100, Some Tearful, In Village’s Ballroom Dunkin’/Baskin Proposal Riles Up Packed Hearing By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Barbara Tongue got choked up as she talked about the threat of the proposed Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin Robbins on Chestnut and Walnut Street in the Village of Cooperstown. “My family goes all the way back to the time of James Fenimore Cooper,” she said. “It’s difficult to look at that proposal and imagine that on the corner of our street in…
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FINALLY, Her Story Told At Gillian’s Rally By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Gillian Gibbons’ voice was silenced when David Dart stabbed her 42 times in the Oneonta Municipal Parking Garage on Sept. 12, 1984. But Jennifer Miller Dutcher intends to use hers to keep Dart in prison. “I am a survivor of David Dart,” she said. “I am a victim who has a voice, and I have to share my story.” She told her story at…
EXCERPT Is Impeachment Political, Or Legal? The House of Representatives doesn’t need to prove that a president committed a crime outlined in the federal code to pass articles of impeachment. They instead impeach based on whether the president committed “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” as outlined in Article II, Section 4 of the US constitution. …In all, former prosecutors told Insider, there are at least four areas where Trump could face legal jeopardy. ►Illegally soliciting campaign help…
LETTER from GERALD WEINBERGER Oust Trump, Focus On Problems To the Editor: Local Republicans should start petitions urging President Trump to resign. Senate Republicans will not convict him. Impeachment per se will not get rid of Trump, who obviously enjoys all the attention. Vice President Mike Pence is hardly a good Republican candidate because of sexual bigotry, but can be an improvement over Trump, who lost the popular election by 10 million votes. If Trump does not resign: incumbent Republicans or…
Jim Bryden, Quilter: Fabric Arts Captivated Man By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com GILBERTSVILLE – Jim Bryden is not fazed by the fact he is the first man to be the featured quilter for The Major’s Inn Foundation’s annual quilt show – the 25th anniversary one, no less. “If they want to put up with me that’s their decision,” the 81-year-old Sidney Center resident said. About 20 of Bryden’s quilts will be displayed, mostly in a room exclusively for…
BOUND VOLUMES Oct. 3, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Ed. Note: October 4, 1819, a Monday, marks the first appearance in Cooperstown two centuries ago of the newspaper still known as “Freeman’s Journal.” John Prentiss the editor introduced the publication to the community as follows: “After a lapse of more than a year, we resume our editorial labors, and at a time, too, inauspicious to an extensive circulation of newspapers, because the pecuniary pressure upon the country is so great as…
Richfield Candidate Looks Forward To 11/5 By JIM KEVLIN• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com RICHFIELD SPRINGS – The action now moved to Nov. 5, Election Day. Monday, Sept. 30, after two somewhat acrimonious hours of discussion, the Richfield Town Board, 3-2, approved a new zoning code that bans wind turbines and defines most of the town as agricultural/residential. Voting aye were three opponents of the Monticello Hills Wind Farm, Larry Frigault, Rex Seamon and Kane Seamon. Voting nay were Supervisor Paul Palumbo,…
Column Mother Steadfastly ‘True North’ I’ve just spent an hour upstairs in, so far, a fruitless search. The search was for an object about as round as a half dollar, and it weighs not much more. Olive drab, its metal case has a cracked glass face. Inside it, a needle trembles on a center post. The needle, as it has for over a century, points true north. You can’t fool that needle by turning the case so that the printed…
HOMETOWN History Oct. 4, 2019 150 Years Ago The Fero Trial – The testimony in this exciting case was concluded Thursday afternoon and summed up by Mr. Smith of Albany, on the part of the prisoner, and the prosecution by the Attorney-General for the people. Court adjourned until 9 o’clock Friday morning, when Judge Balcom charged the jury, occupying about an hour. The jury retired, and at 12 o’clock brought in a verdict of not guilty. The case excited a…
Is Delgado Risking Reelection Over Call For Impeachment? Within minutes of Antonio Delgado proclaiming his support for impeaching Donald Trump on Monday, Sept. 23, the National Republican Campaign Committee declared it is the freshman 19th District congressman’s “political death sentence.” It’s out of character, for sure. On issues to date, Delgado’s played it safe, focusing legislative efforts on agriculture, broadband and healthcare, knowing, regardless, little legislation sent from the Democratic House of Representatives to the Republican U.S. Senate is going…
