School Budget Votes are underway today at Districts across the state.  Some districts will fill Board of Education seats, Capital Projects will be voted on by voters in Sidney, Unatego & Afton today.

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Delaware County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted a Traffic Safety Checkpoint on State Highway 10 in the Town of Hamden recently.  Deputies issued 16 traffic violations for offenses ranging from driving while ability impaired by drugs, operating with a driver’s view obstruction, operating with prohibited studded snow tires, uninspected motor vehicle, speeding, operating an unregistered motor vehicle, operating an unregistered motorcycle, and operating with an unregistered trailer. All defendants were released on tickets and are scheduled to appear at Hamden Town Court at a later date to answer the charges. Deputies were assisted by members of the State Police.

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 New York Attorney General Letitia James 16 State Attorneys General are urging the U.S. Department of Labor not to adopt its proposal which reverses federal overtime protections for workers.    Under the proposed rule, over 8 million workers, including over 600,000 workers in New York, would lose overtime protections.    The proposed rule would change the white-collar exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which currently exempts from overtime protections for those in executive, administrative, and professional “white-collar” positions. In order for an employer to classify an employee as exempt, the employee must be paid a fixed salary, be paid a minimum specified salary and Have a job with duties that are executive, administrative, or professional in nature.    

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Delaware County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 43-year-old Jesus Bracero of Syracuse, Saturday night for Aggravated Unlicensed Operation of a motor vehicle & speeding, following traffic stop on State Highway 17 in the Town of Colchester.   Bracero was arraigned in the Colchester Town Court and was remanded to the Delaware County Jail on 500 dollar cash bail or 1000 dollar secured bond. Bracero is scheduled to re-appear in the Town of Colchester Court at a later date to answer for these charges.

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New York is poised to make undetectable guns, including 3D-printed guns, illegal in New York.  The bill passed the Senate earlier this month and breezed through the Democratic-led Assembly on Monday. Now it will head to Governor Cuomo’s desk for his review, he is expected to sign it into law.  The measure would ban the manufacture, sale, transport and possession of undetectable firearms, in order to crack down on gun violence.

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19 year old Hunter Speenburgh pleaded guilty to 2nd degree assault & was sentenced to 1 year in jail on Monday in Chenango County Court.  Speenburgh along with Landon Cummings & Brendan Gager were arrested in connection with an assault of a victim who was left unconscious, with a fractured eye socket and some teeth knocked out in October of last year, after the victim allegedly attempted to buy marijuana from Jade Orlando of Norwich. 

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The Regatta Music Fest returns on Sunday at General Clinton Park in Bainbridge, General Clinton Canoe regatta chairman John Harmon explains:

(John Harmon 5-21-19)

Fireworks will also be featured this year, on Saturday Night sponsored by Acco Brands & Sunday Night by NBT Bank.

Binghamton Police are looking for 2 men wanted in connection with a South Side Home Invasion Sunday evening, left one woman injured. Police stated that the 2 men posed as utility workers, they forced their way into the apartment at 80 Pennsylvania Avenue. The suspects were described as black, in their early to mid-twenties. They were between five feet, seven-inches and five feet, ten inches tall. Both wore all black clothing, orange-colored construction safety vests and white construction helmets. Their faces were covered with masks.  Anyone with information is asked to contact Binghamton Police at 772-7080.

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A trailer at the Shady Acres Mobile home Park near Goodyear Lake, was destroyed by fire, No one was home when the fire broke out, one firefighter suffered a cut, Firefighters from Milford, Oneonta, Hartwick, Hartwick Seminary & several other fire companies responded

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Dr. Nick Putrino of UHS Podiatry Norwich will discuss Foot Health in a presentation Today at Bohemian Moon at 103 West Main Street in Norwich.  The program is part of UHS Chenango Memorial’s 2019 Women’s Health Series, the event will begin at 6:00 PM, The presentation and discussion will follow at 7:00 PM.  More information is available at 337-4183.

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The Oneonta Common Council will hold their next regular meeting this evening at City Hall.  The meeting will begin at 7:00 PM, A public meeting to receive comments about the Community Development Block Grant program funding.

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