In 10 Days, Deputies Seize Marijuana Worth $112,000 Libby Cudmore • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014 ‘Tis the season for seizing at the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department. “Growers are moving their marijuana plants and harvesting before the hard frost hits,” said county Sheriff Richard Devlin. “So we concentrate with multiple resources and try to wrap everything up.” In the last two weeks, county Sheriff’s investigators has made three sizable marijuana busts, including nearly 13 pounds seized…
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To Frack (Rock)? Or Not To Frack (Hard Place)? Editorial By Alan Chartock, Capital Connection For The Freeman’s Journal/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 11-12, 2014 When politicians take money for their campaign coffers, they owe something back. That’s because there is honor among, well, politicians and lobbyists. If you see tons of money going to politicians from the real-estate industry, you’d be foolish not to think that the people who own hotels and other big buildings want something back…
Bringing Broadband Here Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 11-12, 2014 Editor’s Note: This is the cover letter from FARR Technologies CEO/Partner Peter Rasmusson to the county Industrial Development Agency, an overview of the proposed $30 million public/private plan to bring high-speed Internet to the whole of the county. Broadband access is arguably one of the most important aspects of any thriving community today. With broadband access, our educational system, our economic-development efforts, our healthcare and our business climate are all enhanced.…
County’s Avarice Takes All, Not Just What I Owe Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 11-12, 2014 To the Editor: I read your editorial (of Nov. 27-28) and it brought tears to my eyes. You have a clear understanding of my agony to redeem my home. For 51 days before the auction I tried without success to keep the house OUT of the auction and pay what I owed. My pleas did fall on deaf ears and cold hearts. Mr. Crowell had…
Katz: Our Own Rick Hulse Derailed Tourism Assistance Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 11-12, 2014 To the Editor: In the county budget vote of Wednesday, Dec. 3, a bipartisan group of Ed Lentz, Beth Rosenthal, Gary Koutnik, Linda Rowinski, Kay Stuligross, Craig Gelbsman and Janet Quackenbush voted to return $150,000 in bed tax revenues to the municipalities that generate it. They recognized, unlike our own Town of Otsego/Village of Cooperstown representative Rick Hulse, that the town and city of Oneonta, Town…
County Board Reelects Kathy Clark As Chair COOPERSTOWN – County Rep. Kathy Clark, R-Otego, was elected chairman of the Otsego County Board of Representatives this morning for a third year. Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, was reelected vice chairman. A former board chair, County Rep. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, was nominated for chair, but Clark was chosen before the Powers matter could come to the floor.…
Hospital, Community Leaders Must Confer On Bassett’s Future Editorial For the Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 11-12, 2014 The future of hospitals is murky, certainly to the general public (and general newspapers), perhaps even to the experts at One Atwell Road, Cooperstown, who are paid to think about it and react to their best estimations. We may reach a point where hospitals struggle to find enough talented doctors capable of doing the most skilled work. However, as long as there are…
History Inspires Fashionista By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Dec. 12, 2014 For Elizabeth Raphelson, what’s old is always new again. “I wore a 1950s ball gown to my prom,” she said. “I had the matching handbag, earrings, heels – I’ve always loved old clothing.” It’s a love she’s sharing with Oneonta. On Thursday, Dec. 11, she planned to open The Underground Attic, a new vintage boutique specializing in clothing from the 1800s to the 1980s. “Fashion changed…
Town, City Invited To GO-EDC Talks On Collaborations By JIM KEVLIN • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Dec. 12, 2014 The most steadfast advocate of town-city collaboration is gone, but Mayor Dick Miller’s spirit lives on. GO-EDC, the economic-development advocacy group spearheaded by Albert Colone and Bill Shue, has invited the Oneonta Town Board and Oneonta City Council to a moderated conversation at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15, on how the two might collaborate for the benefit of both, plus the…
Constitution Pipeline To Put 1,300 To Work By JIM KEVLIN • Hometown Oneonta/The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Dec. 11-12, 2014 Opponents are still looking for ways to block it, but the Constitution Pipeline Co. is planning to start work on the 124-mile natural-gas conduit by February or March, as soon as a couple of months from now. Bids on the project will be let soon after Jan. 1, and the construction companies that win the contract will begin seeking to…