Tomorrow’s workforce is shaped years before graduation. Employers who want strong talent pipelines cannot afford to wait until students submit résumés.…
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Clearing any land deserves careful review, particularly near wetlands or important habitat. However, it is misleading to describe this proposal as though 1,525 acres of forest, farmland and wetlands will be destroyed. They will not.…
Are Guatemalan gardeners and trans sports a greater threat to you than this looting and retribution? GOP representatives have rolled over for every shenanigan.…
The Clark and Scriven Foundations and the Community Foundation of Otsego County are collaborating to ensure that their respective funding efforts are underwriting the county’s food pantries and meal programs year-round.…
First, I’d like to commend you on your editorial of July 30th (“The Agony and the Ecstacy”). It’s refreshing to read that you always try to remain neutral with the political back and forth.…
One of the great attractions of the Village of Cooperstown for bikers and motorists is the ability to come into town backfiring and revving their motors.…
160 YEARS AGO: The Freeman’s Journal is now about the oldest country newspaper in the State, and one of the oldest papers in the Union, having been established by the late Col. J.H. Prentiss in 1808.…
135 YEARS AGO: Case of Elopement reported in the Albany Express—Last Thursday afternoon a telegram was received at police headquarters from one Jacob Winne of Oneonta, requesting the arrest and detention of his wife Sally Winne and Lemuel Higgins, who had eloped together, and would arrive in this city on the afternoon train.…
150 YEARS AGO: Are lead pipes poisonous? The question of lead poisoning is attracting considerable attention at the present time. There has been a large and influential gathering of scientific gentlemen and representatives of the Water Boards of New York and Brooklyn, and delegates from the Board of Education of the former city at the Manhattan Lead Works, to witness tests and inquire into the merits of the lead encased block-tin pipe.…
Our general manager/senior editor describes putting out the newspaper each week as giving birth. The “gestation” period for “The Freeman’s Journal” and “Hometown Oneonta” is six days.…
