The Class of 2025, which consists of a substantial handful of great baseball athletes, was duly honored last Sunday, in between occasional drizzles and a fiercely hot sun. Three singular stars—CC Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki and Billy Wagner—stepped up to plate before an immense national television audience, beside 52 returning Hall of Famers and in front of thousands of baseball fans (the crowd was estimated at 30,000) in a ceremony that honored their lifetime achievements and exemplary devotion to the sport.…
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Those of you who read my first entries will recall that my goals were to raise critical issues in a readable way in hopes of encouraging each of us to question our understanding of contentious issues in our national debates, to put our own convictions on hold even for a moment, and to consider other points of view in respectful discussions with those holding alternate opinions to reduce our damaging national divide.…
When George Bush was asked if he wanted to be president when he was growing up, he replied, “Heck no, I wanted to be Willie Mays.” Me, too. When I was a kid in Texas, my father took me to see Willie Mays play in a minor league exhibition game with the Fort Worth Cats...…
A proposal submitted by EcoYotta Inc. seeks to rezone 153 acres of land, currently zoned for residential-agricultural use, into an industrial development district to make way for a data center. But the application, as it stands, is glaringly incomplete.…
The report is a compilation of quantitative data gathered from the most recent census, program data, demographics, and other statistical sources and qualitative information gathered from surveys and community forums to give a clear picture of Otsego County.…
The upcoming "Chip in Fore Hospice" golf tournament fundraiser, the Oneonta Area NAACP's annual community picnic and upcoming programs planned by Connections at Clark Sports Center are among the topics covered in this week's news briefs.…
Santa Claus visits the Huntington Memorial Library twice each year. He ventures down from the North Pole in July and December for these special days. During the event on Tuesday, Claus read two books to the kids.…
At the heart of the show is “Net Worth,” a 22-by-30-inch iron oxide drawing that anchors Barlow’s ongoing critique of landscape imagery in consumer culture. Created using iron filings and water, the piece—like others in the series—is composed of rust stains, a haunting metaphor for industrial decay and environmental loss.…
The FOF Community Engagement Award honors individuals whose efforts significantly enrich the social, economic, and cultural fabric of the Oneonta community. Ed May, Jr.’s life’s work exemplifies the very essence of this award, officials said.…
The left wing diatribe forced on the audience consisted of quotations from the 2017 radical pamphlet by the Trump hater Timothy Snyder, which just happens to be prominently featured for sale in the Glimmerglass gift shop.…
