GUEST COLUMN from GRACE KULL Free For 98 Years, Now In Confinement This month marks the first anniversary of my move to Woodside Hall, One Main St., Cooperstown. Half of that time has been spent in lockdown due to the coronavirus. And oh my, has my life changed! In my 98 years, I have never been restricted in any way as to where I can go. Now the extent of my travelling is a few blocks to Bassett Hospital for…
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COVID Can’t Dampen Annual PIT Run Spirit By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Even in the 27th year of the annual PIT Run, Sid Parisian said that his late brother’s spirit continues to find ways to surprise him. “We’ve been doing a walk from the house to the park for our course,” he said. “And on Wednesday, Oct. 1, I checked to see how far it was, and it was exactly 5.20 miles.” Trooper Ricky “Pit” Parisian…
Life In The Time Of COVID-19 The President & All His Men The good news is that the president seems to be doing OK medically. The bad news is that people around him are being put at risk because of his refusal not only not to restrict himself in any manner but, in fact, his flaunting his ability to do anything he wants, whenever he wants. So many of his senior staff, their staff, Secret Service, White House workers and…
Oneonta Law Requires Masks In Private Homes By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With a 5-2 split on party lines and one abstention, Oneonta Common Council Tuesday, Oct. 6, moved closer to applying the state’s “Mask and Face Coverings” law locally, potentially bringing it into everyone’s living rooms. Echoing the state law, the local law that is now going to public hearing requires people to where masks in all “public and private indoor and outdoor locations” when…
IN MEMORIAM: JOHN KEMPE WINSLOW, 1947-1969 Ceremony Evokes Hartwick Boyhood Editor’s Note: K. Wayne Bunn recounted these boyhood memories at the rededication of Route 205 through Hartwick hamlet in honor of Marine Sgt. John Kempe Winslow Monday, Oct. 5. During the 1950s, I grew up two houses from Sgt. John Kempe Winslow, known back then as Johnny, on South Street in the hamlet of Hartwick. He was one year younger than I was, and one year below me in school,…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Oct. 8-9, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Suspect In Mask-Sign Defacement Suspect ID’d Oneonta Law Requires Masks In Private Homes Village Administrator Teri Barown Retires Wenck: CCS Students ‘Happy To Be Here’ Route 205 Dedicated To Fallen Marine Freeman’s Journal Village’s Official Paper ‘Gun Sanctuary’ Petitions To Be Presented EDITORIALS County Treasurer Has Way Out Of Crunch Barown Set Standard For County Municipalities LETTERS DUNCAN: Come Together To Build…
County Treasurer Ruffles Has Way Out Of Crunch At 194 Main St., Cooperstown, the seat of Otsego County government, there’s been wailing and gnashing of teeth since COVID-19 arrived six months ago. Revenues dried up. Fifty-nine jobs were chopped. The county board waited fearfully as state and federal mandarins declined to pay back money spent on mandated programs in 2019. The county reps pondered raising taxes above the 2 percent state cap, political hari kari. County Treasurer Allen Ruffles cut…
Barown Set Standard For County Municipalities With Teri Barown, the Village of Cooperstown got professional management right. In 11 years as village clerk, Barown earned the confidence of numerous village boards, of Democratic and Republican trustees alike. When the Katz Administration launched a $10 million redevelopment of the downtown – the Tillapaugh Administration continued it – it soon became clear grantsmanship was too time-consuming for an unpaid part-time board. With NYCOM’s blessing, Barown was promoted from clerk to administrator. A…
LETTER from BRUCE BECKERT Easy Living Makes Nation Vulnerable To the Editor: There’re many points that could be debated. I’ll touch on one. The most crucial for the future of our great country and our grandchildren. SOCIALISM. Radicals, who have no use for this country as it has been, have taken over our Democratic Party. They favor government control over every aspect of our lives. America’s founding fathers fought to prevent this. It’s why our ancestors migrated here. Our soldiers…
LETTER from SCOTT DUNCAN Come Together To Build Better U.S. To the Editor: I grew up in a small town in Upstate New York where the streets were lined with big maple trees. Some streets had still had slate sidewalks. There were many of those big beautiful old Victorian houses you see in villages across Central New York. I remember marching down the street in the parades. I was a Cub Scout and then a Boy Scout. I think I…
