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Richfield Rally For Justice Rescheduled For Friday RICHFIELD SPRINGS – The “Rally for Justice” in memory of George Floyd has been rescheduled for 4-6 p.m. Friday, June 19, in Springs Park at the corner of Main and Lake streets. The rally had been scheduled for yesterday, but was delayed, according to Claire Collins, one of the organizers.…
IN UNADILLA, COUNTY’S 3RD PROTEST At Rally, 125 Take Knee In George Floyd’s Memory Michael Frye-Hunt, Unadilla, above, takes the knee for 9 minutes – the length of the video recording George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis – during a “Rally for Justice” this afternoon at Unadilla Village Hall; 125 other attendees joined him in the third such rally in Otsego County, organized by Taylor Reed, left, a local resident. The first was two Sundays ago in Oneonta; the second last…
EDITORIAL Testaments Tell Us: We CAN Do Better At first, the “Defund the Police” initiatives surfacing nationwide seem like a truly awful idea: a blunt instrument to dissect a complex challenge dramatized again by George Floyd’s May 25 death while being taken into custody in Minneapolis. But drilling down, benefits surface. It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that all organizations in Otsego County – local governments, non-profits, churches, businesses large and small, even newspapers – are rethinking operations in…
Rally Organizers Seek To Address COVID Concerns Masks, Distancing, Hand-Sanitizer Planned For Cooperstown Protest By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Coronavirus-era concerns raised by 500 people packed into Muller Plaza at last Sunday’s rally for justice may be avoided this coming Sunday in front the county courthouse here. “We will have people spread out to the extent possible,” said Village Trustee MacGuire Benton, who attended last week’s rally and is one of four people organizing this one.…