The city should keep four committees—Legislative, Finance, Quality of Life/Infrastructure, and Budget—to keep everything in order and to help make sure the city is running smoothly.…
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Edition of 07/17/2025 - Page 2
Bill was a great human being who I have always held and will continue to hold in the highest regard. I am deeply saddened by the loss of his companionable friendship, which I will always be grateful to have enjoyed over the years.…
Limericist Waldo Johnston calls attention to a possible double standard in today's politics.…
About 450,000 Americans, 30,000 of them New York State residents, die of tobacco-related diseases annually, the number one cause of preventable deaths. Almost 1 million New Yorkers live with a serious smoking-related illness. E-cigarette use among New York State high-school students has dropped significantly from the peak of 27.3 percent in 2018, but almost one in five still used them in 2022.…
“Local railroad enthusiasts (Jim Loudon, Russ Hawkins, Dave Jones, and Bruce Hodges) founded the Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society in an effort to preserve, protect, and keep the caboose in Neahwa Park, fundraising thousands of dollars to install a glass enclosure around the caboose. In 1983, the enclosure was installed and the LRHS held a dedication ceremony that September in celebration of the BRT’s centennial year. The caboose has remained in the spot since.”…
Originally, Parrillo envisioned the book as a hardcover in landscape format. But as the pages grew and costs climbed, she made the difficult decision to change the design. “I wanted everyone to be able to afford it,” she said. “So, I went with softcover and portrait layout. That was the best I could do—and I think it still honors the stories beautifully.”…
My colleague Maria Griswold and I are on a summer-long mission to shed light on the vast array of vistas and vacation destinations Otsego County has at its disposal. For clarity, this series will be focusing on state parks and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation-managed state forests and waterway accesses in order to maintain a manageable scope.…
“I understand the importance of fiscal accountability and smart planning,” Henderson said. “If elected, I’ll work to ensure our town’s resources are used efficiently and transparently, and that residents have a real voice in the process.”…
“The many arts organizations in Otsego County contribute tremendously to our quality of life here,” said CFOC Executive Director Jeff Katz. “We are thrilled to be able to support their work and to have developed this round of funding based on input we received from the arts community.”…
There are many camps in the Hill Country and several on the Guadulupe, the Blanco, and the Medina. The late great Kinky Freidman lived at a camp that his parents had run on the Medina. All of the camps evacuated at the first sign of a storm front. All of them except Camp Mystic, which prohibited cell phones and had no warning system.…
