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OCCA Continues Efforts to Remove Invasive Water Chestnuts

Throughout the past few months, the Otsego County Conservation Association has been taking action against invasive plant species threatening the county’s waterways. In particular, the organization has performed five removal operations in Goodyear Lake alone across this summer. The threat at hand: the invasive water chestnut.…
September 18, 2025
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County Board Approves Sales Tax Extension

Otsego County currently maintains a sales and use rate tax of 8 percent—4 percent being state tax and the other 4 percent being local. The additional 1 percent in this resolution is not being added onto existing taxes, but rather is an extension of those already in effect.…
September 4, 2025
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Our Otsego: Central Scenery and Southwestern Wonders

With the heights of eastern Otsego County behind us, Maria Griswold and I set our sights westward toward the many state forests of the central and southwestern regions of the county. This is part three of “Our Otsego,” a four-part series covering every nook and cranny of state and Department of Environmental Conservation-regulated wilderness in Otsego County.…
September 4, 2025
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New Marker Commemorates Anti-Slavery Heritage

“This marker helps bring to light Oneonta’s role as a central location in New York of anti-slavery activism and a site on the Freedom Trail in the 19th century,” Micucci wrote via e-mail. “As a historian, it makes me incredibly proud to be able to commemorate and celebrate Oneonta’s significance and the many abolitionists, like E.R. Ford, who challenged and advocated for an end to slavery and helped those escaped enslaved people in need.”…
August 28, 2025
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Editorial: It’s 2025. Do You Know Where Your GEIS Is?

Twenty-three years ago, “The Freeman’s Journal” was reporting on the Generic Environmental Impact Statement, or GEIS, on the capacities of the Cooperstown region. Developed by Community Planning and Environmental Associates of Berne, under the leadership of Nan Stolzenburg and in collaboration with other environmental science agencies, the 243-page draft of the GEIS was released for public comment in May of 2002.…
August 21, 2025
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Correction

In last week’s article by Bill Bellen, “Subdivision Presentations Draw Large Crowds, Raise Concerns,” comments incorrectly attributed to Town of Springfield Clerk Jeannette Armstrong regarding the proposed Manocherian subdivision were actually made by Springfield Town Planning Board Member Gretchen Sorin. We apologize for the error and have corrected the article online.…
August 21, 2025
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Our Otsego: Exploring Southern Slopes and Silky Shores

As we saw in the first installment of this four-part exploration of the state parks, forests, and waterway accesses that Otsego County has to offer [https://www.allotsego.com/towering-trees-and-vast-valleys-the-beauty-of-eastern-otsego/], the eastern bounds of the county also feature plentiful natural views and vistas. The state-preserved wilderness in the county is the cherry on top of the beauty and recreational opportunities “our Otsego” has at its disposal.…
August 14, 2025
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Watershed Supervisory Committee Moves Ahead with Plan To Combat Algal Blooms

The summer of 2022 marked the first major harmful algal bloom—or HAB—in Otsego Lake, resulting in the closure of the public beach at Glimmerglass State Park as well as the Village of Cooperstown-owned Three Mile Point and Fairy Spring parks. Though not to the scale that some New York State counties have seen, the negative effects of HABs on public health have been raising concerns.…
August 7, 2025
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