LETTER from JODI PLIMPTON-WERSTEIN Dreams Park Orders C-19 Shots – For 12-Year-Olds? To the Editor: Last week, parents of athletes looking to attend the Cooperstown Dreams Park experience this summer, were notified that in order to participate, they will be requiring proof of vaccination for anyone 12 years old and up. Anyone under 12 years old, simply has to provide proof of negative test (however, they did not give a timeframe for how recent that test needed to be). As…
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ONEONTAN’S ‘LIFE OF PRINCIPLE’ EXPLORED BOLD LEGACY Ramsey Clark, Filmmaker Joe Stillman’s Hero ‘Tell me about the War on Poverty,” Saddam Hussein asked Ramsey Clark when they met in Baghdad on Nov. 12, 1990 to negotiate a hostage release, Oneonta filmmaker Joe Stillman recalled in an interview this week. In reply, Clark, who had been President Lyndon Johnson’s attorney general in the 1960s, told how one afternoon LBJ, “War on Poverty” creator, showed up in his Justice Department office “out…
BOUND VOLUMES April 15, 2021 Compiled by Tom Heitz/SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library 210 YEARS AGO Members of the Commission reporting on the feasibility of constructing a canal, or system of navigation, from the Hudson River and Schenectady to Lake Ontario and Lake Erie are identified as Gouverneuer Morris, Stephen Van Rensselaer, William North, De Witt Clinton, Thomas Eddy, Peter B. Porter, and Simeon Dewitt. April 13, 1811…
EDITORIAL After Police Shooting, Public Shows Sensible Restraint In an era when everyone rushes to judgment about everything, it’s reassuring to see the sensible, restrained comments on www.AllOTSEGO.com to last week’s police shooting of Tyler Johnson, 23, of 48 River St., during a domestic dispute. “I’m not saying the cop was wrong,” said one commentator. “The guy had a knife and was grabbing for the woman, then the kid. He even stabbed her in the leg. It’s a sad situation,…
EDITORIAL No Kidding, Watch Out For Bears After Vince and Lynne Krogh Casale’s sighting (and videographing) of a black bear on Bedbug Hill Road Tuesday, March 23, a reader sent along this photo of a black bear (see photo) rampaging in a yard in the Pierstown area, on the other side of the hill, both in Town of Otsego on the west side. More bears in Otsego County is a new reality, Josh Choquette, the DEC’s new bear expert, based…
Looking Past COVID, Glimmer Globe Plans Season Glimmer Globe Theatre announced it will return to staging live performances this summer at Fenimore Art Museum and The Farmers’ Museum. Glimmer Globe founders Michael Henrici and Danielle Henrici and Fenimore/Farmers’ Performing Arts Manager Mike Tamburrino announced Saturday, April 3, that the company will stage outdoor theater this summer, following a year’s hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic. “If all the world’s a stage, for heaven sakes, let’s get back on it,” Danielle…
In Memoriam Bruno A. Talevi, 96 WWII Veteran, Accountant, Civic Leader In Oneonta, Cooperstown ONEONTA – Bruno A. Talevi, still looking fit in his World War II Navy uniform, departed this life and went to grasp the hand of the Lord on April 3, 2021. “Paw-Paw”, as his beloved grandchildren dubbed him, was born in New York City on Aug. 16, 1925, the son of Peter and Rose Talevi. He grew up on the streets of New York and Long…
Thrift, But So Much More Source Of Gucci Bags, Lladro Figurines, To Reopen In New Site By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Is “thrift shop” the right term? For instance, Lladro porcelain art figurines, imported from Spain since 1953 for adoring U.S. fans, can bring several hundred dollars, according to Sara Lucas, manager of SQSPCA’s “New Leash On Life” Thrift Shop. For a relative song, you can pick up almost mint Gucci and Coach handbags – and Jimmy Choo’s,…
ISSUE & DEBATE POINT: Give Federal Largesse To You, Me Editor’s Note: This is citizen Bill Waller’s recommendation in a March 29 letter to the Cooperstown Village Board on how to spend its expected share from the $1.9 trillion Biden Stimulus Plan. Dear Mayor Tillapaugh and the Board of Trustees; I read with interest statements relating to the benefits coming to Cooperstown from the recently enacted American Rescue Plan (ARP). According to press accounts, this could be nearly $350,000. In…
LETTER from DOUGH BARCLAY Celebrate Pot Legalization Now, Rue It Later Though the Governor has already signed this legislation into law, I wanted to share my statement from earlier this week on the decision to legalize recreational marijuana: Many are going to celebrate the passage of the ‘Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act.’ But we didn’t solve any problems today, we only created new ones. Democrats will claim victory, but they ignore the inherent dangers associated with their decision. Legalizing marijuana…
