BEST BESTS Get Ready For 4th’s Parades, Fireworks, Concerts, Boats! By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Independence Day is Thursday, July 4, but it’s not too early to start making plans for how to celebrate! There are parades on land and water, old-fashioned farm fun, music, games and, of course, fireworks! • Oneonta’s annual Hometown Fourth of July starts with a 5K Color Run at 9 a.m. and ends with fireworks at dusk – with plenty of fun in…
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Antiquarian Book Fair At 25 A Million Books, Ready To Read At 139 Main St. By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Dad Will Monie and son Willis don’t minimize challenges to the book business, but the Internet Age has also opened up opportunities. Willis Monie Books has one million volumes in its building at 139 Main St., easily available to the half-million visitors who come to Cooperstown annually, plus the 60,000 county residents. Of the total, 125,000…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta June 27-28, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Inventive Scams Entrap Otsego County’s Elderly Green Cow Features Local Grass-Fed Beef A Visit To Otsego County, Louisiana 12 Unit ‘The Grove’ Rattles Cooperstown Neighbors ‘It Couple’ As Wife, Husband Take Pulpits EDITORIAL Trustees, Keep Cooperstown Cooperstown COLUMNS KUZMINSKI: How To Waste $400 Million SEWARD: New Law May Bankrupt Farms LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DOWNEY: Gas Best Way To Decarbonize AINSLIE FAMILY:…
12 Unit ‘The Grove’ Rattles Cooperstown Neighbors By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The 12-unit The Grove apartment complex – unprecedented in Cooperstown – just surfaced, but neighbors packed the Village Board’s monthly meeting Monday, June 24, to denounce it. “We are shocked and deeply disappointed that the village would consider a 12-unit apartment complex within a block of primarily single-family homes,” said Sherrie Kingsley, co-owner of The Inn at Cooperstown with husband Marc. “Is there really…
Grown Here, Now Savored Here Green Cow Features Local Grass-Fed Beef By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Doug Thompson doesn’t have anything against toppings, but he believes, at least for the first bite, the meat should speak for itself. “It will really surprise you when you realize that meat has flavor,” he said. Monday, June 24, he and wife Carrie opened a butcher shop, The Green Cow, at 21 Railroad Ave., and for the first time local…
FINE FOOD, FUN FOOD Food–And What a View! Such a nice way to spend an hour! We went to The Hawkeye Bar and Grill at The Otesaga for lunch. It’s one of my favorite places to go where I can pretend to be a tourist – the outdoor seating is by the lake and you’re only separated from the water by rolling grass. Skiers on the lake. Kids playing lawn games. People getting sun by the pool. Touristy things. It…
EDITORIAL Energy Amity Not Easy, Chamber Policy Shows The Otsego Chamber of Commerce’s “Energy & Infrastructure Policy,” released last Thursday, June 13. The title sounds innocuous enough. In effect, it is rank-and-file business owners’ Declaration of Independence. The whole of the Otsego Chamber’s new policy appears in this newspaper, beginning at right. Read it. But there are a couple of key paragraphs. The first makes common cause with every sensible person’s aspirations: “As we head toward the inevitable move to…
LETTER from BONNIE ENJEM In Richfield, Candidate Offers Chaos, Negativity To the Editor: It is heartbreaking that our town has been plagued for over a year by Nick Palevsky’s horrendous and derogatory articles in the Pennysaver and other papers about a draft zoning law, the zoning volunteers and board members. Whenever there is chaos, negativity, and turmoil in Richfield, it is Palevsky at the helm. And his statements are RARELY based on fact. So then the bullying and placing of…
BOUND VOLUMES June 20, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement: Sale of Pews – The sale of the pews in the Presbyterian Church will take place on Thursday, the first day of July next at 2 o’clock p.m. Six month’s rent will then become due. It is earnestly desired that all would pay at that time. Geo. Pomeroy, Clerk, Cooperstown, June 21, 1819. Advertisement: The inhabitants of Burlington intend to celebrate the anniversary of our national independence on the fifth day…
Otsego Chamber Policy Declares Independence Regarding Energy Issues Renewables Supported, But Decompressor, Too By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Otsego County businesspeople support all energy options – renewables, yes, but also the controversial decompressor station proposed for West Oneonta – states a county Chamber of Commerce “Energy & Infrastructure Policy” released in the past few days. The statement came bottom-up from the Oneonta-based organization’s countywide membership, said Chamber President Barbara Ann Heegan, who also chairs the Economic…
