Orchard, Overlook, Sledding Hill Return To Huntington Park By LIBBY CUDMORE• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – When she saw the new plans for Huntington Park, it was like falling in love. “I’m so head-over-heels for the fruit orchard,” said Tina Winstead, Huntington Memorial Library executive director. “That’s what Henry did,” Henry Huntington, the 19th century railroad magnate from Oneonta who donated the mansion and property that today makes up the library and grounds. On Thursday, Sept. 10, Stimson Landscape Architects,…
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LETTER from ANDREW STAMMEL We Shouldn’t Walk Away From Educational System To the Editor: The prosperity of Oneonta is inextricably intertwined with the success of its colleges. The fact that SUNY Oneonta’s reopening did not succeed as planned and hoped is a tragedy for our community in a year that challenges us all. The shutdown is devas-tating for our students who have looked forward to their college experience; heartbreaking for the 1,000 SUNY employees who have worked since March to…
EDITORIAL Sterling Mayor’ Legacy Suggest: Are City Managers Needed? Maybe it’s apocryphal, but the story’s told of a former mayor of Oneonta who, elected decades ago, discovered some department heads were taking hour-and-a-half lunches to work out at a local gym. The mayor gave everybody raises, at the same time advising the department heads: Game over, be back at your desks in an hour. That worked for six months, then the particular department heads starting slipping, the story goes, and…
SUNY Infections Ebb, Bringing Crisis To End By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – As this week began, only 158 SUNY Oneonta students and residence assistants were left on campus. In a normal year, that would have been over 3,000 of the 6,000+ enrollment. “At present, there are only three SUNY students in isolation on campus,” Diane Georgeson, Oneonta Public Health officer, told Common Council during her report on Tuesday, Sept. 15. “There are 52 in isolation off…
AFTER DECADE, MAYOR HERZIG TO ASK QUESTION AGAIN Is City Manager Needed? By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA –Oneonta’s third city manager, George Korthauer, retired from City Hall on Feb. 7. A month later, on March 13, Governor Cuomo’s Executive Order 202 went into effect, declaring a state of emergency in New York State in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic threat. In the past six months, Mayor Gary Herzig, under a City Charter that gives him largely…
GUEST COLUMN from MALACK AL-HARAIZAH Students Expected More From SUNY As a senior at SUNY Oneonta, I should be shocked at the events that transpired in the return to campus. At a place that has been a safe space for students, a place whose motto is, “Founded in Honor and Good Faith,” a place where we expect our leaders to do what is right by us, I should be shocked. And yet, I wasn’t. Students from all over the state,…
COVID RETREATS Drugovich’s Hard Line Contrasts With Morris’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Hartwick College Margaret Drugovich has a message for students unhappy with the school’s stringent COVID-19 code of conduct. “We’re asking the students who don’t want to follow our rules to volunteer to leave campus,” said Drugovich during a meeting of Mayor Gary Herzig’s Oneonta Control Room on Monday, Sept. 7. “As hard as it is to say, if you violate our rules, you have…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta September 10-11, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK COVID RETREATS No Cases In Oneonta; SUNY Slows at 701 Drugovich’s Hard Line Contrasts With Morris’ CPG Students Adults; Don’t Need Babying FRONT PAGE Cavilieri New Cooperstown Police Chief SSPCA Takes Over Schenevus Menagerie AllOTSEGO.life Sample Fall At The Fenimore Museum Again, Pioneer Patio Wins Beautification Prize EDITORIALS Turmoil At Bassett, But Good Turmoil HISTORY COLUMNS HOMETOWN HISTORY, Sept 11, 2020 BOUND VOLUMES, Sept…
Homeless Man Arrested For Stealing From Cars ONEONTA – A homeless man was arrested by state troopers and charged with stealing items from cars on Southside Drive and Glen Drive in Oneonta, according to Trooper Aga Dembinska, Troop C Public Information Officer. Eric M. Meade, 26 (Homeless) of Oneonta, was arrested after troopers were dispatched to a complaint of a theft in progress on Southside Drive in the town of Oneonta just after 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 13.…
IN MEMORIAM C. Norman Moran, 85; Main St. Baptist Church Pastor, OCCS Founder ONEONTA – Clarence Norman “Norm” Moran, 85, former pastor of Main Street Baptist Church and founding president of what is now the Oneonta Christian Academy in Otego, passed away on Sept. 12, 2020. He was born in Chester, Pa., on Christmas Day in 1934, the son of Clarence Wesley Moran and Anna Pusey Moran. At his mother’s encouragement, he enrolled at Philadelphia College of the Bible, then…