EXHIBIT OPENING—5-8 p.m. “Family Portrait.” First Friday event. Show runs through 12/1. 25 Main Collective, 21 Main Street, Cherry Valley. (607) 264-5340 or visit https://www.facebook.com/25maincollective/…
EXHIBIT OPENING—5-8 p.m. “Family Portrait.” First Friday event. Show runs through 12/1. 25 Main Collective, 21 Main Street, Cherry Valley. (607) 264-5340 or visit https://www.facebook.com/25maincollective/…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta October 31, 2024 Front Page Coop Board of Trustees: ‘No’ to Proposed Sign Law Amendment A Happy Hartwick Hallowe’en County Ballots Replete With Unexpired Terms, Empty Seats OLT Project Underway Inside Milford Businessman Plans Free Autism Park for Area Residents Mayor Drnek Clarifies Voting Access to Foothills Polling Location Candidates for the General Election: In Their Words Otsego County Early Voting News Briefs News Briefs: October 31, 2024 Editorial Guest Editorial:…
Linda M. O’Connor, age 74, passed away very unexpectedly on Friday, October 18, 2024 in Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown after being taken to the emergency department by her good friend. Linda was born on March 24, 1950 in Cooperstown, a daughter of the late Martin Syczyk and Anne Hrynda Hornacek. She was raised and educated in Richfield Springs, graduating from Richfield Springs Central School.…
Iron String Press reached out to candidates in statewide races for the November 5, 2024 General Election, as well as those running in the City of Oneonta, for their thoughts on why voters should choose them at the polls.…
Consider a thunderstorm, nature’s best display of electric energy. Through complicated collisions and Sisyphean updrafts within the storm, particles with negative charges are driven toward the cloud base, with positive charges accumulating near the top. This separation creates a large electric potential difference (voltage) between the cloud base and the ground below, because the ground often becomes positively charged in response.…
According to the prestigious Brennan Center for Justice, over the last 50-plus years, there has been no evidence of voter fraud in the United States on a scale even close enough to change the outcome of an election. The “Washington Post” has also noted that following the 2016 election, there were only four documented cases of voter fraud out of 136 million votes counted votes.…
Subjects include Otsego Lake, four seasons of a tree on Fair Street, the Stone Bridge and a few other locations, including Pyramid Lake, where Tripp participated annually in writing workshops. A short comment for each piece of artwork illustrates Tripp’s boundless personality depicted in her painting and writing.…
First, each of us on this board has the title of trustee. We are fiduciaries, sworn to care for the public interest and rule of law, including the safety, health, comfort, and general welfare of Cooperstown’s inhabitants, the protection of their property and businesses, and the preservation of peace and good order in our public spaces.…
As mayor of Cooperstown, it is my honor to be asked to speak every year at our community’s Memorial Day Ceremony. I often note the memorials in our village to honor and remember those who travelled far beyond our small community to defend the principles and freedoms of our nation. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument, where the Memorial Day ceremony takes place, was erected in the early 1900s not by the village but by Otsego County in memory of all…
110 YEARS AGO: Evidence of skill with the rifle was witnessed Saturday by many Oneontans when two Ford motor cars were driven into the city by Mssrs. William Whitney and William Walker of Deposit, containing three fine bucks which were shot in the Long Lake region in the Adirondacks. Willis Walker, who was also a member of the party, brought down two of the bucks with his rifle.
Among all the autumn decorations in the display windows of the city, few…