Filors Cutting Trees For Half-Century By JIMKEVLIN• Special To AllOTSEGO.com In 1969, Ned Filor heard about a state Ag & Markets program that encouraged farmers to grow Christmas trees on vacant land as a cash crop. That was 50 years ago this year, and sons Ken and Frank are still at it on the Filor Farm, just south of Dreams Park, intending to sell 400-500 trees before their market inevitably dries up the day before Dec. 25. “He planted Scotch…
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Will Impeachment Vote Since Delgado’s Future? GOP: Freshman Voted Against Constituents; Democrats: He Was Following His Conscience By JIM KEVLIN • Special To www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Impeachment is part of the issue. The other part is: By voting for President Trump’s impeachment, is freshman Congressman Anthony Delgado, D-19, endangering his chances of reelection? Yes, said Otsego County Republican Chairman Vince Casale: “He’s going against the majority of the will of his constituents, against how they voted in 2016.” Regardless, Delgado…
HOMETOWN History Dec. 20, 2019 150 Years Ago Miscellaneous: It is authoritatively stated that the loss of life by kerosene is greater than by railroad and steamboat accidents combined. A German astronomer says that we are soon to have another moon, and that it will be nearer the Earth than our present satellite. Some of the Syracuse papers now call the Cardiff humbug the “Exposed Giant” The Rochester Chronicle thinks the term ought to have been adopted in the first…
Time Of Transition At Salvation Army Key Retirement, And 2 New Commanders By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – There comes a time when even Christmas Elves have to retire. “I’ve handled the Angel Tree toys for over 50 years,” said Salvation Army Maj. (ret.) Mary Smith. “I was an officer for 44 years, then a major, then after I retired, I kept volunteering.” This is Smith’s last Christmas handling the hundreds of toys donated to the Salvation…
Homemade Cards Capture Christmas By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To AllOTSEGO.com There’s something special, James Mullen believes, about a Christmas card. “Because there’s an exchange at the same time of the year, they’re a lot of fun to receive as well as to give,” he said. And Mullen would know – the former dean of SUNY Oneonta’s Fine Arts Department, he has been making cards for 64 years. “I made 200 this year,” he said. “It’s the most I’ve ever…
ANDELA PLAN TOPS LIST State CFA ’19 Grants Announced Thursday A $420,000 grant so Andela Products Inc. can expand into the Richfield Springs Industrial Park leads off the list of grants Otsego Now is hoping to receive in this year’s round of state economic development funding, to be announced Thursday in Albany. Otsego Now’s Director of Finance & Administration Meaghan Marino will represent her organization, which either submits or advises project sponsors on the annual local CFA applications. CFA stands…
BOUND VOLUMES Dec. 19, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Excerpts from a letter from the pen of John Jay, then a former Attorney General of New York State, since retired: “Little can be added to what has been said and written on the subject of Slavery. I concur in the opinion that it ought not to be introduced, nor permitted, in any of the new States, and that it ought to be gradually diminished and finally abolished in all of them.…
SHE SAYS CUOMO ‘FORCES’ SYSTEM ON HER ‘Green Light’ Law Threatens Voting Integrity, Clerk Says By JIM KEVLIN • Special To www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The state’s “Green Light” Law that went into effect over the weekend is all about registering potential Democratic voters, Otsego County Clerk Kathy Sinnott Gardner said in an interview. “They are making a mockery of our voting system,” said Sinnott Gardner Tuesday, Dec. 17, as she was organizing her staff to administer a law she disagrees…
NEW FACES AT 197 MAIN ST. Outdoorsman Rick Brockway Brings Sportsman’s Sensibility Editor’s Note: This is the second of three profiles on newcomers will be joining the Otsego County Board of Representatives on Jan 1. Next week: Clark Oliver. By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special To www.AllOTSEGO.com LAURENS — An avowed conservative and lover of the outdoors, Rick Brockway hopes to bring that outlook to the Otsego County Board of Representatives. For instance, as a long-time gun owner, the new District 3…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Dec. 19-20, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Clerk: ‘Green Law’ Threatens Voting Integrity Will Impeachment Vote Sink Delgado’s Hopes Brockway Brings Outdoorsman Perspectivc Time Of Transition At Local Salvation Army Otsego Now Awaiting CFA Announcement EDITORIALS Nostalgia? We Can Live Enduring Values Today YULE TIDINGS LUKE: ‘On Earth, Peace, Goodwill Toward Men’ YES, VIRGINIA, There Is A Santa Claus COLUMNS CUDMORE: 10 Years Of Love, Work, Home BENNETT: The…
