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Oneonta Mask Ordinance Gets a Face-lift The Oneonta Common Council held its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday. One of the items on the agenda was to review the mask ordinance in the city. The timing was due to Governor Andrew Cuomo following the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) mask-wearing guidelines and new recommendations for those fully vaccinated against COVID-19, that went into effect here in New York State yesterday (May 19). Get our free mobile app How is the City of Oneonta respo...

Oneonta mask ordinance reconsidered Members of Oneontas Common Council Legislative Committee are considering changes to the downtown mask ordinance after New York adopts new CDC guidelines. Posted: May 10, 2021 10:26 PM Posted By: Tom Geise ONEONTA, NY – Last November, the Oneonta Common Council passed an ordinance stating that masks must be worn at all times in public spaces in downtown Oneonta and whenever social distancing was not possible due to the covid-19 pandemic. The ordinance basi...

SUNY Oneonta Shows Appreciation For On-Site Vaccination Workers Published: May 11, 2021 Members of the National Guard, along with Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig and SUNY Oneonta Acting President Dennis Craig (Credit: Jessica Reynolds, SUNY Oneonta) After getting my COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer) at SUNY Oneonta, a New York State-run vaccination site, I was pleased to learn that SUNY Oneonta Acting President Dennis Craig presented the clinic workers with an over-sized thank-you card yesterday at a recogn...

Last June, a project that has been met with some resistance from localized business owners and some Oneonta residents concerned about parking issues, The Lofts on Dietz got the green light following a victory in a lawsuit decision handed down by by Supreme Court Judge Michael Coccoma. The lawsuit  brought against the City of Oneonta and Parkview Development was by Johna M. Peachin and others, claiming errors on the part of the City of Oneonta Planning Board in its approval of the Dietz Lofts ...

ONEONTA, NY — It all happens very, very fast.  A man and a woman are standing outside, talking in the front yard of a house on River Street. The woman is holding their child on her hip, and the sun is bright, casting shadows across the lawn.  The couple are standing a few feet apart, their voices not loud enough to carry. Cars and bicyclists pass by. A neighbor walks over and hands the child a stuffed animal. Then, two Oneonta Police Department officers rush into view. One has his gu...

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com In addition to Sergeant Pajerski’s body cam, at least two videos of the scene are circulating on the Internet. Not only has a police shooting made history in Oneonta, it’s making statewide history, too. A new department in the state Attorney General’s Office, the Office of Special Investigations, created by Executive Order 147 after George Floyd’s death last May 25, opened its door on April 1, according to Sofia Quintanar, the AG’s deputy...

Witzenburg asks citizens to not pass judgement on the incident until the facts and actions can be made public

The yellow police tape has been removed. The front lawn is empty. And the windows are shuttered; theres no sign anyone is home. Along this stretch of River Street in Oneonta, not far from the eateries, bars, art galleries and boutiques that help shape the business center of this upstate New York college town, its a quiet spring afternoon. On the weathered, sagging slate-colored steps leading up to a century old multi-family house, a small bouquet of pink flowers in purple and green plastic w...

Upstate NY Officer Shoots, Kills Knife-Wielding Man During Domestic Incident: Police A neighbor of the victim who witnessed the shooting said the man had been holding a baby in one hand and a knife in the other when police arrived — thats when a scuffle broke out and the baby was somehow dropped as a woman and police were trying to take the child from him Published 4 hours ago • Updated 3 hours ago NBC 4 New York An upstate New York police officer investigating a domestic incide...

Update: Names Released in Oneonta Shooting Update on 4/8/21 New York State Police have released the name of the Oneonta man shot in a domestic violence case on River St. in Oneonta on Tuesday afternoon, along with the name of the police officer who fired two shots at the suspect involved. The man who was shot twice by City of Oneonta Police officer Ralph Pajerski was identified as 23-year-old  Tyler R. Green  of Oneonta. No other details in the case have been released and the investigation is...