BULLETIN Focus Executives Facing 8 Felonies Two executives at the company that owned the former Focus of Otsego nursing home have been charged with eight felony counts, including six of endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person, according to charges filed by the state Attorney General’s Office in Otsego Town Court. The CEO of CCRN Operator, Joseph Zupnik, and another principal, Daniel Herman, were arraigned in the Fly Creek courtroom on May 31; CCRN, the name…
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County Task Force To Look At Selling Off Old City Hall By PARKER FISH • Special To www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Picking up on Oneonta Common Council’s decision to sell the Westcott parking lot at 226 Main St., the county Board of Representatives today formed a task force to explore selling Old City Hall, located right next door. Freshman Oneonta rep Danny Lapin, D-13, raised the task force idea at the meeting, and was named to chair it. County Rep. Peter…
‘Summer Dreams’ To Serve Tourists – And Rest Of Us A new weekly publication, “Summer Dreams,” aimed at highlighting Greater Cooperstown and Oneonta’s summer offerings, will appear in this week’s editions of Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal. In addition to reaching 13,000 households in our regular weekly distribution, an additional 2,000 copies are being printed and made available to tourists and youth-baseball-park participants. The 13,000 distribution is already the largest print footprint in the county, and this will be…
Twelve Tribes Investigated For Child-Labor Practices ONEONTA – An investigation into child-labor practices has been opened by the state Department of Labor into the local sect of the Twelve Tribes group following a report by Inside Edition that showed children working in a cosmetics factory on the Common Sense Farm in Cambridge. An “Inside Edition” investigative report, which used hidden camera footage gathered by a former member of the Twelve Tribes, aired Friday, June 1. In it, children as young…
OH Fest Dominates City Council Meeting By PARKER FISH • Special To www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In the ongoing debate over the behavior of college students in Oneonta, specifically pertaining to OH-Fest, the annual joint college festival, Common Council members still cannot come to an agreement as to what needs to happen, or how to solve the issue of binge drinking in residential areas in the city. Concerned citizens petitioned once again, pleading for council members to work together to solve the…
Hartwick Recruits Athletic Director From Hilbert College, Near Buffalo ONEONTA – Hartwick College today announced the appointment of John P. Czarnecki as director of athletics and Physical Education Department chair, overseeing 16 NCAA Division III programs. He starts July 16, and will report to President Margaret L. Drugovich. Czarnecki comes to Hartwick College from Hilbert College in Hamburg, near Buffalo, where he served as its director of athletics for five years. At the time of that appointment, he was the youngest NCAA Division III athletic director in the country.…
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Mansion Show Opens, Bids Hallberg Farewell The opening of CANO’s annual Mansion Show featured regional, national and international artists showcasing their interpretations of this year’s theme “Conceal/ Reveal”. First prize went to Rose Mackiewicz, pictures at right, Jefferson, for her abstract piece “Fragments”. James Nefsey took 2nd place and Carol Segese taking 3rd. Above, CANO President Jim Maloney, right, listens as Doug Hallberg, Oneonta, center, announces that after five and a half years he will be leaving the Carriage House…
First Ever Charity Cup Sees Excellent Turnout…
