Betty Roscoe, 97, Unadilla; Loved Farming, Pursued It In Many Guises UNADILLA – Beth “Betty” Bernice Roscoe (born Thompson), 97, died peacefully on Dec. 20, 2018, at Bassett Hospital, after a life of farming and diligent productivity. Betty lived a long, happy and amazingly healthy life, attributing this to spending much of it involved in farming. “I have always been in love with farming,” she once wrote, “to be a farmer has been my aim. I have accomplished it, in…
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Basketball, Play, Movie, Or Burn Christmas Tree Ring in the New Year in a high-octane way as Oneonta’s own professional basketball team, the Oneonta Octane, takes on the Syracuse Nationals in their first home game of the year. 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, Chase Gym, SUNY Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-0001. • Say goodbye to that old Christmas tree and enjoy a delicious drink with Brewery Ommegang’s Snap Crackle Hop! Throw your tree on the pyre, then enjoy a beer or…
Local Women Plan Bus To D.C. March By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA This year, Butternuts Valley Indivisible won’t just be marching in the third annual Women’s March for Women Jan. 19 in Washington, D.C. They’ll be marching for everyone, said Amy Pondolfino, who is organizing the local contingent. “We’ve got children in America who spent Christmas in cages and abusive camps along our border,” said Pondolfino. “We have the March For Our Lives and #MeToo. “The Women’s March is one of…
ISD’S ROXANA HULBURT STEPS UP With Foothills Fortunes Rising, New President At Board’s Helm By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA In 2017, 18,983 fans walked through Foothills’ doors. In 2018, that rose to 28,128, just shy of a 50-percent increase.In 2017, Foothills Performing Arts Center hosted 271 events. In the year just ended, that rose to 321, an 18 percent increase. “There’s something for everyone,” Roxana Hurlburt explains cheerfully. The vice president of ISD, the tech consulting firm, Hurlburt became president of the…
CAPTIVATED by CAMERAS Collector Lives On In Collection, Remains Of ‘Thousands’ Of Items Paulette Cotter pauses among hundreds of cameras in her Town of Milford home, part of her late husband’s collection. She estimates Alan, who collected and traded toys, cavern memorabilia and other antiques, bought and sold “thousands” of cameras over 45 years. Above is a stereopticon slide of the young couple. By JIM…
Column by Adrian kuzminski for Jan. 3, 2019 ‘Populism’ Isn’t A Dirty Word,It’s As American As Apple Pie BY Adrian Kuzminski Our columnist was prescient: Adrian Kuzminski’s 2008 study of populism, “Fixing the System,” foreshadowed Bernie Sanders’ and Donald Trump’s populism by eight years. Since 2016, we’ve had an explosion of political upheavals around the world – all widely described as populist: the Brexit vote in Britain, Trump’s election, and the rise of separatist and nationalist parties in Europe and…
HOMETOWN History Compiled by Tom Heitz and SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library 150 Years Ago Oneonta: The entertainment at Union School Chapel on New Year’s evening was a very delightful affair, and despite a wild, wintry storm aAdd Newnd the deep snow it was very well attended. So boisterous was the weather that all of the farmers and child-players could not be there, but all who did come bore their parts so well…
From The Heart Of Ohio Not So Wild In The Heart Although we do not normally make any New Year resolutions, we must admit that we did this year, as there are times in life when we tend not to make the best choices, leaving us needing to make some changes. And such seems to be the case when we chose the name “From the Wilds of Ohio” for our current writings. Since doing so, we have discovered there is…
A New Year’s Poem By DOREY MUNCH, Oneonta The closing of the old year, The dawning of the new Have brought me to my cupboard Armed with firm resolve To rummage through the shelves within And root out those inhabitants Destined for the garbage bin. What a sorry lot it is It pains me to disclose, For in enumerating, My faults I must expose. Here’s leftover grievances All dried up in the box, There’s a little bottled rage Fizzled flat…
What About Health, Retirement Benefits? To the Editor: Have you ever decided your own salary for the coming year? If so, did you opt to use another person’s money to give yourself a nearly 30-percent raise? Unlikely. Many of us would consider that unethical and shocking. The Otsego County Board of Representatives recently did just that, including their own generous raise in a half-million-dollar management salary reset. Some downplay the financial impact, but the county board raise alone will cost…