strikes Center City Police Warn: Lock Doors, Windows, Cars By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With six burglaries and two car thefts in the last 10 days, Oneonta police are warning Center City residents to lock their cars, doors and windows. “This isn’t a student taking a chair off a porch and moving it a few houses up the block,” said Lt. Douglas Brenner, Oneonta Police Department. “The thieves are taking purses, wallets, cash, and…

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Three Men Killed In Morris Car Accident

3 Die In Morris Crash MORRIS – Three men were killed in an early-morning car accident on State Highway 23 after their vehicle failed to navigate a left curve, State Police said today. Troopers responded to the scene of the one-car accident at 3:14 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 3 in Morris. Though the car was on fire when they arrived on the scene, the three victims, Jordan Crandall, 22, Norwich, Christopher Brissette, 22, Sherburne, and Dillon Clemens, 21, Norwich were already…

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$300,000 U.S. Grant To Fund Bassett Teleheath For 4 Years

  $300,000 U.S. Grant To Fund Bassett Telehealth For 4 Years COOPERSTOWN – Bassett Healthcare Network has been awarded a $297,419 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for up to four years to bring telehealth services to the school-based health care setting. The grant-funded project will benefit students enrolled in 18 of Bassett’s school-based health centers in rural Delaware, Otsego and Chenango counties. All three counties are federally-designated health professional shortage areas with significant unmet needs for…

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.