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This Week — December 31, 2020

THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Dec. 31, 2020 – Jan. 1, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Citizen Of The Year: General In C-19 Fight Seward Ready For Next Chapter Cases Surge; Vaccinations, Too Chrystal Savage Named To Managing Editor Post EDITORIAL 15 Years Of ‘Citizens’ Prove: WE Can Overcome COLUMNS STERNBERG: From Russia, With Love RUDY: Mayor Waller Approached All With Integrity, Sincerity HISTORY COLUMNS HOMETOWN HISTORY, Dec. 31, 2020  BOUND VOLUMES, Dec. 31,…
December 31, 2020

RUDY: Mayor Waller Approached All With Integrity, Sincerity

LETTER from JOHN A. RUDY Mayor Waller Approached All With Integrity, Sincerity To the Editor: Re: “50-Car Parade Salutes Cooperstown Mainstay” in last week’s newspaper. As reported, some have said had they known of the tribute to Carol Waller on Dec. 19, they would have been there. Add my wife, Suzanne, and me to the chorus. We have known Carol through mutual friends for most of the 32 years we have been in Cooperstown. My introduction to Carol was in…
December 31, 2020

STERNBERG: From Russia, With Love

LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG From Russia, With Love Unintentionally but inevitably, and catastrophically, the Russian National Figure Skating Team has carried out an experiment that lets the rest of the world see what happens when you expose super-elite athletes indiscriminately to the risk of contracting COVID-19. While not immediately fatal, it is not pretty and suggests what the long-term consequences of contracting the disease may be for other young people. According to the Dec. 17 edition of The Wall Street…
December 31, 2020

HOMETOWN HISTORY: December 31, 2020

HOMETOWN HISTORY December 31, 2020 125 Years Ago Congressman D.F. Wilber of Oneonta did not vote for the Dingley Tariff Bill. Neither did he vote against it. Mr. Wilber’s position on the bill was explained by him as follows: “I represent a district which is strongly protective in its tariff views and I myself am a radical protectionist. As such I could not bring myself around to support the Dingley measure. It is a bill for revenue rather than protection.…
December 31, 2020

BOUND VOLUMES: December 31, 2020

BOUND VOLUMES December 31, 2020 150 YEARS AGO Quarantine – The experience of the past year has furnished additional evidence of the security afforded to the public health by the proper administration of quarantine laws. Out of 365 vessels which arrived in the port of New York from ports infected with Yellow Fever, 107 had cases of this disease on board either in the port of departure, or on their passage, or were found on their arrival here to have…
December 31, 2020

15 Years Of ‘Citizens’ Prove: WE Can Overcome

Editorial 15 Years Of ‘Citizens’ Prove: WE Can Overcome “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” William Shakespeare Can it be 15 years since The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta, (after its founding in 2008), have recognized a Citizen (or Citizens) of the Year in the final edition of the 12th month? In 2006, Cherry Valley Town Supervisor Tom Garretson, digesting information brought before him on industrial-scale wind turbines, changed his mind and…
December 31, 2020

Jean D. Holbert, 82; Survived by 10 Children

In Memoriam Jean D. Holbert, 82; Survived by 10 Children EDMESTON – Jean D. Holbert, 82, a former farmer who worked at Pathfinder Village, died Monday, Dec. 21, 2020 at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. She was born on Nov.1, 1938 in Olyphant, Pa., the daughter of Bertha & Frank Ceresko. On Aug. 17, 1957 she married George E. Holbert in Heart Lake, PA. Jean worked alongside of George on the family farm for many years until the farm was sold in…
December 31, 2020

Magee Left ‘Big Shoes To Fill,’ Colleagues Say

Magee Left ‘Big Shoes To Fill,’ Colleagues Say By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Though they were on opposite sides of the political spectrum, retiring state Senator Jim Seward, R-Milford, always knew he could reach across the aisle to Assemblyman Bill Magee, D-121. “Bill was always among my first calls when I needed an assembly sponsor for legislation that would help our area,” he said. “And he never hesitated to join me As legislators representing overlapping districts, Assemblyman Magee…
December 31, 2020

Chrystal Savage Named To Managing Editor Post

Chrystal Savage Named To Managing Editor Post With the first edition of 2021, Chrystal Savage, former editor of SUNY Oneonta’s State Times newspaper, will assume the duties of managing editor of Hometown Oneonta, The Freeman’s Journal and www.AllOTSEGO.com. Savage succeeds Libby Cudmore, who is joining Hartwick College as a Writer for Young Audiences, working across the college’s publications, social media platforms and the new FlightPath program, which helps students identify and work towards career goals while exploring major and course…
December 31, 2020

Cases Surge; Vaccinations, Too

Hawkeye, Mel’s Closed For Now Cases Surge; Vaccinations, Too By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE & LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The good news: Residents and staff at Cooperstown Center are receiving the Pfizer vaccine, as have 900 Bassett Healthcare Network employees, who have so far received the Moderna vaccine. The bad news: Five more people have died from COVID-19 this week, a weekly record, bringing the year-end toll to 17 deaths in the largest spike this month. “They have all been…
December 31, 2020
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