Congratulations to Xander Moffat and the entire AllOtsego team for the tremendous improvements and upgrades to the paper’s website. It has the look and feel of a major publication while retaining the tradition of a small-town paper for which “The Freeman’s Journal” is so well-known.…
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. . .Now let’s see, where was I? By TED POTRIKUS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Oh yes, I remember: August 1983, leaning against a column in front the library on Main Street for a photo, thanking the people of Cooperstown for reading my Freeman’s Journal work that summer, and heading back to Rochester to begin my junior year of college. My boss published the picture with the caption, “I’d like to thank Richard Johnson for giving me my own column.”…
EDITORIAL New Editor Views Media Brands As Community Service I can honestly say this is a column I never thought I would write, my first as editor of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta. I say that for two reasons: one, I spent the past decade in competition with the Iron String Press media team, while working as an editor and reporter for another news organization; two, that stint, with an Alabama-based organization I shall forever more refer to as…
FIERY SPEAKER APPLAUDED First UM Plans Vote On Whether To Reject Church’s Ban On Gays In February, Worldwide Church Council Affirmed Bar To Gay Marriage, Pastors By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – A resolution, “We Refuse,” objecting to the international United Methodist Church’s reassertion of its prohibition on gay marriage and gay pastors, was inserted into today’s Sunday Service program at Oneonta’s First UM. The local resolution calls the church’s “Traditional Plan,” which reaffirmed its ban and…
Herzig Revokes OH-Fest Permit For Park Concert If Protest Breaks Out, OPD Lacks Resources To Control It, He Says By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – City Hall revoked OH-Fest’s Neahwa Park permit this morning after Mayor Gary Herzig learned on www.AllOTSEGO.com overnight that large numbers of students might protest concert headliner Sean Kingston after learning last week he and his bodyguard were accused of a gang rape in 2010. The city’s decision throws into doubt whether the Saturday night…
ONLINE Daily Newspaper Launched Editors with ink in their veins thrill at the news that traditional books are rebounding (10 percent as of mid-2018) and Kindle appears to have peaked, and is now declining (3.8 percent). Happily, Otsego County’s newspapers – the 211-year-old Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta, now 10 years old – are stable, profitable and ever-striving to serve the reading public, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. But www.AllOTSEGO.com is growing in leaps and…
Cooperstown Elementary Pupils Honor Veterans…