TOM MORGAN'S MONEY TALK The People Said No Editor's Note: The column, Money Talk, by Tom Morgan of Franklin, the retired Oneonta investment counselor, is syndicated nationally. Here is this week's column. Wha’ happened? Did earthquakes churn Europe into rubble? Did The Plague descend upon Britain? Did skyscrapers topple? Did the Queen scamper naked ‘round Picadilly Circus? Europeans are screaming at the Brits. Calling them everything but Nazis. Half the British are screaming at the other half. In fact calling them…
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VALEDICTORY ...And, Yes, We Are Fiscally Sound, Supervisor Atwell Says In Summing Up Editor's Note: Anne Geddes Atwell, Otsego town supervisor or town board member for the past decade, is retiring from her municipal responsibilities at year's end. She provided this summing up of her tenure. By ANNE GEDDES ATWELL, Supervisor, Town of Otsego Supervisor Anne Geddes Atwell presides at an Otsego Town Board meeting earlier this year. She is flanked by Town Board members Bennett Sandler, left, and Tom…
On-Street Parking Settled, Residential Permits Await COOPERSTOWN - Villagers whose heads may still be spinning over on-street parking, P&D machines and downtown parking permits, now have another concept around which to wrap their brains. Residential parking permits. The Village Board has scheduled a “workshop meeting” for 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20. Mayor Jeff Katz anticipates a free-floating discussion to see if there is any consensus on the matter. The public is welcome, but no public comment. You have reached your limit…
EDITORIAL After 3 Years, It’s Time To Properly Implement City Charter Incoming Council member Melissa Nicosia’s fresh perspective cut through the accretions: Qualifications contained in the Oneonta City Charter matter. With her is fellow charter review member David W. Brenner. Read the city charter: Meg Hungerford does not have the qualifications to be Oneonta city manager. Efforts to put her in that position regardless damaged the last year of the Miller Administration, and continuing efforts to do so are preventing…
EDITORIAL MV500 Plan Condemns Otsego To Low-Salary, Seasonal Jobs Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from this week's editorial in Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman's Journal, on newsstands in Oneonta, Cooperstown and beyond this afternoon. MV500 co-chair Alicia Dicks briefs a local crowd on Otsego County's prospects during a meeting at the Hall of Fame's Bullpen Theater in mid-September. When the plan was released last week, it appeared Otsego County had been dealt out of any meaningful involvement in the…
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Amphenol Advocates Need To Make Their Voices Heard Editor's Note: This is our opinion, expressed in the editorial that appeared in the Sept. 10-11 editions of The Freeman's Journal & Hometown Oneonta. What do you think? Send your opinion to info@allotsego.com, to appear in this week's editions of the newspaper. Amphenol's new plant on the Back River Road, Sidney, which opened last spring. (AllOTSEGO.com photo) Clearly, Stop the Pipeline has dominated the debate about the Constitution…
‘Myths’ Capture Inspiration We Need To Move Forward In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. On the sixth day, he created man and woman. Tempted by a serpent in the Garden of Eden established for their happiness, they ate fruit from the Tree of Life, gaining the knowledge of good and evil. A perfect world was no more. And so mankind was banished from the Garden of Eden, for Adam – and these days, Eve – to earn…
allotsego.com EDITORIAL Don't Be Stampeded, Keep Manager In Place For Now Yet again, Council member Mike Lynch – this time, with the help of colleague Larry Malone – has manufactured a crisis in Oneonta City Hall. Oneonta City Manager Martin Murphy This evening, Common Council will convene in special session to act on a motion to approve a severance package for City Manager Martin Murphy. Acting Mayor Russ Southard, who confirmed Murphy Thursday morning declined a request that he resign,…
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