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LIBBY’S BEST BETS Tour Farms, Watch Madonna, And Lots To Do In Fly Creek By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com As the harvest draws near, explore farms throughout Otsego County to witness and try out activities from fish farming to beekeeping, more. Pick up farm guide from participating farms, farmer’s markets, libraries, or download guide at www.familyfarmday.org. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24. Questions? Call (607) 547-2536. • It’s bargains galore as you explore 50+ lawn sales,…
GERMAN V. DELGADO General’s 1st Mission: Can He Raise Enough? Oneontan’s Run Intrigues Gibson, Faso By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – After 36 years in the New York State National Guard, retiring Feb. 2 at adjutant general, the top commander, Tony German’s career was guided by a set of values: Integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all we do. That’s the code of the U.S. Air Force, he explained. “I’m not going to change now,”…
FINE FOOD • FUN FOOD Falling In Love With Fiesta, Again And Again And Again I have fallen in love three times at Fiesta. The first was the salsa. Each meal is preceded by a bowl of chips and in-house salsa, fresh each day, resulting in salsas with different personalities from night to night. Sometimes spicy, sometimes mild. Don’t let the lightness of this salsa fool you, it is super yummy on chips or dishes. The second was the tacos;…
COLUMN VIEW FROM FLY CREEK On Flying The Flag By ADRIAN KUZMINSKI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The other day I was chatting with a long-time local business man in Cooperstown who occasionally reads this column. He brought up the recent decision of the Village of Cooperstown to officially fly the Gay Pride flag on Village property. He expressed discomfort with at least some aspects of gay lifestyle, and clearly felt that the village action did not represent him and, by…
Doesn’t That Sound Better Than A Mantra Of Hate? All this talk about hate. Maybe it’s different in a rural enclave like Otsego County, but how often in the course of a week or month or year do any of us come face to face with something we can define as “hate.” Yet Governor Cuomo, last Thursday, Aug. 21, in announcing our state will be the first in the nation to enact a “Hate Crimes Domestic Terrorism Act” (see excerpt…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Whartons Best President, First Lady We Never Had To the Editor: Your newspaper did us all a great favor with its coverage of Dolores Wharton’s autobiography, which serves as a fine complement to her husband’s book. You have helped put the Whartons in their proper historical context – they were pillars in the advancement of minority meritocracy in the United States, moreso than any ballplayer in the Hall of Fame. Because, while Jackie Robinson proved that…
SUMMER DREAMS Diorama Of Massacre In Trove Of Artifacts At Cherry Valley Site Local Museums Are Full Of Surprises By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com CHERRY VALLEY – In the homesteads of Cherry Valley, even the dogs had to help out with the chores. “We have a dog treadmill from the 1893 Sears & Roebuck catalogue,” said Barbara Bill, director of the Cherry Valley Museum. “It was attached to a butter churn, and you hung a bone up front…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Aug. 22-23, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK…
BOUND VOLUMES Aug. 22, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement in the Otsego Herald: The undersigned intends, about the First of September next, to commence the publication of a paper in this village, under the above title. It will be printed upon an entire new type, and in size correspond with any interior paper in the State. J.H. Prentiss, Cooperstown, August 23, 1819. (Ed. Note: Thus was announced in the Otsego Herald, the beginning of this newspaper 200 years ago and…
