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he smallest check was for $825. The largest was for $4,997.90. In all, Antoine Bourbon-Parme, 59, the former co-director of the Cooperstown Food Pantry,
allegedly stole $18,579 from the organization’s accounts over 16 months, beginning in October 2017 and ending in late January. According to the court documents filed in Otsego Town Court on Tuesday, April 2, Bourbon-Parme forged the names of Audrey Murray, retired director; Stacey Smith, director, and Sharon Oberriter, president, on eight checks, beginning in October 2017. Antoine Please See PANTRY, A7 Bourbon-Parme
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Father John Looks To Travel, Service In His Retirement
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►A MAN SHOT HIMSELF in the foot with a rifle while attempting to shoot a woodchuck on Monday, April 1, police said. ►ONEONTA WILL REPLACE the Main Street water line from the Post Office to East End Avenue, beginning April 15. The project is expected to take 200 days in three stages. ►Bill Davis, ’49, retired president of the Country Club Auto group, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at Hartwick College’s graduation.
THE FINAL AMEN
Father Rosson blesses the host at his final mass Sunday, March 31, at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Catholic Church after 19 years as pastor.
ONEONTA neonta Common Council authorized $44,500 to fulfill city Finance Director Meg L. Hungerford’s duties until her successor can be recruited. Of that, $10,000, at an hourly rate of $150, would be for Hungerford to be available on a consulting basis when she assumes her new responsibilities as Walton Central School finance director. Deputy Director of Finance Virginia M. Lee will receive up to $22,000, and Deputy Purchasing Agent Nicole Camarata up to $12,500.
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Cali Riese, West Oneonta, a public education and community outreach specialist with the Bassett Medical Center, and Rebecca Hess, Oneonta, in blue, stand next to an inflatable colon used to dramatize warning signs of colorectal cancer during “Main Street Goes Blue” on Friday, March 30.
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ongressman Antonio Delgado planned to brief 19th District media on his celebrated new MedicareX bill Wednesday morning, April 3, in a telephone conference call from Washington D.C. For a full report on the legislation, check
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Oneonta Trailblazers flank Mayor Gary Herzig, Carol Mandigo at right, and Kelly Ames at left, at the Tuesday, April 2, reception in Oneonta City Hall.
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ONEONTA arly on in Carol Mandigo’s career, she decided to combine art with social services “to give a better quality of life in a fun way.”
“I wasn’t drawn to putting art in a gallery in a city with only a limited amount of people looking at it,” Mandigo said. “I brought art and theater to inner city schools, so kids could be exposed to art because their families might not be able to do that for them.” The director of the Catskill Puppet Theater, a prevention specialist at LEAF Inc and the artist Please See TRAILBLAZERS, A7
Maskin Asserts: 2,000 Children In Poverty – ‘And That’s High’
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n May 30, 1955, little John Rosson, 7, underwent his First Holy Communion at his hometown church, Immaculate Conception in Irvington, on the Hudson River. As the host – in Catholic doctrine, the small, round wafer is the actual Body and Blood of Jesus Christ – passed his lips, the Please See ROSSON, A3
Business Patron, Now Chamber Director She’s Already Otesaga, Cider Mill Fan
“Most people who are poor work,” he said. By LIBBY CUDMORE “They’re not sitting on their porch drinking beer. But COOPERSTOWN where in this county can working class families get ven before she was named executive substantial jobs that support director for the Cooperstown Chamber of their families? There aren’t Commerce, Tara Burke was a big fan of the a lot of those.” Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA business community. Please See POVERTY, A7 Tara Burke pauses during Day Please See BURKE, A7 One at Cooperstown Chamber.
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HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD