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IN MEMORIAM: Frances Foster Smith, 95; Helped Parents Run Fly Creek General Store FLY CREEK – Frances Marion (Foster) Smith, a Fly Creek native, retired banker and real-estate agent, passed away Tuesday. She was 95 and resided at the Presbyterian Home in New Hartford. Born on March 31, 1919, in her parents’ Fly Creek home, Frances shared her childhood with her older sister, Ferne. They helped their parents, Glenn and Florence (Williams) Foster, in operating the Fly Creek General Store.…
SUNY’s Lowe Helps Others Give ‘Gift of Life’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta junior Russell Lowe was used to seeing blood drives on campus, but as far as he can tell, his “Gift of Life” Bone Marrow registration is the first of it’s kind. “You see blood drives every week, but only two percent of people are registered to give bone marrow,” he said. Lowe, a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, learned about the Gift of…
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Eileen R. Littell, 87; Editor’s Daughter-In-Law COOPERSTOWN – Eileen Reeves Littell, 87, daughter-in-law of Walter R. Littell, editor of the Otsego Farmer and an officer in the company that published The Freeman’s Journal, died Oct. 7, 2014, at Memory Care Living in Montville, N.J., after a long illness. She was born on July 7, 1927, in Buffalo, the daughter of Eric and Dearborn (Smith) Reeves. She grew up in Cooperstown, graduated from Cooperstown High School in 1944 and married W.…
Planners Suggest ‘Green Apron’ From Main Street To Doubleday By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Having learned Monday evening that local folks consider Doubleday Field a major “icon” and “destination,” Elan‘s planners this evening proposed a “green apron” leading from Main Street to the front door of baseball’s foremost shrine, dissecting the 130-car parking lot. Instead of dodging cars pulling in and out of parking spaces, fans and tourists could stroll up to the “Home of Baseball” – as Doubleday…
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Copter Circles Cooperstown As K9s Acclimate To Flying COOPERSTOWN – Choppers have been circling Cooperstown all morning. Actually, it’s one chopper, landing and taking off and landing the taking off, getting K9s from the State Police Canine Unit on Chicken Farm Hill Road to overcome any fear of flying. Sgt. Jason Brewer, who has been with the unit for 13 years, explained that the K9s respond to situations around the state, and the training gets them used to the noise…
Students Plan Substance-Free Walk By Libby Cudmore • HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 With the local and national conversation focusing on college binge drinking, SUNY Oneonta students Gabriela Donato and James Dipaoli are hoping to show students and the community that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Donato, a member of the Sigma Gamma Phi sorority and Dipaoli, a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, have teamed up to lead the Substance Abuse…
