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Life Sketches: Green Eggs and Hmmm…

For several weeks I was gathering as many as 10 or 12 brown eggs a day until one late morning three of the eggs I collected turned out to be green. I thought maybe it was because of all the dandelion leaves the chickens were eating when I’d let them out to free range, but neighbors assured me that eating weeds wouldn’t do that.…
August 7, 2025

Life Sketches: A Sky View of Dad

“Now, don’t ya be touching that crank,” my father warned. “Last time it rained I had a flood.” He was referring to the handle that operated the Sky View window in the roof. It was somebody in Detroit’s brainstorm—people riding in the city cab would be able to see the tops of skyscrapers. Dad viewed the innovation as a leaky nuisance, a target for pigeons.…
July 10, 2025

Life Sketches: Five Easy Pieces and a Spinet

Awhile back my good friend and chicken guru, Jim McNulty, called to tell me that he had found the piano of his dreams: “a Winter spinet for free!” It was down in Middlefield and he wanted to know if he could have the use of my truck to bring it home. I told him about a terrible time two friends and I had had getting an old piano out of a basement because it was so heavy and the stairs…
May 29, 2025

Editorial: Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Our motto here at “The Freeman’s Journal” and “Hometown Oneonta” is “putting the community back into the newspaper.” Whether you read our hard-copy newspapers or subscribe to our website, AllOtsego.com, we believe it is important to not only cover the news of Otsego County, but also to provide a forum by which its residents can contribute their own views and expertise.…
March 6, 2025

Life Sketches: Cousin Chickie’s Greatest Gift—A Christmas Story

We lived in Bensonhurst, in a 12-room Victorian that had been divided into apartments. I occupied the second floor with my dad, while Chickie and his wife and two babies lived on the first floor and my Aunt Edna and Uncle Dave and their sons Leo and Charlie lived on the attic floor. There was also Mr. Bilideau, the boarder, who was a leftover from the time when my grandmother had rented rooms. There had once been a Mr. Yumtov…
December 19, 2024
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PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER

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