Editorial: Hall of Fame kudos All five out of a possible five stars to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and its expert staff for kick-starting Cooperstown’s first learning-how-to-deal-with-COVID summer with the return of its joyous “Hall of Fame Classic,” a holiday weekend gathering that brought some 4,000 fans to Doubleday Field last Saturday and brought the village to near-summer-strength life almost overnight. Visitors crowded Main Street until everyone seemingly decamped to Brewery Ommegang for the Avett Brothers and Lake…
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Exactly what do you mean by ‘transformative’? An editorial commentary What a grand week for the environment! The New York Mets and Colorado Rockies were snowed out of their May 20 game after half-a-foot fell on Denver. Meanwhile, here in Otsego County, people escaped sweltering late-July heat and humidity with a trip to Glimmerglass, despite the beach being closed until Memorial Day weekend. A tornado ripped through northern Michigan. And GasBuddy.com, that repository of weekly good news, tells us average…
Editorial ‘Yes’ on budget votes New York State annually reserves the third Tuesday of May for voters to cast their ballots on local school district budgets and board of education seats. It’s an important opportunity for the community to participate in shaping local education policy, and we urge all eligible voters to take a few minutes and do so on May 17. We urge readers to visit the website of their local school district — each has a good description…
Editorial Great Choice, Governor [Editor’s note: This week’s edition goes to press just as the news about Rep. Delgado is breaking; we offer here a brief analysis of the situation as it stands on the morning of May 3.] For Otsego County, Governor Kathy Hochul’s May 3 announcement appointing Rep. Antonio Delgado as her new second-in-command in Albany is nothing short of politically seismic — a move that could send aftershocks throughout the entire state and even into Washington, D.C.…
Editorial Hardly noble We can think of no one other than Vladimir Putin, conspiracy theorists, or tin-foil-hatters who doesn’t support Ukraine these days. Otsego County has stood up large for a nation thousands of miles away, a noble testament to our region’s inherent benevolence. This newspaper has published several reports about people doing good things on behalf of Ukrainians everywhere and, we’ll be honest, we’ve reported only after hearing about the events almost by chance. Maybe we saw a social…
Gaslighting Hartwick Editorial: April 14, 2022 The saddest truth, in the end, is a person died several weeks after a horrible in-home accident, and to the family of Flora Polulech, The Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta sends our sympathy. Late in the afternoon on Friday, April 8, New York State Police issued a press release finally admitting they found a January 2, 2022 incident to be a sad and tragic accident. It’s called a “Friday news dump” — late on a Friday…
Editorial: The inevitable stadium The nation’s football audience was legitimately incredulous several weeks ago when the NFL’s random rules denied the Bills offense a chance at the ball in its overtime loss – in a championship game, no less – to the Kansas City Chiefs. It’s a fair wager that New York sports fans took it particularly hard, as “our team” had a shot at the Super Bowl and then lost it in the closing seconds thanks to the reality…
Reasons to be Cheerful Editorial: March 31, 2022 In the beautiful 1979 movie “Being There,” Peter Sellers portrays a gentle and illiterate gardener who implausibly becomes a national sensation in a world gone wrong amid deep recession and winter malaise. A talk show host asks him for his outlook on the nation’s economic future. He pauses for a moment and says, “In the garden, growth has its seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter.…
Time to move on Editorial: March 24, 2022 Cooperstown Junior/Senior High School Principal Karl O’Leary’s March 18 dismissal seems abrupt. New York’s voluminous education law and its attendant rules and regulations, however, abide no impetuous action when it comes to personnel matters. Save for a handful of egregious situations, the Cooperstown Central School Board of Education and its sibling boards across the state are bound by strict legal procedure that demands any allegation of misconduct or malfeasance be addressed with…
‘Justice involved’ demands judicial discretion Editorial: March 17, 2022 Mjbizdaily.com – yes, there is a trade journal for all things marijuana – reports Otsego County as one of three north of New York City with more than 75 percent of its localities opting in to allowing retail pot dispensaries within their borders. And whether those jurisdictions opted in actively through an affirmative vote or passively – as Cooperstown’s Board of Trustees did when they completely took a walk on voting…
