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What’s Your Opinion Of Downtown Oneonta?

What’s Your Opinion Of Downtown Oneonta? City Hall Encourages All To Answer Questionnaire ONEONTA – City Hall and the LA Group, Saratoga Springs consultants, today distributed a survey to explore why and how people use downtown Oneonta, and how they feel about the experience. TO FILL OUR THE SURVEY, PLEASE CLICK HERE There are also links on the City of Oneonta and Destination Oneonta sites, and hard copies may be obtained at City Hall, Destination Oneonta, the Autumn Cafe, the…

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Eleanore MacDougall, Cooperstown

IN MEMORIAM: Eleanore MacDougall, Cooperstown COOPERSTOWN – Eleanore MacDougall, wife of Village Historian Hugh MacDougall, passed away over the weekend.  The Tillapaugh Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. A full obituary is being prepared, which will appear here and in this week’s Freeman’s Journal.…

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ON THANKSGIVING, HELP FOR ADDICTS

ON THANKSGIVING, HELP FOR ADDICTS Coop Chief’s Immediate-Response Plan Starts COOPERSTOWN – Beginning Thanksgiving Day, heroin addicts can walk into the Cooperstown Police station at 22 Main and be assigned to a detox and recovery program “on the spot,” Chief Michael Covert is announcing on his department’s Facebook page. “Bassett Medical Center has committed to helping fast-track people that walk into the police station so that they can be assessed quickly and the proper care can be administered quickly,” Covert…

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2 Days, 2 Crack Raids Reported In Oneonta

2 Days, 2 Crack Raids Reported In Oneonta ONEONTA – Police Thursday executed a warrant at 8 Wells Ave., seizing one ounce of crack cocaine, a set of digital scales, drug packaging material and $22,000 in cash, according to a state police press release. After the search, Godfrey A. Little, 33, who lives at 8 Wells, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, a Class B felony, and two counts of criminally using drug paraphernalia,…

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Ralph J. Sobers, 64; Fisherman

IN MEMORIAM:  Ralph J. Sobers, 64; Fisherman ONEONTA – Ralph J. Sobers, 64, an avid fisherman and the Susquehanna Bass Club’s Angler of the Year in 1997, retired from the physical world Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, to hunt and fish with the angels.…

26 Layoffs Balance County ’16 Budget

26 Layoffs Balance County ’16 Budget 7 Parttimers, 19 Fulltimers To Lose Jobs COOPERSTOWN – The $9.2 million gap in Otsego County’s proposed 2016 budget is closed. It took the layoffs of 19 full-time and 7 part-time county employees, slashing some services and raising property taxes by about $100,000 total, the maximum allowed under the state property tax cap. The layoffs, agreed on Friday, Nov. 6, by the county board’s Budget Review Committee and county Treasurer Dan Crowell, followed six weeks of…

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Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through July 31st, new or lapsed annual subscribers to the hard copy “Freeman’s Journal” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or electronically to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.