Editorial, May 5, 2018 If We Want Solar Energy, Let’s Get Serious About It If we care about solar energy, it’s time to get serious about it, don’cha think? Happily, Otsego 2000 may be doing just that, having taken a leadership role among local environmental groups on this matter. On Feb. 24, its board adopted a resolution that reads, in part: “Climate change, driven in large party by fossil-fuel use, is a significant threat to our region and way of…
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2018 RACE ALREADY JOINED Anti-Trump Activists Divert Anger At Faso Grass-Roots Organizations Form, Collaborate Around 19th District By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.COM With the 2016 campaign just over, the 2018 campaign in Otsego County’s 19th Congressional District is already starting. Multiple grass-roots groups in Otsego County that have sprung up since Donald Trump’s election as president Nov. 8 are planning to rally with perhaps “several thousand” of like-minded people at Congressman John Faso’s Kinderhook office this weekend. Shortterm,…
Like Charleston, Offer Free Trolleys Edition Of Thursday-Friday Sept. 25-26 To the Editor: A modest proposal: I recently happened to visit Charleston, S.C., which, like Cooperstown, is a noted tourist destination. And, like Cooperstown, or any similar tourist town, they have a parking problem. Charlestown, however, has done something which Cooperstown might consider, namely, establishing a free trolley service. Being able to jump on and off a trolley making the circuit of the main local sites without having to dig…
COOPERSTOWN CONSIDERING COMMUNITY SOLAR PROGRAM COOPERSTOWN The Village of Cooperstown and Town of Otsego have begun discussing a “community solar program,” Village Trustee Lou Allstadt, the clean-energy advocate, told a program sponsored by Sustainable Otsego in the county Courthouse this evening. The idea of the program, described earlier by Jessica Azulay, with the Alliance for a Green Economy, would be to create a community solar farm that would share the energy and cost savings community wide.…
