I have known MacGuire Benton for years and admire his energy and spirit. We will need that energy to face the challenges we have now and those on the horizon, including reopening the Oneonta DMV.…
I have known MacGuire Benton for years and admire his energy and spirit. We will need that energy to face the challenges we have now and those on the horizon, including reopening the Oneonta DMV.…
In a few weeks, the voters of Otsego County will have the opportunity to participate in the election of our next county clerk. I have been practicing law in Otsego County for 40 years. I interact, either directly or indirectly, with the County Clerk’s Office on almost a daily basis.…
This is written in support of MacGuire Benton’s candidacy for the office of Otsego County clerk. MacGuire is a highly energetic, people-focused individual who has a track record of working successfully in both the private and public sectors. He served as a village board member and as deputy Otsego County elections commissioner.…
Experience, leadership and track record are why I am supporting Jennifer Basile for Otsego County clerk. As a former Otsego County representative and the former Otsego County Industrial Development Authority chairman, I deeply understand the importance of having the right professional in this role. Jennifer Basile IS this professional.…
In a moving exhibit at the Sam and Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, artists reflect on the struggle for the right to vote in this country. In the exhibition catalogue, Gretchen Sorin writes, “The right to vote was so meaningful that these activists petitioned, demonstrated, were arrested and jailed...…
I proudly announce my full endorsement of Jen Basile to serve as the next Otsego County clerk. Jen has served Otsego County for over 14 years...…
It is without hesitation that I write this endorsement of Jennifer Basile for Otsego County clerk. As a licensed real estate broker, former town supervisor and current county representative for District 8, I have had countless interactions with the Clerk’s Office in several counties.…
I keep hearing claims that MacGuire Benton is unqualified. Jennifer Basile claims that only someone who has worked in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office is qualified. She has gone so far as to say that Otsego County is so unique that even someone who has been a county clerk elsewhere could not do the job.…
Unlike “organic farming,” “permaculture,” or “biodynamic farming,” the idea of regenerative agriculture is not an absolute prescription, but rather an agricultural philosophy which is directed at high-quality production within the context of preservation and restoration of the local “natural capital” embedded in soil, water, and biodiversity.…
“I and You,” an award-winning play first performed in 2013, provides an engaging, funny, thoughtful evening of entertainment. It’s the story of one afternoon in the life of two high school-aged students, Anthony and Caroline, working together on an English Lit. project based on Walt Whitman’s poetry collection, “Leaves of Grass.”…
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