THE COUNTY BEAT How Did $5 Million Boon Become $9 Million Gap? Treasurer Explains County’s Changing Fortunes By DON MATHISEN • for AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – How did Otsego County go from a prospective $5 million surplus with last year’s sale of Otsego Manor to a $9 million budget gap? The question is being raised as county representatives prepare the 2016 budget. According to County Treasurer Dan Crowell, the surplus never materialized. It evaporated when Otsego Manor legacy costs proved to…
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Third Top Executive Resigns At City Hall HR Director Kathy Wolverton Steps Aside ONEONTA – Kathy Wolverton, personnel director, has become the third top executive to leave City Hall in recent months. Mayor Gary Herzig and Common Council accepted Wolverton’s resignation yesterday afternoon. “While we are sad to have Ms. Wolverton leave City Hall, we expect that her decision to pursue new challenges will prove rewarding,” Herzig and Common Council member Larry Malone, Human Resources Committee chair, said in a statement…
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Despite Ruling, Sharratt Continues Supervisor Bid By DON MATHISEN • for AllOTSEGO.com HARTWICK – Despite a major legal setback, Hartwick supervisor candidate Juli Sharratt says she’ll continue her campaign. “I’m just really disappointed,” Sharratt said this morning. “What can I say, the law is the law.” She will appear on the Nov. 3 general election ballot on the independent Parity line. Yesterday, state Supreme Court Justice Kevin Dowd threw Sharratt off the Democratic ballot line in the Nov. 3 general election.…
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Artist’s Crusade To Recognize Heroes Culminates In 10 Portraits’ Unveiling COOPERSTOWN – Artist Janet Wentworth Erickson’s two-year effort to identify and paint portraits of 10 unsung heroes in Otsego and Delaware counties culminated this evening in a presentation at the Louis C. Jones Center and the exhibit’s opening across West Lake Road at The Fenimore Art Museum. Erickson, a SUNY Oneonta art professor, accepted nominations, then selected 10 for portraits. The 10 honorees: Medal of Honor winner Stephen Doane, Walton;…
Cherry Valley Fisherman Catches 40-Inch Muskie Garrett Petit, Cherry Valley, landed a 40-inch tiger muskie on Aug. 28 at Canadarago Lake, the DEC announced today. The current state record tiger muskie – 35 pounds, 8 ounces – was caught in 1990 in the Tioughnioga River in the Southern Tier. The tiger muskie is a hybrid fish, a cross between a male northern pike and a female muskellunge. The tiger muskies are stocked when they reach 10 inches at five months…
IN MEMORIAM: Nancy Kiser Feola, 66; Milford Woman Fought Cancer 19 Months MILFORD – Nancy Feola (nee Kiser) of Milford, who retired from a 30-year career with the Otsego County Attorney’s Office, lost her gallant 19-month struggle with cancer Monday evening Oct. 5, 2015, at Bassett Hospital. She was 66. Born April 1, 1949, she was the oldest daughter among six children of Arthur Sr. and Helen (Platt) Kiser. She attended the one-room Westville School from 1954 to 1961, then attended…