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Glimmerglass’ ‘Blue’ Among NY Times’ Best COOPERSTOWN — The Glimmerglass Festival’s premiere, “Blue,” is on the New York Times’ list of Best Classical Music of 2019. Here’s the citation: “The composer Jeanine Tesori, best known for her Tony Award-winning musical ‘Fun Home,’ and the librettist-director Tazewell Thompson tell the story of a striving black family in Harlem with a rebellious teenage son who’s incensed over police intimidation of young black men.…
FOOD PANTRY THEFT RESOLVED Bourbon-Parme ‘Convicted Felon For Rest Of Life’ By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – “From this day forward, you are a convicted felon and will be for the rest of your life.” That was what county Judge Brian D. Burns told Antoine Bourbon-Parme, 59, as he was sentenced to a three-year conditional discharge on a charge of grand larceny in the fourth degree, a Class U felony, for embezzling more than $18,000 from the…
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CLICK HERE FOR FULL LIST OF CFA AWARDS County Getting $3.5M In CFAs For 13 Projects Richfield Springs Business Park, Energy Task Force, Downtown Oneonta Among Biggest Winners By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ALBANY — The Village of Richfield Springs was the big local winner today, receiving $1,325,000 in the annual round of state economic development grants announced this morning at The Egg in Albany. In all, the county received $3.5 million in so-called CFA grants through the…
MANAGING EDITOR MARKS 10TH Libby Found Love, Work, Heartbreak — And Home Editor’s Note: What a decade! Her friends and colleagues celebrated Manager Editor Libby Cudmore’s 10th anniversary among us on production day, Tuesday, Dec. 10, and agreed to write this memoir. By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To www.AllOTSEGO.com There’s a lot for Ian and I to celebrate in December. Our families do Christmas, Yule and Hanukkah, our original anniversary, the New Year’s Eve to cap it all off. But…
Filors Cutting Trees For Half-Century By JIMKEVLIN• Special To AllOTSEGO.com In 1969, Ned Filor heard about a state Ag & Markets program that encouraged farmers to grow Christmas trees on vacant land as a cash crop. That was 50 years ago this year, and sons Ken and Frank are still at it on the Filor Farm, just south of Dreams Park, intending to sell 400-500 trees before their market inevitably dries up the day before Dec. 25. “He planted Scotch…
BOUND VOLUMES Dec. 19, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Excerpts from a letter from the pen of John Jay, then a former Attorney General of New York State, since retired: “Little can be added to what has been said and written on the subject of Slavery. I concur in the opinion that it ought not to be introduced, nor permitted, in any of the new States, and that it ought to be gradually diminished and finally abolished in all of them.…
SHE SAYS CUOMO ‘FORCES’ SYSTEM ON HER ‘Green Light’ Law Threatens Voting Integrity, Clerk Says By JIM KEVLIN • Special To www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The state’s “Green Light” Law that went into effect over the weekend is all about registering potential Democratic voters, Otsego County Clerk Kathy Sinnott Gardner said in an interview. “They are making a mockery of our voting system,” said Sinnott Gardner Tuesday, Dec. 17, as she was organizing her staff to administer a law she disagrees…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Dec. 19-20, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Clerk: ‘Green Law’ Threatens Voting Integrity Will Impeachment Vote Sink Delgado’s Hopes Brockway Brings Outdoorsman Perspectivc Time Of Transition At Local Salvation Army Otsego Now Awaiting CFA Announcement EDITORIALS Nostalgia? We Can Live Enduring Values Today YULE TIDINGS LUKE: ‘On Earth, Peace, Goodwill Toward Men’ YES, VIRGINIA, There Is A Santa Claus COLUMNS CUDMORE: 10 Years Of Love, Work, Home BENNETT: The…
