from JULIE HUNTSMAN, CHRIS KJOLHEDE Methodists At Fly Creek Pray Peacefully Together To the Editor: We appreciate this paper’s coverage of local dissent from the global United Methodist Church’s “Traditional Plan” which passed by a slim majority at the church’s conference in February of this year. To those not acquainted with the issue, the Traditional Plan continues the UMC Book of Discipline’s codified discrimination of people identifying as LGBTQ. Those so identifying are not turned away from church, but…
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COLUMN ‘Love Conquers All’ At Colgate Graduation, Delgado Says He Resisted Fighting Hate With Hate Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado’s commencement address Sunday, May 19, at Colgate University, his alma mater. Click here to read related editorial. I want to start with a story about my mother, who has often told me that she loves me with every fiber of her being, and there is absolutely nothing that I can do about it. She…
HOMETOWN History May 24, 2019 150 Years Ago The Oneonta Union School numbers over 200 pupils the present term – about 70 in each department. The academic department is equal to many of our academies now in scholarship and perhaps somewhat ahead of those of our neighboring villages, whose educational halls once echoed to the classic tongue of Virgil and Sallust, or the abstruse propositions of Euclid, but now they echo no longer. Peace to their shades! May they never…
EDITORIAL Downtown Revival IS Exciting; Let’s ACT Excited About Plans There’s a lot going on in the City of Oneonta right now, as City Hall’s DRI (the Downtown Revitalization Initiative) begins distributing $10 million in state money, leveraging it in a way that attracts many millions more in private investment. Certainly, there are time pressures. There are conflicting agendas. There’s not ever going to be enough money to make everybody happy. Lately, environmentalists are ready to swoop down on any…
from SHIRLEY O’SHEA RSS Foes ‘Do Not Want To Live Near Crazies’ To the Editor: The individuals comprising the Sixth Ward Neighbors United are clearly not willing to be neighbors to persons with psychiatric disorders who need housing assistance. The Neighbors claim that they want full investigation of Rehabilitation Support Services (RSS) for financial improprieties prior to approval of applications for low-income housing for mentally ill residents.…
Twins’ Mom Indicted In Newborns’ Deaths By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com DECATUR – On Saturday, May 4, Kimberly Nicole Steeley wrote a poem on her Facebook page, titled, “If I knew x Two,” “If I knew it was the last time I would hold you x2, If I knew it would be the last time I kissed you x2…If I knew love that Deeply x2, If I knew I would Have tried to save you x2,” she wrote.…
HOMETOWN HISTORY, May 17, 2019 150 YEARS AGO West Oneonta – Measures were instituted some time ago, looking towards the erection of a new school house at West Oneonta. Progress was so far made that proposals for building were received with the prospects of the early completion of the building. But, owing to the fear of some close-fisted taxpayers who have no children to educate, the good work is indefinitely postponed. These parties and others interested should understand that an…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 16-17, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Newborns Died, Twins’ Mom Indicted OHS Schools Cutting Help For Neediest CCS Budget Focus: Kindergarten, Vaping PETS Task Force’s First Case: Pittsfield Pigs Fly Creek UM Letter ‘Dismayed’ At Gay Ban Widower, 3 Kids Homeless In Pittsfield Fire EDITORIAL Downtown Revival IS Exciting; Let’s ACT Excited COLUMNS TILLAPAUGH: Prosperity, Offerings About Here KUZMINSKI: Is 2-Party System Serving Nation? STERNBERG: Blame Businesspeople For…
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OHS Schools Cutting Classes For Neediest By JENNIFER HILL • Special to AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Oneonta High School students may be happy to hear that there won’t be any summer school this year, but Superintendent Joseph Yelich sees it as a bigger problem. “We used to have 200 students attending summer school, but it’s now down to 50,” he said. “Some kids will go the first day of summer school and not show up after that. It costs $150,000 to…
