I read with great satisfaction the recent news that a DMV satellite office will open next year in Oneonta. MacGuire Benton made this a central issue of his unsuccessful campaign for county clerk last year.…
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As we approach the fourth quarter holiday season, the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce is moving into a very busy period of community activity. As always, the OCCC participates in efforts that support our communities and the nearly 300 member businesses, organizations, and individuals we serve.…
Consider a thunderstorm, nature’s best display of electric energy. Through complicated collisions and Sisyphean updrafts within the storm, particles with negative charges are driven toward the cloud base, with positive charges accumulating near the top. This separation creates a large electric potential difference (voltage) between the cloud base and the ground below, because the ground often becomes positively charged in response.…
According to the prestigious Brennan Center for Justice, over the last 50-plus years, there has been no evidence of voter fraud in the United States on a scale even close enough to change the outcome of an election. The “Washington Post” has also noted that following the 2016 election, there were only four documented cases of voter fraud out of 136 million votes counted votes.…
Subjects include Otsego Lake, four seasons of a tree on Fair Street, the Stone Bridge and a few other locations, including Pyramid Lake, where Tripp participated annually in writing workshops. A short comment for each piece of artwork illustrates Tripp’s boundless personality depicted in her painting and writing.…
First, each of us on this board has the title of trustee. We are fiduciaries, sworn to care for the public interest and rule of law, including the safety, health, comfort, and general welfare of Cooperstown’s inhabitants, the protection of their property and businesses, and the preservation of peace and good order in our public spaces.…
As mayor of Cooperstown, it is my honor to be asked to speak every year at our community’s Memorial Day Ceremony. I often note the memorials in our village to honor and remember those who travelled far beyond our small community to defend the principles and freedoms of our nation. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument, where the Memorial Day ceremony takes place, was erected in the early 1900s not by the village but by Otsego County in memory of all…
Everyone was extremely professional and caring, and made me and my family feel very safe in their hands.…
Americans need physical and fiscal exercise or they will continue to become weaker. Our government is having to kick ever larger objects down the road than a can.…
Data from the Otsego County Board of Elections shows early mail and absentee ballots issued, those returned, and in-person early voting numbers as of Monday, October 28 at 10:58 a.m.…