In COVID Era, Halloween Thrives By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Richard Butcher, Cooperstown, ain’t afraid of no ghosts. “Our house was built in the 1840s,” he said. “It’s definitely haunted.” Haunted or not, you can see a ring of spooky spirits day or night in front of his house at, yes, 71 Elm St. “At night, the center glows, like they’re doing a ritual,” he said. “It’s really creepy!” With Cooperstown and Oneonta’s Halloween parades cancelled…
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BARBARA JEAN MORRIS OUT New SUNY Oneonta President: We Need To Speak ‘Frankly’ Dennis Craig Aims To Apply Lessons Learned At Purchase By JIM KEVLIN & LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With the resignation of Dr. Barbara Jean Morris, new SUNY Oneonta interim president Dennis Craig is ready to hear both the good and the bad about how the campus can recover from the COVID-19 outbreak that infected more than 700 students less than week after classes…
We’re All In This Together There’s No Doubt, Vote Out Trump I am deeply uncertain about our world. Our larger one, as in the entire planet – and our smaller one, the United States of America. Every day I read the papers and online news, and the news is unbearable. There is no longer any reasonable doubt that human beings are responsible for climate change. Ice caps and glaciers melt, fires ravage the parched West, and record numbers of hurricanes…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Oct. 15-16, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE 1,500 Revelers Evoke COVID-Spread Fears Infections Dissipate At SUNY, Elsewhere 3,925 Ask For Gun Sanctuary In County City ‘Manager’ May Become ‘Administrator’ ELECTIONS 2020 SALKA: I Know How To Help Constituents BUTTERMAN: Vision Of Future Excites Him EDITORIALS Can Sanctuary Energy Be Channeled Into Reform? Let’s Stick With It: We’re Beating COVID-19 LETTERS HESSE: American Democracy At Stake BUTTERMAN: Needed Bail Reform Needs Reform…
Democratic Candidate Dan Buttermann Renewables, Futuristic Farms Excite Challenger Buttermann By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – It started when Denny Colgan was running for school board in Prescott, Ariz. He and Dan Buttermann’s dad, Kent, played in the Prescott Kiwanis Jug Band together, and the father agreed to be his friend’s campaign manager. Young Dan “saw how hard they were working,” and was captivated by the energetic strategy sessions at the Buttermann home. Even then, he knew, “I…
LETTER from DAN BUTTERMANN Needed Bail Reform Needs More Reform The intent of New York State’s bail reform law was good – to make the pretrial process equal for all and free from bias. However, the reform bill passed in 2019 had flaws. Although I fully agree that the enacted law needs reform, we cannot return to a system that allows for punishment before a conviction. At the same time, our system must be sufficiently flexible to ensure violent criminals…
LETTER from JASON HEWLETT Trump, Biden Turn Voters Off To the Editor: Being a somewhat conservative Christian man, I have always preferred Republican candidates over Democrats. I have voted or wanted to vote for Republicans because they have the same views that I do on major issues such as abortion, homosexuality and prayer in public schools, to name a few. But as I get older and more educated, and I begin to understand what’s most important in life, I realize…
BULLETIN MORRIS LEAVES; NEW PRESIDENT AT SUNY ONEONTA Dennis Craig Presided At Purchase After State’s First Major Outbreak…
In ‘Cohorts,’ Students Return To Oneonta Schools…
Common Council Moves To Change City ‘Manager’ To ‘Administrator’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – It could be as easy as changing a few words. “It is more apparent to me that we have a job that is titled ‘city manager’ in the Charter, but if you look at the description, it describes a city administrator,” said Mayor Gary Herzig during a special meeting of the Common Council this evening. “The last three people we recruited as…
