LIBBY’S BEST BETS Mother’s Day Tea, Spring Fest Choir Sings, ‘Dancing Queen’ It’s a lovely day for tea! Foothills hosts the annual Mother & Daughter tea party with treats, crafting, dancing and more. Tickets $25-$55. 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Sunday, May 5 Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info http://foothillspac.org/. • Do a traditional cake walk & win a cake or gift card for a cake donated by local bakers. Free admission, $2/cake walk. Friday,…
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HOMETOWN HISTORY May 3, 2019 150 Years Ago Newspaper Change: L.P. Carpenter, late editor of the Oneonta Herald, has bought out the Chronicle at Morris, and commenced his labors there last Monday. As Mr. Carpenter has been foreman in our office most of the time since it came into our hands we can speak of his thorough integrity and industry from the daily intercourse of business. But, while we regret to lose so true a friend and counsellor our whole…
DEVELOPER RECORD ROCKY, THEY SAY 6th Ward Neighbors Complain To Seward About RSS’s Record By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The Sixth Ward Neighbors United is hoping to enlist the assistance of state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, in the fight against Riverside Apartments, a 64-unit low-income housing project proposed by Rehabilitation Support Services. We “are seeking a full investigation of the financial dealings of (RSS), who have submitted funding applications to several state agencies,” the letter…
from ART RORICK It’s Time To Move Forward On Upgrading D&H Yards To the Editor: I find your editorial of March 12-13, “Herzig: Act Today, Look To Tomorrow”, troubling. In my opinion, Mayor Herzig and the Common Council have not been transparent about the whole railyard development. From my standpoint as a Fifth Ward resident, this administration has done minimum communication for this development. The city has a 2014 document that the Greater Oneonta Economic Development Council worked on. GO-EDC…
FIRST UM MARKS 30TH ANNIVERSARY Oneonta ‘Reconciling Congregation’ Ramps Up Vs. Ban On Gays By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – It will be a bittersweet celebration. On Sunday, May 5, Oneonta’s First United Methodist Church will celebrate its 30th anniversary as a “Reconciling congregation,” sanctioning same-sex weddings and gay clergy. But the milestone comes right as the United Methodist Church’s Judicial Council, the church’s legal arm, has agreed April 26 to mostly uphold a “Traditional Plan” approved by…
HEAT from the EARTH Geothermal Pioneers, Kuzminskis Now Heat For Just $100 A Month By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com FLY CREEK – Sitting on their front porch on a warm evening, Adrian and Antoinette Kuzminski can look out at the green field across the road from their home in Fly Creek Valley. Or, looking at it another way, at their home heating and cooling system. “We get our heat from the earth,” said Adrian. “We’ve had geothermal for…
from JAMES R. DEAN As We Toil, Thanks For Nothing, Homer To the Editor: Regarding the ongoing New York Times articles about people moving up to the Hudson Valley and the Catskills: It cannot not come soon enough for me. I have driven back and forth through those areas for 50 years and I have seen the decline and loss of people and interest. It has gone from not being able to pass cars on the road in the 1970s,…
COLUMN • View from Fly Creek Doing The Numbers On Universal Basic Income By ADRIAN KUZMINSKI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com As the economic insecurity of a large segment of the country continues without relief (debts, taxes, low wages, health costs, education costs, etc.), some big new ideas (like the Green New Deal) are getting attention. In my last column, I examined one of these big new ideas: the proposal for a universal basic income (UBI) put forth by presidential candidate…
COLUMN • Money Matters Punishing Present For The Past By TOM MORGAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Join me in a grand political correctness crusade! Together we can punish the present for the past. This crusade has already racked up several victories. Many more lie ahead. Our most recent victory: We beheaded Kate Smith. The New York Yankees and Philadelphia Flyers destroyed her recordings of “God Bless America” they used to play. The Flyers hauled her statue from its stadium. They…
EDITORIAL D’oh, Homer, You Got It Wrong. Comeback Coming To New York If you had driven from Cooperstown to Franklin late Sunday afternoon, you would have been greeted by one lovely scene after another. The sun had broken through. The brilliant light green trees promised the leaves that may be out by the time you read this, contrasting with the solemn evergreens. That panorama from the top of that back road leading from Otego’s I-88 exit into Franklin was never…
