REMARKS from ELLEN TILLAPAUGH Administrator Barown Excelled Editor’s Note: Here are Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch’s remarks at a Sunday, Nov. 1, reception honoring retiring Village Administrator Teri Barown on the veranda at 22 Main. That we are going to miss Teri Barown’s institutional knowledge, competent expertise and efficiency is a given. In my nine years as an elected official, Teri’s leadership abilities were always apparent and so very valued. Village officials, residents and visitors have all benefited from her…
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BOUND VOLUMES November 5, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Comments upon remarks made in response to an address by the Hon. Daniel Webster: “In the course of his remarks, Mr. W. stated, that since the commencement of the government, there had been paid into the Treasury through the Custom House, 350,000,000, while only $35,000,000 had been received from other sources, and that with much discontent. It was not the ship owner or ship builder merely, who had affected so much, but…
HOMETOWN HISTORY November 5, 2020 150 Years Ago Oneonta Local: Heavy white frost covers the ground these mornings. Another new engine, the “Schoharie” came up the road on Monday last. Jay McDonald has commenced the new home of Albert Morris on Walnut Street which is to be pushed, until it is done. C.H. Bundy of New Lisbon has erected and nearly finished a fine dwelling for Erastus Walling, on Oneonta Creek, It is by far the best house in the…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: DENNIS CRAIG MAN of THE HOUR Can Hero Of Purchase Save SUNY Oneonta? By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – For SUNY Oneonta’s interim President Dennis Craig, 55, it’s all about how you react to a crisis. “In tough incidents, sometimes you’re more defined by your response than by the incident itself,” he said, whether cheating, an instance of bias, a suicide, even a murder. When that happens, “I’m all about transparency and…
LETTER from ALLEN ANDERSON Election May Preserve Our Flawed, Free Nation To the Editor: If this is not the most important election in my lifetime, it nonetheless ranks as one that I feel is more important than most. In the last four years there has been a consistent and unrelenting drum beat of negativism surrounding our country and our president, his character, and the state of the nation. There have been street riots, calls for social justice, accusations from every…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Limit Public Flagpoles To New York, U.S. Flags To the Editor: Now that Oneonta has gotten into the flag du jour game, it may be time to review the wisdom of flying anything other than an American flag on a publicly owned flag pole. Again. Absent a state law governing what flags can lawfully be flown on municipal flag poles, the only lawful options in New York State are the national flag, the state flag and…
Stamford Priest Assigned To Cooperstown By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Father Michael Cambi, who arrived at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Catholic Church as pastor on Labor Day Weekend, grew up in a Catholic family, primarily in Yorktown Heights, Westchester County, with a stint in Northern Virginia. But it never occurred to him to be a priest. He grew up a Yankees fan, played center field and third base, and went off to Notre…
‘I’m certain that being called a ‘n—–‘ and experiencing hate many times in the past 47 years of my life has contributed greatly to my feelings of insecurity and lack of acceptance’ MICHELLE OSTERHOUDT Principal, Former Oneonta Council member, NAACP vice president Living With The ‘N-Word’ By MICHELLE OSTERHOUDT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Many people seem to believe that if one supports the Black Lives Matter movement, they cannot also be pro police. I disagree. And I refuse to participate in the vitriol…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Oct. 29-30, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE PROFILE: SUNY Oneonta’s New President Facing Cluster, Hartwick Confines Students 75-Guest Wedding Yields 19 COVID Cases Many Local People Casting Ballots Early Cooperstown Recruits New Village Clerk Stamford Priest Assigned To Cooperstown ENDORSEMENTS Oberacker, Senate; Buttermann, Assembly Delgado Invincible, Earns Second Term What Happens After Presidential Election LETTERS STERNBERG: Delgado Kept His Promises ROWLEY: If ‘Safe Act’ Is Flawed, Change It NORTHRUP:…
LETTER from PATRICIA BROCKWAY Guns Needed To Protect Families To the Editor: The 2AS (Second Amendment Sanctuary) group has provided to the Otsego County Board of Representatives a resolution for its approval, along with petitions signed by 3,295 local residents. The resolution should be seen as a commitment of the county board to stand by their oath of office. When an elected official takes an oath, we, as residents, should want them to uphold that oath. Asking them to vote…
