BOUND VOLUMES October 1, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Monument to General Jackson – The City Council of New Orleans passed a resolution for the appropriation of the sum of 50,000 dollars to defray the expense of erecting an equestrian statue of General Andrew Jackson, in the public square in front of the Cathedral church. It is intended that the statue shall be executed by Canova, the Roman sculptor, the most celebrated artist of the age and that it shall be…
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LETTER from PATSY SMITH Mary-Margaret Robbins Has Brains, Courage, Kindliness To the Editor: I feel strongly that I do endorse the candidacy of Mary-Margaret Robbins for village trustee. I have known Mary-Margaret for a long time, and I admire her brain power, as well as her kindness to others and her guts. Most of us knew her when she was a pharmacists at CVS. Unfortunately, she had to retire from that job to take care of her health. Today she…
EDITORIAL Use County Historian Position To Help Revive Post-COVID Economy ‘History Tourism’ Can Bolster Off-Seasons As it happens, both AllOTSEGO.life stories in this week’s newspaper – it’s rechristened for this one week only as AllOTSEGO.heritage – explore two surprising pieces of our county’s history. Too little known, not to our local historians, listed in the box at right, but to most of the rest of us. Also this week, our county’s Heritage Businesses trumpet their longevity and success in twice-annual…
LETTER from CINDY FALK Village Needs Younger Voices, Like MacGuire Benton’s To the Editor: I grew up reading the newspaper much as you are now. There were no cellphones, no social media, and no 24-hour news networks. My worldview was shaped by rotary dials, printer’s ink, and the 6 o’clock news. I imagine many of you could say the same. Between 1990 and 2010, the federal Census showed that in the Village of Cooperstown there was an overall decline in…
LETTER from WILLIAM PIETRAFACE No SUNY Campus Mandated Tests To the Editor: As a retired SUNY Oneonta professor of biology, I have been following the local and national coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak on the campus. Here are some thoughts on the coverage. SUNY Oneonta’s planning for reopening for the fall semester began in April with widespread input from all stakeholders on campus. The Local Control Group, which includes representation from the City of Oneonta and the Otsego County Department…
Plan Fixes Oneonta Deck, Razes Eyesore By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Done right, said Liz Colvin, a transport hub can transform an entire city. “In Binghamton, the bus station was in a really low-income neighborhood and it was not a nice place to be,” said Colvin, Wendel Companies’ senior project manager assigned to the Oneonta project. “But with our plan, they took a whole city block, redeveloped it, and now there’s retail, a diner that people…
LETTER from CHUCK HAGE Mary-Margaret Robbins Would Let All Be Heard To the Editor: Do a favor to your neighbors and yourself by voting for Mary-Margaret Robbins for trustee of the Village of Cooperstown. She is a fine person, conscientious about everything she does. As a trustee, she would serve all constituents faithfully and productively. She brings to the table a pleasant spirit of cooperation, a sound sense of priorities, and a deep desire for all voices to be heard.…
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Praising Justice Ginsburg …With One Reservation We mourn Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Born in Brooklyn in 1933, she taught at both Rutgers and Columbia, and became Columbia’s first tenured female professor. She was director of the Women’s Rights Project of the ACLU during the 1970s, and argued six important cases on gender equality before the Supreme Court, winning five of them. President Jimmy Carter appointed her to…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Tragedy Proves COVID No Hoax I graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine in 1978. Adeline Fagan graduated from the SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine in 2019. She started a residency program in obstetrics and gynecology in Houston. She died from COVID-19 Saturday, Sept. 19, age 28. She most likely became infected working a shift in her hospital’s emergency room in the late spring. From what I’ve read,…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg And Otsego County By LIBBY CUDMORE• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – One summer, while visiting Cooperstown, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg had a request for her friend, Kay Pierro. “She wanted to go waterskiing!” Pierro said. “So I asked around for a friend who had a boat to take her on, but (federal marshals) needed to follow in a second boat, so I had to ask around for another. “She tried so hard to get up, but…
