Otego News

All Unatego Central Schools will be closed Thursday and Friday because of staff illness, school business manager Nicholas Rosas said tonight.

Opportunities for Otsego is accepting applications for the 2009 Holiday Basket season.

STAMFORD _ The Stamford Village Apartments senior housing complex is accepting applications for apartments in the village of Stamford.

ONEONTA _ City police were out in force during the weekend in anticipation of Halloween revelers.

The League of Women Voters debates featuring candidates for town offices will be rebroadcast on Channel 23 at 8:30 p.m. today and 1 p.m. Sunday.

Walton Town Supervisor John Meredith died Monday night, according to his family.

Maintenance workers at Worcester Central School were doing some extra disinfecting work Thursday, Superintendent Gary Kuch said.

An 89-year-old Otego man died Wednesday after he drove his car into a mobile home, state police said.

By Mark Boshnack Staff Writer Many students at Otego Elementary School are having fun while learning important lessons in a once-a-month program started this school year, several said Friday.

Staff Report An 89-year-old man died after his car crashed into a mobile home in Otego on Wednesday afternoon.

All residents from Blenheim, Gilboa, Conesville, Otego, and Unadilla are invited and encouraged to attend.

COOPERSTOWN _ A 22-year-old woman was arrested in the village of Cooperstown on Saturday for allegedly having 13 syringes filled with heroin.

Two fires Sunday damaged southern Otsego County homes. The first blaze struck 383 County Highway 48 in Otego at about 1:40 p.m. The second involved a home on Baker Hill Road in West Oneonta at about 3:15 p.m. A dog was killed in the Otego fire, and a firefighter suffered a minor ankle sprain in the West Oneonta fire.

The cause of the fire at the home of Frances Andrews on state Route 23, next to the Davenport Center diner, is still undetermined, Davenport Fire Chief Fred Utter said Friday.

COOPERSTOWN _ In state Supreme Court of Otsego County on Oct. 6 before Justice Michael Coccoma, Tonia Holbrook, 30, of Oneonta, was sentenced to six months in jail and five years' probation for fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, cocaine.

In 1909, a company of 250 Italians gathered at the home of George Privateer, 36 Harrison St.

Students at Oneonta Job Corps Academy recently got some valuable experience while helping Oneonta taxpayers, students said Wednesday.

ONEONTA _ About 1,500 runners and walkers saw Oneonta along Pit Run routes Sunday, which was about 600 more than preregistered, organizers said.

ONEONTA _ A local man is to appear in Oneonta City Court this morning on burglary and other charges, city police said.

ONEONTA _ The Pit Run, an annual race in memory of state police investigator Ricky J. Parisian, represents the best of Oneonta, participants and organizers agreed.