Your Favorite Business Needs YOU To Survive Sure, local governments and school districts can close their doors and send thousands of employees home Friday, March 13 – tax revenues will ensure they get paid. Private enterprise is different. Your favorite diner or restaurant. That lively boutique or gift shop. They need your continuing support – in many cases, to simply survive. Same goes for local institutions we rely on. The Catskill Symphony Orchestra had to cancel its Cabaret Concert Saturday,…
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WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER This Is What ‘Worst’ May Look Like By LARRY BENNETT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com According to the CDC, from Oct. 1, 2019, through March 7, 2020, an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 Americans died from seasonal flu-related illnesses. That’s out of 36 million to 51 million total flu illnesses. It appears that seasonal flu vaccines have mitigated the numbers, as have some people’s immunity, as well as having fully staffed and equipped medical facilities at the…
TENDING THEIR FLOCKS Catholics Should Pitch In To Flatten Disease’s Curve By EDWARD B. SCHARFENBERGER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Due to growing concerns and medical advice related to the rapid spread of COVID-19 in social settings, Bishop Scharfenberger has announced that all regularly scheduled public Masses in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany – except weddings and funerals – will be canceled until further notice. Churches will, however, remain open for private prayer, pending further regulations. In addition, all Confirmations…
LETTER from GARRETT deBLIECK ‘Right To Bear Arms,’ An ‘Unalienable’ Part Of U.S. Constitution To the Editor: It seems writing this out shouldn’t be necessary. 2AS, spelled out is “Second Amendment Sanctuary.” The word “sanctuary” meaning a place of safety, refuge and protection. The Second Amendment is one of 10 listed “unalienable” Rights written in our Constitutional Law. So, put together, it is a cause of protecting and safeguarding an American Right. So where is the problem? Perhaps a proper…
LETTER from JEFF KATZ Give Mayor Help She Needs To Complete Work At Hand To the Editor: Under the leadership of Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh, the good work of the village government has continued. The enormous wastewater treatment plant rebuild has begun, as has the Doubleday Field renovation. Add to that the fantastic update of Pioneer Park and the TEP Main Street project and the village has never looked as good, or been taken care of so well. This is not…
LETTER from ELLEN TILLAPAUGH KUCH Mayor Tillapaugh: Vote So Work Can Get Done To the Editor: Since 2011, I have been honored to serve my hometown community in village government. First elected as a trustee in 2011, I was appointed deputy mayor in 2014 and served in that capacity until my election as mayor in 2018. Over the past nine years, I along with fellow elected officials have worked to stabilize the village’s finances. We are proud that for seven…
LETTER from JOHN PAULITS Disenfranchised, We Should Be Allowed To Contributed To the Editor: Re Mr. Kuzminski’s suggestion that politics and political donations be local, I’d like to point out that legislators from Alaska to Florida vote on laws affecting Cooperstown. If a Senate or House member from any state consistently votes on items damaging to Cooperstown’s best interest, there should be no reason to ignore that. Indeed, it should be an incentive, to help elect a legislator more sympathetic…
LETTER from JOE MEMBRINO More Needs Doing, Help Me Contribute To the Editor: On Wednesday, March 18, Cooperstown voters will elect our mayor and two trustees. Last year, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh appointed me to a vacancy on the Village Board and assigned me to chair the Finance Committee. I am now running for a three-year term as trustee for the following reasons. First, I want to continue the successful management and conservation of our Village’s fiscal resources. Auditors recently met…
BOUND VOLUMES March 12, 2020 200 YEARS AGO On the February 24, at 12 o’clock at night, Joseph Nelson, Nathaniel Brown, Philip Johnson, Lemuel Wood, John O’Brien, James Joyce, David Linus, James Martin, and John N. Baldwin, escaped from No. 12, in the Middle Hall of the State Prison at Auburn, by breaking through the outside wall of the cell. It was done with bars of iron, and is said to have been the work of a week or ten…
ENDORSEMENT EDITORIAL Mary Margaret Will Put People Back In Picture Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns was a breath of fresh air at the Thursday, March 5, League of Women Voters’ debate for Cooperstown Village Board candidates. Village voters should open the windows Wednesday, March 18, and let that fresh air in. Polls are open noon – 9 p.m. at the fire hall. “They never should have allowed CVS to leave Main Street!” she declared, and cut to the heart of an…
