THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Nov. 28-29, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE This Year, Enjoy Lights-A-Palooza! Unilaterally, SSPCA Planning Fees Klugo 5-Apartment ‘Dream Project’ Complete ‘Warming Station’ May Aid Local Homeless Splitting Homes Into Apartments Upsets Village $5K Raised For Zoe As Biopsy Results Await For Now, Justice For Gillian Realized EDITORIAL Conductor Search: What A Treat, Opportunity COLUMNS ZAGATA: Fracking Ban Cost County $1B A Year WALKER: Protest Take Away Free Speech Rights…
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This Year, Enjoy Lights-A-Palooza! by LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA –Julie Dostal knows the importance of family traditions at the holidays. “When I was growing up (in Atlanta), my mom and dad piled us all in the car and drove us around town to ooh and aah at the Christmas lights,” said LEAF Inc.’s executive director “I know a lot of people who have that same awesome memory with their families.” Now, LEAF is putting together The Great…
4 Bresee Elves Return To Oneonta By JIM KEVLIN • Special To AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA — A quarter-century after Otsego County’s department store closed, the Magic of Christmas is still the Magic of Bresee’s. Four of Bresee’s automatic elves plus two does – one ironing, the other mending Santa’s cap – are on display behind the Oneonta History Center’s plate-glass windows through Monday, Dec. 9, and “it’s been great,” said Bob Brzozowski, Greater Oneonta Historical Society executive director. “You see people…
LETTER from RICK HULSE Sr. HULSE: Village Trustees Urged – Listen To the Editor: “Because they can” Cooperstown is someplace, not anyplace. As residents read in last week’s editorial about running for a seat on the Village Board, the reasons to do so are clear. Incumbents running unopposed has contributed to board decisions with little concern for their consequences. Recent examples of this are placing red flashing stop signs in residential neighborhoods, proposed zoning changes for village houses, and, in…
Too Many Home Alone, She Opens Senior Center By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Too many elderly folks here were staying home too much, Carol LaChance concluded. “When they go home, they’re just kind of there,” said LaChance, director of the village’s new Senior Center. “There are seniors who are isolated and lonely.” In late summer, that began changing, as LaChance, an active member of St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Catholic parish, got permission to…
EDITORIAL Conductor Search: What A Treat, Opportunity Now, THAT’S marketing – in the nicest possible light. On learning its venerable founding conductor, Chuck Schneider, was retiring after 46 years, The Catskill Symphony Orchestra Governing Board could have simply advertised for a new one, sorted the resumes, interviewed top prospects and made a decision. Instead of handling matters in-house, the search committee threw open the decision-making to the public; not exclusively, of course, but it encouraged attendees at three concerts this…
HOMETOWN History Nov. 29, 2019 150 Years Ago A genuine Yankee at Lisbon, Connecticut, who wanted to put a water pipe through a drain tied a string to a cat’s leg, thrust her into one end of the drain, and then giving a terrific “Scat!” the feline quickly appeared at the other end. The pipe was drawn through the drain by means of the line, and at an expense of ten dollars saved by the operation. Advertisement: New discovery in…
BOUND VOLUMES Nov. 28, 2019 200 YEARS AGO From the Boston Recorder – Mr. Willis – Although my circumstances do not allow me to do much in the way of spreading the glorious Gospel, yet, taking the hint from the plan for doing good by having a “Missionary Field” on one’s farm, I reserved a spot, nine feet square in the corner of my garden, which is all the land I cultivate, and on the afternoon of election day, planted…
LETTER from TERESA CHAGRIN Cases Like Zoe’s Common, PETA Headquarters Reports To the Editor: The horrific case of Zoe, an emaciated German shepherd who chewed off her front leg after being confined to a flimsy plastic carrier outdoors without any food or drinkable water, is a wake-up call to citizens to keep an eye out for “backyard dogs.” Unfortunately, cases of extreme neglect like Zoe’s aren’t unusual. Dogs relegated to the backyard 24 hours a day are commonly deprived of…
Klugo 5-Apartment ‘Dream Project’ Complete By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special To AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – He’s called it a “dream project.” Now, Chip Klugo’s dream has come true. On Tuesday, Nov. 26, Klugo cut the ribbon on the five-apartment building next to the former Bresee’s (now Parkview Apartments). The redone building includes first-floor retail space, occupied by Island Premium Printing. “The building was offered to me while I was doing the Bresee’s project in 2013,” he said. “We couldn’t make the…
