LETTER from JULIE DOSTAL Thanks For Helping Light Up Our Christmas To the Editor: The 2019 Great Otsego Light Trail would like to thank all who participated in the trail this year. You made our holidays much brighter with a total of 18 displays! You are all delightful and your displays were a joy for all! We would also like to thank our community partners: AllOtsego.com, The LEAF Council on Alcoholism and Addictions, WZOZ 103.1 FM, and CNY News. We’ll…
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BE AFRAID, BUT DO IT ANYWAY Heartache In The Heartland By ERNA MORGAN McREYNOLDS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com If you took a bet when I was born it wouldn’t have been for success. My parents had moved to Upstate New York five years before I was born so my Dad could follow his dream. He wanted a farm like the one he left in Northern Ireland as teenager fleeing “the troubles” in 1926. A farm of green fields with horses…
$3.3M Raised To $5m+ Goal Shelter Raises $236K, Benefactor Adds $30K By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Stacie Haynes couldn’t believe the size of the check Staffworks founder Anita Vitullo handed her. “I just about fell out of my chair,” the Susquehanna SPCA executive director said. “Last year we got $95,000 and I was nervous that we wouldn’t beat that!” The Save-a-Life campaign offers shelters a matching donation of up to $10,000, and this year, Vitullo added some…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Jan. 16-17, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Solar Developer Offers $1,000 Per Acre Penn. Firm Buying Bank Of Cooperstown Cooperstown Theatre Festival Founder Dies In Departing, Korthauer Makes History Benefactor Adds $30K To Shelter’s $236K Preservationists Joust Over Cooperstown Home EDITORIAL With Expertise, Even Temperament, City Manager Korthauer Cracks Code COLUMNS SEWARD: Job #1 For NYS: Halt Outmigration YOUNGS: Foothills Is Now Economic Driver McREYNOLDS: Heartache In The Heartland…
LETTER from JENNIFER HILL How Nice. To Live In A Place Where People Do Care. Here! To the Editor: I’m writing to express my gratitude for living in a place that has such good, caring people. I have lived in Oneonta, Otsego County, and Upstate New York only for a year and a half. Wednesday night, Jan. 8, I was driving to Richfield Springs that evening, heading to the Food Co-op to give a presentation. With the snow pouring down…
BOUND VOLUMES Jan. 16, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement: Cloth Found, in Milford, in the road between the Village of Cooperstown and Oak’s Creek, on the 6th Inst., a roll of homemade WOOLEN CLOTH. The owner can have the same by applying to the Subscriber, or to B. Fitch, in Cooperstown, on proving property and paying charges. Simeon J. Clinton Advertisement: Look to It! The subscriber having closed his business in this place, and will leave here on Monday, the…
HOMETOWN History Jan. 18, 2020 150 Years Ago Increase of Crime – The attention of the public is properly becoming aroused to the alarming and terrible frequency of high crimes. One can scarcely take up a paper but what contains an account of some fresh murder or robbery, or more likely both. The time is within the memory of those who are yet considered young when a single murder would thrill the whole land and become the theme of general…
With Expertise, Even Temperament, City Manager Korthauer Cracks Code Thanks, George. Oneonta City Manager George Korthauer – Oneonta’s first successful city manager – announced Monday, Jan. 13, that he’s heading off into a well-earned retirement. He should go with all our thanks and best wishes. He proved that even the City of Oneonta – feisty, argumentative, proud of its heritage, sure of its opinions – can eventually come to terms with a professional from out of town, and benefiting from…
Solar Developer Offering $1,000 Per Acre Of Land West Laurens Landowners Get Windfall From Project By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com WEST LAURENS – Storke LLC, a renewable-energy company based in Springwater, south of Rochester, is offering as much as $1,000 per acre per year for West Laurens neighbors to lease their land to the company for a 3,000-acre solar farm. “At 3,000 acres, the project would be one of the largest in New York State,” said James Denn,…
VIEW FROM ALBANY Job #1: Halt Outmigration, Then Deficit, Bail Reform By State Sen. JAMES SEWARD • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The 2020 New York State legislative session got its official start a few days ago with the governor’s State of the State address. While the governor mentioned a few ideas I can back, for the most part, he glossed over or completely ignored some of the toughest challenges facing our state. New York State is losing population at an alarming…
