Man Charged After Friday’s Crash Driving Impaired, Sheriff Reports COOPERSTOWN – A 58-year-old Oneonta man was charged with operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs in Friday morning’s crash that blocked traffic along Route 28 south of Cooperstown, county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. said today. The driver, James Bredin, driving the black Ford, was also charged with failure to keep right, unsafe tires and a windshield-tint violation – the tint on the window was too dark, the sheriff…
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CCS Quiz Team Moves Up 11 Spots In Chicago Contest Cooperstown Central Middle/High School’s quiz team came in 17th in the National Academic Quiz Team’s Small School National Tournament in Chicago over the weekend, 11 points ahead of last year and in a stronger and larger field, Tim Iversen, quiz team coach, reports from the Windy City. In photo, team members Adam Ilgin, Thomas Knight, Wriley Nelson, Robert Iversen and Lindsay Brown pose by the lion in front of the…
Car, SUV Spin Off Rt. 28 Mile From Cooperstown Traffic is tied up on Route 28 south of Cooperstown at this hour between Smith Ford and the Toddsville turnoff, after two southbound vehicles appear to have collided and come to rest, facing south, on the east side of the roadway. A black Ford sedan (top) was on the north property line of Judith Brown CPA’s offices, 5082 Route 28, while a tan Ford SUV (in right photo) was a few properties…
Trustees Appear To Reaffirm Anti-Heroin Program Backing By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board this afternoon appeared to reaffirm support for Police Chief Michael Covert’s anti-heroin program after he briefed them and answered their questions. In an unannounced addition to a meeting called for a final review of the 2016-17 village board, trustees appeared to be concerned whether Covert’s program was actually serving village residents, and whether other entities – the Oneonta Police Department and the county…
The Rites Of Spring…
Quinn Bernegger Is Beadle Bamford In Tri-Cities Opera’s ‘Sweeney Todd’ COOPERSTOWN – Quinn Bernegger, CCS 2009, will perform the role of Beadle Bamford this weekend in the Tri-Cities Opera production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Sunday at the Forum Theatre, 236 Washington St., Binghamton. Click here to buy tickets Quinn, who attended Middlebury College, is the son of Sandy Peevers, Cooperstown, and Jim Bernegger, now…
Sheriff’s Drug Take-Back Day Is Saturday COOPERSTOWN – Clean your cabinets and prevent pill abuse with a prescription drug take-back day, sponsored by the Otsego County Sheriff’s Office and the Drug Enforcement Administration. From 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, the public will be able to dispose of expired, unused or unwanted prescription pills or patches at the Otsego County Public Safety Building, 172 County Highway 33W, Cooperstown.…
Red Sox’s Shestakofsky Succeeds Horn At HoF COOPERSTOWN – Jon Shestakofsky, Boston Red Sox manager of media relations & baseball information, has been named vice president/communications & education at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Beginning today, he succeeds Brad Horn, who is entering a fellowship program this summer at the University of Florida. A 2005 graduate of Wesleyan University and a native of Belmont, Mass., Shestakofsky joined the Red Sox in 2007. Most recently, he was liaison with media, players and…
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Darla Youngs Leaving OCCA Helm To Accept New Job In Binghamton SPRINGFIELD – Darla Youngs, veteran executive director of the OCCA, the Otsego County Conservation Association, is resigning in the next month to join Tier Information & Enterprise Resources in Binghamton. Jeff O’Handley, OCCA program director since July 2013, will serve as acting executive director, effective May 16. TIER is the non-profit arm of the Southern Tier East Regional Planning Development Board, which provides services to regional planning and economic-development agencies in…
