LETTER from GARRETT deBLIECK Founder’s Goal: Individual Sovereignty To the Editor: Recent discourse has revealed an alarming ignorance concerning the Bill of Rights. It seems a prudent reminder that the origin of these listed Rights was, in fact, part and parcel to how America became a nation. The foundation of our Bill of Rights comes directly from the Declaration of Independence. For the Declaration itself listed “certain unalienable rights,” which were transgressed by Great Britain. The Bill of Rights echoes…
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LETTER from ALLEN ANDERSON Sanctuary Idea About Guns, Our Freedoms To the Editor: In a recent opinion piece by Julie Sorenson of the League of Women Voters, she urged the Otsego County Board of Representatives to vote against making the county a “Second Amendment Sanctuary” and stated the adoption of such a resolution was problematic because it was intended to subvert New York State gun laws. She then goes on with the usual rhetoric about gun control. What Ms. Sorenson…
Drive-In Hosts 2nd Concert; This Time, It’s Blake Shelton UNADILLA – With the sold-out Garth Brooks drive-in concert a success, the Unadilla Drive-In will again be the hottest music venue in the county as they present Encore’s exclusive Blake Shelton concert on Saturday, July 25. The family-friendly concert is a drive-in exclusive, and will also include special guests Gwen Stefani and Trace Adkins.…
TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY Unadilla Drive-In To Air Live Garth Brooks Concert UNADILLA – Joining more than 300 drive-in theaters across the country, the Unadilla Drive-In will screen a one-night-only concert event by country superstar Garth Brooks on Saturday, June 27. “I am so excited to get to play again. I have missed it so much and want to get back to it,” said Brooks. “This drive-in concert allows us all to get back to playing live music without…
Unadilla To Host Third Black Lives Matter Rally UNADILLA – Unadilla will host the third of the region’s Black Lives Matter rallies 1-3 p.m. Saturday, June 13 at the Community Field in Unadilla. “Our little town needs to speak up for our black brothers and sisters,” wrote organizer Taylor Reed in on Facebook.…
Unadilla Drive-In Opening For New, Classic Films By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com UNADILLA – If you’ve never seen the classics on the big screen, this year, you might get your chance. “There aren’t any movies being released this summer,” said Spencer Wilson, who manages his family’s Unadilla Drive-In. “But there are tons of options for screening older and classic movies.” Under Phase One of un-PAUSE, drive-in theaters can open, and Wilson will open The Unadilla on Friday, May…
Logging Accident Kills Unadilla Man UNADILLA – An 80-year-old Unadilla man was killed on his property after a falling tree struck him while he was logging, according to Trooper Aga Dembinska, Troop C public information officer. William P. Marszal was clearing trees on his property on Ben McCumber Road last night with a John Deere 420 bulldozer. While skidding a downed tree, the downed tree uprooted another tree, which then fell on Marszal and caused head trauma.…
This Year, Graduation Might Be At The Drive-In By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To AllOTSEGO.com UNADILLA – With no movies being released this summer, Spencer Wilson, manager of his family’s Unadilla Drive-In, may still be able to bring in the crowds. “We’ve had more than a dozen schools call us and ask if we would host their graduations,” he said. “We’d love to do it. That could be our whole summer.” Though the drive-in remains closed under state mandate, Wilson…
IN MEMORIAM: Theresa J. Weideck, 36; Social Worker Succumbed To Long Illness UNADILLA – Theresa J. Wiedeck of Unadilla, 36, a social worker, went into the Lord’s loving arms after a long illness on Friday, May 1, 2020. Theresa was born in Oneonta on May 14, 1983, to her adoring parents John and Sharon Wiedeck of Wells Bridge, where she was raised. She graduated from Unatego High School in 2001 and SUNY Cortland in 2005.…
From Jail, Accused Keeps On Harassing Victim, Sheriff Says UNADILLA – The man arrested twice on Easter Sunday for allegedly violating an order of protection allegedly called the victim from the Delaware County Jail, according to Sheriff Crag DuMond. Dennis P. Lafferty, Jr. 38, was arrested after Delaware County Sheriff’s Deputies received a complaint from an Otsego County domestic violence victim who reported receiving a phone call from Lafferty at the Delaware County Correctional Facility, where he was being housed…