LETTER from TERRY BERKSON Wine Bottle Lowers The Wall Before the advent of COVID-19, to celebrate our 44th wedding anniversary, Alice and I drove down to Key West, and were lucky enough to get a room at The Grand Guest House in Old Town. It’s a great place if you like to share a breakfast table with fellow tourists. This time during our brief stay we met a couple from Brussels, three people from Germany and an ex prize fighter…
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EDITORIAL WHAT IF? Hosting MLB Event In Plaque Gallery Gets Wheels Turning The idea was to bring fans to Cooperstown. What about taking Cooperstown to the fans? In the Age of COVID, the second sentence is a more intriguing one. And it played out this week with the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s annual announcement of the Induction Class of 2021. While it turned out there was no one to announce this year, the MLB Network spent the afternoon transmitting…
HOMETOWN HISTORY January 28, 2021 150 Years Ago In the Village of Oneonta during the year 1870 the mortality was as follows: Total number of deaths: 9; of which 5 were women, 1 man, 2 boys and 1 girl. Ages: Under 1 year and under: 2; between 1 and 5 years: 1; 15 and 20 years: 1; 30 and 40 years: 5. Diseases: Bronchitis: 1; Cancer: 1; Consumption 1; Dysentery 1; Hemorrhage of Lungs 2; Killed by Cars (Railroad) 1;…
LETTER from TERRY BERKSON Talk About Coop d’Etats! Early this spring, my reigning rooster, Geezbrook, who fathered almost all of this year’s egg-laying rookies, was challenged and defeated by one of his sons. When I arrived on the scene, the old man was cowering in a corner with his back facing his attacker. I scooted them out into the yard and they went at it again, Geezbrook seeming to have new heart against his son, who got down like an…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Greatest Generation Veterans Would Have Cringed To the Editor: My father was a U.S. Army captain in World War II; Nancy’s stepfather was a lieutenant in the Navy and Nancy’s father, Alfred Valjean Prather, was an officer in the 442nd Infantry Regiment, which was composed largely of Japanese Americans. The 442nd was particularly adept at killing Nazis. Although they are all gone, none of them would be particularly amused by the recent Trump Insurrection or the…
EDITORIAL Inauguration 2021 Chance For New Beginning The loss of innocence. And we thought it could only happen once. “I can’t help but think: You see these photos of the West Side of the Capitol, where presidents have stood and the transition of power has occurred. It’s so tainted now, with insurrectionists actually storming the Capitol. It’s hard to go back.” That’s Joey Katz, son of Cooperstown’s former mayor Jeff Katz, then a teenager, who – with his mother, Karen,…
HOMETOWN HISTORY January 21, 2021 150 Years Ago Local: The coal bill of Bissell & Yager, for the month ending January 1, amounted to nearly $5,000. H. Sessions fell from a scaffold on his house a few days since, from which he received quite severe injuries. E.R. Sabin, T.N. Derby and George Bond have each drawn a silver watch from prize candy packages. We learn that L.J. Emmons and E.G. Bixby contemplate moving to Kansas during the Spring or Summer.…
Senator Thanks YOU Good Wishes, Anecdotes Bring Back Happy Memories To the Editor: I want to thank you for the special tribute edition included in last week’s Hometown Oneonta/Freeman’s Journal highlighting my 34 years in the state Senate. I am also deeply appreciative of all the words of good wishes and anecdotes that were submitted by so many area residents, community leaders, and family. Reading the comments brought back so many memories of my time in office. Thank you all!…
BOUND VOLUMES January 21, 2021 200 YEARS AGO Letter to the Overseer of the State Prison at Auburn Village from Utica – “Dear Sir: I have been informed that there is a young woman in prison for which her father offers the sum of $3,000 to the person who will marry her. If that be the case, I want you to see her father and have him write to me as soon as possible. If he writes to him direct,…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Here’s How You Crack NY Vaccine Scheduling It Takes Determination, Stick-With-It-Ness By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com If you’re like me, and I only mean that in the COVID-phobic sense, you have been trying to figure out how to get vaccinated. I have been on-line an average of an hour a day for about two weeks trying to find appointments. Then I heard on the news that the New York State vaccination site…
