New Pipeline Won’t Cure Otsego County’s Poverty Editor’s Note: Kate O’Donnell, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology at Hartwick College. This is reprinted from this week’s Hometown Oneonta & Freeman’s Journal editorial page. By KATHERINE O’DONNELL Rural poverty is widespread and persistent in the U.S. Rural labor options, mass centralized industrialization, and urbanization cause rural people, usually the young, to migrate to urban areas for better paying jobs in more diverse labor sectors. These structural forces have produced outmigration from…
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Life Without Fossil Fuels? Careful What You Wish For Editor’s Note: Mike Zagata, Ph.D., who lives in Davenport, is a former commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation. This is reprinted from this week’s Free By MIKE ZAGATA There is virtual agreement that we must move away from fossil fuels to energy sources that are renewable. First, fossil fuels are non-renewable, i.e. at some point we will run out of them. Second, there are scientists and politicians that believe…
Sarah Groff True On Cover Of Lava, Triathlon Magazine READ LAVA’S Q&A WITH OTSEGO OLYMPIAN…
Fisher Cat Management Plan To Be Detailed In Talk Tonight GARRATTSVILLE – DEC Senior Wildlife Biologist Michael D. Clark will provide details on a recently completed management plan on the fisher cat at 7 this evening at the New Lisbon Town Hall, 908 County Route 16. The talk is sponsored by the Butternut Valley Alliance. The DEC completed the Fisher Management Plan in December 2015. It details the results of a recent DEC study of fishers across the state, including…
Oneonta Rotary Gives $1,300 To OHS Wrestling Program…
Buses From Coop, Oneonta Will Go To Pipeline Protest Buses will be leaving from Oneonta and Cooperstown to a rally against the Constitution Pipeline Tuesday, April 5. Reserve a seat at StopThePipeline.org or contact Otsego 2000 at admin@otsego2000.org, 547-8881. The rally will be in Capital Park in Albany, and participants will March to the state Department of Environmental Conservation offices. The DEC must deny the Constitution’s water quality certificate by the end of April or the project with move forward…
IN MEMORIAM: James Arbas, 89; Farmer, Laurens Town Assessor OTEGO – James Arbas, 89, a Laurens dairy farmer and town assessor there, passed away at his home on March 28, 2016. Born May 13, 1926, in Bridgeport, Conn., he is the son of the late Matias and Virginia Arbas. Jim spent his childhood on the family farm in Fairfield, Conn., with his sisters Josephine, Anna and his brother Herman.…
IN MEMORIAM: Martha Herrling, 94; Home Economics Teacher In New York WEST DAVENPORT – Martha Moore Herrling, 94, a retired home economics teacher, died March 25, 2016, at Focus Rehabilitation & Nursing in Index. She was born Nov. 8, 1921, in Lafayette, Ind., the only child of William and Aileen Moore. Her early years were spent in Campbell, Ohio, a suburb of Youngstown.…
New Director At Bassett Research Institute COOPERSTOWN – Dr. Anne Gadomski, senior research scientist and pediatrician at Bassett Hospital, today was appointed director of the Bassett Research Institute, succeeding Dr. John May, who retired. In addition to assuming directorship of the Bassett Research Institute, Gadomski will retain her position as an attending pediatrician at Bassett Hospital. She earned her medical degree from University of Rochester, and her master’s degree in public health and postdoctoral degree from Johns Hopkins University in…
IN MEMORIAM Henry Gardner, 96; WWII Vet, Pioneer In Field Of Prosthetics MARYLAND – Henry F. Gardner, a World War II veteran and pioneer in the development of prosthetic devices, passed away at Bassett Hospital on March 28, 2016, with his family by his side. Hank was born April 9, 1919, in Stephenson , Mich., to Michael and Alice Naden Gardner. Following High School graduation at Kingsford, Mich., he joined the Army Transport Service Marine Division. A graduate of the…