ANDELA PLAN TOPS LIST State CFA ’19 Grants Announced Thursday A $420,000 grant so Andela Products Inc. can expand into the Richfield Springs Industrial Park leads off the list of grants Otsego Now is hoping to receive in this year’s round of state economic development funding, to be announced Thursday in Albany. Otsego Now’s Director of Finance & Administration Meaghan Marino will represent her organization, which either submits or advises project sponsors on the annual local CFA applications. CFA stands…
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BOUND VOLUMES Dec. 19, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Excerpts from a letter from the pen of John Jay, then a former Attorney General of New York State, since retired: “Little can be added to what has been said and written on the subject of Slavery. I concur in the opinion that it ought not to be introduced, nor permitted, in any of the new States, and that it ought to be gradually diminished and finally abolished in all of them.…
SHE SAYS CUOMO ‘FORCES’ SYSTEM ON HER ‘Green Light’ Law Threatens Voting Integrity, Clerk Says By JIM KEVLIN • Special To www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The state’s “Green Light” Law that went into effect over the weekend is all about registering potential Democratic voters, Otsego County Clerk Kathy Sinnott Gardner said in an interview. “They are making a mockery of our voting system,” said Sinnott Gardner Tuesday, Dec. 17, as she was organizing her staff to administer a law she disagrees…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Dec. 19-20, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Clerk: ‘Green Law’ Threatens Voting Integrity Will Impeachment Vote Sink Delgado’s Hopes Brockway Brings Outdoorsman Perspectivc Time Of Transition At Local Salvation Army Otsego Now Awaiting CFA Announcement EDITORIALS Nostalgia? We Can Live Enduring Values Today YULE TIDINGS LUKE: ‘On Earth, Peace, Goodwill Toward Men’ YES, VIRGINIA, There Is A Santa Claus COLUMNS CUDMORE: 10 Years Of Love, Work, Home BENNETT: The…
EDITORIAL Not John Lambert, Somebody LIKE Him Why does John Lambert, son of Cooperstown and now a county judge, keep coming to mind in the past few weeks? Raised in that village, he was a good student and guard on a top CCS Redskins’ basketball team that won two regional titles in the late 1980s. He graduated from Hartwick College in 1992, and earned a J.D. from New England School of Law in 1998. Then he came home, practiced law,…
NEW FACES AT 197 MAIN ST. Basile To Seek Raises, Aid For Animal Shelter Editor’s Note: This profile is the first of three on newly elected Otsego County representatives who will take office Jan. 1. By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Jill Basile saw her future as her father, Bruce, lay in a hospital bed. “During that time I watched a lot of news,” she said. “I decided that I didn’t want to be the person who…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Dec. 12-13, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK SPECIAL REPORT HIRING A COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR Bliss: Kennedy May Lead Job Search For Stuligross, Dream Coming True Past, Present Collide As Job Debated VIDEO: Watch Administrator Debate TEXT: Read What Top Job Requires EDITORIAL: Think – Judge Lambert FRONT PAGE Judicial Reform: Is End Of Bail Dangerous? SantaCon May Start Campus Drinking Debate New Faces: Basile Seeks Pay Hikes, Shelter Aid New NYPD Commissioner…
VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Democratic Intrigues Weave Tangled Web By MIKE ZAGATA • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Speaker Pelosi proudly informed us that she is a Catholic and thus doesn’t hate the President, but she conveniently ignored her pro-choice voting record – even defending the taking of a life about to be born. I think I’d be happier, as a fellow Catholic, if she admitted she hated the President but defended the lives of the unborn. I’d also have more respect…
BOUND VOLUMES Dec. 12, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Greensburgh, Kentucky – Peter Kingensmith of Hempfield County has returned to his friends after an absence of 37 years, 9 of which he was a captive of the Seneca Indians. He was captured when eight years old, by a party of Senecas, who massacred his father, mother and aunt. His existence was recently and accidentally discovered in Canada. He has five children and has a farm on the shores of Lake Erie,…
HIRING COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR For Stuligross, Career-Long Dream Coming To Fruition By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Kay Stuligross has come a long way, baby. Growing up in Oberlin, Ohio, in the 1940s and ’50s, the daughter of a college professor, her mother sometimes wouldn’t vote “because she didn’t want to cancel out my father’s vote.” Raising a family in Oneonta in the 1980s, she and her husband, Hartwick College Economics Professor Jack Stuligross, agreed her time would…
