185 YEARS AGO: When the polls are open, vote yourself and then look out for the rest. Be at hand all day, and if there be a democrat missing start out after him. Possibly he may be backward with his seeding and unable to lose the time required to go to the place of voting. Send him along and work for him yourself. Do anything that is fair and honorable to get out the voters. Bear it in mind that…
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“Ride the Cyclone,” a darkly comedic, one-act musical written by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell and directed by Marc Shaw, comes to Hartwick’s Slade Theatre November 7–13. Written in 2008, the musical premiered in Canada at the Atomic Vaudeville Theatre Company in Victoria, British Columbia. Then, in 2022, it went viral on TikTok when song clips from the off-Broadway production began circulating...…
Over the past year, the Otsego County Conservation Association relaunched its membership program, and we are thrilled to now have more than 50 members standing with us. Each one represents the heartbeat of what OCCA is all about: community, connection and caring enough to act.…
Two weeks after I would normally plant next year’s garlic crop, I realized I had completely forgotten. I cannot recall ever forgetting such a staple of our routine up here on the hill. I mean, routine is everything. Fortunately, my source was more than happy to supply me with what I needed.…
Medical & Surgical—H.S. Harper, M.D. would inform his friends and the public, that he continues the practice of the medical profession in the Village of Cooperstown, and that he holds himself ready to attend to all those who may favor him with the treatment of their diseases. Having read his profession with the most eminent Surgeon...…
That journey began when I was 14 years old and living in Cooperstown. I never could have imagined I would end up on the stages of New York City’s Metropolitan Opera and London’s Royal Albert Hall, singing duets with Luciano Pavarotti. At that time, I was just a kid playing in the high-school band, and I heard about something called “Glimmerglass.”…
Since beginning my position at Tobacco Free Communities: Delaware, Otsego and Schoharie in December 2019, I have learned smoking affects every organ of one’s body, and increases the risk of contracting many harmful and lethal diseases, including Alzheimer’s.…
Christine Nealon’s October 2nd piece [“Solstice Commons—a Thoughtful Step Forward for Oneonta”] painted a lovely picture of the proposed Rehabilition Support Services development in Oneonta’s 6th Ward named “Solstice Commons.” Of course, that’s her job—to make sure these facilities get built. But beneath that polished presentation lie some uncomfortable truths.…
For three days, I’ve been trying to write a response to Wriley Nelson’s “Israel Grip on the U.S. Is the End of International Law” from “The Freeman’s Journal” of Thursday, October 2. I have no problem with Mr. Nelson’s rights to state his opinions. Some of his opinions are not far from mine. But what I find disgusting and nauseating is the total lack of reality of some of his statements of fact...…
The Liberty Tree—Animated by a patriotic feeling very nearly assimilated so that which impelled our revolutionary sires to wage war with the tyranny and oppression of Britain, the Democratic citizens of the Village and neighborhood, on Wednesday the 7th instant, planted a Liberty Tree in front of Lewis’ Eagle Tavern, 125 feet in height.…
