COLUMN Why Must Presidential Bids Go On Forever-And-A-Day? By TOM MORGAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com If there’s one thing we’re good at in this country it is expanding things. From our waistlines and hamburgers to the NBA season, we know how to make things bigger and longer. Please note I do not imply necessarily better. The Baseball Hall of Fame serves up a good example. In 1980 I went to its big induction ceremony in Cooperstown. When…
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EDITORIAL Take Control! Consider Otsego Lake Association Annual Meeting at 9 a.m. This Saturday With so many areas of American life seemingly spinning out of control, there’s a contrary example in the Otsego Lake Association (OLA). Its “100-percent volunteers,” according to Jim Howarth, co-president with David Sanford, are focused on a common mission: “Protecting the health, beauty and wellbeing” of the lake. Listening to them, it’s clear: Local volunteers, working together, can get a lot done. There are larger non-profit,…
LIBBY’S BEST BETS Dramatic Arts Rule At Renaissance Fair, ‘Our Town’, More By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Lords and ladies fair are invited to attend the 11th annual Medieval Renaissance Fair, where Celtic dancers, magicians and more will perform throughout the day. Food, vendors and a Chinese auction – and make sure to come in costume! $5. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 10-11, Windfall Dutch Barn, 2009 Clinton Road Cherry Valley. Info 518-993-2239 • Kids can learn for…
Idelson’s New Mission Bring Kids Back To Baseball By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN Once upon a time, retired Baseball Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson was a center fielder for the Newton Central Little League. And though he retired from baseball at age 12, he never forgot the importance of the field. Since stepping down as Hall of Fame president, Idelson co-founded Grassroots Baseball, a program aimed at getting 21st Century youngsters into the game with talks,…
10th Mountain Division Band Plays Free Show For Veterans by LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA Gene Schmidt, the father of Neahwa Park’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, believes you shouldn’t just honor our nation’s defenders on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. “We can’t honor our veterans enough,” he said. “We owe so much of what we have to what they did for us.” So now, Schmidt has arranged for the Army’s 10th Mountain Division Jazz Band to play a free…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Aug. 8-9, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Razing Makes Way For Animal Shelter Mayor: Let Committee Study What Flags To Fly Idelson’s New Mission: Bring Kids To Baseball 10th Mountain Division Band Plays Free Show With Tranquilizers, Rancher Retrieves Herd EDITORIAL Think About Joining Otsego Lake Association COLUMNS KUZMINSKI: Home Rule SO’s Third Principle MORGAN: Forever-And-A-Day Campaigns MOYINIHAN: ‘Traviata’ Parallels Verdi Life LETTERS ON SELLING CONFEDERATE FLAG: CONWAY: Do…
BOUND VOLUMES Aug. 8, 2019 200 YEARS AGO The Progress of the Russian Empire in America – Looking to the east for everything, the people of the United States have contemplated with astonishment the progress of the Russian Empire in Europe and Asia. They have not thought of looking to the west to see this giant power already mounting upon their own backs. Except Mr. Walsh, we do not know an American who has even spoken of the Russian establishments…
Mayor: Let Committee Study What Flags To Fly Editor’s Note: This was reprinted from the current edition of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta, available at local newsstands. By JIM KEVLIN • Special to AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As suggestions expand to hanging banners beyond the Pride Flag on the village’s flagpole, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch is asking Trustee MacGuire Benton to form a committee with two other trustees to develop a policy for all such requests. “We need a policy,…
With Tranquilizer Gun, Wayward Buffalo Retrieved By JENNIFER HILL • Special to AllOTSEGO.com SHARON Brian Grubb is hunting his buffalo – with a tranquilizer gun. Monday, Aug. 5, “I used a tranquilizer on a cow-calf pair and another cow from the 65-member group,” he said. “Then we – three other guys and I – used machinery to lift the cows and manpower to lift the calf onto my trailer. Four others – two cow-calf pairs – followed them onto the…
LIBBY’S BEST BETS What A Weekend Of Festivals, Picnics, Music, Drama, Art! By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Festivals for music, for beer, for Classical music abound this weekend around Otsego County! Start at the first annual Summer Fest as the Red Shed Brewery celebrates good weather, good friends and, most importantly, good beer! Cornhole tournaments, food trucks, karaoke and beer marionette planned. 12 p.m. Friday-Sunday, Aug. 2-4, 709 County Highway 33, Cooperstown. Info, redshedbrewing.com Oneonta is alive as…
