COLUMN Questions Are Neutral. Answers, Not So Much By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Asking questions: It’s a method of teaching that goes back to earlier than 399 B.C. and Socrates, the seminal thinker who laid the foundation for much subsequent Western thought. Hence, the Socratic Method. The idea is that a question, in itself, is neutral; at worst – or best? – a provocation to think. It’s the resulting answers to the question that aren’t neutral. The hope…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, AUGUST 29 Small Town, Big Band In The Park SUMMER CONCERT – 7 p.m. Enjoy musical performance by Small Town Big Band. Bandstand near Hodges Pond, Neahwa Park, Oneonta. 607-432-7997 or visit oneonta.ny.us/departments/parks-and-recreation/summer-concert-series/…
POEM TO THE EDITOR South Main Street When I was a bit too young, a girl and I snuck into the city’s sewers. We crawled through narrow places with trickling water, splashing in puddles and neat little streams I watched her bend beneath concrete and pipes, strain to look up at the drains that filtered in light from some half-recognized street, and I thought of other secret places. We burst into light, unearthed near some computer repair shop and made…
DEBATE AT 22 MAIN Despite Village Atty’s Warning, Trustees Vote To Fly Pride Flag By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A month after voting unanimously to fly the Pride Flag on the flagpole next June, village trustees once again debated and, in the end, affirmed their decision. “I gave every member of this board every opportunity to table this motion,” said Trustee MacGuire Benton, who introduced the resolution at the board’s July meeting. “For any vote you…
With Downtown Upgrade Resuming, Coop Mayor To Brief Public Tonight COOPERSTOWN – With the Village of Cooperstown’s downtown upgrade due to resume after Labor Day Weekend, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch will brief the public at 6 p.m. this evening in the Village Hall’s third-floor ballroom on that project, Doubleday Field renovations, and other initiatives.…
SMU DATA ARTS FINDS: ‘Arts-Vibrant’ Oneonta On List Of Top 10 Cities ONEONTA – Oneonta, as the urban core of Otsego County, has been ranked as the eighth most arts-vibrant small community in the United States by SMU DataArts, City Hall announced today. SMU DataArts, the National Center for Arts Research at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, released its fifth annual Arts Vibrancy Index Report, which ranks more than 900 communities across the nation, examining the level of supply, demand,…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 Theatrical Performance ‘Our Town’ THEATER – 7 p.m. Classic metatheatrical play “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder portrays everyday live of residents of the fictional Grover’s Corner. Lucy B. Hamilton Amphitheater, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400 or visit www.fenimoreartmuseum.org…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, AUGUST 27 Concert On The Lake Front CONCERT – 7 p.m. Cooperstown Lakefront Concert Series presents D’Funk’D, a 9 piece pop horn band performing pop, funk, soul, other genres of music. Bring chairs, picnic and relax in Lakefront Park, Cooperstown. richcooperstown.org/lakefront-concert-series…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, AUGUST 26 Comedy At The College COMEDY NIGHT – 9 p.m. Presenting Nimesh Patel and Jon Rudnitsky, of SNL. Ballroom, Hunt Union, SUNY Oneonta. Visit oneonta.campuslabs.com/engage/event/4273883 CLICK FOR MORE HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 Area Quilters Share Quilts Both Old & New SUNDAY SERIES – 1 – 3 p.m. Share your old & new quilts with Debby Clough and the Susquehanna Valley Quilters. Swart-Wilcox House Museum, Wilcox Ave., Oneonta. 607-287-7011 or visit swartwilcoxhouse.wordpress.com/summer-sunday-series/…
