from SETH CLARK 58 Businesses Shut Leaving ‘Spooky’ City To the Editor: Oneonta has felt spooky to me lately. “Spooky” is kind of a funny word for a newspaper, but it really is the word that best describes how I feel about so many longstanding local businesses closing. Several were touchstones of my life, businesses that have operated in the greater Oneonta area for decades. I decided a couple of weeks ago to see if my spooky feeling could be…
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No Applications Yet To Develop Upstairs 2nd Round Of DRI Funding Aimed At 2nd-Floor Housing By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – If you want a successful downtown, Elizabeth Horvath says, you have to look up. “You need residents living downtown to make it an active place, not just come in, work and then leave,” she said. “When you see vacant second and third floors, it doesn’t lend itself to a vibrant Main Street.” On Monday, June 3, the…
COLUMN Slow-Walking Inflation-Rate Hikes Hurt Poor By DAN MASKIN • CEO, Opportunities For Otsego Mollie Orshansky was an economist at the Social Security Administration in the 1960s. At the time, she proposed Official Poverty Thresholds (OPM) based on the cost of food. She calculated that any family earning less than three times the USDA estimate for the subsistence food budget was considered poor. That’s how the poverty guidelines began. These thresholds have remained in place for the last 50 years…
from NICK PALEVSKY Super-Majority Aims To Keep Tyranny Out Of Zoning Plans To the Editor: For 150 years after Independence, government attempts to limit how landowners use their property were seen as unconstitutional because: 1. Zoning laws take property rights without compensation, and 2. Zoning laws constitute unequal treatment under the law. Then came the ‘progressive’ era, in the early 1900s, which brought us the income tax, direct election of Senators, the Federal Reserve and Prohibition – all the so-called…
BOUND VOLUMES June 6, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Sacket’s Harbor – Melancholy. On Thursday last, the unlawful discharge of a musket in this village called together a number of citizens – and sad to relate – upon enquiry, it appeared that a Mr. Walter Hanson, had, by the means of his foot, discharged the contents of a musket through his head, and was then expiring. After his decease, a jury of inquest was called, who found a verdict of self-murder,…
from NICHOLAS CUNNINGHAM Take Heart: Make Capitalism Work For Us To the Editor: Adrian Kuzminski (May 30-31, 2019) recalls Garrett Hardin’s classic 1968 “Tragedy of the Commons” with appreciation, but closes with a rather forlorn, indeed hopeless take-home message. As I recall, Harden pointed out that, faced with exploitation of “the commons,” rationing provided a workable solution: for example, if “free” parking becomes scarce and is being exploited by the powerful or the feckless, parking meters offer a simple practical…
THINGS TO DO What’s Your Choice? From 38 Special To, Yes, Borodin By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to SUMMER DREAMS Summer has arrived in Otsego County and there is so much to do! Whether you’re looking to shop, learn, listen or celebrate, there is something fun every day of the weekend! Start your summer off in a rockin’ mood as “Caught Up In You” and “Hold on Loosely” stars 38 Special perform the Celebrity Concert fundraiser for the Oneonta YMCA.…
Realtors: It’s Becoming More Common Visiting California Couple With Son At B-Ball Camp Buys A Retirement Home By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When P.J. Mellana spent a post-graduation week in Cooperstown with his dad in 1997, he never imagined that, one day, he would own property in the land that baseball built. “We love it here,” he said. “Last summer, my son PJ was on a traveling team, and he played at All-Star Village. We just…
Son Returns, Succeeds Mother, MCS Mainstay That’s On School Board. Will, Susan Ward Also Plan Joint Venture On Brewery, Catering By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – A Milford family dynasty is born, in both politics and business. In the political sphere, Susan Ward is retiring 18 years on the Milford Central school board, the past eight as the board’s president. Tuesday, May 21, her son Will, 22, won the seat in a five-way race three days after he…
HOMETOWN History May 31, 2019 150 Years Ago On Sunday afternoon last, Mark Hemstreet, a small boy, went into the barn of Harvey Baker with matches, and soon after the barn was discovered to be on fire. The flames spread with such rapidity among the hay and other combustible material as soon to place it beyond rescue and it was totally consumed with the corn house adjoining. A barn belonging to D. Rose, another to Abner A. Walling and a…
