INAUGURATION #13 From Nixon To Biden, Pastor Hasn’t Missed One By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com It began “almost on a lark,” but has gone on now for 48 years. On Jan. 20, 1973, the Rev. Paul Messner, now pastor of the Church of the Atonement here and the county’s three other Lutheran churches in Hartwick Seminary, Laurens and West Burlington, had just been released from the Air Force and was living in Washington D.C., a poli-sci student…
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ELECTION DAY MESSAGE Pastor: Ask God’s Guidance In Time Of National Division Editor’s Note: The Rev. Paul Messner, pastor of the county’s Lutheran churches, including Oneonta’s Church of the Atonement and Hartwick Seminary’s Evangelical Luther Church, sent out this Election Day message to his flock. Today is Election Day. I hope you will be doing your civic duty and going to vote – if you haven’t already. The news companies are reporting that prior to today nearly 100 million Americans…