Mayor Declines To Accept Cut-Rate Fire District Offer Herzig Offers Face-To-Face Negotiations ONEONTA – Mayor Gary Herzig this afternoon declined to accept an offer to provide fire protection to Town of Oneonta Fire District #1 for three months at monthly charge 10 percent below what Common Council rejected earlier in the week. The Fire District is facing a Dec. 31 deadline to renew its contract for service from the Oneonta Fire Department or lose fire-protection in the new year. “I…
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Kiplinger Ranks SUNY Oneonta Among Best College Values In U.S. ONEONTA – Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine has named SUNY Oneonta 191st on its list of the Top 300 Best College Values of 2016. The rankings, released Dec. 16, also includes the Oneonta college on its 100 Best Values in Public Colleges list for the 10th consecutive year.…
Driver, Passenger Die In Crash That Prompted ‘Yellow Alert’ NORWICH – A driver and his passenger were killed in an early-morning crash after attempting to pass a tractor trailer on Route 8 in the Town of Norwich, State police investigators reported today after sorting out the deadly episode that had Bassett Hospital on “yellow alert,” anticipating the worst. At around 7:19 a.m. Thursday, troopers from Sidney and Norwich responded to a Chenango County 911 report of a two-vehicle collision with injuries. Investigation…
Tax Protest Under Way At Otsego County Offices…
The Force Is Strong At The Southside Mall…
Troop C Veteran Barnes Promoted To Commander Major Faughnan Joins Internal Affairs ONEONTA – State Police Capt. James E. Barnes today was promoted to the rank of major and assigned to command Troop C, headquartered at Sidney and covering a seven-county region that includes Otsego and the Oneonta Barracks. He succeeds Maj. Donald M. Faughnan, who was promoted to rank of staff inspector and assigned to Internal Affairs, based in Liverpool, State Police Supt. Joseph A. D’Amico announced. Major Barnes has…
VALEDICTORY …And, Yes, We Are Fiscally Sound, Supervisor Atwell Says In Summing Up Editor’s Note: Anne Geddes Atwell, Otsego town supervisor or town board member for the past decade, is retiring from her municipal responsibilities at year’s end. She provided this summing up of her tenure. By ANNE GEDDES ATWELL, Supervisor, Town of Otsego As 2015 ends, so does my second term as Otsego town supervisor. This completes 10 years of service on the Town Board. It’s been gratifying work,…
Heavner, van der Sommen Win 2nd Annual Streck Fellowship COOPERSTOWN – The William F. Streck, MD, Fellowship in Health Policy and Management, created to acknowledge Bassett Hospital’s retired 30-year president, has been awarded to Philip Heavner, MD, FAAP, chief of pediatrics, and Susan van der Sommen, executive director of the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program. Established in 2014, the fellowship will be awarded annually to one or two Bassett employees to pursue a non-degree educational opportunity to study health…
IN MEMORIAM: Leah Waits, 97, Cooperstown COOPERSTOWN – Leah Maxine Henry Waits, 97, of Cooperstown, formerly of Springfield, Ohio, passed away on Dec. 14, 2015. Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Pamela and Philip Washburn of Cooperstown. Born to the late Lucinda (Lula) Hubbard Henry and Carl Henry of Chicago, Ill., Aug. 6, 1918, in St. Louis, Mo., Leah graduated from Milan High School in 1938 and attended Trenton Junior College, now North Central Missouri College, Trenton, Mo.…
