E-PETITION SPURS DEBATE Senior To CCS Board: We Won’t Be Bullied By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Bobby Walker, a CCS senior and leader of the Otsego County Young Republicans, said he was called into the principal’s office and told to “remove” e-petitions he was circulating on behalf of Laurie Pestar, the elementary school secretary who was seeking an unpaid leave while she fights cancer. Walker refused to do so, and asked Middle/High School Principal Donna Lucy who…
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IN MEMORIAM: Marion Lawhead, 96; NYSEG Bookkeeper Led Vibrant Life ONEONTA – Marion Lawhead, a NYSEG retiree who lived a vibrant life in Bainbridge, Cooperstown and Oneonta, died on Dec. 12, 2016, at Chestnut Park Nursing Home in Oneonta. She was 96. Marion Jean Hill was born to Henry and Edith Hill on March 12, 1920, in Bainbridge, and grew up on Pearl Street there with an older brother Bruce and a younger sister Joan. She graduated from Bainbridge High School…
After Debate, Chair’s Appointment Approved But Changes Coming, Marietta Predicts By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – There was lively debate in open session about the process of choosing new Otsego Now board members. But, after a 20-minute executive session called by board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, county reps at today’s special meeting voted unanimously to confirm Cheryl Robinson, the NYCM vice president, to the board of the economic-development agency. She will succeed the Richfield Springs architect, Jim…
IN MEMORIAM: Muriel Holstead Dix, 96; Episcopalian, Office Manager At Bresee’s SIDNEY – Muriel Mary (Wilson) Holstead Dix, 96, a former office manager at Bresee’s Department Store and devout member of St. James Episcopal Church in Oneonta, died Dec. 8, 2016, in Sidney, where she had lived the past 21 years. Born in 1920 in The Bronx and raised in Valley Stream, L.I., Muriel had resided in the Greater Oneonta area for 54 years. She was an active church woman…
IN MEMORIAM: Diana L. Roseboom, Oneonta ONEONTA – Diana L. Roseboom, 71, who raised four children locally, passed away on December 9, 2016, at Bassett Hospital. Diana was born in Meridale on Aug. 7, 1945, to Homer and Blanch (Payne) Loucks. She married Morgan Roseboom in Oneonta in 1963.…
IN MEMORIAM: Shawn Hoag, 35; Chef In Cooperstown Restaurants ROSEBOOM – Shawn “Duke” D. Hoag, 35, a chef in Cooperstown restaurants, passed away unexpectedly on Dec. 9, 2016, in his home. Shawn was born Feb. 12, 1981, son of Lorraine Nelson and the late James Hoag. He graduated from Cherry Valley-Springfield Central, Class of 2000, and attended BOCES for culinary Arts. He then went on working at various restaurants in Cooperstown, most recently at Alex’s Bistro as a cook. He…
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AllOTSEGO.com EDITORIAL Block Clark, Delay Making Otsego Now Appointments You may remember a year ago, when Kathy Clark, R-Otego, Otsego County Board of Representatives’ chair, forced through the appointment of a favorite, Rick Hulse, who had been defeated for election a couple of months before, to the Otsego Now board of directors. She forced party discipline on newly elected Republicans – Meg Kennedy, David Bliss, Len Carson, Meg Kennedy, Peter Oberacker and Dan Wilber – who bristled at being told…
IN MEMORIAM Russell A. Southard Sr., 96; WWII Vet Supervised Major Construction Projects OTEGO – Services are planned later this month for Russell Anderson Southard Sr., 96, a WWII veteran who helped build the Downsville Dam and supervised other major construction projects while raising six daughters and a son in Otego. He died Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, at the Oxford Veterans Home. He was born Sept. 11, 1920, one of four sons of Lou and Bethel (Anderson) Southard. He married…
‘Corporal Uzenski Memorial Highway’ Named Road Dedicated In Honor Of Fallen Franklin Marine FRANKLIN – A portion of Route 357 in northern Delaware County today was dedicated in memory of the Marine Corps corporal from Franklin who was killed Jan. 11, 2010, in an ambush in Helmond Province, Afghanistan. The corporal’s family, mother Lisa Uzenski, sister Cassidy Uzenski and grandparents James and Audrey Archibald, joined state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and Assemblyman Clifford Crouch, R-Bainbridge, at a ceremony designating the…
