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Celebration On Glimmerglass’ Shores Opens Bunny Hamilton Amphitheatre COOPERSTOWN – With a laugh-eliciting comment, “this could be dangerous,” benefactress Mrs. Lewis L. “Bunny” Hamilton cut the ribbon this evening on a lake-side amphitheatre named in her honor at “Otsego: A Meeting Place,” the Native-American-themed exhibit behind The Fenimore Art Museum. She used a pair of shears crafted especially for the occasion in The Farmers’ Museum blacksmith shop. NYSHA President Paul D’Ambrosio presented the shears to Mrs. Hamilton as a memento of her…
SUNY Oneonta Announces New VP; Chambers To Succeed Retiring Perry ONEONTA – Dr. Franklin (Frank) Chambers will join SUNY Oneonta as vice president for student development, effective July 1, the college announced this afternoon. He succeeds Dr. Steven Perry, who is retiring. Dr. Chambers has more than 20 years of experience working in higher education, most recently as vice president for student affairs at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Md. Coincidentally, SUNY Oneonta announced Tuesday that its provost, Maria Thompson, was…
IN MEMORIAM: Julia Alexandra Levandowski, 21 COOPERSTOWN – Julia Alexandra Levandowski, beloved daughter of Linda Levandowski and Kevin Klix, died unexpectedly in the early morning hours of Thursday, May 21, 2015, as the result of injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. She was 21. Calling hours at 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, May 26, at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home, when Julia’s family will be in attendance. Interment will be private. With respect for Julie’s love of music when…
SINGLE-CAR CRASH KILLS COOPERSTOWN WOMAN, 21 Driver, 23, Charged With Vehicular Manslaughter, DWI COOPERSTOWN – A former Cooperstown man is charged with vehicular manslaughter and DWI after a single-car crash at 2:13 a.m. Thursday where a 21-year-old Cooperstown woman was killed. Charged is Brandon E. Lane, 23, now of Prattsville, was operating a 2001 Mitsubishi Galant northbound when the car went off the east shoulder of Route 80, according to state police at Richfield Springs. The vehicle became airborne and struck…
Cooperstown Parking Permits Will Go Into Effect Tomorrow COOPERSTOWN – Traffic was steady at the Village Clerk’s office at 22 Main St. this afternoon with residents making last-minute purchases of summer parking permits. The permits go into effect Saturday, the start of Memorial Day Weekend, and allow permit holders to park on village streets anywhere where paid parking is in place. For now, the permits are not valid in the Doubleday Field lot, where all-day paid parking it being encouraged. (However,…
IN MEMORIAM: Edwin A. Johnson, 81; Painter Of Folk Art In Fly Creek Valley FLY CREEK – Edwin Arthur Johnson, a local American folk artist, former real estate agent, and former textile executive, died late Monday afternoon, May 18, 2015, at the state Veterans’ Home at Oxford. He was 81. For several years, Ed provided the cover images for the Otsego Book, then the county’s foremost tourist book, making his work familiar to hundreds of thousands of tourists to the…
Third Candidate Announces She’ll Run In Fourth Ward ONEONTA – Michelle Osterhoudt of Elm Street today announced her intention to run for Common Council representing the Fourth Ward as a Democrat on the Democratic Party line. So far, it will be a three-way race, against Republican Laura Dohner and independent Jeff Back. They are seeking to succeed Council member Mike Lynch, who decided not to run again.…