County Restaurants Expecting To Reopen Governor May Announce News Friday By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com If you see darkened windows at Mel’s at 22 on Thursday, June 11, don’t worry – they’re just getting ready to welcome everyone back in. “We’re closing on Thursday to get ready to reopen on Friday,” said owner Brian Wrubleski. “We’ll be able to do some more intricate plates, start fooling around for the summer!” With COVID-19 metrics continuing to improve, Otsego County…
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FROM PHILANTHROPY’S FRONT LINES Needs Met, But Much Left To Do By HARRY LEVINE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com We first announced the creation of the COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund in this newspaper on April 21. We had not intended to start our public life this way, but the need for such a fund was obvious to us and we felt a deep responsibility to join those already fighting the pandemic. What we can now report is that the community,…
JUSTICE FOR ALL NAACP’s President: Let’s Live Up To Ideals Editor’s Note: Lee Fisher, president of the NAACP, Oneonta chapter, delivered this address Sunday, June 7, at the Rally for Justice on the Otsego County Courthouse steps in Cooperstown. By LEE FISHER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com We hold these truths to be self evident, that all humans are created (and treated) equal with certain inalienable rights and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Now more than…
LETTER from CHIEF DOUG BRENNER Oneonta Police Will Listen To Concerns To the Editor: Contemporary law enforcement is as dynamic and challenging as we seen during any of our careers in law enforcement. While we who have chosen this profession watch national trends, tragedies and triumphs and shared challenges, we are uniquely Oneontan. We have had some low moments in this department that have prompted, over time, a near-complete overhaul of the agency. These changes were a response, in some…
VICTIM, KINFOLKS, RAISED IN HOUSTON Families Like Floyd’s ‘Great Role Models’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Chip Northrup knows a few things about protesting. “There was a big billboard outside of Dallas that proclaimed ‘Welcome to the Home of the John Birch Society’,” he said. “So I got a gang together and we paint-bombed the billboard. I was Antifa before Antifa was cool!” And when he heard about the death of Houston native George Floyd, Northrup recognized…
VIEW PRESIDENT DRUGOVICH’S VIDEO Hartwick United In Seeking Justice Editor’s Note: Hartwick College President Margaret L. Drugovich issued this letter to the college community to address concerns in the wake of George Floyd’s death. By MARGARET DRUGOVICH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Simply occupying the office of the college presidency does not give me the right to presume that I know how every member of our community thinks or feels. We do not all agree on politics, culture or even the…
LETTER from MAUREEN DILL County Planner Sullivan Always Went Extra Mile To the Editor: Karen Sullivan and her predecessor Terry Bliss were amazing leaders and expert planners. Otsego County was lucky to have them. I had the pleasure of knowing and working with them during my role as flood recovery coordinator from 2006 to 2008 and, as I recall, it was through Karen’s efforts that flood victims who had lost their homes to the flood were able to benefit from…
LETTER from ANDREW MASON Step Up, OCCA, BFS, Watershed Commission To the Editor: Michael Whaling’s recent letter in The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta, regarding pesticide use by the Leatherstocking Golf Course, was spot on. This is just the time when the course begins its annual dousing of the shores of Otsego Lake with chemicals dangerous to humans and wildlife alike. The last time the public was able to learn the specific materials and quantities used on the course, it…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta June 11-12, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Protests Inspire Talk Of Reform Floyd’s Family ‘Great Role Models Restaurants To Reopen This Friday Otsego County’s Top Jurist Retires Hartwick, SUNY-O Plan Reopenings AllOTSEGO.outdoors For The Birds, Visit Audubon Sanctuary Wanna Bike? 4 Trail Systems Right Here EDITORIALS Personal Stories Say: We Can Do Better COLUMNS FISHER: Let’s Live Up To Our Ideals DRUGOVICH: Hartwick United For Jusice LaDANA: Where Is…
Phase 2 Opens Main Street Shops By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Kim Weekes, Oneonta, had been waiting for this moment for two months. “I feel giddy, like a school girl,” she said. “It’s like a first date!” Weekes, a client of Kelly Woessner at The Hair Studio in The Shops at Ford and Main, snagged a coveted appointment on Saturday, May 29, Oneonta, the first full-day retail and hair salons could be open under Phase Two of NY…
