BULLETIN Brooks BBQ Featured In ‘The Week’ ONEONTA – This just in: Brook BBQ has been included as a “great restaurant” in “Road Trip: Beyond the Buffalo wing in Upstate New York,” in this week’s edition of The Week, the national news magazine. …
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IN MEMORIAM: Jeanne Fleury, 69; Mother Of Former City Councilman ONEONTA – Jeanne Louise Fleury, 69, Nanuet, Rockland County, mother of former Oneonta Common Council member Chip Holmes, passed away Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, after a long illness. Jeanne grew up in Andes, the daughter of the late LeRoy and Anne Fleury. She formerly lived in Oneonta.…
On WAMC’s ‘Morning Headlines’, Editor Tells Of Cooperstown Divesting Oil Stocks In Thursday’s weekly radio report on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, Jim Kevlin, editor/publisher of www.AllOTSEGO.com (and Hometown Oneonta & the Freeman’s Journal), reported on the Cooperstown Village Board’s first-in-the-nation decision to divest one of its pension funds of all oil, coal and gas stocks. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS WEEK’S REPORT…
IN MEMORIAM: Russell Hoag, 73, Carpenter; In Retirement, Captained ‘Rusty Nail’ In S.C. ONEONTA – Russell Harvey Hoag, 73, of Cape Carteret, N.C., who raised his family and practiced his carpentry trade in Oneonta, died Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at the Crystal Coast Hospice House, Newport. Mr. Hoag was born in Delhi to William Harvey Hoag and Olive Easson Hoag. Hoagie was raised in Delancey. He was trained to be a master carpenter by his Grandfather Harvey and he took…
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IN MEMORIAM: Willis Wightman, 78; Stock Car Hall Of Fame 2012 Inductee RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Willis Lee Wightman, 78, a welder and a member of the Midstate Antique Car Association Hall of Fame, passed away peacefully on Monday evening, Oct. 24, 2016, at Bassett Hospital, with his family by his side. He was born on Aug. 19, 1938, in Cooperstown, son of the late Leo and Vera Rose-Wightman, and raised on the family farm in Schuyler Lake.…
Kyle Burch, 31; Succumbs To Leukemia ONEONTA – Kyle Burch, 31, a SUNY Oneonta alumni recently diagnosed with leukemia, passed away today, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. Burch, who recently joined the SUNY Oneonta Student Accounts Office, was the focus of a GoFundMe drive after the diagnosis. Arrangements are pending with Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, Oneonta, and a full obituary will be forthcoming.…
MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD Deadline Extended On Political Letters Editor’s Note: Due to high interest in the presidential and other elections coming up on Tuesday, Nov. 8, the deadline for political Letters to the Editor has been extended for one week. Letters will now be accepted until 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31, to be published in the upcoming pre-election editions of Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal. Below is an example of one of 10 excellent letters from readers published…
Land Trust Director Resigns After Less Than Year In Post COOPERSTOWN – Citing family commitments, John Winter, Otsego Land Trust executive for less than a year, will be resigning, the Land Trust announced today. Because of those commitments, he has been unexpectedly delayed relocating to the Cooperstown area and will not be able to do so for another two years. This development has made performance of his duties difficult and he offered his resignation to the Land Trust’s board of directors…
IN MEMORIAM: Lynette Marie Dibble, 63; Former Village Clerk Worked For Arc Otsego HARTWICK – Lynette Marie Dibble, 63, a former Richfield Springs village clerk and a community service provider for Arc Otsego, passed away peacefully on a beautiful Fall Sunday afternoon, Oct. 23, 2016, with her two sons and closest friends by her side. She was born Oct. 31, 1952, in the Town of New Berlin, a daughter of the late Stanley G. and Lolita V. (Mead) Clark. She graduated…