LETTER from TERRY BERKSON Talk About Coop d’Etats! Early this spring, my reigning rooster, Geezbrook, who fathered almost all of this year’s egg-laying rookies, was challenged and defeated by one of his sons. When I arrived on the scene, the old man was cowering in a corner with his back facing his attacker. I scooted them out into the yard and they went at it again, Geezbrook seeming to have new heart against his son, who got down like an…
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LETTER from SAM MORKAL-WILLIAMS College Campuses Opening Again. Are We Sure It’s A Good Idea? To the Editor: This week, Hartwick College began moving students onto campus. SUNY Oneonta will begin the same process on the 22nd. I am sure that many area residents are wondering the same thing that I am: Why are we opening campuses at all? Last semester at SUNY Oneonta can be called nothing but a failure, (although the “Retrospective on Fall 2020” on www.oneonta.edu, through…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Greatest Generation Veterans Would Have Cringed To the Editor: My father was a U.S. Army captain in World War II; Nancy’s stepfather was a lieutenant in the Navy and Nancy’s father, Alfred Valjean Prather, was an officer in the 442nd Infantry Regiment, which was composed largely of Japanese Americans. The 442nd was particularly adept at killing Nazis. Although they are all gone, none of them would be particularly amused by the recent Trump Insurrection or the…
VACCINATIONS ARRIVING Obstacles Aplenty On C-19 Shots Bliss Ticks Off Shortcomings By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The struggle to lockdown concrete information and a larger anti-COVID vaccine allotment continues in Otsego County and beyond. “There is not an adequate supply of the vaccine,” David Bliss, county Board of Representatives chair, said Tuesday, Jan. 19. “This is a statewide problem.” According to a list he provided, the problems include: • Demand is higher than the current supply. • Only…
Food For Thought As it happens, the best hope now is not Biden’s ability to summon the better angels of our nature with a soaring speech. To the contrary, the new president’s modest oratorical gifts – the fact that he is by modern political standards a bit boring – can be a powerful asset. JOHN F. HARRIS Politico Jan. 19, 2121…
Bindi To The Rescue New Lisbon Farm Dog Best In U.S. By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Last spring, Sonya M. Galley, working in a pen on the family farm on Route 51 south of Garrattsville, felt a gentle nudge on her back. It was anything but. Turning around, she was confronted by a heifer, who then nudged her back into a sitting position “I was trapped,” said Sonya, who milks 60 Holsteins with her parents, Dave and Cassie,…
EDITORIAL Inauguration 2021 Chance For New Beginning The loss of innocence. And we thought it could only happen once. “I can’t help but think: You see these photos of the West Side of the Capitol, where presidents have stood and the transition of power has occurred. It’s so tainted now, with insurrectionists actually storming the Capitol. It’s hard to go back.” That’s Joey Katz, son of Cooperstown’s former mayor Jeff Katz, then a teenager, who – with his mother, Karen,…
FOUGHT FOR LAKEFRONT, BUILT SANTA’S COTTAGE, PLAYED CARDIFF GIANT James Dean, Village Trustee, And Much More By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com James Dean, a Cooperstown village trustee since the Democratic sweep in 2012 began his party’s almost decade-long control of 22 Main St., is stepping down. While known today as a trustee, Dean has been part of the civic landscape long before that: • Since early 1981, when, recently arriving (in 1977) from New Jersey, he launched a…
STATE FUNDING MAKES DREAM COME TRUE Worcester Man, Paralyzed At 11, Moves Into Dream Home At 31 By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Paralyzed after a farming accident when he was 11, James Scofield, now 31, says he values patience, accessibility and independence above all else. Now, he can enjoy all those things in his new, fully customized and accessible single-wide, set back off Mooney Road, framed by forest trees, courtesy of Otsego Rural Housing Assistance (ORHA). The lifelong…
HOMETOWN HISTORY January 21, 2021 150 Years Ago Local: The coal bill of Bissell & Yager, for the month ending January 1, amounted to nearly $5,000. H. Sessions fell from a scaffold on his house a few days since, from which he received quite severe injuries. E.R. Sabin, T.N. Derby and George Bond have each drawn a silver watch from prize candy packages. We learn that L.J. Emmons and E.G. Bixby contemplate moving to Kansas during the Spring or Summer.…
