LETTER from BRUCE BECKERT Easy Living Makes Nation Vulnerable To the Editor: There’re many points that could be debated. I’ll touch on one. The most crucial for the future of our great country and our grandchildren. SOCIALISM. Radicals, who have no use for this country as it has been, have taken over our Democratic Party. They favor government control over every aspect of our lives. America’s founding fathers fought to prevent this. It’s why our ancestors migrated here. Our soldiers…
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LETTER from SCOTT DUNCAN Come Together To Build Better U.S. To the Editor: I grew up in a small town in Upstate New York where the streets were lined with big maple trees. Some streets had still had slate sidewalks. There were many of those big beautiful old Victorian houses you see in villages across Central New York. I remember marching down the street in the parades. I was a Cub Scout and then a Boy Scout. I think I…
Suspect In Mask-Sign Defacement Suspect ID’d By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In the end, damage to 11 of the Village of Cooperstown’s mask-ordinance signs totaled just under the $250 threshold for a felony charge. “The total damage came to $238.74,” said Cooperstown Police Chief Frank Cavalieri. On Tuesday, Oct. 6, Village Police arrested Luke Smith, 45, Cooperstown, for spray-painting Xes across four large and seven small “Masks on Main” publicizing the must-wear mandate between Main to…
Village Administrator Teri Barown Retires By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In 2016, administering a half-dozen major state and federal grants at the same time, Cooperstown’s part-time, unpaid village trustees concluded they needed more administrative firepower at 22 Main. A Village Board committee – Mayor Jeff Katz and Trustees (now mayor) Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and Lou Allstadt – invited a team from NYCOM, the New York Conference of Mayors, to assess operations. When NYCOM recommended creating the…
Route 205 Dedicated To Fallen Hartwick Marine By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com HARTWICK – The last weekend Michael Winslow spent with his brother, Marine Sgt. John Kempe Winslow, the two went hunting up on a hill overlooking their hometown of Hartwick. “We successfully hunted two bucks,” he said, pointing over his shoulder at the hill behind him. “We always enjoyed hunting, fishing and trapping.” Now, in the valley below that hill, a sign dedicated to Winslow, who was…
Wenck: CCS Students ‘Happy To Be Here’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At Cooperstown Central School, it’s good to be back. “Last week, the faculty and staff were all saying, ‘We can’t wait until Monday,’” said interim Superintendent Ramona Wenck,. “The kids are happy to be here too. It’s like they say – you don’t know what you have until you’ve lost it.” Divided into “A” and “B” cohorts, students returned to the campus on Monday,…
Freeman’s Journal Village’s Official Paper COOPERSTOWN – At its reorganization meeting Monday, Oct. 5, the Village Board designated The Freeman’s Journal, which has been serving Coopertown since 1808, as an official newspaper. Watch for legal advertising and official notices to keep you apprised of happenings inside 22 Main.…
HOMETOWN HISTORY October 8, 2020 150 Years Ago The Oneonta Post Office is open for business from 7 o’clock a.m. to 8 o’clock p.m. On Sunday, from 9 to 9:30 a.m. and half an hour at Noon. Mails close as follows: First Railroad Mail East: 10 a.m.; Second Railroad Mail East: 4:10 p.m.; First Railroad Mail West: 11:15 a.m.; Mails for Morris Route: 11:30 a.m.; Mails for Laurens Route: 11:30 a.m.; Mail for Delhi via North Franklin, Tri-Weekly: 11:30 a.m.…
It’s Beginning To Look Less Like Halloween By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Come late October, there will be no parade of ghosts and goblins haunting Cooperstown and Oneonta. The Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce won’t be seeking a parade permit, Chamber Executive Tara Burke told Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch. “But many businesses are going to continue giving out candy, as they have for the last decade,” the mayor said. For a second year in a row, Oneonta won’t have…
LETTER from CHEYENNE KLINE Law-Abiding Citizens, Criminals Different To the Editor: I was born and raised in Otsego County. My whole family are hunters, and therefore we all own firearms. My siblings and myself were taught at a young age and learned how to use them properly. I am a gun owner and hunter now. It is our Constitutional right to own and bear arms. I have taken safety courses that are required to hunt and also obtain my pistol…
