THE VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Regulation Coming Home To Roost By MIKE ZAGATA • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com For several decades our nation’s environmental policies have, for the most part, been driven by emotion or what “seemed,” according to popular opinion, to be the “right” thing to do. As a result, many of those policies lacked a scientific basis and the unintended consequences are, like lost chickens, coming home to roost. New York State’s ban on fracking may well be such an…
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ENDORSEMENT EDITORIAL Revisit Richfield Comp Plan: Elect Palevsky, Eckler, Bello In the lead-up to the Richfield Town Board adopting a new Comprehensive Plan & Zoning Code, people said they want to see the town come together. People observed that “nothing’s happened” in the Richfield Springs area in the past 20 years (or longer). Send Political Letters To info@allotsego.com By noon Monday, 10/28 People mourned the decline in enrollment of the Richfield Springs Central School, which graduated 29 seniors on June…
ISSUE & DEBATE Will Lofts On Dietz Use Too Much Parking? Editor’s Note: Following a sometimes heated Oneonta Planning Commission public hearing Wednesday, Oct. 16, which focused on whether the Lofts on Dietz, 66 proposed units of artists’ lofts and housing, will use too much of the Dietz Street parking lot, this exchange appeared on Facebook earlier this week: ►from ALAN CLEINMAN, president, Cleinman Performance Partners, Oneonta Fellow citizens of Oneonta: I feel compelled to challenge the notion that the…
All Arraignments Now At County Jail State Mandate Requires Hiring Of 7 Local Public Defenders By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com TOWN OF MIDDLEFIELD – Otsego County’s new centralized court at the county jail in the Town of Middlefield means no more 3 a.m. phone calls seeking arraignments from Town of Otsego Judge Gary Kuch. “I’ve had nights where I’ve been called in and we have to call around, and then wait 45 minutes for a public defender,” said…
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER In Land Of Plenty, Many Are Needy By LARRY BENNETT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com This column is titled, “We are all in this together,” but it doesn’t always appear to be so. The U.S. economy is the world’s largest – our GDP will exceed $21 trillion in 2019. Our GDP represents 20 percent of total global output, is larger than China’s GDP, and is projected to grow 2.5 percent in 2019. Our GDP per person…
ANATOMY OF A TRAGEDY FATHER DEAD; LIVES IN RUINS By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com WORCESTER – At age 15, Dylan Robinson is the youngest person to be tried in Otsego County Court for murder. The OHS student allegedly shot and killed his father, Kenneth Robinson, 53, during a burglary Thursday, Oct. 10, at the father’s mobile home on Head Road, Town of Worcester. State police said four other teenagers and a 32-year-old Oneonta man were with him, looking…
LIBBY’S BEST BETS Tricks And Treats, Scary Ghost Stories And Pumpkins Glow! By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com T’is the night for tricks and treats! Stroll through downtown and show off your costume before you hit the streets to collect your sweets! In Cooperstown, the parade kicks off at 5 p.m. on Main Street. In Oneonta, 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 31. • Get a head-start on the candy collecting as you trick or treat through the Historic Village.…
HALLOWEEN 2019 Spooky Activities Around The County ?Friday, October 25 TRUNK OR TREAT – 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Decorate your car, bring candy to hand out. Must be child-friendly, candy must be store-bought & individually wrapped. Cash prizes for best dressed cars. E-mail to sign up your car. Cherry Valley Springfield Central School, 597 Co. Hwy. 54, Cherry Valley. 607-264-3265. GHOST TOURS – 5:30 – 9 p.m. Join a guide to explore the museum after dark, learn about the mysteries,…
LETTER from DICK DOWNEY No Natural Gas Upstate? Politics Is The Reason To the Editor: Tom Morgan’s column, “Frack Bust? Or frack Boom?” (10/10/19) cited multiple studies showing the safety and economic benefits of the shale revolution. Naturally, it drew the usual flurry of nay-sayers. Jay Fleisher, Ph.D., worried about shallow Marcellus formations in the Catskills and Northeast Pennsylvania. As a geologist, he should know most Catskill shale is “cooked” and therefore out of play. The well depths of Northeast…
LETTER from ELLEN FALIN Harrington Has 6th Ward Spirit Elect Him To Common Council To the Editor: Residents of Oneonta’s Sixth Ward are fortunate to have Scott Harrington as a candidate for Common Council. Scott grew up in the Sixth Ward. He knows our history and concerns because he has experienced them first hand. He has that genuine Sixth Ward spirit that can’t be faked. He’s willing to reach across party lines, look for commonsense answers, and most importantly, set…
