We intended to go to the Otsego Lake Association Annual Gathering, which was Saturday. We went Sunday and no one was there.…
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News from the Noteworthy: Springbrook Prepares for Leadership Transition as Patricia Kennedy Retires
Over the years, I have had the privilege of witnessing remarkable growth and transformation. We expanded community-based services, developed new residential opportunities, strengthened our educational programs, and broadened our reach throughout New York State.…
As Otsego County’s population continues to grow (a 3.6 percent increase to about 60,500 in 2025, up from about 58,500 in 2020), new developments put increased pressure on conservation efforts. Infrastructure projects, urbanization, and agriculture contribute to environmental threats like runoff, soil degradation, habitat loss, and erosion.…
From an engineering perspective, the human throat is a terrible design. Food and air have to pass through the same crowded passage. Fortunately, that passage is separated by a flap, but it has to move at exactly the right moment, every single time.…
One way to enjoy and learn about the United States’ 250th birthday is to visit a movie theater and watch “Young Washington,” the historically accurate story of George Washington’s young adulthood as a Virginia surveyor, a soldier, and a commander of men in battle.…
190 YEARS AGO: The party opposed to the Democracy, having failed of success under every cognomen they assumed, such as Federalists, National Republicans, Peoples-men, No-Party-Party, Tariff-men, Anti-masons, and last of all Whigs, have resorted to a new expedient to get up an interest favorable to the design of elevating themselves to power.…
160 YEARS AGO: Military Encampment—We see by orders posted about our streets that the 39th Regiment commanded by Colonel Hubbard, and the 41st Regiment commanded by Colonel Dunbar, will encamp in this village on land owned by E.R. Ford, Esq. for drill &c., commencing Monday September 17 and will remain until Saturday, September 22.…
The Internet, our smart devices (computers, phones and tablets), cloud storage, and data systems now shape and essentially control our daily lives. This includes how we communicate with each other, how we work and how we learn.…
Wood burning fire pits create localized pockets of wood smoke that smell as much as the wood smoke from Canada, and the smell persists after a fire pit goes out, sometimes for several hours.…
The village’s paid parking program is the most successful and beneficial local government program my wife and I have experienced in Cooperstown in our 39 years of village home ownership.…
