AT COOPERSTOWN VILLAGE BOARD: Require Masks On Main Street, Trustee Declares Sternberg Says ‘Punitive Steps’ Required; Trustees OK ‘Masks On Main’ Promotion By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – This morning’s special Village Board meeting, called to approve a “Cooperstown Outdoors” promotion and “Masks on Main” signage, spun off into a larger discussion of the need for masks, with Trustee Richard Sternberg calling for “punitive measures” against people not wearing masks. “I certainly think we need to go…
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Teacher Pretended To Be Teen Boy Hobbie Sentenced To 16 1/2 Years For Exploiting 3 Girls COOPERSTOWN – Former Cooperstown gym teacher Justin Hobbie, 42, has been sentenced to 200 months in prison for posing as a teen boy on social media to persuade three teenage girls to send him sexually explicit videos of themselves, according to a release from United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Kevin Kelly, Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office of Homeland…
Sternberg Asks For Second Look ‘Indian’ Erasure Revisited By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN –Enough with “11th hour resolutions,” Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch is concluding. At issue at hand is a resolution, passed unanimously by the Village Board Monday, June 22, asking the state Education Department to consider removing the word “Indians” from the Historic Marker at Council Rock, and perhaps the one at the Indian Mound marker, too. As the trustees’ meeting was coming to an end,…
EDITORIAL Extremism Threatens George Floyd’s Legacy In our nation and county, we have a moment of opportunity. George Floyd’s death – and, in particular, the graphic video, 8 minutes and 46 seconds of it – caused every American of good will, black, white, Hispanic, even, yes, Indians, to say, enough is enough. The mechanisms of reform are starting to turn on the question of the moment: How do we retool our police departments so it, finally, once and for all,…
LETTER from JAMES “CHIP” NORTHRUP Give Native Americans A Say In How Things Are Named To the Editor: My distant relative and friend, the late Jim Northrup, was a Native American, decorated Vietnam Marine vet, and very humorous author. My real name is James so Jim and I used to joke about how all the “Jim Northrups are strong, handsome and above average.” He’s gone now, but on his behalf, as his paleface relative, I’d like to suggest that when…
Museums, Hyde Hall Announce Openings By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – These days, even art plays it safe in the face of COVID-19. To enforce mask wearing when The Fenimore Art Museum opens on Friday, July 3, Assistant Curator James Matson Photoshopped masks over several pieces from the museum’s collection, including “Laura Hall” (1808) by James Brown, and “Picking Flowers” (1840) by Samuel Miller. “We took the artwork and utilized it for our signage,” said Todd Kenyon,…
LETTER from SAMANTHA DAVENPORT Mecca ‘Tone-Deaf’ Way To Refer to HoF To the Editor: I am a reader of www.AllOTSEGO.com as well as its weekly newsprint companion. Twice now I have seen reference made to the Baseball Hall of Fame as “Mecca” and/or “the Mecca.” Although I too place great value on the HoF and acknowledge it might be very old tradition to use the word, I think calling it “Mecca” is, frankly, tone-deaf. I am sorry to be so…
Baseball Hall of Fame Welcomes Fans Back By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN For the second time in history, the Baseball Hall of Fame had an opening day. “It’s only the second opener, after the day we first opened,” said Tim Mead, Hall of Fame president. “It puts it in perspective.” On Friday, June 26, nearly 81 years to the day of the first June 12, 1939 opening, Oneonta’s Steve Pindar, visitor services director, opened the glass door…