Elaine Bresee To Lead Effort FOTOT Planning To Buy, Renovate Oneonta Theater By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – By the end of the year, Bob Brzozowski hopes, the newly revived Friends of the Oneonta Theater will have site control of the theater. “We’ve seen places like Walton, Norwich, Bainbridge and Worcester re-open their theaters,” he said. “If small towns can do it, so can we.” Brzozowski, Greater Oneonta Historical Society executive director, is one of three new…
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LETTER from AL COLONE Use Bed-Tax Increase To Build County Future To the Editor: I saw in your papers where there was going to be a presentation Tuesday, Jan. 21, to discuss increasing the county lodging tax 2 percent, with the new $1 million in projected revenue, dedicated to support road improvements throughout the county. Let me offer my general support for the idea, whatever good that might bring. However, I do believe dedicating the funds to road improvement is…
SEWARD ERA ENDS His Formula: Hard Work And Caring About People By JIM KEVLIN • Special to AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Nov. 6, 2019, came the troubling news to his many fans and well-wishers in Otsego County and the 51st state Senatorial District. Veteran lawmaker James L. Seward’s cancer, vanquished in 2016, was back. Treatment followed, “and a scan at the end of December found I’m responding well. The tumor shrank,” he said in an interview following his Monday, Jan. 20,…
FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE Where Everybody Know Your Name… By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I’ll admit first off that I’m not writing this on my front porch. It’s as cold as, well, January out there, for heaven’s sake! And so I’m settled on a comfortable couch back in the family room. Cassey the dog is with me, sprawled on her back, nose almost on my keyboard. Though her face is upside down, she is staring at me fixedly, intent…
EDITORIAL Senator Seward, Let’s Say Hasta Luego, Not Goodbye He has been Otsego County’s state senator since 1986. Many of us – most of us, perhaps – have never known another one. He is everyone’s friend. If you’ve ever observed him walk down the street. Or cross a crowded restaurant on his way to a table. Or appear at a parade or fair or other public gathering. The congenial legislator can’t make it more than a few steps without someone…
BOUND VOLUMES Jan. 23, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Editorial – Notwithstanding the business talents of Congress, they do not appear to progress very rapidly. Not a single important object of the session has been brought into consideration, other than creating a multitude of enquiries in relation to the expenditure of public moneys. True, there is need enough of investigation upon this subject, because, unless they retrench somewhere, the deficit of five millions, mentioned by the secretary of the treasury, must…
Spurned By Worcester, Schenevus School Future May Be Found In Milford By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – Milford and Charlotte Valley have emerged as possible refuges for Schenevus Central students if that financially strapped school district is force to close its doors. At 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, Worcester Superintendent of Schools Tim Gonzales announced “tuitioning-in” Schenevus students wasn’t in his school district’s best interest. That came after a month of conversations after Schenevus looked to Worcester…
With Love, Via Dr. King Delgado Quotes Mentor: Only Love Conquers Hate Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Congressman Antonio Delgado’s Sunday, Jan. 19, address at the Schenectady County Human Rights Commission’s MLK Day commemoration. Delgado represents the 19th District, which includes Otsego County. Dr. King has long been my North Star. The power of the man spoke to me even before I fully grasped the magnitude of his legacy. And to stand here today, provided with the opportunity…
LETTER from BILL MARTIN Solar Farm May Rescue Overworked, Overtaxed To the Editor: As our old friend, Paul Harvey used to say, ”Now for the rest of the story”. This is not the first “boom or bust” deal to pass through our community. A couple of us old timers remember a land buyout in the ’60s. Nothing came of it, but it was fun to watch. In the 70’s, a gas company showed interest in this area and many of…
LETTER from BRIAN BROCK Renewables, Not Gas Cleaner Way To Go To the Editor: The preliminary estimate of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions for 2018 is up 3.4 percent, reversing the recent downward trend. What is more, arguing that burning methane is better than coal because it releases less carbon dioxide conveniently neglects that the entire gas infrastructure leaks methane, a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. (Conveniently that is for that argument, not for the environment.) Like carbon…
