Two declare candidacy for 122nd Dan Buttermann this week announced he plans to seek the Democratic Party nomination for the New York State Assembly in its newly-formed 122nd district, which covers parts of Otsego, Madison, Oneida and Herkimer Counties. Among those he’ll be facing in the contest, Colton Mennig of Morrisville, New York. Mr. Buttermann has served as a member of the Oneonta City Schools Board of Education, the Oneonta Town Planning Board, and is currently serving on the Board…
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American Irish Historical Society plots move from NYC to Cooperstown Few — if any — outside of an apparently small circle know why, but word out of New York City on February 14 has the American Irish Historical Society moving from its $52 million, 125-year home on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue to somewhere in the Town of Otsego – perhaps the Village of Cooperstown. If the Society has a specific location in mind, that would be news, too. Town of Otsego…
Bassett begins to lift visitation restrictions Improving COVID conditions throughout the region allow Bassett Healthcare to partially lift visitation restrictions at inpatient and clinic locations across its network. Effective immediately, the Network’s inpatient hospital locations – Fox in Oneonta, Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, Cobleskill Regional, Little Falls, and O’Connor Hospital in Delhi – all permit three visitors at a time per non-COVID patient between the hours of 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. daily. COVID-positive patients are restricted to virtual…
State Police launch Super Bowl DWI patrols The New York State Police will crack down on impaired and reckless driving during Super Bowl weekend, Friday, February 11 through Monday, February 14. The agency’s STOP-DWI campaign includes patrols and sobriety checkpoints to deter, identify, and arrest impaired drivers, as well as underage drinker enforcement. An impaired driving conviction carries a maximum fine of $10,000, possible license revocation, and up to seven years in prison. Troopers will use both marked State Police…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta February 10, 2022 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Cooperstown Central plots anti-racism strategy, addresses complaints Doubleday renovations on track for June finish Inside The Paper State says ‘no’ to gifting pot Not a day over 27 Fate of James Fenimore Cooper murals rests with Westchester school board Glimmerglass Festival names three ‘Honorary Life Trustees’ Cooperstown costume pro voting on top film awards Perspectives Editorial District Attorney right on bail, discovery…
Bound Volumes 185 YEARS AGO If a man by digging a well obtains good water, the product may be of immense value to him, and yet, this water which is the product of the labor of digging the well, is of little or no exchangeable value. That is, he cannot exchange it for any other product. The products of statesmen and professional men have improperly, it is believed, been called immaterial products. The labor of these classes is, or ought…
Not a day over 27 Say hello to Zeb, a Percheron working at The Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown. He’s 28 in horse years — that’s 80 for us humans — and has been with the Museum since he was three (horse years). he’s more than 16 hands high, each hand equal to four inches, and weighs in at a svelte 1500 pounds. Bob Thompson, Associate Director of Agriculture and Facilities Support Services at the Farmers’ Museum, said Zeb is “pretty…
District Attorney right on bail, discovery Otsego County District Attorney John Muehl is in a dangerous spot when it comes to what we understand his position to be on the third-rail issues of bail and discovery reform. He can see both sides of the issue. That’s poison these days – acknowledging, in this case, that those calling for reform to the criminal justice system had reason to do so but that those saying it went too far are equally justified.…
Opportunities for Otsego: The Childcare Dilemma By Dan Maskin I recently listened to an interview with journalist Claire Suddath about childcare. She was speaking about her November 2021 article in Bloomberg Business Week titled “How childcare became the most broken business in America: Biden has a plan to make day care more affordable for parents — if the providers don’t go out of business first.” The high cost of childcare is mainly due to it being a private market that…
Cooperstown costume pro voting on top film awards “I had 27 movies to watch,” Van Ramsey, an Emmy-winning costume designer with 45 years of stage and screen credits, said from his Cooperstown home a few weeks ago. “I’m part of the Costume Designers Guild, and I have to watch each movie with attention to costume design.” He and some 700 colleagues from around the world are voting for the annual Costume Designers Guild Award, a prestigious honor announced one week…
