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City of The Hills
& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, August 8, 2014
Complimentary
Study: Mayor, Council Ignore Charter Miller: Action Can Wait Until City Manager Hired By JIM KEVLIN & LIBBY CUDMORE
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ayor Dick Miller and Common Council have failed to implement the new city charter and ignored their responsibilities under the document, a
Charter Review Commission concluded in a report of its findings, dated July 31. One council member even told commission members, “It (the charter) doesn’t pertain to my job.� After the charter – endorsed by Miller Please See CHARTER, A7
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Charter Review Commission members, from left, Sarah Patterson, Martha Forgiano, Laurie Zimniewicz and Paul Scheele at Common Council Tuesday, Aug. 5
NY’S BIGGEST CROP GROWING IN PIERSTOWN Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
Samantha Smith and Blayke Conklin, visiting family in Morris, fly down the Super Slide in the heart of the midway at the Otsego County Fair, which ended Sunday, Aug. 3/MORE PHOTOS, A3
Hager Hops Starts Work On Brewery In Oneonta Louis Hager III, center, answers questions from NEHA visitors during the Saturday, Aug. 2, tour of the 10acre hopyard in Pierstown, the biggest in New York State. Hager, a member of the Anheuser Busch family, and his sister, Alicia, behind him, have overseen planting of 11,000 hops vines near where the first hops were grown for the St. Louis behemoth in the 19th century.
Arrest Ends 2-Year Probe Of Drug Sales
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n announcing the arrest of a downstate man, county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. said Thursday, July 31, that it signals the end of a two-year probe of heroin and oxycodone peddling in Otsego County that resulted in 30 arrests. Nicholas Torres, 22, of Mohegan Lake, allegedly sold oxycodone stolen from the Covidien plant in Hobart to a confidential informant in the Southside Mall parking lot in 2011, Devlin said. For more details, visit WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM VEGGIES NEEDED: The Hunger Coalition of Otsego County is asking gardeners to donate vegetables that will be distributed in 22 food pantries and 10 feeding sites around the county. Call Carol at 432-7520 or reddoorchurch@stny.rr.com for details. IN MEMORIAM: Joan F. Moyer, civic leader and wife of Bob Moyer, retired Wilber Bank president, has passed away/DETAILS, B7 WRITERS WANTED: A new writers workshop is planned 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays in September at the Huntington Library. Register at library or call 432-1980
110 On NEHA Tour Receive Front-Row Look At Revival By JIM KEVLIN
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he tour began with news. The day before, Friday, Aug. 1, Northern Eagle Beverages had broken ground behind the former Soccer Hall of Fame on an 82,000-square-foot complex that will house Cooperstown Brewing Co., company President George Allen told 110 participants at the
2014 Northeast Hops Alliance Annual Field Day. “Our goal is from dirt to beer,� announced Allen, standing in the midst of balers, a dryer and a pelletizer in the current 7 Railroad Ave. plant that is also the Northern Beverages’ distribution center. And it ended with news. On a Pierstown hillside, north of Please See HOPS, B7
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Northern Eagle Beverage President George Allen details plans for the new Cooperstown Brewery plant in West Oneonta. With him is Cooperative Extension Agency Steve Miller, Morrisville.
HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD
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