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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, November 6, 2015
Crosswalk Dangerous, Victim Feared By LIBBY CUDMORE
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n Tuesday, Feb. 3, a letter from Daniel Heath was read to Common Council raising concerns about the intersection of Chestnut and Main: Both pedestri-
Mayor Asks DOT To Examine Fatal Site ans and drivers get a green light at the same time. “I’ve been close to being hit several times,” he wrote. On Wednesday, Oct. 28, Heath was struck and killed by a car at that
same crosswalk. The day after Heath’s death, Mayor Gary Herzig wrote the state DOT regional traffic engineer, Tony Signorelli, advising him the victim “had voiced his concerns to elected
officials on several occasions” and City Hall had contacted DOT about it. He asked that Signorelli study the intersection and determine whether design or operational changes are necessary to achieve “greater safety Please See CROSSWALK, B7
COUNTY BOARD ROILED
Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
In her pink fairy costume, Avalon Jones, 3, was a hit on during Main Street’s Halloween trick-or-treating Saturday, Oct. 31/MORE
INCUMBENTS GO Stammel In, Quackenbush Out • Marietta In, Hulse Out • Kennedy In, Lentz Out
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Herzig Names Panel To Look At City Charter
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ayor Gary Herzig has named an ad hoc committee to review the city charter, chaired by former mayor John Nader. The committee was announced at the Tuesday, Nov. 3, Common Council meeting. Other committee members are former Mayor David Brenner, former acting mayor Russ Southard, outcoming Council members Maureen Hennessy and Chip Holmes, incoming Council member Melissa Nicosia and an additional member to be named later. SALON CITED: The Tanning Bed in Oneonta is among 13 salons in three counties cited for faulty equipment in a Tuesday, Nov. 3, press release from Govearnor Cuomo’s Office. WINGS ON WAY: The Buffalo Wild Wings franchise on Southside is scheduled to open Monday, Nov. 16.
THE WINNERS ARE...
By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN
In key contested races only ► For Common Council t was a night of surprises and upsets, with voters Ward I: Paul Van der Sommen ousting incumbents and embracing newcomers Ward 4: Jeff Back OR Michelle in three key seats on the Otsego County Board of Osterhoudt Representatives. Ward 5: Dana Marie Levinson • In the Town of Oneonta’s District 4, Democrat OR Madolyn Palmer Andrew Stammel, a Town Board member, ousted first► For County Board term county Rep. Janet Hurley QuackDistrict 2: Jim Powers enbush, 562-527. District 4: Andrew Stammel District 5: Meg Kennedy • In the Hartwick-Milford-New District 8: Andrew Marietta Lisbon District 5 – it contains the most District 9: Keith McCarty weighted votes of any seat – a newDistrict 10: Dan Wilber comer, Meg Kennedy, defeated incumDistrict 11: Gary Koutnik bent Ed Lentz, 782-539. District 12: Craig Gelbsman • And in the Cooperstown-Town of ► town supervisor Otsego District 8, Democrat Andrew Hartwick: Robert O’Brien Marietta defeated a rising GOP star, Laurens: Patricia Brockway county Rep. Rick Hulse, by 515-429. Marietta Milford: Robert Moore Elsewhere, things were pretty much Richfield: Paul Palumbo as expected, as two veteran Republicans, Jim Pow► town boards ers, Town of Butternuts, and Keith McCarty, in the Hartwick (2): Quinton Hasak, Richfield-Springfield district, turned back challengers. Janet Gage Additional, unchallenged Republicans David Bliss Otsego (2): Bennett Sandler, in Middlefield-Roseboom-Cherry Valley and Len CarJoe Potrikus Laurens (2): Mary Bordinger, son in Oneonta walked into seats vacated by DemoRonald Moxley crats. Middlefield (2): Joseph Harris, Rounding out the rising GOP fortunes, Dan Wilber, Ray Holohan a town justice, beat Democrat Russ Bachman to keep Richfield (2): Fred Eckler, Kane retiring Betty Ann Schwerd’s Edmeston-Burlington Seamon. seat in the Republican column. Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Springfield (2): Dale Schultz, Bill While Republicans took body blows with Hulse’s When it became clear Democrat Andrew Stammel Freeland and Quackenbush’s losses, the GOP emerges with has won the county board’s District 4 seat, he was CHECK BOARD OF ELECTIONS greater control of the 14-member legislative body. surrounding by hugging supporters in Oneonta’s www.otsego.county.com/depts/ Please See ELECTIONS, A7 Autumn Cafe. boe/results.htm
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Surrounded by his signature giraffes, Al Cleinman peruses his first book, “A Different Perspective.”
The Wisdom Of Al Cleinman
Lessons Of Business Shared
COUNCIL TO MEET: The SUNY Oneonta College Council meets Nov. 10 at 4:30 p.m. in Le Café at the Morris Conference Center.
By JIM KEVLIN
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MILESTONE: Eye On ere’s one example. The Weather columnist Early on, Al Cleinman discovDavidw Mattice is beginning ered he’s not good with interruphis 33rd year as a National tions. He needs to concentrate. So, years Weather Service observer. ago now, he stopped taking unscheduled For his October data, SEE A6 phone calls. His very able assistant,
Patricia Chase, smoothly arranges his appointments and calls. “A further benefit of this methodology,” Cleinman shares in “A Different Perspective,” his new book, “is that our firm has moved from one that was highly reactive (I need to solve this problem now) to highly proactive (what can we do Please See CLEINMAN, B7
Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
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