RESTAURANTS OPEN AGAIN ‘Bubble’ Gives Diners Extra Layer Of Safety By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Alien spacecraft have not landed in the parking lot of Bocca Osteria, manager Art Boden assures everyone – they’re just the restaurant’s new dining “bubbles.” “These days, with the coronavirus and people concerned about their health issues, we want our customers to feel safe,” he said. “So now they can dine in their own little bubble.” Though Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that…
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EDITORIAL Testaments Tell Us: We CAN Do Better At first, the “Defund the Police” initiatives surfacing nationwide seem like a truly awful idea: a blunt instrument to dissect a complex challenge dramatized again by George Floyd’s May 25 death while being taken into custody in Minneapolis. But drilling down, benefits surface. It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that all organizations in Otsego County – local governments, non-profits, churches, businesses large and small, even newspapers – are rethinking operations in…
Wanna Bike? 4 Trail Systems Available Within Minutes Of Oneonta By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – If it’s been awhile since you rode a bike, now is the perfect time to get your wheels out of storage, Otsego Bicycles’ Sam Baskin will tell you. “There’s actually a bike shortage,” he said. “Because all the factories are shut down, we haven’t been able to get many new bikes in, so I’ve been busy fixing a lot of bikes…
For The Birds… Visit Audubon Sanctuary Atop Franklin Mountain By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com “TeacherTeacher. TeacherTeacher.” ONEONTA – That’s an Ovenbird,” said Andy Mason, co-president of the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Sanctuary. “In all the years I’ve been birding, I’ve only ever seen two, and one of those times was because I almost stepped on a nest.” Named for their dome-shaped nest built on the ground, the Ovenbird is one of more than 100 species of birds who make their…
Judge Coccoma Set To Retired June 30 Top Administrative Judge Outside NYC By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Whenever County Judge John Lambert had a question about the law, he knew he could turn to Judge Michael V. Coccoma, the county’s highest ranking jurist. “He was my mentor,” Lambert said. “There were times that a question would arise about how to handle something, he was a great person to bounce ethical questions of off. He was always willing…
FROM PROTESTS’ FRONT LINES Where Is God? In Otsego County By Rev. LaDANA CLARK • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Where is GOD? The whole world goes down in a plague and comes up in a peaceful protest! Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I can’t make a man love me, only GOD can do that.” Where is GOD? GOD is in the heart of every person who is rising up right now, on one accord, all over the country, and…
BOUND VOLUMES July 12, 2020 210 YEARS AGO The pirates in the Persian Gulph have been wholly defeated by the English; the pirates amounted to 6,000 men; but 1,400 English troops landed at Rasul Kimaz, their principal seat on the Arabian shore, and gained possession of the town in about four hours. The enemy was severely cut up, and gave away in every direction, and the town was given up to plunder. June 9, 1810 185 YEARS AGO Two Negroes…
LETTER from DAVID RISSBERGER Citizens Can Expected Action On City Policing To the Editor: In light of recent national and local events, I feel compelled to speak out regarding the tragic death of Mr. George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. As I’d like to believe most civilized people would be, I was horrified and appalled to watch the barbaric treatment of Mr. George Floyd as he was being arrested by the Minneapolis police department. Police officers take an oath…
HOMETOWN History June 13, 2020 135 Years Ago Preparations for the laying of the cornerstone of the new state armory next Thursday indicate that, should fair weather prevail, there will be an immense crowd in Oneonta. The parade in the afternoon will be the grandest ever seen in the Susquehanna valley, comprising as it will two or three richly uniformed commanderies, a score or more of blue lodges, several military companies and the Albany cadets besides the Oneonta fire department,…
PROTESTS INSPIRE TALK OF REFORM After Protest In Cooperstown, Oneonta Mayor Wants Review By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com After “Justice for George Floyd” rallies in Oneonta, then Cooperstown, the focus is turning from talk to action. Local chapter Vice President Michelle Osterhoudt advised Mayor Gary Herzig of the NAACP’s four-point “We Are Done Dying” program, including a ban on chokeholds, opening police disciplinary records, and citizen review boards. Paula DiPerna, the Cooperstown climate activist, said she has asked…
