Letter from JASON HEWLETT Twelve Tribes Outstanding Citizens; Leave Them Alone To the Editor: I wish the people who attend churches here in Oneonta would do more research before jumping to false conclusions about the Twelve Tribes. First of all, how many people have carefully and thoroughly read what they believe on their public website titled, “Frequently Asked Questions – The Twelve Tribes”? These people have nothing to hide, no fear of persecution or adversity, and they share what they…
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Letter from DICK DOWNEY Gas Generated Electricity Quicken Way To Achieve Decarbonization Goals To the Editor: Adrian Kuzminski’s June 13/14 column, “If Facts Can’t Defuse Deniers, What Can?” opens with the passage from the New Testament where Pontius Pilate asks Christ, “What is Truth? (John 18:38). This is an eternal question, always relevant, especially today. The column devolves into an attack on “Climate Change Deniers,” people skeptical of the dogma and prophecies of “The Climateers.” Climateers would have us make…
COLUMN Fair Practices Act May Force Farms Out Of Business By State Sen. JIM SEWARD • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Earlier this year the New York City-centric state Senate leadership, for political reasons, blocked Amazon and 25,000 jobs from coming to our state. Now, in the closing hours of the 2019 legislative session, the same group of “leaders” are killing off existing jobs by targeting our state’s number one industry – agriculture. To be clear, when New York was announced as…
COLUMN How to Waste $400 Million By ADRIAN KUZMINSKI • Special to wwww.AllOTSEGO.com At the January 2019 Otsego County Energy Summit in Cooperstown, sponsored by the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce, a NYSEG representative surprised many present by announcing that the utility was planning to rebuild and expand the DeRuyter pipeline, which brings natural gas to Oneonta. In a subsequent report, filed with the Public Service Commission on March 15, NYSEG states, with regard to the DeRuyter pipeline, that it…
BOUND VOLUMES June 27, 2019 200 YEARS AGO A new State: The bill providing for the erection of the District of Maine into a new State, has passed the Senate and House of the Assembly of Massachusetts, 193 to 50. Every member from Maine voted for the separation. The following toast was given at Athens in the State of Georgia at a dinner where the President of the United States was present: “The slave trade, the scourge of Africa, the…
Shreveport Developer Enshrined His Roots Otsego County, Louisiana By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com SHREVEPORT, La. – There’s a sign of Oneonta in Shreveport, La. Yes, a sign. A street sign. Oneonta Street. Wander around the city of about 200,000 in the upper left-hand corner of Louisiana, as far away from New Orleans as geographically possible, and you find a Unadilla Street. And an Albany Avenue. Oneonta and Unadilla streets are close neighbors, one block apartment, running east-west through…
from the AINSLIE FAMILY Since 1945, Bassett Hospital Served Ainslie Family Well To the Editor: The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital has been a special part of our family’s life at least since 1945. Our parents gave birth to seven daughters, four of which were born there; many nieces and nephews were born there. Several family members have been or are employed there. Our own mother and three sisters took their last breaths there. The purpose of this letter is to…
‘Power Couple’ Of Methodist Ministry Wife Pastor At Oneonta’s First UM, Husband Takes Cooperstown Pulpit By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Call them a Power Couple of The Cloth. Rev. Dana Horrell begins his ministry Sunday, July 7, at Cooperstown United Methodist Church, while 32 miles down the road, his wife, Rev. Marti Swords-Horrell, the same day will celebrate her first anniversary as pastor of Oneonta’s First United Methodist Church. They’re the second such United Methodist husband-and-wife…
Inventive Scams Entrap Otsego County Elderly By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – An 88-year-old Laurens woman got a call, purportedly from Cooperstown Police: Her granddaughter had been in an accident, she was fine, but her car had been impounded and she needed $4,000 in cash to get it out. The woman was instructed to wrap the money in a sweater and mail it to Staten Island. She did so, shipping the package overnight from The Shipping Room…
HOMETOWN HISTORY June 28, 2019 150 YEARS AGO Oneonta Local: The subterranean grog holes of this village are damaging humanity pretty badly nowadays. What law we have to preserve public order ought to be thoroughly enforced. The ladies of the Presbyterian Church will hold an ice cream and strawberry festival at Blend’s Hall, on Tuesday evening. Admission, including strawberries or ice cream, twenty-five cents. The first nine of the Lightfoot Base Ball Club of this village, will play a match…
