Memorial Day parade, celebrations set in Oneonta STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Despite significant delays because of COVID, the Memorial Day parade in Oneonta is set to continue on Monday, May 31, as scheduled, following the traditional route. The parade will start at 10 a.m. at the Foothills Performing Arts Center, go down Main Street and end in Neahwa Park, for a somber memorial service. The city of Oneonta is still looking for parade entries to join the lineup…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, MAY 22 Electric Vehicle Car Show ELECTRIC CAR SHOW – 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Come view Electric Vehicles on display by local owners and dealers. Learn what options exist in our area, benefits of owning an EV, more. Damaschke Field Parking Lot, Neahwa Park, Oneonta. 607-397-3815 or visit doas.us…
Let There Be Lights! Against All Odds, Festival Takes Flight By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com As dusk settled over Neahwa Park, Carol Mandigo wasn’t sure what to expect when she flipped the switches to turn on the Festival of Lights. What she saw were cars lined up as far as Main and River streets, waiting their turns to be driven around the 37 displays of holiday lights and decorations set up around the park. “I couldn’t believe it,”…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18 Christmas Lights Drive-Thru Display FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS – Sundown. Enjoy drive through displays of Christmas Lights this holiday season. Open through January 3rd. Presented by First Night Oneonta & Five Star Subaru. Neahwa Park, Oneonta. firstnightoneonta@gmail.com or visit www.facebook.com/OneontaFestivalOfLights/…
Ooh, Ah In Oneonta, Starting 12/18 Decorating Underway For Festival Of Lights Brook Moser, 10, and her brother Caleb, 5, joined the gang from Oneonta’s Keller Williams Realty this morning to decorate the front lawn of the city’s Department of Recreation office in Neahwa Park. Mom Angela Moser, a KW real-estate agent, reports her children painted the figurines, which are new this year, in anticipation of the Festival of Lights, which is planned to light up the City of the…
EDITORIAL Let’s Understand History, Not Censor It Are we seeing a trend here? In June, one of Cooperstown Trustee MacGuire Benton’s constituents was walking his or her dog and noticed the word “Indian” on the historical marker at Council Rock. Expressing his or her concern with the trustee, he raised the alarum at the June Village Board meeting, and a resolution was offered to remove the offending word from all public plaques in “America’s Most Perfect Village.” It turned out,…
‘We’ve Got Your Back,’ Murphy Told Rights Commission Supports Review Of ‘Savagery’ Plaque By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The city’s Commission on Community Relations and Human Rights supported Council member Luke Murphy, First Ward, as he begins reaching out to groups about the plaque in Neahwa Park that refers to “Indian savagery“ “I’m excited to say I have made contacts with the Oneida, Onondaga and Mohawk nations,” he said at this evening’s commission meeting. “I also…
Councilman Questions Monument Referring To Iroquois ‘Savagery’ Murphy Said He Will Raise Issue Today Before Rights Commission By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – After 118 years, Common Council member Luke Murphy, First Ward, is concerned about a marker in Neahwa Park referring to the “savagery” of the Iroquois pursued by the Clinton-Sullivan Expedition. A neighbor of Murphy’s walking through Neahwa Park alerted the freshman council member to the plaque at the park’s River Street entrance, which says…
