ELECTION EDITORIAL Vote Farwell, Brockway For County Board Seats 2017 – now, that was a year for local democracy. Twelve of the 14 seats on the Otsego County Board of Representatives were contested – only Gary Koutnik in Democratic Oneonta and Dan Wilber in Republican Town of Burlington got a pass. This year, regrettably, there are three, but one race calls out for an endorsement: Michele Farwell, the Democrat running for reelection in District 2 (Morris, Butternuts and Pittsfield). Send…
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THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Oct. 24-25, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Worcester Slaying: Anatomy Of A Tragedy In-County Candidate Plans Assembly Run Teaching, Coaching, Scouting Wins Fetterman All Arraignments Now In County Jail Lobby For 1st Time, You Can Vote Early This Year EDITORIAL CANDIDATE ENDORSEMENTS In Richfield, Vote GOP, Overturn Zoning Code For County Board, Farwell, Brockway, Basile Clark Oliver Emerging As Shaker, Mover COLUMNS BENNETT: In Land Of Plenty, Many Needy…
PETE HENRICI HONORED Road To Fetterman Built On Teaching, Coaching, Scouting By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When Pete Henrici joined Cooperstown Central School as a student teacher back in the mid-1970s, he spent a week sitting in the back of Phyllis Jamieson’s Latin class. He created a chart of each desk, so when he first taught the class the following week, he could address all the students by name. That attention to detail, and consideration of the…
ENDORSEMENT EDITORIAL Unopposed, Oneonta’s Oliver Emerging As Political Player Get to know Oneonta’s Clark Oliver. You likely will be hearing a lot about him on the political scene in years to come. A senior poli-sci major at SUNY Oneonta, he will be finishing his degree in December just in time to take office Jan. 1, as he’s running unopposed in the county board’s District 11 (Oneonta’s Ward 1-2). Send Political Letters To info@allotsego.com By noon Monday, 10/28 In the past…
AllOTSEGO.spooky She Died In Childbirth, Now Mother’s Soul Rests In Peace In Roseboom, Dousing Ghost-Buster’s Job Is Done By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ROSEBOOM – In the 187 graves behind the Roseboom Historical Society was the spirit of a 39-year-old woman who died in childbirth, ghost hunter Susan Miller of Cherry Valley avers. Until lately, that is. “She wouldn’t move over,” Miller reported at a Thursday, Oct. 17, pre-Halloween presentation to the Historical Society, which occupies the former Baptist…
HOMETOWN History Oct. 25, 2019 150 Years Ago The cost of a corrupt Congress: A session of Congress costs the country $4,000,000. Each day entails upon us an expense of $33,000. The fortieth Congress used up nearly eleven hundred penknives, costing about three dollars each, and of course, the members did not pay for them. Besides penknives, such necessary articles as snuff, tobacco, pocket scissors, hair brushes and “extra Morocco desks” have been furnished by a grateful nation to its…
AllOTSEGO.spooky At Worcester Inn, Ghostly Flush, More By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com WORCESTER – Dennis Enright loved the Worcester White House Inn. “We were friends a long time,” said owner Jim Buelow. “I thought of him like a brother.” So much so, that Enright still hangs around Room 217, where he was living when he died at age 63 last November, according to his friend. Since, Enright has joined the many ghosts that haunt the famed stopping place.…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Want Franchise Food? Not In Cooperstown; Move To Texas To the Editor: We didn’t move to Cooperstown from Texas to avail ourselves of a Dunkin’ Donut. If we wanted to live in a place with a plethora of fast food restaurants, we could have just stayed in Texas. Lots to choose from, many conveniently located between a gun store (guilty) and a tattoo shop (not guilty). We moved to Cooperstown because it’s a historic village. Keeping…
With New Heart, Life Is Renewed Transplant Gives Cooperstown Woman New Life After Battling Lyme Disease By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In March, after suffering debilitating heart conditions brought on by Lyme Disease six years before, Mary Margaret Sohns had a vision. “I saw a big white box with a ribbon around it,” she said. “And I heard the theme from ‘The Golden Girls’.” Her husband Matt came into the room with the phone in his hand.…
MITT of the FUTURE Under Marucci Wing, Creator Planning Cooperstown Factory By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The secret to the baseball glove of the future, Scott Carpenter discovered, is in looking at the gloves of the past. “I was at an artist’s residency at Blue Mountain Lake and someone invited me to meet with Ted Spencer at the Baseball Hall of Fame,” he said. “I realized that Cooperstown was a great location, not just for my business,…
