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GRADUATION SEASON BEGINS
Social Service Agencies City of The Hills Seek To Limit ‘Hardship’ By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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Cancer Pioneer To Speak At SUNY
tions and multiple electrical By LIBBY CUDMORE violations, the remaining tenants at the former Oneonta Hotel will soon be ONEONTA evicted. But with the remaining lthough Chuck Bogosta has lived residents facing homeand traveled all over the world, he Please See OFO, A3 always returns to SUNY Oneonta.
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“There’s not a year that goes by where I don’t go back,” he said. “I love the college. I stay dedicated.” A 1980 grad, Bogosta, now president of UPMC International and the UPMC Hillman Cancer Please See BOGOSTA, A7
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etty Bettiol receives a proclamation from state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, recognizing her husband Gene Bettiol Sr. being named Otsego Chamber Distinguished Citizen of 2018 at a Thursday, May 3, banquet at Foothills. At left, NBT Senior Vice President Jamie Reynolds receives the Distinguished Business Award from NYCM President Dan Robinson. At right, retired Neptune Diner owner Paul Karabinis samples Townsend Catering’s offerings. 250 attended the annual Celebration of Business.
BUDGET VOTE: The Oneonta School Budget Vote will be noon - 9 p.m. Tuesday, May 16, Foothills. Voters will vote on the $38.6 million 2018-19 budget and three other items. School board members Jamie Reynolds and Susan Kurkowski are unopposed for reelection.
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ARRESTS IN JAIL: Two county jail inmates have been arrested, one for fighting, the other for obtaining crack cocaine, sheriff’s deputies reported Tuesday, May 8. For details, see
St. George To Run On Anti-Corruption Plank In November Election
ames Seward, R-Milford, Otsego County’s state senator for 31 years, is being challenged by a political newcomer from Delaware County who says she’s looking to “clean up Albany.” Joyce St. George, a Democrat from New Kingston, near Margaretville, said she spent most of her career after St. George graduating from NYU with the state Attorney General’s Special Prosecutor’s Office to investigate police corruption. “We handled cases that had to do with the criminal justice system in New York City,” said St. George. “We dealt with judges, police officers; some pretty high ranking people. I really cut my teeth on some very interesting work early on.” Now, she said, she wants to do the same in the state Capitol. She kicked off her campaign on April 7, St. George planned to be in Otsego County Wednesday, May 9. The election is Nov. 6. “What can I say, I met her, and I liked her,” said Democratic activist Richard Sternberg, the village trustee. Please See CAMPAIGN, A3 Hartwick Professor Laura Elder has just published “American Presidential Candidate Spouses.”
First Ladies Can Help, Hurt Presidents By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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lege professor of political science. “The public expect them to be supporting the candidate behind the scenes, not talking about their own achievements, and being very visible on the campaign trail.” She dubs this approach Please See LADIES, A7
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