Under New SUNY Plan, Students Return Feb. 1 By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – For the last two weeks, SUNY Oneonta Interim President Dennis Craig has been listening – to staff, to community members, to students. “We have identified that 50 percent of the students desire on-campus courses,” he said in an address sent to the campus community on Monday, Nov. 9. As such, Craig plans to re-open the campus as a “low-density” model, with approximately 900…
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LETTER from RICK BROCKWAY Gun Deaths? What About DUI, 9/11? To the Editor: Whenever I decide to comment on something, I first gather the facts. That, however, doesn’t seem the practice of many people in the area. First, the League of Women Voters commented on the 2nd Amendment Sanctuary Movement. Then it was Mary Ann Whelan and others. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and they can speak or write their thoughts. The Freedom of Speech is guaranteed in the…
In COVID-19 Crisis, Pentaris Finds Opportunities By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Everything was going great. A year ago, in collaboration with BriteShot, a TV and movie-industry lighting company in New York City, Custom Electronics was packaging its stand-alone lithium-ion battery packs to illuminate “Blue Bloods,” “Law & Order” and other hit TV shows. The product, called The Luminator, made the future look particularly bright for Custom Electronics and its President/CEO Michael Pentaris. Then coronavirus arrived, and…
Raging Fire Destroys Antiques-Filled Barn By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com FLY CREEK – Inside the barn at 325 Williams Road, Chief Chris Vuolo, Fly Creek Volunteer Fire Department, could hear “multiple” explosions. “There were propane tanks and boxes of fireworks stored inside,” he said. “No one was hurt, thank God.” The fire, which destroyed Wood Bull Antiques owner Kip Coburn’s barn on Christian Hill, Town of Otsego, on Friday, Nov. 6, was called in by a neighbor at…
EXCERPT from JOE BIDEN First, Let’s Control COVID-19 Editor’s Note: Here are excerpts from Joe Biden’s speech to the nation Saturday, Nov. 7, after his votes in the Electoral College surpassed the 270 majority earlier in the day. Now that the campaign is over – what is the people’s will? What is our mandate? I believe it is this: Americans have called on us to marshal the forces of decency and the forces of fairness. To marshal the forces of…
FOOD FOR THOUGHT Identity Politics Big Loser It wasn’t clear by Wednesday afternoon who had won the White House, but one bad idea was soundly defeated on Tuesday: identity politics. The concept that the country should be divided into aggrieved categories based on race, national origin or sex – now a core tenet of the Democratic Party – lost from coast to coast. It lost in Miami-Dade County, Fla., where Cuban-Americans delivered votes for President Trump. We don’t know the…
Appointing Oberacker Successor Complicated By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Peter Oberacker, elected state senator on Nov. 3, will be leaving the Otsego County Board Dec. 31 at the latest and is blocked by the county board’s Rules of Order from voting on his successor. Absent bipartisanship, that creates a deadlock. There are 6,228 “weighted votes” distributed among the 14 county reps, and without Oberacker’s 534 votes, the Republicans don’t have the 3,115-vote majority to fill his seat…
Theresa’s Emporium Lifts Oneonta’s Morale By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Theresa Cyzeski believes that, as Christmas approaches, Oneonta could be a destination not just for holiday shopping, but for holiday cheer. “We could be like a Hallmark movie,” she said. “I had such a blast doing the scarecrows with the college students. Why couldn’t we have people downtown decorating light poles or making snow sculptures?” A Main Street staple for more than a decade, Theresa’s Emporium…
HOMETOWN HISTORY November 12, 2020 150 Years Ago Oneonta Local: The first snow of the season fell here on Sunday, October 29. There was a heavy thunder shower on Thursday morning last – the sign of a hard winter. Conductor R. V. Humphrey is preparing to build a new house on his lot opposite James Cope’s on Elm Street. The cellar is already completed for a new house. The person who borrowed or took a copy of French’s Gazetteer of…
LETTER from GARRETT deBLIECK Founder’s Goal: Individual Sovereignty To the Editor: Recent discourse has revealed an alarming ignorance concerning the Bill of Rights. It seems a prudent reminder that the origin of these listed Rights was, in fact, part and parcel to how America became a nation. The foundation of our Bill of Rights comes directly from the Declaration of Independence. For the Declaration itself listed “certain unalienable rights,” which were transgressed by Great Britain. The Bill of Rights echoes…
