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Trump Friends, Foes Poised For Inaugural 110 Oneontans On 2 Buses To D.C. To Join Women’s March On Capital Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
Carriage House Art Studio intern Patsie EarleRichardson, Oneonta, makes a bowl for the annual CANO Chili Bowl, upcoming on Sunday, Feb. 5. Richardson is a student at Bennington College in Vermont.
‘Ambassador’ For Patients Joins Focus INDEX
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ocus Rehab & Nursing Center announced Tuesday, Jan. 17, it has hired Misty Dygert, a certified nursing assistant with “extensive experience” in similar facilities, as the first “resident ambassador” for its facility here. Dygert will raise resident’s questions and concerns with all departments and staff to ensure they are “immediately addressed,” Focus Administrator Jeff Emhof said. More details at
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BUDGET ENVOY: RoAnn Destito, state Office of General Services commissioner, will detail the governor’s State of the State speech and budget address for Otsego countians at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, at Foothills Performance Art Center in Oneonta. LINEUP SHIFT: Katie Böttger, City Hall’s new personnel director, has succeeded Police Chief Dennis Nayor on the city manager search committee.
Pomp, Ceremony Await For President’s Backers
By LIBBY CUDMORE
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t 2 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, 110 Otsego County women will board two buses bound from Oneonta to Washington, D.C., to join 200,000 other protesters at the Women’s March on Washington. “Everyone’s reasons for IF YOU DON’T GO, women’s advogoing are cates are holding different,” local vigils Satursaid Amy day, Jan. 20 at Pondol►1 p.m., Muller fino, who Plaza, Oneonta ►4:30 p.m. in is site coordina- front of county tor for the courthouse, Cooperstown. bus trip. www.AllOTSEGO.com “So many of this administration’s ideas are counter to the Constitution – the Muslim registry, for example, or restricting gay rights. I’m a straight Christian woman, but I always thought freeIan Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA dom of religion was for all religions.” Amy Pondolfino, one of the organizers of local bus trips to the Women’s March in Washington, She continued, “To say D.C., hold the placard she will be carrying. Please See MARCH, A6
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Young Republicans’ chair Bobby Walker, right, will watch Trump’s inauguration from the stands, while Young Democrat chair MacGuire Benton will walk the parade route. The two are driving to D.C. together.
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ooperstown’s Tony Walker’s friend and counCasale, the retired ter-foil, Otsego County assemblyman, will Young Democrats chair be watching Inauguration McGuire Benton, will be 2016 in the comfort and rubbernecking as the inauluxury of The gural parade passes Newseum’s top along Pennsylvania floor. Avenue to the CapiBobby Walker, tol. who chairs the Casale, who Otsego County serves as a senior Young Republiadviser to state GOP cans, will be “at Chairman Ed Cox, the actual cerwill be among New emony,” thanks York Republicans Tony Casale who have leased The to a ticket from Congressman John will watch Newseum’s seventh from the Faso, R-19. floor, with a clear Newseum’s Meanwhile, Please See PRO, A6 top floor.
Advocate: Death Penalty Still Racist Francis Landrey, Hartwick trustees’ chair, shares 30 years of experience defending a deathrow inmate.
At Every Step, Suspects Still Face Obstacles To Fairness, He Reports By JIM KEVLIN
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.B. Parker had a nickname, “Pig.” Raised by a single mother with 10 other kids in a hut with a dirt floor, always hungry, he would gorge himself every time he had access to food. Hence the nickname. But, in the eyes his attorney, Francis Landrey, chair of the Hartwick College board of Please See PENALTY, A7
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