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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, November 30, 2018
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Pay Hikes Considered By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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Oneonta’s Graham Wooden drives to the basket against Schalmont defender Shane O’Dell at the annual Drago Tournament on Wednesday, Dec. 21. Wooden led the Yellow Jackets with 20 points and was named to the all-tournament team,
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pickup truck that caught fire after colliding with an Oneonta City School District mini school bus on Monday, Nov. 26, had run a red light, according to Trooper Aga Dembinska, Troop C public information officer. Benjamin J. Goodwin, 34, Laurens, was driving the black 2002 Chevy Silverado pickup northbound on Route 205 when it went through the light at Country Club Road, striking the school bus. The three children aboard were not injured. Details at:
ith a calm public hearing behind it, the Otsego County Board of Repre-
sentatives appears to have an open field to approve sweeping pay hikes that, while costing $1/2 million, would raise its 104 “M&C” employees only to the average level of similar employees in 16
Carbon Monoxide Blamed For Death Of Bassett Guard
►EDITORIAL: County needs “best practices”; Gentile plan is “best practices”/SEE A5 similar Upstate counties. “M&C” stands for “management and confidential,” and includes
department heads. The proposed 2019 county budget also includes almost $3,000 raises for each of the 14 county representatives, from $10,500 to $13,400. The last county-rep raise, $259 a year, was approved in 2007 for the Please See RAISES, A7
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Patients Recall Wade Bostwick Fondly By LIBBY CUDMORE MILFORD
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hen Kerry Hall took her son, J.T., then 10, into Bassett Hospital, it was a struggle to get him to communicate with his doctors. “He was scared, Visitors to Bassett he wouldn’t let the doctors near him,” she said. recall Wade Bost“He was just sitting in a wick manning front door of Field- corner.” stone Building. But Wade Bostwick, veteran Bassett security guard, knew what to do. “He came in and sat on the floor with him and asked him about what he liked,” the mother said. “He brought him a stuffed animal and a Pepsi, and they chatted about video games and fishing. After Wade was able to bring him out of his shell, he Please See BOSTWICK, A3
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FUNDING RESTORED: Under the proposed 2019 Budget, the Oneonta’s YMCA will have funding for its youth summer program restored, allowing low-income households to enroll By JENNIFER HILL their children in a full-day of & JIM KEVLIN the weekly camps’ activities instead of a half-day. The ONEONTA Common Council will vote on the budget during their ifty-two years meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, ago, Sam Dec. 4. Nader got the idea that Oneonta DONATE NOW: The needed an airport. Staffworks Save-a-Life cam“If we were going paign page is now live, and to do anything with from Dec. 1-31, every dollar any industry or any- Sam donated to the Susquehanna thing of that nature, SPCA will be matched. To you darn well better have donate, follow the link at good transportation,” he www.sqspca.org explained in an interview.
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“The railroads were going out, and what was left was trucking or aviation.” And 44 years at Bendix, now Amphenol, taught him the value of aviation. And now, Mayor Gary Herzig has proposed that Common CounNader cil re-name the Oneonta Municipal Airport after the man, now 99, who made it Please See NADER, A7
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Katie Lishansky, Oneonta, left, got in the spirit of Thanksgiving Day by wearing a turkey themed hat to keep her warm at the Turkey Trot. And with turkey and all the trimmings piled high on his plate, Bill Abbott, Oneonta, goes to find his seat at the Community Thanksgiving Dinner at The Elks Club.
OTSEGO HILLS TOUGHENED DEWEY, RUSSELL
Cooperstown Pals Win One Of 10 Boston Marathon Wheelchair Spots By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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he Boston Marathon’s infamous “Heartbreak Hill” – a half-mile stretch just over the 20 mile mark – doesn’t worry Jacob Russell and Patrick Dewey one bit.
“Coming from Cooperstown, every hill is Heartbreak Hill,” said Russell. “We’ve done the Coop Loop and the Race The Lake halfmarathon. We’re used to hills.” Russell, a senior at Harvard, and Dewey, a senior at Edinboro University, qualified for the 2019 Boston Marathon as a wheelchairracing team. “They have 10 spots for Please See PALS, A7
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