The Old Badger Behind the Badger Front First published in The Freeman’s Journal January 4, 1984 “Just a minute!” I said, pushing my chair away from the table, “Just a minute, I have the answer right here” and leaving the room precipitously I also left the seated couple blinking and bemused. One of them had asked me why I used the name Badger, assuming, not illogically, that it was a pseudonym. If it’s anything, it is a mesonym. Badger is…
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Opinion by Nate Lull Two marathons in a week? One reporter’s crazy running dream I know it sounds cliché but I don’t often like to talk about my personal life. That might seem strange for someone who has a job that is in the public eye, but it has just always felt odd to me to talk about myself. I would much rather write a story about someone else and give them time in the spotlight. Nevertheless, occasionally I’m involved…
Editorial Local owners/local news The Freeman’s Journal, our village’s venerable newspaper of 213 years — and one of the oldest continually published weeklies in the country — has a long and complicated history, both of news and of ownership. It has chronicled the workings of our town and the opinions of our residents through the country’s wars, holidays, prohibitions and depressions, as well as through the state’s droughts, blizzards, elections, floods, tragedies, surprises and celebrations. The Freeman’s Journal is our…
Journalist with local ties details work at southern border By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com RICHFIELD SPRINGS — Jim McKeever, an independent journalist, spoke about his experience volunteering at the southern border to a small group at the Richfield Springs Food Coop on Friday, Oct. 15. McKeever, who went to the border in Texas and Tijuana, among other places, spoke of the Kafkaesque process asylum seekers needed to go through in order to enter the United States. “Asylum is…
Oneonta won’t opt out on marijuana By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The city of Oneonta has no plans to opt out of recreational sales of marijuana, according to local politicians. In New York’s legal marijuana bill, which passed April 30, municipalities are able to decide to opt out on marijuana dispensaries by Dec. 31. However, there is no movement to opt out in Oneonta. According to Mayor Gary Herzig, no one on the Common Council has advocated for…
Cooperstown issues permit for new Halloween parade STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN — The village will have a Halloween parade after all. The Cooperstown Board of Trustees approved a permit for a Halloween parade at a special meeting Thursday, Oct. 21, at Village Hall at 22 Main St. The parade will begin at 4:45 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 31, at the east end of Main Street, near Cooper Park. Parade-goers are encouraged to gather near Village Hall where they can…
Wednesday Playoff Roundup: CV-S upsets Margaretville, Unatego, Franklin, Milford advance STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Kara Mertz and Lilian Cohn scored as Milford advanced in the Section IV Class D girls soccer tournament with a 2-0 win over visiting Laurens on Wednesday, Oct. 20. Mertz scored 12 minutes into the match when Lexi Sutphin sent a ball into the box for a 1-0 Milford lead. Laurens almost tied the game before half but Milford goalie Leeanna West charged at…
Oneonta Mayoral Debate covers economic development and town gown relations By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA — Mayoral candidates and Common Council members Len Carson, R-Fifth Ward, and Mark Drank, D-Eighth Ward, discussed a range of topics at a virtual debate hosted by the League of Women Voters via Zoom on Wednesday, Oct. 20. Among the topics discussed were economic development, town-gown relations and housing. Neither candidate had major disagreements on fundamental issues, although their approach to developing Market…
COVID remains concern at Common Council despite good news from SUNY By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA — Dr. Diane Georgeson, city health officer, spoke at Common Council, Tuesday, Oct. 19, and offered a somewhat unclear picture of how COVID was shaping up in the country and specifically in Otsego County. Also of concern was the rate of vaccinations among the Oneonta Police Department and the Oneonta Fire Department, which was lower than the general public, she said.…
Tuesday Playoff Roundup: Milford-Laurens, Schenevus, Franklin-Unatego boys advance STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Sixth seeded Milford/Laurens advanced to the second round of the Section IV Class D boys soccer tournament with a 2-0 win over No. 11 Edmeston on Tuesday, Oct. 19, in Laurens. The Cats took only 39 seconds to get on the scoreboard as Brock Mann beat a Edmeston defender and threaded a pass past two other Panthers to an open Donta Sherwood, who ran onto it…
