EDITORIAL Take Control! Consider Otsego Lake Association Annual Meeting at 9 a.m. This Saturday With so many areas of American life seemingly spinning out of control, there’s a contrary example in the Otsego Lake Association (OLA). Its “100-percent volunteers,” according to Jim Howarth, co-president with David Sanford, are focused on a common mission: “Protecting the health, beauty and wellbeing” of the lake. Listening to them, it’s clear: Local volunteers, working together, can get a lot done. There are larger non-profit,…
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Razing Makes Way For Animal Shelter by LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to AllOTSEGO.com INDEX The Susquehanna SPCA is just over the halfway point. “We’ve received $1.9 million in our Shelter Us campaign,” said Stacie Haynes, executive director. The campaign will help build the SQSPCA’s new shelter, which will have a groundbreaking ceremony at the new site at noon on Saturday, Aug. 24. (The acronym was changed from SSPCA to avoid confusion with four other SPCAs.) Tweedie Construction, Walton, began the…
LIBBY’S BEST BETS Dramatic Arts Rule At Renaissance Fair, ‘Our Town’, More By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Lords and ladies fair are invited to attend the 11th annual Medieval Renaissance Fair, where Celtic dancers, magicians and more will perform throughout the day. Food, vendors and a Chinese auction – and make sure to come in costume! $5. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 10-11, Windfall Dutch Barn, 2009 Clinton Road Cherry Valley. Info 518-993-2239 • Kids can learn for…
Idelson’s New Mission Bring Kids Back To Baseball By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN Once upon a time, retired Baseball Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson was a center fielder for the Newton Central Little League. And though he retired from baseball at age 12, he never forgot the importance of the field. Since stepping down as Hall of Fame president, Idelson co-founded Grassroots Baseball, a program aimed at getting 21st Century youngsters into the game with talks,…
HOMETOWN History Aug. 8, 2019 150 Years Ago Humorous – This world is full of music, even as an egg is full of meat, or as my neighbor Jones is full of beer. We see it everywhere – Where’er there’s harmony of sound. All harmony is music. Now, my next door neighbor Mr. Love-a-pet – he keeps only three dogs and just six cats. And they, sweet songsters of the night, do make the peaceful hours of sleep resound with…
10th Mountain Division Band Plays Free Show For Veterans by LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA Gene Schmidt, the father of Neahwa Park’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, believes you shouldn’t just honor our nation’s defenders on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. “We can’t honor our veterans enough,” he said. “We owe so much of what we have to what they did for us.” So now, Schmidt has arranged for the Army’s 10th Mountain Division Jazz Band to play a free…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Aug. 8-9, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Razing Makes Way For Animal Shelter Mayor: Let Committee Study What Flags To Fly Idelson’s New Mission: Bring Kids To Baseball 10th Mountain Division Band Plays Free Show With Tranquilizers, Rancher Retrieves Herd EDITORIAL Think About Joining Otsego Lake Association COLUMNS KUZMINSKI: Home Rule SO’s Third Principle MORGAN: Forever-And-A-Day Campaigns MOYINIHAN: ‘Traviata’ Parallels Verdi Life LETTERS ON SELLING CONFEDERATE FLAG: CONWAY: Do…
FINE FOOD, FUN FOOD Tomato Cream Sauce? Yum! Mel’s Reuben? Double Yum! Recently, my family went to Bella Michael’s for dinner without me, but my husband promised he would bring me something from there. That something turned out to be Bella Michael’s very appropriately named “Chicken Fantasia,” grilled chicken breast topped with a tomato cream sauce, roasted red peppers and sun-dried tomatoes, all topped with Swiss cheese. It came with sides of spaghetti, salad and dinner roll. I love pretty…
BOUND VOLUMES Aug. 8, 2019 200 YEARS AGO The Progress of the Russian Empire in America – Looking to the east for everything, the people of the United States have contemplated with astonishment the progress of the Russian Empire in Europe and Asia. They have not thought of looking to the west to see this giant power already mounting upon their own backs. Except Mr. Walsh, we do not know an American who has even spoken of the Russian establishments…
Mayor: Let Committee Study What Flags To Fly Editor’s Note: This was reprinted from the current edition of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta, available at local newsstands. By JIM KEVLIN • Special to AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As suggestions expand to hanging banners beyond the Pride Flag on the village’s flagpole, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch is asking Trustee MacGuire Benton to form a committee with two other trustees to develop a policy for all such requests. “We need a policy,…
