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Oneonta Common Council Approves Revised Charter

COMMON COUNCIL REPORT Oneonta Common Council Approves Revised Charter ONEONTA – Six months after Mayor Gary Herzig appointed an ad hoc committee to revise the Oneonta City Charter, Common Council unanimously approved the local law amending the revised charter as presented. “I feel we did a good job of bringing this to a good place,” said Council Member Melissa Nicosia, Second Ward, a member of Mayor Gary Herzig’s ad hoc charter review committee.  “Complains we heard were listened to, and…

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CCS School Budget OK’d By Big Margin

CCS School Budget OK’d By Big Margin Bus, Library Resolutions Also Win Approval COOPERSTOWN – When the polls closed at 8 this evening, Cooperstown Central School District voters had approved the 2016-17 $18 million school budget, 388 to 102.   It includes a .43 percent increase in the tax levy. Voters approved a proposition to acquire buses, 416-70.  The budget for the Village Library of Cooperstown and Hartwick’s Kinney Memorial Library, also on the ballot, was approved 387-101. Two candidates…

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Betsy J. Snyder, 81; Financial Manager For Medical Group

IN MEMORIAM:  Betsy J. Snyder, 81; Financial Manager For Medical Group COOPERSTOWN – Betsy J. Snyder, Latham, a Cooperstown native who pursued a career in the Capital District,  died Sunday morning May 15, 2016, at her Latham home. She was 81. Born in Cooperstown on Oct. 18, 1934, Betsy was the daughter of Clifford and Genevieve (Knapp) Snyder. She graduated from Cooperstown High School in the Class of 1952.…

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Seward Bill Helps Employers Hire Drug-Court Graduates

Seward Bill Helps Employers Hire Drug-Court Graduates ALBANY – State Sen. Jim Seward’s bill to provide tax credits to employer who hire people who graduate from drug court or similar programs is part of a package of 48 recommendations in a special report from the Joint Senate Task Force on Heroin & Opioid Addiction, his office announced today. “A job is more than just a paycheck for someone in recovery.  It is a symbol of self-worth and a validation that others…

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East Meredith Man Killed In Kortright Car Accident

East Meredith Man Killed In Kortright Car Accident KORTRIGHT – A 58-year-old East Meredith man was killed after his truck veered off the road and struck a culvert yesterday evening in the Town of Kortright. In responding to a 911 report of a motor-vehicle accident on West Kortright Church Road, state troopers determined that Michael C. Berry was driving a 1996 Dodge Ram pickup truck southeast when he left the road for an unknown reason.  He struck a culvert, causing the…

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Polls Open Today Until 8 p.m. For School Budget, Candidates

Polls Open Today Until 9 p.m. For School Budgets, Candidates Polls are open today until 9 p.m. in Oneonta, and 8 p.m. in Cooperstown – and in school districts around Otsego County and the state – to residents to vote on school budgets and elect school board candidates. Oneonta voting is at Foothills Performing Arts Center; Cooperstown voting is at the high school.…

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.