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VISIT www.AllOTSEGO.com, OTSEGO COUNTY’S DAILY NEWSPAPER/ONLINE Volume 211, No. 44
Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, November 14, 2019
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
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Rare Races Possible For Mayor, Trustees By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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ayor Ellen Tillapaugh says she’s running for a The Freeman’s Journal second term in next March’s The Town of Hartwick village election, adding that Mayor Tillapaugh and Trustees Membrihas put up 12 welcome first-term Trustee MacGuire no and Benton are likely to run again. signs at entrances to the community
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Benton is likely to as well. And Joe Membrino, also in his first term, said he’s planning to run again, too. But for the first time since the GOP debacle in 2011, the Republican Party may be running a slate as well, which would be the first challenge for DemoPlease See RACES, A7
COUNTY MANAGER DECISION NEARING
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he first of two informational meetings on creating a county manager for Otsego County is at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, at Oneonta City Hall County Rep. Meg Kennedy, C-Hartwick, who chairs the county board’s Administration Committee, announced the second will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the Otsego County Courthouse in Cooperstown. A public hearing on the creation of a county manager position was set for 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, the county Board of Representatives next meeting. After that hearing, the county reps could vote that same day on the position. For details on last week’s discussion on a top administrator for county government type “informational” in the search line at
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►A unanimous vote by the Otsego County Board of Representatives authorized $230,000 in funding to repair the leaky roof of the Otsego County Jail. ►THE Avett Brothers will return to play two shows at Brewery Ommegang on July 23-24 as the annual concert series relaunches after a hiatus last summer. ►A FIRE DESTROYED the United Methodist Church in East Branch on Monday, Nov. 11.
Parking Reforms In Works
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s drivers have been noticing, the Town of Hartwick has posted 12 “You Have Arrived” signs at entry points to the community and its hamlets. The signs can be seen entering the Route 28 business district, near Toddsville (Historic Mill Village), Hartwick Seminary (Home of the first Lutheran Seminary in America), and at the Hamlet of Hartwick at Routes 205 and 11. The signs grew out of a collaboration between the town board, the highway department and the Hartwick Historical Society. The project, from planning to installation, took many months but is now complete, Town Clerk Andrea Vasquez reports.
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Consultant Will Guide City Hall To Find Spaces By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Joan Clark, the Cooperstown Vets’ Club’s grand dame, sings “Oh say can you see…” at the village’s Veterans Day commemoration Monday, Nov. 11, at the Doughboy Statue at Pine Boulevard and Lake Street. Next to her are Deb Green and her daughter, Meg Lindberg, and grandchildren Weston, 2, and Izzy, 8/MORE PHOTOS,A3
hen it comes to the suddenly controversial issue of parking in Oneonta, Mayor Gary Herzig Herzig wants everyone to pitch in. “If you look at a Google Maps photo of Oneonta, a lot of downtown is empty blacktop,” he said, “It’s not a good use of real estate.” The subject of parking has been a concern of late, with the Common Council approving the sale of a portion of the Please See PARKING, A7
3RD CONTESTANT HERE FROM POLAND
Maciej Zółtowski rehearses with the Catskill Symphony Orchestra.
CSO Prospect’s Focus: Tchaikovsky By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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or Maciej Żółtowski, conducting is a kind of enchantment. “It is similar to magic,”
►IF YOU GO: Maciej Żółtowski performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at SUNY’s Hunt Ballroom.
he said. “You get up there, you wave your stick and music comes out!” Appropriate, then, that
Żółtowski, the former managing and artistic director of the Radom Chamber Orchestra in Poland, will be conducting Stanisław Moniuszko’s “Concert Overture: The Fairy Tale,” as part of the third and final entry Please See CSO, A7
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD