As mayor of Cooperstown, it is my honor to be asked to speak every year at our community’s Memorial Day Ceremony. I often note the memorials in our village to honor and remember those who travelled far beyond our small community to defend the principles and freedoms of our nation. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument, where the Memorial Day ceremony takes place, was erected in the early 1900s not by the village but by Otsego County in memory of all…
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Everyone was extremely professional and caring, and made me and my family feel very safe in their hands.…
Americans need physical and fiscal exercise or they will continue to become weaker. Our government is having to kick ever larger objects down the road than a can.…
160 YEARS AGO: The Final Arrangements: Final and thorough arrangements must be made by the Democrats of each town and election district for the contest of the 8th of November. We wish to offer a few timely suggestions to our friends in the county to this important matter. A committee should be appointed in each town, say of nine members, who should take upon themselves: 1. To complete the poll lists and see that every Democrat is registered. 2. To…
110 YEARS AGO: Evidence of skill with the rifle was witnessed Saturday by many Oneontans when two Ford motor cars were driven into the city by Mssrs. William Whitney and William Walker of Deposit, containing three fine bucks which were shot in the Long Lake region in the Adirondacks. Willis Walker, who was also a member of the party, brought down two of the bucks with his rifle.
Among all the autumn decorations in the display windows of the city, few…
The stark reality is that civic education in America has been neglected for decades. According to the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, only a third of adults would pass the civics exam required for U.S. citizenship. Even more alarming, the Annenberg Public Policy Center reports that nearly one-fifth of Americans can't name a single branch of government.…
Grant awardees were announced on Wednesday, October 16. Otsego County’s own Iron String Press—publishers of “The Freeman’s Journal” and “Hometown Oneonta” weekly newspapers and of the AllOtsego.com website—is one of them.…
Jobs are plentiful and workers are scarce, and not because people are sitting home living off of handouts from the government. At the end of my last column, I promised a solution to solving our worker shortage. The fix comes from a charged-up word we’ve heard on a daily basis for the past few years—immigration.…
Many things affect a person’s chance of getting cancer. These are called risk factors. Risk factors you can’t change include simply getting older. Most breast cancer is diagnosed in women ages 50 and older, and in people who have had breast cancer.…
As critical as things are with this election, we the people still have a chance to save ourselves, our children, our grandchildren, future generations, our democracy and our country. Friends, this time, we can’t just sit home and assume things will be fine. We all need to cast our votes on November 5. This is probably the most important thing you or I will ever do.…