A look at key local contests By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Oneonta Mayor The months-long race to replace longtime Oneonta mayor Gary Herzig comes to an end next week when voters choose between Common Council members Mark Drnek (D) and Len Carson (R). The League of Women Voters hosted the candidates in a debate last week, during which Carson thanked Drnek for joining him in running a “gentleman’s campaign.” Drnek said he feels he is in “good shape”…
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In Memoriam Keith Floyd Mayne, 83 Feb. 22, 1938 – Jun. 13, 2021 Keith Floyd Mayne, 83, of Burlington Flats, passed away peacefully on Sunday June 13, 2021 at his home surrounded by his family. Keith was born on February 22, 1938 in New Berlin the son of the late Floyd and Mildred Wightman Mayne. In addition to his parents, he was pre deceased by sister Lillian Hotaling, sister in law Marjorie Tauss, and a brother in law Gordon Wheelock.…
Herzig Chides Fire Board: Stop Spreading Falsehoods By MICHAEL RODA Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – At tonight’s Common Council meeting, Mayor Gary Herzig publicly chided Town of Oneonta Fire District commissioners for what he described as telling tales out of school. While Fire Commissioners Johna Peachin and Fred Volpe sat stony-faced in the gallery, Herzig took them on for, he said, briefing Town Supervisor Bob Wood and the town board about long-stalled negotiations over the contract so the city’s professional department…
TOWN BOARD WON’T BID ON BROOKWOOD By JIM KEVLIN • for AllOTSEGO.com FLY CREEK – The Otsego Town Board this evening agreed to back away from the idea of creating a town park at the Otsego Land Trust’s 22-acre Brookwood Gardens. Town Board members took the lead from Councilman Bennett Sandler, who read a detailed statement into the record moments after the 5 p.m. meeting began, where he concluded, “I am disinclined to submit a proposal on behalf of the…