1,875 Runners In 21st PIT Run; Gleason, Alterio Leading Locals Celia Alterio…
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October 2014 - Page 14
Mayor To Discuss Housing At League’s Annual Dinner ONEONTA – Mayor Dick Miller will discuss the city’s housing initiatives at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday at the League of Women Voters’ annual membership meeting at Elm Park United Methodist Church. The league’s dish-to-pass supper will follow.…
Hartwick College Sculptor Rocknack’s Poe Sculpture Featured In NY Times ONEONTA – Boston’s Edgar Allan Poe statue, unveiled today, is a work of Stefanie Rocknack, the Hartwick College professor and sculptor. The “body model” is John Dudek, another Hartwick professor (who is also a member of the City Charter Commission and spouse of the rowing Olympian Andrea Thies.) The unveiling was the topic of a feature story on the front page of today’s Sunday New York Times, tracing the uneven…
IN MEMORIAM: Tina M. Tisenchek, 89; Worked At Bresee’s ONEONTA – Tina M. Tisenchek, 89, who worked at the former Bresee’s Department Store, among other local businesses, passed away on Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, at Chestnut Park Rehabilitation & Nursing Center.…
Hall’s Prominence Surprised Stephen Clark, Homer Osterhoudt By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Few people realized the Baseball Hall of Fame’s potential when it was officially opened on June 12, 1939, 75 years ago this year. Not Homer Osterhoudt, then a young man in his 20s standing in the lower left of photos taken that day of the throng in front of 25 Main. (Osterhoudt, now in his mid-90s, has attended every induction except three since then.) At the…
OBGC Hosts Pit Run Spaghetti Dinner…
Home Coming King and Queen Crowned…
Yellow Jackets Victorious in Home Coming Game…
Fun-Seekers Defy Rain To Explore First-Time Cooperstown Field Day COOPERSTOWN – Weather be darned! A respectable crowd had congregated around Cooperstown’s downtown by early afternoon to explore the first Cooperstown Field Day, a collaboration of the Chamber of Commerce and Brewery Ommegang. And it was a crowd of all ages, as evident, in top photo, as Mira Miller-O’Connor of Cooperstown dances to the beat of Subduing Mara, an Oneonta-based band featuring Brian Wilkens, Wayne Carrington, Peter Hutchison and Brendan Slater. A bounce-house…
Kirk Douglas Among Those Recognizing Oneonta’s Best By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com ONEONTA – There were many poignant moments at this morning 2014 Induction Ceremony for the OHS Wall of Distinction and the Athletic Hall of Fame. But retired principal Bud Pirone delivered one of them in his assessment of John Goodrich’35, whose plaque reads “was lost in action while flying a mission in the English Channel.” Pirone had researched the records at OHS, related that Goodrich had played four…
