FOOD FOR THOUGHT Dr. Seuss Joins Mr. Potato Head If you haven’t heard, Dr. Seuss is being canceled. The same boneheads who claim that the “mister” in Mr. Potato Head is overly “exclusive,” that Aunt Jemima syrup encouraged racial stereotyping, that math is a vestige of White supremacy and that gender reveal parties are “transphobic,” want you to find racism in the pages of “Hop on Pop.” This is absurd, of course, and makes Democrats who applaud such virtue signaling…
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From Oneonta To Fame Locally, Ibram Kendi Recalled For Honesty, A Gentle Disposition By MIKE FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Before Ibram X. Kendi was Ibram X. Kendi, he was Ibram Rogers and he taught at SUNY Oneonta. Kendi, a history professor and now director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, has built his academic career on the study of racism. He views racism – rather than race itself—as a defining feature of American history and…
HOMETOWN HISTORY March 4, 2021 100 Years Ago Oneonta & Vicinity – General Manager C.S. Sims of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad, said today that the purpose of removal of the headquarters of the Susquehanna Division, now located at the Delaware & Hudson building at Steuben and Pearl streets in Albany, to Oneonta, is to bring the superintendent of the division and his men in closer touch with the work. It will necessitate the relocation of about 15 men, including…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG If Offered J&J Vaccine, Take It, Stop 3rd Wave This past Sunday the Director of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) approved the use of the COVID-vaccine produced by Janssen/Johnson & Johnson. The day before the FDA determined that the vaccine was safe and effective for the prevention of COVID-19 and gave it an EUA (emergency use authorization). On Monday, the state Task Force unanimously recommended its use. The entire current inventory of 3.9…
For The Love Of Boating Since 1975, Larger Boats On Otsego Lake, But Owners Using More Smaller Craft, Too Editor’s Note: Bill Harman has led SUNY Oneonta’s Biological Field Station on Otsego Lake since its founding. Historically, as in all our inland lakes after the original European settlement, rowboats, canoes, and sailboats capable of carrying a few passengers dominated Otsego Lake. Early on it provided a corridor between the waters of the Mohawk drainage and the Southern Atlantic states via…
EDITORIAL Vaccines Are Here. Keep Trying. You’ll Get Your Shots Elsewhere on this page, Dr. Charles Hyman, Bassett Hospital’s infectious disease specialist, says, “It’s time for hope.” Yes, indeed, all the signs are good. Earlier this week, Heidi Bond, Otsego County public health director, said, “I think it will open up pretty quickly with Johnson & Johnson,” a reference to the new one-shot vaccine approved over the weekend. It’s even encouraging to read the daily reports in the doom-and-gloom national…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Feb. 25, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Herzig To Retire Statistics Miss Victim’s Stories – Like Thom Parrotti’s Dreams Park Seeks OK For 2021 Opening Village, County, City Completing Review Of Police Procedures AllOTSEGO.life Lucky Recuperates With Koops, Set Free Oneonta Sculptors ‘Terrible Beauty’ Opens EDITORIAL In Time Of Pandemic Hope Blooms Chamber Looks Past COVID And So Should The Rest Of Us Probe Of Cuomo Administration Must Run…
Herzig To Retire Despite COVID-19, Much Let To Do, Mayor’s Decision Firm: It’s Time To Go By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com With would-be successors able to circulate petitions in the next few days, six-year Mayor Gary Herzig Tuesday, Feb. 23, announced what many expected and others anticipated with regret: He will retire when his term ends on Dec. 31, 2021. “During the past six years, by working together, the people of Oneonta have achieved remarkable progress,” he said…
Village, County, City Completing Review Of Police Procedures By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com With April 1 a few weeks away, it’s crunch time. Following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis last spring, Governor Cuomo issued an order requiring all 330 communities in New York State with police departments to form Community Advisory Boards to review “policies and procedures” by that date. That covers three governments in Otsego County: • The Village of Cooperstown: Monday, Feb. 22, the Village Board…
HOMETOWN HISTORY February 25, 2021 150 Years Ago Editorial: The Temperance Question – We are ever ready to do all in our power for the advancement of that noble virtue – Temperance. A virtue, without which, man is not certain of a foothold to life. There is no evil that drags such countless thousands to poverty, unhappiness and early graves, as drinking intoxicating liquors. We have good laws – which provide that no liquors can be sold. What we need…
