SUMMER DREAMS From Hot Dog Stand, Moffats Grew Blue Mingo Restaurant Into Mecca For Fine Dining By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – There are plenty of places in Otsego County to get drive-thru food. But the Blue Mingo is the only place to get boat-thru food. “On busy nights, we’ll come and serve you on your boat!” said owner Michael Moffat. “We have a lot of people who come and order while they’re out on the lake –…
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Glimmerglass Queen Dream Comes True For Captain Paula At 18, She Bore Witness As The Paula Lee ‘Burned To Water Line,’ Had To Replace It By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – It’s kismet. Or so it seems, that Paula Wikoff was born to be captain of The Glimmerglass Queen. Her grandfather, Alfred Engelman, built the original Lakefront Hotel & Restaurant from Quonset huts he bought at an auction of surplus World War II materiel. At the same…
FENIMORE EXHIBIT ENDING This Is Last Weekend For Rock, Roll Photos By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – “Herb Ritts: The Rock Portraits” was a game-changer for The Fenimore Art Museum. “Our admissions at The Fenimore were up 13 percent from last year,” said Paul D’Ambrosio, president. “This tells us that we need to keep appealing to a broader, younger audience.” The portraits – Monday, Sept. 2, is the exhibit’s last day – include Madonna, David Bowie, Prince…
COLUMN Some Indicators Suggest Recession Not Looming By TOM MORGAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Are we staring at a recession? You have surely seen or heard reports, opinion and speculation to that effect. Gloom has been a mini-rage lately. A few questions are in order. Are economists able to accurately predict recessions? No. If their accuracy percentages were batting averages you would bench them. Why is the subject of recessions in the air so much lately? The Left salivates at…
By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Call it Oneonta’s “Next Top Conductor.” Silus Nathanial Huff, Carolyn Watson and Maciej Żółtowski will each conduct one of three concerts in the Catskill Symphony Orchestra’s search for their new conductor, following the retirement of Maestro Charles Schneider last year. “Our search for the new conductor started last September,” Laurie Zimniewicz, search committee chair. “We had 73 local, national and international candidates apply. We narrowed it down to 12, then nine,…
EDITORIAL How Often Can We Help Something 1st-Rate Happen? Solicitations, by phone, mail, email or in person, are a pesky part of 21st century life. The advantages the Susquehanna SPCA’s “Shelter Us” campaign for $3 million to build a new animal shelter are: one, the people who are running it are our neighors – we know them. And, two, everything about it is first rate. Anita Vitullo of Clinton, Staffworks’ president and philanthropist to the pet world, underscored the many ways…
WATCH FOR PROGRESS AT SHELTER SITE $2M DOWN, $1M TO GO By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com INDEX – So far, 100 individual contributions have been made to the new Susquehanna Animal Shelter, and more of the kind is needed to reach the new fundraising goal of $3 million, according to SSPCA Executive Director Stacie Hayes. “It’s the individuals we have to count on,” said Haynes in the afterglow of Saturday, Aug. 24’s upbeat groundbreaking ceremony on the site…
COLUMN Questions Are Neutral. Answers, Not So Much By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Asking questions: It’s a method of teaching that goes back to earlier than 399 B.C. and Socrates, the seminal thinker who laid the foundation for much subsequent Western thought. Hence, the Socratic Method. The idea is that a question, in itself, is neutral; at worst – or best? – a provocation to think. It’s the resulting answers to the question that aren’t neutral. The hope…
POEM TO THE EDITOR South Main Street When I was a bit too young, a girl and I snuck into the city’s sewers. We crawled through narrow places with trickling water, splashing in puddles and neat little streams I watched her bend beneath concrete and pipes, strain to look up at the drains that filtered in light from some half-recognized street, and I thought of other secret places. We burst into light, unearthed near some computer repair shop and made…
DEBATE AT 22 MAIN Despite Village Atty’s Warning, Trustees Vote To Fly Pride Flag By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A month after voting unanimously to fly the Pride Flag on the flagpole next June, village trustees once again debated and, in the end, affirmed their decision. “I gave every member of this board every opportunity to table this motion,” said Trustee MacGuire Benton, who introduced the resolution at the board’s July meeting. “For any vote you…
