LETTER from ANDREW McLAREN Not Every Client Can Be Top Model To the Editor: I have known Victoria Pressly since July 2012. She was professionally known as Victoria Talbot back then. She was recommended to me by my former acting agent Noel Palm. He told me if I hire her she would get me a lot of good press which would help advance my career in showbiz. I was on a prime time NBC show called “Stars Earn Stripes” and…
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EDITORIAL NAYSAYERS NEED TO BE AYE-SAYERS If Not Constitution Pipeline, Then What? As any one of you who have been there know, Owego’s a delightful community, rich with history – Belva Lockwood, the first woman presidential candidate, taught there. Fine mansions line the Susquehanna River. There’s a funky, arts-oriented downtown. A half-block off Main and Front streets, however, you see the rot. Solid homes are in disarray; when the money’s not there, maintenance is the first thing to go. There…
COLUMN WHERE NATURE SMILES Year After Moving To Ohio, Reflections On Cooperstown By CATHE ELLSWORTH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com It was a year ago last week that we left our home of 36 years in Cooperstown to move to a new home in Mount Vernon, Ohio. We left behind the house which the he-we’s grandparents built for $5,000 in 1912. Though the years, four generations of the Ellsworth family lived at 105 Pioneer St. But now the family has indeed…
LETTER from ADRIAN KUZMINSKI There Is No Gay Lifestyle, And No Straight Lifestyle To the Editor An earlier column of mine, “Flying the Flag,” generated some strong responses, mostly private. Some friends were outraged, saying that I lent credibility to homophobic attitudes by citing a comment a community member made about “gay lifestyle.” That was not my intent, but it clearly had that effect in too many minds, which I deeply regret. The idea of a “gay lifestyle” is as…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Protocol Directs: Don’t Put Private Flag On Public Pole To the Editor: I was so flummoxed over the slavery flag issue that I almost overlooked the other flags. Public flag protocol is governed by established tradition and state law, not by local plebiscites or whims. If any flag goes up on a public flagpole, it should be the national flag, then the state flag, then a municipal flag. A municipal flagpole is not a sign board for…
EDITORIAL Conductor Huff At CSO – Wow! Stay Tuned Last week’s editorial praised the local arts and culture scene, after Oneonta and Otsego County were identified as “eighth most vibrant arts community” in the U.S. by SMU’s DATA ARTS’ report. Silas Huff’s conducting of the Catskill Symphony Orchestra Saturday evening, Sept. 7, added several exclamation marks to all of last week’s positive conclusions. Huff is the first of three conductors competing to succeed Maestro Chuck Schneider as CSO conductor. Carolyn…
LETTER from WARREN WOODBERRY Victoria’s Network Impressive; Connections Beyond Expectation To the Editor: From the moment I met Victoria Talbot Pressly she proved she was a serious connector whose impressive Rolodex has played an integral part in the growth and sustainability of Millennium Magazine. I met Vicky while standing in line for drinks at a doctor’s summer penthouse party on Manhattan’s Eastside in 2011. She was standing in front of me when I stepped up and she turned around to…
CHRONICLES OF 9/11 ‘He Did Not Suffer’ Firefighter Who Found Business Card At Scene Felt George Morell’s Calm Spirit Editor’s Note: Cathy Raddatz of Cooperstown, sister of 9/11 victim George Morell, read this letter of reassurance from a firefighter to Morell’s widow Robbie at the Fly Creek Volunteer Fire Company’s 5-10K commemorative run Saturday, Sept. 7. Dear Mrs. Morell: First, let me say I know your family has suffered a devastating loss, you have my heartfelt condolences and prayers. While…
VIEW FROM FLY CREEK Refocus $500M From Pipelines To Renewables By ADRIAN KUZMINSKI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I attended a hearing recently in Binghamton on rate increases proposed by NYSEG for a number of projects, including a nearly three-fold expansion in the capacity of the DeRuyter gas pipeline serving Oneonta. The hearing was run by the Public Service Commission (PSC), a New York State agency which is supposed to regulate utilities like NYSEG. The atmosphere wasn’t very promising. The deserted…
FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE But What’s Her Name? By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I’m at ease on my front porch on a beautiful afternoon, admiring the perspective up tree-lined Delaware Avenue. As the long last block heads toward Chestnut Street, curbs and sidewalks seem to draw together, trees conspire more closely over the street, and the two rows of handsome house fronts, bedecked with flags and hanging planters, draw closer till the last ones opposite each other almost block…
