The familiar red lifeguard chairs sit on dry-dock at Glimmerglass State Park and await deployment to Otsego Lake’s northern shore as the park puts out the call for workers who can keep the place operating during the busy summer season. Glimmerglass is open year-round, and its 2022 swimming season begins May 28, running weekends only through June 18, then adding weekday hours thereafter for the remainder of the summer. Storefronts, restaurants, hotels, inns, and family attractions throughout the Cooperstown, Oneonta, and surrounding areas are scrambling for full- and part-time employees as the region prepares for a busy summer tourist season and a hoped-for return to pre-pandemic levels — despite rising inflation and gasoline costs.
On Sunday, January 4, Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society wrapped up our 57th consecutive year of participation in the National Audubon Annual Christmas Bird Count. This marks the nation’s oldest and longest-running citizen science effort dedicated to bird conservation.…
All pesticides are designed to repel or kill pests. All pesticides, then, including organic and natural formulations, are poisons, and they have a strong capacity for harming people and animals. Pesticides can be inhaled, absorbed through the skin or swallowed. They can contaminate the air, the water, and all surfaces, both living and inanimate.…
Climate activists have been frustrated with what they perceive as Gov. Kathy Hochul’s back-pedaling on emission controls. Hochul had been expected to announce steps to implement the cap-and-invest program in her January 2025 State of the State address. Instead, she unexpectedly delayed the program, subsequently announcing a draft GHG emissions reporting rule that would require polluters to report on, but not actually lower, their emissions.…
June 12, 2025
PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER
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