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THIS WEEK: 02-09-23

THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta February 9, 2023 PHOTO OF THE WEEK ‘Snow Place Like Home’ FRONT PAGE Back By Popular Demand Presstime Newsbites Housing Project Goes Back to Drawing Board HUD Funds To Combat Area Homelessness Paving the Way for Recovery-Friendly Environment Inside The Paper Drnek: Foundation Firm, This Year We Build Local Agencies Partner to Form Innovation, Acceleration Center Pathfinder Village Announces Retirement of Long-time CEO Chili Bowl Is Back Oneonta QoL Committee Presents…
February 9, 2023

Editorial: Is There a Santa Claus?

Is There a Santa Claus? In 1897, “The Sun,” a New York newspaper, published one of the most famous editorials in journalism. Written by Francis Pharcellus Church, it was in answer to a letter written by an 8-year-old girl who was not satisfied by answers given her by her family and friends to her question—one that remains to this day on the inquisitive minds of many children—Is there a Santa Claus? “We take pleasure in answering at once and thus…
December 25, 2022

SQSPCA Adds Clearing of Shelter to Challenge Goal

SQSPCA Adds Clearing of Shelter to Challenge Goal The Susquehanna Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SQSPCA) has set two ambitious year-end goals, and they now need support from the public in order to meet those targets. The “Promise for Parkie Challenge” has been underway since Giving Tuesday, November 29. If the SQSPCA can raise $100,000.00 by end of day December 31, challenge sponsors Beth and Gary Glynn will give the shelter an additional $25,000.00.…
December 24, 2022

Unatego Science Foundation Continues Good Works

Unatego Science Foundation Continues Good Works By TED MEBUST Dr. Jonathan Davis, president of the Unatego Science Foundation, recently provided the Unatego School District with a $3,000.00 check which will be used to purchase scientific equipment, materials, supplies, technology, software, curricular materials, and provide fellowships to deserving students from the district. Since its founding in 2008, the foundation has donated more than $86,000.00 to provide Unatego with financial resources for students and teachers.“It’s one way to give back to the…
December 24, 2022

Oneonta 2022 Festival of Lights Commences with Opening Ceremony

Oneonta 2022 Festival of Lights Commences with Opening Ceremony Hill City Celebrations, formerly known as First Night Oneonta, commenced its third annual Festival of Lights in Neahwa Park on December 18, preceded by an opening ceremony to celebrate this year’s festival honorees, retired A.O. Fox Hospital providers Dr. Yoshiro Matsuo and Physician’s Assistant Lynne Bolstad. The reception, which took place just before sundown ahead of the festival lighting, celebrated Matsuo and Bolstad, longtime and beloved community practitioners who served the…
December 23, 2022

Former OHS Hooper Returns to Oneonta

Former OHS Hooper Returns to Oneonta By TED MEBUST “Anytime I get on the court, I’m happy,” said Graham Wooden, a former Section 4 basketball star for Oneonta High School. After recently transferring to SUNY Oneonta from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania this fall, he has hit the ground running. “We’re happy to have him in the program,” said Red Dragons coach Cameron Conover. According to Conover, SUNY Oneonta had been recruiting Wooden during his time at OHS, telling the 5’11”…
December 23, 2022

Hall of Fame Honors Long-Tenured Staff Members

Hall of Fame Honors Long-Tenured Staff Members COOPERSTOWN—Eight staff members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum were honored on Monday, December 12 for reaching service milestones in an event hosted by Chairman of the Board Jane Forbes Clark and President Josh Rawitch. The eight staff members and their years of service are: Becky Ashe, administrative and events associate, 35 years; Helen Stiles, senior acquisition and cataloging specialist, 35 years; Rick Kelly, security manager, 30 years; Milo Stewart…
December 22, 2022

Fly Creek Fire District Elects New Commissioners

Fly Creek Fire District Elects New Commissioners By CASPAR EWIG Keith Dickinson, Sam Hoskins and Edward Kuken-berger emerged as winners in a hotly contested election on Tuesday, December 13 for three seats on the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Fly Creek Fire District. Dickinson defeated Joan Kegelman, the sitting appointed chairman, for a full five-year term. Hoskins, who ran unopposed, will fill a vacant seat for a three-year term, and Kukenberger will rejoin the board for a one-year term,…
December 22, 2022

Killdeer Trio, An Otsego Original, Finding Its Groove

The embrace of creative versatility extends far beyond the band’s name and deep into Killdeer’s approach to musical composition, with equal focus on cohesion and improvisation. All compositions created, recorded, and performed are exclusively original, guided through a collaborative approach between all three musicians on arrangement and interpretation.…
December 22, 2022

WHELAN: Transfer Station Dispute Continues

Letter from Mary Ann Whelan Transfer Station Dispute Continues The recent letter in response to criticisms of the Northern Transfer station by the Oneonta division manager overstates the virtues of said facility. It is inconceivable that anyone could take “great pride” in that facility when Casella is ranked in the bottom 25 percent on ZoomInfo with regard to management, and at the bottom of seven competing businesses. Casella is located in Vermont and it is difficult to believe that the…
December 16, 2022

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

For a limited time, new annual subscriptions to the hard copy of “The Freeman’s Journal” or “Hometown Oneonta” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or digital-only access to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice: Friends of the Feral-TNR, Super Heroes Humane Society, or Susquehanna Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 

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