LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG STERNBERG: Doctor In The House (Isolated) Like many of us this Thanksgiving, my family had a very truncated get together and dinner. My daughter visited from Annapolis, Md. She had been self-isolating, had rarely gone out, always took precautions, and was tested the week before she decided to come visit. We decided that the risk of being infected by her was very, very minimal after all of these precautions, and invited her. I myself have been…
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Reprinted From This Week’s Hometown Oneonta, Freeman’s Journal SUNY Over Hurdle On Reopening Plan Enough Agree On 20% In-Person Classes By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The stumbling block is gone, it seems. Enough faculty members have volunteered to teach 20 percent of the in-person, “dual modality” classes called for in SUNY Oneonta’s plan to reopen on Feb. 1, 2021, according to David Lincoln, president of the local chapter of the United University Professions (UUP). “That’s correct,” said SUNY…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Dec. 03-04, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Thanksgiving Hosts Stricken SUNY Over Hurdle On Reopening Plan Democrats Back Away From Coup Grayish Black Friday Sign of 2020 Season City Clerk Powell Retires, Assistant Will Succeed Her EDITORIAL End of Coronavirus Is Near, Multiple Vaccines Tell Us If You Want Public Office, You Ought To Say Why Publically COLUMNS MCREYNOLDS: The Joys, Challenges of Retirement STERNBERG: Doctor In The House…
LETTER from MARY ANNE WHELAN, MD These Facts Correct: Guns Are Killing Us To the Editor: In his most recent letters to the editor on the subject of gun regulation, Mr. Brockway seems to have the shoe on the wrong foot when it comes to factual statements, a particularly bad error for a blacksmith. In addition to his past claims that the Democratic presidential candidates all wanted to take your guns away, which he surely knew to be false –…
Editorial If You Want Public Office, You Ought To Say Why Publicly The county board’s Administration Committee set a poor precedent in deciding to interview candidates for state Sen.-elect Peter Oberacker’s District 6 seat in “executive session” – that is, in secret, out of the public view. The county attorney, Ellen Coccoma, last week advised the Admin Committee when it interviewed the Republican candidate, Jennifer Mickle, that whether to do so in public or not was optional, up to the reps.…
Grayish Black Friday Sign of 2020 Season By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com For Oneonta’s Bonnie Johnson, this year’s Black Friday gave her the opportunity to try something she hadn’t in years past. “It was nice to sleep in!” she said as she browsed shoes the day after Thanksgiving at JC Penney. “Usually I have to get up early.” Mindful of masks and social distancing, shoppers nonetheless flocked to the Southside Mall on Friday, Nov. 27, although it was…
Editorial End of Coronavirus Is Near, Multiple Vaccines Tell Us For Now, Wear Masks, Social Distance, Avoid Crowds You hear talk about a “second wave” of COVID-19, and it’s here. But take heart. In context, we’re not seeing the end of the beginning, but the beginning of the end. USA Today’s lead headline Monday was “Moderna seeks emergency FDA approval for COVID-19 vaccine,” and it was echoed in all the national newspapers – the New York Times, the Wall Street…
LETTER from ERNA MORGAN McREYNOLDS The Joys, Challenges of Retirement Mom told me that they promised her the “Golden Years” but she got the “Rust Years.” She had dreamed of retiring. Yet after a couple of weeks into retirement her litany changed from “can’t wait to retire” to telling me: “Don’t do it’’. My Mom was born when women were supposed to stay home, while their husbands supported the family. But, my Dad, Mom’s husband, lost their farm and his…
Oh Say, Could We See……
Bresee’s Santa Lives Restored Five Years Ago, Jolly Elf Reclaims His Stature In Downtown By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Even Santa Claus sometimes needs a little work done. For the past five years, he’s been a Christmas Time treat at the Greater Oneonta Historical Society, but for many years after Bresee’s Department Store closed down in the 1990s, he was out of the public eye. “He had been in our warehouse, and we rescued him,” said Elaine Bresee,…
