Cherry Valley News

BY TOM GRACE COOPERSTOWN NEWS BUREAU COOPERSTOWN _ Faced with the high and rising cost of health care for public employees and retirees, Otsego County is set to embark on a program to seek long-term cost control.

To the organizers and participants who made the recent benefit for Matthew Cooke a success.

50 Years Ago Feb. 24, 1960 CHERRY Valley_ At a meeting held in the Firemen's rooms, 20 women decided to start a Firemen's Women's Auxiliary in Cherry Valley.

The Town of Preston leased 7.1 acres of surplus property on Monday to a Canadian-based energy company in a compulsory integration contract that would yield 18.75 percent in royalties.

More than $80,0000 was raised for local patients and charities by 343 people who jumped into Goodyear Lake on Saturday.

Body text"/}A man and his nephew are homeless after a fire tore through their Wikoff Road home in Cherry Valley on Monday night.

While the Otsego County Board of Representatives' toil for the new year has barely begun, we are heartened by what Republican Floyd "Sam" Dubben has said so far.

Body text"/}Floyd ``Sam'' Dubben, Jr. said he looks forward to steady progress and reduced partisanship on the Otsego County Board of Representatives this year.

The U.S. war against terror in Iraq took the life of a soldier from Burlington Flats.

CHERRY VALLEY, N.Y. - At age 7, Grace Utter can add a oePublished Artista to her list of accomplishments.

COOPERSTOWN _ Under Otsego County's 2010 budget, adopted Wednesday, the amount the county needs to collect in taxes, called the tax levy, will rise in all but three municipalities "" Exeter, Burlington and Unadilla, according to preliminary estimates.

A fire Sunday afternoon in Middlefield left a family of six homeless. The blaze struck the home of William R. Miller Jr., Renee Darling and their four children at 3462 County Route 35, Miller's mother, Kitty Miller, said Monday.

Otsego County Treasurer Myrna Thayne has filed a tentative 2010 county budget that calls for increasing the property-tax levy by $1,148,718, or 11.11 percent.

Staff Report Cherry Valley-Springfield Central School will close for the rest of the week due to a high-rate of flu-like symptoms among students.

In Otsego County Court on Monday before Judge John Lambert, Ruthann F. Zupo, 29, of Portlandville, pleaded guilty to and was sentenced for second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument.

MIDDLEFIELD _ In his latest book, Dominick Reisen of Middlefield moves beyond local history to a case study of development in central New York, from the mid-1700s until the end of the Civil War.

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Celia and Ryan Rathbun, of East Springfield, recently announced the birth of a daughter, Jossalynn Cady Grace Rathbun, born June 24, at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown.

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Two New Lisbon men who lived at 228 Bell Hill Road were arrested Tuesday after a joint investigation with the county probation department, Otsego deputies said.