GOAL: REDUCE COSTS, KEEP PATIENTS AT HOME As Helios, Catskill Hospice To Match Bassett Footprint By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Changing Catskills Area Hospice & Palliative Care to Helios is about opening up a conversation. “We found that the word ‘hospice’ was a barrier to conversation,” said CEO Dan Ayres. “When patients hear ‘hospice,’ they think they’re in their last days, not last month or year. They don’t want to have the conversation. “Now, we’re more likely…
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HOMETOWN History Oct. 11, 2019 150 Years Ago The great storm which occurred here on the second and third of the month extended over several States – south beyond Washington and north and west into the British territory. Property to the amount of millions was destroyed and quite a number of lives lost, while shipping along the coast suffered very much. Hundreds of cattle, sheep and swine were carried into the streams and drowned, In the Hudson and other navigable…
LETTER from NICHOLAS CUNNINGHAM We Should Talk Through Impeachment Issues To the Editor: Re: West Davenport & Mike Zagata versus Fly Creek & Adrian Kuzminski! Thank you, Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta, for giving us both sides of the impeachment debate. Impeachment tests our constitutional system of government: When the executive and legislative branches so disagree as to freeze governmental action, impeachment calls us to the third and fourth estates: Our present impeachment process is likely to be resolved by:…
‘Pit,’ Canine Namesake, Joins Parisian’s Partner Trooper Has Run In 25 Of Race’s 26 Years By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – State Investigator Sales Caicedo and Trooper Ricky “Pit” Parisian, partners for four years, spent their shift on May 20, 1994, doing surveillance on an organized crime organization outside New York City. After the shift, the two officers headed up Route 17. Caicedo was headed to Buffalo; Parisian took Exit 94, bound for Oneonta. “As he was getting…
100, Some Tearful, In Village’s Ballroom Dunkin’/Baskin Proposal Riles Up Packed Hearing By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Barbara Tongue got choked up as she talked about the threat of the proposed Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin Robbins on Chestnut and Walnut Street in the Village of Cooperstown. “My family goes all the way back to the time of James Fenimore Cooper,” she said. “It’s difficult to look at that proposal and imagine that on the corner of our street in…
FINALLY, Her Story Told At Gillian’s Rally By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Gillian Gibbons’ voice was silenced when David Dart stabbed her 42 times in the Oneonta Municipal Parking Garage on Sept. 12, 1984. But Jennifer Miller Dutcher intends to use hers to keep Dart in prison. “I am a survivor of David Dart,” she said. “I am a victim who has a voice, and I have to share my story.” She told her story at…
EXCERPT Is Impeachment Political, Or Legal? The House of Representatives doesn’t need to prove that a president committed a crime outlined in the federal code to pass articles of impeachment. They instead impeach based on whether the president committed “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” as outlined in Article II, Section 4 of the US constitution. …In all, former prosecutors told Insider, there are at least four areas where Trump could face legal jeopardy. ►Illegally soliciting campaign help…
LETTER from GERALD WEINBERGER Oust Trump, Focus On Problems To the Editor: Local Republicans should start petitions urging President Trump to resign. Senate Republicans will not convict him. Impeachment per se will not get rid of Trump, who obviously enjoys all the attention. Vice President Mike Pence is hardly a good Republican candidate because of sexual bigotry, but can be an improvement over Trump, who lost the popular election by 10 million votes. If Trump does not resign: incumbent Republicans or…
Jim Bryden, Quilter: Fabric Arts Captivated Man By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com GILBERTSVILLE – Jim Bryden is not fazed by the fact he is the first man to be the featured quilter for The Major’s Inn Foundation’s annual quilt show – the 25th anniversary one, no less. “If they want to put up with me that’s their decision,” the 81-year-old Sidney Center resident said. About 20 of Bryden’s quilts will be displayed, mostly in a room exclusively for…
BOUND VOLUMES Oct. 3, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Ed. Note: October 4, 1819, a Monday, marks the first appearance in Cooperstown two centuries ago of the newspaper still known as “Freeman’s Journal.” John Prentiss the editor introduced the publication to the community as follows: “After a lapse of more than a year, we resume our editorial labors, and at a time, too, inauspicious to an extensive circulation of newspapers, because the pecuniary pressure upon the country is so great as…
