Hospital, Community Leaders Must Confer On Bassett’s Future Editorial For the Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 11-12, 2014 The future of hospitals is murky, certainly to the general public (and general newspapers), perhaps even to the experts at One Atwell Road, Cooperstown, who are paid to think about it and react to their best estimations. We may reach a point where hospitals struggle to find enough talented doctors capable of doing the most skilled work. However, as long as there are…
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History Inspires Fashionista By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Dec. 12, 2014 For Elizabeth Raphelson, what’s old is always new again. “I wore a 1950s ball gown to my prom,” she said. “I had the matching handbag, earrings, heels – I’ve always loved old clothing.” It’s a love she’s sharing with Oneonta. On Thursday, Dec. 11, she planned to open The Underground Attic, a new vintage boutique specializing in clothing from the 1800s to the 1980s. “Fashion changed…
Town, City Invited To GO-EDC Talks On Collaborations By JIM KEVLIN • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Dec. 12, 2014 The most steadfast advocate of town-city collaboration is gone, but Mayor Dick Miller’s spirit lives on. GO-EDC, the economic-development advocacy group spearheaded by Albert Colone and Bill Shue, has invited the Oneonta Town Board and Oneonta City Council to a moderated conversation at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15, on how the two might collaborate for the benefit of both, plus the…
Constitution Pipeline To Put 1,300 To Work By JIM KEVLIN • Hometown Oneonta/The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Dec. 11-12, 2014 Opponents are still looking for ways to block it, but the Constitution Pipeline Co. is planning to start work on the 124-mile natural-gas conduit by February or March, as soon as a couple of months from now. Bids on the project will be let soon after Jan. 1, and the construction companies that win the contract will begin seeking to…
The Goal: To Bring Sharon Springs Theater Back To Life By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com Edition of Dec. 11-12, 2014 SHARON SPRINGS ‘One brick at a time,” goes the song from the musical “Barnum.” And that’s just how Drew Taylor and Gail Luna are going to restore Sharon Springs’ old Klinkhart Hall. “You have to take short steps with a long view,” said Luna. It’s an enormous undertaking. The theater itself – a one-time Smalley’s cinema – hasn’t been used…
Shopping Local With Libby: Vintage is So Today By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com Edition Of Dec. 12, 2014 COOPERSTOWN If Oneonta is where you go for the unique, Cooperstown is where you go for the antique. “It’s an old-fashioned kind of village,” said Kathryn Busse, co-owner with husband Rich of Christmas Around the Corner and the Silver Fox Gift Shop, 139 Main St. “It reminds people of a Victorian Christmas.” Living in Oneonta, I’ve never given myself the chance to…
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