VACCINATIONS ARRIVING Obstacles Aplenty On C-19 Shots Bliss Ticks Off Shortcomings By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The struggle to lockdown concrete information and a larger anti-COVID vaccine allotment continues in Otsego County and beyond. “There is not an adequate supply of the vaccine,” David Bliss, county Board of Representatives chair, said Tuesday, Jan. 19. “This is a statewide problem.” According to a list he provided, the problems include: • Demand is higher than the current supply. • Only…
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Food For Thought As it happens, the best hope now is not Biden’s ability to summon the better angels of our nature with a soaring speech. To the contrary, the new president’s modest oratorical gifts – the fact that he is by modern political standards a bit boring – can be a powerful asset. JOHN F. HARRIS Politico Jan. 19, 2121…
Bindi To The Rescue New Lisbon Farm Dog Best In U.S. By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Last spring, Sonya M. Galley, working in a pen on the family farm on Route 51 south of Garrattsville, felt a gentle nudge on her back. It was anything but. Turning around, she was confronted by a heifer, who then nudged her back into a sitting position “I was trapped,” said Sonya, who milks 60 Holsteins with her parents, Dave and Cassie,…
EDITORIAL Inauguration 2021 Chance For New Beginning The loss of innocence. And we thought it could only happen once. “I can’t help but think: You see these photos of the West Side of the Capitol, where presidents have stood and the transition of power has occurred. It’s so tainted now, with insurrectionists actually storming the Capitol. It’s hard to go back.” That’s Joey Katz, son of Cooperstown’s former mayor Jeff Katz, then a teenager, who – with his mother, Karen,…
FOUGHT FOR LAKEFRONT, BUILT SANTA’S COTTAGE, PLAYED CARDIFF GIANT James Dean, Village Trustee, And Much More By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com James Dean, a Cooperstown village trustee since the Democratic sweep in 2012 began his party’s almost decade-long control of 22 Main St., is stepping down. While known today as a trustee, Dean has been part of the civic landscape long before that: • Since early 1981, when, recently arriving (in 1977) from New Jersey, he launched a…
STATE FUNDING MAKES DREAM COME TRUE Worcester Man, Paralyzed At 11, Moves Into Dream Home At 31 By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Paralyzed after a farming accident when he was 11, James Scofield, now 31, says he values patience, accessibility and independence above all else. Now, he can enjoy all those things in his new, fully customized and accessible single-wide, set back off Mooney Road, framed by forest trees, courtesy of Otsego Rural Housing Assistance (ORHA). The lifelong…
HOMETOWN HISTORY January 21, 2021 150 Years Ago Local: The coal bill of Bissell & Yager, for the month ending January 1, amounted to nearly $5,000. H. Sessions fell from a scaffold on his house a few days since, from which he received quite severe injuries. E.R. Sabin, T.N. Derby and George Bond have each drawn a silver watch from prize candy packages. We learn that L.J. Emmons and E.G. Bixby contemplate moving to Kansas during the Spring or Summer.…
Senator Thanks YOU Good Wishes, Anecdotes Bring Back Happy Memories To the Editor: I want to thank you for the special tribute edition included in last week’s Hometown Oneonta/Freeman’s Journal highlighting my 34 years in the state Senate. I am also deeply appreciative of all the words of good wishes and anecdotes that were submitted by so many area residents, community leaders, and family. Reading the comments brought back so many memories of my time in office. Thank you all!…
BOUND VOLUMES January 21, 2021 200 YEARS AGO Letter to the Overseer of the State Prison at Auburn Village from Utica – “Dear Sir: I have been informed that there is a young woman in prison for which her father offers the sum of $3,000 to the person who will marry her. If that be the case, I want you to see her father and have him write to me as soon as possible. If he writes to him direct,…
Journey To Success Hartwick Goal: Thriving Grads With Lifelong Loyalty By Jim Kevlin • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com “The number of college-bound students was declining, students’ needs and interests were shifting, and families’ ability to pay for education was diminishing. Hartwick had to adapt and evolve.” MARGARET L. DRUGOVICH From The Wick, Spring 2021 Sure, life can be random. But at Hartwick College, your higher education doesn’t have to be; (or your son’s or daughter’s.) Just get on the right flight…
