As Susquehanna’s Source, Pure Water Matters Here Most By SANDRA VITTI & LARRY BENNETT Edition of Thursday-Friday Nov. 13-14 The Susquehanna River is the longest river in the East, providing drinking water to millions of people and a place for residents across multiple states to boat, swim and fish. What’s more, Cherry Valley Creek, Moss Pond and other local waterways help support dozens upon dozens of small businesses that help New Yorkers use and explore their waterways. Brewery Ommegang, for…
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Alas, Dear Citizens, Perhaps Some Of The Fault Is In Ourselves Edition of Thursday-Friday Nov. 13-14 It’s such a cliche we won’t even say it directly: all-ay, olitics-pay is-ay ocal-lay. Yes, such was certainly the case in the race for Congress in the 19th, the district that stretches along the Hudson River, then hooks over to, eventually, Otsego County. The incumbent running for his third term, U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, was everywhere. And even after he soundly defeated…
Fingers Crossed. Forums May Achieve ‘Single Point Of Contact’ Editorial for the edition of Thursday-Friday Oct. 16-17, 2014 Otsego County has never done economic development – and never will, county Treasurer Dan Crowell told the 2014 Otsego Leadership class when it convened last April at the Cooperstown Graduate Program. Economic development requires risk-taking, Crowell said, and the county Board of Representatives simply has been unwilling to risk taxpayer money. He couldn’t imagine the reps ever will. That’s prudent; they shouldn’t.…
Left Alone, Yanks, Ukrainians Friends Edition of Thursday-Friday Oct. 9-10 To the Editor, With all that is going on in the Ukraine, this may be of interest to World War II buffs. My husband Jerry Waller was, for two and a half years, in the Eighth Air Force in England. Suddenly, a group from his squadron was sent by ship down the coast of France to Gibraltar and across the Mediterranean to Cairo. From there they went by truck and…
Friendly Elephant Means No Harm, But Is What It Is Edition of Thursday-Friday, Oct. 9-10 To the Editor: I want to make it clear that at the public hearing on Monday, Sept. 29, I was not speaking against Bassett Healthcare; I was speaking against the strange and needless effort of village officials to create an Institutional District in place of a Residential District. I did note Bassett’s construction of a massive addition to the original hospital and its construction of…
Village Of Cooperstown CAN Be A Constructive Partner In Bassett’s Future Edition of Thursday-Friday Oct. 9-10, 2014 To the Editor, I would like to make a small contextual clarification to my published statement made after the no vote on the Hospital Zone. First, I don’t remember saying “forever” (but in the heat of the moment maybe I did). Second, I made that statement out loud to the mayor after I, and I believe Lou Allstadt (possibly others) wanted to have…
More Local Laws? Instead, Let Us Reason Together Edition of Thursday-Friday, Oct. 9-10 Attorney Doug Zamelis, it’s become evident around here over recent years, is a guy you want on your side of any legal fight. That first inkling came when, representing opponents of Community Energy’s 70-75 Jordanville Wind Farm (later Iberdrola’s), he identified violations of the state’s Open Meetings Law to take things back to zero. The project – the towers would have been visible from Otsego Lake –…
Scots Terrified Establishment, In End, Establishment Won Edition of Thursday-Friday, Sept. 25-26 Editor’s Note: Cooperstown’s Scott Buchanan, formerly this newspaper’s graphic artist, is living in Scotland. EDINBURG, Scotland Forty-five percent of the electorate in the highest turnout in modern political history voted for change, and didn’t get it. Fifty-five percent voted in fear of change, but change for the worse is what they shall have. The political landscape of the U.K. has been fundamentally changed by the referendum debate. Questions…
Northern Eagle Plans Seek More Economic, Ag Growth Edition of Thursday-Friday, Sept. 25-26 Editor’s Note: Northern Eagle Beverages President George Allen delivered these remarks Thursday, Sept. 18, at the ground-breaking on an 82,000-square-foot brewery and warehouse on Browne Street, Town of Oneonta, a hops-to-taps collaboration of the Hager family’s Northern Eagle, Cooperstown Brewery Co. and Hager Hops. The vision for the future started in July 2012 when a new site was being considered in the Pony Farm Industrial Park. That…
Like Charleston, Offer Free Trolleys Edition Of Thursday-Friday Sept. 25-26 To the Editor: A modest proposal: I recently happened to visit Charleston, S.C., which, like Cooperstown, is a noted tourist destination. And, like Cooperstown, or any similar tourist town, they have a parking problem. Charlestown, however, has done something which Cooperstown might consider, namely, establishing a free trolley service. Being able to jump on and off a trolley making the circuit of the main local sites without having to dig…