Elephant In The Room Undergirds Discourse Dismiss Smokescreen Hype About Dubious New Jobs In last week’s editorial in this newspaper, Oneonta Mayor Herzig is quoted as saying: “We should not let those who are economically secure, by comparison, tell those who need jobs they can’t have them.” The mayor was reacting to the March 5 hearing he moderated at the Foothills in Oneonta, where a long series of speakers pushed back almost unanimously against the gas-expansion project proposed by the…
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EDITORIAL The Pride, Exhilaration Of Championship Run Belong To All Of Us Forever A columnist – a dad, too – wrote in Psychology Today a few years ago: “My hope is that their involvement in sports will help to build their character in positive ways. I’d like them to learn to cooperate with others, work together for a common goal, respond appropriately to victory and defeat, and grow in virtues like courage, humility, patience and perseverance.” Why did the CCS…
from Danny Lapin RSS Housing Project Not Right For Oneonta To the Editor: The proposed housing project by Rehabilitation Support Services (RSS) of Altamont in Oneonta’s Sixth Ward is a flawed development. RSS wants taxpayers to pay for it; they trying to circumvent public input and they’re using strong-arm tactics to get approval to start construction. Therefore, I oppose it. RSS wants to build a 64-unit project for low- and moderate-income people that will include 14 apartments reserved for individuals…
from Nicole Dillingham Otsego 2000 Is Challenging DGEIS Brownfield Findings To the Editor: The flood of editorials trying to divide our community regarding heavy industrial development in Oneonta are discouraging. They may help sell newspapers, but they lack integrity. This is not a choice between jobs or no jobs. It is not even a choice between development or no development. It is purely a choice about what kind of jobs and what kind of development is suitable. To answer this…
from Nicholas Cunningham Whom Do We Trust? To the Editor: Re Mike Zagata’s March 14 remarks about socialism, the National Debt, and energy: • Our health, education and welfare can be entrusted to our legislatures and executives whom we vote in or out. Or they can be run by big corporations over which we have almost no control. • Social security, our public schools and Medicare may be socialistic, but whatever we call them, they serve us pretty well. •…
MAKE HISTORY • COMMENTARY State Championship Will Echo Through Boy’s Lifetimes, Ours By TOM HEITZ • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – The date is uncertain. But it happened at the Clark Gymnasium in a building on Cooperstown’s Main Street a few years before the turn of the 20th Century. Someone propelled a large round ball into the cone of a metal hoop in the middle of the gym floor “to score a basket” for the first time.…
Herzig: Act Today, Look To Tomorrow In response to an outpouring of criticism at a public hearing on the GEIS Tuesday, March 5, to Oneonta City Hall and Otsego Now’s plans to redevelop the D&H railyards, Mayor Gary Herzig had an elegant reply. Development on the 50 acres suitable for job-generating enterprises will: • One, be as energy efficient as construction technology currently allows. • Two, use as little natural gas and fossil fuels as possible. • Three, use as…
Please, County Reps And Trustees: Get Chief Covert Help He Needs How often do any of us, over the course of our lifetimes, get the opportunity to save another human life? But the Otsego County Board of Representatives and Cooperstown Village Board have been presented with that opportunity in the case of Mike Covert, 58. Covert, a 25-year county employee (mostly as a deputy sheriff) and village police chief since 2013, has suffered the health travails of a modern-day…
Trustee Dewey Outlines Credentials, Asks For Vote To the Editor: Twenty-four years ago, my husband and I were deciding where to settle to pursue our careers and raise a family, and in our search we found Cooperstown. This beautiful village, situated equidistant from my hometown of Rochester and John’s hometown of Worcester, Mass., felt like the perfect place to call home. We chose well – Cooperstown has indeed been a wonderful community to be a part of. Through the years,…
Cooperstown Can Have It All – Classical Music, Talk Radio – On WSKG To the Editor: WSKG, the only classical music station accessible to Cooperstown listeners, has recently changed to a new all-talk format on both its frequencies (91.7 and 105.9). This constitutes a real loss for our community, where classical music has a strong cultural and economic presence: witness the Glimmerglass Festival and the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival. But all is not lost! WSKG operates a partner station, “WSKG…
