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The state Department of Motor Vehicles unveiled New York's latest license plate Tuesday.

Environmental activists and lawmakers had pressed for such changes, as many felt the 804-page document the state DEC had released _ the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement, or SGEIS _ was too dense and important to be given only a cursory glance.

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A 67-year-old man was charged with felony reckless endangerment Oct. 25 after he fired a gun twice during a dispute in Franklin.

A Maryland man was arrested Oct. 18 for possession of a safe stolen from a Milford residence during a burglary the previous day, Otsego deputies said.

We were disappointed to hear of yet another hindrance on the Pony Farm Bridge repair project.

By Tom Grace Cooperstown News Bureau At the conclusion of Otsego County's full-board budget workshop sessions, the 2010 tentative budget called for a tax-levy increase of about 30 percent.

Local school superintendents said they are hopeful state legislators can reverse some or all of proposed midyear state aid cuts to education proposed by Gov.

NYSEG, a subsidiary of Energy East, has petitioned the state Public Service Commission to raise electric rates 18.6 percent and natural gas rates 17.4 percent.

COOPERSTOWN _ In the next few weeks, Otsego County will be receiving doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine, Rep.

By Tom Grace Cooperstown News Bureau Last Thursday, a delegation of Otsego County officials visited a gas well being drilled by Gastem USA in the town of Maryland, and according to a couple of reports, they liked what they saw.

Thanksgiving will be Nov. 26 this year. The holiday gives us all a chance to relect on what is important in our lives.

By Tom Grace Cooperstown Bureau The cost of public employees' retirements in New York state is slated to rise steeply in the next few years, a sobering consideration as counties work to craft their 2010 budgets.

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24 to ask county Board Chairman James Powers to establish a gas-drilling task force, it was met with resistance.

The DMV will produce state-issued license plates beginning in April, according to Otsego County Clerk Kathy Sinnott Gardner.

COOPERSTOWN _ Some Republican lawmakers and county clerks oppose fee hikes being imposed by the state Department of Motor Vehicles.

Crystal Hanna and Nicholas Wood were married at a 3 p.m. ceremony on Saturday, Aug.

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