County Board Rematch Emerging In District 3 Ogden Plans Challenge To Brockway By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com LAURENS – A rematch is shaping up this fall in the race for the county Board of Representatives’ District 3. As they did in 2019, Democrat Caitlin Ogden, Laurens, will again face Republican Rick Brockway, West Laurens, to represent the towns of Laurens and Otego. “I am running to give the people of Laurens and Otego the representation on the county…
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LETTER from BUZZ HESSE American Democracy At Stake This Election To the Editor: After months of listening, reading and seeing a litany of positions on the upcoming 2020 Presidential election, I have concluded it all boils down to the following: Do we as Americans want to give away the hard-fought fight of democracy to socialism? Or keep our democracy as intended by our forefathers? Simply put: • TRUMP – Pro democracy; pro United States Constitution; pro U.S. Bill of Rights.…
75 YEARS LATER, HE REMEMBERS Davis Helped Fly General To See Missouri En Route By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com OTEGO – Last Friday, Aug. 28, Bill Davis wasn’t thinking about the thunderstorm warnings for Otsego County. He was contemplating Aug. 28, but the one 75 years earlier, when he was aboard a B-29 bomber high over the Pacific Ocean with a special sightseer, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of the Southwest Pacific Theater, as World War II was nearing…
LETTER from BUZZ HESSE Let’s Move Forward United, As Americans To The Editor: I was born in 1940 in Endicott, a diverse cultural area where many people were from the Old World. In fact, on the street where I lived were Italian, German, English, Jewish and Swedish families. We all lived side by side compatibly. A very meaningful school experience took place when I was in first grade. I remember all the students sat in rows, side by side. Teacher…
Truck Driver Falls Asleep, Spills Milk All Over I-88 OTEGO – A truck driver fell asleep at the wheel on I-88 and crashed a truck filled with milk and other dairy products all over the roadway in Otego earlier this morning, according to a press release from state troopers, Troop C. Andrew A. Lloyd, 26, Porter Cors, allegedly told told troopers that he fell asleep and drifted on the roadway, rolling his vehicle. No injuries were reported, but I-88 was…
IN MEMORIAM: Frances M. Niles, 83; ‘Granny Fran’ To Many Unatego Fans OTEGO – Frances M. “Fran” Niles, 83, who worked 20 years at Otego Elementary School, passed away peacefully on March 7, 2020 at Fox Nursing Home in Oneonta. She was born Oct. 21, 1936, the daughter of James and Helen (Sweeney) Mauro. Fran was born and raised in Brooklyn. She worked for many years in New York City. While working at KLM Dutch Airlines, which afforded her the…
LETTER from DICK DOWNEY Benefits Of Gas Aren’t Fossil-Fuel Fiction To the Editor: Bob Eklund (“Praise For Fracking? Let’s call It Fossil-Fuel Fiction,” Jan. 2-3, 2020) and I are opposing veterans of the Gas Wars and almost friends. The environmental and economic benefits of gas are NOT fiction. The EPA reports CO2 emissions peaked in 2007 as gas replaced coal in electric power generation. By 2017 emissions dropped 28 percent to 30-year lows. Emissions fell another 2.1 percent last year,…
Steve Hall, Aaron Foster Lauded By Alma Mater Wrestler, Musician Named To Unatego Hall Of Distinction OTEGO – A former wrestler who excelled as a mechanical engineer and a professional musician were named to the Unatego Hall of Distinction, which celebrates the accomplishments of successful alumni. Steve Hall was a 1983 graduate of the Unatego High School, where he excelled in wrestling and football, finishing in 7th place at the New York State Wrestling Championships his senior year. He continued…
IN MEMORIAM: Vera C. Young, 81; Keith Clark Employee, Unatego Driver PORTLANDVILLE — Vera C. Young, 81, formerly of Otego at a bus driver in the Unatego Central School District, passed away on Christmas Day. She was born on July 13, 1938 in Oneonta. She married her high school sweetheart Charles “Chuck” Robert Young on May 26, 1957. He predeceased her in 1996.…
IN MEMORIAM: Dulce G. Jester, 70; Past President Of Otego F.D. Auxiliary OTEGO – Dulce Guadaloupe Jester, 70, who was active in the Otego Fire Department Auxiliary, rising to president, as a young woman in Otego, passed away peacefully on Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, after a long battle with lung cancer and COPD. Had She lived in Winston-Salem, N.C., since 1996. She was born Oct. 11, 1949, in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of Frances Christina Sleam and Antonio Rivis Piedra.…