Donald spends every day following his cows, led by Maisie, on their approximately one mile circular walk. This is what he does each and every day. Donald is both at home with himself and his life.…
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The young people in the environmental conservation field that I have met are passionate, knowledgeable, articulate and creative. They are bringing environmental ethics into the conversation, grounded not only in science but also in equity, diversity and inclusion.…
The pandemic proved that scolding and threatening people doesn’t lead to more vaccinations. Just the opposite. It undermines trust in vaccines as a whole and leads to far fewer shots in arms.…
210 YEARS AGO: Casualties at a Camp Meeting—Two young ladies, Rachel DuBois and Mary Hopkins, of Ulster County, attending a camp meeting near Newburg, in attempting to pass in a boat from the shore opposite the camp to a sloop that lay in the river...…
110 YEARS AGO: The city council, at a special meeting held Tuesday evening passed a resolution directing the calling of an election for the purpose of voting on a proposition to appropriate the necessary funds for the purchase of a building and site for the Oneonta Public Library...…
My last column celebrated the bicentennial of the Erie Canal. This one goes deeper into the ways government action can create prosperity for all of us. This flies in the face of being fed a constant diet of myths that any government actions and policies send us down the path to socialism.…
OLA has always been proactive in its efforts to preserve the quality of our lake. This year we initiated “The Pledge to Keep Otsego Lake Healthy” by stressing individual responsibility and best property and lake management practices.…
110 YEARS AGO: Evangelist Charles F. Barrett is coming to Cooperstown. The great union evangelistic campaign in Cooperstown, for which preparations have been going on for the past three months, will begin next Sunday evening...…
135 YEARS AGO: The amount of bounty paid by the Town of Unadilla on woodchucks’ tails amounts to $257 and some odd. At 10 cents the tail, it accounts for 2,570 hapless chucks that lost their tails and their lives...…
How does our community benefit from arts and cultural organizations such as CANO? We contribute significantly to economic, employment, and population growth by providing opportunities for artists to meet, teach, exhibit, and engage. About 25 percent of CANO’s budget goes toward paying artists to teach and perform.…
