Editorial of February 22, 2024

Thirteen Decades of Good

There are some pretty frightening things going on around here in Otsego County, namely the slow but constant demise of many dairy farms, the disintegration of the Lake Road around four miles north of the Village of Cooperstown, the infestation of harmful algal blooms in Otsego Lake and neighboring waters, the proposed Stark wind turbine project that ignored the Town of Springfield, threatened home rule and eminent domain challenges by the state, an incipient inability to see the stars because of light pollution, the high price of food, the loss, next week, of Main Street’s Riverwood to Ithaca, and the surprisingly unrealistic all-around scarcity of public chargers for electric vehicles, especially Teslas, those brainy cars that put on such a great closing show for the Winter Carnival.