Letter From AL COLONE With Time On Our Hands, Let’s Revisit One Oneonta To the Editor: During this time of crisis, Governor Cuomo’s daily report on the coronavirus in New York State has brought me a sense of reassurance that we will “beat the beast!” He regularly talks of making something good come out of bad situations; he speaks of the positive outcomes which have resulted from past crisis. What will things look like in our lives after the COVID-19…
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The View From Albany Don’t Forget Lyme Disease The Coronavirus threat continues to dominate our lives in so many ways. As the weather starts to improve and people spend more time outdoors, while practicing social distancing and following other safety guidelines, there is another issue to keep in mind – Lyme disease. May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month and with the number of reported cases in New York rising each year, it is important to arm yourself and your family…
Letter From CHIP NORTHRUP The Answer? Conservation To the Editor: George W. Bush is an old acquaintance of mine, I have known him since before he was governor of Texas, much less President. Although he was a so-so governor and a terrible President, one thing he’s not is a hypocrite. His erstwhile opponent, Al Gore, became the darling of the environmental movement with his groundbreaking film, “An Inconvenient Truth.” The most inconvenient truth about “Inconvenient Truth” is that Gore subsequently…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta April 30-May 1, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS UPDATE BEGINNING OF THE END? NO JETER INDUCTION UNTIL 2021 Week 1, Donors Give Foundation $127K With Elective Surgery, Bassett Normalizing Seward: Prayers Helped Me Through COVID-19 From Edmeston Comes NYC Angel Of Mercy ‘Bad Batch’ Cause 4 Oneonta Overdoses AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 Masks – Necessity Or Fashion Statement? Garden Club’s Daffodils Brighten Oneonta Libby’s List Of Virtual Things To Do EDITORIALS With Facts…
LETTER from MICHAEL WHALING And by The Way, Pesticides Still Used On Lakeside Links To the Editor: As spring slowly approaches, golf season will begin and pesticides applied to the Leatherstocking Golf Course on the sloping west shore of Cooperstown’s drinking water source and Susquehanna River headwaters. While this practice has been previously challenged by this writer and others, the Biological Field Station has been silent. Their only comment was: “Nothing was found” in their testing. While this is good…
LETTER from JAY FLEISHER Support President? Support Dictator To the Editor: Have you ever asked why? Why are Trump’s “facts” different from those of experts? Why does he mock and attack journalists who ask tough questions? Why does he encourage radicals to demonstrate? Why does he ignore information from knowledgeable scientists? Why does he want to open the economy before its safe? Why does he surround himself with “yes” men and women? Why can’t he tolerate criticism? Answer these questions…
LETTER from ALBERT COLONE Pandemic Proving: Socialism Only Answer To the Editor: The most important word to define the “Cares Act” is socialism. One thing is for sure, the private sector will not be the source of a post COVID-19 recovery, either in job creation or in providing the source of accompanying funds! Think of it: It wasn’t that long ago that President Trump and his Congressional Republican allies were chastising Democrats for wanting to bring nasty “socialism” to America;…
LETTER from R. SCOTT DUNCAN Is Mother Nature Telling Us To Rest? To the Editor: Far away from here, in the Middle Kingdom, a place we know of as China. A little bat dove out of the rafters and took flight. It skimmed along, above the market stalls grabbing up bugs. The bat had no idea that it would do more for nature in a few weeks then all mankind could ever do. It was just being a bat. A…
LETTER from GERRY WELCH Expecting COVID Will Go Away Is Magical Thinking To the Editor: Authorities seem to believe the coronavirus is going to behave like SARS. Here today and probably gone tomorrow. Magically disappear. They are simply not preparing for the potential long haul, that of the virus again and again rearing its ugly head. They also don’t seem to be willing to think that immunity is gained by surviving the disease. I think out of the box, both…
LETTER from JAMES DEAN Well-Intentioned Visitors May Spur Rebound In Corinavirus To the Editor: The best practice COVID-19 containment plans of Otsego County, and its residents, could be upset to an unknown degree this summer when well intentioned visitors may start coming in from all over the country. That will be the uncontrollable variable that could show up in possible increases of positive local cases, towards the end of the summer, in my view. Contact tracing would seem very difficult…
