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15 Years Of ‘Citizens’ Prove: WE Can Overcome

Editorial 15 Years Of ‘Citizens’ Prove: WE Can Overcome “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” William Shakespeare Can it be 15 years since The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta, (after its founding in 2008), have recognized a Citizen (or Citizens) of the Year in the final edition of the 12th month? In 2006, Cherry Valley Town Supervisor Tom Garretson, digesting information brought before him on industrial-scale wind turbines, changed his mind and…

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2020 Citizen Of The Year: General In C-19 Fight

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 –…

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2019 CITIZEN OF THE YEAR The Kennedy Method

2019 CITIZEN OF THE YEAR The Kennedy Method County Rep Shepherds In Professional Management, Energy Task Force, More By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com HARTWICK – Leadership gravitated toward Meg Kennedy, to hear her tell her story. She first realized that was happening at an Oneonta Farmers’ Market vendors’ meeting in 2008 or 2009, where a difficult issue was being debated. As the point of decision approached, Tom Warren, who runs the Stone & Thistle Farm, raising meadow-fed lamb…