COLUMN Can Only Small Business Save ‘Common’ For All? One of the landmarks of the early environmental movement was the essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” published in 1968 by the ecologist Garrett Hardin in Science. It can be to an individual’s private advantage, he points out, to exploit common resources at the expense of others. In the absence of other constraints, he argued, most people will take more than their share, out of greed or fear, eventually depleting the…
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Up From The Ashes 2 Years After Fire, Milford Methodist Anticipating ‘Starkly Beautiful’ Church Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs, 3:5-6 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – It was about 4 a.m. on March 13, 2013. The 1930 Milford Methodist Church had burned down the night before in a raging fire that was seen for miles, and…
2 TRAGEDIES, 2 MONTHS APART Home, Family’s Mother Lost, But Millers Are Still Together Gofundme Drive Set Up To Help Dad, 3 Kids By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com PITTSFIELD – The carbon monoxide detector went off first, waking Richard Miller up last Tuesday, May 14, at about 1:30 a.m. Then, four smoke detectors on the first floor below him sounded, one after the other, as Richard bolted out of bed. He hurried into the hallway and as he rounded…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 23-24, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE One Dead, Deputy Breaks Legs In Head-On Onaquaga Found: Buzz Hesse Dream Achieved Onaquaga Found: General Clinton Didn’t Raze It All Lost, But Pittsfield Family Together After Fire Oneonta Voters OK School Budget, 2 To 1 Cooperstown School Budget Passes Easily EDITORIAL Delgado Elevates Mother’s Love In Colgate Speech COLUMNS DELGADO AT COLGATE: ‘Love Conquers All’ ZAGATA: Grid Mixes Good, Bad, Ugly…
Regatta, BASE Race, Hall of Fame Classic Weekend Highlights It’s a wet and wild weekend as the annual General Clinton Canoe Regatta brings everyone out to the shores – and waters – of the Susquehanna River. Though races run all weekend, the big one kicks off at 6 a.m. Monday, May 26. Follow the racers down the river, then enjoy a barbeque in Bainbridge. Brookwood Point, 6000 State Hwy 80, Cooperstown. Info www.canoeregatta.org. • The 11th annual Hall of Fame…
ONAQUAGA REDISCOVERED • PART I Expert Believes He’s Discovered HQ Of Iroquois Buzz Hesse Also Found ‘Old Unadilla’ By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com WINDSOR – There’s an island, a mountain, a curve in the river, flatlands and, up the road, a site that’s long been reported as a mission/trading post set up by Sir William Johnson, Great Britain’s last governor general of the Province of New York. The flat land along the shore of the Susquehanna would be…
COLUMN THE VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Power Grid Mixes Good, Bad And Ugly Electrons A few weeks ago, an article appeared about installing a geo-thermal system to heat and cool the family home. The subject was very transparent about the fact geo-thermal systems require considerable electricity to run the pumps that circulate the fluid and to provide the energy necessary to make up the differential between the temperature of the water sourced from beneath the ground (normally 55 degrees) and…
EDITORIAL At Colgate Graduation, Congressman Delgado Elevates Mother’s Love “There are no second acts in American lives” has been attributed – some say misattributed – to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Antonio Delgado – as he recounts in his splendid commencement address last weekend at his alma mater, Colgate University – is a contradiction in point. His experience as hip-hop artist AD, The Voice, which he assesses here for the first time we’ve seen, very well could have ruled him out as…
BOUND VOLUMES May 23, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement – New School. The subscriber gives notice that he has opened a Private School, at his dwelling house in Fair Street, where he will devote his time, and use every exertion in his power to facilitate the improvement of the pupils entrusted to his care – whilst strict attention shall be paid to their manners and morals. His number will be select and limited. The advantages of such a school every…
from CATHE ELLSWORTH Trustees Should Help, Not Hinder Downtown Revival To the Editor: In last week’s newspaper, Cooperstown Village Trustee Richard Sternberg penned a column in which he went to great lengths to point out all the various village projects that need to be completed. Included on the list such things as the roads, not to mention other infrastructure needs, and the wastewater treatment plant as well as the Doubleday Field upgrade. When added to this list of needed undertakings,…
