Milford News

A fire Sunday afternoon in Middlefield left a family of six homeless. The blaze struck the home of William R. Miller Jr., Renee Darling and their four children at 3462 County Route 35, Miller's mother, Kitty Miller, said Monday.

Otsego County Judge Brian D. Burns was recently appointed to the New York State Governor's Traffic Safety Committee's Task Force on Impaired Driving.

Put some super glue on broken off part, insert and hold a few seconds - will pull out rest of key .

LAURENS _ The Laurens Town Planning Board will have a vacancy starting Jan. 1 because of a term expiration.

Route 23 is continuing to expand on the business front, with construction being conducted on four sites in the towns of Oneonta and Davenport.

MILFORD _ Students from the Otsego Area School of Practical Nursing scored the highest in New York State on the State Board exams.

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.

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

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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.