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…
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Mayor Foresees Fewer Tourist-Housing Options By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – With the deadline for tourist-accommodation permits nearing and a moratorium in its fifth month, Mayor Jeff Katz updated the Village Board, saying he foresees tighter regulations on housing for visitors to the village. “Clearly, the future is going to be where tourist accommodations in the village are harder to come by,” said Katz. “We’re not saying you can’t have tourist accommodations, but we’re working on bolstering…
DANNY LAPIN COUNTY BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES, District 13 Oneonta Wards 5 & 6 COMMUNITY OF RESIDENCE: City of Oneonta 5th Ward EDUCATION: B.S. Environmental Science, University of California, Riverside (2006) M.S. Environmental Policy, Bard College (2014) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Environmental Planner for the Otsego County Conservation Association (OCCA). Built a bipartisan coalition to fight a high voltage transmission line; Lead author of the Otsego County Agriculture and Farmland Protection Plan; OCCA’s Circuit Riding Planner helping municipalities; Wrote $400,000 worth of grant applications for…
UNDERGROUND WIRES LED TO FELLING Vote On Replacement Flagpole May Come Monday, Falk Says By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Village Trustee Cindy Falk, Streets Committee chair, said a few minutes ago she hopes to have a motion for a new flagpole at Main and Pioneer ready for approval by the Village Board at its monthly meeting on Monday. DPW Superintendent Mitch Hotaling is exploring the options and will be making a recommendation, Falk said. She estimated…
‘I Love Otsego’ Case Going Before Judge By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A court action was filed today on behalf of county Rep. Andrew Marietta, D-Cooperstown/Town of Otsego, seeking to reclaim the “I Love Otsego” independent line on the Nov. 8 ballot from his Republican challenger, Tim Walker. Marietta’s lawyer, Dennis Laughlin, said the local county judges, Brian Burns and John Lambert, recused themselves, and the case was assigned to state Supreme Court Judge Jeffrey Tait…
‘THIS BIRD HAS BEEN SET FREE’ Joe Ruffino Bids Farewell To 45 Years of Pizza Making ONEONTA – Joe Ruffino Jr. announced to his customers on his website today that, after 45 years of the “daily grind” of making pizza – since age 7 – and running a business in Upstate New York, he has closed Joe Ruffino’s Pizzeria & Restaurant at 222 Main St. “I have known for a while that I couldn’t maintain that work ethic forever,” he…
IN MEMORIAM: Janet B. Raymond, 84; Worked At Bresee’s, Then Fox Hospital OTEGO – Janet B. Raymond, 84, a nurse who retired from Fox Hospital, passed away June 16, 2017 at her home. Janet was born April 29, 1933 in the family home on Hudson Street in Oneonta, the daughter of Jay and Catherine (Smith) Woolheater. She graduated from Oneonta High School in 1950 and began raising a family of seven children and many four-legged friends. She married James Raymond…
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IN MEMORIAM: Dorothy Stocking Smith, 94; Worked At Richfield Springs Department Store SPRINGFIELD – Dorothy Catherine Stocking Smith, 94, who worked for years at Richfield Springs’ Foreman’s Department Store, as well as for several local families, passed away June 8, 2017 , peacefully at the Fox Nursing Home . She was born March 2, 1923, in East Springfield, the daughter of Leslie O. Stocking and Ida Mae Barrett Stocking.…
READ RESIGNATION LETTER MATHES, WHO REVITALIZED IDA, LEAVING 3rd Resignation Creates Crisis For Otsego Now By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.allotsego.com ONEONTA – The coup is complete. Sandy Mathes, who revolutionized economic development in Otsego County in the past three years, has given the 90-day notice required by his contract, and will be departing as CEO of the Otsego Now organization he created by summer’s end. As if to punctuate the end of an era, Bob Hanft of Pierstown,…