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RSS Presents Its Vision for $25 Million Development

At the City of Oneonta’s Common Council meeting on Tuesday, April 1, Director of Strategic Partnerships Christine Nealon of Rehabilitation Support Services presented an architectural rendering of the development her organization is proposing to build at 27 Market Street should city officials approve sale of the property to RSS.…
April 10, 2025
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ONEONTA CITY MANAGER MARTIN MURPHY RESIGNS

City Manager Gets $60,000, Doubling His Severance, Plus In Exchange, Martin Murphy Agrees Not To Sue City Hall By LIBBY CUDMORE • for allotsego.com ONEONTA – In a special meeting at 9 a.m. today, City Manager Martin Murphy and the Common Council reached a settlement agreement, allowing Murphy to voluntarily resign with six months severance pay. Murphy, who had served as city manager for 10 months following the departure of former city manager Mike Long, was suspended by a vote of 5-2,…
July 25, 2015

Common Council Special Meeting Unites City Hall, Residents

Common Council Agrees To Work Through Issues By LIBBY CUDMORE • www.allotsego.com ONEONTA –  When City Manager Martin Murphy read The Daily Star on Wednesday, April 22, he was surprised to see that Council Member Mike Lynch, Fourth Ward, was quoted as saying that he had conversations with city workers who felt “either that they’re not getting the respect they deserve or they feel that they have no voice.” It was news to him.  “Until recently, I was not aware of concerns by…
April 24, 2015

Charter Input Parsed

Charter Input Parsed By JIM KEVLIN•Hometown Oneonta Edition of Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 There were many issues raised, but two predominated at a tense Common Council meeting Monday, Oct. 13. One, that watering down city-manager credentials from a master’s in public administration (MPA) to a bachelor’s, was an attempt to circumvent the new City Charter, which residents adopted by a 1,128-348 vote in November 2011. Two, that by bypassing former City Manager Mike Long – the city’s first – and…
October 29, 2014

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

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