HOMETOWN History Dec. 13, 2019 150 Years Ago Ed. Note: The following item is an excerpted editorial response to the public exhibition in Albany of the Cardiff Giant, a fake fossil created as a hoax. The Cardiff Giant has resided at The Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown since 1948: “The Cardiff Giant – The interest in the stone man seems unabated, and the attendance shows no falling off, but rather on the increase. The statue will probably be removed to New…
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To Play Mother Ginger, MAN UP! Buttermann In Footsteps Of Firefighter, Surgeon By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – It takes a man to be a mother. Mother Ginger, that is. “Mother Ginger is traditionally played by a dancer ‘en travesti’,” said Donna Decker of Decker School of Ballet. “In ballet, we don’t call it drag.” This year, Oneonta City school board member and Assembly candidate Dan Buttermann stepped into the dress that Assistant Fire Chief Jim Maloney,…
CANO DISPLAYS MUEHL WORK Veteran Cabinet Maker Works With Wood – But Creations Flow By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – One afternoon, Joe Muehl got the urge to build a model airplane. “I hadn’t done one in 40 years,” he said. “And when I finished, I thought, well now what do I do with it? So I built a table around it.” Titled “The Only Good War,” the glass and wood table depicts the model airplane dropping…
2 SUNY-O Students Hospitalized SantaCon Binge May Start Campus Drinking Debate By LIBBY CUDMORE Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – SantaCon was a life-changing moment for one young man, a SUNY student, 21, found unconscious and bleeding on a sidewalk outside a Grove Street house on Saturday, Dec. 7. “He admitted that he drank too much and that he had a problem with alcohol,” said Oneonta Police Chief Doug Brenner. “Waking up with a tube in his throat was a real…
INTRODUCING ERNA ‘Be Afraid, But Do It Anyway’ By ERNA MORGAN McREYNOLDS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com One day a woman who had sat next to me at a fundraising dinner called me. She wanted me to be the speaker at an event for women alumnae from NYU. How could I resist? She titled it, “An Interview with a Financial Superstar”. She asked about my growing up outside a little village in Upstate New York. How did you go from no…
NEW CHALLENGE: HIRING MANAGER Bliss Anticipates Kennedy Will Lead Recruitment, Too By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – If – as is anticipated – Dave Bliss is reelected chairman of the Otsego County Board of Representatives at the organizational meeting Thursday, Jan. 2, one of his first acts will be to name a committee to recruit the first county administrator. In an interview, he said he sees no reason why county Rep. Meg Kennedy, C-Hartwick, who led the…
EDITORIAL Everyone Wants Fair Deal For Animal Shelter, County Drop The Threats, Negotiate An Agreement The issue’s been hanging out there for a while: What role should the Otsego County Board of Representatives play in funding the Susquehanna Animal Shelter? Schoharie County’s contribution is $75,000 a year to its shelter. Delaware County splits $88,000 among two shelters. Until now, Otsego County has contributed nothing. The county has been allocating $5,000 a year. It is not a donation, but a fee…
JUSTICE FOR ALL?/PART I Will End Of Bail Endanger Us? Editor’s Note: With New York State’s judicial reforms going into effect Jan. 1, Otsego County judicial and law enforcement leaders have been expressing concerns about possible negative impacts locally. This article, on severely reducing the number of crimes that allow suspects to be held on bail, is the first of three articles. By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr. recognized that criminal justice reform…
Albany Perspective Reforms May Be Costly, Dangerous Editor’s Note: State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, has represented Otsego County in Albany since 1986. As we approach the start of 2020, there are a number of new laws that will take effect in New York State. Among them are provisions I am deeply concerned about that will put public safety at risk. The measures include: • Bail changes that will allow 90 percent of individuals arrested to walk free without posting bail;…
County Manager Decision Expected This Afternoon The Otsego County Board of Representatives was scheduled to convene at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, on a historic matter: Whether to pass its executive authority to a hired professional, a county manager. As of presstime the evening before, it appeared certain – as certain as these things can be – that a coalition of Republicans, Democrats and the sole Conservative representative would create the $150,000 a year position. For the first report on…
