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Village Paves 9 Streets, Most In Local Memory
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Abby Waters, 14, and her brother Noah, 8, show off dozens of pumpkins they and parents Fred and Mary Jane have decorated along Tansey Road, Town of Milford, to get in the mood for the upcoming Halloween celebration.
Seward Helps Divide $1.5B Upstate Fund ALBANY
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hrough Thursday, Oct. 22, Jim Seward, R-Milford, is one of only two state senators reviewing which three of the state’s economic development regions will share Governor Cuomo’s $1.5 billion Upstate Development Fund. Each of the 10 Regional Economic Development Councils from around the state will make a presentation to the SIAT – the governor’s 2015 Strategic Implementation Assessment Team – over a three-day period that began Tuesday. POLICE NEEDED: The Village Board is interviewing applicants this week after firings and resignations have reduced staffing of the police department to the chief and two officers. SCAM ALERT: Free senior scam prevention forums are planned Friday, Oct. 23 – at 10 a.m.-noon at Elm Park Church, Oneonta, and 2-4 p.m. at 22 Main, Cooperstown’s Village Hall.
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Village Street Superintendent Mitch Hotaling grabs a handful of gravel, part of the finishing touch on some of the nine streets paved this season. Village Trustee Cindy Falk, Streets Committee chair, is second from left; Mayor Jeff Katz, right. Village crew members, from left, are Lloyd Stilson, Russ Adams, Chris Satriano, Frank Liberati and Byron Bubencik.
Paid Parking Generates $200,000 For Roadwork By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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f you haven’t heard many people complaining about potholes lately, maybe because there are
fewer potholes to complain about. In the construction season that is just coming to an end, the Village of Cooperstown street department has repaved nine streets, more than anyone can remember. Count ’em: Pine Boulevard (both sides); Main Street east of the
Consensus Emerging On County Job Cuts Lindberg Predicts 50, Maybe 80 Layoffs By DON MATHISEN COOPERSTOWN
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ayoffs – 50 to perhaps 80 – plus tax hikes and service cuts are all on the table as the
Otsego County Board of Representatives and County Treasurer Dan Crowell struggle to produce a balanced 2016 budget. ““The only thing I can see is layoffs; it could be 50 people, 80 people,” said Please See LAYOFFS, B5
Susquehanna; River Street (between Main and Church); Church; Delaware (Elm to Beaver); Beaver (Eagle to Chestnut); Cooper Lane; Hoffman Lane, and Linden Avenue. East Main had been “a problem for years,” said Mayor Jeff Katz. River and Church “were crum-
bling,” he added. What’s made the difference, Katz and Village Trustee Cindy Falk, chair of the Streets Committee, said in an interview, is on-street parking revenues, hotly debated for years before finally being adopted and Please See STREETS, A3
Here’s How To Be An Entrepreneur By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA
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n August, when Scott O. Schwartz, a new lecturer in business at Hartwick College, took his family to Schoharie Family Farm Days, he was intrigued by an Albany Times Union article on the bulletin board at The Carrot Barn, a farm market The Freeman’s Journal and attached restaurant designed to appeal to agri-tourists. Richard Ball answers students’ questions; Schwartz listens in background. Please See AG CHIEF, B4
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD