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Volume 12, No. 18

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anna Bergene, 2020 Cooperstown Winter Carnival co-chair, warns that things could get cheesy. “New this year is a mac and cheese contest at the Carnival closer,” she said. “We heard from the res-

State Of City: Planning Over; Now, To Work

& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch

2020 Carnival Arrives, Bring On Mac And Cheese COOPERSTOWN

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taurants that the chicken wing contest was kind of stale – and who doesn’t love mac and cheese in the middle of Bergene winter?” The contest will be free, allowing all the carnivalgoers to taste Please See CARNIVAL, A11

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n the wake of pedestrian April Johnson’s death, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, has invited state DOT Commissioner Marie Therese Dominguez to Lettis Highway, where the 32 year old woman was struck by a car. HOMETOWN ONEONTA “I want her to tour the area with me and see it A fender-bender halted traffic first hand,” Seward said. “It wasn’t built with at Lettis and Main on Feb. 1. Please See FATALITY, A11

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n his annual State of the City address Tuesday, Feb. 4, Mayor Gary Herzig said planning is done, and much work is planned in 2020.. “With vision, planning and a willingness to change, the time is now to build upon our strengths,” he said. His address outlined plans for Market Street, the D&H Railyards and creating a Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan along the Susquehanna River. Read full speech on

Prosecutions To Dip 50%, D.A. Expects Bail Challenged; Now Evidence said Muehl. “Hopefully things will get better, but my prosecutions could go COOPERSTOWN down 50 percent.” New discovery requirender bail reform, county ments as part of Governor Sheriff Richard J. DevCuomo’s criminal justice lin Jr. worried dangerreforms require that all ous suspects would be freed evidence be turned over – and, locally, one stole a truck to the defense within 15 Muehl a day after he was released. days of arrest. Now, under new rules of evi“For instance, a speeddence, also part of the state’s crimiing ticket now takes two hours for nal justice reforms, District Attorney police to process paperwork,” the John Muehl worries he’ll be unable D.A. said. “Then it’s another hour for to prosecute as many suspected me to get everything together, and if criminals. the defense objects to my statement “Arrests are way down already,” Please See MUEHL, A11 By LIBBY CUDMORE

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►A JURY FOUND Gabriel truitt guilty of arson, murder in the first degree and two counts of murder in the second degree on Thursday, Jan. 30, in the December 2018 death of John Heller in just over two hours, following a six-day trial. ►MILFORD’S aVERY LEONARD won the regional title for the 120-pound class at the Center State Regional Wrestling Championship at Cooperstown on Sunday, Feb, 2. ►jamie r. sophie and Nathaniel Rubera, both of Unadilla, were arrested for allegedly vandalising the Walmart craft aisle in January. ►ASSEMBLYMAN JOHN SALKA, R-Brookfield, is organizing a “Repeal Bail Reform” Rally at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, at the Otsego County Correctional Facility.

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Oneonta, N.Y., Thursday, February 6, 2020

By LIBBY CUDMORE

Mayor Gary Herzig delivered the annual State of the City address ahead of the Common Council meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 4.

THE JOB SCENE

700-Plus Fans Sign Petitions Against End To CCS Football Crankshaw: No Decision Made On Grid’s Future – So Far By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA

Brian Hoyer of Oneonta spins daughter Kennedy, 4, around the dance floor in SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom Saturday, Feb. 1, during the Family Y’s 18th annual Daughter-Daddy Valentine’s Gala/MORE PHOTOS, A9

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ore than 700 people have signed a Change.org petition in support of the Cooperstown Hawkeyes’ JV and Varsity football team after discussions arose that the team may be cut in the 2020-21 budget.

“If we don’t join together and peacefully let the board know how we feel: We will lose football,” wrote Kimberly Burkhart, who started the petition. She is a Milford Elementary School teacher and mother of a CCS Please See FOOTBALL, A11 ►IF YOU GO: 5 p.m., Feb. 12, Cooperstown High School, discussion on football’s future.

HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD


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