THE VIEW FROM ALBANY Trouble At Nursing Homes By State Sen. JIM SEWARD • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Nursing home policies in New York State have been under the microscope throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and a number of significant concerns remain. Back in July, after months of silence and inaction, Democrats finally heeded the call to hold legislative hearings. Unfortunately, the Senate Investigations Committee refused to issue even a single subpoena to compel documents and testimony from the Cuomo Administration or…
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FIELD STORIES After 50 Bombing Missions, Airman Enjoyed Tranquillity By TERRY BERKSON • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com SOUTH COLUMBIA – World War II veteran Jim Andrecheck, who lives just north of Richfield Springs, recently fell and broke his hip. He’s almost 99 years old and I thought the injury would end his and his wife Mary’s independent life style. • Up until a year and a half ago, Jim was driving a pickup and tending his own vegetable garden. Miraculously, his…
LETTER from CINDY FALK Village Needs Younger Voices, Like MacGuire Benton’s To the Editor: I grew up reading the newspaper much as you are now. There were no cellphones, no social media, and no 24-hour news networks. My worldview was shaped by rotary dials, printer’s ink, and the 6 o’clock news. I imagine many of you could say the same. Between 1990 and 2010, the federal Census showed that in the Village of Cooperstown there was an overall decline in…
LETTER from WILLIAM PIETRAFACE No SUNY Campus Mandated Tests To the Editor: As a retired SUNY Oneonta professor of biology, I have been following the local and national coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak on the campus. Here are some thoughts on the coverage. SUNY Oneonta’s planning for reopening for the fall semester began in April with widespread input from all stakeholders on campus. The Local Control Group, which includes representation from the City of Oneonta and the Otsego County Department…
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Praising Justice Ginsburg …With One Reservation We mourn Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Born in Brooklyn in 1933, she taught at both Rutgers and Columbia, and became Columbia’s first tenured female professor. She was director of the Women’s Rights Project of the ACLU during the 1970s, and argued six important cases on gender equality before the Supreme Court, winning five of them. President Jimmy Carter appointed her to…
LETTER from CHUCK HAGE Mary-Margaret Robbins Would Let All Be Heard To the Editor: Do a favor to your neighbors and yourself by voting for Mary-Margaret Robbins for trustee of the Village of Cooperstown. She is a fine person, conscientious about everything she does. As a trustee, she would serve all constituents faithfully and productively. She brings to the table a pleasant spirit of cooperation, a sound sense of priorities, and a deep desire for all voices to be heard.…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Tragedy Proves COVID No Hoax I graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine in 1978. Adeline Fagan graduated from the SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine in 2019. She started a residency program in obstetrics and gynecology in Houston. She died from COVID-19 Saturday, Sept. 19, age 28. She most likely became infected working a shift in her hospital’s emergency room in the late spring. From what I’ve read,…
GUEST COLUMN Man Socks Rooster Last late fall, I was getting ready to box up my chickens and take them to Knight’s auction in West Winfield so that we would be free to spend some time in sunny Florida. My neighbor, Jim, who lives across the road, surprised me when he offered to keep my birds in his coop for the winter. “Why would you want to do that?” I asked. “Body heat,” was Jim’s answer. “The more chickens in…
LETTER from JIM FRANCIS Stone Slab Steps In Our Winters? To the Editor: Have those designers on the new Huntington Park plan ever spent a winter in Oneonta? The slab steps aren’t really shovelable, or passable. They’ll cut down many trees for sledding, which is currently available? And I sure wouldn’t send my kid down that slide with rocks on both sides. But, it’s not like I’m looking for a design award. JIM FRANCIS Oneonta…
GUEST COLUMN More Than Ever, People Need Guns “On every question of construction (of the Constitution), let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” Thomas Jefferson • Clearly among too many politicians, arrogant academia, and New York State itself, there is an…
