BOUND VOLUMES, May 16, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Medical Meeting – An adjourned meeting of the Otsego County Medical Society will be held at the house of Joseph Griffin, in the Village of Cooperstown on Tuesday, the 25th, at 1 o’clock p.m. To Pomeroy, Secretary. Notice – Robert Campbell, Recording Secretary of the Otsego County Agricultural Society, has just received a variety of Foreign Seed Grains, to be delivered to such members of the Society as may call in time.…
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…Away On A Hilltop: The Inn At Fly Creek By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to ALLOTSEGO.COM FLY CREEK – Kellie Dupuis and Kelly Hart don’t just want the Inn at Fly Creek to be for visitors. They want it to be for everyone. This summer, the Town of Otsego estate atop Bedbug Hill will be rented out to Dreams Park families. But “what interests us most about this property is hosting weekend events,” said Kellie. “Wine tastings, bridal fairs, Ommegang…
PETS Task Force’s First Case: Rescue Pigs From Pittsfield Farm HARTWICK SEMINARY – It was a scene Stacie Haynes has seen play out before. Two pigs, skinny and without food, water or hay, trying to eat the corpses of two dead pigs in a trash pile at a farm on County Route 18, Town of Pittsfield. “They were shivering and cold,” she said. “We got called out there at night in a rainstorm, and we seized them.” Now playfully dubbed…
COLUMN Blame Businesspeople For Downtown Woes In response to last week’s editorial regarding Cooperstown purchasing the old CVS building … What rot! I can only believe that this is either sarcasm or your newspaper trying to roil the waters for the sake of selling more newspapers. It is not the position of a very small municipality that struggles to put together a balanced budget every year while maintaining an adequate reserve, to be buying up public property for the sake…
COLUMN Prosperity, Offerings About Cooperstown Editor’s Note: Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch delivered these welcoming remarks when NYCOM, the New York Conference of Mayors, convened Sunday, May 6, at The Otesaga, for its three-day annual conference. I have had the opportunity over the past year to welcome several groups to Cooperstown – but I have to say this is one of the more intimidating as I am facing a room of peers – elected officials who have all had to provide…
from PAULA DiPERNA You Ask: What Can I Do? Well, Here’s What To the Editor: I am often asked by people “what can we do?” about this or that, so I’ve begun a personal program called “Resist, Reject, Rebel.” Below is a list of simple acts we can all undertake that would ameliorate an assortment of problems we face as a society. 1) Plastics in the ocean: Reject all drinks with a plastic straw. Send back the straw and ask…
from GERRY WELCH Caped Crusaders Can Fight Ticks To The Editor, Here are suggestions for removing ticks from walking paths, yards, deer trails, etc. Attach to shoulder or waist a white bed sheet, and then walk or jog. Upon returning home, car or camp, quickly place sheet into a five-gallon pail of water with bleach, put lid on and leave sit overnight. Next day hang sheet out to dry to be used again next time.…
Fly Creek UM Composes Letter Voicing ‘Dismay’ FLY CREEK – Some members of the Fly Creek United Methodist Church have allied with their Oneonta colleagues, penning a letter expressing “disappointment and dismay” that the international church has affirmed bans on gay pastors and gay marriage. Thirty-seven regular attendees also signed it, said Julie Huntsman, who drafted the letter with Chris Kjolhede. But the pastor, the Rev. Sharon Rankins-Burd, did not sign it, and Huntsman said it is not the Fly…
COLUMN Is 2-Party System Serving Nation? The other day I had occasion to visit the websites of both our local Otsego County Democratic and Republican Committees. Both were disappointing. The Republican Committee’s website still listed John Faso as our congressman. The most recent posting I could find was from 2014. The Democratic website, by contrast, was up to date, listing local officials and candidates for this year’s races. Both parties have active Facebook pages (the Republicans had 611 likes, the…
Hovis’ Novel Updates Adam, Eve Story By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Ink, said George Hovis, has a way of getting under your skin. In the ’90s, the SUNY Oneonta English professor worked as a process chemist in an ink factory in Charlotte, N.C. “Ink got into my subconscious,” he said. “And it came out as the ink on the skin of these characters.” His debut novel, “The Skin Artist,” just released from SFK Press, follows Bill…
