from BETSY HOLLAND Democracy Looks Like What Happened Here To the Editor: What does democracy look like? It looks like the March 5 meeting of the Oneonta Common Council. The public was invited to review Otsego Now’s plans to redevelop the D&H railyards and to respond publicly. Democracy looks like engaged citizens who participate in decisions that will impact their lives and their communities. Citizens read and reviewed the proposed generic redevelopment plan. They took time to consider the impact…
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David J. Parker, 71, Worcester; Patented Coors Beer-Can Lining WORCESTER – David John Parker, 71, a retired career chemist, active in town government here, who patents included one on the inside coating of a Coors Beer can, passed away peacefully at home on March 24, 2019. He was born May 25, 1947, in Schenectady, the son of Edward Joseph and Dorothy May (Gutta) Parker. Dave attended Mohonasen High School graduating in 1965, and then went on to Clarkson University, where…
from DAN BUTTERMANN We Can Support Economic Development Without Gas To the Editor: This letter is in response to Dick Downey’s excellent letter in your March 7-8 editions. Mr. Downey may share a feeling that I do – that maybe my previous letter and assertions may incorrectly characterize his views, just as I think his words do not accurately summarize mine. So, I hope this will clear up some of that and further anchor my main point – it is…
CONSOLING THE SUFIS Try ‘March Matchness’ To Help SSPCA COOPERSTOWN – It’s cats versus dogs as the Susquehanna SPCA hosts its very first “March Matchness,” where donors can help move their chosen pet through the brackets to victory, just like NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The championship is Tuesday, April 9. CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY …
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…
CITY OF THE HILLS: Mar. 14 – 15, 2019 Oneonta Loses Joe Campbell, Voice Of City ONEONTA Joe Campbell, the Voice of Oneonta for 50 years on “WDOS, the Star station,” passed away at 4:05 a.m. March 6, 2019, in Cooperstown after hearing “The Campbells are Coming” on the bagpipes.…
