FIBER—1-4 p.m. “The Gatehouse Fiber Guild.” New knitters welcome. Held each Sunday. The Gatehouse, 129 Main Street, Morris. (607) 285-4111 or visit https://www.facebook.com/thegatehouseny…
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YOGA—10 a.m. “Slow Flow Yoga.” Weekly class, open to all levels. Suggested donation applies. The Green Earth Health Market, Community Room, 4 Market Street, Oneonta. hello@erinrae.yoga or visit https://www.greenearthoneonta.com/class-schedule…
Maria Graham, age 55, passed away on December 12, 2024 from complications of Type 1 diabetes. She was born September 23, 1969 to Linda (Gregorio) and Edward Graham, and grew up in Fort Ann, New York. She graduated from Fort Ann Central High School and attended the State University College at Oneonta.
After college, Maria lived in the Oneonta, New York area. Over the course of her professional life, she was a baker, a caterer, a bookseller, a manager and a realtor.…
Martha Mary (Richtsfeld) Messner, a well-known and much-loved nurse in Otsego County for most of her life, died on December 13, 2024 at age 75 after a courageous battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Martha was born on March 22, 1949 in Oneonta, New York, to Erna and Marcus Richtsfeld, both immigrants from Germany, and was baptized at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Delhi on May 1, 1949. Martha grew up on the family dairy farm near East Meredith where she and her sister,…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta January 2, 2025 Front Page Bassett Healthcare Continues To Add Practitioners Across Network Otsego Outdoors Announces Its Winter Octet Challenge Inside Not Political, Not Religious: Lions Club Is ‘Just Here to Serve’ Service Milestones Celebrated Spotted Lanternfly Update News Briefs News Briefs: January 2, 2025 Editorial Resolution in the New Year Letters Hewlett: A&D Continues to Let Us Down Columns News from the Noteworthy: New Year, New Outlook for Coop Chamber…
OPENING RECEPTION—5-8 p.m. “Winter Panorama.” First Friday event. Show runs through 2/2. 25 Main Collective, 21 Main Street, Cherry Valley. (607) 264-5340 or visit https://www.facebook.com/25maincollective/…
50 Years Ago: The Best of Television—“Of Women & Men” NBC News Special—Ambitious, provocative three-hour study of the changing relations between women and men in a multitude of fields, ranging from sex, life-styles, family life, education and divorce, to jobs, politics, religion and sports. Reporters Barbara Walters and Tom Snyder handle their jobs as co-hosts and interviewers with sensitivity, and the fact comes through that women have, indeed, changed and broadened the pattern of their identities to permit a wide…
185 YEARS AGO: Tobacco—We are of the opinion that tobacco has a much more deleterious effect upon the constitution than is generally apprehended, either when snuffed, chewed, or smoked. Tobacco chewers and tobacco smokers are worse off, if possible, than snuff takers. They may live longer than the rum drinker and some constitutions possibly may not suffer essential injury in the moderate use of tobacco. But there is a danger that moderate smoking and chewing may create an inordinate desire…
FAMILY MOVIE—1 p.m. “Wall-E.” Village Library of Cooperstown, 22 Main Street, Cooperstown. (607) 547-8344 or visit https://www.facebook.com/VillageLibraryOfCooperstown…
NEW YEAR—First Day Hikes. https://parks.ny.gov/events/first-day-hikes.aspx
• 9 a.m. to noon. Gilbert Lake State Park, 18 CCC Road, Laurens.
• 10 a.m. to noon. Glimmerglass State Park, 1527 County Highway 31, Cooperstown. …