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.
In the hotly-contested race for New York’s 19th Congressional District, each of the three candidates for office have made combatting rising electricity costs the centerpiece of their campaign messaging. What have U.S. Representative Josh Riley, state Senator Peter Oberacker, and Alex Portelli done...…
“New York’s so-called green energy experiment is quietly paving over the very greenspace that it claims to protect,” Assemblyman Chris Tague, who is running for the 51st State Senate seat, said at an April 17 press conference in Schoharie County.…
The report from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority estimated that “Upstate oil and natural gas households would see costs in excess of $4,000 a year” by 2031 if the CLCPA is implemented as written.…
March 12, 2026
PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO THE NEWSPAPER
For a limited time, subscribers to AllOtsego.com pay a reduced rate ($25.00 for one year) and can choose to have $5.00 of the subscription fee donated toward refurbishment of Otsego County’s Civil War Memorial.
