Letter: A vote against dispensaries To the Editor: I continue to be very concerned about the unknown unintended consequences if cannabis dispensaries and lounges were to be permitted in the Village of Cooperstown. Whether it will help, hurt, or have no effect on the quality of life, tourism, the nation’s view of the Village of Cooperstown (will they still visit in family units?), the desire of the average person to want to live and work in the village, the view…
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Editorial: Opt out, for now “Now. Before I begin the lesson, will those of you who are playing in the match this afternoon move your clothes down onto the lower peg immediately after lunch, before you write your letter home, if you’re not getting your hair cut, unless you’ve got a younger brother who is going out this weekend as the guest of another boy, in which case, collect his note before lunch, put it in your letter after you’ve…
Letter: Do better by Bud Fowler To the Editor: Bud Fowler (aka John W. Jackson) deserves more than your brief announcement that he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame! While statistics weren’t collected in his day (1858-1913), Fowler distinguished himself in several ways: 1. According to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, he was considered to be the best player on most of the many teams for which he played. 2. He was regularly attacked on racial grounds by…
Omicron: good news, bad news, more news By Richard Sternberg M.D. Some good news about the Omicron and Delta variants of COVID-19. Data from an Israeli study shows that people who received booster doses of the Pfizer vaccine were 90 percent less likely to die from a Delta infection than those who relied solely on the initial two-dose vaccination. Those who received the initial two-dose vaccine were 85 percent less likely to die than the unvaccinated. Unfortunately, these are not…
Writer calls for more domestic production to stop reliance on China To The Editor, Shipping from China is backed up and will affect the economy this year and in the future. America should produce these products at home, reducing the need for goods to be shipped and reducing our alarming dependency on China. Gerry Welch Cooperstown…
News from the noteworthy Tobacco-free colleges save lives Tobacco Free Communities| Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie Nine out of 10 smokers start smoking by age 18, and 99% start by age 26. So, if we can just keep young people from starting, we can prevent a vast majority of them from becoming one of the 480,000 lives taken every year by smoking. But how do we do that? It takes intentional steps, including reducing the appeal and accessibility of tobacco products,…
Take precaution, but don’t rush to judgment “Virologists will tell you that predicting how a new virus might evolve is a fool’s errand. Predicting that it will evolve is money in the bank.” – The Economist. Since the genome for Covid-19 was first sequenced in January 2020, there have been 5.6 million sequence variations added to the database. Obviously most variations do not make much difference, but a very few do so spectacularly. The Omicron variant is different than others…
Let’s verb again, like we did last Christmas By Ted Potrikus Do you remember the classic comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes”? It was my daily must-read back when it ran in newspapers; it remains a go-to in its various printed collections or online. My favorite among the strips finds Calvin telling Hobbes this: “I like to verb words.” He goes on: “I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when ‘access’ was a thing? Now it’s something…
Editorial: Timely guidance? New Yorkers learned late December 6 exactly which hospitals around the state would be subject to Governor Kathy Hochul’s Executive Order limiting certain elective surgeries and procedures beginning roughly 36 hours later, on December 9. The order initially exploded out of Albany seemingly moments after South Africa’s first report of Covid-19’s Omicron variant. We recognize and appreciate Governor Hochul’s proactive effort, but there’s a big disconnect at play reminiscent of just about every Covid-19-related Executive Order her…
Bound Volumes 185 YEARS AGO Man is so constituted, that when he directs all his energies to a single employment, the products of his labor are far more abundant and excellent, than when he follows several employments. By confining both body and mind to a single operation, a degree of skill and dexterity in that operation is acquired, which could not be attained if the same, or even a much greater amount of labor had been bestowed on several direct…
