Fire Commissioners Low-Ball It, So Council Denies Fire Protection ONEONTA – Common Council this evening received an offer from the Town of Oneonta’s Fire District #1 offering even less for fire protection from the city than it paid this year. Council members rejected it handily. This leaves 15 days until, if no fire contract is agreed upon, the town’s Southside and East End commercial strip, and West End homes will be without fire-protection when the year ends. DETAILS IN THIS…
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Land Trust Sticks With Brookwood Status Quo COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego Land Trust has brought plans to change the status quo of 22-acre Brookwood Gardens on Otsego Lake to a close. Meeting over the weekend, the Land Trust board determined none of the proposals received in response to an RFP process met its “requirements to actively protect the conservation values of the property,” Land Trust chair Harry Levine announced Tuesday, Dec. 15. DETAILS IN FREEMAN’S JOURNAL, ON NEWSSTANDS TODAY…
CGP Students Adopt ‘Christmas Families’…
Smart Car, Deer Collide On Route 20 ↓ UPDATE: PHOTO A HOAX…
CCS Kindergartners Extend Tradition…
East Worcester Firefighter Charged With Embezzling Department Funds EAST WORCESTER – Gregory B. Eager, 30, an officer in East Worcester Hose Company No. 1, was charged today with taking more than $83,000 from his fire department, the county District Attorney’s Office announced. Acting on a complaint received last month from a hose company officer that funds were missing from the department’s bank accounts, D.A investigators with assistance from state Department of Financial Services investigators found $83,097.12 had been embezzled from…
Property-Rights Activist Plans Rally At Courthouse COOPERSTOWN – Judy Pepenella, a founding board member of the Conservative Society for Action and the Long Island Coordinator for New Yorkers for Property Rights, will hold a property-rights rally and press conference at noon this coming Friday on the steps of the County Office Building on upper Main Street. “Otsego County has been using aggressive foreclosure methods to steal properties from residents with the excuse they owe back taxes,” a press released from…
SUNY Students Share $10,000 From Santacon With Tots, Army…
Police Seek Identity In Hartwick Burglary HARTWICK – State Police are seeking tips as to the identity of a man suspected in a burglary at the Quickway convenience store in Hartwick hamlet. The robbery occurred at 1:45 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 7, at the Quickway, located at 3542 State Route 205, just south of the hamlet. The suspect is a white male with short hair who was wearing a green sweatshirt or jacket. He was driving a gray Ford Focus possibly between…
Yager Museum Restores Rockwell Kent Landscape ‘Winter In Berkshires’ Donated By IBM In 1953 ONEONTA – Hartwick College’s Yager Museum has announced the conservation of Rockwell Kent’s “Winter in the Berkshire Hills” has been complete. The museum contracted with the Williamstown (Mass.) Art Conservation Center, which relined, cleaned, refilled and revarnished the painting. In addition, the frame was stabilized and repainted, as recommended in a 2012 conservation survey of the museum’s collection, was made possible through funds granted by the Greater…
