Letter from Chip Northrup Cutting of Trees Was‘Ugly Thing to Do’ A stately row of shade trees was cut down on the Leatherstocking Golf Course at the entrance to the Cooperstown Country Club. The trunks look sound, but the reason given was that the trees were “sick” and that one of the trees had shed a limb recently. All of the trees were removed based on the assumption that they were all dying and presented a hazard. Maybe so. Or…
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Letter from Anthony Scalici To Oberacker: Please Oppose Bus Mandate I am a long-time member of the Cooperstown Central School Board of Education but writing this letter as an individual. Please reconsider the mandate for electric school buses placed on public schools. It imposes an impossible burden on annual operating finance, transportation management and long-term debt to taxpayers. It is detrimental to classroom education in the threat it poses of losses to staffing and programs from the inordinate increase to…
Letter from Gerry Welch Zebra Mussel Control May Be Possible Chip Northrup stated that there is no way to control zebra mussels infesting Otsego Lake. Yes, there is, but the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will not allow the introduction of predatory species. Their reasoning is they consider the introduction of other species as being invasive. Take for example the drum fish, which feeds on zebra mussels. The drum fish is good to eat and is prized by…
News from the Noteworthy: Susquehanna SPCA Continuing Ed Yields Measurable Results for Shelter Employees and officials at the Susquehanna Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals believe deeply in education because, the better educated we are, the better we can serve our animals and our community. Promoting the humane treatment of animals through education is, of course, part of our mission. At the same time, our professional staff is dedicated to continued education in order to remain up-to-date on…
Randy Johnson Opens Fenimore Art Museum Photography Exhibition By WRILEY NELSONCOOPERSTOWN Hall of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson visited the Fenimore Art Museum on Thursday, March 30 to open his first solo photography exhibition. “Randy Johnson: Storytelling in Photographs” features about 30 prints from Johnson’s trips across East Africa. Johnson is best known for his exceptionally long and successful pitching career, but photography is his passion. He began taking photos in high school and studied photojournalism at the University of Southern…
Cooperstown Food Pantry Saves 4.5 Tons of Chicken from Landfill COOPERSTOWN The Cooperstown Food Pantry provides food for those in need, directly serving the northern two-thirds portion of Otsego County, including the Village of Cooperstown and 18 other townships encompassed in its 680-square-mile service area. One recent Saturday, CFP Executive Director Will Kleffner received a call from a shipping dispatcher saying he had a load of chicken that was refused delivery at a store in Albany. If they couldn’t find…
ON STAGE: Performing Arts at Our Oneonta Campusesby Rachel Frick Cardelle SUNY Thespians Ready for Stagings of ‘boom’ Starting Thursday One of the benefits to living near a college that I have always appreciated has been the affordable access a college campus gives me to theater, music and dance performances. Living in Oneonta proves my point, for despite its small size there are abundant opportunities to see performing arts. I have noticed, though, that while the productions at both SUNY…
Fallen Middlefield Soldier Featured in ‘Faces of Margraten’ Book By WRILEY NELSONMARGRATEN, Netherlands Nineteen-year-old Private First Class Robert J. Hubbard, formerly of Beaver Meadow Road in Middlefield, was killed in action in 1945. Now, almost 80 years after his death, Hubbard is featured in a memorial book, “The Faces of Margraten: They Will Remain Forever Young,” created by a group of volunteers in the Netherlands.…
Vols Sought for Earth Day Task Railyards Clean-up Planned By WRILEY NELSONONEONTA Otsego Now has issued a call for volunteers to clean up litter from the Oneonta Railyards at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 19. “Wetlands not Wastelands” is co-sponsored by the Keep Mohawk Valley Beautiful Campaign. The project is expected to take until 5 p.m., and volunteers may come and go as they choose. The Railyards, an historic area and the focus of a major economic revitalization project, contains…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta March 30, 2023…