WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Compared To Elsewhere, No Exceptionalism Here By LARRY BENNETT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The world population is 7.8 billion people. The U.S. is 330 million people, making us home to 4 percent of humanity. The world’s total COVID-19 cases is 20 million and climbing. The U.S. is 5 million and climbing faster than most of the world. With only 4 percent of the world’s population, we have 25 percent of the world’s COVID-19 cases. The…
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FROM WOODSIDE HALL Ailing, Married, But Separated By COVID By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com All right, friends, I’m back on the metaphorical horse, feet in the stirrups, reins in hand, hands on the saddle pommel. Which is to say, I ready to write to you again. And so, I’ll clop on. Ours has been an interrupted correspondence lately. I never finished recounting my adventure at 15, when I traveled in luxury by overnight steam packet from Baltimore, Md.,…
SUSAN B. ANTHONY EXPLORED Century-Old Ideals About Womanhood Bring Groans Today By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Digging through the NYSHA archives in 2004, Sharon Stuart, Otsego town historian, found an item that everyone else overlooked. “As I was looking through February 1885 issues of The Freeman’s Journal, a name caught my eye,” Stewart said during a Sunday, Aug. 9, talk at the Swart-Wilcox House, “Susan B. Anthony.” Stuart’s talk on Anthony – she also spoke in 1894…
Cooperstown Law Requires Wearing Masks Downtown Approved By Trustees, Mandate May Be In Effect This Weekend By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Inn at Cooperstown proprietor Marc Kingsley started things off with a pointed critique of the Village of Cooperstown’s proposed mask-mandate law. “You are focusing only on mask wearing and an absolutely obscene fine if caught not wearing one,” he declared at the Monday, Aug. 10, public hearing in a steamy third-floor ballroom at Village Hall.…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Aug. 13-14, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Oneonta Plans ‘Tip Line’ As Students Return Cooperstown Mandates Masks Downtown GOP Committee To Name Burns Successor Kochul To New Yorkers: Plan ‘Staycation’ By Mistake, Cuomo Puts CCS On Tardy List Landmark Inn On Tripadvisor Top 25 List AllOTSEGO.life Welches Rescue, Restore Threshing Barn Ideal Of Womanhood Brings Groans Today EDITORIALS Freshman Rep Does Have Guts, Consistency COLUMNS CUOMO: NYS Schools Can…
Landmark Inn Makes Tripadvisor’s Top 25 COOPERSTOWN – After struggling against the coronavirus for five months now – including weeks without a single guest – innkeepers Robin and Fred Schneider received some thrilling news last week. Their Landmark Inn, 64 Chestnut St., made Tripadvisor’s list of the Top 23 Small Hotels in the nation. The Schneiders have been operating the venerable lodging place for eight years now. …
SCHOOL REFINES REOPENING By Mistake, Governor Puts CCS On Tardy List By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown School Superintendent Bill Crankshaw couldn’t believe it when he saw CCS on Governor Cuomo’s list of 107 schools that had not yet sent in their re-opening plan. “Professionally, I’m offended,” he said. “There was a flaw in the submission process, and no school wants to be publicly shamed for a mistake.” According to Crankshaw, the school board, after filing…
‘Tip Line’ Planned As Students Return Herzig Also Plans College, City Hall ‘Working Group’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With 7,000 SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College students ready to come back to school at the end of the month, Mayor Gary Herzig is taking no chances when it comes to the community’s health and safety. “We’re working on a dedicated tip line dedicated to COVID health concerns,” he said. “It’s not just for students, it’s for anyone…
EDITORIAL Freshman County Rep Shows Guts, Consistency Let’s give credit where it’s due. In our May 29 edition, County Rep. Clark Oliver of Oneonta was tweaked in this space, along with his fellow Democrats who voted against 59 layoffs without offering an alternative. They ducked a hard decision, thus losing credibility with their colleagues, it was argued. • Last Wednesday, Aug. 5, the county board was considering a measure to set aside New York State’s 2-percent property tax cap –…
ISSUE & DEBATE: AYE Mandatory Mask Law Essential For Safety Editor’s Note: Judith Greenburg, Bassett physician, submitted this letter in support of requiring mask-wearing in downtown Cooperstown. Local Law 7 was approved by the Village Board after a Monday, Aug. 10, public hearing. By JUDITH GREENBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com As I cannot safely attend the Cooperstown Village Board meeting on Aug. 10, I request that my concerns, listed below, be included in the record of the meeting. I strongly…
