LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP When Canary Croaks, Jump! To the Editor: Miners once took birds down into mines knowing that birds would keel over from methane, lack of oxygen or soot before the miners did. When the canary croaked, out of the mine you go. According to a recent study, birds have been dying off in unprecedented numbers in North America for that last half century. The culprit? Us. The pesticides we use on the bugs that the birds eat…
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Wrights Do Double Duty When Women Play, Millie Reigns; When Men, It’s Clyde By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Call it the Clyde Field. Or, depending on the day, the Millie. “The sign spins, so when the football team plays, it’s the Clyde Field, and when the girls lacrosse team plays, it’s the Millie Field,” said David Lubell, Hartwick College media relations manager. On Saturday, Sept. 21, the Wright Field and its new turf was dedicated in…
From 500, League Of Their Own Down To 23 As Roster Thins, Famed ‘Girls’ Share Memories With CCS Student-Athletes By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Whenever brothers Rick and George Chapman want to see their mother, Dorothy “Mickey” MacGuire Chapman, they can come to Cooperstown. “When the Hall of Fame was building the ‘Woman at Bat’ statue, they found a photo of my mother in 1948,” said Rick. “She didn’t talk much about playing baseball, but I’ve learned…
Waits Over An Hour, Record Haul Seen On Hazardous Waste Day Advertising Called Key To Success By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MIDDLEFIELD – Tonnage and volume are still being tallied, but the car count is in, and 920 vehicles lined up to drop off paint, e-waste, prescriptions – you name it – at Household Hazardous Waste Day Saturday, Sept 21, at the county government’s Meadows Office Complex. That was up from 500 last year, almost double, county Planning Director…
PARENTS HEAD TO JAIL OVER … NOTHING In The End, Only Work, Love Matter The ironic thing about actress Felicity Huffman and many other well-heeled parents bribing college officials to get their students into top schools is: It doesn’t matter. Human beings have lived for 200,000 years. No one’s sure how many of us have walked this Earth, but a common “best guess” is 105 billion. All but a tiny fraction of those, you must know, never heard of Harvard,…
Column ‘We Were Told, Don’t Worry… ‘…And Then, We Were In Legal Jeopardy,’ Supervisor Declares Editor’s Note: Richfield Town Supervisor Paul Palumbo read this assessment of the town’s proposed comprehensive plan and zoning code at a public hearing Monday, Sept. 23. Palumbo and Town Board member Fred Eckler want to delay approval; Town Board members Larry Frigault, Rex Seamon and Kane Seamon, want to vote at 7 p.m. next Monday in a meeting in the school cafeteria. By PAUL PALUMBO…
95 ENROLLED; PEAK WAS 120 On Its 10th Anniversary, 3-Year Bachelor Degree Still A Boon To Hartwick By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – To Brittany Hall of Milford, Hartwick College’s three-year-degree program – now marking its 10th anniversary – isn’t just about saving $40,000 on a bachelor’s degree, although that’s enticement enough. Before making her decision, she scouted all nursing programs within an hour, and realized the hour commute each day would prevent her from working part time…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Sept 26-27, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Driver Ejected In First Fatal XNG Crash Delgado Says, Impeach President Trump Hartwick 3-Year Degree Enters 10th Year Waits, Record Haul On Hazardous Waste Day Remove Flashing Light, Fair Street Folks Say EDITORIAL In The End, Only Work And Love Matter COLUMNS PALUMBO: ‘We Were Told, Don’t Worry…’ CHARTOCK: Jousting With Cuomo Not Easy LETTERS CROWELL: Budget Never Balanced In September LINDLEY:…
FRESHMAN OFF FENCE Impeach Trump, Delgado Declares By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Otsego County’s Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19, Tuesday, Sept. 24, joined at least 61 Democratic congressmen who changed their minds over the weekend and now support impeachment of President Trump. “Having taken an oath of office before God and my fellow citizens to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, I can only conclude that Congress move forward with articles of impeachment,” the congressman said…
LETTER from DAN CROWELL In September, Budget Is Always Out Of Balance; By Year’s End, Balanced To the Editor: I hope all is well in our hometown! I saw your article (“Treasurer Warns Of Overages, But Chair Unruffled,” Sept. 20 on www.All- OTSEGO.com) on the budget gap. For what it is worth, in some ways the county treasurer and county board chair’s perspectives are portrayed as divergent. However, from my experience, they are both right. There is no black magic…
