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…
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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…
SUNY’s Lowe Helps Others Give ‘Gift of Life’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta junior Russell Lowe was used to seeing blood drives on campus, but as far as he can tell, his “Gift of Life” Bone Marrow registration is the first of it’s kind. “You see blood drives every week, but only two percent of people are registered to give bone marrow,” he said. Lowe, a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, learned about the Gift of…
Students Plan Substance-Free Walk By Libby Cudmore • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 With the local and national conversation focusing on college binge drinking, SUNY Oneonta students Gabriela Donato and James Dipaoli are hoping to show students and the community that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Donato, a member of the Sigma Gamma Phi sorority and Dipaoli, a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, have teamed up to lead the Substance Abuse…
Chickens a la Oneonta? Common Council Considers Putting Recipe On Books By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 It’s not a matter of which came first – the chickens or the ordinance. It’s about which one will go on the chopping block. “There’s a lot of concern about where our food comes from,” said City Council member Bob Brzozowski. “People want to know that their chickens are cared for, what they’re fed and the quality of their…
Planning Reunions Revived School Spirit By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 Getting active in the OHS Alumni Association was a chance for Kathy Hewlett to experience high school all over again. “I feel like I missed a lot, graduating early,” she said. “This is a way of redeeming myself.” Hewlett – Kathy Moore when she graduated in 1974 – is this year’s Alumni of the Year, to be fully recognized during the upcoming Alumni…
90 People Envision Future At Cooperstown ‘Charrette’ By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Close to 90 people spent two hours at this evening’s “Design Charrette,” detailing and discussing the pros, cons, dreams and fears of “America’s Most Perfect Village,” as a community visioning effort got underway. “A lot of community happened around this room,” declared Lisa Nagle, a principal in Elan Planning, Saratoga Springs, when the session in the CCS cafeteria was over. The goal is to develop an updated…
Veterans Get VIP Treatment On Honor Flight By LIBBY CUDMORE•allotsego.com Edition Of Thursday-Friday, Sept. 2-3 Wherever George Voris and Harold Lamberton went, there were people waiting. “They had flags, signs welcoming us,” said Voris. “Everywhere we went, people were greeting us with banners.” “On the way to the airport, we had a motorcycle escort,” added Lamberton. “At the airport, they had an honor guard waiting for us.” Lamberton and Voris, both residents of St. James Manor, took part on Sept.…
Scots Terrified Establishment, In End, Establishment Won Edition of Thursday-Friday, Sept. 25-26 Editor’s Note: Cooperstown’s Scott Buchanan, formerly this newspaper’s graphic artist, is living in Scotland. EDINBURG, Scotland Forty-five percent of the electorate in the highest turnout in modern political history voted for change, and didn’t get it. Fifty-five percent voted in fear of change, but change for the worse is what they shall have. The political landscape of the U.K. has been fundamentally changed by the referendum debate. Questions…
In Stamp-Collecting Month, Consider Pastime Edition of Friday, Sept. 26 To the Editor: A single stamp, the British Guiana one-cent magenta, sold in June 2014 at Sotheby’s for a record-setting $9.48 million. By weight, a mere .04 grams, it is considered the most valuable item in the world. The stamp was issued in 1856 in British Guiana (now Guyana), and is the only copy known to exist. Interestingly, it was found in 1873 by a Scottish schoolboy who sold it…
