COOPERSTOWN MUST BUILD Bassett Staffers Would Fill Any New Housing By TIM HAYES • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Housing. Housing. Housing. Housing. Housing. Housing. Housing. Housing. Housing. Housing. For those who are counting, that’s one “housing” for every year since I served on the Cooperstown Village Board’s Subcommittee on Economic Sustainability, where housing became a primary recommendation. Since then, the physical manifestation of village policies has been parking, parks and pavement. Hardly housing. Why housing? Because, historically, housing nearly always accompanied…
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the ARTSCENE/Theatre Cooperstown Couple Keep Theater Alive By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – It was only supposed to be a temporary move – 10 years ago. “I had gotten my master’s in theater and theater education at NYU,” said Danielle Henrici. “I was working as an actor and a stage manager, but I decided to leave Manhattan temporarily, move Upstate and save money.” In 2010, Henrici founded the Glimmer Globe Theatre, now a program of the Fenimore Art…
Brooks BBQ Plan May Help Revive Plaza, East End By JIM KEVLIN – Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA –Brooks BBQ may be solicited to put its long-awaited new bottling plant in the former Oneonta Plaza – now home to Towne Flooring, Scholet Furniture’s Outlet and PDQ Services, the copier company, according to Town Supervisor Bob Wood. If that resulted in the City of Oneonta running sewer lines into the town along Route 7 east of the city, it would open up…
HOMETOWN History Feb. 28, 2020 150 Years Ago (Excerpts from the following advertisement): Constitutional Recognition of Almighty God and the Christian Religion – Call for a National Convention: The Constitution of the United States makes no acknowledgement of Almighty God, the author of national existence; nor of Jesus Christ, who is the Ruler of Nations; nor of the Bible, which is the fountain of law and good morals as well as of religion. This has from the beginning been a…
VIEW FROM 197 MAIN #KeepTheCap! NYS Must Pay Fair Share By MEG KENNEDY • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com #KeepTheCap! This is a rallying cry for local government officials from around the state. What cap? The New York State 0% growth Medicaid Tax Cap that has been in place since 2012. It goes hand in hand with another cap – the 2% cap on property tax levies that has been in place for NYS municipalities since roughly the same time. They were…
LWV EVENT IS 7-9 p.m. MARCH 5 At ‘1-Year-Old,’ Candidate Unsure She’ll Make Debate By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Tuesday, March 3 is “my first birthday,” Republican Village Board candidate Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns explained, when asked why she couldn’t yet commit to the League of Women Voters’ debate 7-9 p.m. Thursday, March 5 at 22 Main. “I lost my heart last year,” said the heart-transplant survivor, “and got a new one. So I will be…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Feb. 27-28, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Emmons Mystery: Homeowner’s Body Found At 1-Year-Old, She’s Unsure She Can Make Debate 4 Grants, Lofts Will Bring 100 Apartments To City Brooks BBQ Plan May Help Revive East End Is Constitution Pipeline Really At An End? Landlord Gets What He Asks, Changes Mind Bassett Hospital 150-Space Parking Lot OK’d EDITORIAL Electorate Spoke – Now, Work Together Cooperstown, Oneonta Face Common Problem…
BOUND VOLUMES Feb. 27, 2018 200 YEARS AGO Agitation in Virginia – Letters received from Richmond, Virginia, stating that a report circulated there, that a compromise would take place in Congress on the subject of Slavery, had excited a state of fermentation and acrimony never before witnessed in that place. The reported compromise was to embrace the admission of Missouri into the Union without restriction; and the passage of a law prohibiting the extension of Slavery west of the Mississippi,…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR from JOHN WEBB As Cooperstown’s Only Newspaper, Please Add Balance, Enlightenment To the Editor: I have been taken aback in recent months by the stridently conservative rightwing posture of The Freeman’s Journal (and Hometown Oneonta), but the edition of Feb. 13 was particularly glaring, and that prompts me to write. First of all, among other features, there was your long, space-consuming editorial calling for the repeal of the “Green Light Law” because it prohibits the State’s…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR from JENNIFER HILL ‘Green Light’ Law Mostly Protects Harmless People To the Editor: According to the Department of Homeland Security and the Feb. 13-14 editorial, “’Green Light’ Bad Law,” the only thing keeping undocumented workers from launching a 9/11-type attack is not having drivers’ licenses. Who knew? Be very, very afraid now that New York State’s Green Light Law allows people who pick and deliver apples to our stores and clean our buildings for sub-minimum wages…
