At 15 Years, Artisans’ Guild Still Flourishing Downtown By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Oct. 10, 2014 Fifteen years ago, Deb Blake and Ellie Stromberg took a chance on an empty storefront and turned it into a mainstay of Main Street. “We wanted the Artisans’ Guild to be a place where local people could get beautiful handmade things,” said Blake. After UCCCA closed its gallery shop (where Razzle Dazzle is now located) Blake and Stromberg strongly urged…
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Ventriloquism Helps Deliver Word Of God By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Oct. 10, 2014 Even if his lips aren’t moving, Rev. Frank Westcott is still speaking the word of God. “I tell Bible stories with my ventriloquist dummy, Bucky,” said Westcott. “I can have a whole audience of adults, and they just love it.” Westcott, who has succeeded Pastor Mel Farmer at River Street Baptist Church, first brought Bucky up to the pulpit to tell the…
Chickens Don’t Fly By LIBBY CUDMORE•HOMETOWN ONEONTA, THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL (Edition of Friday, Oct. 10) Oneonta residents will have to wait a little longer before they start their mornings with eggs fresh from their own chickens. In the half hour of public comment at the Common Council’s meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 7, Council members heard passionate arguments from both sides of the chicken debate. “This is a particularly foul idea,” said Frank O’Mara, Ford Avenue. “It’s guaranteed to pit neighbor…
Common Council Finds Little Of Merit In Charter Review By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com ONEONTA – For a rancorous 90 minutes this evening, Common Council debated the 20-page Charter Review Commission report and decided to do little about its recommendations. “The council feels, virtually unanimously, that the charter was implemented,” Mayor Dick Miller said when it was over, summing up the sense of the board. Miller had appointed the commission to review the charter, approved by a wide margin in…
Cuomo Delays Past Election Day Lose-Lose Decision On Fracking ALBANY – Governor Cuomo won’t make a decision on fracking until after the November elections, one of a number of tough decisions he’s delaying past election day, according to an AP dispatch published in Newsday, LongIsland’s newspaper. “A decision to allow fracking would delight many in the state’s economically distressed Southern Tier, but would upset environmentalists and others opposed to the drilling,” according to the report. “Polls show New Yorkers are…
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Farmers’ Museum Tractor Show Puts Local Ag History On Display COOPERSTOWN – His prize-winning 1924 Ford Tractor is a gem in itself, but Fred Zimmerman of Davenport Center, who was displaying his treasure on wheels at The Farmers’ Museum Tractorfest (it continues Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.) also sees it as an entry point into local history. Zimmerman brought along a photo of Stanley Miller using a Ford tractor in the mid-’20s on his farm in Well’s Bridge. Miller had two…
Today’s Bassett Healthcare Cupola 5K To Benefit Woman’s Imaging Center COOPERSTOWN – This year’s Bassett Cupola 5K, a collaboration with the Clark Sports Center, will benefit the establishment of a Women’s Imaging Center at the hospital. The project will replace aging equipment with the sophisticated breast imaging technology needed to help detect cancers early and renovate existing space for an overall better patient experience. The annual event was a collaboration with the Clark Sports Center and is open to everyone in…
Curbsider Green-Waste Pickup Planned Tuesday-Thursday ONEONTA – The City of Oneonta will conduct curbside pickup of green waste from Tuesday, October 14 through Thursday, October 16 in wards one through four. Information regarding wards five through eight will be released at a later date. Residents no longer need to call the city to request green waste pickups.…