As the June 23rd primary approaches, the social media debate over the Otsego County sheriff's race has turned into a partisan circus. The sitting sheriff’s campaign is trying to scare conservative voters by labeling retired Sergeant Mike Stalter anti-ICE, while some progressives wonder if a 25-year veteran cop can actually deliver a real shift toward transparency.…
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A county sheriff has been a stock character in literature for centuries, often a villain, like the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood, or a corrupt buffoon, like Boss Hogg in the Dukes of Hazzard.…
The answer to more original reporting is not another news outlet. It is supporting the ones you are lucky enough to already have—through advertising dollars, sponsorships, subscriptions—before they are lost to that news desert, creeping ever closer.…
The current redistricting mania now the rage, despite the moral and legal questions it raises, has given me some ideas. I have wondered in what ways such behavior might be extrapolated into other exigencies of everyday life.…
The Rise-up and Sing-out Concert, organized by the No Kings Coalition, was an inspiration. The concert happened at New York City’s “Town Hall,” a venue founded by women’s suffragists in 1921 as a place to celebrate civil rights.…
Since the developer proposes to set aside most of the property as “open space,” that increased property tax will have to come from the construction of new housing.…
The sap from cow parsnips can produce a chemical burn on your skin if that area is then exposed to sunlight. This can appear as very small spots or larger blotches on hands, forearms and legs, but typically only on skin exposed to the sun.…
It is with great pleasure that I announce my full support and formal endorsement, as the Republican supervisor of the Town of Milford, for Sergeant Mike Stalter.…
185 YEARS AGO: A correspondent writes us that active preparations are in progress for a general celebration by the citizens of Otsego, Montgomery and Schoharie counties, of the ensuing anniversary of our National Independence, at Sharon Springs, Schoharie County, the fifth of July next.…
160 YEARS AGO: Advertisement: It is a matter of fact that trade is working up town. If you don’t believe it, just call at Bundy & McDonald’s, and see the throng of customers that crowd that establishment from morning till night.…
