Congratulations, Mayor Tillapaugh, on the wonderful job you are doing with the upgrades of our quaint little village. The streets, sidewalks, and now Doubleday Field and parking lot are outstanding. Our “Perfect Village” gets better and better thanks to you, Mayor Katz and the local village officials now and in the past.…
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Letters To The Editor - Page 65
The whole of the greater Otsego County region can hope Otsego Land Trust’s advocacy will succeed in obtaining grants through New York’s “Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act.” The Trust’s “News from the Noteworthy” column published August 10 outlines projects that surely merit Bond Act support. Don’t be fooled, though, by the now-standard government public relations ploy of the “educational listening tour.” They’re little more than cut-and-paste roadshows repeating the same bullet-point platitudes and painting a…
In recent years, Doubleday Field and its approach have been renovated; sidewalks have been upgraded on Main and Pioneer streets; Pioneer Park has been redesigned, and much more. The result is a more appealing downtown, and it has all been done with public dollars and much work from a few very committed individuals. We should all be grateful for what they have accomplished. We now have a unique opportunity with a sizable $4.5 million grant from NY Forward to continue…
In his “Partial Observer” opinion piece of August 10, Mr. Caiazza focuses entirely on the relative costs of electric bills to the consumer. His analysis is incomplete. What are the costs to us and to the planet—of ongoing global warming?…
I live on the lake and rent boats. My neighbor’s renter called me Saturday, August 5th and asked if I would help them retrieve the kayaks they left across the lake on Friday because of the thunderstorms. I said yes and later met them, and we proceeded across the lake. The mother and her two young children made it across the lake when the storms hit.…
As a registered Republican, I am writing in support of MacGuire Benton being elected as our next Otsego County clerk in this November’s general election. As village administrator, I worked with MacGuire when he was a member of the Village of Cooperstown Board of Trustees. I found him to be very diligent with the responsibilities of village trustee.…
As you love your own pets and children, please exercise care when driving in our villages. Watch out for children and pets as you would your own. Recently I witnessed a very sad and tragic incident where a car driving on Chestnut Street in Cooperstown hit a small dog that had run out into the street. The pitiful and anguished cries of the injured pet and the distraught owner rushing to try to save her beloved pet is something you…
On Sunday, after attending the opera, I came home to find that my newly-acquired dog was nowhere to be found. She had been securely shut in the house and had dog door access only to the well-fenced back yard. As I had had her for less than 24 hours, she did not yet have dog tags and was not chipped. She comes obediently when called, but didn’t. My heart was in my mouth as I searched—the path where we had…
In January 2022, Super Heroes Humane Society submitted a grant application to the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets’ Companion Animal Capital Fund toward the renovation of our new shelter building located at 160 Pony Farm Rd in Oneonta. The first phase of renovation focuses on completing all the animal housing and handling spaces and was estimated at that time to cost approximately $642,000.00. Once phase 1 is completed, we will be able to move our operations to…
I, along with a few caring friends, were very surprised when the United Nations’ watchdog agency permitted the Fukushima Nuclear Plant to start throwing its radiated water into the Pacific Ocean after 12 years of wait. According to them, this radiated water has been diluted and is not going to harm the fish, sea plants, sea salt and bacteria inhabiting the ocean. The United States and Taiwan have not taken seriously this impending disaster which might be greater than the…
