EDITORIAL After 3 Years, It’s Time To Properly Implement City Charter Read the city charter: Meg Hungerford does not have the qualifications to be Oneonta city manager. Efforts to put her in that position regardless damaged the last year of the Miller Administration, and continuing efforts to do so are preventing the implementation of a sensible city charter approved by 75 percent of the voters. It’s past time for Mayor Gary Herzig to close the door on the Hungerford option…
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EDITORIAL MV500 Plan Condemns Otsego To Low-Salary, Seasonal Jobs Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from this week’s editorial in Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal, on newsstands in Oneonta, Cooperstown and beyond this afternoon. Otsego County has been dealt out of the Utica-Marcy STEM and nanotechnology boom in the MV500 application submitted to the state Monday, Oct. 5, a huge disappointment to anyone who cares about economic development locally. That can’t stand. MV500 is a six-county team – Otsego…
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Amphenol Advocates Need To Make Their Voices Heard Editor’s Note: This is our opinion, expressed in the editorial that appeared in the Sept. 10-11 editions of The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta. What do you think? Send your opinion to info@allotsego.com, to appear in this week’s editions of the newspaper. Clearly, Stop the Pipeline has dominated the debate about the Constitution Pipeline since January 2013, when “Alternate M,” the route through Otsego County, was rejected. There…
‘Myths’ Capture Inspiration We Need To Move Forward In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. On the sixth day, he created man and woman. Tempted by a serpent in the Garden of Eden established for their happiness, they ate fruit from the Tree of Life, gaining the knowledge of good and evil. A perfect world was no more. And so mankind was banished from the Garden of Eden, for Adam – and these days, Eve – to earn…
allotsego.com EDITORIAL Don’t Be Stampeded, Keep Manager In Place For Now Yet again, Council member Mike Lynch – this time, with the help of colleague Larry Malone – has manufactured a crisis in Oneonta City Hall. This evening, Common Council will convene in special session to act on a motion to approve a severance package for City Manager Martin Murphy. Acting Mayor Russ Southard, who confirmed Murphy Thursday morning declined a request that he resign, called the meeting. Murphy, with…
allotsego.com EDITORIAL Don’t Fear The Facts At 7 p.m. this evening, the Oneonta Town Board will be asked to approve spending $12,500, which will enable the release of a $50,000 state grant to study whether consolidation of the town and city into a single “Greater Oneonta” makes sense. The study, to be conducted by the Center for Governmental Research, Rochester, would study legislative changes made in 2012 to encourage municipalities to merge when it makes sense to do so. It…
Christ’s Legacy Calls Us The Freeman’s Journal/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 25-26, 2014 In the song “O Holy Night,” we hear this line in reference to Jesus: “In his name all oppression shall cease.” That, for me, is the real meaning of Christmas. It’s not about gift-giving, decorations, or being with family. Ultimately, it’s not even about the baby Jesus. The real meaning of Christmas comes to light when that baby grows up – when we hear the things…
God’s Wish: Loving World The Freeman’s Journal/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Thursday-Friday Dec. 25-26, 2014 Ah, this wondrous and magical time of year! The joyous and festive sounds of Christmas Carols; excitement and anticipation in shopping for, wrapping, and then giving and receiving gifts; Christmas Trees resplendent in lights, tinsel, ornaments and star; Candlelight Services on Christmas Eve; friends and family gathered together, with the aromas and tastes we love so much – I do love Christmas! Joy to the world,…
Children Are Right About Christmas The Freeman’s Journal/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 25-26, 2014 Many people remind us that Christmas is “more than just gifts.” And, of course, it is true that Christmas is more than tinsel and toys and electronics wrapped up under a tree. But still, most children get it right: Christmas really is about gifts. Christmas is especially about the gifts we often take for granted. And it is about remembering who the Greatest Giver of…
We Learn Happiness Inevitable, But Perhaps Not Right This Minute Editorial for The Freeman’s Journal/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 25-26, 2014 Not having watched Jimmy Stewart in “It’s a Wonderful Life” for a few years, it was a jolt to rediscover that the movie’s deus ex machina is his contemplation, on a bridge during a wintry storm, in his cups, his S&L on bankruptcy’s brink, just having run his car into a tree, of ending it all. Instead, as…
