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…
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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…
THE FENIMORE Rocks ‘n’ Rolls Herb Ritts’ Photos From Rock Hall Open Now In Cooperstown Exhibit By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – At the Fenimore Art Museum, there’s a whole room dedicated to Madonna. Not “Giotto” or “Pieta” – The Material Girl. “Herb Ritts photographed her 36 different times,” said Todd Kenyon, director of communications. “The first time he shot her, she swore she’d never work with him again – and then she saw the…
COLUMN Good Samaritan, There’s No Good Reason Not To Apply Naloxone By ALICE CEACAREANU • Hartwick College professor, Translational Biomedical Research Management Synthesized by the same chemist, Aspirin and heroin were destined to change the world: one for the better and one for the worst. Since 1897, they each keep counting human lives, one gives them back while the other takes them away. Heroin, an opioid, binds to the opioid receptors on the brain and remains in the body for…
from TOPHER HAMMOND Trust In ‘Intelligence Community’ Ill-Founded To the Editor: Last week in your newspaper, I read with concern the interview with Otsego County Democratic chair Aimee Swan about the end of Robert Mueller’s two-year witch-hunt regarding alleged “Russian interference” in the 2016 election. Ms. Swan stated that “there should be a trust, a loyalty to our intelligence community.” The so-called “intelligence community” was behind the ridiculous allegations that Russia was the cause of Hillary Clinton’s resounding defeat in…
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Art & Caring Kelly Ames, Carol Mandigo Honored As Oneonta’s ’19 Woman Trailblazers By JENNIFER HILL • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – Early on in Carol Mandigo’s career, she decided to combine art with social services “to give a better quality of life in a fun way.” “I wasn’t drawn to putting art in a gallery in a city with only a limited amount of people looking at it,” Mandigo said. “I brought art and theater to inner…
COLUMN 16.1% Of Us In Poverty. In Oneonta, That’s 25.6% By DAN MASKIN, President, OFO As it does annually, the New York State Community Action Association has just published “Poverty in NY,” which has a poverty report for each county and city in New York State. Otsego County has a poverty rate of 16.1 percent, meaning roughly one out of six people are living in poverty. Forty-eight percent of school children are enrolled in either the free or reduced school…