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…
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On WAMC’s ‘Morning Headlines’, County Backs Pipeline; Local Spruce NYC Bound In Thursday’s weekly radio report on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, Jim Kevlin, editor/publisher of www.AllOTSEGO.com (and Hometown Oneonta & the Freeman’s Journal), reported on the Otsego County Board of Representatives’ vote urging Governor Cuomo to get behind the Constitution Pipeline. Also, on excitement about an Oneonta spruce being chosen for the Rockefeller Center ice rink this year. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS WEEK’S REPORT …
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…
IN MEMORIAM: Linda D. Rowell, 55, Oneonta ONEONTA – Linda D Rowell, 55, passed away at her home in Oneonta on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. Linda was born in Sidney, on Feb. 5, 1961, the daughter of Richard G. and Hilda Mae Williams Haynes. She was employed for many years at Bassett Specialty Care in Oneonta, and for the last 10 years as an associate at the Oneonta Walmart.…
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Police: Noise Complaints Rise 50 Percent In City By JASON BIRKELBACH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Two months into the colleges’ fall semester, calls to the police complaining of noisy parties and rowdy neighbors have increased 50 percent from last year, Oneonta Police Lt. Doug Brenner told Oneonta Common Council this evening. The number of complaints filed this fall jumped from 107 in the same period 2015 to 154 this fall. Brenner said he issued 27 tickets to landlords throughout the whole 2015-16 college…
IN MEMORIAM: Robert J. Shirm, 65; Pennsylvanian Found Home In County MILFORD – Robert Joseph Shirm, 65, who worked for MOSA and, more recently, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, passed away unexpectedly Monday evening, All Hallows Eve, Oct. 31, 2016, while communing with nature in the woods near his home. He was born Oct. 9, 1951, in Williamsport, Pa., a son of the late Ralph and Mary (Roman) Shirm, and was raised and educated in Montoursville.…
Curious Flock To See Our Most Famous Tree Oneonta’s Katy Yager is among numerous passersby who are stopping at 72 Country Club, Oneonta, to snap photos of our most famous tree. The spruce, owned by Angie and Greg Eichler, was chosen as the centerpiece of Rockefeller Center’s Christmas display this year. Already – as you can see in the tree’s upper boughs – work is beginning on trussing the behemoth, which is due to be taken down Nov. 10 and unveiled…
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