This 4th Of July Enjoy Virtual Parade By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com What do Franklin Delano Roosevelt and elephants have in common? Both will be part of a county-wide parade this Fourth of July – virtually, of course. “When Springfield announced that they would be cancelling their 4th of July parade” – the second-oldest continually running such parade in the country – “I knew we had to put something together that would uplift people,” said Michelle Bosma, New…
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Primary Results Could Take Weeks To Count By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com New York State’s – and Otsego County’s – primary elections were Tuesday, June 23, but the results won’t be known for at least a week. That’s because, due to the coronavirus threat, all Otsego County voters – and all voters statewide – received absentee ballots in the mail, along with a postal return envelope, and many took advantage of the opportunity for absentee voting, avoiding any…
IN APPRECIATION Giles Russell, Good Citizen Giles Russell was the kind of citizen – active, engaged, sure-footed in the projects he undertook – that any community would welcome and cherish. “Giles was a very hardworking, very caring – I can’t think of anyone who cared more for the village than Giles; and a lot of people care about the village,” said Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk. To Cooperstown’s gain, he and wife Jane chose “America’s Most Perfect Village” as their new…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta June 25-26, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Hartwick College Aims To Open This 4th, Enjoy Virtual Parade Village Erasing ‘Indian’ From Plaques Matching Masks & Parades Honor Graduates Primary Results Could Take Weeks To Count AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 Plains Marks Decade Of Comfort, Friendship Artists’ Muse: 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments Make a Giant, Hike The Trails & Go Boating! EDITORIALS Drugovich, Cuomo, Harris Rose To Meet Crisis Giles Russell, Good Citizen COLUMNS…
LETTER from MAUREEN DILL Americans Should Know Where RXs Come From To the Editor: I’m writing to you about my concerns regarding the fact that the majority of our prescription medications (as much as 90 percent, I’ve been told) are manufactured outside of the U.S. – primarily in China and India. Many of us are interested in “sustainability,” and this, I believe, is related to our sustainable future! Having “Googled” this subject, I’ve also read that the welfare of the…
BOUND VOLUMES June 25, 2020 210 YEARS AGO A new Republic appears to be rising in South America, at Caracas, including a vast territory and a population nearly equal to that of the United States in 1776, to the government of which, the people and their leaders are strongly attached. Should they succeed in becoming independent, they will be the second Republic on the globe, as, until this event the United States are not only the first, but the only…
Hartwick College To Open This Fall By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Hartwick College is serious about reopening this fall – and serious about getting it right. The key to success is a safe campus. The tool to achieve it is “Our Social Compact: A Healthy Hartwick College,” which college President Margaret L. Drugovich announced in her latest weekly video to the campus community, Sunday, June 21, and is central to the reopening plan submitted to the…
IN MEMORIAM Celeste Brown Thomas, 61; Editor At New York Times ONEONTA – Celeste Brown Thomas, 61, retired New York Times staff editor who grew up in Oneonta, passed away June 20, 2020, in Rochester of complications from uterine serous cancer. She had been treated for the disease, a rare and aggressive cancer, at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and Rochester since May 2017. She died surrounded by family, after hospice care at home for several weeks. She was…
HALL OF FAME REOPENS Tightly Structured Timed Ticket Sales Enables Reopening Rubber-Tipped Stylus One Tool That Allows Fans Back Into Mecca By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The timed-admission system is making reopening of the Hall of Fame possible, Jon Shestakofsky, Hall of Fame vice president/communications & education, said this afternoon. “This way, we’re able to fit within the mandated 25 percent reduced capacity,” which is called for in Governor Cuomo’s NY Forward regulations, he said. Tickets…
HALL OF FAME REOPENING On Main Street, Merchants Greet News From Hall Even This Late In Season, More Tourists Can’t Hurt By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At Mickey’s Place, Vin Russo, dean of the baseball merchants, pointed out that, before Dreams Park began hosted baseball tournaments early in the month, “this week is when the season began.” In other words, the Hall of Fame’s announcement it will reopen this Friday from the coronavirus pause won’t be…