Republican Chair: More Races Likely For County Board ‘A Few Potential Candidates’ Will Run As Independents, Casale Says By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – More Republican candidates then initially thought will be challenging Democrats this fall, county Republican Chairman Vince Casale said after Thurday evening’s AllOTSEGO.com report on petitions filed. While it appeared only two county board seats would be contested this fall, the GOP chair said “a few potential candidates” will file independent petitions to challenge Democrats…
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IN MEMORIAM: Mary E. Ives, 86; Community Volunteer, Avid Quilter SCHENEVUS – Mary E. Ives, 86, a community volunteer and avid quilter, passed away Friday, March 29, 2019, at the Fox Nursing Home in Oneonta. She was born on April 6, 1932, in Jefferson, the daughter of Willard and Edith (Bowker) Madden.…
Martini, Oberacker Run For County Board Again ONEONTA – Two additional members of the Otsego County Board of Representatives have confirmed they are running for another term: Freshman county Rep. Adrienne Martini, elected in November 2017, announced a few moments ago. Late last week, county Rep. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, who chairs the county board’s Public Works Committee, also confirmed his intention. Martini, the mother of two, is a writer and editor for SUNY Oneonta’s alumni magazine, Reflections. Oberacker, father of…
Prepared, Brimmer Immediately Gets On With The Job At Hand 26-Year Veteran New County Roads Chief By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Rich Brimmer believes he’s part of a success story, and as the newly appointed Otsego County highway superintendent, he intends to extend it. Selected yesterday by the county Board of Representatives, he was at the superintendent’s desk this morning, as he’s been as deputy superintendent since Bill Mason – “a great mentor” – retired last…
‘Reform Caucus’ Proving Its Worth, But Will It Survive 2019 Elections? Leading up to the 2017 election of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, the terms “Reform Caucus” and “Sensible Center” were used in this space, and they were controversial. Some of the candidates identified with that label won election or reelection. (Whether that was because of or despite of the designation is certainly fodder for debate.) Foremost among them, as it turns out, was David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town of Middlefield,…
Koutnik Set To Retire As Season Starts In Oneonta, 5 Out, 7 Plan To Run For City Council By JIM KEVLIN & JENNIFER HILL Usually, roses are budding before local candidates start circulating nominating petitions. This year, with the primary for state races joined with federal offices and moved up from September to Thursday, June 25, petitions are being circulated before the first crocus. That change set off a flurry of electioneering in the past few days. In the City…
EDITORIAL County Rep. Kennedy Right To Seek Faulty Policy’s End State Law ‘Silent’ On Issue – So Stick To What Law Does Say The end of what is, at best, an anomaly, may be in sight. County Rep. Meg Kennedy, C-Mount Vision, says she plans to ask the Administration Committee she chairs to remove two extralegal clauses from a policy it passed last month: “Use of Photographic Equipment and Recording Devices at County Meetings.” The complete policy appears in the…
For Now, AllOTSEGO Suspends Videotaping County Rep Meetings Yet Policy – Register Or Be Expelled – Isn’t In State Law, County Attorney Says COOPERSTOWN – County Attorney Ellen Coccoma today acknowledged a new requirement that the public and the press register before taking photographs or videos at county board meetings is not contained in state law. “The law is silent on this,” she replied when asked if the state Freedom of Information Act allows elected bodies to require reporters, photographers and citizens…
With 2 Nays, Bliss Keeps Chairmanship Clark Again Demurs; Frazier Joins Her By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – His predecessor, Kathy Clark, R-Otego, again voted nay, but county Rep. David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town of Middlefield, was reelected nonetheless for a second year as chairman of the county Board of Representatives. Clark was joined by her vice chair when she led the board, Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, making the vote 12-2 for Bliss. Bliss’s vice chairman, Gary Koutnik, D-Oneonta, was…
County Board Gives Final OK To Raises By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego County Board of Representatives made it official today. With only one dissenting vote from Andrew Stammel, D-Oneonta, the representatives voted a half-million dollars worth of raises for department heads and managers – including $3,000 for themselves, their first raise since the $250 in 2008.…
