Many Have Received Unclaimed Funds. Don’t Give Up The Freeman’s Journal/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 25-26, 2014 To the Editor: After reading R. Scott Duncan’s letter in last week’s newspaper describing his difficulties retrieving funds through the state Office of Unclaimed Funds, I want to offer a few thoughts. The mailing from my office was intended to notify individuals of this useful service and to help people access the more than $13 billion in unclaimed funds held by New…
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Letter Misleads On State Of Town Of Otsego Affairs The Freeman’s Journal/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 18-19, 2014 To the Editor: As supervisor, I wish to clarify some points in Sheila Ross’ letter of Nov. 21 implying the Town of Otsego awarded raises to many at the expense of the highway workers. The only raise awarded in the new budget was a cost-of-living 1.5 percent raise to the town clerk, whose office hours are 16 but who is on…
Search For ‘Unclaimed Funds’ Ends In Disappointment HOMETOWN ONEONTA/The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 18-19, 2014 To the Editor: If you received the giant postcard from state Sen. Jim Seward’s office stating you may have “New York State Unclaimed Funds waiting for you! …There’s never any charges to search or file for unclaimed funds.” Don’t believe it. Don’t believe it. I was surfing the Internet a while back and decided to look into that site. I put in the…
County’s Avarice Takes All, Not Just What I Owe Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 11-12, 2014 To the Editor: I read your editorial (of Nov. 27-28) and it brought tears to my eyes. You have a clear understanding of my agony to redeem my home. For 51 days before the auction I tried without success to keep the house OUT of the auction and pay what I owed. My pleas did fall on deaf ears and cold hearts. Mr. Crowell had…
Katz: Our Own Rick Hulse Derailed Tourism Assistance Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 11-12, 2014 To the Editor: In the county budget vote of Wednesday, Dec. 3, a bipartisan group of Ed Lentz, Beth Rosenthal, Gary Koutnik, Linda Rowinski, Kay Stuligross, Craig Gelbsman and Janet Quackenbush voted to return $150,000 in bed tax revenues to the municipalities that generate it. They recognized, unlike our own Town of Otsego/Village of Cooperstown representative Rick Hulse, that the town and city of Oneonta, Town…
48 Units Too Intense For Silver Creek Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 4-5, 2014 To the Editor: I am very concerned about Housing Visions’ planned development of the Silver Creek properties. I’ve always favored reasonable development of this area, but I have serious misgivings about the construction of 48 housing units there. First, I worry about the stability of the hillside. Can it physically support this much construction? We know what heavy construction of the Wilber Park Apartments did to that…
Why Did Leaf Pickup Break Down This Fall? Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 4-5, 2014 To the Editor: In talking with friends and neighbors this fall, every one of them commented on what a poor job the village has done in picking up leaves this year. Comments ranged from “just plain terrible; very disorganized” to “it was poorly managed and haphazard!” At three homes across the street from my house there were five piles of leaves that just sat there for…
Oneonta, Cooperstown County Reps Should Support Sharing Bed-Tax Revenue Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 4-5, 2014 To the Editor: Thank you to your newspapers for the repeated suggestion that the county Board of Representatives should reform the occupancy or “bed tax.” It is inexplicable that the board seems set on ignoring this commonsense appeal, including several representatives whose own districts will suffer greatly. Tourism is one of the primary industries of our County and is led by Cooperstown, the city and…
Thanksgiving and Hospice: Blessings Abound Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 27-28, 2014 Editor’s Note: Lola Rathbone is president/CEO of the Catskill Area Hospice & Palliative Care. Thanksgiving is about family, traditions and a time to be thankful for life’s blessings. Hospice, too, is about family, traditions and a time to be thankful for life’s blessings. Thanksgiving comes once a year. Every day we are privileged to offer a wide variety of “Thanksgivings” to our Hospice families. Personally, one of my most…
Highway Crew In Near-Poverty As Town Officials Get Raises Edition of Thursday-Friday, Nov. 27-28, 2014 To the Editor: Now is the time of year when towns approve their annual budgets for the coming year, and Town of Otsego residents should be aware of what was approved on Nov. 12. Raises have been awarded to some elected officials and part-time administrative employees, yet our hard-working, full-time, highway crew starts at a very low hourly wage, which has cost the town some…