Opportunities for Otsego Inc. is required by the Community Services Block Grant to complete a Community Needs Assessment every three years. And while the last fully completed document was submitted in 2017, no one could predict that we would be knee deep in a global pandemic by 2020.
All of our plans, including being involved in the 2020 Census Complete Count initiative, were cancelled…
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135 YEARS AGO
Following are excerpts from the so-called Alderman “Weidman’s Code,” a village ordinance governing the conduct of policemen patrolling in the Main Street and Market Street area of Oneonta: “…it shall be his duty to walk or patrol the entire length of said territory and keep a careful lookout to maintain order and preserve quietness and gentlemanly conduct from all, refraining from conversing with or holding extended conversations with anyone, except so far as is necessary to discharge the…
185 YEARS AGO
In the wake of several steam boat tragedies and injuries or death occasioned by other means involving steam-driven machines, the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to prepare and hand a report to Congress on the first day of the next Session, containing all the information that can be obtained as to the use of steam engines in the United States, and the accidents and loss of life or property which has attended their use.…
In a recent press release from Helios Care, Kate Sullivan was inadvertently misidentified as Karen Sullivan. Kate and husband Mike are the organizers of the recent Lucky Duck golf tournament fund raiser, held on behalf of the Helios Care Camp Forget-Me-Not Program.…
Congratulations to Xander Moffat and the entire AllOtsego team for the tremendous improvements and upgrades to the paper’s website. It has the look and feel of a major publication while retaining the tradition of a small-town paper for which “The Freeman’s Journal” is so well-known.…
On the eastern edge of Gravesend Bay, just at the mouth of the Coney Island Creek in Brooklyn, New York, there lies a makeshift graveyard for old barges, scows, pleasure boats and other decrepit vessels. Occasionally, at low tide, an unusual shape can be seen protruding from the water near the wrecks. It is that of a submarine’s conning tower. The sub, swept by storms and high tides, has been popping up at various sites in the area for more…
Last week, on the evening of Friday the 7th of July, the Glimmerglass Festival opened the doors of the Alice Busch Opera Theater for its 48th season with a provocative, moving, and beautifully sung and brilliantly acted performance of Puccini’s “La bohème.” This is the fifth Glimmerglass production of what is among the most well-known and well-loved operas in the world.…
This month’s article consists of excerpts I blew the dust off of from a 2017 Oneonta TEDx, in which I was honored to participate. As I reviewed the material, I realized that we are very much in the same boat—and probably taking on a bit more water. The title of the talk was “Expendable People.”
For every decision that our society makes to create profit, increase tax revenue, or develop an economic growth strategy on a known addictive product, we also…
One of my favorite writers, Hal Borland, often referred to what he described as nature’s eternal patterns. The many joys we experience up here on the hill are rooted in the promise of those patterns. Season after season there are certain things that we can count on. There inevitably will be slight alterations in the annual performance but, by and large, we can anticipate these annual encores.…
Imagine a warm, rainy afternoon on a perfumed walk through the Tuscan valley, and that is exactly what was conjured by the return of Fenimore Chamber Orchestra to Christ Church in Cooperstown on Saturday, June 17. The near-capacity audience was treated to another deeply musical and virtuosic display by this very stylish ensemble, guided by the knowing baton of Maestro Maciej Zoltowski.…
