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Democratic Candidates Address Housing, Data Centers, More

Candidates Dan Buttermann (mayor), Will Rivera (town supervisor), Jill Basile (incumbent county representative, 14th district), Michele Clapperton (county representative, 13th district), Eamonn Hinchey (county representative, 4th district), Teresa DeSantis (town board), and independent Mike Forster Rothbart (incumbent city council, 7th ward) spoke. Around 25 people attended the October 11 event at Wise Guys Sammy’s hosted by the Oneonta Democratic Club in downtown Oneonta.…
October 16, 2025

Casale: Kudos to AllOtsego Staff, Web Designer

Congratulations to Xander Moffat and the entire AllOtsego team for the tremendous improvements and upgrades to the paper’s website. It has the look and feel of a major publication while retaining the tradition of a small-town paper for which “The Freeman’s Journal” is so well-known.…
July 13, 2023

. . .Now let’s see, where was I?

. . .Now let’s see, where was I? By TED POTRIKUS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Oh yes, I remember: August 1983, leaning against a column in front the library on Main Street for a photo, thanking the people of Cooperstown for reading my Freeman’s Journal work that summer, and heading back to Rochester to begin my junior year of college. My boss published the picture with the caption, “I’d like to thank Richard Johnson for giving me my own column.”…
November 4, 2021

New Editor Views Media Brands As Community Service

EDITORIAL New Editor Views Media Brands As Community Service I can honestly say this is a column I never thought I would write, my first as editor of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta. I say that for two reasons: one, I spent the past decade in competition with the Iron String Press media team, while working as an editor and reporter for another news organization; two, that stint, with an Alabama-based organization I shall forever more refer to as…
April 22, 2021

First UM Plans Vote On Whether To Reject Church’s Ban On Gays

FIERY SPEAKER APPLAUDED First UM Plans Vote On Whether To Reject Church’s Ban On Gays In February, Worldwide Church Council Affirmed Bar To Gay Marriage, Pastors By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – A resolution, “We Refuse,” objecting to the international United Methodist Church’s reassertion of its prohibition on gay marriage and gay pastors, was inserted into today’s Sunday Service program at Oneonta’s First UM. The local resolution calls the church’s “Traditional Plan,” which reaffirmed its ban and…
May 5, 2019

Herzig Revokes OH-Fest Permit For Park Concert

Herzig Revokes OH-Fest Permit For Park Concert If Protest Breaks Out, OPD Lacks Resources To Control It, He Says By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – City Hall revoked OH-Fest’s Neahwa Park permit this morning after Mayor Gary Herzig learned on www.AllOTSEGO.com overnight that large numbers of students might protest concert headliner Sean Kingston after learning last week he and his bodyguard were accused of a gang rape in 2010. The city’s decision throws into doubt whether the Saturday night…
April 19, 2019

PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

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