WILLIAMS TAKES $145M WRITEOFF Stop The Pipeline Declares Victory – But Is It Final? By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Stop the Pipeline website declared “ding-dong, the witch is dead” after receiving the news in an e-mail sent out overnight by by attorney Anne Marie Garti of Stop The Pipeline. It declared: “Williams, the major investor in the proposed Constitution Pipeline, has written off its investment and stated that it has halted its investment in the project.” She…
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Postal Service Reopens Davenport Center Office DAVENPORT CENTER – The U.S. Postal Service is reopening the Davenport Center post office, and is planning a ribbon-cutting at 10 a.m. Monday 11892 Route 23, east of Southside Oneonta. Since the office shuttered, Davenport Center customers have been served by the Davenport Post Office. The last day for those customers to pick up mail at Davenport is Saturday. All mail will then move to Davenport Center.…
IN MEMORIAM: Ella Chase, 106; One Of County’s Oldest Residents WORCESTER – Ella M. Chase, 106, one of Otsego County’s oldest residents, passed away Feb. 20, 2020. Ella was born Oct. 7, 1913 in Oneonta, the daughter of Burton and Margarett (Thayer) Miller. She attended Oneonta High School for three years, then graduated from Laurens Central School. Ella was a member of Elm Park United Methodist Church in Oneonta and she worked at Scintilla in Sidney.…
IN MEMORIAM: Doris L. Spearbeck, 89; RN At SUNY Oneonta Clinic For 30 Years ONEONTA – Doris L. Spearbeck, 89, a nurse at SUNY Oneonta’s clinic for 30 years, passed away in Syracuse on Feb. 17, 2020, surrounded by family, following a brief illness. She was born on March 20, 1930, and raised on the Loudon Farm in Walton. As a child she enjoyed skating and tending to the baby piglets. She graduated from Walton High School and Wilson School…
IN MEMORIAM: Beverly J. Leneker, 74; CV Native Worked At Canajoharie Bank CHERRY VALLEY – Raised in Cherry Valley, Beverly Jean (Snyder) Leneker, 74, passed peacefully in her sleep Feb. 16, 2020, with her loving and caring husband by her side, after a long battle with dementia. Beverly was born April 21, 1945, to Lawrence C. Snyder Sr. and Elizabeth M. (Bogardus), and spent her childhood in Cherry Valley. Beverly married Raymond V. Leneker on July 25, 1964, and moved…
Candidate Has ‘Experience, Vision’ As Successor, Seward Gets Behind Oberacker ONEONTA – Retiring state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Oneonta, today endorsed Peter Oberacker, the Otsego County representative and independent business owner from Schenevus, to succeed him next year. “I wholeheartedly endorse Peter Oberacker and look forward to calling him my New York State senator,” said the 34-year veteran.…
BOUND VOLUMES Feb. 20, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Excerpt from the Augusta, Georgia Chronicle, February 1, 1820 reprinted with the following introduction: “A Horrible Punishment” Who can read it and believe that such horrible cruelties are practiced in this land of freedom and civilization! The heart sickens at the recital! ‘Oh Slavery! Thou art the curse of heaven!” Execution – on Friday last, two Negro men, named Ephraim and Sam, were executed in conformity to their sentence for the murder…
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Are 2 Billionaires Best Choice For U.S.? By LARRY BENNETT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I am undecided. After a year of run up to the Democratic primaries it seems safe to say party voters still don’t know who they want. The only thing they agree on is they want the candidate most likely to defeat Trump. Yet the entire party is tied up in a Gordian knot of confusion about who that candidate should be.…
EDITORIAL If Not Allen Ruffles, Someone With SOME Of His Qualities The question was, “Do you think THEY will let the county administrator do the job?” They, of course, being the county Board of Representatives. But the question misunderstands how the new county administrator job is envisioned. Judging from discussions surrounding the new job’s creation, the county representatives aren’t looking for someone to tell them what to do. They’re looking for someone who will allow them to do what THEY…
‘GOTTA RUN,’ FROM HENRY HOLT & CO. County Rep. Martini Publishes 3rd Memoir, On Running For Office By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – It’s not enough for Adrienne Martini to simply run for her seat on the Otsego County Board of Representatives. She wants you to run for office too. “If I can do this, anyone can,” she said. “Change has to start locally, and no one knows the local issues like someone who lives here.” Her…
