After 500 Protest, 2nd One Planned By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – When Sadie Starr Lincoln first created the invite for the Black Lives Matter rally in Muller Plaza on Sunday, May 31, she thought it might be she and some friends speaking out against police brutality. “By Saturday, 100 people said they were going. By Sunday morning, 350 said they were going,” said Lincoln, who organized the rally after a black man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis,…
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LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Navigating Without a Compass One thing is very clear when dealing with a pandemic, it is very important to have good statistics in order to determine a plan of attack. Without good numbers it’s hard to say what to do next. It’s also important to understand what these numbers mean. With COVID- 19, it has proven difficult to determine its morbidity and mortality rate and its infectivity. Additionally, we’re not sure exactly what the…
EDITORIAL In Nation Under Duress, A Verb To Live By The verb, “to accept.” The verb became action at 8:30 a.m. Monday, June 1, when Public Works Director Mitch Hotaling climbed a ladder and hung the Pride Flag on Cooperstown Village Hall. When the Village Board, with some rancor, voted last July to fly the flag during Gay Pride Month, trustees couldn’t know how the verb, “to accept,” might resonate today after three months of pandemic and a week of…
LETTER from ONEONTA NAACP Outraged? Yes! We Exclaim, ‘Not Again’ When we saw the heinous act of another black man, George Floyd, intentionally being held down by four relaxed policemen and George not resisting arrest, but resisting suffocation and pleading “I can’t breathe, please let me stand,” it makes us return to the actions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. It was difficult to watch one policeman putting his knee with increased pressure on Mr. Floyd’s neck and…
Front Porch Perspective All Ashore That’s Goin’ Ashore Well, I’d circled the Baltimore inner harbor dockings and stood a bit, suitcase in hand, gazing up at an impressive three-domed building, each dome flying a huge pennant reading, “Old Bay Line.” And alongside the building a gangplank beckoned me. It climbed at a fairly steep angle to the main deck of the S.S. President Warfield. Suitcase clutched with left hand, I hauled myself up the gangway’s handrail to the deck. There…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta June 4-5, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE After 500 Protest, 2nd One Planned Phase 2 Opens Main Street Shops Buyers Fleeing NY, But Homes For Sale Scarce Bassett a Big Parking Lot As Patients Return AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 Expanded Cooperstown Distillery Aims for Legacy Horned Dorset Delivering Locally Virtual Theater, Celebrate Pride, Camping! EDITORIALS In Nation Under Duress, A Verb To Live By COLUMNS LOEWENGUTH: Life In France Under Lockdown…
LETTER From STRASBOURG Day Begins With Baguette And Ends With A Bon Nuit Tuesday the 17th of March, a bright blue sky unlike the past two weeks is hovering over northern France, making the idea of a confinement even more difficult to understand. The world is continuing to breathe while its people are infected. The new virus, COVID-19, has taken more than 20,000 lives in France. The country’s president, Emanuel Macron, announced Monday night, that the country will have to…
Expanded Cooperstown Distillery Setting Sights on ‘Legacy’ Level By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN –The rickhouse, where fine whiskey is aged, is bright, high-ceilinged, and there’s 7,000 square feet of it. And the 550 barrels of aged whiskey it stores today – en route to 1,500 – will allow Cooperstown Distillery’s brands to compete with the best whiskeys in the world, proprietor Gene Marra will tell you. “This elevates us to the status of the Big Boys,” said…
Buyers Fleeing New York But Homes For Sale Scarce By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The real-estate market in Margaretville and Andes, in southern Delaware County, are “on fire right now,” said Michele Stoeger, executive officer, Otsego-Delaware Board of Realtors. “Everyone’s working for downstate people.” And the flames are lapping into southern Otsego County, said veteran realtor Joan Fox. “I haven’t seen demand like this – ever. “We have agents in four counties – Otsego, Delaware, Schoharie and Chenango,”…
LETTER from LEWIS HAMILTON Did New York State Really Do Better Than Texas? To the Editor, Chip Northrup’s recent letter condemning the efforts of Texans while praising those of New Yorkers was strong on opinion but weak on data. From my Google search on May 30: • New York (state population, about 20 million), 203,000 cases, 23,282 deaths; Otsego County (population, 59,249); 67 cases, four deaths. • Texas (state population, about 29 million), 62,338 cases, 1,648 deaths; Kerr County (population…