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Richfield Springs has a new mayor, Ronald Frohne II, who was appointed at a special village board meeting Tuesday night.

Richfield Springs has a new mayor, Ronald Frohne II, who was appointed at a special village board meeting Tuesday night.

The city of Oneonta water-treatment plant laboratory has tested water samples from the recent water-main break on Bugbee Road in Oneonta.

While not exactly a scientific fact, by mixing government with a community's pride in its street clocks, chances are good an explosion is bound to follow "" of sentiment.

Lamont Engineers of Cobleskill, N.Y., said it is working on three wastewater treatment projects in the state that were funded by the federal economic stimulus package.

The Oneonta Farmers' Market will have its annual Dairy Day event on Saturday in celebration National Dairy Month.

Question of the week: What is your all-time favorite movie, and why? "I don't really watch a lot of movies, but 'Days of Thunder' was alright.

Step Back in Time features community news items from The Daily Star 25 and 50 years ago.

A Richfield Springs woman will be honored Wednesday by the state Senate as a Woman of Distinction for her work with the Zone Community Center.

RICHFIELD SPRINGS _ The village has been awarded $5.4 million to support the planning, design and refurbishment of its wastewater treatment plant.

ALBANY, N.Y. - Governor David A. Paterson announced Thursday numerous clean water projects selected to receive American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding.

COOPERSTOWN _ In Otsego County Court May 15 before Judge Brian Burns: Derek J. Wright, 19, of Oneonta, pleaded innocent at arraignment to a charge of second-degree assault.

Staff Report Budgets for the coming year in area school district were approved by voters Tuesday.

Montgomery County sheriff's deputies have reeled in one woman suspected of stealing $1,000 worth of seafood and trying to steal another $800 worth of groceries from a village Price Chopper, but her alleged accomplice remains at large.

It may be the end of the bounty for a pair of seafood thieves. The other half of a pair of alleged shoplifters who were caught on camera slipping out of a Route 5 grocery with 90 pounds of scallops and shrimp is scheduled to turn herself in today, according to Montgomery County Sheriff's deputies.

Columbia Barbara Allen of Utica grew up as one of five children during the Great Depression era and remembers the impact the economic crisis had on her life.

The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office has confirmed that the same women responsible for a now infamous seafood heist at the Price Chopper store in Palatine Bridge in February, and an attempted larceny at the same store May 3rd, are also the women who stole a pair of air conditioners from the Richfield Springs Price Chopper Sunday evening.

Two graduates from Richfield Springs Central School came back Monday to tell students that they can reach the stars.

"I was dumbfounded," said Richfield Springs Mercury newspaper founding publisher Jay Bernhardt, that a week after suspending publication, the trademark was being used by a nearby publication.