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Letter from Justin Wilcox NYers Should Know Cost of Climate Action Upstate ratepayers should not be forced to subsidize downstate as a result of downstate’s over-reliance on fossil fuels. The rushed decisions being made to meet the state’s unrealistic climate goals will make New York State even more unaffordable, send New Yorkers packing, and put family-owned businesses under. The PSC’s latest vote to approve an estimated $6.6 billion in local transmission upgrades is yet another example of how the state’s…
Editorial Noble Barns The Swart-Wilcox House, the oldest in Oneonta, is looking for a 19th-century English barn to replace the original one destroyed by fire in 1968. Upstate New York is rural. Its towns, villages, and cities are spread out and difficult to reach. There are fields and forests and lakes. For most of its over-200-year history agriculture has been, and still might be, the main industry. Upstate New York is beautiful, bucolic, serene, clear, compelling. Rolling hills encircle cool…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta August 25, 2022 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Polio Rearing Its Ugly Head Social Justice and Strategic Planning at OFO Inside The Paper Police Identify Human Remains Found in Morris Bassett Medical Center’s Midwifery Program Honored Nationally for ‘Innovative and Compassionate’ Care Animal Care Agencies Urge Governor to Sign Puppy Mill Pipeline Bill Dr. Bruce Harris Cross Dedicated Perspectives Editorial What Lies Beneath Columns News from the Noteworthy: Housing Option…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17 Explore festive Historic Village by lantern light HOLIDAY TOUR – 3 – 8 p.m. Tour the historic village by lantern. See it dressed in its winter finery, learn about winter celebration including Christmas and how they were celebrated in Upstate New York in years past. Cost, $20/adult. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450 or visit www.farmersmuseum.org/event/holiday-lantern-tours/2021-12-03/…
Kindness: Upstate New York’s specialty! By TARA BARNWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Picture this: you’re at a local grocery store. In a hurry. You get what you need and run out of the store and it’s pouring rain. You get home and realize you left your purse in the shopping cart in the parking lot. Your stomach tightens as you remember you had your monthly rent, in cash, in a bank envelope in your purse. You feel sick. Not a…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 13, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Otsego preps for hiring new administrator Tourism promoter: Focus different for 2021 Cooperstown & Around City of the Hills Inside The Paper Duo sentenced for series of gas station robberies Schools face budget votes Tuesday; prepare for graduations Community Foundation announces $2 million fund, initial campaign success Master Gardeners to return May 29 Cooperstown couple wins recognition for care of senior citizens…
LETTER from DEB DALTON Program Instructed Us On Racism To the Editor: One of the joys of living in our part of Upstate New York is the ability to recognize and appreciate some individuals who truly make our world better, and who, in a larger populated area, might go unnoticed. In this particular case, I would like to thank and congratulate Liane Hirabayashi and Lynne Mebust for the success of the “Looking in the Mirror: Cooperstown Reflects on Racism” programming…
LETTER from DANNY LAPIN Voting Lets Citizens Hire Best Leadership Editor’s Note: Danny Lapin, D-Oneonta, is retiring from the county board to focus on chairing the city Planning Commission, and to share his reflections on development and environmentalism through his blog, (accessible by Googling “danny lapin blog”.) This is an excerpt to his introduction to the blog. One of my best friends in graduate school lovingly coined the topic of local government the “most important thing nobody cares about.” This…
TRIPTYCH ANCHORS PLEIN AIR SHOW Fenimore Exhibit Brings Mary Nolan’s Art Indoors By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Some 25 years ago, when she was Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce executive director, Polly Renckens held a meeting of people with space to spare in their homes. “We have tourists,” Polly told the gathering. “We need some place to put them. If you have space for a B&B, consider it.” Mary Nolan, who had been doing art as long as she…
