ANDREW MARIETTA, D-DISTRICT 8 Better Communications Key For New Town Of Otsego Rep By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In the run-up to taking office, county Rep.-elect Andrew Marietta, D-Town of Otsego, has had a chance to chat with County Clerk Kathy Sinnott Gardner about the DMV dilemma. It’s this: The state requires counties to have Departments of Motor Vehicles, but is sending license renewals to drivers directly, urging them to renew by mail with Albany or online. “If…
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IN MEMORIAM: Mary E. Higgins, 61; With Leatherstocking Corp. Since 1994 HARTWICK – Mary E. Higgins, 61, wife of Hartwick Town Justice Orrin D. Higgins, passed away Monday, https://www.allotsego.com/19011-2/Dec. 14, 2015, at Bassett Hospital with her family by her side following a long illness. Born Dec. 26, 1953, in Emmetsburg, Iowa, Mary was one of nine children of James H. and Kathleen M. (Healy) Millea. She graduated with the Class of 1972 from Cooperstown Central School. She was first employed…
Fire Commissioners Low-Ball It, So Council Denies Fire Protection ONEONTA – Common Council this evening received an offer from the Town of Oneonta’s Fire District #1 offering even less for fire protection from the city than it paid this year. Council members rejected it handily. This leaves 15 days until, if no fire contract is agreed upon, the town’s Southside and East End commercial strip, and West End homes will be without fire-protection when the year ends. DETAILS IN THIS…
IN MEMORIAM: Marjorie L. Ofer, 85; Teacher COOPERSTOWN – Marjorie L. Ofer (née Betulius) passed away on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015, at Focus Otsego. She was 85. Her trajectory from a small farm in southern Indiana to retirement on the Upper West Side of Manhattan attests to her inviolable strength and belief in the possible. After graduating from Evansville College with a degree in education, she taught elementary school in Evansville, Ind.. Later in her career she obtained her librarian’s…
Seward Announces $70,000 Grant For Remodeled Airport Terminal By IAN AUSTIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – At the ribbon cutting at the Oneonta Municipal Airport this afternoon, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, hailed the work with an announcement that he has secured a $70,000 grant to help complete the job. “First impressions mean a lot,” said Seward. “This terminal tells those who arrive in our community ‘this is a great place to live, to visit and to work.'” In remarks beforehand, Oneonta Job…
Property-Rights Activist Plans Rally At Courthouse COOPERSTOWN – Judy Pepenella, a founding board member of the Conservative Society for Action and the Long Island Coordinator for New Yorkers for Property Rights, will hold a property-rights rally and press conference at noon this coming Friday on the steps of the County Office Building on upper Main Street. “Otsego County has been using aggressive foreclosure methods to steal properties from residents with the excuse they owe back taxes,” a press released from…
IN MEMORIAM: Doris H. Fahy, 95; Rang Handbells At National Level SIDNEY – Doris H. Fahy, 95, of Sidney, a teacher in Norwich City Schools and avid bellringer, including 10 years with the Buckingham Ringers at Oneonta’s First United Methodist Church, passed away Thursday morning, Dec. 10, 2015, at Tri-Town Regional Hospital. Doris was born on March 9, 1920, daughter of the late Frank Waldo and Georgia Effie (Smith) Howe in Sidney. She graduated from Sidney High School in 1938…
IN MEMORIAM: Lois Itzen, 88; Raised Sheep In Milford Center COOPERSTOWN – Lois L. Itzen, 88, who raised sheep, spun yarn and knitted at her Milford Center farm, passed away Friday morning, Dec. 11, 2015, at Bassett Hospital. She had been living at Woodside Hall. She was born Lois Laura Nelson on April 26, 1927, in Montpelier, Vt., a daughter of Richard and Mable (Potter) Nelson. On Nov. 17, 1946, Lois married Victor Itzen in Wyckoff, N.J. The family moved…
IN MEMORIAM: Rodney Jones, 59; NYSEG Veteran ONEONTA – Rodney Stephen Jones, 59, a 40-year NYSEG electrical field planner, passed away on Dec. 9, 2015, at Bassett Hospital. He was born April 17, 1956, in Walton, the son of Richard and Catherine (Stanton) Jones. Rodney graduated from Walton Central School, Class of 1974. He went on to SUNY Morrisville and attained an associate degree in electrical engineering in May 1976. He joined NYSEG in September 1976 and was working there…
Oneonta’s Erik Miller Named To National Board ONEONTA – Erik Miller of Oneonta, director of the Southern Tier East Regional Planning Development Board in Binghamton, has been elected to the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) for 2015-16. The action came at NADO’s Annual Business Meeting at the association’s 48th Annual Training Conference in New Orleans this fall.…
