from SHIRLEY O’SHEA RSS Foes ‘Do Not Want To Live Near Crazies’ To the Editor: The individuals comprising the Sixth Ward Neighbors United are clearly not willing to be neighbors to persons with psychiatric disorders who need housing assistance. The Neighbors claim that they want full investigation of Rehabilitation Support Services (RSS) for financial improprieties prior to approval of applications for low-income housing for mentally ill residents.…
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Twins’ Mom Indicted In Newborns’ Deaths By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com DECATUR – On Saturday, May 4, Kimberly Nicole Steeley wrote a poem on her Facebook page, titled, “If I knew x Two,” “If I knew it was the last time I would hold you x2, If I knew it would be the last time I kissed you x2…If I knew love that Deeply x2, If I knew I would Have tried to save you x2,” she wrote.…
HOMETOWN HISTORY, May 17, 2019 150 YEARS AGO West Oneonta – Measures were instituted some time ago, looking towards the erection of a new school house at West Oneonta. Progress was so far made that proposals for building were received with the prospects of the early completion of the building. But, owing to the fear of some close-fisted taxpayers who have no children to educate, the good work is indefinitely postponed. These parties and others interested should understand that an…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 16-17, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Newborns Died, Twins’ Mom Indicted OHS Schools Cutting Help For Neediest CCS Budget Focus: Kindergarten, Vaping PETS Task Force’s First Case: Pittsfield Pigs Fly Creek UM Letter ‘Dismayed’ At Gay Ban Widower, 3 Kids Homeless In Pittsfield Fire EDITORIAL Downtown Revival IS Exciting; Let’s ACT Excited COLUMNS TILLAPAUGH: Prosperity, Offerings About Here KUZMINSKI: Is 2-Party System Serving Nation? STERNBERG: Blame Businesspeople For…
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OHS Schools Cutting Classes For Neediest By JENNIFER HILL • Special to AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Oneonta High School students may be happy to hear that there won’t be any summer school this year, but Superintendent Joseph Yelich sees it as a bigger problem. “We used to have 200 students attending summer school, but it’s now down to 50,” he said. “Some kids will go the first day of summer school and not show up after that. It costs $150,000 to…
BOUND VOLUMES, May 16, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Medical Meeting – An adjourned meeting of the Otsego County Medical Society will be held at the house of Joseph Griffin, in the Village of Cooperstown on Tuesday, the 25th, at 1 o’clock p.m. To Pomeroy, Secretary. Notice – Robert Campbell, Recording Secretary of the Otsego County Agricultural Society, has just received a variety of Foreign Seed Grains, to be delivered to such members of the Society as may call in time.…
…Away On A Hilltop: The Inn At Fly Creek By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to ALLOTSEGO.COM FLY CREEK – Kellie Dupuis and Kelly Hart don’t just want the Inn at Fly Creek to be for visitors. They want it to be for everyone. This summer, the Town of Otsego estate atop Bedbug Hill will be rented out to Dreams Park families. But “what interests us most about this property is hosting weekend events,” said Kellie. “Wine tastings, bridal fairs, Ommegang…
PETS Task Force’s First Case: Rescue Pigs From Pittsfield Farm HARTWICK SEMINARY – It was a scene Stacie Haynes has seen play out before. Two pigs, skinny and without food, water or hay, trying to eat the corpses of two dead pigs in a trash pile at a farm on County Route 18, Town of Pittsfield. “They were shivering and cold,” she said. “We got called out there at night in a rainstorm, and we seized them.” Now playfully dubbed…
COLUMN Blame Businesspeople For Downtown Woes In response to last week’s editorial regarding Cooperstown purchasing the old CVS building … What rot! I can only believe that this is either sarcasm or your newspaper trying to roil the waters for the sake of selling more newspapers. It is not the position of a very small municipality that struggles to put together a balanced budget every year while maintaining an adequate reserve, to be buying up public property for the sake…
