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County Board Vote Fails To OK Tourism Contract

County Board Vote Fails To OK Tourism Contract By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Destination Marketing of Otsego County (DMOC) found itself in the middle of the political crossfire at today’s county Board of Representatives meeting. DMOC is led by a board of volunteer directors from the hospitality industry who contracted with the county to invest part of the county’s bed-tax revenues to put “heads in beds” – i.e., tourists in hotels and motels. The first three-year contract…

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Gibson In Valedictory: Government Can Work

CONGRESSMAN IN COOPERSTOWN Gibson In Valedictory: Government Can Work COOPERSTOWN – In what may be his final appearance before Cooperstown Rotarians while a congressman, Chris Gibson, R-19, told club club members today that, despite widely heard predictions of gloom, the federal government can and is working. Gibson, who is retiring at the end of the year, pointed out that Congress, after all the threats of shutting down government in recent years, actually agreed on a two-year budget agreement that will…

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Otego Woman Found With Heroin, Runs From Cops

Otego Woman Found With Heroin, Runs From Cops OTEGO – A woman charged with DUI and possessing heroin tried running from State Troopers before she was arrested in Otego. Yesterday afternoon, troopers allegedly observed Jacqueline Graves, 30, Otego crossing a road hazard as she was driving on State Route 7 in the Town of Otego.  An investigation determined that she was driving while impaired by drugs, but when troopers told her she was under arrest, Graves pulled away and ran a…

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Dorothy Bly, 98; Retired Little Falls Funeral Director

IN MEMORIAM:  Dorothy Bly, 98; Retired Little Falls Funeral Director COOPERSTOWN – Dorothy A. Bly, 98, who retired to Cooperstown with her husband after operating a funeral parlor in Little Falls for a quarter century, passed away Saturday afternoon, May 28, 2016, at Valley Health Services in Herkimer.  She had been residing at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home. Born Oct. 7, 1917, in Rochester, she was a daughter of Dea W. and Hazel (Roberts) Hess.  The first born of three…

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88 Degrees On Saturday Beats Record By 2 Degrees

88 Degrees On Saturday Beats Record By 2 Degrees The 88-degree record high on Memorial Day Weekend Saturday beat the 86-degree  market set in 1911 and tied in 1978,  AllOTSEGO.com (and Hometown Oneonta and Freeman’s Journal) weather watcher Dave Mattice reports. Thursday, the high was 85 degrees; Friday, 86, and Sunday, 86, Mattice reports, not record but enough to constitute a heat wave around here.  …

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Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

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