After Week On Loose, Buffalo Wander Home … But Not Without Wreaking Some Damage By JENNIFER HILL & LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com SHARON – After more than a week on the lam, the buffalo are headed home. “I’ve spotted almost all of the animals and they’re within two miles of the farm,” owner Brian Grubb Tuesday, July 30. “They’re in two groups, one of 60, one of 15. I fed one group twice, trying to get them calm.” Seventy-five…
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SUNY-O President Says Reaching African Summit Tribute To Friend Who Died By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com FROM TANZANIA – For Barbara Jean Morris, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro was the fulfillment of a promise made to a friend. “A high school dear friend had decided to summit on his birthday three years ago,” the SUNY Oneonta president said over email. “But he unexpectedly passed away, so the trip was canceled. I decided that it would be special to summit on my…
EDITORIAL What Is It About Flags, Anyhow? The First Amendment is pretty clear: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Operative phrase: “No law.” The devil, of course, is in the details, beginning with “shouting fire in a crowded theater,” the metaphor…
IN APPRECIATION • Joe Campbell Sr. His Father’s 3 Loves: Teaching, Coaching, Radio Broadcasting Editor’s Note: “Voice of Oneonta” Joseph P. Campbell’s son, Joe Jr., eulogized his father at a memorial service Saturday, July 27, at the Oneonta Elks Lodge. This is an excerpt. By JOE CAMPBELL, Jr. • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Dad absolutely loved teaching, coaching, and radio broadcasting. “Mr. C.” taught for 38 years, mostly in sixth grade at the Greater Plains Elementary School. Dad had the exquisite…
FRESHMAN TRUSTEE CARRIES DAY Pride Flag Will Fly Over Cooperstown Village Hall By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The Pride Flag flew over the state Capitol in Albany this summer for the first time. The idea of flying it over Village Hall in Skaneateles was proposed in June, but no action’s yet been taken there. That means the Village Board’s unanimous voted Monday, July 22, may make Cooperstown the first municipality in the state to authorize flying…
THINGS TO DO/LIBBY’S BEST BETS Induction Over, But Art Scene Thriving By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com As this week’s cover story on “Possessing Harriet” at the Franklin Stage shows, dramatic, as well as the visual arts, are robust in Otsego County. • Start your weekend off with a farce as Stuff of Dreams production of Ken Ludwig’s “Lend Me a Tenor.” Cost, $17/adult. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, July 26-27, 2 p.m. Sunday, July 28. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta.…
FINE DINING, FUN DINING Hot Wings For Hot Weather Pause your stroll through Cooperstown’s Main Street for some of Cooley Tavern’s famous juicy chicken wings on Pioneer St. The skins are crunchy, the meat juicy, and you can take your pick of sauces ranging from mild, to hot, to nuclear, or try Cooley’s Own sauce. A worthwhile stop on your trip through Cooperstown. (Cooley’s Stonehouse Tavern, 49 Pioneer St, Cooperstown.) LARISSA RYAN, Office Manager There comes a time in a…
Summer Dreams Local Connections In Slave’s Escape Fills Franklin Stage Final Performances This Weekend • Check www.franklinstagecompany.org By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com FRANKLIN – For “Possessing Harriet” director Leslie Nobel, it was about helping people witness history. “In her diary, Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote about meeting Harriet Powell and that the conversation affected her deeply,” Nobel said. “The playwright, Kyle Bass, took dramatic license to imagine that conversation.” “Possessing Harriet,” which opened to a packed house Thursday, July 11,…
BOUND VOLUMES July 25, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Excerpts from a letter written by John Adams to Benjamin Rush on the subject of Slavery in America. “The turpitude, the inhumanity, the cruelty, and the infamy of the African commerce in slaves, have been so well represented to the public by the powers of eloquence, that nothing I could say would increase the just odium in which it is and ought to be held. Every measure of prudence, therefore ought to…
LETTER from JACOB SACKETT Candidate Goss Remains ‘Fervent Oneonta Advocate’ To the Editor: I write to you in light of the June 25 Democratic primary election for Oneonta Common Council. I wish to convey to the voters of Oneonta who Mr. Jerid Goss is as a candidate, member of Oneonta’s community, and also as an individual. I have known Jerid my entire life, having grown up alongside him, and cannot speak higher of his moral character and ambition. Over the…
