EDITORIAL: April 20, 2018 Sheriff’s Shown He’s Tough, Smart First, voters should want a county sheriff who’s steady under fire. Over the past 15 months, county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. has proved he is. With his son Ros, a guard at the county jail, accused in a workplace disturbance and ordered off county property by the county Board of Representatives, Devlin hung tough, arguing he was the target of a “political witch hunt.” That didn’t seem completely out of…
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Sheriff Surrenders Authority Over Son By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – After a 15-month standoff, Ros Devlin’s fate as a correctional officer is now in the hands of the chairman of the Otsego County Board of Representatives. With one abstention and two absences, the county reps voted a few minutes ago to accept Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr.’s proposal to turn over authority for investigating and possibly removing his son from his job to county board Chair…
Otsego County 911 Center Receives $840K State Grant By PARKER FISH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com In a press release sent out this morning, Otsego County Director of 911 Communications Robert O’Brien announced that the county’s 911 dispatch department had secured $842,330 in New York State grant funding. The total sum is divided between two seperate grants: $157,687 under the New York State Public Safety Answering Points Operation Grant Program for upgrades to the call center, and $684,650.00 under the New York State Statewide…
IN MEMORIAM: Virginia Foote, 85; Moved Near Daughter In Cooperstown COOPERSTOWN – Virginia Foote, 85, of Cooperstown, passed away Feb. 20, 2018, at Cooperstown Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing. She was born April 16, 1932, in Mahopac, the youngest of the seven children of John and Alvina (Blumer) Deinhardt. Virginia was a 1950 graduate of Mahopac High School. A dedicated homemaker while her children were young, Virginia then worked in retail prior to joining the Reader’s Digest magazine until her…
Gelbsman Holds On To Otsego Now Seat He Won’t Quit, So Reps Keep Him There By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www. AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – It appears former county rep. Craig Gelbsman of Oneonta will remain on the Otsego Now board of directors. The county board originally appointed Gelbsman to Otsego Now as its “liaison”, intending that he keep the Cooperstown reps in the loop on what the Oneonta-based economic-development entity was up. Then Republican Gelbsman was defeated by Democrat…
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‘REFORM CAUCUS’ WINS DECISIVELY Absentee Ballots May Erase Chair Clark’s Narrow Victory By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The “Reform Caucus,” a coalescence of forward-looking minds, decisively took control of the Otsego County Board of Representatives Tuesday, Nov. 7. The caucus claimed nine of the 14 seats, and 3,746 weighted votes against 2,482 for the stand-pat coalition that had gathered around county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego/Laurens. Strictly along party lines, Democrats rose from a 4-11 deficit to…
WITH 6 DAYS TO ELECTION… County Board OKs Nepotism Policy, Fills Ethics Board By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – With six days to go to a briskly contested Election Day, the Otsego County Board of Representatives today acted on two ethics questions it has struggled with for months, even years: One, appointing three members to a county Board of Ethics, created in the early 1990s but never populated. Two, adopting a nepotism policy that limits situations in…
EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENTS Reelect Marietta, ‘Reform Caucus’ Editor’s Note: This is the editorial opinion of www.AllOTSEGO.com, Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal. Letters to the editor on political topics received after 10 a.m. Tuesday will appear on www.AllOTSEGO.com. Polls are open 6 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7. With all the sturm und drang over the years surrounding the Otsego County Board of Representatives – MOSA or not, road patrols or not, economic development or not – a central truth was lost:…