The familiar red lifeguard chairs sit on dry-dock at Glimmerglass State Park and await deployment to Otsego Lake’s northern shore as the park puts out the call for workers who can keep the place operating during the busy summer season. Glimmerglass is open year-round, and its 2022 swimming season begins May 28, running weekends only through June 18, then adding weekday hours thereafter for the remainder of the summer. Storefronts, restaurants, hotels, inns, and family attractions throughout the Cooperstown, Oneonta, and surrounding areas are scrambling for full- and part-time employees as the region prepares for a busy summer tourist season and a hoped-for return to pre-pandemic levels — despite rising inflation and gasoline costs.
Who will pay for NY HEAT? The cost of a $672-million bailout for a few of the hundreds of thousands of utility customers currently in arrears will be borne by other utility customers. Every New Yorker will help fund subsidies for industrial solar and wind projects which could gobble up a million acres and yet fail to provide reliable electricity.…
Over the last 2,000 years there has been a Roman Warm Period and a Medieval Warm Period, and both had temperatures warmer than today. As shown in the following figure, over the last 175 years temperatures have been warming up since the end of the Little Ice Age but carbon dioxide emissions have only risen sharply over the last 75 years.…
For all of the proselytizing by state politicians and downstate activists, we are going backward. Since the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act became state law in 2019, New York’s reliance on fossil fuels for electricity has jumped by a third.…
Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper
Now through July 31st, new or lapsed annual subscribers to the hard copy “Freeman’s Journal” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or electronically to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.
$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:
Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.