LETTER from JOSEPH SKOVIRA Keep Town Justices, Police Separate To the Editor: Delaware County, where I previously served as Delhi town justice, did not have the apparent problems as indicated in Otsego County concerning the arraignment of arrestee. I was available for those early morning arraignments, sometimes covering for an unavailable justice court judge. One such arraignment was for a burglary committed at a far end of this county. The arresting officer thought it was to his advantage to disregard…
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EDITORIAL Reps Ready To Balance Credentials, Experience As the City of Oneonta has demonstrated, moving to a city manager – or county manager, the issue of the day – can be “fraught.” (That’s the word of the day – or year – all of a sudden, every reporter is finding every situation “fraught,” filled with possibilities for undesirable outcomes. It’s the “Where’s the Beef?” of 2019.) Wednesday, Nov. 6, the Otsego County Board of Representatives, after almost two years of…
Republicans Keep County Board Majority By JIM KEVLIN & LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Republicans rained on the Democrats’ parade on Election Night, Tuesday, Nov. 5. Republican Rick Brockway won Laurens-Otego’s District 3, 697-548, turning back a Democratic effort to take control of the county board for the first time in memory. “Otsego County is red,” declared a jubilant Republican County Chairman Vince Casale. “It has always been red. It will always be red. People in Otsego County…
Debate: Was Clinton Expedition Genocide? By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com- JOHNSTOWN – The lead-off speaker, Glenn F. Williams, author of “Year of the Hangman: George Washington’s Campaign Against the Iroquois,” had one take. “Washington’s idea was always assimilation, not genocide,” he told 80 historians, researchers and students Saturday, Nov. 2, at the “Sullivan-Clinton Campaign Symposium,” organized by the Fort Plain Museum at Fulton-Montgomery Community College. But G. Peter Jemison, manager of the Ganondagan State Historic Site, near Canandaigua,…
DRY RUN Vets’ Riders Seek To Ride Soberly By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Chris Chase, son and grandson of veterans, just wants to make sure that all veterans can enjoy the ride safely. “We were concerned that many of our motorcycle runs involved a lot of alcohol,” said Chase, assistant director of Oneonta Post 259’s American Legion Riders. “We’d stop at a Legion, people would have a few beers. And then we’d stop at the next…
BOUND VOLUMES Oct. 31, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Petticoat Government has rarely been established over nations. Queen Elizabeth exercised it but she was always considered more like a man than a woman. Besides, she governed men under a constitution which men made for their own use and benefit, and she was therefore a kind of usurper in her place. As it has always been difficult for men to contend seriously with women, we advise the ministry and the borough-mongers and…
HOMETOWN History Nov. 1, 2019 150 Years Ago (The following is quoted from an address by Dr. Orson M. Allaben to the members of the Delhi Agricultural and Mechanics Society at its Annual Fair, September 30, 1869) “It is but a few years since the first telegraph line was put in operation between Baltimore and Washington City. If the steamboat had been a wonder, and the steam-car had astonished and amazed the world, the Electric Telegraph was considered the miracle…
SUNY Chorus Brings World’s Music Here Choir Director Tim Newton Develops Unusual Approach By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – For Tim Newton, music is a way to travel the world without paying for a plane ticket. One minute, his SUNY Oneonta students are in Ghana, singing about the walk to Soweto. Another, they’re in Bali, singing a song that calls to the winds. “It needs to sound authentic,” he encourages the 60 person choir at a break in…
A SECRET REVEALED ‘Love Unknown’ Explores Traumatized Poet’s Struggle By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Tom Travisano is the top expert on Elizabeth Bishop, ever since falling in love with her work while taking a Contemporary Poetry course at the University of Virginia in 1975. “She was the poet who really jumped out to me,” he remembers. Several of his nine books dealt with her, from “Midcentury Quartet” (1999), exploring Bishop along with Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell…
LETTER from AMY CROUSE-POWER Ogden Will Be Problem-Solver Working For District 3, County To the Editor: I’m so pleased that Caitlin Ogden is running to represent District 3 (Laurens-Otego) on the county Board of Representatives. Caitlin brings to the race a life of public service. She spent her high school years volunteering to help rescued marine life. She moved to New York seeking open spaces and a sense of community often found in Upstate New York, and over her 13…
