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Katz: Hulse First Cooperstown Rep Not To Support Tourism-Impact Aid

Katz: Hulse First Cooperstown Rep Not To Support Tourism-Impact Aid But Town Of Otsego Rep Says He Supports Creating Fund In ’15 For ’16 COOPERSTOWN – Rick Hulse is the only county representative, Republican or Democratic,  from District 8 – it includes Cooperstown – not to vote to redistribute bed-tax revenues to help pay for Cooperstown’s tourism-related costs, Mayor Jeff Katz said this evening. Hulse, a freshman representative from Fly Creek elected last November, called the mayor’s request “last-minute,” and proposed an alternative…

Lauren Groff Featured in Best American Short Stories

Groff Short Story Among America’s Best COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown native Lauren Groff’s story “At Round Earth’s Imagined Corners” joins Joyce Carol Oates and Charles Baxter on the pages of the 2014 “Best American Short Stories,” edited by Jennifer Egan, author of  “A Visit from the Goon Squad.” The story originally appeared in the spring issue of Five Points. Groff is the author of the New York Times best-selling “Monsters of Templeton” and “Arcadia.”   She is the sister of triathlete Sarah Groff, who placed…

Free Testing, Counselling Offered To Mark World AIDS Day

Free Testing, Counseling Offered To Mark World AIDS Day ONEONTA – To mark World AIDS Day, Family Planning of South Central New York is offering free, confidential rapid HIV testing and counseling daily through Friday 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at its 37 Dietz St. offices. The rapid HIV test is a painless finger prick for a drop of blood. Results are ready in 20 minutes. Patients will receive counseling on how to identify and reduce their risk of HIV infection.…

Deputies Allege Man, Woman Had 13 Pounds Of Marijuana

Deputies Allege Man, Woman Had 13 Pounds Of Marijuana A Pittsfield man and Morris woman – Michael Deluca, 55, and Sallie Lewis Jacoby, 62 – were arrested Friday by Sheriff’s Office investigators for possessing 12.85 pounds of marijuana in a Town of Morris home on Oct. 1, Senior Investigator Michael Ten Eyck announced today. Sheriff’s investigators received information that marijuana was in Jacoby’s Pegg Road residence and located Deluca and a bedroom full of freshly cut marijuana in the mobile…

Hartwick Citizen Board Names John Brooks As Citizen Of Year

Hartwick Citizen Board Picks John Brooks As Citizen Of Year ONEONTA – The Hartwick College Citizens Board has named John W. Brooks, retired owner of Brooks’ House of BBQ, as its 2014 Citizen of the Year. He will be honored during the College’s Community Holiday Gathering on Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, at Thornwood, the home of Hartwick College President Margaret L. Drugovich. For more information and to register for the event by the Tuesday deadline, visit www.hartwickalumni.org/holiday  or contact Carrie…