THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Feb. 13-14, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE 2 ‘Tortured’ Dogs Find Foster Home Did President Van Buren Sit HERE? Solar Farm May Bring $875K Bonanza Richfield Board Ponders Plan’s Future Centers Pioneers Inhouse Child Care EDITORIAL ‘Trusted Traveler’ Revocations Or Not, ‘Green Light’ Bad Law DHS: ‘Green Light’ Law Endangers U.S. COLUMNS SEWARD: Reform Bail Reforn – Here’s How ZAGATA: What Was Objectionable In State Of Union? LETTERS to…
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HOMELAND SECURITY SAYS: ‘Green Light’ Law Endangering U.S. Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Acting Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf’s Feb. 5 letter notifying the state DMV that New York licensees are no longer eligible to participate in the department’s “Trusted Traveler” program. This excerpt accompanied the editorial, “‘Trusted Traveler’ Revocations Or Not, ‘Green Light’ Bad Law.” New York State’s “Green Light” Act prevents DHS from accessing relevant information that only New York DMV maintains, including some aspects…
LETTER from ROGER MacMILLAN Village Candidate Approachable, Intelligent – No Hidden Agendas To the Editor: I wish to strongly support the candidacy of Mary Margaret Robbins for village trustee in the coming election. A certified and licensed pharmacist, many will recall her from the years she spent at the CVS pharmacy when it was located on Main Street. Having been a resident of Cooperstown for many years she has the vision and dedication to conserve our heritage. Despite her most…
LETTER from DOUGLAS ANDERSON Much In Country Today Requires Self-Protection To the Editor: By happenstance I picked up the Feb. 6 copy of Hometown Oneonta. In it, I found letters to the editor about a topic I am profoundly concerned about: my freedom, as protected by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Clearly these letter writers have somehow missed a few very important points about life in these United States. And by that I think they may have slept…
LETTER from R. SCOTT DUNCAN In The Lap Of Luxury – At Bassett Hospital To the Editor: Who would have thought that you could find this magic red button at Bassett. The pain was excruciating. After two months I couldn’t take it anymore. I went to the emergency room. We arrived at 10 p.m. By 4 they took me up to my room. Whoops, no bed. Waited a little longer, finally some rest and pain killers. They put an object…
READ ATTORNEY MERZIG’S OPINION Richfield Board Ponders Disputed Plan’s Future RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Oneonta attorney David Merzig has determined the Town of Richfield’s new – and disputed – zoning code might not survive a court challenge. And the town board plans to meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17, with new Town Attorney Peter Hobaica to determine whether and how to set it aside and perhaps start anew, said newly elected Town Supervisor Nick Palevsky. The plan, which envisioned the…
Help Custom Electronics Power The Future By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com ONEONTA Custom Electronics President/CEO Michael Pentaris has two degrees – a bachelor’s in accounting and an MBA – from SUNY Binghamton. “But I’m not sold on that,” he acknowledged the other day during a tour of the company’s Browne Street plant in the Town of Oneonta. “I’m looking for people with ambition.” He was accompanied on the tour by Jim Sloan, one of his key lieutenants, an…
700-Plus Fans Sign Petition To Save CCS Football By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN More than 700 people have signed a Change.org petition in support of the Cooperstown Hawkeyes’ JV and Varsity football team after discussions arose that the team may be cut in the 2020-21 budget. “If we don’t join together and peacefully let the board know how we feel: We will lose football,” wrote Kimberly Burkhart, who started the petition. She is a Milford Elementary School…
LETTER from ANDREW STAMMEL ‘Sanctuary’ May Kill Golden Goose To the Editor: Elected officials should make efforts to understand and represent, within the confines of the law, our constituents’ varying perspectives. Thus, Representative Brockway’s “Second Amendment sanctuary” letter in last week’s edition was concerning both in its substance and tone. His letter rebutted a column a week before submitted by an active local resident. Brockway dismissively wrote that the author “is not native to the area and does not understand…
HOMETOWN History Feb. 7, 2020 150 Years Ago Local: A heavy snow storm commenced on Tuesday and snow is about one foot in depth. There is tolerably good sleighing although the crossroads are badly drifted. Advertisement: Chronic Constipation can be positively cured by the German Cathartic Lozenges, and by them alone. Thousands suffer Headache, Dyspepsia and untold ills because of a torpid and costive condition of the bowels. Especially is this the case with ladies and business men whose condition…
