Filmmaker Stillman’s Next Project: Poverty In Otsego, Delaware By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – Filmmaker Joe Stillman wants to open people’s eyes to what he calls “The Invisible Class.” “In Otsego County, the poverty rate is 16.5 percent,” he said. “In Oneonta, it’s 29.5 percent. That’s one in three. These are our neighbors, friends, relatives and neighbors, people we play with, shop with and work with.” Now, home from promoting an award-winning documentary on…
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5-Officer Wedges Needed To Diffuse Problems In Crowds City Couldn’t Handle Trouble At OH-Fest, Chief, Mayor Find By LIBBY CUDMORE • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – If one person gets hurt in the OH-Fest crowd, it takes five people, including law enforcement and EMTs, to reach them, according to City Police Chief Doug Brenner. “We form a wedge to move through the crowd,” he said. “But if there’s 10 people fighting, we’re quickly overwhelmed.” Such concerns were…
POEM TO THE EDITOR April, After The Shower Under the rainbow In a world as sparkling clean As washed crystal The tulip bud swells and colors At the end of a pale green wand, The fat pink earthworm Jiggles on the wet asphalt, And the eager young man Still holding up the umbrella Goes right on talking sweet dirty Into his girlfriend’s ear – Until he blushes At his own cheekiness And loses the moment. • DOROTHY MUNCH Oneonta…
LIBBY’S BEST BETS Racing Season Starts Heal Your Soul, Or Learn About Voting Winter is behind us and two 5K/10K races ramp up Otsego County’s favorite warm-weather activity. First, enjoy a sweet treat on the course as part of the Oneonta Donut Dash to raise money for the Rebecca Douglas Siegfried Scholarship fund at Morris Central School. 9 a.m. Saturday, April 27 Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Info Valery.Worden@oneonta.edu • If you prefer your race day treats in a glass, the annual…
STRIP! Our Clothes Are Killing Us, Professor, Student Believe By JENNIFER HILL • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – You might think the mannequin dressed in colorful plastic flowers on the main floor of SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Student Union is there to advertise cute clothes. Two posters flanking the mannequin indicate the opposite. The one on the left says, “The Ugly Truths About 80 Billion Garments Produced Annually.” On the right, “What Can We Do?” SUNY Oneonta Human…
Assistant DA: We Have Truitt On Video Green: It Shows Suspect Carrying Accelerant By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Video evidence shows accused arsonist Gabriel Truitt, 33, with the accelerant found in front of Heather Engler’s apartment door in the Walling Avenue fire that killed former Oneonta firefighter John Heller, Assistant District Attorney Will Green said during this morning’s arraignment in Otsego County Court. “Video evidence shows the defendant with isopropyl alcohol going to and from the crime…
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Truitt In Basement Of House Next Door To OPD Headquarters Suspect Spirited To Otsego County Jail By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Less than a week since a grand jury indicted Gabriel Truitt, 33, on first-degree murder, one count of first-degree arson, and two counts of second-degree murder in the Dec. 29 death of John Heller, 38, Oneonta Police have arrested him at 95 Main St. The two-story apartment house is right next door to the Public…
BULLETIN TRUITT ARRESTED ONEONTA – Moments ago, Gabriel Truitt, 33, was arrested in the basement of 95 Main St., right next to police headquarters, for the Dec. 29 fatal fire that killed former city firefighter John Heller, 38. CHECK BACK FOR DETAILS…
DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN New In Town, Grummons Got To Know Everyone Funeral Director To Be Honored At Annual Chamber Gala May 2 By JIM KEVLIN • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – Everybody knows Les Grummons. “I always liked to be involved,” said the Oneonta funeral director who is the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce’s Eugene A. Bettiol Jr. Distinguished Citizen of the Year. “I was always that way.” He will be honored Thursday, May 2, at the chamber’s annual…
