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Meg Kennedy First Otsego County Rep On NYSAC  Board

Meg Kennedy First Otsego County Rep On NYSAC  Board COOPERSTOWN – County Rep. Meg Kennedy is making history. It surfaced at today’s county Board of Representative meeting that the second-term legislator has been invited and agreed to join the board of directors of NYSAC, the influential New York State Association of Counties. What’s more, she is the first representative from Otsego County  ever to be so honored.…

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Focus Indictments Put All Nursing-Home Operators On Notice

Editorial, June 29, 2018 Focus Indictments Put All Nursing-Home Operators On Notice Now we know, lives indeed may be at stake. Two top executives of Focus Ventures have been arrested on eight counts involving two residents of the county’s former nursing home, Otsego Manor. (The county sold the Manor to Focus in January 2014, for $18.5 million, and Centers Health Care bought it from Focus in January for an undisclosed sum.) Five of the counts are “endangering the welfare of…

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County Task Force To Consider Selling Oneonta Building

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…

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EDITORIAL: Who’ll Protect Us From Centers?

Editorial, May 25, 2018 Who’ll Protect Us From Centers? News that Centers Health Care has raised the private-payer rate at the former county-owned Otsego Manor from $300 to $510 a day – $186,000 a year, the state’s highest – is almost too sad to contemplate. Gary Koutnik, county board vice chairman and chair of the board’s Human Service Committee, reacted with the standard response: Since the once-excellent facility is privatized, what happens at Centers, nee Focus, is no longer the…

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Bliss Appointments Reflect ‘Continuity’ 

COUNTY BOARD REORGANIZES Bliss: Appointments Aim At ‘Continuity’  Meg Kennedy Emerges With New Status As Chairman Of Both Administration, IGA By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – She went into today’s reorganizational meeting of the Otsego County Board of Representatives already with the greatest clout under the weighted voting system. But Meg Kennedy’s rising stature was quickly affirmed. She was nominated and elected temporary chair of the reorganizational meeting, presiding over the transition of the chairmanship from Kathy…

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County Reps Pick Bliss As Chairman

COUNTY BOARD REORGANIZES County Reps Pick Bliss As Chairman Dem Koutnik Paired With Republican In Succeeding Kathy Clark, Ed Frazier By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego County Board of Representatives this morning elected David Bliss, the former Middlefield town supervisor just elected to his second term, to be its chairman this year. The vote was 10 “ayes,” two absentions, one absence, and a single “nay” from Kathy Clark, R-Otego, the chair Bliss replaced. Unanimously,  the…

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County Reps, 100 Attendees Consider County’s Future

County Reps, 100 Attendees Consider County’s Future Dr. Gerald Benjamin, SUNY New Paltz vice president for regional engagement, presents “County Manager v. County Executive” to a full house at Springbrook’s new Family Engagement Center this morning. The 45-minute presentation, moderated by Hartwick College President Margaret Drugovich, outlined the pros and cons of both governmental structures, as well as ideas for how the Otsego County Board of Representatives might begin the process of considering new management models for the county. At…

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BULLETIN: Clark 561, Nardi, 543

BULLETIN: Clark 561, Nardi, 543 COOPERSTOWN – With all absentee ballots counted, republican incumbent Kathy Clark has won her District 3 seat on the Otsego County Board of Representitives over challenger Cathy Nardi, 561-543. Further results coming shortly.…

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