CLICK FOR 2020 WINTER CARNIVAL EVENTS Sun Brings Crowds To Carnival Events Oneonta’s Tom Slicer Wins Smullens Cooperstown looks like a crystal palace today, after yesterday’s snowfall was frozen on tree limbs. Today, temperatures rose into the 20s, bringing out crowds to a full schedule of events. Top, Oneonta’s Tom Slicer won the traditional Bob Smullens 10 this morning in 38:53, with Joseph Hempstead, Springfield Center, winning the 5K in 22:21. Running the 5K, Cooperstown’s Bradley Weldon was the first…
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CLICK FOR 2020 WINTER CARNIVAL EVENTS Annual Soup ‘n’ Chili Kickoff Not Deferred By Today’s Snow The First Baptist Church of Cooperstown’s annual Soup ‘n’ Chili Luncheon, the traditional kickoff of the annual Winter Carnival, went off today as scheduled despite 3-4 inches of wet snowfall and occasional short power outages. Above, Pastor Joe Perdue and wife Julie, right, chat with Jan McGraw, a member of the 21 Elm St. congregation. In the background is Gail Sliter, overseeing the voluntary…
700-Plus Fans Sign Petition To Save CCS Football By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN More than 700 people have signed a Change.org petition in support of the Cooperstown Hawkeyes’ JV and Varsity football team after discussions arose that the team may be cut in the 2020-21 budget. “If we don’t join together and peacefully let the board know how we feel: We will lose football,” wrote Kimberly Burkhart, who started the petition. She is a Milford Elementary School…
D.A. Expecting 50% Dip In Prosecutions By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN Under bail reform, county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. worried dangerous suspects would be freed – and, locally, one stole a truck a day after he was released. Now, under new rules of evidence, also part of the state’s criminal justice reforms, District Attorney John Muehl worries he’ll be unable to prosecute as many suspected criminals. “Arrests are way down already,” said Muehl. “Hopefully things will get…
LETTER from KEITH WILCOX Gunmen More Scary Than G-Men To the Editor: Rick Brockway states “every Democratic candidate…will take our guns away.” If he means the candidates advocate the confiscation of all guns owned by law-abiding citizens, he’s wrong. None of them takes that position. They are for stricter gun control, as well they ought to be. The guns, Mr. Brockway, I and other Upstate folks had growing up were nothing like what we’re faced with today. We’ve had, and…
COLUMN FOSSIL FUELS: Stanford Says, Recapture CO2 Editor’s Note: This is the first of occasional articles, from university public-relations departments, on research into burning fossil fuels more cleanly. Here, Stanford University tells how faculty there are targeting “super-emitters.” In the United States, most electricity from the grid comes from power plants that run on coal or natural gas. These plants generate 35 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. Climate scientists say we need to reduce global…
EDITORIAL Good News, Jobs Aplenty; Bad News, No Housing Anyone who’s paying attention around here has come to a double conclusion: ►One, pretty much every employer, big or small, has vacancies that can’t be filled. ►Two, if new employees are hired, they often can’t find a convenient, affordable place to live. No workers. No worker housing. A double bind. If misery loves company, then economic developer Jody Zakrevsky, CEO of Otsego Now, went to a jobs forum hosted by Congressman…
BOUND VOLUMES Feb. 6, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Court of Sessions – The following convictions were had in the Court of Sessions, held in this village the past week: John Gardner, indicted for Grand Larceny – sentenced to confinement at hard labor in the State’s Prison, five years; John Havens, indicted as an accessory before the fact for larceny – sentenced to imprisonment in the State’s Prison, four years; Benson Nichols, indicted for assault and battery – sentenced to two…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Feb. 6-7, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE D.A. Expecting 50% Dip In Prosecutions 700-Plus Fans Sign Petition To Save CCS Football Seward Invites DOT Chief To Lettis Crash Scene 2020 Winter Carnival Features Mac, Cheese, More Salka Plans Local Rally Against Bail Reforms THE JOB SCENE Help Custom Electronics Power The Future Big Job At Bassett: Keeping Many Jobs Full Expert: More, Higher Paying Manufacturing Jobs SUNY Plans To Make…
