Falsehoods Helped Sink Town Board Campaign Edition of Friday, Sept. 26 To The Editor: I lost the Democratic Primary in the Town of Oneonta, but I am proud to say that I did so with my integrity intact. Not one negative article was written, no personal attacks were launched and petitions were not challenged. As I visited homes throughout the town, I tried to focus on my positions and to explain my experiences in municipal governance. However, this became very…
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Over 50 Years, CGP Students Gather 1,800 Oral Histories By LIBBY CUDMORE•The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Sept. 25 From maple sugar to folk songs, from farming techniques to pierogie recipes, over 1,800 recordings have been collected by the Cooperstown Graduate Program since its founding 50 years ago. “There’s all kinds of incredible material,” said Will Walker, the associate professor of history who oversees the student research. “These are people’s lives.” The Oral History collection has been part the Folklore…
Jellyfish In Otsego Lake By JIM KEVLIN•The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014 In July, Colin Lassiter, 6, was fishing off Council Rock with his dad and sister, and he discovered dozens of Craspedacusta sowerbyi, a fresh-water jellyfish, in James Fenimore Cooper’s Glimmerglass. “I thought they were some sort of weird bubble,” the boy said. Since, two other “credible reports” have been received by SUNY Oneonta’s Biological Field Station, according to Paul Lord, who teaches at SUNY and…
Oneonta Town, City Should Join In Regional Water Authority The Oneonta Town Board is energetically seeking to make a historic mistake that will have increasingly negative impacts on Greater Oneonta for decades to come. Southside neighbors are being asked to approve a water district that would allow construction of a water plant in Emmons’ Fortin Park. Let’s hope, for their good and that of the whole, that they say no. Right now, downtown Oneonta, step by step, is coming back.…
Springbrook Keynoter: ‘Weaknesses Can Be Made Positives’ By LIBBY CUDMORE•HOMETOWN ONEONTA Nothing, not the lack of coordinates on Mapquest or a GPS mishap was going to delay Jesse Saperstein from speaking at Springbrook. “A comedy of things happened,” he said. “But it was important for me to get here and speak, especially to my new friend Michael.” That new friend was a visibly overjoyed Michael Travisano, who was in the audience with his father, Hartwick professor Thomas and mother, Elsa.…
New Broadband Plan For County Takes Shape By JIM KEVLIN • HOMETOWN ONEONTA A three-person team from FARR Technologies of Sioux Falls, S.D., spent three days in Otsego County last week, tightening a schematic for achieving broadband Internet service countywide within five years. FARR’s mandate is to provide, by mid-October, “information we need to aggressively apply for state and federal funding,” said Sandy Mathes, Otsego County IDA president. He plans to ask the IDA board to approve funding applications when…
OPD Stats: Trouble Up By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com The number of Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta students who have been taken to Fox Hospital more than tripled this fall from the same four-week period in 2013, according to Assistant Fire Chief Jim Maloney. “There’s been a huge spike in calls this year,” he said. Between Aug. 18 and Sept. 21 of this year, Oneonta EMS transported 50 college students to Fox Hospital, compared to 16 during the same period the…
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Funding Renewed For CORE Training Program MILFORD – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, this morning announced $273,000 in state grants, including $38,000 to support Milford Central School’s Career Opportunities in Rural Education (CORE) Initiative. “Our schools are faced with growing financial demands while, at the same time, student needs are also on the rise,” said Seward. “Districts are often searching for new and innovative ways to help students prepare for the future, and I am pleased to help support these…
Public Invited To Tonight’s ‘Charrette’ To Help Chart Cooperstown’s Future COOPERSTOWN – The public is invited to a “Design Charrette” 6-8 p.m. this evening in the Cooperstown Middle/High School cafeteria, guided by Elan Planning of Saratoga Springs. The goal of the structured discussion under the guidance of Elan principal Lisa Nagle will be to develop a number of consensus goals for Cooperstown’s future. Nagle and her team will report back on the outcomes of tonight’s meeting at another meeting, 6-8…
