Wabbit season [Editor’s note: Here’s this week’s opinion column from the Editor of The Freeman’s Journal / Hometown Oneonta, Ted Potrikus.] Elmer Fudd is out hunting, as he does, when Bugs Bunny informs him that it’s duck season. Daffy Duck isn’t having it; he lets Elmer know in no uncertain terms that it’s ‘wabbit season.’ Elmer, confused, can’t figure out which is correct. “Say, what’s the matter with you anyway?” Daffy demands of Elmer. “Don’t you know a wabbit when…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2 Print Halloween Window Decals TINKERING TUESDAY – 3:30 – 4:45 p.m. Design, print Halloween Window Decals. Material fee applies. Registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-1980 or visit hmloneonta.org/adult-programs/ KNIT ALONG – 6 p.m. Join library to knit fingerless gloves, messy bun hat. Richfield Springs Public Library, 102 Main St., Richfield Springs. 315-858-0230 or visit www.facebook.com/Richfield-Springs-Public-Library-1068210423236404/…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, MAY 16 Third Times The Charm, Presenting The Election Of 1800 THE GATHERING PLACE – 2 p.m. Learn the story of the American Presidential Election of 1800 and how it changed the United States with Dr. Richard Sternberg, Village of Cooperstown Trustee. Woodside Hall, 1 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, Karen Cadwalader @ (607)547-0600. BUDGET VOTE – 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Cast your ballot on the proposed school budget for the 2017-18 school year, choose the new board…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, MAY 9 Learn Professional Photography PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP – 5:30-7:30 p.m. Learn how to take professional photographs. Must bring your own camera. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, hmloneonta.org/calendar/ FINAL MEETING – 2 p.m. The Women’s Club will hold its final meeting after 95 years. The final program will be “Making memories and Updating Your Costume Jewelry” by Karen Katz. The history of the club will be celebrated with an old-fashioned ice cream social. Members…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, MAY 8 Hearing On Proposed CCS Budget BUDGET HEARING – 6:30 p.m. Learn about the proposed school Budget. Jr./Sr. High School Library, Cooperstown Central School. Info, www.cooperstowncs.org HIP-HOP OPERA – 7 p.m. See the world premier of “Stomping Grounds,” a show that blends hip-hop and opera to tell a story about survivors of gentrification, the disruption of sacred land, and the fracturing of tradition and history by contemporary realities. SUNY Oneonta Center for Multicultural Experience. Info,…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, APRIL 20 Otsego Folklore And History LECTURE – 7:30 p.m. Bruce Buckley series presents Robert Baron speaking on “Contemporary Resonances of Mid Century Cooperstown Public Folklore and Public History.” The Fenimore Art Museum Auditorium, Cooperstown. Info, Amanda Berman bermal72@oneonta.edu TEEN SCENE – 5:30-7:30 p.m. Teens meet to discuss events that are important to them. This months meeting will have a Paint & Dip in which teens will paint a pattern with a twist of their own.…
Oneonta School Budget, 3 New Buses Approved ONEONTA – With 540 Oneonta residents voting today at Foothills, the school board budget passed 404 to 136. The $37,776,382 budget, which includes a .66 percent increase in the total tax levy, is a 2.24 percent increase in expenditure, but allows for renovations, upgrades and several new teachers. The purchase of three new buses was also approved 388-143.…
26 Layoffs Balance County ’16 Budget 7 Parttimers, 19 Fulltimers To Lose Jobs COOPERSTOWN – The $9.2 million gap in Otsego County’s proposed 2016 budget is closed. It took the layoffs of 19 full-time and 7 part-time county employees, slashing some services and raising property taxes by about $100,000 total, the maximum allowed under the state property tax cap. The layoffs, agreed on Friday, Nov. 6, by the county board’s Budget Review Committee and county Treasurer Dan Crowell, followed six weeks of…
HERZIG COMMITTED TO CLOSING BUDGET GAP ONEONTA – Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig, appointed last month but up for election next Tuesday for a term to begin Jan. 1, was interviewed by AllOTSEGO.com’s Don Mathisen on his plans. This is the third of five excerpts that will appear on this website daily through Saturday. Click the video below to watch Mayor Herzig discuss his plan to reduce Oneonta’s budget gap. TOMORROW, HERZIG ON ENTERTAINMENT…