LETTER from JAMES DEAN Study Before Acting On New Zoning Law To the Editor: Sufficient affordable apartments, which the Village of Cooperstown needs, come from an efficiency of scale in single- and multi-building design and construction, lower cost of larger parcels of land, and lower operating expenses with the newest technologies. All of this comes with building new, planned developments, from the ground up. Newly built rental housing units, of all types, on sufficient land, are so important to the quality…
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Debate Renewed On Funding Animal Shelter By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com INDEX – It all began with a helpful conversation, and erupted while the SQSPCA was doing what it does best: saving Zoe, who chewed off her leg to stop the pain of a tumor. The spark: one word, “unilateral.” The issue: Is Otsego County funding the shelter to minimum standards? Richard Sternberg, a Susquehanna SPCA supporter, Cooperstown village trustee, retired surgeon and MIT graduate, stopped by the…
Organizers Cancel 2020 Polar Bear Jump By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – The Goodyear Lake Polar Bears will have to wait another year for the plunge. “We regret to inform all of our loyal supporters that the 25th annual Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump has been canceled due to a recent motor vehicle accident involving Brenda and Jamie Waters,” she wrote on the group’s Facebook page Tuesday evening. “Goody, The Waters Family and all of our dedicated…
Rare Woman Plow Driver Fights Ezekiel By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In the darkness of 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1, Angela Christman, South Kortright, got the call she’d been waiting for: Tonight she’d plow the streets of Oneonta. And she would be the first woman in recent memory – perhaps ever – to do so for the city’s Department of Public Works. “I was excited and nervous at the same time,” she said. “Nervous because I…
BOUND VOLUMES Dec. 5, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Robbery – On the night of Thursday last, the shoe shop of Mr. Stephen Gregory, of this Village, was forcibly entered and robbed of stock and shoes to the amount of at least $250. Suspicion has rested upon John Gardner, who was, late in the evening, seen lurking about town, and had formerly been familiar in the shop. He is a short, thick-set fellow, of dark complexion, with remarkably large eyebrows, his…
We’re All In This Together On Arms, Will Enough Ever Be Enough? The 2020 proposed U.S. military budget is $737 billion. When is enough, enough? This is 37 percent of the $1.7 trillion military spending for all the world. It is more than the next 13 nations combined (numbers in billions): China ($224), Saudi Arabia ($70), India ($55), Germany ($49), UK ($49), Japan ($47), Russia ($44), France ($40), South Korea ($38), Brazil ($29), Italy ($29), Australia ($26) and Canada ($21).…
EDITORIAL On County Manager, Now Hard Work Begins By the time you read this, it’s very likely Otsego County will have created a job of county administrator, joining all but a handful of counties around New York State. Heading into the Wednesday, Dec. 4, monthly meeting of the county Board of Representatives, the momentum to professionalize government was clear. Six of the seven Democrats were firmly in favor, plus two Republican leaders – chairman David Bliss and Schenevus’ Peter Oberacker.…
HOMETOWN HISTORY Dec. 6, 2019 150 YEARS AGO Miscellaneous: There are to be ten executions for murder in the United States during December. The very latest style of boot has the toe turned up like an old-fashioned skate. The gay young people of Henderson, Kentucky eat peanuts in church. “Bugmaster General” is the popular name for the state entomologist in Illinois. Mr. Fiske, of the Galveston Bulletin, has been shot at 23 times in three years. “Ned” a modest young…
EDITORIAL Kennedy, Bliss, Committee Deserve Praise Who gets the praise for professionalizing Otsego County government? Foremost, probably county Rep. Meg Kennedy, C-Hartwick. The idea caught fire with her, evident in her close questioning of SUNY New Paltz Vice President Gerry Benjamin, keynoter at “County Manager v. County Executive,” a forum on the idea Dec. 14, 2017, at Springbrook’s new community center. In the months that followed, she became the first local county representative ever recruited to New York State Association…
Common Council OKs $20 Million Budget By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – It’s unanimous. The $20 million budget for 2020 has passed. The Oneonta Common Council voted tonight on the city’s 2020 budget and approved it unanimously. Two weeks ago, the council met to discuss the initial proposal for the $20 million budget for 2020, which had included two full-time firefighting positions, a 10 percent sewer rate increase, and a 2.5 percent property tax increase. After that…
