SUNY Student Senate To Study How To Vet OH-Fest Headliners Rapper Sean Kingston Cancellation Prompts Soul-Searching On Campus By JENNIFER HILL • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – By a 9-5 vote, with one abstention, the SUNY Oneonta Student Associate Senate voted Tuesday, April 23, to do nothing for now on vetting of future OH-Fest headliners. Instead, it plans to set up a study committee to make recommendations. Drafted by junior Eric Battista after this year’s OH-Fest concert was…
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LETTER TO CVS PRESIDENT Former Store An Eyesore, Please Help Cooperstown Editor’s Note: Bill Waller of Cooperstown sent this letter Monday, April 22, to Kevin Hourican, president, CVS, in Woonsocket, R.I., about the two-year vacancy of the company’s downtown Cooperstown store. Dear Mr. Hourican, I am writing to inform you of a situation with one of your properties located in Cooperstown, New York. You recently constructed a new CVS store in our Village and vacated your former location on our…
FACES CHARGES IN FATAL FIRE TRUITT CAUGHT NEXT TO OPD He Was Visiting His Kids, Their Mom By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – After 17 weeks on the run, Gabriel Truitt, 33, is in custody. “Our detectives developed information that he was in the area and served a search warrant at 95 Main St.” – that gray, two-story apartment house right next to Oneonta Police headquarters, said Chief Doug Brenner. There police found Truitt…
5-Officer Wedges Needed To Diffuse Problems In Crowds City Couldn’t Handle Trouble At OH-Fest, Chief, Mayor Find By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – If one person gets hurt in the OH-Fest crowd, it takes five people, including law enforcement and EMTs, to reach them, according to City Police Chief Doug Brenner. “We form a wedge to move through the crowd,” he said. “But if there’s 10 people fighting, we’re quickly overwhelmed.” Such concerns were…
POEM TO THE EDITOR April, After The Shower Under the rainbow In a world as sparkling clean As washed crystal The tulip bud swells and colors At the end of a pale green wand, The fat pink earthworm Jiggles on the wet asphalt, And the eager young man Still holding up the umbrella Goes right on talking sweet dirty Into his girlfriend’s ear – Until he blushes At his own cheekiness And loses the moment. • DOROTHY MUNCH Oneonta…
LIBBY’S BEST BETS Racing Season Starts Heal Your Soul, Or Learn About Voting Winter is behind us and two 5K/10K races ramp up Otsego County’s favorite warm-weather activity. First, enjoy a sweet treat on the course as part of the Oneonta Donut Dash to raise money for the Rebecca Douglas Siegfried Scholarship fund at Morris Central School. 9 a.m. Saturday, April 27 Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Info Valery.Worden@oneonta.edu • If you prefer your race day treats in a glass, the annual…
STRIP! Our Clothes Are Killing Us, Professor, Student Believe By JENNIFER HILL • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – You might think the mannequin dressed in colorful plastic flowers on the main floor of SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Student Union is there to advertise cute clothes. Two posters flanking the mannequin indicate the opposite. The one on the left says, “The Ugly Truths About 80 Billion Garments Produced Annually.” On the right, “What Can We Do?” SUNY Oneonta Human…
New York Pizzeria Seeks To Expand Parking, Seating Innovative PDD Zoning Sought By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – It’s a village hot-spot, and customers intent on New York Pizzeria’s offerings park along Chestnut and Elm streets, and in the off-hours fill the parking lots at the adjoining Bank of Cooperstown and Triple-A offices. With the popularity of the pizzeria, it’s imperative that they keep orders flowing to avoid long wait times. Many restaurants address…
DISTINGUISHED BUSINESS Businesses Sold On Pathfinder Village Residential Community Training, Placing Residents In Local Jobs By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta EDMESTON – When she was 16, Joanna Draper had a brain tumor removed and was in a coma for a month. Though she recovered, her short-term memory was all but gone, dashing her hopes of continuing to perform in musical theater. But now, you can find her serenading customers at the Pathfinder Village bakery and café,…
DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN New In Town, Grummons Got To Know Everyone Funeral Director To Be Honored At Annual Chamber Gala May 2 By JIM KEVLIN • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – Everybody knows Les Grummons. “I always liked to be involved,” said the Oneonta funeral director who is the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce’s Eugene A. Bettiol Jr. Distinguished Citizen of the Year. “I was always that way.” He will be honored Thursday, May 2, at the chamber’s annual…
