PARENTS HEAD TO JAIL OVER … NOTHING In The End, Only Work, Love Matter The ironic thing about actress Felicity Huffman and many other well-heeled parents bribing college officials to get their students into top schools is: It doesn’t matter. Human beings have lived for 200,000 years. No one’s sure how many of us have walked this Earth, but a common “best guess” is 105 billion. All but a tiny fraction of those, you must know, never heard of Harvard,…
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THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Sept 26-27, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Driver Ejected In First Fatal XNG Crash Delgado Says, Impeach President Trump Hartwick 3-Year Degree Enters 10th Year Waits, Record Haul On Hazardous Waste Day Remove Flashing Light, Fair Street Folks Say EDITORIAL In The End, Only Work And Love Matter COLUMNS PALUMBO: ‘We Were Told, Don’t Worry…’ CHARTOCK: Jousting With Cuomo Not Easy LETTERS CROWELL: Budget Never Balanced In September LINDLEY:…
LETTER from R. SCOTT DUNCAN Annual Checkup May Be Matter Of Life, Or Death To the Editor: The phone rang early this morning. It was a call from my doctor’s office. They canceled my “annual appointment.” You would think the annual visit would be important to keep on schedule. I was looking forward to working with my prime care doctor to get tests to compare to last year. The next available appointment will be in three months. That puts it…
BOUND VOLUMES Sept. 26, 2019 200 YEARS AGO One of the first duties of a citizen is to use every effort, by precept and example, to encourage industry and shut out want. No matter how splendid your city may be, whether shady walks, cooling fountains, marble edifices, and magnificent palaces, give tokens of opulence and ease – if your streets are crowded with beggars and your paths haunted by mendacity it is a stain on the character of the economy…
LOCAL PARTIES REACT Democrats Back Delgado; Casale Says, ‘Do Your Job’ The Otsego County Democratic Party praises Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19, for his “judgment and commitment to the critical oversight role” in changing his mind and now supporting President Trump’s impeachment. But Republican County Chairman Vince Casale said the first-term congressmen is simply “appealing to a small angry group of socialist liberals who control his re-election.”…
Signal Installed After April Fatality Fair Street Neighbors Oppose Blinking Light FOR FULL REPORT, SEE THIS WEEK’S EDITION OF THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL…
IN MEMORIAM: Charles ‘Mike’ Stringer, 70; Chef Also Operated Mike’s Floor Covering COOPERSTOWN – Charles Michael “Mike” Stringer, a chef, proprietor of Mike’s Floor Covering, and lifelong resident of the Cooperstown area, died unexpectedly Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, in his camper at Riverside Village Mobile Home Park in Portlandville. He was 70. Born Aug. 2, 1949, in Cooperstown, Mike was the son of Francis William Stringer and Ellen H. Shaw Stringer. After graduating with the Class of 1967 from Cooperstown High School,…
From AllOTSEGO’S Sister Newspapers Love Of Henry Creates T-Shirts, Stickers, More Lovable Retriever Profit Center For Cooperstown’s Muskrat Hill By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Most downtown stores were having a pretty soft Induction Weekend 2019, including Muskrat Hill, proprietor Neil Weiller reported the other day. Henry to the rescue! The first three boxes of new Henry T-shirts, based on Weiller’s loveable Golden retriever/shop mascot, arrived in the nick of time. “I sold four pieces as I…
FARMERS’ MUSEUM HARVEST FEST: One Perfect Day, Another One Due Juggling burning sticks, Dickens the Clown was performing again today at The Farmers’ Museum Harvest Festival, as he has for years. Sitting on the bench behind him are the Micelli family of Glenville, near Schenectady, who have come to the annual event for 16 years, since 16-year-old Katelyn Micelli, left, was a newborn. Inset, the sounds of Milford’s B.J. Baker’s violin serenaded festival goers at the entrance of the museum’s…
All-American Girls League Gathers ‘Girls Of Summer’ Here This Weekend For Reunion At Hall The Mighty Casey himself (former Baseball Hall of Fame researcher Tim Wiles, now Guilderland Public Library director) came out to visit with Joyce Westerman, Jeneane Lesko, Gloria Rogers McCloskey, Dolly Ozburn and Mary Moore, all members of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, as their annual got underway today at the Baseball Hall of Fame. At right, Sue Zipay, right, who played for the Rockford…
