COLUMN THE VIEW FROM ALBANY Democrats Bottle Up Bill To Discourage Attacks On Officers By State Sen. JIM SEWARD • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Police, firefighters, and emergency first responders are vital to public safety. The brave men and women who work in these fields put the lives of others first and often risk their own well-being. I am appalled by recent incidents in New York City of individuals hurling buckets of water at on-duty police officers. Video of these abuses…
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BOUND VOLUMES July 25, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Excerpts from a letter written by John Adams to Benjamin Rush on the subject of Slavery in America. “The turpitude, the inhumanity, the cruelty, and the infamy of the African commerce in slaves, have been so well represented to the public by the powers of eloquence, that nothing I could say would increase the just odium in which it is and ought to be held. Every measure of prudence, therefore ought to…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, JULY 13 Railway Celebrates 150 years SESQUICENTENNIAL – Noon – 9 p.m. Celebrate 150th anniversary of Cooperstown-Charlotte Valley Railway with golden spike, speeches, music, celebratory train ride followed by cannon shoot, ice cream social, historical presentation, fireworks, more. Cost, $30/adult. Depart Milford Depot, 136 E. Main St., Milford. 607-432-2429 or visit www.facebook.com/cacvrr/…
Letter from JAY FLEISHER Read Declaration Of Independence; Then, Stand Up For It To the Editor: The Fourth of July has come and gone. Mine was special. It wasn’t the parade or the fireworks. It was the reading of the Declaration of Independence by 46 community volunteers at the Shakespeare & Company facility in Lenox, Mass. If you haven’t read the Declaration of Independence for many years (I sure haven’t) it was a real eye opener. Phrase after phrase, line…
SUMMER DREAMS COVER STORY C&CV’s 150th Party Recreating Hoopla Of Original Launch By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – Call it The Little Engine That Can. Donall Sullivan’s little train, out of commission for more than 15 years, will once again carry passengers – of all ages! – from Milford’s Wilber Park to the 150th anniversary celebration of the Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad Saturday, July 13. “Sullivan was a tool-and-die man and he built a little train…
Joy & Relief 2 Years, 2 Months, 28 Days After Inferno, A New Church By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD Where once stood a towering, Romanesque-in-miniature brick sanctuary, now resides a little white country church, its interior “starkly beautiful,” as John Wesley would want it. “When I met with the committees, they were insistent that they wanted a little country church,” said Jim Hundt, the architect who designed the new Milford United Methodist Building. “They wanted it to…
HOMETOWN HISTORY June 14, 2019 150 YEARS AGO Fatal Accident – William Beach, a man about 70 years of age, was instantly killed by the locomotive of the evening train west, on Saturday last, at a creek crossing near Wells Bridge. He was discovered in the act of crawling across the bridge, and it is supposed was intoxicated. He was seen too late to stop the train, and so terrible was the blow that he fell dead between the timbers…
COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE JUNE 8 First Service Set June 9 In New Methodist Church READ HOW ‘STARKLY BEAUTIFUL’ NEW CHURCH WAS BUILT…
Stained-Glass Window Back In Place Of Honor ‘Christ At Gethsemane’ Rescued After Raging Fire Destroyed Milford Church Pastor Sylvia Barrett surveys the nearly complete sanctuary – “starkly beautiful,” as Methodism’s founder John Wesley preferred – inside the new Milford Methodist Church this morning as stained-glass restorer Doug Hallberg of Oneonta reinstalls “Christ at Gethsemane,” which was almost destroyed Sunday, March 12, 2017, when the 1929 landmark on Route 28 was destroyed in an arson fire. Construction began on the new…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, MAY 18 Milford Relay For Life RELAY FOR LIFE – 4-10 p.m. Celebrate cancer survivors, remember lives lost & raise money for the American Cancer Society. Survivor Walk, family fun activities, food, live music, raffles & bake sales, w/lighting luminaria & fireworks at end. Wilber Park, 1-9 S Main St State Hwy 28 Milford. Info, www.relayforlife.org/otsegocountyny…
