Rare Woman Plow Driver Fights Ezekiel By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In the darkness of 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1, Angela Christman, South Kortright, got the call she’d been waiting for: Tonight she’d plow the streets of Oneonta. And she would be the first woman in recent memory – perhaps ever – to do so for the city’s Department of Public Works. “I was excited and nervous at the same time,” she said. “Nervous because I…
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HOMETOWN HISTORY Dec. 6, 2019 150 YEARS AGO Miscellaneous: There are to be ten executions for murder in the United States during December. The very latest style of boot has the toe turned up like an old-fashioned skate. The gay young people of Henderson, Kentucky eat peanuts in church. “Bugmaster General” is the popular name for the state entomologist in Illinois. Mr. Fiske, of the Galveston Bulletin, has been shot at 23 times in three years. “Ned” a modest young…
Common Council OKs $20 Million Budget By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – It’s unanimous. The $20 million budget for 2020 has passed. The Oneonta Common Council voted tonight on the city’s 2020 budget and approved it unanimously. Two weeks ago, the council met to discuss the initial proposal for the $20 million budget for 2020, which had included two full-time firefighting positions, a 10 percent sewer rate increase, and a 2.5 percent property tax increase. After that…
MATHISEN: Memoir Takes Us To 911 Bombing Editor’s Note: Don Mathisen, retired to Oneonta after a career as a reporter for WNYC, New York City’s NPR station and other outlets, published “A Broadcaster’s Life” last month, primarily for his children and grandchildren, but a few copies are available at The Green Toad Bookstore, 198 Main St. I ran for my life as the South Tower fell. I was just a few hundred feet away, standing in a crowd of people,…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Dec. 5-6, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE County Manager Decision Expected Today Debate Renewed On Funding Animal Shelter Organizers Cancel 2020 Polar Bear Jump Santa Arrives At Renovated Pioneer Park Rare Woman Plow Driver Fights Ezekiel Common Council OKs $20 Million Budget EDITORIALS On County Manager, Now Hard Work Begins Kennedy, Bliss, Committee Deserve Praise COLUMNS SEWARD: Reforms May Be Costly, Dangerous MATHISEN: Memoir Takes Us To 911 Bombing…
Pop-Ups Will Help Pep Up Southside Mall By LIBBY CUDMORE• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – There’s only one place you can get board games, maple syrup, artisan jewelry and a new tattoo – Southside Mall. “We’re a small mall, but what we have is a large shopping experience,” said Luisa Montanti, Southside Mall general manager. Starting Black Friday, the mall welcomed 16 artisans and local food producers to set up tables to sell their wares, including Caribou Creek Knives, Rusted…
IN MEMORIAM: Maureen S. Greeley, 89; Helped Run Family Electrical Business ONEONTA – Maureen S. Greeley, 89, who helped run her family’s Holbrook & Howey Electric Co., passed peacefully Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, at home with much of her family present. She was born June 29, 1930 in Oneonta to Morris E. and Eva K. (Burrell) Howey. After attending grade school in Sidney and Oneonta, she graduated from Oneonta High School in the Class of 1947. Maureen married James E.…
CLICK FOR LATEST WEATHER FORECAST Snow Tapering Off; Sun Due Tomorrow With Oneonta City Schools (and pretty much everything else) closed today, Jacob Foster Rothbart, 13, took the opportunity to sled in Wilber Park with dad Mike and sister Natalie, 8. After accumulations of up to 11 inches in the past 24 hours, snowfall is expected to taper off in Oneonta this evening, ending at 10, although flurries are expected to continue until midnight in Cooperstown. Tomorrow, a sunny day…
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