Letter from BUZZ HESSE Raiders’ Brutality Spurred Washington To Act Editor’s Note: As recounted here, life – and death – in the former frontier where we live could be brutal, and is reflected in this letter. Please proceed with that understanding. To the Editor: The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta editions of June 13-14, 2019, published a letter written by Zachary Aldridge headlined, “Article complicit in suffering of Native Americans”. This letter was in reference to Jim Kevlin’s May 23…
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Letter from CHIP NORTHRUP Question Planners Should Ask: Is It Better Than What’s There? To the Editor: To implement the Village of Cooperstown Housing Committee’s recommendations, the Village might start by being a bit more receptive to the demolition of derelict buildings for new development. Since the village can’t grow outwards, it must grow upwards via infill redevelopment. The density of the village’s building stock has probably decreased slightly from its peak – as evidenced by archival photographs of hotels…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta July 4-5, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Sam Nader’s Century: Icon Turns 100 ‘Green Light’ Bill Facing Clerks’ Anger In Oneonta, 66 Apartments, 4 Stories No One’s Snapped Up 3 Wheeler So Far EDITORIAL In Nader’s Story, American Dream Lives COLUMNS RYAN BURR: Push Through Pain Of Life ATWELL: What A Woman! What A Nation! LETTERS TO THE EDITOR HESSE: Raids’ Brutality Spurred Action NORTHRUP: Is It Better Than…
BOUND VOLUMES July 4, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Cooperstown – On Wednesday last, Benjamin P. Day, only son of Mr. Israel Day, of this village, aged 5 years, was unfortunately drowned, by falling out of a boat, on the lake. He with two other boys, entered the boat, probably for the purpose of paddling around the shore, but being driven out by the wind, in their exertions to regain the shore, he fell overboard. His body was taken out in…
‘Green Light’ Bill Facing Clerks’ Anger By JIM KEVLIN• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – By presstime, no word had been received from President Trump’s regional representation on whether the Justice Department will go to court to stop New York State’s “Green Light” law from going into effect Dec. 14. The “Green Light” law would require the state’s county clerks who operate state Department of Motor Vehicle offices locally to issue driver’s licenses to what some people call undocumented residents and…
No One’s Snapped Up 3-Wheeled Car So Far By LIBBY CUDMORE • www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – When Shirley and Douglas Bennett got back to their car after shopping one afternoon, they saw a little boy and his father waiting for them in the parking lot. “The father told me that his son didn’t want to leave until he saw us wind up the car!” said Shirley. Alas, the wind-up key on top of the Bennett’s three-wheeled Snyder is just for show,…
from the ENERGY TASK FORCE Energy Task Force Goal: To Avoid Us Vs. Them To the Editor: Your June 20-21 editorial on the Otsego County Energy Taskforce ends with the sentence: “We’re all in this together.” We on the Taskforce Leadership Committee couldn’t agree more. But the editorial’s main assertion that the business community has been shut out of the process is not based on fact and includes inaccuracies and unhelpful hypotheticals that need to be corrected. Chief among these…
BEST BESTS Even After Fourth, Lots To Do Here – And Fireworks, Too! By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Just because the festivities on the Fourth of July may be done by the time you pick up this edition, that doesn’t mean the fun is over! This weekend is filled with arts, music and celebration all over the county.Even the fireworks aren’t over yet! Fireworks will be shot over Otsego Lake Friday, July 5, with viewing from Brookwood Point,…
Parting Words from RYAN BURR To Succeed, You Must Push Through Pain Of Life Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Valedictorian Ryan P. Burr’s speech to the Cherry Valley-Springfield Central School Class of 2019 at the Saturday, June 29, commencement. In 2016, I had a major run-in with self-discipline that changed my life and made me the person I am today. Most of you know by now that I am a runner and, oftentimes, classmates and peers ask me:…
EDITORIAL Village Trustees: Keep Cooperstown Cooperstown A sitting-room-only-on-the-floor crowd Monday, June 24, at the Cooperstown Village Board’s monthly meeting had a point: Why put an apartment house in the middle of one of the village’s finest single-family-home neighborhoods? There it is. That said, who doesn’t have some mixed feelings, given that the developer, Josh Edmonds, intends to build a complex that is supremely energy efficient, as is his new home at 45 Delaware St., and to price it so young…
