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READ THIS WEEK’S HOMETOWN, JOURNAL ONLINE General’s 1st Mission: Can He Raise Enough? Oneonta’s German Challenge To Delgado Intrigues Former Congressmen Gibson, Faso Congressional candidate and Maj. Gen. (ret.) Anthony German and wife Diana pose with family, from left, Josh, 32, Zach, 24, Becca, 21, (a spring SUNY Oneonta grad, soon to be married) and Ben, 29. The sons followed their father into military service. By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – After 36 years in the New…
Summer Soirée Sings Praises Of ISD, Clark Sports Center The Otsego County Chamber of Commerce’s Summer Soirée was this evening, celebrating local businesses that promote a good and sustainable life in Otsego County. Information Systems Division (ISD Tech) of Oneonta received the Environmental Stewardship Award for its computer- and electronics-recycling program. The Clark Sports Center of Cooperstown received the Quality of Life Award for helping over 5,500 members live healthier, (including 37 members over 90, who get free memberships). Above,…
Mayor To Brief Public On Multiple Projects Downtown Upgrades, Doubleday Field, Pioneer Park, Sewage Plant On Agenda COOPERSTOWN – Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch will update the public on several village projects due to begin right after Labor Day at an informational meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, in Village Hall’s second-floor ballroom, which is accessible by elevator from the Fair Street entrance. Topics to be covered include the waste-water treatment plant improvement project, Pioneer Park upgrades, the continuation of…
Plea Involved Explicit Recordings Hobbie Pleads Guilty To Exploiting 3 Girls By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Former Cooperstown Central School gym teacher Justin Hobbie pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual exploitation of a child, nine months after the Department of Homeland Security raided his home and found child pornography on his computer in December 2018, United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith announced in a release. In pleading guilty, Hobbie, 41, Springfield Center admitted that from…
FINE FOOD • FUN FOOD Falling In Love With Fiesta, Again And Again And Again I have fallen in love three times at Fiesta. The first was the salsa. Each meal is preceded by a bowl of chips and in-house salsa, fresh each day, resulting in salsas with different personalities from night to night. Sometimes spicy, sometimes mild. Don’t let the lightness of this salsa fool you, it is super yummy on chips or dishes. The second was the tacos;…
COLUMN VIEW FROM FLY CREEK On Flying The Flag By ADRIAN KUZMINSKI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The other day I was chatting with a long-time local business man in Cooperstown who occasionally reads this column. He brought up the recent decision of the Village of Cooperstown to officially fly the Gay Pride flag on Village property. He expressed discomfort with at least some aspects of gay lifestyle, and clearly felt that the village action did not represent him and, by…
Doesn’t That Sound Better Than A Mantra Of Hate? All this talk about hate. Maybe it’s different in a rural enclave like Otsego County, but how often in the course of a week or month or year do any of us come face to face with something we can define as “hate.” Yet Governor Cuomo, last Thursday, Aug. 21, in announcing our state will be the first in the nation to enact a “Hate Crimes Domestic Terrorism Act” (see excerpt…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Whartons Best President, First Lady We Never Had To the Editor: Your newspaper did us all a great favor with its coverage of Dolores Wharton’s autobiography, which serves as a fine complement to her husband’s book. You have helped put the Whartons in their proper historical context – they were pillars in the advancement of minority meritocracy in the United States, moreso than any ballplayer in the Hall of Fame. Because, while Jackie Robinson proved that…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Aug. 22-23, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK…
