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City of The Hills
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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, October 7, 2016
Fallen Hero Lives In Ricky, Paris K9 Paris meets Erika and Robert Parisian and baby Ricky. From left are Trooper Valletta, and Sid, Deb and Terry Parisian.
At Pit Run, Namesake Baby, K9 Meet By LIBBY CUDMORE
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rooper Ricky J. Parisian lives on. His name and memory were present in two new faces in the Tpr. Parisian crowd at the 23rd annual Pit Run Sunday, Oct. 2. The first is the newest addi-
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At the invitation of county Judge Brian Burns of Oneonta, state Sen. Jim Seward, RMilford, briefed staff and participants in Drug Treatment Court Thursday, Sept. 29, at the city’s Public Safety Center, on initiatives forthcoming from Albany.
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tion to the Parisian family, 7-month-old Ricky Jude Parisian, born to his nephew (and godson) Robert and his wife, Erika. Little Ricky even wore a tiny trooper hat – lifted from a State Police teddy bear – wrapped with a purple ribbon. Please See PARISIAN, A3
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he Constitution Pipeline may have found a new ally. County Reps. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, and Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, have drafted a letter asking Governor Cuomo to get behind the pipeline. The county board was due to debate the letter Wednesday, Oct. 1. Check
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Head-Hunter Debated THE MOST ALUMNI EVER
Then, City Council OKs City Manager Recruiter By LIBBY CUDMORE
Oneonta Firm Underscores DWI’s Harms
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he had been skeptical, but Common Council member Melissa Nicosia, Second Ward, had a change of heart about hiring consultants to help recruit Oneonta’s Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA next city manager. Council members Melissa “I struggled with the Nicosia and Paul van der idea of spending the Sommen spar over hiring a money on the search,” recruiter. she said. “I conduct job searches for a living. But when I talked with Catherine Tuck Parrish at Novak Consulting, she gave me some food for thought.” On Common Council’s agenda was a vote to sign a Please See COUNCIL, A7
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edical Coaches of Oneonta manufactured a travelling memorial exhibiting the wrecked car of Amy Stock, killed by a drunk driver last July, that will be unveiled at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, at the county’s Meadows Office Complex in Middlefield. The exhibit will tour schools statewide, warning students of the dangers of drinking and driving. Stock, who has a sister in Cooperstown, died July 19, 2015.
As Locals Fill Up Jail, County Losing Money
SIXTH NOVEL: Oneonta’s Deb Blake had her sixth novel in her Baba Yaga series, “Dangerously Charming,” published Tuesday, Oct. 5, by Berkley Press.
$200,000 Lost As Out-Of-County Inmates Can No Longer Be Accommodated Here
Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA HISTORY LIVES: The ALUMNI AND FUTURE ALUMNI: BOOM! Top, Lily Amato, Simone new state historian, Devin Schuman, Eva Palmleon, Sabonne Schuman and Tiffany Gardner Lander of Utica, will meet plug their ears as the cannon marks a touchdown in the 60-0 with the Otsego County HisHomecoming win. Bottom, Phillip Meagley, 63, acknowledges torical Association and other teammates of the undefeated 1960 football team/DETAILS, B1 local historians 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, Oct. 15, at SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Conference Center. catch the ball, I knew no one was . By LIBBY CUDMORE going to catch me.” HE’S TOPS: Oneonta But in high school, there were native Todd Scorzafava of rowing up, Marilyn Zano girls’ sports. Title 9 wouldn’t Greenberg & Rapp Financial gata Scott was the star be passed until 1972, the year after Group, East Hanover, N.J., of her family’s football she graduated OHS. has been named a Financial team. “My brother Johnny But that didn’t stop her from Times Top 401(K) Retirewould always call the same play Marilyn Scott’s T- excelling at intramural sports and ment Plan Adviser for a shirt says it all. – ‘Go deep!’ – and if I could Please See ATHLETE, A7 second year in a row.
Pre-Title XI Alumna Masters Marathons
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By JIM KEVLIN
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he Otsego County jail dependably generated $200,000 a year by boarding overflow inmates from Schoharie and Delaware counties. But with in-county prisoners filling the jail to capacity, there’s no room for out-of-county criminals and the money has dried up. “We are at full capacity. We are housing all of our own Otsego County residents.
We are not boarding anyone,” county Rep. Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, said in an interview after alerting his colleagues Frazier to the problem at a strategic planning meeting at the County Office Building Friday, Sept. 30. Frazier, who is the board’s vice chair and chairs the committee now preparing Please See JAIL, A7
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