LETTER from CAROL LaCHANCE During This Crisis, Reach Out To Elderly. Elderly, Accept Help To the Editor: As social distancing becomes a new way of life, I am fearful. I don’t fear the coronavirus, but I fear the social isolation it is creating among us, especially the older population. We live in a village, with surrounding communities, whose median age is over 50 years old. Of this group, more than half are over the age of 65. There are many…
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LETTER from PATSY SMITH Constitution Gives Us The Right To Do What Makes Sense To the Editor: I’m afraid that Mr. deBlieck (Letter to Editor, March 19-20) doesn’t understand what the U.S. Constitution actually says and does. Like the power to declare war and raise taxes, the power to organize and arm militias is explicitly reserved to the Congress of the United States. Don’t believe me? Read Article One. There are no provisions that allow the “entire population to form…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP It’s Right To Close Schools; Dreams Park Must Be Next To the Editor: Schools are the absolute best places to transmit airborne diseases, almost as effective as cruise ships. In the average size high school, there are over 750,000 contacts a day at less than 10 feet that can potentially transmit an airborne disease such as the flu or COVID-19. And that does not include making out behind the stadium. The fact that children don’t get…
LETTER from CINDY FALK, DAN CROWELL CGP Helps Guardsmen Save Historic Resources To the Editor: Earlier this month, the Cooperstown community welcomed a group of soldiers from the 403rd Civil Affairs battalion for their monthly training. The visit is part of an ongoing partnership between this unit and SUNY Oneonta’s Cooperstown Graduate Program. CGP students develop a program about the protection of cultural heritage (think of the Monuments Men during World War II), and the soldiers learn about museum collections…
LETTER from TIMOTHY GIBSON Flippant Headline On Serious Topic To The Editor: I find it unruly that Tom Morgan would headline his column (“Nothing to Fear but Flu Itself”) attached to the coattails of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (a man crippled by the polio virus and consistently polled as one of America’s five greatest Presidents) in an attempt to attract reader attention to a very deadly and communicable virus and at the same time disparaging legitimate responses to it. Mr. Morgan…
LETTER from GERRY WELCH Let’s Focus On Most Vulnerable To the Editor: In the case of the Coronavirus, governments are opening a multi-front war by initiating massive quarantines that are inadvertently weakening the entire system. Suggestion: Governments focus attention on protecting the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. Do not, however, defeat the economic support system that feeds and supports us by not allowing life to continue as close to normal as possible. Other than the aforementioned resolve, treat…
LETTER from GARRETT deBLIECK ‘Right To Bear Arms,’ An ‘Unalienable’ Part Of U.S. Constitution To the Editor: It seems writing this out shouldn’t be necessary. 2AS, spelled out is “Second Amendment Sanctuary.” The word “sanctuary” meaning a place of safety, refuge and protection. The Second Amendment is one of 10 listed “unalienable” Rights written in our Constitutional Law. So, put together, it is a cause of protecting and safeguarding an American Right. So where is the problem? Perhaps a proper…
LETTER from JEFF KATZ Give Mayor Help She Needs To Complete Work At Hand To the Editor: Under the leadership of Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh, the good work of the village government has continued. The enormous wastewater treatment plant rebuild has begun, as has the Doubleday Field renovation. Add to that the fantastic update of Pioneer Park and the TEP Main Street project and the village has never looked as good, or been taken care of so well. This is not…
LETTER from ELLEN TILLAPAUGH KUCH Mayor Tillapaugh: Vote So Work Can Get Done To the Editor: Since 2011, I have been honored to serve my hometown community in village government. First elected as a trustee in 2011, I was appointed deputy mayor in 2014 and served in that capacity until my election as mayor in 2018. Over the past nine years, I along with fellow elected officials have worked to stabilize the village’s finances. We are proud that for seven…
LETTER from JOHN PAULITS Disenfranchised, We Should Be Allowed To Contributed To the Editor: Re Mr. Kuzminski’s suggestion that politics and political donations be local, I’d like to point out that legislators from Alaska to Florida vote on laws affecting Cooperstown. If a Senate or House member from any state consistently votes on items damaging to Cooperstown’s best interest, there should be no reason to ignore that. Indeed, it should be an incentive, to help elect a legislator more sympathetic…
