COLUMN IN TIME OF TRUMP, DiPERNA ASKED: ‘How Did American Stray So Far From Its Ideals?’ Editor’s Note: Paula DiPerna, the author and global strategic environmental policy adviser who ran for Congress in 1992 for the 23rd District, which then included Otsego County, has a home in Cooperstown. This is an excerpt from her latest book, “Travels in the Time of Trump.” DiPerna will be giving a book talk at 2 p.m. this Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Green Toad…
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$10K For Doubleday Baltimore Buddies Remember Friend Through Donation To Baseball Shrine By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Two weeks before his baseball buddy Richard Faust died, Steve Murfin and his pal were at the annual Baltimore Orioles “Dream Week” in Florida. “I was talking to my mother on the phone, and I handed the phone to him,” said Murfin. “He told her jokes and made her laugh for 10 minutes, and when she handed the phone…
LOVEABLE LAB PROFIT CENTER FOR MUSKRAT HILL GIFT SHOP Love Of Henry Creates T-Shirts, Stickers, More By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Most downtown stores were having a pretty soft Induction Weekend 2019, including Muskrat Hill, proprietor Neil Weiller reported the other day. Henry to the rescue! The first three boxes of new Henry T-shirts, based on Weiller’s loveable Golden retriever/shop mascot, arrived in the nick of time. “I sold four pieces as I was taking them…
THINGS TO DO Girls Of Summer, Harvest Festival, Garlic & Pottery By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Meet three of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players who inspired “A League of Their Own” at a Q&A at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, followed by the film at 7 p.m. Check baseballhall.org for The Hall of Fame’s annual film festival showings that continues through the weekend. Tickets free, reservations required. Bullpen Theater, Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. Info (607)…
HOMETOWN History Sept. 20, 2019 100 Years Ago An Assemblage of “Fat Men” – A convention of fat men has recently been held in Norwalk, Connecticut at Gregory’s Point Hotel. One hundred and forty of the fattest men of New England and the adjoining states assembled. The names and weights of the various individuals are recorded. The weights ranged from two hundred to three hundred and fifty-eight pounds. The 358-pounder was John A.P. Fisk of New York who was elected…
Column FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE The ORIGINATING Sin By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I’ve been driven out of the house to the peaceful shade of the front porch by television news. The programs are crammed with vitriolic volleys between this faction and that, one candidate and another. Pushing the mute button wouldn’t quell the stridence. It would still be there in the images – puffed up pols and preachers and pundits, each mouthing their one and only truth. There’s…
TEDx Speaker Says: Save Our Farms With Water, Upstate Can Save The World By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – America will face a food security crisis within 20 years and Upstate New York is the solution. That’s the message Phoebe Schreiner, executive director of the Oneonta-based Center for Agriculture Development & Entrepreneurship (CADE) brought to the third TEDxOneonta Talk Friday, Sept. 13, at Hartwick College. “I saw the impact of climate change the desertification of agriculture in…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Sept 20-21, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Sister, Seward Plan Parole-Reform Rally County Reps Consider E-Waste Recycling Fee Doubleday Field Receives $10K Memorial Gift TedX Talk: Upstate’s Water Can Save World Anti-Fracking Pioneer Retires At Ommegang Inn, 2 Homes Win Beautification Laurels EDITORIAL Will Downtown Upgrades Ever End? No! COLUMNS DiPERNA: How Did America Stray So Far ZAGATA: Don’t Blame Poverty On Rich, But Us MORGAN: U.S. Conceived In…
LETTER from DICK DOWNEY Affordable Power Needed: For Now, That Means Gas To the Editor: Adrian Kuzminski’s latest editorial, “Refocus $500M From Pipelines To Renewables,” plays three-card monte with reality and the truth. Mr. Kuzminski questions NYSEG’s petition to the Public Service Commission (PSC) for a rate increase. In particular, he objects to the allocation of $203 million (not $500 million as headlined) toward upgrading and expanding capacity of the DeRuyter gas pipeline servicing Oneonta. He states, “To cover costs…
HOMETOWN History Sept. 14, 2019 150 Years Ago Temperance – If the temperance question could be withdrawn from the areas of party politics it would be far better for the morals of the rising generation. We have urged the same views in relation to Sabbath observances. The claims of truth upon the conscience are weakened by alliance with the demands of warring political factions. If faith in the Supreme Being were made the test of political orthodoxy, there are many…
