LETTER from JASON HEWLETT Developing Method Helps To Handle Disagreements To the Editor: Through much trial and error, I have learned how to express my opinions in a respectful, honest and productive way instead of being unfair with the people who have different opinions than I do. It wasn’t easy for me to learn that valuable life lesson because when you’re so sure you’re right about something, you feel entitled to be the final authority on the subject. One of the ways I’ve been…
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Salute To Service As $9.1M Project Begins, Village Thanks Ted Peters Editor’s Note: The guest of honor at the Friday, Aug. 16, groundbreaking on the Village of Cooperstown’s $9.1 million water treatment plant project was Ted Peters, retired Bassett Hospital researcher and longtime chair of the village’s sewer and water boards. A plaque honoring him will be placed on the expanded building. Here are Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch’s words of tribute. By ELLEN TILLAPAUGH KUCH • Mayor of Cooperstown Many…
EDITORIAL Otsego Countian In Congress? Nice! General German Reporting For Duty If Adjutant Gen. (ret.) Anthony P. German is elected congressman from New York State’s 19th District, you can bet we will be the only district represented by someone who has an iceberg named after him. (As commander of the state’s Air National Guard, his pilots collaborated with the National Science Foundation’s Antarctica Program.) Also, he would be the first Otsego Countian to represent us in over a century, since…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG AOC’s Family Lived In U.S. Since 1898, How About That? To the Editor: I have a problem with Mike Zagata’s last opinion piece. In it he quotes Donald Trump’s tweet, “So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democratic congresswomen who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go…
LETTER from KEVIN GRADY Want To Revive Baseball? Make It Kid-Centric Again To the Editor (and baseball fans everywhere): Kudos to former Baseball Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson for co-founding Grassroots Baseball, an effort to connect young kids to what at one time was our National Pastime. When my generation was growing up, we would race home after school to catch the World Series at about the third inning, creating fond, lifelong memories. My kids didn’t have that opportunity.…
COLUMN THE VIEW FROM ALBANY Democrats Bottle Up Bill To Discourage Attacks On Officers By State Sen. JIM SEWARD • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Police, firefighters, and emergency first responders are vital to public safety. The brave men and women who work in these fields put the lives of others first and often risk their own well-being. I am appalled by recent incidents in New York City of individuals hurling buckets of water at on-duty police officers. Video of these abuses…
COLUMN THE FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE The Newspaper Roundabout By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I’m at a loss to find a good simile for my Cooperstown newspaper career. It’s been a bit like a ping-pong game, but played like a flow of molasses. OK, forget figures of speech: Way back in the early ’90s, when I first moved north from Maryland, the redoubtable Lidie Mackie retired from her weekly Freeman’s Journal column about Fly Creek. She urged me to…
EDITORIAL ‘There are no Caucasians present, though it would be difficult to distinguish them from many of those mingling in the mix of multi-hued wedding guests. Without exception, the guests are dressed fashionably, with stylish attire and stunning jewelry. The men are doctors, lawyers and undertakers; the women are school teachers and social workers … (The) waitstaff make their way through the crowd, bearing silver trays laden with chicken and crab croquettes, creamed sweetbreads on toast points, and slices of…
LETTER from JIM FRANCIS Brooks Robinson Photo Recalls Best Play Ever To the Editor: Re: Brooks Robinson photo on recent front page: I watched a lot of baseball on TV around 1970. The single best play I ever saw was in the 1969 All-Star Game. Johnny Bench hit a rocket down the third-base line. Brooks dove flat out to glove it and threw the ball to first while airborne. It was high and a bit on the second-base side. Carl…
LETTER from BOB HARLEM Lack Of Energy Trumps ‘Economic Independence’ To the Editor: Adrian Kuzminski’s article on “Economic Independence” was very interesting. I’m happy to see that reality is setting in and there is an awareness that “until we begin to make products replacing at least some of those we import we will remain far from economic independence, and true prosperity will continue to elude us.” An economy based on “Beds, Meds and Eds,” is not sustainable. The “Beds” portion…
