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SUNY Oneonta Joins Multiple Yik Yak Targets By LIBBY CUDMORE
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UNY Oneonta joins SUNY Canton, the University of Missouri, Syracuse University and dozens more as the site of
a violent threat made on the anonymous Yik Yak chat app. The smartphone app, which allows users to anonymously post and share to fellow “Yaks” in a five-mile radius, was believed to have been used by SUNY student
Brandon Negron, 20, of New Windsor, Orange County, to post “I’m going to shoot up the school. Be prepared, Oneonta.” He was arrested Sunday, Dec. 6, by University Police and charged with “making a terroristic threat.”
On Nov. 11, Syracuse University police arrested student Reynaldo Cortorreal for threats made on the Yik Yak app. On Nov. 30, the University of Chicago shut down campus after Hunter M. Park allegedly Plesae See YIK YAK, A7
$½ BILLION, FOR US? Cuomo Decision Could Transform County Economy
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Barbara Fritz, left, Fran Reed, center, and Margaret Winnie count ballots in the Oneonta Town First District #1 election Tuesday, Dec. 8.
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2 Incumbents, 3 Newcomers On Fire Board
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tate Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, planned to be inside The Egg in Albany Thursday, Dec. 10, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announces which three of seven economic-development regions will share $1.5 billion in funding over the next four years, an unprecedented boon to New York’s struggling Upstate. Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz Please See HALF-BILLION, A6
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onald Lammano and Carol Ann Malz joined the Town of Oneonta’s Fire District #1 Board of Commissioners Tuesday evening, Dec. 8. After years of low – or no – turnout, almost 200 voters turned out to vote in two new commissioners and three incumbents, who will soon be locked in negotiations, trying to ensure the continuance of fire protection from the City of Oneonta next year. Incumbents Fred Volpe (52 votes) won a five-year term, Mike Butler (55) four years, Johna Peachin (51) three years, Lammano (51) two years, and Malz (33) one year. ADJUNCT RAISES: SUNY Oneonta announced it will raise the minum salary of three-credit court adjuncts from $2,500 to $3,000, putting the college well above the average/DETAILS, A7 FINAL MAYOR: Dorothy R. Beams, 89, the last mayor of the former Village of Schenevus, has passed away/DETAILS, B6 ON COLBERT: George Saunders, the National Book Award finalist and Oneonta area resident made his third appearance with host Stephen Colbert on NBC’s “The Late Show” on Tuesday, Dec. 8. Check it out on Youtube.
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Oneonta brothers Billy and Johnny Lattenhauer give Santa Claus a hug as he enters Muller Plaza Thursday, Dec. 3, for the community tree lighting. Santa will be in his cottage 4-6 p.m. Thursdays, Dec. 10 and 17, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays, Dec. 12 and 19.
Originators Vow To Protect City Charter By LIBBY CUDMORE
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purned in the latest review of the Oneonta City Charter, the origin com-
8 Will Insist Changes Go To Citywide Vote mission that created it is about it put its foot down. Commission member Paul Scheele, the retired SUNY Oneonta poly-sci
professor, told Mayor Herzig’s ad hoc Charter Review Committee Tuesday, Dec. 8, that, if the city manager’s duties are
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MEET NEW COUNTY BOARD eteran Middlefield Town Supersivor David Bliss, hero of the anti-fracking movement, is entering the county Board of Representatives Jan. 1 with bipartisan support. He is in the seven-member Class of 2016 that will be joining the Otsego County Board of Representatives on Jan. 1. See newcomers’ profiles at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
watered down, the original commission would campaign for a citywide referendum to approve the revision. The statement he read Please See VOW, A6
► $500,000 for Otsego Now to complete plans for a bridge from D&H yards to I-88, and for water, sewer lines to industrial property. ► $300,000 for malt, barley manufacturing for brewing industry at Northern Eagle Beverage’s new Browne Street plant. ► $270,000 for Klugo Enterprises to redevelop Stevens Hardware into stores and apartments, a “second Bresee’s.” Plus, who gets $500 million from the Upstate Development Initiative? FOR DETAILS OF CUOMO’S THURSDAY, DEC. 10, ANNOUNCEMENT, CHECK
Lots Of Local Musicians Have Sinatra Stories By LIBBY CUDMORE
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verybody goes through Steve Fabrizio – even Frank Sinatra. “I was bouncing at the Rainbow Room one Christmas in the early ’80s and he had been performing across the street,” said Fabrizio, himself
a jazz vocalist. “His bodyguards came over and told me to clear the way, but I told them, ‘Everybody goes through me, even Frank’.” Nasty words and shoving broke out, and then, the elevator door opened. “There was this tiny man, and he said, ‘Wait a minute!’ And I said, ‘I’m sorry, Mr. Sinatra’, to which he Please See SINATRA, A6
HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD