CONTRACT RUNS OUT IN APRIL Upset About ‘Trump 2024’? Help May Be On The Way By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – For the portion of the public upset by the “Trump 2024” sign on Route 28 north of the Village of Milford, help may be on the way. Anna Johnson, Rome Sign Co. business manager, said the billboard’s current renter has a contract that runs out in April, and a new customer has picked up the contract,…
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IN MEMORIAM Adam Pierce, 45, Oneonta Native; Retired Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant ONEONTA – Adam L. Pierce, 45, a retired lieutenant in the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department, passed away on April 4, 2020, while a patient at University of Rochester Strong Memorial Hospital. He fiercely battled his newly diagnosed liver damage, caused by non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, for three months. Adam was born in Oneonta on July 18, 1974, and lived in Oneonta all of his life. Adam attended…
Cooperstown Food Pantry Limits Exposure For Now Open Only 10-6, Mondays And Wednesdays COOPERSTOWN – To “minimize the contact between people” – and thereby lessen the chance of exposure to Coronavirus, the Cooperstown Food Pantry board of directors, meeting last evening, have cut back its hours to two days a week. The food pantry at 25 Church St. will now be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., only on Mondays and Wednesdays, according to board member Audrey Murray.…
CLICK HERE FOR CONTESTED RACES CLICK HERE FOR POLLING PLACES Polls Open Until 9 p.m. On County, Town Races Polls are open around Otsego County until 9 p.m. this evening for county board, town board, Oneonta Common Council and three state Supreme Court vacancies. There is particular interest in the county board’s District 3 (Laurens-Otego), where Republican Rick Brockway and Democrat Caitlin Ogden are vying to succeed Kathy Clark, the former board chairman. If Brockway wins, the board will likely…
Remembering Ravi Losing Son Too Early, Father Puts Pension Into Fostering Memories By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – Dad Ram Singh is trying to follow son Ravi’s philosophy. “His philosophy was the share a loaf of bread with many rather than just give it to one,” said the father. “So I try to do the best I can.” Following his 25-year-old son’s sudden death in September 2016, Singh struggled to find an outlet for…
After High-Speed Chase, Suspect Leaps From Moving Car, Police Say WORCESTER – A 22-year-old driver is facing multiple charges after he leaped from his moving car in this hamlet after trying to elude deputies in a high-speed chase, county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. reported today. After a brief chase on foot, Tristen R. Caballer of Worcester was found in the basement of relative’s home; he “physically resisted arrest” and was apprehended, according to a press release.…