from JAY FLEISHER It’s High Time To Act On Climate Change To the Editor: The global society is facing lots of serious issues. The war in Afghanistan, Syrian recovery, Brexit, immigrant migration, the Mueller report, corruption, police brutality, etc., the list goes on and on. One issue spans the globe, involving everyone, rich/poor, privileged/deprived, black/white, straight/gay, that being the current change in Earth’s climate. Ignore it if you wish, but it won’t ignore you. Why all the fuss? Hasn’t the…
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RALPH VENDERLIP’S LIVES ON Unadilla House Chef’s Recipe Packs ‘Em In At Fish Dinners By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal UNADILLA – For six years, Chris Hendrickson worked alongside his friend Ralph Vanderlip in the kitchen of the First Presbyterian Church here, making the same haddock dinner Vanderlip made famous at the Unadilla House. “The church told Ralph they wanted him to help with their Lent fundraiser dinner,” said Hendrickson. “He said he would, but only if…
from Bill DeVita RSS Friend To Community, Executive Director Avows To the Editor: For more than 30 years, Rehabilitation Support Services has been an active and committed community partner and service provider in the City of Oneonta and Otsego County. If you’ve had a bagel and coffee at the Oneonta Bagel Company, received job assistance through Supported Employment, or information through our Community Education Project, you know RSS. We are proud to have built many longstanding and productive relationships in…
POEM TO THE EDITOR Rill Mischief Underground splashing, a steady hollow gurgle under glassy bubble ice and this winter’s snow. Uneven at first, then the steady rhythm of the search for downhill. Water always takes the easy way, especially when no one is watching. MICHAEL WHALING Cherry Valley…
INTERIM TEAM IN PLACE AT ST. MARY’S In Retirement, Father Rosson Is Anticipating Travel, Service By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – On May 30, 1955, little John Rosson, 7, underwent his First Holy Communion at his hometown church, Immaculate Conception in Irvington, on the Hudson River. As the host – in Catholic doctrine, the small, round wafer is the actual Body and Blood of Jesus Christ – passed his lips, the boy immediately knew: He…
HOMETOWN HISTORY April 5, 2019 150 Years Ago News from Delaware County – The school moneys for Franklin for the current year amount to $2,438. The “goodbye card” of Professor Jewell will interest all friends of the Institute at Franklin. It is a matter of deep regret that his valuable services could not continue in that prominent school. Hay is scarce in many parts of the county. The lack of hay is made up with western corn and other coarse…
COLUMN ABOLISH OTSEGO NOW! By ADRIAN KUZMINSKI • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta In my column of Aug. 9-10, 2018, I suggested that Otsego County might follow the example of Tompkins County and set up an Energy Task Force. I had little expectation that anything would come of it, but, thanks to a bipartisan effort led by county Representatives Michelle Farwell and Meg Kennedy, that Task Force is now a reality. The Task Force will have to face the…
Food Pantry’s Co-Director Charged In Theft Of $18K By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – The smallest check was for $825. The largest was for $4,997.90. In all, Antoine Bourbon-Parme, 59, the former co-director of the Cooperstown Food Pantry, allegedly stole $18,579 from the organization’s accounts over 16 months, beginning in October 2017 and ending in late January. According to the court documents filed in Otsego Town Court on Tuesday, April 2, Bourbon-Parme forged the names…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta April 4 – 5, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Food Pantry Co-Director Held In $18K Theft Delgado’s New Approach To Healthcare Hailed Ames, Mandigo New Oneonta Trailblazers Father Rosson Looks Forward To Retirement Business Patron, Now New Chamber Director 2,000 Children In Poverty, ‘And That’s High’ EDITORIAL ABOLISH OTSEGO 2000! COLUMNS KUZMINSKI: ABOLISH OTSEGO NOW! SEWARD: We’re Losing Generation MASKIN: 16.1% Of Us Live In Poverty CEACAREANU: Have Naloxone…
Already Business Patron, Tara Burke Now Chamber Of Commerce Director By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – Even before she was named executive director for the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce, Tara Burke was a big fan of the business community. “My family loves the Fly Creek Cider Mill, and we always go to brunch at The Otesaga,” she said. “My brother is a big fan of ‘Game of Thrones,’ so we always have to go…