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We are pleased to present our 2024 Otsego County Yearbook for your enjoyment. We’ve hand picked 52 photos, one from each week of the year, each in their own way depicting life in Otsego County. These pictures provide a nice cross-section of what it’s like to be a resident of our county and its communities. We hope you enjoy them and we look forward to continuing to be your local newspapers in 2025 and beyond!
An earlier column this year asked “Where Did All of the Inflation Come From?” A big myth was busted when we discovered that the origins of recent inflation dated to Trump’s Tax Cut and Jobs Act, which injected $2.3 trillion into an economy with a 4 percent unemployment rate in 2019.…
Mere days before the winter solstice this year, on December 17th, I had the opportunity to visit Stonehenge with my son and husband. Driving clockwise in roundabouts and on the left-hand side of narrow roads gave my brain a workout, but I could still spare a moment of shock as I crested the top of a hill and saw the lone group of large stones surrounded by fields and sheep.…
160 YEARS AGO: A Case of Manslaughter – In the little settlement of Toddsville, are two licensed taverns or saloons; one kept by Jabez R. Weeks; the other by J.T. Burk. They are understood to have been at enmity. On Friday afternoon last, a party of three or four men were engaged in drinking and amusing themselves at Weeks’. Toward evening they went over to Burk’s and commenced breaking tumblers, &c., Weeks being one of the party. Burk undertook to put Weeks’ out; one of the party seized Burk. Then Austin Scott took hold of Weeks to prevent a fight and Weeks stabbed him in the arm. Weeks then left; a few minutes after, Weeks and Scott met in the road nearby and had a scuffle, in which Weeks stabbed Scott in the bowels, from the effects of which he died Sunday. After committing the act, Weeks came over to the village (Cooperstown), got a pistol which he had left here, and was starting for home when he was arrested – having been followed over by someone who witnessed the stabbing. The pistol was found secreted in his cell in jail.
December 23, 1864…