EDITORIAL Reps Ready To Balance Credentials, Experience As the City of Oneonta has demonstrated, moving to a city manager – or county manager, the issue of the day – can be “fraught.” (That’s the word of the day – or year – all of a sudden, every reporter is finding every situation “fraught,” filled with possibilities for undesirable outcomes. It’s the “Where’s the Beef?” of 2019.) Wednesday, Nov. 6, the Otsego County Board of Representatives, after almost two years of…
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Republicans Keep County Board Majority By JIM KEVLIN & LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Republicans rained on the Democrats’ parade on Election Night, Tuesday, Nov. 5. Republican Rick Brockway won Laurens-Otego’s District 3, 697-548, turning back a Democratic effort to take control of the county board for the first time in memory. “Otsego County is red,” declared a jubilant Republican County Chairman Vince Casale. “It has always been red. It will always be red. People in Otsego County…
LISTEN TO EDITOR’S REPORT ON WAMC VOTE IS WEDNESDAY ON COUNTY MANAGER Debate Focus: Cost Vs. Benefit By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego County Board of Representatives voted in 1993 to create a county manager position. The result was a 7-7 tie, but the weighted voting system blocked the move. A quarter-century plus a year later, a resolution is again headed to the county board, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, and with at least two Republicans,…
VOTE EXPECTED ON COUNTY MANAGER Debate May Focus On Cost v. Benefit At Nov. 5 Meeting By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego County Board of Representatives voted in 1993 to create a county manager position. The result was a 7-7 tie, but the weighted voting system blocked the move. A quarter-century plus a year later, a resolution is again headed to the county board, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, and with at least two Republicans, the one…
LETTER from ANDREW MARIETTA Bi-Partisanship Moving Otsego County Forward To the Editor: I’ve driven all over New York State and worked with community organizations and their leaders, and there is a commonality that unites them all: an investment in a better future. The same can be said for Otsego County, where success and momentum are building. Our county has no shortage of dedicated and committed leaders who put service to their communities first and strive to improve them. It isn’t…
BULLETIN COUNTY BOARD COULD VOTE ON MANAGER NOV. 6 COOPERSTOWN – Word has been received that the county board’s Administration Committee last week approved the position of county manager and the attendant job description. That means a resolution on adopting a county administrator position will be voted on Wednesday, Nov. 6, the day after the Nov. 5 county board elections. The resolution would be on a local law, said county Rep. Meg Kennedy, C-Mount Vision, the Admin Committee chairman. The…
ELECTION EDITORIAL Vote Farwell, Brockway For County Board Seats 2017 – now, that was a year for local democracy. Twelve of the 14 seats on the Otsego County Board of Representatives were contested – only Gary Koutnik in Democratic Oneonta and Dan Wilber in Republican Town of Burlington got a pass. This year, regrettably, there are three, but one race calls out for an endorsement: Michele Farwell, the Democrat running for reelection in District 2 (Morris, Butternuts and Pittsfield). Send…
EDITORIAL Democrats Signal Plans To Republicans Otego-Laurens District 3 Shift Can Take Away GOP’s Majority Friends, the Democrats are coming to get us, and it isn’t going to be pretty. Chad McEvoy, the local party’s brainy director of communications, sent out an email on Oct. 1 that affirms an editorial that appeared here in early summer – the future of party politics in Otsego County will be determined in District 3, where two newcomers, Republican Rick Brockway and Democrat Caitlin…
DON’T PAROLE JILL’S KILLER, COUNTY ASKS With One Abstention, One Nay, Reps Petition Parole Board, Back Seward’s Bill By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – With board Vice Chairman Gary Koutnik abstaining, and another Democrat voting nay, the county Board of Representatives today asked the state Parole Board “to deny the release, conditional or otherwise,” of David Dart, convicted of slaying 18-year-old Jill Gibbons with a “Rambo-style knife” in the Oneonta Municipal Parking Garage in 1989. The resolution,…
DON’T PAROLE JILL’S KILLER, COUNTY ASKS With One Abstention, One Nay, Reps Petition NYS Board, Back Seward’s Bill By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – With board Vice Chairman Gary Koutnik abstaining, and another Democrat voting nay, the county Board of Representatives today asked the state Parole Board “to deny the release, conditional or otherwise,” of David Dart, convicted of slaying 18-year-old Jill Gibbons with a “Rambo-style knife” in the Oneonta Municipal Parking Garage in 1989. The resolution,…
