2nd Time Around, Climate-Smart Idea Wins County’s OK By JENNIFER HILL COOPERSTOWN – Failing to do so two months ago, the county Board of Representatives voted 12-2 to enact a state-sponsored “Climate Smart Community Pledge” during their meeting on Wednesday, March 6. County Reps. Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, and Kathy Clark, R-Otego, who had questioned it last time, when it was referred to the Solid Waste & Environmental Concerns Committee (SWECC) for further study, opposed it again. But the board’s vice…
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Editorial, July 27, 2018 Do We Divert XNG Trucks Now – Or After First Fatality? On the surface, the argument makes sense, (sort of). Boston-based Xpress Natural Gas’ trucks, carrying fuel from fracking fields in Northeastern Pennsylvania across Otsego County to the Iroquois Pipeline near Little Falls, are legal carriers and should be allow to use New York State roads just like any other legal carrier. After all, what’s next? Should we then ban oil tankers? Suburban Propane delivery trucks?…
Failing To Sign Oath, Wilber Must Be Appointed By Board COOPERSTOWN – Missing the deadline to sign his oath of office, county Rep. Dan Wilber’s election to a second term representing District 10 – Edmeston, Burlington, Exeter and Plainfield — is in doubt. His erstwhile colleagues on the Otsego County Board of Representatives must now vote to reappoint Wilber to his former seat for him to continue serving. The board’s Administrative Committee approved such a resolution at today’s meeting, which…
County Board OKs Tourism Contract Privatized Promotion Extended To Put ‘Heads In Beds’ Locally COOPERSTOWN – The county Board of Representatives this morning approved a second three-year contract with Destination Marketing of Otsego County, ending months of uncertainty about the privatized tourism-promotion effort. The contract runs from this coming Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2019. On issue that was resolved: DMOC had sought a five-year contract, but settled for three.…
COUNTY BOARD’S JULY MEETING ‘I Think It Will Fly,’ Clark Says Of Tourism Initiative…
County Board Vote Fails To OK Tourism Contract By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Destination Marketing of Otsego County (DMOC) found itself in the middle of the political crossfire at today’s county Board of Representatives meeting. DMOC is led by a board of volunteer directors from the hospitality industry who contracted with the county to invest part of the county’s bed-tax revenues to put “heads in beds” – i.e., tourists in hotels and motels. The first three-year contract…
COUNTY BOARD APRIL MEETING Child Abuse Cases Rising, Otsego County Reps Told COOPERSTOWN – Bill Hayes, retired Bassett Hospital social worker and local coordinator of National Child Abuse Prevention Month in Otsego County, told the county board at its monthly meeting this morning that 41 more cases of child abuse were reported locally in the first quarter of 2016 compared to the first quarter last year. Most of the cases are not life-threatening; they involve unnecessary physical abuse, neglect and…
TAKING THE OATH POWERS CHALLENGE TO CLARK FIZZLES County Board Chair Reelected Unanimously COOPERSTOWN – The only thing missing was white smoke coming out of the chimney at 197 Main. The attempt by county Rep. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, to replace Kathy Clark, R-Otego, as chair of the Otsego County Board of Representatives had completely fizzled by this morning. The three-year chairperson was routinely reelected shortly after the county board’s reorganizational meeting was called to order at 10 a.m. today. It was…
Stuligross: Meet In Evening So More Can Run For Office ONEONTA – Many people are unable to run for the Otsego County Board of Representatives because it meets at 10 a.m. in the middle of the work week. County Rep. Kay Stuligross, D-Oneonta, hopes to do something about it: She is introducing a resolution at Wednesday’s county board reorganizational meeting to change the monthly meeting to sometime between 5-7 in the evening, so people who work 9-5 can participate. The veteran…
AGAIN, POWERS TILTS AT CLARK Board Reorganizes Wednesday By JIM KEVLIN • for AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Veteran county Rep. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, is again seeking to bump county Rep. Kathy Clark, R-Otego, from the chairmanship, according to representatives whom he’s approached asking for support. The Otsego County Board of Representatives, which Clark has chaired for four one-year terms now, will hold its reorganizational meeting at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the County Office Building on upper Main Street here. Powers, a dairy…