VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT NYC Looking Upstate To Solve Its Problems By MICHAEL ZAGATA • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Most of you will recall the contentious debate between those who wanted the right to frack for natural gas beneath their property and those who wanted fracking banned. A foundation paid lawyers to visit towns and help them draft language prohibiting the practice of fracking within their jurisdictions under the aegis of “home rule.” Concerned citizens, fearing ground water contamination, pressured the…
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LETTER from JEANNE DEWEY Incumbents Can Maintain The Positive Momentum To the Editor: As a Cooperstown village trustee, I have had the privilege of working closely with Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh for the past two years, and with Trustees Joe Membrino and MacGuire Benton for the past one year. We all bring different strengths and ideas to the board, and I firmly believe this benefits Cooperstown. Ellen has vast knowledge of Cooperstown’s history and has been an integral part of the…
ENDORSEMENT EDITORIAL Membrino Adeptly Fills Key Role: Finance Chair Interviewing the three candidates, it was quickly clear: Three exceptional people – and exceptional in different ways – are running for Cooperstown Village Board. Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns is a trained and organized pharmacist, a wife and mother, and someone with an inspiring personal story: enduring misdiagnosed Lyme disease and emerging victorious from a heart transplant. Joe Membrino is a semi-retired D.C. lawyer with a specialty in Indian affairs, who is…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta March 12-13, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE SUNY, Hartwick, Bassett Ban Travel LeCATES: 6 Quarantined, But No Outbreak Schenevus Top Site For Distribution Center Newcomer, Waller Helped End Union Ticket Mom Found ‘Not Guilty’ In Twins’ Deaths Elementary Principal To Succeed CCS Colleague ENDORSEMENTS Mary Margaret Will Put People In Picture Membrino Fills Key Role: Finance Chairman COLUMNS MORGAN: Nothing To Fear But Flu Itself ZAGATA: NYC Looks Upstate…
Soon, Sounds Of Beethoven, Mozart, More Zoltowski Here For Cabaret, But Looking Toward Future By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Within four days of his arrival, Maciej Zoltowski, the musical director designee for the Catskill Symphony Orchestra, had already made himself at home in Oneonta. “I take a walk every morning,” he said. “I love the area already, it’s very beautiful and relaxing. I attended the wind concert at Hartwick College the first night I was here;…
K-9s AT REST As Time Takes Toll, Ricky, Mika Head For Retirement By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Like many retirees, Mika is looking forward to the day when she can finally relax at home. “She’ll finally be allowed on the couch,” said Mika’s handler, Sheriff’s Deputy Kris Solovitch. “She can play fetch and just be a dog, rather than having to go to work.” K-9 Mika, 10, along with K-9 Ricky, 9, assigned to Deputy Keith…
NEXT STEP: MARKETING PLAN Study: Schenevus #1 Site For Distribution Center, And Townsfolk Love Idea By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com SCHENEVUS – It’s not perfect. It needs natural gas. It needs a waste-water treatment solution. But what the 130-acre site at I-88’s Exit 18 – selected out of 86 sites within two miles of Otsego County’s nine interstate exit as the best for a 350-500 job distribution center – has that’s almost impossible to find is “99-percent community support,”…
CORONAVIRUS WATCH Bassett President Reports 6 Quarantined, But None Ill By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Though six local people have been voluntarily quarantined as precautions against coronavirus (COVID-19) since the first case was reported in New York State, said Bassett Hospital President William LeCates Tuesday, March 10. As of presstime, none had developed symptoms or tested positive, Dr. LeCates said. “We’ve administered between two and five tests, and not one has come back positive,” he said.…
CORONAVIRUS WATCH Colleges, Bassett Impose Travel Ban SUNY Brings Back Students On Exchange In Italian Cities By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With Coronavirus cases increasing daily, SUNY Oneonta students who hoped to study abroad will have to wait until the fall semester. “We have cancelled all study abroad programs for the rest of the semester,” said Kim MacLeod, SUNY Oneonta associate director of communications. “And we called back 33 students and faculty members who were already abroad,…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG Trustee Backs Colleagues In March 18 Village Polling To the Editor: I endorse and urge you to go out and vote for Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh and Trustee MacGuire (Mac) Benton for re-election and Trustee Joe Membrino for election to the Cooperstown Village Board. I have worked with all of them on the board, on village committees and other boards, and in other endeavors, and they have all been selfless in their positions, working for the best…
