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City of The Hills
MOSA Going, Going... COOPERSTOWN
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Municipal Efficiencies On Agenda
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unicipal consolidation and shared services will be on the agenda when Dede Scozzafava, New York deputy secretary of state for local government, visits the city, GO-EDC announced. The program, which will include details of Local Government Efficiency grant funding, is 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, May 6, at Foothills. ARCHAEOLOGY BUFFS:
Dr. David Starbuck, author of “Massacre at Fort William Henry” and other books, will speak on the archaeology of the French & Indian War when at the Saturday banquet when the state Archaeological Association annual meeting convenes Friday-Sunday, April 11-13, at the Holiday Inn Southside. Events open to the public.
...And ‘No One Will Notice’
“You’re going to wake up May 1, you’re going to put your bag on the curb, and it’s going to disappear,” said Karen Sullivan, Otsego County planning director. Except a reduc-
A Post-Long Discussion Beginning t the end of the month, MOSA will end with a whimper.
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HUNTER CHARGED:
Hunter Robert R. Gerbino of Long Island was reportedly charged Tuesday, April 8, with criminally negligent homicide in the Nov. 16 death of hunter Charles Bruce, 52, in the Town of Westford.
tion in hours at the transfer stations, “you aren’t going to see anything different, except Casella shirts instead of MOSA shirts. “No one’s going to know any-
Al Colone looks at the oldest known Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen charter, dated 1886, loaned by John Scarzafava.
thing even happened.” Sullivan, who has administered the effort to take the “O” out of MOSA, the Montgomery-OtsegoSchoharie Solid Waste Management Authority, was commenting on the county Board of Representative’s Please See NO MOSA, A6
REMEMBERING RAILROADING
Common Council Sets Hour Aside For Topic By JIM KEVLIN
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ayor Dick Miller and Common Council will look forward and back when they gather at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, to decide what to do when their first city manager, Mike Long, Mike Long departs at the end of May. “The council hopefully will have a thoughtful discussion and come to a decision on whether to or how to review the charter – and how to go about conducting the search for the city manager,” said Mayor Dick Miller, who moved the regular starting time up one hour to free up time Public input is welcome, he said, although no special time has been set aside for that purpose; there will be the usual petitioners’ session at the beginning Please See POST-LONG, A7
SIGNAL AT CENTER, CHURCH ISSUE THAT WON’T GO AWAY
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Deb Harvey, Bruno Scavo, Tom Speranzi and Karen Anderson pore over photos and other D&H railroad memorabilia at the third annual Joe & Mary Dinner Saturday, April 5, at Sixth Ward Athletic Club.
Union Charter Highlight At Joe, Mary Dinner By LIBBY CUDMORE
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TAKE BACK NIGHT:
SUNY Oneonta’s annual march was due to depart at 6:30 Thursday, April 11, from the Milne Library.
Complimentary
Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, April 11, 2014
By JIM KEVLIN
Valerie Mayoka, Milford helps her son Cedric look for Easter Eggs at Southside Mall on Sunday, April 6/OTHER
& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
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The signal is obsolete and can’t be fixed, City Engineer Jim Hawver explains.
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he long-running saga of the traffic signal at Center and Church streets in Oneonta haltingly moved toward resolution Tuesday, April 8, when a Common Council committee decided to recommend that the city bring in a traffic consultant. DETAILS AT WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
ood, family and friends – for the people of the Sixth Ward, these three things most define the Oneonta’s D&H railroad era. “Every Sunday, my mother would make homemade pasta,” said Tommy Speranzi. “My dad, he worked on the railroad, and he would go down to the rail yards and find a few hobos, Bruno Scavo, right, shows invite them back to eat homea photo of dad Charles made pasta and drink homeDrago to son Tony. made wine. We always had potatoes and their famous enough food.” pigs-in-a-blanket cabbage rolls And, as at all the past Joe – that recalled the beloved & Mary banquets, there was restaurant that now houses plenty of food – ham, mashed the Sixth Ward Athletic Club.
“That’s what drew people here years ago,” said Bruno Scavo, who helped organize the annual dinner. “Joe held more banquets than anyplace else in Oneonta.” This year’s dinner – the third, on Saturday, April 5 – honored not just the memory of Joe and Mary DeFiore, but also the city’s railroad heritage. “There was a walking path right past here, so when the railroad workers finished a hard day, they stopped here to refresh themselves,” said Albert Colone. Colone had issued a call for railroad memorabilia, so the evening was an invitation to tell railroad stories and Please See DINNER, A6
HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD