CITY OF THE HILLS ‘Damn Yankees’ Planned At Foothills Dome Among ‘Town Hall’ Ideas ONEONTA – An all-season sports dome, turbines on the treadmills, easy on-campus returns for cans and bottles and other green energy ideas all came out of Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky’s first “Town Hall” meeting on Wednesday, March 13. Zakrevsky met with Hartwick College students in the Shineman Chapel to ask them what would keep them in the community after college. For more details, go to…
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from Nicholas Cunningham Whom Do We Trust? To the Editor: Re Mike Zagata’s March 14 remarks about socialism, the National Debt, and energy: • Our health, education and welfare can be entrusted to our legislatures and executives whom we vote in or out. Or they can be run by big corporations over which we have almost no control. • Social security, our public schools and Medicare may be socialistic, but whatever we call them, they serve us pretty well. •…
HOMETOWN HISTORY By TOM HEITZ & SHARON STUART From files of The Fenimore Art Museum Library 150 Years Ago Home & Vicinity – Moody and Vosburgh are fitting uptheir store in a very neat style inside and out, and will makeit an attractive business place. Their corps of peddlers willexplore every neighborhood of Otsego and Delaware withthe goods wanted by the people, and bring in great lots ofbarter. Their horn blows for success.A.C. Moody and E.M. Vosburgh bought each one…
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MONEY TALK What’s The Matter With NY? It’s Just Spending Too Much By TOM MORGAN • Syndicated Columnist What is the truth about New York State? Why do we lose so many good people? Why do our businesses struggle, especially Upstate? Why do our schools, cities and towns struggle? Why are parts of our infrastructure dilapidated? Our politicians offer us a blizzard of reasons. Every government department explains. Here is a truth that cuts through it all: New York State spends…
100 ATTEND BISHOP’S LIFESTREAM Gay Wedding, Pastor Ban Divides Local Methodists By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal In 1996, when Rev. Marti Swords-Horrell threw a 10th anniversary party for husband Dana, a guest said something that changed her life forever. “Kirk was our funeral director, a good Christian and gay, but it wasn’t safe for him to be out,” she recounted. “He came up to me and said congratulations, but he also said that he and…
MAKE HISTORY • COMMENTARY State Championship Will Echo Through Boy’s Lifetimes, Ours By TOM HEITZ • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – The date is uncertain. But it happened at the Clark Gymnasium in a building on Cooperstown’s Main Street a few years before the turn of the 20th Century. Someone propelled a large round ball into the cone of a metal hoop in the middle of the gym floor “to score a basket” for the first time.…
DOUBLE DEPOT ANNIVERSARIES 20 Years On Southside, Piers Also Mark Mega-Store’s Fifth Year By JENNIFER HILL ONEONTA Come to Liquor Depot for the variety of wines and liquors, stay for the pterodactyl.On expanding from their smaller store next door into the defunct Blockbuster Video in 2013, owner Dwight Pier realized the new high ceilings left a lot of vertical space that he believed needed filling. So he bought a life-sized pterodactyl. “The pterodactyl arrived in a big crate,” Dwight remembered,…
DIVERSITY IMPRESSES COUNTIAN DiPerna, Back At Vatican: World Working Together On Climate Without U.S. By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN – Back in Vatican City, Cooperstown’s Paula DiPerna looked around the Sala Regia Friday, March 8. There was a turbaned Sikh. There was Muslim. There was a shaman from the far reaches of Greenland. “All these different societies have a need to protect nature,” said DiPerna, special adviser, CDP North America, a non-profit that helps companies, cities and nations manage their environmental…
Please, County Reps And Trustees: Get Chief Covert Help He Needs How often do any of us, over the course of our lifetimes, get the opportunity to save another human life? But the Otsego County Board of Representatives and Cooperstown Village Board have been presented with that opportunity in the case of Mike Covert, 58. Covert, a 25-year county employee (mostly as a deputy sheriff) and village police chief since 2013, has suffered the health travails of a modern-day…
