OTHER VOICES Downtown Business Improvement District Can Help City Thrive By DANNY LAPIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com “What does Downtown Oneonta need?” This is a question I’ve heard and asked nearly every day since I moved to the City of the Hills in mid-2015. Answers vary but they usually fall within three categories: more people, fewer storefront vacancies, and more stuff to do. In 2017, the City of Oneonta received a $10 million award through Governor Cuomo’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative.…
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LETTER from RICK BROCKWAY Firearms Are Part Of Otsego County Heritage To the Editor: In last week’s edition of this newspaper, Larry Bennett stated his opinion of me and the Second Amendment sanctuary movement here in Otsego County. Let’s face it: Mr. Bennett is not native to the area and does not understand the people of rural, Upstate New York. In my opinion, he also has limited knowledge of the law, especially the Constitution of the United States. Mr. Bennett…
TESTIMONIAL AT BASSETT HALL Hundreds Of County EMTs Salute Fred Lemister, And He Praises Them In Return BY JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – For decades, they had learned from him. They had emulated him. They had admired him. And Saturday, Jan. 25, hundreds of EMTs from around Otsego County gathered to celebrate Fred Lemister and to thank him for his prowess as a trainer and his 48 years of service to the Cooperstown Emergency Squad, where he…
LETTER from BILL HUSTON When CNG Trucks Crash, Public Should Be Told To the Editor: I have never seen this complete list (see box, above) before now. I don’t think anyone has compiled this data before now. There are probably many more which did not make it to the newspapers. You are one of the first to see this. This list was not easy to compile! Few of these names were in the newspaper. My purpose here is not to…
EDITORIAL Both Parties Should Find Candidates Who Will Ensure Local Successor To Seward This story’s been related in this space before: Congressman Tim Holden, a Democrat from Pennsylvania’s anthracite county, used to tell campaign crowds: “I’m the only one of 435 Congressmen who gets up every morning and says to himself, ‘What can I do for Schuylkill County today?’” It’s also said that if you don’t appreciate what you have, you lose it.” • The vignette and the aphorism are…
BUD PIRONE, 1939-2020 Through OHS Alumni Association, He Kept School’s Spirit Alive By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Even when William “Bud” Pirone was at Fox Nursing Home, Madolyn Palmer wanted to make sure he was still part of the Alumni Association he helped create. “He was still able to communicate with us about the program book,” she said. “When it was finished, I took it over to him, and he just grinned from ear to ear.”…
Dissertation, Documentary, Now, The Book Sorin’s ‘Green Book’ Thesis Led To ‘Driving While Black’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Gretchen Sorin has a clear memory of how family vacations always started. “We would get up at 3 a.m. and get on the road,” the director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies remembers. “We wouldn’t stop at a restaurant or a hotel, and my parents only stopped at Esso gas stations. “We drove straight through…
LUNACHIX RULE! Belly-Dancing, Troupe Builds Skills, Community By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The Lunachix are shaking things up. A regional belly-dancing group called the Lunachix is trying to shake things up in the world of body positivity and women empowerment. “The Lunachix is a place where real women can be their best self,” said Jo Boring, director of the belly-dancing troupe that she says is really about body positivity and women’s empowerment. “Some days that means…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Jan. 23-24, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE With Retirement Decision, Seward Era At End Schoharie’s Tague May Run To Succeed Seward At Anticipated, Derek Jeter To Enter Hall Of Fame County Treasurer Back From Djibouti Deployment FOTOT Aims To Buy, Revive Oneonta Theater Trial Of Truitt Begins In Oneonta Fatal Arson Schenevus Students May End Up At Milford Common Council Funds Destination Oneonta Finally, City Buys Oneonta Ford Property…
HOMETOWN History Jan. 24, 2020 150 Years Ago No Snow – Track Clear: Reports from the Pacific Railroad to January 20 say there is no snow on the Great Plains nor in the Black Hills, nor in the passes of the Rocky Mountains, nor in the lofty chain of the Sierra Nevada, to obstruct the trains – but a clear track from ocean to ocean. At the same time the record shows the Hudson open to Albany and the same…
