Again, Fire Board Will Try To Dissolve; Town Says It’ll Sue To Stop It Supervisor Wood Says 12-15 Months Needed To Allow For Orderly Transition Of Duties By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Failing to vote to dissolve last night in the face of objections from the audience, the Town of Oneonta’s Board of Fire Commissioners is planning to meet again tomorrow evening to try again. The commissioners have scheduled a meeting for 6 p.m. Thursday at…
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Celebration Of Life Is Saturday For Charles Sawyer, Who Died In Crash ONEONTA – A celebration of life is planned 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Oneonta Elks Club for Charles “Chuckles” Sawyer, 78, died June 2, 2018, from injuries sustained in a car crash. He passed away at Kindred Hospital, Greensboro, N.C. The accident had occurred the previous Oct. 4 in North Carolina; he had been living in Garner, N.C. Born June 15, 1940, in Harpersfield, he was…
Will Fire District Survive? A Stormy Meeting; No Answer Unable To Agree, Fire Commissioners Table Dissolution. But For How Long? By PARKER FISH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The Town of Oneonta Fire District lives to see another day. With a motion on the table to dissolve the fire district, Fire Commission chair Johna Peachin moved to table it at the end of a stormy meeting this evening. The tabling passed unanimously, delaying action on dissolving for now –…
Man Honored For Aiding Police Chief In Fight On 4th By CATHY NARDI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – An ordinary citizen risked injury to help the city’s police chief in a dangerous situation, and tonight Common Council said thanks. Franklin Weideck, Wells Bridge, was attending the Hometown Fourth of July celebration in Neahwa Park when he saw Police Chief Douglas Brenner on the ground struggling to control a violent suspect. “I was aware of an individual who seemed to have…
Otego Family Of Artists Puts On First Group Show Charles and Martha Bremer of Otego, center, pause for a family photo with daughters Lara, left, and Karin, right, and granddaughter Alix, after a Q&A following the opening reception of the Bremer Family Show on Sunday. Each artists in their own way, the show marks the first time the family has shown works together, from photography and jewelry, to graphic design and weaving. The Bremer Family Show is up through Sept.…
IN MEMORIAM Mary (Hebbard) Monroe, 84, Oneonta; Co-Owner Of Bookhout Funeral Home ONEONTA – A graveside service for Mary (Hebbard) Monroe is 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, at Glenwood Cemetery in Oneonta. Mrs. Monroe died Friday, Sept. 7, at Fox Nursing Home, nine days short of her 85th birthday, from complications of COPD. She was predeceased on Oct. 7, 2016, by her husband David Monroe; the couple co-owned Bookhout Funeral Home.…
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IN MEMORIAM: Harriet Hegeman, 95; Survivors Include Oneonta Attorney CLAVERACK – Harriet B. Hegeman of Claverack, died Wednesday morning, Sept. 12, 2018, at Columbia Memorial Hospital, in the gentle embrace of her daughter and son-in-law. She was 95. Survivors include Oneonta attorney Thomas Hegeman, a stepson.…
Play It Forward Event Underway At Legion Oneonta’s Mark Spaziani, Rick Rogers and Ross Rogers – The Roundhouse Rockers – gave an evening of live music started this afternoon at the second annual Play It Forward event at the Oneonta Vets Club. This seven-hour jam session features live music, a chicken BBQ and raffles, with 100 percent of all funds donated to the American Legion Legacy Run. At right, Oneonta native Sandy Ross shares a kiss on the dance floor…
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.…
