LEAGUE OF WOMAN VOTERS SAYS: 5¢ Fee Will Reduce Solid Waste, Pollution Editor’s Note: This position paper was prepared by Liane Hirabayashi and Julie Sorensen, co-presidents, League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown Area and Steve Londner, Chair, Steering Committee, League of Women Voters of the Oneonta Area. “No, I brought my own bag,” many shoppers are telling store clerks when asked “Do you need a bag?” And more shoppers will be giving the same reply starting in March 2020…
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EDITORIAL Early Voting Begins In County, And With It, New Opportunities “Anything that allows more people to exercise the right to vote is important,” said Mike Henrici, the county’s Democratic elections commissioner after the first weekend of early voting in Otsego County. Maybe. Early voting has been around for 30 years – Texas was first – and today 38 states open the polls in advance of Election Day, which this year is Nov. 5. New York was the 38th state…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Broadband, Renewables, Codes, Pot – Why Not? To the Editor: I was reading your newspaper’s “expose” of the Democrats’ top secret plan to take over the county as if it were satire, until I realized you were serious, that changing party leadership was some kind of threat to the county’s political somnambulance. Of course it’s time for a change! Bring it on. Everything outlined in the McEvoy Memo would be good for the economic health and wellbeing for all…
DORMITORY PROVISION REMOVED Facing Pushback, Trustees Adjust New Zoning Code…
Triple-A Coming Down For Pizza Shop Expansion…
IN MEMORIAM: Josephine A. Bertino, 89; Moved To Cooperstown To Be Near Family COOPERSTOWN – Josephine A. Bertino, 89, who moved to Upstate New York in 2010 to be near her family, passed away peacefully Friday evening, Oct, 25, 2019, at Chase Memorial Nursing Home & Rehab in New Berlin. She was born July 23, 1930, in Brooklyn, the only child of Peter Fatta, a Sicilian immigrant, and Rose (Rosalia) née Lucido Fatta. During her teen years she played piano…
Pumpkins Aglow On Village Hall’s Steps…
19TH YEAR, CHANGES DUE ON 20TH Rain Stops, Coop Loop Lets Ghouls Run Wild If you see a leggy blond leading a group of runners – some ghost-like – through Cooperstown, it’s the 19th annual Halloween Coop Loop, now underway. You may recognize the blond as CCS grad Charles Hollister, now living in Oneonta. Right behind him are two other top local contenders, Frank Wilsey, Fly Creek, (in red) and Dr. John Raymond, the Bassett urologist. Inset, three spooky pals…
First Ballot Cast At Meadows In Otsego County Early Voting…
Headless Ghouls, Scary Ghosts Haunt Farmers’ Museum Village…
