A 28-year-old Otsego County Correctional Facility inmate and former Cooperstown and Oneonta resident was arrested Thursday for allegedly making threats to blow up the Otsego County office building in Cooperstown.
The Mohawk Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross is in need of Disaster Action Team volunteers for Otsego County.
The Fifth Annual Bike to Work Day for Otsego County will be held Wednesday with check-in sites at more than 20 locations countywide.
New this year, organizers of the event – Otsego Regional Cycling Advocates, a committee of Otsego County Conservation Association (OCCA) – have joined forces with the National Bike Challenge, presented by the League of American Bicyclists.
Otsego County Representatives recently approved a $27,000 Homeland Security and Emergency Management grant that will fund a Reverse 911 program for three years.
By an 11-3 vote Wednesday, the Otsego County board of representatives approved the creation of a local development company that will be in charge of the marketing and sale of the Otsego Manor nursing home.
Students at Hartwick College, including those in Associate Professor of Art & Art History Joseph Von Stengel's Art 216 Digital Art & Design II: Digital Print Media class, will soon be participating in a logo design project for the Otsego County Chamber.
Eleven nonprofit organizations in the region, including two in Otsego County, received grants totaling $99,648 from the Community Foundation for South Central New York in the Foundation’s highly competitive Spring 2013 Community Fund grant cycle.
The Otsego County Conservation Association is seeking potential drinking water well test sites and existing water well test data for inclusion as it launches a countywide groundwater program “What’s In Our Water?"
Francisco Torres, a former Milford resident who was indicted last week by a Grand Jury and arrested by the Otsego County Sheriff’s Office criminal investigation division on two counts of failure to register as a sexual offender, will appear at a hearing Friday.
In February, Otsego County Sheriff investigators were performing random home checks on sexual offenders when it was discovered that 34-year-old Francisco Torres, a level two sexual offender in New York State, has not actually been living at 6165 State Highway 7 in Colliersville since December.
The Otsego County Planning Department offers annual workshops on planning and zoning topics. This April, the department will be teaming with the Southern Tier East Regional Planning Development Board to offer a local government training workshop featuring information on both open meetings and the freedom of information laws.
