VIEW FROM ALBANY In Suffragettes’ Shadow, We Must Continue Fight For Real Justice In State Editor’s Note: Governor Cuomo issued this paean to New York State suffragettes on Tuesday, Aug. 18, the 100th anniversary of ratification of the 19th Amendment, which guarantees voting rights to women. By Gov. ANDREW CUOMO • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com New York has been the birthplace to many of the progressive movements that have left an indelible mark on our society while pushing the nation forward,…
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GUEST COLUMN Will COVID Lead Us To Justice, Peace? By RANDY VELEZ • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com One of the most perplexing elements in our relationship with God has to do with why bad things happen to us. One theory is that God is punishing us for our sinfulness. Another is that God is testing us to determine our worthiness for eternal life with him. Finally, some believe that this is the beginning of the end as described in the Book…
BIG TIME BECKONS Oscar-Winner Recruits County’s Cuyle Carvin By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – ‘BlacKkKlansman” Oscar-winning screenwriter Kevin Willmott has discovered what Oneonta fans have known all along: Cuyle Carvin is destined to be a star. “When I arrived on set, he told me that he had seen my audition and knew right then that they wanted me,” Carvin said. “They said they were looking for an unfamiliar face that could rival the looks of Brad Pitt,…
Week 1, All Agree: Masks Being Worn In Downtown Coop By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Kevin Kress, who was raised in Richfield Springs, brought his family from Little Falls to Cooperstown last weekend, and was neither surprised by the village’s new mandatory-mask law, or that most everybody seemed to be obeying it. “We were in Lake Placid last weekend; they had done the same thing there,” said Kress, who was aware – and undeterred by –…
EDITORIAL SUNY Oneonta, City Hall: Patch Up Relationship President, Mayor Divided, Particularly On Bus Issue This is a time for unity against an implacable foe. Five months into the COVID-19 threat, it’s hard to see the future clearly. There have been worldwide epidemics before, but not since the Flu Pandemic of 1919, and not in a world so interconnected by travel and commerce. A vaccine will eventually surface, but how soon, and how quickly would it become widely available? Still,…
GOAL: KEEP COVID-19 AT BAY Hartwick Students Tested Twice Even Before Class Starts ONEONTA – Students returning to Hartwick College this weekend must already have been tested for COVID-19, and will be tested again before classes begin Monday, Aug. 31. By then, all students and employees must sign a document averring they will “Our Social Compact: A Healthy Hartwick College,” outlining all steps they must take to keep the COVID threat at bay. “Hartwick’s goal is to enable our students to…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Aug. 20-21, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK STUDENTS RETURN 3 SUNY Stances Disappoint Oneonta Mayor Campus Experiments With Waste-Water Test Incoming Hartwick Students Tested Twice EDITORIAL: Resolve SUNY-City Hall Issues LETTER: Text Of Mayor’s Welcome, Warning More From FRONT PAGE Week One, All Agree: Masks Being Worn Oneonta Atty. Getman Next County Judge AllOTSEGO.life Big Time Beckons ‘Heartthrob’ Cuyle Carvin For Tifanne, Garden Of Good Deed Grows COLUMNS VELEZ: Will COVID…
COLLEGE STUDENTS RETURN 3 Of SUNY Stances ‘Disappoint’ Mayor By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – As college students began to return to COVID-19 Era instruction, Mayor Gary Herzig praised Hartwick College’s collaboration with the city, but said SUNY Oneonta has fallen short in three area of concern. “We have a community here that established new norms over the past five months,” said Herzig. “There’s been much self-sacrifice in keeping our numbers low. It’s important to communicate directly…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS Mandatory Masks Downtown Only? Why Not Everywhere? By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The below is a letter I received (along with the rest of the Cooperstown Village Board) from a constituent and my response. • To the Members of the Village Board: As you deliberate on proposed Local Law 7, we respectfully request you discuss the following points so your intent and purpose is clearly understood by all concerned. If the purpose…
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Compared To Elsewhere, No Exceptionalism Here By LARRY BENNETT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The world population is 7.8 billion people. The U.S. is 330 million people, making us home to 4 percent of humanity. The world’s total COVID-19 cases is 20 million and climbing. The U.S. is 5 million and climbing faster than most of the world. With only 4 percent of the world’s population, we have 25 percent of the world’s COVID-19 cases. The…
