County Board Vote Fails To OK Tourism Contract By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Destination Marketing of Otsego County (DMOC) found itself in the middle of the political crossfire at today’s county Board of Representatives meeting. DMOC is led by a board of volunteer directors from the hospitality industry who contracted with the county to invest part of the county’s bed-tax revenues to put “heads in beds” – i.e., tourists in hotels and motels. The first three-year contract…
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CONGRESSMAN IN COOPERSTOWN Gibson In Valedictory: Government Can Work COOPERSTOWN – In what may be his final appearance before Cooperstown Rotarians while a congressman, Chris Gibson, R-19, told club club members today that, despite widely heard predictions of gloom, the federal government can and is working. Gibson, who is retiring at the end of the year, pointed out that Congress, after all the threats of shutting down government in recent years, actually agreed on a two-year budget agreement that will…
Recuperated, Seward On Job, Due Back In Albany Tomorrow SEE DETAILS OF SENATOR SEWARD’S PLANS FOR THIS SESSION IN THIS WEEK’S HOMETOWN ONEONTA, FREEMAN’S JOURNAL…
Gibson Presents Medals To World War II Veteran…
IN MEMORIAM: Dorothy Bly, 98; Retired Little Falls Funeral Director COOPERSTOWN – Dorothy A. Bly, 98, who retired to Cooperstown with her husband after operating a funeral parlor in Little Falls for a quarter century, passed away Saturday afternoon, May 28, 2016, at Valley Health Services in Herkimer. She had been residing at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home. Born Oct. 7, 1917, in Rochester, she was a daughter of Dea W. and Hazel (Roberts) Hess. The first born of three…
MEMORIAL DAY 2016 Commander Carson Directs Commemoration A Last Time SEE PICTURE PAGE IN UPCOMING HOMETOWN ONEONTA…
MEMORIAL DAY 2016 Cooperstown Extends Tradition At Soldiers’, Sailors’ Monument SEE SLIDE SHOW OF TODAY’S COMMEMORATION…
MEM DAY 2016 SLIDE SHOW…
88 Degrees On Saturday Beats Record By 2 Degrees The 88-degree record high on Memorial Day Weekend Saturday beat the 86-degree market set in 1911 and tied in 1978, AllOTSEGO.com (and Hometown Oneonta and Freeman’s Journal) weather watcher Dave Mattice reports. Thursday, the high was 85 degrees; Friday, 86, and Sunday, 86, Mattice reports, not record but enough to constitute a heat wave around here. …
Memorial Day Commemorations Bring Gibson To Burlington Flats Congressman Chris Gibson, R-19, will attended Memorial Day ceremonies at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Burlington Flats, home of Cpl. Michael Mayne, who died in battle in Iraq on Feb. 23, 2009. In Oneonta, the Memorial Day parade will march down Main Street at 10 a.m. Monday. At 11 a.m., commemorations are planned at the monument at the top of the Veterans Memorial Walkway in Neahwa Park. In Cooperstown, the parade will leave…