LETTER from BILL MARTIN Solar Farm May Rescue Overworked, Overtaxed To the Editor: As our old friend, Paul Harvey used to say, ”Now for the rest of the story”. This is not the first “boom or bust” deal to pass through our community. A couple of us old timers remember a land buyout in the ’60s. Nothing came of it, but it was fun to watch. In the 70’s, a gas company showed interest in this area and many of…
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LETTER from BRIAN BROCK Renewables, Not Gas Cleaner Way To Go To the Editor: The preliminary estimate of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions for 2018 is up 3.4 percent, reversing the recent downward trend. What is more, arguing that burning methane is better than coal because it releases less carbon dioxide conveniently neglects that the entire gas infrastructure leaks methane, a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. (Conveniently that is for that argument, not for the environment.) Like carbon…
Legal Marijuana Offers Harmful, Empty Promises By JULIE DOSTAL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com This is not your parents’ weed. Information and data from states that have legalized marijuana should give New Yorkers reason to pump the brakes on taxed, regulated recreational use. Legalization of the 2020 version of cannabis is not about consenting adults discretely smoking a joint in the privacy of their home. It is about an industry-driven, full-on commercialization with pot shops, pot advertisements, pot sponsorships, and pot…
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Sanctuaries For People, Not Guns A sanctuary, according to Merriam Webster, is “A consecrated place such as: “A: The ancient Hebrew temple at Jerusalem or its holy of holies. “B: The most sacred part of a religious building, such as the part of a Christian church in which the altar is placed. “C: A place of refuge and protection. “D: A refuge for wildlife where predators are controlled and hunting is illegal.” In 2018, California…
COUNTY TREASURER HOME Assigned To Djibouti, Ruffles Trained Rangers, Dodged Elephant Herd By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Only once did Allen Ruffles feel he was in any danger. A sergeant in the 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion, Army Reserves, he was living in a small wooden house in Uganda, training local wildlife rangers in anti-poaching techniques. One morning, Ruffles – Otsego County treasurer in civilian life – heard a rumble and looked out the window at a…
REPORT FROM THE ATRIUM Now, Foothills Major Driver Of Economy By BILL YOUNGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.COM As I start my sixth year as the director of Foothills I’d like to thank the Oneonta community and the entire region for their support again in 2019. I am proud to report that we hosted 314 events which included everything from the Grand Oneonta Opera, a Vet’s tribute with Jerrod Niemann, a Rolling Stones tribute, Tusk- a Fleetwood Mac tribute, the Oneonta…
Pennsylvania Firm Planning To Acquire Bank Of Cooperstown President Scott White, Staff To Stay In Place By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The Bank of Cooperstown is in the process of being acquired in an $80 million transaction by Norwood Financial Corp. of Honesdale, Pa., which has signed a “definitive merger agreement” to buy Upstate New York Bancorp, the local bank’s parent company. If the sale goes forward as anticipated, Bank of Cooperstown President Scott White and…
Austin Sears, 72, Dies; Founded Cooperstown Summer Theatre Fest By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Austin Sears, 72, creator, manager and actor at the Cooperstown Summer Theatre Festival for three decades, exited life’s stage on Dec. 17, 2019, in New York City. “We met in 1979,” his wife Margarita said in an interview this week. “The 40 years I knew him, it was all Cooperstown. It was all theater. That was his life. That’s what he talked…
VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Rising To The Fly By MICHAEL ZAGATA • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Fishermen understand why the brook trout they catch are often smaller than the brown trout they catch. It’s because the brown trout are more discerning about “rising to the fly” and thus falling victim to the fishermen’s net, while brook trout are prone to rise to the first fly they see. There is a lesson there for all of us with regards to how we…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Legalizing Dope Daffy, As Writer Can Attest To the Editor: I have been smoking marijuana off (now) and on (then) for 54 years. I can tell you four things: 1. It makes you a bit daffy, then hungry, then daffy again. Did I mention hungry? 2. You can smoke dope and play the electric guitar like a hero, but not drive a car. 3. Alcohol is worse than dope, but that’s the pot calling the keg…
