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Herzig Committed To Closing Budget Gap

HERZIG COMMITTED TO CLOSING BUDGET GAP ONEONTA – Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig, appointed last month but up for election next Tuesday for a term to begin Jan. 1, was interviewed by AllOTSEGO.com’s Don Mathisen on his plans.  This is the third of five excerpts that will appear on this website daily through Saturday. Click the video below to watch Mayor Herzig discuss his plan to reduce Oneonta’s budget gap. TOMORROW, HERZIG ON ENTERTAINMENT…

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Oneonta Pedestrian Struck By Car Dies This Evening At Bassett Hospital

Oneonta Pedestrian Struck By Car Dies This Evening At Bassett Hospital ONEONTA – Daniel Heath, 76, the pedestrian struck by a car at Main and Chestnut this morning, has died at Bassett Hospital, OPD Lt. Douglas Brenner said a few minutes ago.  Brenner said he was alerted by the family to the elderly man’s passing. The driver in this morning’s mishap, which occurred about 10:18, had been ticketed with failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.  He is Mark…

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HERZIG PRIORITY: GOOD JOBS, BENEFITS

HERZIG PRIORITY: GOOD JOBS, BENEFITS Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig, appointed last month but up for election next Tuesday for a term to begin Jan. 1, was interviewed by AllOTSEGO.com’s Don Mathisen on his plans.  This is the second of five excerpts that will appear on this website daily through Saturday. TOMORROW, HERZIG ON BUDGET…

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District 7 Without Representation After Beth Rosenthal Resignation

District 7 Without Representation After Beth Rosenthal Resignation ROSEBOOM – The county Board of Representatives’ District 7 (Cherry Valley, Middlefield and Roseboom) is without representation until the end of the year after the recent resignation of two-term county Rep. Beth Rosenthal. Rosenthal, a Democrat elected in 2012 and reelected in 2014, recently moved to the Albany area.  Her home in Roseboom recently sold, so she no longer had an in-county residence. She served on three committees: Intergovernmental Affairs, Performance Review…

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Driver Ticketed After Pedestrian Injured

Driver Ticketed After Pedestrian Injured ONEONTA – Mark Fedorov, Maryland, was ticketed this morning for failing to yield to a pedestrian in the crosswalk after his car struck an elderly man crossing the street at the corner of Main and Chestnut. “He was making a left and it was raining pretty hard.  He just didn’t see him,” said Police Lt. Douglas Brenner.  “He bumped him, and the man fell.” The victim hit his head in the fall and was transported to…

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CAR HITS PEDESTRIAN IN CITY’S DOWNTOWN

CAR HITS PEDESTRIAN IN CITY’S DOWNTOWN ONEONTA – A car hit a pedestrian at the corner of Main and Chesnut at approximately 10:40 this morning, according to Police Lt. Douglas Brenner.   City police are at the scene at this hour.  Check back for further details.…

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Al O’Brien, 84; Proprietor Of Cooperstown Motel

IN MEMORIAM: Al O’Brien, 84; Proprietor Of Cooperstown Motel COOPERSTOWN  –  Albert K. O’Brien, 84, proprietor of the Cooperstown Motel, died Oct. 23, 2015, after a long battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable adult inherited infirmity. He was born Feb. 12, 1931, in the Methodist-Episcopal Hospital in New York City.  He was raised in Springfield Center in the family’s four generation home as well as in several different sections of New York City. While attending high school as a…

Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

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