EDITORIAL D’oh, Homer, You Got It Wrong. Comeback Coming To New York If you had driven from Cooperstown to Franklin late Sunday afternoon, you would have been greeted by one lovely scene after another. The sun had broken through. The brilliant light green trees promised the leaves that may be out by the time you read this, contrasting with the solemn evergreens. That panorama from the top of that back road leading from Otego’s I-88 exit into Franklin was never…
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ONEONTA’S NINJA Anthony Eardley Aims To Grip, Climb, Swing Into National Stardom Keep your eyes open as you drive past Oneonta’s 1 Tilton Ave. in the next few days. Anthony Eardley is doing his final training to compete in the TV show, “American Ninja Warriors.” Filming starts Monday. (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com) By JENNIFER HILL • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – Since infancy, Anthony Eardley hasn’t let the laws of nature get in his way. Most people avoid being…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta April 25-26, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Truitt Caught Next To Oneonta Police HQ Cooperstown’s NY Pizzeria Looking To Grow OH-FEST: Committee To Study Vetting Stars OH-FEST: Chief Says Quelling Protests Hard Filmmaker Stillman’s Next Topic: Local Poverty Zakrevsky, Profs: Let’s Get Railyards Right Andela Details Factory Planned In Richfield EDITORIAL Officers: Keep Suspect’s Mugshots Public COLUMNS FACEBOOK: Read ‘OH-OH Fest’ Comments ZAGATA: Chasing The Elusive Free Lunch League…
EDITORIAL Officers, Use Judgment: Law Allows To Provide Mugshots To The Public The recently completed state budget contains a measure, championed by Governor Cuomo, that prohibits police departments from releasing mug shots of suspects. The other day, Monday, April 22, Trooper Aga Dembinska, Trooper C spokesman, declined to release a mug shot of Gabriel Truitt, 33, suspect in the Dec. 29 arson fire on Oneonta’s Walling Avenue, where former city firefighter John Heller was killed. Dembinska advised that, while the…
HOMETOWN History • April 26, 2019 150 Years Ago Memorial Day – By a general order from the headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic, the 30th of May next has been set apart as a memorial day to do honor at their graves to the memory and glorious deeds of the fallen soldiers of the nation. Henceforth, this day, last year so pleasingly observed, will be a fixed festival in the calendar of loyalty. This is the second…
from DICK DOWNEY As Otsego County Dithers, China Plans 700 Coal-Fired Power Plants To the Editor: Oneonta needs natural gas. The latest skirmish in local Gas Wars is over a decompressor station in the old D&H railyards. NYSEG’s gas feed to Oneonta is seasonally limited. There’s no guarantee of supply to large users during protracted cold spells. NYSEG won’t upgrade the feeder line for years to come. Businesses and our local IDA support the decompressor station; the anti-gas faction oppose…
OH-OH FEST Annual Concerts Struggling In Crises Past, Crisis Present Editor’s Note: The cancellation of Sean Kingston’s concert at OH-Fest Saturday evening, April 20, in Neahwa Park, sparked a pungent debate on All OTSEGO.com’s Facebook pages. Here’s a sampling of the back and forth. ►Kevin Comstock – If students from both colleges are the ones that pick the performers, then the concert should be held on campus … Keep the carnival downtown for the kids and family’s to enjoy. ►James…
FATE OF THE EARTH League Finds Downtown Easing Out Use Of Plastic Editor’s Note: This report was issued Monday, April 22, after the League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown Area surveyed the use of plastics in downtown Cooperstown. By MELINDA HARDIN & MAUREEN MURRAY Special to The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERTOWN – Our Planet Earth cannot digest plastic. With that fact in mind the League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown Area has partnered with other local environmentally…
SUNY Student Senate To Study How To Vet OH-Fest Headliners Rapper Sean Kingston Cancellation Prompts Soul-Searching On Campus By JENNIFER HILL • Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – By a 9-5 vote, with one abstention, the SUNY Oneonta Student Associate Senate voted Tuesday, April 23, to do nothing for now on vetting of future OH-Fest headliners. Instead, it plans to set up a study committee to make recommendations. Drafted by junior Eric Battista after this year’s OH-Fest concert was…
LETTER TO CVS PRESIDENT Former Store An Eyesore, Please Help Cooperstown Editor’s Note: Bill Waller of Cooperstown sent this letter Monday, April 22, to Kevin Hourican, president, CVS, in Woonsocket, R.I., about the two-year vacancy of the company’s downtown Cooperstown store. Dear Mr. Hourican, I am writing to inform you of a situation with one of your properties located in Cooperstown, New York. You recently constructed a new CVS store in our Village and vacated your former location on our…
