LETTER from JEANNE DEWEY Reelect Democratic Slate In Village To the Editor, Our world has changed significantly since March 18, 2020, when the Cooperstown village elections were originally scheduled. Until last month the Village Board was unable to meet in person, due to the pandemic, so monthly meetings took place via Zoom and were streamed live on the village website. They are also archived on the village’s You-Tube channel. MacGuire Benton probably didn’t know a pandemic was heading our way,…
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LETTER from DR. ROGER MACMILLAN Elect Newcomer Robbins As Trustee To the Editor: I wish to strongly endorse and support the candidacy of Mary Margaret Robbins for village trustee in the coming election. A certified and licensed pharmacist, many will recall her from the years she spent working at the CVS pharmacy when it was located on Main Street. Having been a resident of Cooperstown for many years, she has the vision and dedication to conserve our heritage. Despite her…
GUEST COLUMN from TERRY BERKSON Whistling Woodchucks! Back Again Not that they ever left. They just take a long winter nap while their heartbeat slows from 80 to an incredible five beats per minute and their body temperature drops from 99 to 37 degrees. Punxsutawney Phil projects a good productive image with his weather predictions but Digger Dan, the name I give to the critter whose been tunneling into my barn every year, is another story. One morning last spring,…
LETTER from P. JAY FLEISHER Vote In Election ’20 To the Editor: America is on the brink of an election that will have serious implications for the future of our Country, and indeed our democracy. I write this out concern for our immediate future, and also because I am equally concerned about the America my 6-year-old grandson will inherit. He deserves the same freedoms we all experienced growing up in a country that valued human dignity, clean air and water,…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 We’re Getting Closer To A COVID-19 Vaccine. Then What? It appears that we are getting closer to the development of vaccines for COVID-19. There have been some missteps in the process, including the development of an unexplained illness in one participant in the U.K. study of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine. This required a halt to the study for about a week while the data was being reviewed. The study is progressing again at this time.…
LETTER from ANDREW STAMMEL We Shouldn’t Walk Away From Educational System To the Editor: The prosperity of Oneonta is inextricably intertwined with the success of its colleges. The fact that SUNY Oneonta’s reopening did not succeed as planned and hoped is a tragedy for our community in a year that challenges us all. The shutdown is devas-tating for our students who have looked forward to their college experience; heartbreaking for the 1,000 SUNY employees who have worked since March to…
EDITORIAL Sterling Mayor’ Legacy Suggest: Are City Managers Needed? Maybe it’s apocryphal, but the story’s told of a former mayor of Oneonta who, elected decades ago, discovered some department heads were taking hour-and-a-half lunches to work out at a local gym. The mayor gave everybody raises, at the same time advising the department heads: Game over, be back at your desks in an hour. That worked for six months, then the particular department heads starting slipping, the story goes, and…
LETTER from KENNETH KAVANAGH Good News? The Truth Will Do To the Editor: Consider this hypothetical. You go to your doctor. You have stomach pains that linger and simply won’t go way. After examination he tells you not to worry, you’ll be fine. The pain continues and weeks later you get a second opinion. This time it’s not couched with “good news.” How would you feel about that? Your regular physician did not want to cause any upset. The physician…
LETTER from MARY ASHWOOD Jim Barber’s Farm Shows Skills Helpful To 51st Senate District To the Editor: No one could argue that we aren’t living in interesting times. And in interesting times, we need representatives to our government who will help us through. In just a few short weeks, the 51st District will choose its state senator, a position that has been held by Jim Seward for the last 34 years. And Jim Barber is who I want to represent…
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Non-Violence Worked For Revered Trio Does anyone remember how Mahatma Gandhi changed the world? How a slight Indian man, a lawyer who never carried a weapon, defeated the strongest empire in the world and rewrote the future of billions of people? Does anyone remember how Martin Luther King changed the world? How a Black Southern Baptist preacher, a man who never carried a weapon, changed two centuries of oppression of Black Americans and opened new…
