NY Waterworks Association To Honor Oneonta’s Shaffer ONEONTA – Stanley Shaffer, chief operator of the city’s Water Treatment Plant, has been received the 2017 Operators Meritorious Service Award from New York Section American Water Works Association. The award will be presented at the state AWWA Awards Breakfast at its Annual Conference April 26 in Saratoga Springs.…
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ISSUE & DEBATE Read Consultant Report, Decide About Fire Pact The editorial in this week’s Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal urges the Town of Oneonta Fire District and City Hall to settle the lengthy negotiation and agree on a new contract that ensures fire district residents will continue to have the professional protection of the city’s fire department. If not, we conclude, replace the commissioners in the next election. That’s our opinion, and it’s your right to disagree. Either…
Common Council Sets Workshop On Annexing Airport, Reservoir ONEONTA – With the idea of bringing the airport and Wilber Lake Reservoir within city limits, Common Council has invited the public a workshop on annexation Monday, March 27, after the Finance/Human Resources Committee meeting. The workshop will be conducted by Wade Beltramo, counsel for the NYCOM, the New York State Council of Mayors & Municipal Officials. The Oneonta Municipal Airport is currently in the Town of Laurens; the reservoir, in the…
Common Council To Affirm 3 Bases For Firefighting Pact ONEONTA – When it meets Tuesday, Common Council plans to voice support for continuing to provide professional firefighting services to Southside and other parts of the Town of Oneonta. The restatement of its interest on settling the contract comes a week before the town Fire District Board of Commissioners has scheduled a hearing, for 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 14, at the Elm Park Methodist Church, Elm Street, on plans to create a…
Council Will Name Judy Pangman Community Development Director By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Judy Pangman, a former Lamont Engineering project manager and beef farmer in Carlisle, will be appointed as Oneonta’s new director of community development at tonight’s Common Council meeting. At Lamont Engineering, Cobleskill, she was instrumental in the development and management of infrastructure projects for communities throughout the region, from small ventures to multi-million dollar projects.…
Market Street Walkways, Planters Discussed By Steering Committee…
DEC Lowers Fine Against City In Sewage Spill At Mill Race ONEONTA – Because of cooperation from City Hall, the state Department of Environmental Conservation is reducing a fine from $17,500 to $3,500 related to a sewage spill next to the Mill Race, according to Common Council’s agenda for its upcoming Tuesday meeting. The DEC reduced the fine because city crews discovered the leak, notified the state of the problem and repaired it, the agenda states. When it meets at…
Town, Mayor Agree To Extend Fire Pact Special Common Council Meeting Called COOPERSTOWN – Mayor Gary Herzig and the Town of Oneonta Fire Commissioners today agreed to extend the town fire district’s current contract until Valentine’s Day, pending approval at a special Common Council meeting to be announced after Christmas. Herzig spoke to seven of the eight council members and reported that the majority of them said they would vote in favor of approving the extension. During that time, the city…
Town May Lose Fire Protection By Year’s End OFD Layoffs Possible, Too, If Negotiations Still Stalled By JIM KEVLIN • for AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The vast majority of the Town of Oneonta – from Brooks BBQ to the Southside to the single-family neighborhoods beyond the city’s West End – faces the possibility of losing the professional protection of the city’s Oneonta Fire Department at midnight on Dec. 31. Likely, that would also require Oneonta Fire Department layoffs. Since taking office…
Oneontans Must Move Cars By 5 p.m. Today ONEONTA – City of Oneonta crews this evening will be clearing snow from city parking lots and the top level of the parking deck. These areas must be cleared of cars by 5 p.m.…