from JOHN RUDY Isn’t Resisting Everything Prescription For Decline? To the Editor: Your editorial on The Simpsons’ “D’oh Canada” episode nicely expresses an optimistic counter to the show’s negative portrayal of Upstate New York. From a macro sense, it would be hard to find fault with your even-handed depiction of the many causes of the decline across the state, as well as the various efforts at reinvention and renewal. Most telling was your observation that one of the problems of…
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from HILDA WILCOX Amend The Constitution To Better Serve Nation To the Editor: With this letter I join thousands of other voices decrying the passage in the U.S. Constitution that gives our president power to override a decision of our Congress, which had recently voted to end our participation with Saudi Arabia in its war against Yemen that has already been responsible for thousands of deaths from bombings, starvation or untreated illnesses – a catastrophe which the United Nations has…
SECONDARY EDITORIAL Village Hall Should Also Fund Strong Merchants’ Association While we’re at it, downtown Coopers(ghost)town needs a strong merchants’ association. So far, it’s always been a Catch-22. The Cooperstown Area Chamber of Commerce has been adamant: We only serve our members. Unfortunately, too few of downtown businesses are members to make the chamber an empowered entity to promote downtown. The result: No coherent, year-‘round downtown strategy. Again, the Village Board has $400,000+ plus a year in found money to…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 9-10, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE New Oneonta Slogan: ‘We’re Onta Something’ Cooperstown Noise Law: 88 Decibels Is It Concertgoers To Help Pick New Conductor HoF President Mead’s Mantra: Teamwork Relay for Life Message: You Have Friends First UM May Vote To Reject Limits On Gays EDITORIAL Stop the Rot! Village Should Buy CVS, Redevelop It While At It, Fund Strong Merchants’ Association COLUMNS LANDERS: Key To Success:…
DOUBLE YOUR DONATION SSPCA Benefactress To Match Gifts Up To Total Of $250,000 By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com HARTWICK SEMINARY – When it comes to taking care of animals, Stacie Haynes never gives up. “Stacie approached me multiple times about fundraising,” said Anita Vitullo, Staffworks president and Susquehanna SPCA benefactress. “She was tenacious! But I was happy to help.” On Tuesday, April 30, Vitullo and Haynes announced a $250,000 gift to the $2 million “Shelter Us” campaign to build…
from PAUL AGOGLIA If Path To Renewables Wrong, So What? No Harm Is Done To the Editor: Mr. Downey and Mr. Zagata, apparent experts in fracked gas, and I (pro renewable) will not be here in 50 years to say to one another, “I told you so”. Therefore it makes sense for us to ensure there is a future that includes four changes of season per year for posterity and for wildlife in Otsego County. While both Downey and Zagata…
COLUMN • Capitol Perspective NY Has Third Most Lyme Disease Cases By State Sen. JAMES L. SEWARD • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ALBANY – May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month and with the number of reported cases in New York rising each year, it is important to arm yourself and your family with the tools to avoid the disease when possible, and detect and treat when necessary. Lyme disease is an infection, caused by bacteria, that is spread by the bite…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 2-3, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE L.A. Angels Exec New Hall Of Fame President Benefactress Will Match Your SSPCA Donation RSS Record Rocky, Sixth Ward Neighbors Say Oneonta’s First UM Ramping Up Vs. Gay Ban Who-Dunnit Novelist’s House Endangered EDITORIAL D’oh, Homer Simpson, You Got Upstate Wrong COLUMNS SEWARD: State Has 3rd Most Lyme Disease KUZMINSKI: Do The Numbers On Yang’s UBI MORGAN: Punishing The Present For The…
River Street House Where Fictional Det. ‘Philo Vance’ Was Created Is Endangered Salvation Army Plans To Raze It, But GOHS May Object To Plans By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Hidden behind a row of overgrown trees on River Street is a literary legacy. As S.S. Van Dine, Willard Huntington Wright (1888-1939), wrote 12 novels starring dandy detective Philo Vance – and Bob Brzozowski, Greater Oneonta Historical Society executive director, believes that they were written here. “We…
from CHIP NORTHRUP For Now, Gas Necessary, But Before Long, Goodnight Irene To the Editor: Have followed the local fossil fuel v. renewables debate from afar and would like to suggest that there may be more compatibility between the two that either side is willing to admit. What the fossil-fuel junkies fail to understand is that the source of that gas is literally the bottom of the hydrocarbon barrel, the source rock. When it taps out, it’s Goodnight Irene. Wish…
