EDITORIAL WHAT IF? Hosting MLB Event In Plaque Gallery Gets Wheels Turning The idea was to bring fans to Cooperstown. What about taking Cooperstown to the fans? In the Age of COVID, the second sentence is a more intriguing one. And it played out this week with the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s annual announcement of the Induction Class of 2021. While it turned out there was no one to announce this year, the MLB Network spent the afternoon transmitting…
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HOMETOWN HISTORY January 28, 2021 150 Years Ago In the Village of Oneonta during the year 1870 the mortality was as follows: Total number of deaths: 9; of which 5 were women, 1 man, 2 boys and 1 girl. Ages: Under 1 year and under: 2; between 1 and 5 years: 1; 15 and 20 years: 1; 30 and 40 years: 5. Diseases: Bronchitis: 1; Cancer: 1; Consumption 1; Dysentery 1; Hemorrhage of Lungs 2; Killed by Cars (Railroad) 1;…
Thank Heaven For Derek Jeter No 2021 Inductees, No Schilling, No Bond, No Clemens By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com If not for Derek Jeter and his Classmates of 2020, this would have been another sparse summer for baseball in Cooperstown. For the first time since 2013, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America elected none of the 25 Hall of Fame candidates above 75 percent, leaving the class of 2021 at zero. Hall of Fame President Tim Mead announced…
Horror Flick Available On Shudder.com In Thriller, Frankenstein Born At Hyde Hall By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com A Shudder original, “A Nightmare Wakes,” premieres Feb. 4 on the horror-thriller-supernatural streaming platform. The short was filmed at the Hyde Hall National Landmark on Otsego Lake by Wild Obscura, a “by/for/about women” producer. Directed and written by Nora Unkel, the 90-minute film follows author Mary Shelley “as she creates her masterpiece (Frankenstein), she gives birth to a monster,” the IMDb…
Pandemic Takes Down Fly Creek Cider Mill By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The numbers told Bill Michaels it was time. “I learned a lot going through the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program,” said the Fly Creek Cider Mill & Orchard president. “One of them was knowing your numbers. I spent a lot of time looking at them throughout the pandemic.” In 2020, “our customer visitation was down all year. Then, after the holidays, it just stopped, to…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Jan. 21, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Obstacles Aplenty On C-19 Shots Fresh Energy’s Needed To Implement Reforms New Lisbon Farm Dog Best In U.S. James Dean, Village Trustee, And Much More EDITORIAL Inauguration 2021 Chance For New Beginning LETTERS Senator Thanks YOU HERZIG: After COVID, Many Projects Will Happen Food For Thought BERKSON: Talk About Coop d’Etats! MORKAL-WILLIAMS: College Campuses Opening Again. Are We Sure It’s A Good…
LETTER from TERRY BERKSON Talk About Coop d’Etats! Early this spring, my reigning rooster, Geezbrook, who fathered almost all of this year’s egg-laying rookies, was challenged and defeated by one of his sons. When I arrived on the scene, the old man was cowering in a corner with his back facing his attacker. I scooted them out into the yard and they went at it again, Geezbrook seeming to have new heart against his son, who got down like an…
LETTER from SAM MORKAL-WILLIAMS College Campuses Opening Again. Are We Sure It’s A Good Idea? To the Editor: This week, Hartwick College began moving students onto campus. SUNY Oneonta will begin the same process on the 22nd. I am sure that many area residents are wondering the same thing that I am: Why are we opening campuses at all? Last semester at SUNY Oneonta can be called nothing but a failure, (although the “Retrospective on Fall 2020” on www.oneonta.edu, through…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Greatest Generation Veterans Would Have Cringed To the Editor: My father was a U.S. Army captain in World War II; Nancy’s stepfather was a lieutenant in the Navy and Nancy’s father, Alfred Valjean Prather, was an officer in the 442nd Infantry Regiment, which was composed largely of Japanese Americans. The 442nd was particularly adept at killing Nazis. Although they are all gone, none of them would be particularly amused by the recent Trump Insurrection or the…
Fresh Energy’s Needed To Implement Reforms Chief Brenner Explains Surprise Retirement By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The City of Oneonta’s Citizen Advisory Board – Governor Cuomo mandated such entities statewide after George Floyd’s death – is due to report back April 1 with recommendations. “All of them seem reasonable,” said OPD Chief Doug Brenner in an interview after announcing his retirement. “They now need to be refined and implemented.” A new chief with time ahead of him to…
