Something for everyone” is a tall order, but this season’s Glimmerglass Festival surely has it. What a season so far—spectacular sets, first-class storytelling, all-out dramatic performance and, above all, hauntingly beautiful singing that rings out across all the splendid arc of human emotion.…
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New York looks like a climate leader on paper, but when you run the numbers the way energy analyst Roger Pielke Jr. does, our state’s legally mandated “net zero” goal starts to look less like a plan and more like a slogan.…
I was very disappointed to read in “The Freeman’s Journal” that Becky Welsh is no longer with the Price Chopper as a greeter and assistant at the self-checkout stations.…
...This procedure was only necessary because women’s healthcare is under-studied and my doctor required a cancer free report before prescribing hormone replacement therapy.…
As the director, Michael Tamburrino chose to set the play in 1969 with a Woodstock-style festival. The themes that he wanted to draw out of the play—environmental stewardship, the feminist revolution, resistance to a repressive political climate—map, as Michael puts it, “really, really well” onto the late 1960s.…
Common burdock, Arctium minus, often locally called “wild rhubarb,” is native to Eurasia as are many of our other local invasive plant species. Burdock was likely an early invasive carried by livestock owned by European immigrants. Sheep’s wool was a likely means of transport.…
185 YEARS AGO: Complaints have been made to us from the post offices in New Berlin, Columbus, Sherburne and elsewhere, of delays in receiving this newspaper through the mail; in answer we have to say, that the packages for those places are timely made up by us and deposited in this post office for transmission to their destinations – so that the fault of delay is not with us, but must rest upon Mr. Granger’s subordinates...…
160 YEARS AGO: Good Luck to Him—We are pleased to chronicle from time to time the doings of our Oneonta boys who have taken up their abode in the west. And, it gives us pleasure at the time to publish the following from the Anamosa “Eureka” newspaper.…
In our February 27, 2025 editorial, we said we agree with NYCFOG, and feel that the time has come for New York State to require local governments to livestream their meetings and to post recordings online. We now encourage all of Otsego County’s school districts to do the same.…
My life-long amateur studies of the natural world, particularly birds and plants, with a special affinity for ferns, have convinced me of the validity of evolution. So, in my predictably quirky way of explaining away my wealth of eccentricities, my sense is that as one ages—evolves, that is—getting to chores in a timely way is not as necessary as it used to be.…
