“County government is all about providing the services that our constituents need, and bringing back the DMV to Oneonta is one example of how we are trying to be responsive to our constituents,” said Otsego County Board of Representatives Chair Edwin Frazier Jr.…
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Bryan LoRusso and several former Town of Hartwick employees want Hartwick Town Board member Chris Briggs to resign. A contingent of concerned Hartwick residents wants LoRusso, also a Town Board member, to resign. Hartwick Town Supervisor Robert O’Brien will be relocating before the end of the year, leaving that post unfilled. And the town’s attorney, William Green, has resigned, effective January 1, 2025.…
Built between 1800 and 1820, the museum building is the oldest surviving commercial building in the village and originally housed E.C. Williams Dry Goods and Grocery. It was moved from the corner of Main and Broad streets between 1835 and 1838 and, until 1954, functioned variously as tin, stove, hardware, and grocery stores, restaurants, an oyster and billiard saloon, a hoop skirt factory, and a barber shop.…
Dr. Friedell will be honored at the Helios Care Rock and Roll Revue concert on Saturday, October 19 at the Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center. The show will begin at 7 p.m. and will feature local artists—including John Thompson and his Elusive Gems band, The Roundhouse Rockers, The Mopar Cams, Doug Decker, Shari Gage, Tom Pondolfino, Mary Frances Perricone, and Eric Haight—playing popular hits from the 50s through the 70s.…
“This increase in demand, driven by high prices for housing, food, and childcare, led the pantry’s Board to establish the Ellen’s Cupboard Society,” explained Will Kleffner, executive director of the Cooperstown Food Pantry. “We are seeking people who will help us achieve our mission to address poverty and hunger throughout Otsego County.”…
The 2025 Frank and Peggy Steele Internship Program for Youth Leadership Development will provide students the chance to join the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum team in a summer-long internship, offering meaningful, hands-on training in numerous professional career fields for those who are chosen from the hundreds of applications received in Cooperstown each year.…
Halloween-themed events in Cooperstown, Richfield Springs, and Oneonta, visiting authors, and Film Otsego's new film festival are among the topics covered in this week's news briefs.…
“Make talk work.” It’s such an easy phrase, such a simple concept. Yet as applied to this dispute, it is neither easy nor simple. For starters, even the terms for a cease fire are contentious. The Israelis have insisted on a return of the hostages as precondition, and the Palestinians were using the hostage issue as a negotiating tool. In fact, the November cease fire collapsed for that reason. And a second offer for a cease fire in January this…
It’s a convenient method to never have to refute embarrassing facts with actual evidence. It forces good people to become vulnerable to “alternative facts” and conspiracy theories. Chaos is the object of the game in the MAGA playbook.…
This is not only a New York State issue, but an issue on the global scale. However, total successful recycling in New York is about 20 percent, which is well under what should be considered acceptable—the national average is 32 percent. It is our job as citizens to help change this miserable statistic, at least in our state.…