Sunshine Week, held the week of James Madison’s birthday (March 16), is a nationwide effort to open up dialogue on the importance of transparency in government and freedom of information.…
Sunshine Week, held the week of James Madison’s birthday (March 16), is a nationwide effort to open up dialogue on the importance of transparency in government and freedom of information.…
Some typos are embarrassing, some are incorrect, some are simply hilarious and some can create havoc. Many typos are the result of the work of our modern-day journalists—writers, editors, typesetters, fact-checkers who are working in understaffed offices under undue pressure to get into print what is probably touted as “breaking news” but is, in fact, hastily thrown together and very often un-fact-checked news, perhaps re-slanted.…
An estimated $2 billion a year was paid by PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing of America) companies to doctors, fueling an increase in prescriptions, according to a new report published in the “Annals of Internal Medicine.”…
The Clark Sports Center began its life in 1891 as the Alfred Corning Clark Gymnasium, tucked into a former hardware store on the corner of Main and Fair streets, the present site of a wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.…
With his passion for informative museums and his dream of a U.S. education, Ampong has said his goal is to help establish one of the best museums in his home country. From a young age, he has dreamed of finding a new life in the U.S. and of returning home to enrich Ghana.…
Be that as it may, carnivals—winter festivals, winter carnivals, snow festivals, frost fairs—have been around for a long time. They are especially popular in the wintry countries of the north, where the long, cold, snowy and, in the past, very often severe weather conditions exacerbate the winter doldrums, forcing the residents indoors and offering them no rewarding and stimulating social activity.…
The opioid epidemic has likely affected everyone here today in some way. Some have overcome their own personal struggles, and in many cases, have had to witness the devastation of opioid addiction in those closest to us.…
Light pollution—caused by inefficient and/or unnecessary use of artificial light at night, both indoors and out—represents perhaps the most drastic change human beings have made to their environment.…
Our focus is on highlighting things you can do to beat that inevitable winter funk.…
Last June, Gerry Holzman made what would be his last visit to The Farmers’ Museum. This trip, one of many, was to celebrate his 90th birthday betwixt and between the indigenous New York State animals he designed and, with a battery of fellow woodworkers, deftly carved, to carry museum visitors on a wild ride on the museum’s Empire State Carousel.…
Now through March 30, new annual subscribers to “The Freeman’s Journal” and AllOtsego.com (or subscribers who have lapsed for two or more years) have an opportunity to help their choice of one of four Otsego County charitable organizations.
$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:
Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.