Statistics Here And Nationally Indicate: Heroin Tide Is Ebbing Editor’s Note: This column, by LEAF Executive Director Julie Dostal, is the final in a 12-month cycle of columns by Otsego County Opioid Task Force members, and the news is good. Read on! There’s a light at the end of the tunnel. I did not know when this day would happen, but it finally has. It looks like we have just begun to turn a corner in the public health crisis…
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On Energy Future, State Must Pick Right Side Of Scale To the Editor: My letter relates to previous submissions regarding energy development, specifically Dick Downey’s letter from the Jan. 31-Feb. 1 editions. Mr. Downey brings forward two frustrating points. The first is that Climate Change may not be real or related to human activity, and the second that renewable energy is viable only with state support. I will start with Mr. Downey’s view on climate change, and his contention that…
Work Starts On County’s Energy Plan By PATRICK WAGER ONEONTA – Now, the hard work begins. What’s now called Otsego County 21-member “Energy Working Group” will convene for the first time at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, in Old City Hall. And coming out of the Otsego County Chamber’s “Energy & Infrastructure Summit” two weeks ago at The Otesaga, the word “compromise” is in the air. “I don’t see compromise as being a dirty word,” said county Rep. Michele Farwell,…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Feb. 21-22, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Marijuana Shops? County Must Decide Issue Hearty Applause Greets Freshman Congressman For $3M, Theater Can Reopen In Collaboration With Foothills Farmers’ Market In Chamber Hall Of Fame Work Starts On County’s Energy Plan With Gas Aplenty, Andela Predicting Jobs For Richfield CITY OF THE HILLS: Feb. 21-22, 2019 COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND: Feb. 21-22, 2019 EDITORIAL What’s the Matter with Upstate? CUOMO: ‘Fundamentals…
Monument Planned For 20 Killed In Limousine Crash By LIBBY CUDMORE SCHOHARIE – Within days of the Oct. 6 limo crash that killed 20 people in the parking lot of the Apple Barrel Country Store, memorials began to spring up. “There were 20 crosses, and wooden deer that John and Anita Borst built,” said Josh Loden, Apple Barrel director of operations. “The people Matt (Coons) worked out with built a cross, and people who came to pay their respects would…
Hometown People: Feb. 21-22, 2019 3 From Otsego Appointed To Family Planning Board ONEONTA Gretchen Hodgdon, M.D, Tim Parsons and Jeanne Payne, MSN, MBA, CNS have been named to the 2019 Board of Directors for Family Planning of South Central New York. The local, independent nonprofit organization provides high quality, affordable reproductive health care and sexuality education in Broome, Chenango, Delaware and Otsego counties. All medical care at the agency’s five local health centers — Binghamton, Norwich, Oneonta, Sidney and…
Plea To Biological Field Station: End Pesticide Use To the Editor: Five years ago, CVS Pharmacy Corp., as a healthcare-product provider, made the costly but ethical decision to discontinue the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products. Cheers to them! With springtime approaching, I am reminded by the CVS example of applied ethics of the decades-long silence by the SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station on West Lake Road, regarding the use of pesticides and herbicides on the Leatherstocking Golf…
With Gas Aplenty, Andela Predicting Jobs For Richfield By PATRICK WAGER RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Andela Products President Cynthia Andela outlined her plans for a gas-fueled commerce park on 55 acres owned by Otsego Now south of this village to the Richfield Springs Chamber of Commerce Tuesday, Feb. 19. When complete, she anticipates Andela and subsidiaries Ruby Lake Glass will be adding nine more jobs to their 20-job workforce. …
Locals: Feb. 21-22, 2019 Six Named To RIT Dean’s List COOPERSTOWN Virginia Aswad, Cooperstown, a biomedical science major at the Rochester Institute of Technology, was named to the Fall 2018 Dean’s List. Also on the list were: • Shane Tang, Cooperstown, computer science program. • Jessi Falke, Springfield Center, ASL-English interpretation program. • Adam Kruh, Maryland, electrical engineering program. • Alexis Slentz, Edmeston, chemistry program. • Nathaniel Wilcox, Fly Creek, electrical engineering program.…
Harold Ray, 75; Honored For Overcoming Life’s Obstacles ONEONTA – Harold Ray, formerly of Oneonta, the inaugural recipient of The Arc Otsego’s Reach for the Stars Award in 2016, passed away on Jan. 26, 2019, at his nephew’s home in Oxford. The award honored Harold – known to many as a dapper gentleman, always dressed in his suit and tie – for overcoming obstacles in his life and continuing to strive to help others. Harold was born on Nov. 6,…