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Move to Reinstate Owego Firefighters - 7/2/2009

In Owego, there's an argument over unpaid jobs that people want back.

The Owego Fire Board wants more than 100 volunteer firefighters who were cut last month--to be reinstated.
 
Wednesday night, the board voted to request that village trustees put back on the job the volunteers they recently laid off, and to remove a limit on the number of firefighters from the village's charter. 

  Tensions have been high since the cuts were made--and earlier this month, two men, including Bill Franz, the former Owego mayor and fire chief, were arrested for alleged harassment of a person supporting the cuts.

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