The Young Turks Benton On Cooperstown Board; Oliver, Wells Aiming For County By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – Community engagement doesn’t have a minimum age requirement. MacGuire Benton, 21, of Cooperstown, and two Oneontans, Clark Oliver, 21, and Wilson Wells, 23, have all thrown their hats into the ring of local politics. “Our age group is horrible about voting,” said Oliver. “And I think part of that is that we don’t have people who…
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from ROBERT SEWARD Is Downtown Cooperstown Destined To Relive ‘Last Picture Show’ Fate To the Editor: “The Last Picture Show” was the last movie of the season in the film series sponsored by the Friends of the Village Library. The 1971 film is directed by Peter Bogdanovich, based on a Larry McMurtry novel. The black-and-white film is set in a small, dying, North Texas town. There is little to do, and the only movie house, on Main Street, is about…
EDITORIAL All Richfield Folks, Not Just A Faction, Should Map Future As it stands, regrettably, the Town of Richfield’s proposed Comprehensive Master Plan hasn’t yet accomplished its mission. So the Town Board – it meets on the second Monday of each month, and may act on the plan in either April or May – should put it on hold, at least for the time being, until the community’s will can be dispassionately determined and the plan revised to reflect it.…
HOMETOWN HISTORY • March 29, 2019 Compiled by Tom Heitz and Sharon Stuart, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library 150 Years Ago A Word to Teachers – Too much can hardly be said on the importance of teaching spelling more thoroughly, especially in the district school. All teachers expect to teach spelling, but only in connection with the study of the spelling book or the reading book. This is all well, but it is in our…
from BETSY HOLLAND Democracy Looks Like What Happened Here To the Editor: What does democracy look like? It looks like the March 5 meeting of the Oneonta Common Council. The public was invited to review Otsego Now’s plans to redevelop the D&H railyards and to respond publicly. Democracy looks like engaged citizens who participate in decisions that will impact their lives and their communities. Citizens read and reviewed the proposed generic redevelopment plan. They took time to consider the impact…
David J. Parker, 71, Worcester; Patented Coors Beer-Can Lining WORCESTER – David John Parker, 71, a retired career chemist, active in town government here, who patents included one on the inside coating of a Coors Beer can, passed away peacefully at home on March 24, 2019. He was born May 25, 1947, in Schenectady, the son of Edward Joseph and Dorothy May (Gutta) Parker. Dave attended Mohonasen High School graduating in 1965, and then went on to Clarkson University, where…
from DAN BUTTERMANN We Can Support Economic Development Without Gas To the Editor: This letter is in response to Dick Downey’s excellent letter in your March 7-8 editions. Mr. Downey may share a feeling that I do – that maybe my previous letter and assertions may incorrectly characterize his views, just as I think his words do not accurately summarize mine. So, I hope this will clear up some of that and further anchor my main point – it is…
CONSOLING THE SUFIS Try ‘March Matchness’ To Help SSPCA COOPERSTOWN – It’s cats versus dogs as the Susquehanna SPCA hosts its very first “March Matchness,” where donors can help move their chosen pet through the brackets to victory, just like NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The championship is Tuesday, April 9. CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY …
DOUBLE DEPOT ANNIVERSARIES 20 Years On Southside, Piers Also Mark Mega-Store’s Fifth Year By JENNIFER HILL ONEONTA Come to Liquor Depot for the variety of wines and liquors, stay for the pterodactyl.On expanding from their smaller store next door into the defunct Blockbuster Video in 2013, owner Dwight Pier realized the new high ceilings left a lot of vertical space that he believed needed filling. So he bought a life-sized pterodactyl. “The pterodactyl arrived in a big crate,” Dwight remembered,…
DIVERSITY IMPRESSES COUNTIAN DiPerna, Back At Vatican: World Working Together On Climate Without U.S. By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN – Back in Vatican City, Cooperstown’s Paula DiPerna looked around the Sala Regia Friday, March 8. There was a turbaned Sikh. There was Muslim. There was a shaman from the far reaches of Greenland. “All these different societies have a need to protect nature,” said DiPerna, special adviser, CDP North America, a non-profit that helps companies, cities and nations manage their environmental…
