Moana, right, played by Yana King, gets caught by the crab Tamatoa, played by Claire Smith, with Dalilah Synan as the left claw and Taryn Brockway as the right claw, in a scene from ‘Moana Jr.’ Student actors practice during a dress rehearsal of Moana Jr., produced by Orpheus Theatre’s Starstruck Players at Foothills Performing Arts Center in Oneonta on Monday, June 14. The show, which opens Friday, June 18, will be the first live performance by Orpheus in more than a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Michael Forster Rothbart/AllOTSEGO.com)
Clark gym becomes summer basketball gathering spot By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MIDDLEFIELD — As summer began and COVID regulations eased, Clark Sports Center Assistant Athletic Director Scott Whiteman started getting more activity on his phone. It was the basketball athletes checking on open gym status. “We couldn’t practice the last week of school, because it was finals,” said Piper Seamon, a 2020 Cooperstown Central School graduate and college basketball player at Hamilton College in Clinton. “So, I was texting Scott a week before I got home, ‘Are you open? Can I work out?’” In the off seasons…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 Virtual Memorial Pit Run PIT RUN – Virtual run in memory of Ricky J. ‘Pit’ Parisian, state trooper killed in the line of duty. Run a 5K, 10K, or 100K (new this year). Visit runsignup.com/Race/NY/Oneonta/PitRun?fbclid=IwAR3l-EumM-3CtHNOyxuyLMqZiHbY7l7T-EryomEfBofYH20haFqsVNROWhk for info.…
After COVID delay, Cooperstown teacher plans overseas trip for 2022 By PATRICK DEWEY • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com For more than 15 years Cooperstown High School history teacher Jennifer Pindar has loved leading student groups on educational trips abroad, a tradition she will continue after the coronavirus pandemic canceled last year’s trip. In 2022, Pindar will lead a student trip to London, Belgium and Amsterdam. The destinations were agreed on in consultation with educational travel company World Strides. Along with Pindar, students will be accompanied by tour guides from World Strides and parents and teachers who agree to chaperone. The school…
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