DOG MAY HAVE CHEWED OFF LEG NEGLECTED, ZOE GETS OPERATIONS By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com EXETER CENTER – Zoe may have a missing leg and a tumor, but successful fundraising sheds light on an otherwise dark story. By press time, 36 people had donated $1,800 since Friday morning, Nov. 15, to help cover the hospital costs for the 9-year-old German shepherd that was placed under a veterinarians’ care after a UPS driver noticed she was missing a leg and…
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ISSUE & DEBATE Martini: County Manager Will Save Much Wasted Time Editor’s Note: This commentary from County Representative Martini was in response to County Representative Frazier. By ADRIENNE MARTINI • County Representative City of Oneonta I am about to complete my first term on the Otsego County Board of Representatives as the District 12 representative for Wards 3 and 4 in the City of Oneonta. A few weeks ago, I was re-elected and will serve a second two-year term. Like my…
HOMETOWN History Nov. 22, 2019 150 Years Ago Country Merchants Beware – The Twenty-sixth Street gambling house has organized a campaign for the winter on an original and comprehensive system after the Baden-Baden School. The house is but a few doors west of Broadway, and not far from the aristocratic St. James Hotel. It is a five-story brownstone front and is occupied by a score of the card fraternity. Women, elegantly dressed, flutter in and out of its doors. During…
LETTER from BETSY HOLLAND In Death, Companion Dog Brought Out Best In People To the Editor: The compassion and quick response of Good Samaritans makes a story of loss and grief bittersweet. Pace was a guide dog trained to assist and lead people who are blind and visually impaired around obstacles found in daily life. Pace was Ken’s dog. There are over 80 million working service dogs in America, but Pace definitely led the pack. He was a beautiful Golden…
COLUMN WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Disunity Is As American As Cherry Vs. Apple Pie By LARRY BENNETT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The press says we live in an era of unprecedented political division. The amplification of every tweet may make it seem so, but there is a different view of the severity of our polarization. The American Revolution saw Loyalists interested in compromises to prevent war, but colonists seeking independence who were not. Anyone trying to effect compromise or…
OPD Seizes 226 Fake IDs At Sip & Sale Cache Overwhelms Officers, Setting Record For Oneonta By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In an average ID check at a downtown Oneonta bar, city police officers might discover “20 or so” fake IDs in all, according to Chief Douglas Brenner. On Friday, Nov. 15, they 10 times that: 226 fake and altered IDs in a check at the Sip & Sail Tavern, 88 Water St. “That’s not even…
INCUMBENTS RUN; SO MAY INCUMBENTS Rare Races Possible For Mayor, Trustees By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh says she’s running for a second term in next March’s village election, adding that first-term Trustee MacGuire Benton is likely to as well. And Joe Membrino, also in his first term, said he’s planning to run again, too. But for the first time since the GOP debacle in 2011, the Republican Party may be running a slate as…
EDITORIAL From All, Best Wishes For A Speedy Recovery Editor’s Note: This editorial is reprinted from this week’s editions of Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal, on newsstands now. The news that state Sen. Jim Seward’s cancer is back – his office issued a press release Wednesday, Nov. 6 – brings two immediate reactions. One, fingers crossed. Advances in cancer-fighting research can mean five years, 10 years – and more – of active living. Everyone’s got a story of a…
COLUMN ‘Love Unknown’ Travisano’s Elizabeth Bishop Biography Is Pinnacle Of 45 Years Of Scholarship By ROBERT BENSEN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Randall Jarrell (a friend of Elizabeth Bishop) said that a poet is one who, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, manages to get struck by lightning six or seven times. It doesn’t work that way. And don’t try it at home. And don’t let your kids try it either. But Jarrell’s outlandish savvy underscores one…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Hotter World = More Fires To the Editor: Like everything else, the wildfires in California have been politicized by President Trump, who blames them on “bad forest management.” Catch is, most of what’s burning are not trees, much less “forests” but grass and shrubs. We lived in California for years. Except for the Sierras, most of California is a desert – right up to the beach. When the hot Santa Ana winds blow in from the…
