Reprinted From This Week’s Hometown Oneonta & Freeman’s Journal ‘Say Their Name’ Photos Position Chief Brenner, Mayor Herzig At Odds By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Activist Diandra Sangetti-Daniels was shocked when she received the letter from Police Chief Doug Brenner criticizing the planned “Black Lives Matter” memorial in downtown Oneonta. “I read that letter,” she said during her remarks at the dedication of the “Say Their Names” photo display Sunday, July 26. “If they’re truly protecting every…
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THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta July 16-17, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Energetic New CEO Arrives At Basssett Parents Get Details Of CCS Reopening Oneonta Schools Working Out Details Union Pickets SQSPCA Construction Site Broadway Hails Oneonta’s ‘Liminator’ Supervisor ‘Hard Worker, Good Soul’ Pastor Sylvia, Jim Kevlin Wed At Lakeside Service AllOTSEGO.life At Wilber Park, Display Of Whimsy Author Promotes ‘Umpire’s Bunkhouse’ EDITORIALS Localities Allowed To Levy $1,000 Fines COLUMNS FISHER: NAACP Guided By…
Pastor Sylvia, Jim Kevlin Wed At Lakeside Service Sylvia Elizabeth Barrett and James C. Kevlin were married Saturday, July 11, 2020, on the porch at Hyde Hall, overlooking Otsego Lake. The Rev. Teressa Sivers, pastor, St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Ithaca, and former pastor of First United Methodist Church, Oneonta, performed the ceremony. The bride was given away by state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford. Cindy Seward was the matron of honor. The best man was Matthew Lacey, Exton, Pa. The bride…
Security Cameras Protect Trump Billboard By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – June 1, drivers on Route 28 north of this village noticed someone had thrown paint on the Trump 2020 billboard. As July 1 approached, drivers on Route 28 north of this village noticed someone has put up a brand new, shiny Trump 2020 billboard. “It’s exactly the same,” said Anna Johnson, 17-year manager at the Rome Sign Co., which owns the billboard and rents it out.…
WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER Slavery America’s Original Sin Eighty million native people of color lived in the Americas in 1492; 65 million primarily white people lived in Europe; 46 million people of color lived in Africa. In December of that year, Christopher Columbus landed on the Caribbean island of Haiti, which he then named Hispaniola, or Little Spain. It was the first recorded contact between Europeans and the indigenous Americans who called themselves the Taino. The Taino were divided into…
Sternberg Asks For Second Look ‘Indian’ Erasure Revisited By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN –Enough with “11th hour resolutions,” Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch is concluding. At issue at hand is a resolution, passed unanimously by the Village Board Monday, June 22, asking the state Education Department to consider removing the word “Indians” from the Historic Marker at Council Rock, and perhaps the one at the Indian Mound marker, too. As the trustees’ meeting was coming to an end,…
EDITORIAL Extremism Threatens George Floyd’s Legacy In our nation and county, we have a moment of opportunity. George Floyd’s death – and, in particular, the graphic video, 8 minutes and 46 seconds of it – caused every American of good will, black, white, Hispanic, even, yes, Indians, to say, enough is enough. The mechanisms of reform are starting to turn on the question of the moment: How do we retool our police departments so it, finally, once and for all,…
LETTER from JAMES “CHIP” NORTHRUP Give Native Americans A Say In How Things Are Named To the Editor: My distant relative and friend, the late Jim Northrup, was a Native American, decorated Vietnam Marine vet, and very humorous author. My real name is James so Jim and I used to joke about how all the “Jim Northrups are strong, handsome and above average.” He’s gone now, but on his behalf, as his paleface relative, I’d like to suggest that when…
MONEY MATTERS Slavery Was Most Everywhere Hating America is in fashion these days. As if you did not know. Fuel for the hatred comes in the form of sins. Sins the early Americans committed. They belittled women. They savaged the natives. And they owned slaves. As early as 1619. That was when an English shipowner unloaded African slaves into Virginia. Aboard his vessel, flying a Dutch flag. The haters claim this proves that racism is in this country’s DNA. It…
Museums, Hyde Hall Announce Openings By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – These days, even art plays it safe in the face of COVID-19. To enforce mask wearing when The Fenimore Art Museum opens on Friday, July 3, Assistant Curator James Matson Photoshopped masks over several pieces from the museum’s collection, including “Laura Hall” (1808) by James Brown, and “Picking Flowers” (1840) by Samuel Miller. “We took the artwork and utilized it for our signage,” said Todd Kenyon,…
