LETTER from DAVID HAYES Confederate Flag Putrid Reminder Racism Festers To the Editor, I read Jennifer Hill’s confederate flag story in its entirety and found the piece well written and sensitive to differing views. My objection is your newspaper’s implied endorsement of a hate symbol by front page placement. This was the standard held high by treasonous men who shot and killed U.S. Army soldiers. It remains a putrid reminder of this country’s festering racism, and was more recently displayed by…
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LETTER from PAUL CONWAY Rebel Flag Ominous To Many; Do We Want It At Fairs? NO! To the Editor: Jennifer Hill’s article “… A Matter of Freedom,” raised the issue of whether Confederate flags should be marketed at county fairs such as ours, in Morris. One side of the issue is well stated there. The vendor quoted was a reasonable individual who articulated the rights of all citizens to symbolically express themselves with displays of flags. There is “more and…
COLUMN Home Rule In Constitution, But Limited By ADRIAN KUZMINSKI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I’ve been commenting in recent columns on the first two Principles of Sustainable Otsego: Sustainable Living and Economic Independence. In this column, I want to take up the third and last principle: Home Rule. “Home” is where we live with family, friends, and neighbors. Its scale is small enough to sustain in-depth relationships with people and places. Home has the capacity to inspire love, not least…
COLUMN From Dispossession, Pain, Persistence Yields Renewal Glimmerglass’ ‘Traviata’ Tells Verdi Story By ROBERT MOYNIHAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Independence personified, he was an artist of the highest rank in the 19th Century, a period of creative superlatives – what came to be known with the changed and now abused word, “genius.” He died in the first months of the 20th – within days of the departure of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and, thanks to the fawning Disraeli, Empress…
COLUMN Why Must Presidential Bids Go On Forever-And-A-Day? By TOM MORGAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com If there’s one thing we’re good at in this country it is expanding things. From our waistlines and hamburgers to the NBA season, we know how to make things bigger and longer. Please note I do not imply necessarily better. The Baseball Hall of Fame serves up a good example. In 1980 I went to its big induction ceremony in Cooperstown. When…
EDITORIAL Take Control! Consider Otsego Lake Association Annual Meeting at 9 a.m. This Saturday With so many areas of American life seemingly spinning out of control, there’s a contrary example in the Otsego Lake Association (OLA). Its “100-percent volunteers,” according to Jim Howarth, co-president with David Sanford, are focused on a common mission: “Protecting the health, beauty and wellbeing” of the lake. Listening to them, it’s clear: Local volunteers, working together, can get a lot done. There are larger non-profit,…
COLUMN THE VIEW FROM 22 MAIN People Want To Live In Village. There’s Room By CINDY FALK • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I am passionate about housing. In fact, I write this as I prepare to travel to Honduras to participate in a program called Mi Casa, which provides new or renovated houses for Hondurans who do not have the resources to obtain adequate housing themselves. Having a place to call home is a fundamental component of personal identity and a…
COLUMN A FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE Accidents Will Happen… By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Well, of course they will, if you mean by accident a sudden, undesirable event – one that might have been prevented by closer attention. “Damn, why didn’t I see that coming?” That’s our common reaction to a minor accident, a fender-bender, maybe. But if the accident’s a more serious one, our response may well be guilt, recriminations, fear of consequences. “You know kids play ball…
IN APPRECIATION • Joe Campbell Sr. Of Many Oneonta Greats, Joe Left A Big Footprint Editor’s Note: “Big Chuck” D’Imperio, radio personality and author, assess Joe Campbell’s impact on Oneonta at the “Voice of Oneonta’s” memorial service Saturday. This is an excerpt. By CHUCK D’IMPERIO • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com When I joined WDOS in 1989 I was a fairly young guy, not even 40-years-old yet. And the station was filled with young people, from sales to administrative to on-air and…
EDITORIAL Marijuana Law Prudent Step. Maybe, Just Maybe, Enough This year’s wild and crazy one-party bloc in Albany may have, by failing to reach it’s ultimate goal, achieved a sensible outcome in one area. Governor Cuomo Monday, July 29, signed legislation that reduces the penalty for unlawful possession of marijuana under 2 ounces from felony to violation. The penalty: a $50 fine for less than an ounce to a maximum of $200 for one to 2 ounces. (Above that, dealing’s…
