MONEY TALK What’s The Matter With NY? It’s Just Spending Too Much By TOM MORGAN • Syndicated Columnist What is the truth about New York State? Why do we lose so many good people? Why do our businesses struggle, especially Upstate? Why do our schools, cities and towns struggle? Why are parts of our infrastructure dilapidated? Our politicians offer us a blizzard of reasons. Every government department explains. Here is a truth that cuts through it all: New York State spends…
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100 ATTEND BISHOP’S LIFESTREAM Gay Wedding, Pastor Ban Divides Local Methodists By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal In 1996, when Rev. Marti Swords-Horrell threw a 10th anniversary party for husband Dana, a guest said something that changed her life forever. “Kirk was our funeral director, a good Christian and gay, but it wasn’t safe for him to be out,” she recounted. “He came up to me and said congratulations, but he also said that he and…
MAKE HISTORY • COMMENTARY State Championship Will Echo Through Boy’s Lifetimes, Ours By TOM HEITZ • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – The date is uncertain. But it happened at the Clark Gymnasium in a building on Cooperstown’s Main Street a few years before the turn of the 20th Century. Someone propelled a large round ball into the cone of a metal hoop in the middle of the gym floor “to score a basket” for the first time.…
DOUBLE DEPOT ANNIVERSARIES 20 Years On Southside, Piers Also Mark Mega-Store’s Fifth Year By JENNIFER HILL ONEONTA Come to Liquor Depot for the variety of wines and liquors, stay for the pterodactyl.On expanding from their smaller store next door into the defunct Blockbuster Video in 2013, owner Dwight Pier realized the new high ceilings left a lot of vertical space that he believed needed filling. So he bought a life-sized pterodactyl. “The pterodactyl arrived in a big crate,” Dwight remembered,…
DIVERSITY IMPRESSES COUNTIAN DiPerna, Back At Vatican: World Working Together On Climate Without U.S. By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN – Back in Vatican City, Cooperstown’s Paula DiPerna looked around the Sala Regia Friday, March 8. There was a turbaned Sikh. There was Muslim. There was a shaman from the far reaches of Greenland. “All these different societies have a need to protect nature,” said DiPerna, special adviser, CDP North America, a non-profit that helps companies, cities and nations manage their environmental…
Herzig: Act Today, Look To Tomorrow In response to an outpouring of criticism at a public hearing on the GEIS Tuesday, March 5, to Oneonta City Hall and Otsego Now’s plans to redevelop the D&H railyards, Mayor Gary Herzig had an elegant reply. Development on the 50 acres suitable for job-generating enterprises will: • One, be as energy efficient as construction technology currently allows. • Two, use as little natural gas and fossil fuels as possible. • Three, use as…
Please, County Reps And Trustees: Get Chief Covert Help He Needs How often do any of us, over the course of our lifetimes, get the opportunity to save another human life? But the Otsego County Board of Representatives and Cooperstown Village Board have been presented with that opportunity in the case of Mike Covert, 58. Covert, a 25-year county employee (mostly as a deputy sheriff) and village police chief since 2013, has suffered the health travails of a modern-day…
Dorothy Miller, 96; Retired From Mehan Insurance RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Dorothy Miller, 96, who served as a secretary for insurance concerns, retiring from Mehan Insurance in Richfield Springs, passed away on Sunday, March 3, 2019 in Centers Health in Cooperstown. She was born on Sept. 22, 1922, in Van Hornesville, a daughter to the Late Owen D. and Marion Ostrander Miller. She was raised and educated in Van Hornesville and graduated from Van Hornesville High School. Dorothy was a secretary…
Hometown People – March 14 -15, 2019 CSO Conductor Contest Raises Record $46,321 PALS LIVE IT UP AT SNOMMEGANG Mancuso, Avolio, Named To Dean’s List…
BOUND VOLUMES: Mar. 14 – 15, 2019 200 YEARS AGO In the case of Sturges vs. Crowninshield – the opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court dated February 25, is summarized as follows: “Discharges under state insolvent laws, exempt the body of the debtor from imprisonment. But his property, subsequently acquired, is liable to his creditors; or, in other words, the contract is discharged as to the person, but not as to the future state of the party.” It is further…
