EDITORIAL The Pride, Exhilaration Of Championship Run Belong To All Of Us Forever A columnist – a dad, too – wrote in Psychology Today a few years ago: “My hope is that their involvement in sports will help to build their character in positive ways. I’d like them to learn to cooperate with others, work together for a common goal, respond appropriately to victory and defeat, and grow in virtues like courage, humility, patience and perseverance.” Why did the CCS…
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Elephant In The Room Undergirds Discourse Dismiss Smokescreen Hype About Dubious New Jobs In last week’s editorial in this newspaper, Oneonta Mayor Herzig is quoted as saying: “We should not let those who are economically secure, by comparison, tell those who need jobs they can’t have them.” The mayor was reacting to the March 5 hearing he moderated at the Foothills in Oneonta, where a long series of speakers pushed back almost unanimously against the gas-expansion project proposed by the…
from Danny Lapin RSS Housing Project Not Right For Oneonta To the Editor: The proposed housing project by Rehabilitation Support Services (RSS) of Altamont in Oneonta’s Sixth Ward is a flawed development. RSS wants taxpayers to pay for it; they trying to circumvent public input and they’re using strong-arm tactics to get approval to start construction. Therefore, I oppose it. RSS wants to build a 64-unit project for low- and moderate-income people that will include 14 apartments reserved for individuals…
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND Pickin’ At Fly Creek Phil Dewey Top Vote-Getter In Village Election COOPERSTOWN – Incumbent Trustee Jeanne Dewey garnered the most votes (128) in the Tuesday, March 19, village elections. Incumbent Richard Sternberg was second (119) and newcomer MacGuire Benton third (114). The election, for three seats on the Village Board, was uncontested. For related photo, see www.allotsego.com…
Saturday’s Triple OT Braces Hawkeyes For Sunday Win By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – Longtime CCS basketball fan Fred Lemister knows a championship team when he sees one. “I have seen remarkable teams and remarkable talent on that floor,” he said. “But I have never seen the cohesion, the camaRAderie that I saw in this team.” The Cooperstown varsity basketball team took home its first Class C Championship ever – as Hawkeyes or Redskins…
BOUND VOLUMES By TOM HEITZ & SHARON STUART From files of The Fenimore Art Museum Library 200 YEARS AGO It is now almost two years since DeWitt Clinton was called to the Executive Chair, without an opposing candidate. What then have been the leading features of De Witt Clinton’s administration? We have seen attention paid to internal improvements, equally honorable to our state, and favorable to our permanent interests. The great plan to unite the Hudson and Lakes of the…
from Nicole Dillingham Otsego 2000 Is Challenging DGEIS Brownfield Findings To the Editor: The flood of editorials trying to divide our community regarding heavy industrial development in Oneonta are discouraging. They may help sell newspapers, but they lack integrity. This is not a choice between jobs or no jobs. It is not even a choice between development or no development. It is purely a choice about what kind of jobs and what kind of development is suitable. To answer this…
CITY OF THE HILLS ‘Damn Yankees’ Planned At Foothills Dome Among ‘Town Hall’ Ideas ONEONTA – An all-season sports dome, turbines on the treadmills, easy on-campus returns for cans and bottles and other green energy ideas all came out of Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky’s first “Town Hall” meeting on Wednesday, March 13. Zakrevsky met with Hartwick College students in the Shineman Chapel to ask them what would keep them in the community after college. For more details, go to…
from Nicholas Cunningham Whom Do We Trust? To the Editor: Re Mike Zagata’s March 14 remarks about socialism, the National Debt, and energy: • Our health, education and welfare can be entrusted to our legislatures and executives whom we vote in or out. Or they can be run by big corporations over which we have almost no control. • Social security, our public schools and Medicare may be socialistic, but whatever we call them, they serve us pretty well. •…
HOMETOWN HISTORY By TOM HEITZ & SHARON STUART From files of The Fenimore Art Museum Library 150 Years Ago Home & Vicinity – Moody and Vosburgh are fitting uptheir store in a very neat style inside and out, and will makeit an attractive business place. Their corps of peddlers willexplore every neighborhood of Otsego and Delaware withthe goods wanted by the people, and bring in great lots ofbarter. Their horn blows for success.A.C. Moody and E.M. Vosburgh bought each one…
