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Wayne Carrington, owner of the Autumn Café, was out front shucking the oysters for the restaurant’s seafood dinner special, as part of Oneonta’s weekly “Survive, Then Thrive,” event on Saturday, Aug. 1.
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hen the county Board of Representatives met Wednesday, Aug. 5, it was due to ask whether to lift the 2-percent state-mandated cap on property tax increases this year. Board Vice Chair Meg Kennedy, C-Hartwick, said going above the tax hike is not certain; the board is being asked to create flexibility in light of bed- and sales-tax revenue drops, and state aid uncertainty. For details, check
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6th District Convention To Consider Burns For NY Supreme Court Seat Proud father Brian D. Burns’ office pays tribute to his children’s college careers.
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hen Otsego County Court Judge Brian D. Burns first began practicing law in Otsego County in 1992, he served as assistant prosecutor for then District Attorney Michael V.
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Coccoma. And in 2000, when he won his first election for county and surrogate judge, Coccoma was serving as the local Supreme Court judge. Now, after Coccoma’s retirement, Burns is seeking the nomination for his mentor’s vacant Supreme Court seat in the Sixth JudiPlease See BURNS, A10
TO OPEN OR NOT TO OPEN – AND WHEN?
School Boards Anguish Over Reopening In Fall
OVID-19 claimed its sixth Otsego County victim this week, the first local death from the virus since May, the Otsego County Departmetn of Health reported Tuesday, Aug. 4. The resident, who was not identified, had not been hospitalized and was tested By LIBBY CUDMORE post-mortem, she said. The number of COVID patients hospitalized remains at three. ONEONTA Following the daily progith the first day of ress of the disease at school a month away, Oneonta www. OTSEGO.com School Superintendent SEE MULTIPLE REPORTS ON Thomas Brindley still had to make a decision. “Schools OTSEGO.com should be decid►tropical storm isaias ing cursplashes into Otsego County. riculums, ►FOUNDATION, OTSEGO offer getting $500 PPE grants. classrooms ►KEITH HARING’S “Medusa” ready and hanging in Fenimore. sending out ►DEMOLITION CLEARS WAY for new Oneonta restaurant. school supBrindley ►PLACING political SIGNS, ply lists,” volunteers also pick up trash. he said. ►NY ADDS FOUR STATES to “Instead, we’re being asked travel advisory. to make a determination ►CHURCH-N-THE-HOOD reopens; if it’s safe for our students next service Aug. 16 at and staff to come back to First Presbyterian Church, school.” Cooperstown. Brindley announced Mon►WILLIAM GRIMES SR. 98, dies; day, Aug. 3, that Oneonta fought at Bulge, Remagen. schools would continue ►SQSPCA Rescues 13 dogs remote learning with no onfrom Lebanon. ►LOCAL MERCHANTS ALERTED to campus presence, ahead of Governor Cuomo’s decision, $15,000 reopening grants. Please See ONEONTA, A8
In Oneonta, Schools Shut Until Oct. 9
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ooperstown Central School has scrapped one reopening plan for a second that includes more inschool time for students. “We are hearing from parents that they want a Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA more robust connection Timmy Douglas, Colebrook, with Barrett Paving, Clayville, finish the final between the Crankshaw coat on Route 28, which was paved in the past week from Cooperstown to Milford, seven miles. “If the Hall of Fame had been open, it would have school and students,” Superintendent been chaos,” said Eugene Hardy, the DOT engineer on the job. Parallel of Schools Bill Crankshaw Route 33 was also paved this past week. said in a Tuesday, Aug. 4, interview. He planned to release the plan, which has high school unfortunate incident 20 years ago,” he said. By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN students, one half one day, “State police held his family at gunpoint. the next half the next, back They thought they were drug dealers, and in school by Wednesday, ONEONTA although it was a case of mistaken identity, Sept. 9. it still bothered him that his family never Elementary students ayor Gary Herzig took Bryce received an apology.” would be back in school on Wooden up on his offer. When Herzig reached out to Wooden to Tuesday, Sept. 22. “Bryce spoke at the offer an apology on behalf of the city, the Crankshaw and other Cooperstown Rally in June about a very Please See POLICE, A8 Please See CCS, A8
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