THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Feb. 11, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE COVID RIPS FOX Tops, Price Chopper Set For Merger Trump 2020 Billboard Going In April Amy Schumer Flies With Local Wings EDITORIAL Local Governments Should Tend Our Roads, Not Our Minds County Board Split On How To React To Capitol Attack FOOD FOR THOUGHT LETTERS MOYNIHAN: To Explain COVID-19, It’s Back To The Future DUNCAN: Let’s Try A Little Tenderness BERKSON: The…
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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…
Reprinted From This Week’s Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta Innkeeper Asks: Did Van Buren Sit HERE? By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com CHERRY VALLEY – During home renovations, Barbara Hall and her husband, Gary Lozier, found where President Martin Van Buren likely sat when he visited the village in 1839. Not a chair. A toilet seat. “The whole back room was garbage,” she said of the former Story Tavern, now her refurbished home at 171 Main St. “As we were cleaning…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17 ‘Step Afrika’ Dance Performance PRESIDENTS DAY! PERFORMANCE – 9 – 10:30 p.m. ‘Step Afrika’ performs dance that uses the human body as an instrument as practiced by traditionally African American fraternities, sororities and incorporates song, story telling, audience participation. Admission, $3/person. Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta.…
Editorial for December 6, 2018. George H.W. Bush Life Is An Example Of Simple Courtesy To Us All When he was first running for U.S. senator from Vermont in 1974, Patrick Leahy, now eminent ranking Democrat and erstwhile chairman of the Judiciary Committee, used to joke, “Washington D.C. you can’t get there from here.” Whatever way you look at it, it’s a long way from here to the corridors of power and vice versa. But it’s boys from cities and…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, FEB.20 Brown V Board DINNER DISCUSSION – 5 – 7 p.m. “60 Years After Brown V. Board: African American’s In Education.” Reservations required. Chesebro Room, Dewar Union, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Call 607-431-4428 or visit www.hartwick.edu/news/hartwick-celebrate-african-american-history-month/ PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAITS – 11 a.m. Learn more about the artists who painted George Washington, Gilbert Stuart. Learn about the portrait in the museum, how it was painted, make your own version. Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie. Call 518-673-2314 or visit www.arkellmuseum.org/events-calendar…