THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Feb. 20-21, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Fears For Football Reflect Enrollment Dip In Oneonta, Data Show Stability, Even Growth Looking To Nov. 3, Political Contests Aplenty Pit Bulls Were Taught To Fight – Elsewhere Memoir’s Focus: Running For County Board EDITORIAL If Not Ruffles, Someone With His Qualities COLUMNS GIBSON: Siena Must Turn Out More ‘Servant Leaders’ BENNETT: Are 2 Billionaires Best Choice For U.S.?’ ERNA: Burly, Tattoed…
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COLUMN From Congressman To Siena President ‘Servant Leaders’ Will Take Nation To Brighter Future Editor’s Note: Chris Gibson, former congressman for New York’s 19th District, which includes Otsego County, Friday, Feb. 14, was named president of Siena College. Here is an excerpt from his remarks to the college community. By CHRIS GIBSON • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I want to close my remarks by focusing on the students. You are why we are here. And we believe in you. You know…
HOMETOWN History Feb. 21, 2020 150 Years Ago Humorous – A Case of Denied Non-Committal: Old Lady – “Can you tell me, my good man, where I can find Mr. Jones?” Pat: “Sure Ma’am, I expect it would be at his house you would find him.” Lady: “Does he live anywhere in the street here?” Pat: “Sure, no indeed, it’s not for the likes of him to be living in the street at all.” Lady: “You stupid fellow! I mean…
‘LIVE BIRTHS’ & ENROLLMENT In Oneonta, Data Show Stability, Even Growth By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Enrollment in Oneonta City Schools, it turns out, hit bottom with this year’s 10th graders. The 105 sophomores comprise the smallest class, K-12, among the 1,738 students currently in city comprise. What’s more, Oneonta’s schools have by far the largest enrollment, more than double second-place Cooperstown Central, among the 19 school district in ONC BOCES. And, according to the annual…
20 Pit Bulls Trained In Franklin To Fight, But Not Around Here Arrested, Owners Of House Is Facing Multiple Counts By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A little late for Valentine’s Day, but now you can take home Dove, Snickers, Hershey, Sweetie, Maple and Honey. “Jim Fitzgerald of Alpha Dog Consulting came in and assessed the dogs,” said Stacie Haynes, executive director, Susquehanna Animal Shelter, who took in six of the “Franklin 20” pit bulls after they were…
CENTER TO BE OPENED IN SPRING Centers Pioneering Inhouse Child Care By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown Center wants to care for the young, to assist helping the not-so-young. “We’ve had a lot of staffing issues because people call and they say they couldn’t get a babysitter,” said Heather Welch, office manager. “So we’re opening a pre-school.” Dubbed Centers Childcare of Cooperstown, the preschool is a pilot across the Centers Healthcare Network as a way to…
LETTER from DICK DOWNEY Gas Demonized, But CO2 Levels Keep Going Down To the Editor: Brian Brock’s recent letter to the editor (“Renewables, Not Gas, The Cleaner Way To Go,” 1/23-24/20) misses the forest for the trees. In citing a one-year (2018) up-tick in U.S. energy-related CO2, he conveniently skips the long-term role of gas in lowering emissions. A week earlier, the Energy Information Agency’s three decade (1990-2021) emissions report shows CO2 emissions dropped to 1990 levels as shale gas…
EDITORIAL ‘Trusted Traveler’ Revocations Aside, ‘Green Light’ Bad Law On Sept. 11, 2001, the 19 terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon, or crashed in Schwenksville, Pa., had 30 driver’s licenses among them that allowed them to gain access to and hijack the four jets. Nineteen licenses were from Florida, eight from Virginia, one each from Arizona and Maryland, plus two from California that were issued to two “watchlisted” participants. None were from our state’s DMV, but if…
After Tilting, Pierstown Grange Is Stable Again Built in 1898, ‘Unpolished Gem’ Due To Be Reopened Next June By LIZZIE COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com PIERSTOWN – The Pierstown Grange is getting a restoration overhaul. The 1898 structure is undergoing a $130,000 renovation. Grange members and friends had raised about $60,000 in donations for the project when an anonymous supporter offered a low-interest loan to cover the rest. “It certainly speaks to the sense of community that the Pierstown Grange…
BOUND VOLUMES Feb. 12, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Excerpt from a Letter to the Editor dated Albany, February 9, 1820, signed Daniel D. Tompkins: “I occasionally get a glance at your paper, which I am glad to find conducted with a stability and moderation in regard to the political contentions which agitate the state, highly credible to your judgment. Faction has reared its head, and the party in opposition to the state administration, appear determined by “hook or by crook,”…
