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Walkable Oneonta Envisioned With ‘Complete Streets’ Talk By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Maureen Blanchard and Lynae Wyckoff envision Oneonta as a walkable, bikeable, wheelchair-friendly city. “People want to live, work, pray, eat and shop in places that they can get to by walking or biking,” said Wyckoff, a senior health educator at Bassett. “By improving access to people of all mobility levels, cities see so many benefits.” The two representatives presented “Complete Streets: Is The City…
Oneonta Spruce Standing At Rockefeller Center Rink…
NEXT STOP, ROCKEFELLER CENTER HUNDREDS WATCH AS SPRUCE FELLED By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Graig and Angie Eichler’s 94-foot-tall Norway spruce is down and Rockefeller-bound. “It’s such a great day,” said Angie Eichler. “A lot of people came out, and we’re having a lot of fun.” Nearly 200 people gathered this morning on the lawn of VF Supply Co., Browne Street and Country Club Road, to watch the tree come down. At 8 a.m., the chainsaw revved…
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FBI Advises Oneonta Police Of Election-Related Threats ONEONTA – The FBI contacted the Oneonta Police Department over the weekend after threatening posts were made on Facebook by a man with an Oneonta address. “The posts were saying how we need to protect our Second Amendment rights, how guns weren’t just for hunting animals, that sort of thing,” said Lt. Douglas Brenner.…
SUSPECT FACES BURGLARY CHARGE City Police: Teen Stole Car, Rammed Mini-Mart With it ONEONTA – A Delancey man was arrested today, charged with driving a stolen car into the Oneonta’s Taylor’s Mini-Mart, Main Street, in an apparent attempt to rob the store. Police alleged he’d done the same earlier in the evening in the Delhi area. Wade D. Armstrong, 19, was arrested by Oneonta City Police early this morning after police located a red Subaru reported to be involved in a hit…
Police: Utican Arrested With 23 Bags Of Cocaine ONEONTA – Oneonta Police arrested a Utica man found with 23 bags of cocaine worth $2,300 after a raid at a house on Baker Street Wednesday afternoon. Kwame Wilson, 23, was arrested with the assistance of state police K9 Milton, after investigating a report of possible drug activity at 14½ Baker Street. At the scene police allegedly seized 23 individual packets of cocaine with a street value of approximately $2,300, $246 in cash and…
2 COUNCIL MEMBERS DECRY ‘BABYSITTING‘ Y’s Summer Parks Program Removed From City Budget By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The YMCA Parks Program is on the chopping block to help closed a $338,067 gap already reduced from $2 million in the $15.2 million budget target Common Council is seeking to keep taxes stable in 2017. “We’re not a babysitting service,” said Council member Paul van der Sommen, First Ward. “We can’t justify the cost.” The Y’s Parks Program…
Police: Man Brought Heroin To City By Bus ONEONTA – Police arrested a New York City man for allegedly bringing 149 bags of heroin into Oneonta by commercial bus. Michael J. Young, 32, New York City, was arrested Sunday at the bus station on Market Street after Oneonta police received information regarding a possible delivery of illegal drugs into the City of Oneonta. “We got a description and posted officers at the Trailways bus station,” said Lt. Douglas Brenner. “We recognized…
