LETTER from CHEYENNE KLINE Law-Abiding Citizens, Criminals Different To the Editor: I was born and raised in Otsego County. My whole family are hunters, and therefore we all own firearms. My siblings and myself were taught at a young age and learned how to use them properly. I am a gun owner and hunter now. It is our Constitutional right to own and bear arms. I have taken safety courses that are required to hunt and also obtain my pistol…
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Q&A WITH MIKE HENRICI This Year, How Do I Vote? Editor’s Note: With changes in voting procedures resulting from this year’s coronavirus threat, Maureen Murray and Aviva Schneider of the League of Women Voters, Cooperstown chapter, interview Michael Henrici, Democratic election commission at the county Board of Elections, to help clarify the options. Q: What should voters know about registration? The deadline to register is Oct. 9. To check to be sure you’re registered, go to www.voteotsego.com. You can also…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Oct. 1-2, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Trustee Mac Benton Wins Another Term 3 At Bassett Found COVID-19 Positive Bassett CEO’s Aim: Knit Network Together For Sheriff, Son’s Investigation Not Over Museum Hosts Safer, Longer Celebration Governor Appoints Casale To Election Board Repeat Offenders Have Oneonta On Edge It’s Beginning To Look Less Like Halloween EDITORIAL Trustees, Launch ‘Year Of Cooperstownian’ Was Polling Place Big Enough? LETTERS KLINE: Law-Abiding…
Colman’s Spirit Of Service Lives On In Otsego County Name Rare Locally, But Relatives Of First USDA Secretary Plentiful By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com RICHFIELD SPRINGS – There may be no “Colmans” around here, but there’s plenty of Colman kin: Burches, Osterhoudts, Ainslies and Blisses, among others. “It’s an honor to have somebody at that level in our government related to me,” said Orlo C. Burch Jr. of Hartwick, who called after reading last week’s article about a…
3 At Bassett Found COVID-19 Positive By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Three of the latest five cases of COVID-19 reported were Bassett Hospital employees, according to Heidi Bond, county public health director. “We don’t know where (two) employees picked it up, but they gave it to a family member, who also works at Bassett,” she said. The three cases are part of a five-day spike that saw an additional 18 cases throughout the county, nine at…
Bassett CEO’s Aim: Knit Network Together By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In his three months as CEO/president, Dr. Tommy Ibrahim is increasingly impressed by Bassett Healthcare Network’s local significance. “In our service area, we’re it,” he said in an interview Monday, Sept. 28. “We have an obligation to serve the people in it.” In the past two months, he has announced 10 members of his Executive Leadership Team, including Fox Hospital President Jeff Joyner as chief…
Museum Hosts Safer, Longer Celebration By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Every so often, Farmers’ Museum interpreter Deb Anderson will see someone sneaking a ride on the closed Empire State Carousel. It’s not a ghost or a straggler – it’s daredevil Sam Patch, one of The Farmers’ Museum’s scarecrows, atop Bucky Beaver, the first of the carousel’s hand-carved animals. Sam was created by the museum’s staff, part of the museum’s Celebration of Autumn, underway through Sunday, Oct.…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Don’t Back ‘Gun Sanctuary’ Idea To the Editor: Dear county board members, I am writing to oppose the proposed “gun sanctuary” initiative as being an ill-conceived abuse of the county’s legislative powers, a pointless political stunt and frankly, a bit silly. The United States is, by law, a “gun owner’s sanctuary.” The State of New York has jurisdiction over local gun laws, and no county, town, village or city can pass gun laws that would not…
Apples Abound Sweet Fruit Helps Preserve Gartung Family’s Heritage By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com WESTFORD – For your family, a trip to Willy’s Farm & Cider Mill may be a fun afternoon outing. For the Gartung family, it’s a way to keep the family’s legacy alive. With their parents, William and Mary, the 12 Gartung siblings moved to the Westford dairy farm from Long Island in 1960. And when the parents retired, seven of the dozen bought the…
EDITORIAL Let’s Make 2020, ‘Year Of The Cooperstownians’ It’s Time For Trustees To Ask: What Can We Do For YOU? First, congratulations to Democrat Mac Benton and Republican Mary-Margaret Robbins for a hard-fought campaign for Cooperstown Village Board. Mac won, but both he and Mary-Margaret showed a lot of class – he in victory; she in defeat – after the Tuesday, Sept. 29, tallying showed he garnered 343 votes to her 308. He said her strong challenge will “make me…