Seward Again Proposes Naming Herkimer Diamond State Mineral ALBANY – At the initiative of state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, the state Senate today passed legislation (S.5866) that would designate the Herkimer Diamond, “the distinctive quartz crystals from the Mohawk Valley,” as the state mineral. “The Herkimer Diamond is known worldwide,” said Seward. “Residents of the Mohawk Valley take great pride in the discovery of this unique gem and are extremely pleased that it is in line to be added to…
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Logue, Erway, Haney, Hage Win Top Coop Youth Baseball Awards HARTWICK – The Cooperstown Youth Baseball Board of Directors has awarded the 2015 Terry Bliss Softball Award to Carly Erway and Faith Logue, and the 2015 Laverne “Beanie” Ainslie Award to Alex Hage and Kendall Haney. The awards, the highest honor that the CYB Board of Directors bestows on baseball and softball players, were presented on Wednesday at the annual CYB end of season picnic in Hartwick. “Both of these…
Fab Friday Features Pizza Judging, Mural Unveiling, Buffalo & Brandy ONEONTA – Hartwick College President Margaret Drugovich will join Mayor Russ Southard, Town Supervisor Bob Wood and sports announcer Eric Malanowski in a pizza-judging contest at 5:30 p.m. Friday, kicking off Fabulous Friday activities tomorrow in downtown Oneonta. The contest aims to identify the best pizza in town, according to Julia Goff, Destination Oneonta executive director. At 6 p.m., the first of five murals that will adorn the Dietz Street…
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Historian Bissell Tells Oneonta Story Through Tours Of Earliest Cemetery ONEONTA – Visit the gravesites of E. R. Ford, the Wilbers and Huntingtons and learn about Oneonta’s First Families. Lynn Bissell, local historian and member of the Greater Oneonta Historical Society, is reprising his tours of historic city cemeteries: This Wednesday, beginning at 7 p.m., behind the First Presbyterian Church, 269 Main St., Bissell will tell the story of early Oneonta through the stories of early families while touring the Riverside…
One Of 2 Dannemora Escapees Was Raised In Delaware County David Sweat, one of two escapees from Dannemora Correctional Facility still on the loose, was raised in the Delaware County Village of Deposit, 33 miles south of Oneonta, according to an explorations of their boyhoods in the New York Times. “They had beginnings that weren’t much,” the newspaper reported over the weekend. “David Sweat grew up in Deposit, N.Y., a speck of a town about 30 miles east of Binghamton, raised mainly by…
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Mass For SUNY VP Carol Blazina Planned June 22 ONEONTA – A funeral mass for Carol A. Blazina, 70, the retired SUNY Oneonta vice president/communications, is being planned for 10:15 a.m. Monday, June 22, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, the Bookhouse Funeral Home announced. She passed away on June 2, 2015, after a year-long battle with stomach cancer. Carol was born on July 29, 1944 to Mary and H. Enrico Blazina in New York City’s most ethnically diverse neighborhood where…
Army Awards Bronze Star To Laurens’ Remagen Vet By JIM KEVLIN • for allotsego.com LAURENS – For the past 70 years, he’s been William Brindle of Laurens, working at Bendix, driving cars for Country Club Automotive, or on the job at the Hanford Mills Museum, (plus doing wedding photographs, hunting with wife Betty, and developing his woodworking skills.) This morning, he was transported back to March 28, 1945, where, as Staff Sgt. Brindle of Company G, First Battalion 16th Infantry…