The O-town Scene

Scene the O-Town Vol. 1, No. 38 www.otownscene.com 102 Chestnut St., P.O. Box 250, Oneonta, NY 13820 (607) 432-1000, ext. 255, editor@otownscene.com EDITOR Cassandra Miller ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR OF THE DAILY STAR Adrienne Wise PUBLISHER Armand Nardi CONTRIBUTORS Josh Baldo, Sam Benedict, Mark Boshnack, Elizabeth Trever Buchinger, Emily Greenberg, EDITOR OF THE DAILY STAR Sam Pollak Terry Ludwig, Jim Koury, Genevieve Pedulla, Emily Popek, Jenny Schlosser, Mark Simonson and Christopher Wilson ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Sean Lewis The O-Town Scene is published Thursdays by The Daily Star Inc. Free copies are distributed throughout Oneonta, as well as parts of Otsego, Delaware and Schoharie counties. Member of The Associated Press and CNHI News Service EDITOR’S NOTE Every now and then I like to make a list of where I was on the same date in previous years; something I did this week on the fourth of July. 2005 _ in Boston, on the roof of the MIT fraternity on the Charles River where I was living one summer during college. 2006 _ in Florence, cel- ebrating in front of the Santa Croce cathedral after Italy beat Germany to advance to the World Cup Final. 2007 _ outside of Milan, an 2 O-Town Scene July 7, 2011 Italian was cooking me pasta and fried zucchini flowers. 2008 _ in Oneonta, a day after I moved back to America and two days before I moved to New York City. Still thinking in Italian. 2009 _ in Oneonta’s Neahwa Park, watching the fireworks with my dad. 2010 _ in New York City, watching fireworks over the Hudson River outside of a bar where I’d just taken a shot of pickle juice and whiskey. Apparently it was a hot trend last year, as was ping pong, which I also participated in. 2011 _ at The Daily Star, putting together Tuesday’s edition with a handful of other editors, clerks and press workers. I work on the copy desk one night a week and also edit the Religion and Celebrations pages for The Daily Star, and then there’s this publication. My job description is too var- ied to put on a business card, and that’s the way it is for the nine of us who work in the editorial department. I’m continually impressed by everything my cowork- ers do here, and can’t even comprehend how the ones with children and pets handle everything. The newspaper industry keeps shrinking, and its em- ployees keep taking on more and more responsibilities to ensure publications get out. All of us here at The Daily Star do our best every day, because we care a lot about our publications (which also include the O-Town Scene, The Cooperstown Crier and Upstate Life Magazine). We care about making sure our projects are of the highest quality possible with our circumstances. We care about journalistic standards, and we cringe when we don’t see them being followed. I am proud of the work we do. Every week I am proud of this publication, the O-Town Scene, because I think it fills a need in the community and because of the wonderful work of contributors, who are a mixture of Daily Star edi- tors and reporters, freelanc- ers and my friends. I hope you enjoy this issue, because, as always, I en- joyed putting it together. _ Cassandra Miller Feel free to e-mail me at editor@ otown- scene. com for any Scene, religion or wed- ding needs.

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