EDITORIAL Knocked Off Ballot, Brothers/Candidates Still Love Oneonta Oneonta’s Roberts brothers have a point. Actually, they have a lot of points. Walking down Oneonta’s Main Street sidewalk after an interview the other day, it was either Nate or Eric who pointed at the sidewalk and said, “That’s what we mean.” He was pointing at a trail of dog droppings. Four days before, someone had vomited in front of a nearby establishment. The vomit was still there. And cigarette butts –…
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COLUMN Local Police Exempt From Mug-Shot Ban, State’s Expert Avers Editor’s Note: This is reprinted from the June edition of NewsBeat, a publication of the New York Press Association. One provision of the recently passed state budget has been interpreted by many as a “ban” on police agencies releasing booking photographs. But state officials have since clarified it’s not an outright ban, and local police retain a great deal of discretion in how they handle mugshots. The measure in question,…
BOUND VOLUMES June 13, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Illegal Slave Dealing – At a Court of Quarter Sessions held in April last for the County of Sussex (Del.), Lemuel Tam was convicted of selling for exportation, a manumitted slave, and sentenced by the court to pay the sum of $500, the penalty enforced by the Act of the Assembly. At the same term James Jones, who had been convicted at the November term last, was sentenced by the court to…
Cooperstown PTA Debates Bullying By JENNIFER HILL• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN “We’re asking you to take better care of the students and then we’ll trust you more.” Cooperstown Central School’s PTA Co-President Tabetha Rathbone’s remarks to school board members and administrators echoed what 60-plus plus parents and students said in a packed Cooperstown Elementary School’s library Tuesday, June 11. However, School Super-intendent Bill Crankshaw said he isn’t sure what the school district will do next. The PTA meeting offered the…
From SIGURD C. “ZIGGY” RAHMAS Impeachment Would Be Good For Nation; Delgado Shouldn’t Resist Initiating Steps To the Editor: This is a copy of a letter I sent to Congressman Antonio Delgado. • Dear Congressman Delgado, It was a pleasure talking with you at the Middleburgh Town Hall. I was the person who asked the first question. We have the same goals, just a different approach. I brought up the idea that an impeachment inquiry will prevent President Trump from…
Red Shed Brewery’s Mix Includes Music, Trivia Prize-Winning Brewskies By LIBBY CUDMORE • from SUMMER DREAMS COOPERSTOWN David Olson calls the Red Shed Brewery’s Otsego Golden Ale a “quit your job” beer. “My wife Suzanne and I had been living in Pittsburgh and we would come up to see her father, Jack Hasbrouck, who made home-brewed beer,” he said. “We wanted to move closer to family, but when I had that Otsego Golden Ale, I thought, ‘We could sell this.’” The expanded…
from CAROL FRIGAULT Richfield’s Zoning Plan Will Give More Options Than Are Available Now To the Editor: The Town of Richfield and the Village of Richfield Springs were given a tremendous gift from the IDA in 2015 by funding the hiring of professionals to help us create a Comprehensive Plan and update the Town Zoning Law that were created in 1992. The Joint Comprehensive Plan was adopted by the Village in December 2017, and by the Town in January 2018.…
from ZACHARY ALDRIDGE Article Complicit In Suffering Of Native People To the Editor: In the May 23-24 editions of your newspapers, Jim Kevlin wrote that “paddlers in the 59th annual General Clinton Regatta can compete with a clear conscience” because the native inhabitants of a single village, Onaquaga, had deserted it. As he goes on to explain, they had fled a different genocidal campaign the year before Clinton’s, led by Lt. Col. William Butler. The bylines read “Clinton Didn’t Destroy…
CCS Baseball Team In Final 4 By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com BINGHAMTON For Coach Matt Hazzard, the Cooperstown Hawkeyes hard-won 8-7 victory over the Tioga Tigers was “surreal.” “You can’t make that stuff up,” he said. “It was just incredible.” The win – it came after a 4-7 deficit into the seventh inning – puts Cooperstown in the Class C Final Four for the second time in three years. At 5 p.m. Friday, June 14, the Hawkeyes play…
Philo Vance Home Safe For Now Historians Say Literary Mecca Out Of Danger By LIBBY CUDMORE• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The River Street birthplace of detective Philo Vance may still be saved. On Monday, June 10, Bob Brzozowski, Greater Oneonta Historical Society executive director, went through the 31 River St. home where William Huntington Wright – aka S.S. Van Dyne – wrote parts of his debut novel, “A Man of Promise.” Later, while recovering from a cocaine addiction, is believed to…
