To Play Mother Ginger, MAN UP! Buttermann In Footsteps Of Firefighter, Surgeon By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – It takes a man to be a mother. Mother Ginger, that is. “Mother Ginger is traditionally played by a dancer ‘en travesti’,” said Donna Decker of Decker School of Ballet. “In ballet, we don’t call it drag.” This year, Oneonta City school board member and Assembly candidate Dan Buttermann stepped into the dress that Assistant Fire Chief Jim Maloney,…
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DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY POSSIBLE Hartwick Student Joins 2 In Challenging Salka ONEONTA – The field is filling up with Democrats aiming to challenge freshman Assemblyman John Salka, R-121, whose district includes Oneonta and Cooperstown, as well as Madison and past of Oneida counties. Nick Chase, a Hartwick College students and Oneonta native, this week joined Oneonta City school board member Dan Buttermann and Corey Mosher, a Hamilton farmer and board chair of Madison County Cooperative Extension. Chase entry makes a Democratic…
LETTER from DAN BUTTERMANN Jill Basile Record Show Growing Responsibility To the Editor: I am writing to enthusiastically suggest we vote for Jill Basile for county representative from District 14 (Ward 7-8). I have been fortunate to get to know Jill during her campaign. This campaign is not the start of her contributions to benefit our community either, as she has been giving to our community for many years. Her resume is rich with experience that will greatly benefit our…
OTSEGO CANDIDATE TO FACE SALKA Buttermann To Run For Assembly Seat, Democrats Affirm By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – A Hamilton farmer, Corey Mosher, has announced a challenge to freshman Assemblyman John Salka, R-Brookfield, in the 121st District next year, but local Democrats say they expect Otsego County will have its own candidate for the party’s nomination, Dan Buttermann of Oneonta. In 2017, Buttermann lost narrowly – 1,158 to 1,203 – to then-Assemblyman Bill Magee, D-Nelson, who…
from DAN BUTTERMANN We Can Support Economic Development Without Gas To the Editor: This letter is in response to Dick Downey’s excellent letter in your March 7-8 editions. Mr. Downey may share a feeling that I do – that maybe my previous letter and assertions may incorrectly characterize his views, just as I think his words do not accurately summarize mine. So, I hope this will clear up some of that and further anchor my main point – it is…
70-80 ATTENDEES FILL ROOM Energies Of Future Promoted At Forum Among Them, Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Pellets Seen As Fossil-Fuel Replacements By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Fossil fuels – gasoline, fuel oil, propane and natural gas – that power Otsego County today were like an unexpected inheritance, allowing the Industrial Revolution and the world as we know it. But 200 years later, Hartwick College Economics Professor Karl Seeley told 70-80 attendees at the Concerned Citizens of Oneonta…
NY PRIMARY 2018 Favorite Son Buttermann Virtually Tied With Magee ONEONTA – On his home turf, favorite son Dan Buttermann of Oneonta almost beat veteran Assemblyman Bill Magee for the Democratic nomination in the 121st Assembly District. In the Otsego County Democratic primary, Buttermann took 1,062 votes to Magee’s 1,097, a razor-thin 49.12 percent to Magee’s 50.74 percent – or 35 votes. District-wide, Magee, who lives in Nelson, near Cazenovia, won 59 percent of the vote to Buttermann’s 41 percent.…
Polls Open In County At Noon For GOP, Democrat Primaries Sheriff, 2 Assembly. Statewide Nominations On Ballot Polls will be open from noon to 9 p.m. today around Otsego County to decide who will be the standard-bearer in three local races, plus three statewide offices. Locally: • Republicans will choose between incumbent Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. of Milford and Bob Fernandez, the retired state trooper from Otego.…