Infections Dissipate At SUNY, Elsewhere By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With five days of zero COVID-19 cases, SUNY Oneonta is finally breathing a sigh of relief. “It’s the longest since the college’s first cases were reported on Tuesday Aug. 25,” said Hal Legg, chief communication & marketing officer. “We’re very encouraged.” With a total of 712 cases since the outbreak, including one employee, the Oneonta campus is seeing cases decline substantially. Between Thursday, Oct. 1, and…
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IN MEMORIAM: Vera McLaughlin, 75, A.O. Fox Hospital Nurse, Otego EMT ONEONTA – Vera E. McLaughlin, 75, a Fox Hospital nurse and former EMT, died Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. She was born Vera Ellen Bowman to Jay N. and Theodora (Stoppenhagen) Bowman in Fort Wayne, Indiana on July 12, 1945. A graduate of Northside High School, Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1963 and Parkview Methodist Nursing School in 1966 Vera also earned her BS in Nursing at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY…
Oneonta’s Music Man: Remembering Chuck Schneider By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In 1973, as the first performance of the newly dubbed Catskill Symphony Orchestra under conductor Charles Schneider ended, the room was silent. “The audience was so stunned they didn’t applaud for about 20 seconds,” said Schneider’s friend Carlton Clay, SUNY Oneonta music professor and trumpet player with the CSO and other orchestras. “Then they jumped to their feet and clapped. It was quite a moment.”…
In COVID Era, Halloween Thrives By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Richard Butcher, Cooperstown, ain’t afraid of no ghosts. “Our house was built in the 1840s,” he said. “It’s definitely haunted.” Haunted or not, you can see a ring of spooky spirits day or night in front of his house at, yes, 71 Elm St. “At night, the center glows, like they’re doing a ritual,” he said. “It’s really creepy!” With Cooperstown and Oneonta’s Halloween parades cancelled…
LETTER from BUZZ HESSE American Democracy At Stake This Election To the Editor: After months of listening, reading and seeing a litany of positions on the upcoming 2020 Presidential election, I have concluded it all boils down to the following: Do we as Americans want to give away the hard-fought fight of democracy to socialism? Or keep our democracy as intended by our forefathers? Simply put: • TRUMP – Pro democracy; pro United States Constitution; pro U.S. Bill of Rights.…
GUEST COLUMN from CLAUDIA TENNEY Don’t Topple Columbus; Improve, Appreciate U.S. Editor’s Note: Claudia Tenney, former Republican Congressman from the Utica area, is running to unseat U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi, D-22, on Nov. 3. The iconoclasts are back. Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Francis Scott Key and dozens more must be canceled – centuries after they died. A strange hubris has descended on a segment of our American society ― that they are the ultimate arbiter of truth, righteousness…
We’re All In This Together There’s No Doubt, Vote Out Trump I am deeply uncertain about our world. Our larger one, as in the entire planet – and our smaller one, the United States of America. Every day I read the papers and online news, and the news is unbearable. There is no longer any reasonable doubt that human beings are responsible for climate change. Ice caps and glaciers melt, fires ravage the parched West, and record numbers of hurricanes…
LETTER from JAMES DEAN White Males Killing Us With AK-47s To the Editor: Aside from it possibly being an illegal proposal, I have no interest in, nor do I support in any way, the Second Amendment Sanctuary proposal before the board. The 3,295 signatures are 5.5 percent of the Otsego County population. I am an almost 50-year resident of Otsego County, an Air Force veteran who served in the USAF Strategic Air Command, the USAF Security Service with the CIA…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Oct. 15-16, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE 1,500 Revelers Evoke COVID-Spread Fears Infections Dissipate At SUNY, Elsewhere 3,925 Ask For Gun Sanctuary In County City ‘Manager’ May Become ‘Administrator’ ELECTIONS 2020 SALKA: I Know How To Help Constituents BUTTERMAN: Vision Of Future Excites Him EDITORIALS Can Sanctuary Energy Be Channeled Into Reform? Let’s Stick With It: We’re Beating COVID-19 LETTERS HESSE: American Democracy At Stake BUTTERMAN: Needed Bail Reform Needs Reform…
Democratic Candidate Dan Buttermann Renewables, Futuristic Farms Excite Challenger Buttermann By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – It started when Denny Colgan was running for school board in Prescott, Ariz. He and Dan Buttermann’s dad, Kent, played in the Prescott Kiwanis Jug Band together, and the father agreed to be his friend’s campaign manager. Young Dan “saw how hard they were working,” and was captivated by the energetic strategy sessions at the Buttermann home. Even then, he knew, “I…
