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City of The Hills
Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, August 7, 2015
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t least temporarily, Acting City Manager Meg Hungerford has been denied the $31,771 that she received after Oneonta’s first city manager, Mike Long, was forced out in May 2014.
Scout Council Plans To Vote On More Talks
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he Oneonta-based Otschodela Boy Scout Council’s executive committee planned to meet Wednesday evening, Aug. 5, to decide whether to continue merger talks with the Utica-based Revolutionary Trails Council. Henry Nicols, council board member, said the Otschodela Council initiates talks with Revolutionary Trails, and thus a vote to cut off discussions is unlikely. For vote results, check
Auctioneer Buzz Hesse examines a circa 1950s rocking horse that delighted generations of Oneonta youngsters in the former Bresee’s Department Store.
Entrepreneur Ed May Acts
Angel Aims To Open Up Nick’s Diner
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Nick’s Diner at the time of its closing in late 2013, about the time the Neptune closed, too.
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Hesse To Auction Department Store Horse By LIBBY CUDMORE
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he Bresee’s Bronco rides Mayors Nader (Sam and again. John), Brenner and Muller “I got a call from Nancy were due at a “celebration and fundraiser” for mayoral Mitchell” – Phil Bresee’s daughter – “and she said she had the candidate Gary Herzig 5-7 coin-operated horse from Bresee’s p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, at the Sixth Ward Athletic Club to discuss the city’s future. BLOOD FEUD: The
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ig Mac lovers may bemoan it, but a reconstruction that has closed the Southside McDonald’s is only temporary. Filet-O-Fish fans, it’ll be worth the wait, John Crotts, general manager and area supervisor, will assure you. “There’s never a best time to close a McDonald’s,” said Crotts, who said Please See McDONALD’S, A6 Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
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MAYORS RALLY: Former
With the second city manager, Martin Murphy, forced out last month, it was proposed Tuesday, Aug. 4, that Hungerford again receive the stipend until his successor is recruited, probably sometime in 2016. With two of her allies – Council Members Mike Please See STIPEND, A7
McDonald’s John Crotts displays the new model for the Southside locale.
Hi-Yo, Bresee’s!
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Complimentary
Council Denies Stipend McDonald’s Reconstruction Starts To Its Interim Manager By LIBBY CUDMORE By LIBBY CUDMORE
Oneonta’s Ava Dangca prepared Faith to compete in Novice and Master Showmanship categories at the Otsego County Fair, which started Tuesday, Aug. 4, in Morris/MORE
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if I was interested,” said auctioneer Buzz Hesse. “I said, ‘I’ll be right over!’ She even had it in the horse stable.” The mechanical horse - known as “Gene Autry’s Horse” or “The Big Bronco” in the catalogue - is going up on the auction block Please See HORSE, A7
Buy horse, get Bresee’s sheriff badges for free.
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he Ghost of the Neptune is ranging the City of the Hills, and is alighting next at the former Nick’s Diner, sitting forlornly at Chestnut Street and Fonda Avenue since closing in the waning days of 2013. You may have seen stirrings there in recent days, as Ed May a crew has begun cleaning the shell of Nick’s former self tucked beneath that rock wall, and the new operators hope to have the diner functioning, Please See NICK’S, A6
GOP Challenges Petitions In Key County Race
Oneonta police and firefighters will compete to see who can bring in the most By JIM KEVLIN donors to the American Red Cross blood drive noon-6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, at the COOPERSTOWN Elks. hen Patrick Dewey, who is living with Cerebral Palsy, learned NEW LOCALE: Common the “mark” he used to sign Council’s Community ConDemocratic candidate Andrew Marietta’s versations is moving to the petition for the District 8 seat on the Patrick Dewey Oneonta Bagel Company, Otsego County Board of Representatives 171 Main St., starting 8-9 was being challenged in court by Republi- The GOP is challenging Patrick Dewey’s signature a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11. on Andrew Marietta’s District 8 petitions. cans, he reacted:
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“Democracy should be centered around the inclusion and common good of all people.” Nonetheless, GOP County Chair Vince Casale, Cooperstown, is staying the course, repeating Monday, Aug. 3, that he intends to go forward with the court challenge to a 13-signature petition that includes Dewey’s name and could remove Marietta from the Nov. 3 ballot, where he is vying against freshman county Rep. Rick Hulse, R-Fly Creek, in the Cooperstown/ Town of Otsego district. The issue, Casale said, is not Patrick – the Please See PETITIONS, A7
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