CLARK GREENHOUSE TEAM DEPLOYS Sign Of The Season: Daffodil Bulbs Planted The team from the Clark Foundation Greenhouses completed planting 1,000 daffodil bulbs this morning at the Cooperstown United Methodist Church at Chestnut and Glen, after completing similar annual autumn plantings in the past few days at the village’s other four churches, Christ Episcopal, St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake,” First Baptist and First Presbyterian. From left are Barry Shirley, Ray Miller, Curtis Hurley, Bob Schworn and Jason Swezey. …
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REINVENTING BROOKS BBQ Landmark Adopts ‘Pick-It-Up, Take-It-In’ Approach This Week By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Ryan Brooks, third-generation owner of Brooks BBQ is a man of his word. “I made a promise to my grandma” – Frances Brooks, co-found with husband Griffin – “that I was always going to keep this place going,” he said. When the COVID threat shuttered the restaurant in March, he began innovating almost immediately to ensure the regional culinary landmark would…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Oct. 22-23, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Bail-Free, 2 Defendants Skip Their Trials Councilman Questions ‘Savagery’ On Plaque New SUNY Oneonta President Succeeds Morris Oneonta Mayor Vetoes Mask-Mandate Law Trio Deny There’s Any Thin ‘Blue Line’ Dispute Master Gardeners Plan Cooperstown Upgrade ELECTIONS 2020 BARBER: If Elected, He’ll Be Sole Farmer Senator OBERACKER: Business, Government Experience SALKA: Overcoming Hard Knocks, He Succeeds BUTTERMAN: Vision Of Future Excites Him EDITORIAL…
HORRORS! But To Brian Burger, Fear Is Spice Of Life By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – For Brian Burger, being a little bit spooked is essential to a good quality of life. “Everything seems a little better after you’ve watched a horror movie,” he said. “It gets the blood pumping. You get more oxygen. And you feel better. The world seems a little nicer.” Burger, a clubhouse assistant at Friends of Recovery of Delaware-Otsego Club Odyssey, has…
CLICK TO WATCH TODAY’S EVENT Salka Press Conference Begins Tour Promoting Overturning Bail Reform If Elected, Oberacker Vows To Introduce Senate Companion Legislation ‘On Jan. 1’ By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com WAMPSVILLE – On the steps of the Madison County Courthouse here this morning, Assemblyman John Salka, R-121, announced his introduction of Bill A11067, which he said, if approved, would repeal the Democratic majority’s controversial bail reforms of 2019. Salka said he plans to hold similar press conferences…
Fund Drive Seeks $200K For Garden Education Center Project Includes Rain Garden, Greek-Revival Meeting Shed By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Eight years in the planning, $200,000 in fundraising is beginning on an Education Center on Lake Street to expand the offerings of Otsego County’s Master Gardeners organization. “The ‘Grow With Cornell Cooperative Extension’ plan will reconfigure our grounds into a center for garden-based learning with an impact that will reach throughout our county,” said Jason Stone,…
GUEST COLUMN Is Ordering Pupils Back The Right Way To Go? Editor’s Note: Two Charlotte Valley Central School parents provided this commentary on the reopening of the school. By ELIZABETH HITT & SARA LOTTERMAN Over the last several months, it feels like we have watched the world fall apart. We have felt scared for our country, for the world, for our families and friends, but most of all we feel scared for our children. Most recently we were shaken by…
Drive-Thru Festival Of Lights Set For 2 Weeks At Christmas ONEONTA – First Night Oneonta decided this afternoon on a two-week drive-thru Festival of Lights at Neahwa Park during the Christmas season, board member David Hayes said a few minutes ago. Community groups will be asked to decorated lighted trees in the park, and they will be illuminated Dec. 18-Jan. 3, Hayes said. Further details will be forthcoming.…
‘Nurses’ Hopeful Eyes’ Grip COVID-19 Patient Delhi Artist Recalls Narrow Escape From Bassett News Service COOPERSTOWN – This fall, Horace “Glenn” Lee, who spent weeks in Bassett Hospital’s intensive care unit last spring fighting COVID-19, returned to the ICU to thank the doctors and nurses who saved his life. “I was in the hospital for 37 days total, three weeks in Cooperstown’s ICU and two weeks in rehabilitation at O’ Connor Hospital in Delhi,” said Lee, a 69-year-old contemporary American…
IN MEMORIAM Darlene Rose Munson March 3, 1951-Oct. 17,2020 MARYLAND – Darlene Rose Munson, 69, passed away Oct. 17, 2020, at home with her loving family at her side. She was born March 3, 1951, in Oneonta, the daughter of Dominic and Betty (Rogers) Mastro. She married Steven F. Munson on July 18, 1970, in Oneonta. They celebrated their 50th anniversary this year. She is survived by her husband, Steve; her children, Shawn and wife, Tricia Munson, and Shaynon Munson…
