LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Too Little Gas Under NY To Be Fracked Profitably To the Editor: A recent column in your newspaper listed the benefits of fracking to Pennsylvanians – where, evidently, all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average, implying that the same could be true in New York if we just got to fracking the place. Catch is, as some Cooperstonians proved years ago, there’s probably not much…
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LETTER from JAY FLEISHER NY Marcellus Shale Too Shallow To Frack Safely To the Editor: Any consideration of the potential environmental hazards related to fracking must consider the rocks through which the fracking wells are drilled – it’s called the “geologic setting.” Discussion of the hazards related to fracking that ignores the geologic setting is flawed by omission. Yet, Tom Morgan’s column in last week’s edition on the topic of fracking makes no mention of this. As pointed out in…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG Revolution NOT Yet Won, Minority Designations Show To the Editor: I think your editorial in last week’s newspaper about the installation of SUNY Oneonta’s new president made a gross mistake in concluding: “The revolution is over. It’s won.” The revolution, or whatever the changes have been, are not over. There has been improvement, especially in our society, but the “battle” has not been won. I crowed at my minority friends exactly the same sentiment when Barack…
Write-In Candidate Emerges For Oneonta First Ward Seat Allied With Emerging Young Democrat Group, Luke Murphy Says Incumbent Is Moving Away By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Luke Murphy, an education coordinator at Hanford Mills Museum in East Merideth who lives on Main Street, Oneonta, confirmed a few minutes ago he is running a write-in campaign for the First Ward seat on Common Council. Murphy said he decided to run on learning that the incumbent, Michele Frazier,…
HOMETOWN History Oct. 18, 2019 150 Years Ago It was supposed when the law was passed that about 1,200 of the veterans were still living in this State, and that the $50,000 appropriated would be sufficient to pay off the certificates of all the survivors. But it seems that 2,700 of the old soldiers were alive and filed their certificates with the Adjutant General. Many are still living to whom certificates were never granted. The result of this mistake on…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Oct. 17-18, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE AS GOES OTEGO-LAURENS, SO GOES COUNTY Brockway Family Legacy Makes Politics Natural National Strife Motivated Ogden Campaign • Adult, 4 Teens Arrested In Worcester Slaying Cardiff Giant Still Excites 150 Years After Hoax Slow EMS Response Brings Towns Together EDITORIAL McEvoy Memo Warns GOP: You May Lose COLUMNS McEVOY: Manager Certain, But Not Energy, Pot ATWELL: She Would Have Loved That Smile…
3 OHS Students Appear In Court In Murder Case Walton Girl, At Scene, Faces Burglary Charges By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Dylan Robinson, 15, appeared in Otsego County Court this afternoon, accused of the second-degree murder of his father, Kenneth Robinson, 53, during a burglary in Worcester last week. Also accused in the murder and burglary, first degree, were Alexander Borgreen, 16, and Anais Soto, 15. All three are Oneonta High School students. “The facts established…
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1st Detective ‘Talkie’ Begins Philo Film Series Fr. Kenneth Hunter welcomes viewers to the opening night of the Philo Vance film series at GOHS with a showing of “The Green Murder Case” from 1921. The film features William Powell (of ‘The Thin Man’ fame) during a turning point in his career, as Philo Vance. The film was also the first detective movie to feature audio dialogue as pictures moved away from the silent film era. Paul Jensen, right, a retired…
‘Multiple Gunshot Wounds’ Felled Worcester Victim Fifth Suspect – Fourth Juvenile – Held For Burglary In Murder Investigation By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – State police confirmed today that Kenneth Robinson, 53, was shot multiple times with a “long gun” in the course of a robbery at his home on Head Road on Thursday, Oct. 10. “The first responding troopers saw a man lying just inside his door,” said BCI Capt. Scott Heggelke, Troop C, in a…
