A man charged in Delaware County with violating an order of protection takes a plea deal. Prosecutors say Douglas Rodriguez of Roscoe pleaded guilty to first degree Criminal Contempt and admitted to calling the protected individual several times for no legitimate reason. Rodriguez will be sentenced next month.
An Oneonta man is charged in a police pursuit while driving a reported stolen vehicle. Officers saw the man speeding on State Highway 205 in the town of Laurens and that’s where the chase began. It ended after the man crashed and he was hospitalized.
The 2023 Norwich St. Baldrick’s “Brave the Shave” fundraising event held last Saturday at the Norwich American Legion Post 189 raised over $49,000 to support childhood cancer research. This was the first in-person event since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
State Senator Peter Oberacker participated in the initial meeting of the joint budget conference committee on transportation.The conference committees are made up of five senators and five assemblymen tasked with negotiating budget differences between the houses, in concert with the governor, to develop a final spending plan.
April 22 is Earth Day and the Catskill Watershed Corporation provides supplies to groups and individuals who clean litter and other debris from streambanks in the Catskill-Delaware Watershed. Visit cwconline.org for more information and to arrange a supplies pickup.
This is Agricultural Literacy Week which is organized by New York Agriculture in the Classroom to educate students about the importance of agriculture and opportunities for careers in the industry. New York has one of the longest running and largest Agricultural Literacy Week programs in the country.
A woman from Maryland who pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges will be in jail for 15 years. Prosecutors say Shelby Ortiz will be on 20 yearsof supervised release when she gets out of prison and will be required to register as a sex offender.
The Edmeston man charged last month with possessing a stolen and forged business check ends up more trouble after police say he falsely reported a man with a gun was in his home. He was booked on the new charges then released.
The state announces the winners in its Buildings of Excellence Competition and Richfield Springs is awarded $110,000 for the design, construction and operation of a multifamily housing unit that was a bank building. 14 projects received awards statewide.
Temporary traffic lights are operating today at the intersection of Main Street and Gardner Place in Oneonta so crews can tie a new sewer pipe into an existing sanitary sewer manhole. This is part of the Gardner Place Street Reconstruction project that runs through the end of June.