‘False Equivalency’ Or Not? County Board Split On How To React To Capitol Attack Editor’s Note: For an hour at its monthly meeting, Wednesday, Feb. 3, the Otsego County Board of Representatives debated two resolutions: H, condemning the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. And G, condemning both the attack on the Capitol and summer-long riots that followed George Floyd’s death. RESOLUTION NO. G RESOLUTION: CONDEMNING VIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES AND REAFFIRMING THE BOARD’S COMMITMENT TO THE RULE…
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On Final Night, Champagne Toast With Cindy Seward Ready For Next Chapter One of the perks of being a state senator: When your term is up, you get to buy your chair for $25 as a memento of your service to the Empire State. The other day, Jim Seward’s chair was delivered to his home on North Main Street. Midnight on New Year’s Eve, 36 years of serving Otsego County will be over. “Cindy and I will be at home,…
2020 CITIZEN OF YEAR General In C-19 Fight With 36 Years On Health Care’s Front Lines, Heidi Bond Was Ready By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com RICHFIELD SPRINGS Thirty-four years ago, during her first summer as a nurse’s aide at Bassett Hospital, Heidi Bond’s mother, Registered Nurse Cindy Brophy, gave her advice that has carried her through her career to date. “She told me, ‘I don’t care if you have to go cry in the bathroom every shift –…
Looking Back on 2020 We are pleased to present our 2020 Otsego County Yearbook for you to enjoy. We’ve handpicked 52 pictures, one from every week of the year, each in their own way show life in Otsego County in Upstate New York. These pictures are a nice cross-section of life in our county and our communities, week by week. We hope you enjoy our year-end review. We look forward to continuing to be your local newspapers in 2021 and…
Madison County Baby Born On Christmas Day COOPERSTOWN – A Madison County baby was identified as the second birth at Bassett Hospital on Christmas Day. Harper Rey Newkirk, daughter of Shannon and Zakary Newkirk, Hamilton, was born at 9:31 a.m. on Christmas, a month earlier than expected. The first Christmas baby, Arielle Ross of Sidney, was born at at 5:56 a.m “We were shocked and ecstatic she came on Christmas morning!” said mom Shannon. Harper is 6 pounds, 13.7 ounces,…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Dec. 24 – 25, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE VACCINES HERE HoF Takes Fresh Look 50-Car Parade Salutes Cooperstown Mainstay Rubin: Revisit Plan; Then Hire President At County Chamber In 2022, Ommegang Eyes $1M Expansion December Deadliest Month, Bond Says EDITORIAL As We Count Our Blessings, Let’s Stay The Course Yes, Virginia… There IS A Santa Claus, Editor Wrote 8-Year-Old COLUMNS BERKSON: New Home For The Holidays STERNBERG: Vaccines,…
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OUR ROCKEFELLER SPRUCE Thar She Goes! As more than 50 people look on, “Daddy Al” and Susan Dick’s huge Norway Spruce is lowered onto the flatbed that will carry it to Rockefeller Center, where it will be the centerpiece of Christmas celebrations that begin in early December. Inset, two woodsmen from Lynn Warren Lawn Maintenance & Landscaping, Newburgh, attach the harness to the spruce – midway up and at the bottom. Once cut, the crane lifted the harness, and the…
BOUND VOLUMES July 2, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Important to Tanners – The patent right for preparing, using and vending chestnut wood for the purpose of tanning and dyeing in the New England states, is vested in the Springfield Manufacturing Company, who will soon have in operation machinery and apparatus for preparing the wood fit for use, and will deliver it to purchasers in large or small quantities, at any place within the above limits, for a sum that will…
BOUND VOLUMES June 25, 2020 210 YEARS AGO A new Republic appears to be rising in South America, at Caracas, including a vast territory and a population nearly equal to that of the United States in 1776, to the government of which, the people and their leaders are strongly attached. Should they succeed in becoming independent, they will be the second Republic on the globe, as, until this event the United States are not only the first, but the only…