BRIEFING IN SCHENEVUS Questions Greet, Applause Affirms Mathes Appearance 75 Attendees Provided Details Of Hunt For Distribution Center By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.allotsego.com SCHENEVUS – “Welcome,” an audience member called out when Otsego Now CEO Sandy Mathes finished introducing the concept of a 250- to 600-job distribution center to a community whose commercial base dropped from 57 businesses to a handful in the last half-century. Even with 90 minutes of sometimes probing questions that followed from the 75…
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Fox Nursing Home Lifts Flu Restrictions ONEONTA – As of tomorrow, Fox Nursing Home is lifting visitor restrictions imposed Feb. 3 due to flu cases in the nursing home. Even though the restrictions have been lifted, people who feel ill should refrain from visiting.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, FEB. 21 Holiday Fun For Kids OPEN BOWLING – 10:30 a.m.-Noon. Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. Info, www.clarksportscenter.com/events/no-school/ KIDS YOGA – 11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. Info, www.clarksportscenter.com/events/no-school/…
IN MEMORIAM Robert W. Ranger, 79; Helped Found Bank Of Cooperstown WEST WINFIELD – Robert W. Ranger, 79, a member of the Bank of Cooperstown’s founding Board of Directors, died Saturday evening, Feb. 18, 2017, at Bassett Hospital following a brief illness. Bob was born June 15, 1937, in Corning to Robert W. and Freida (Spreitzer) Ranger. He was raised in Painted Post and graduated from high school there. He received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s…
IN MEMORIAM: John D. Guntert, 68; Marine, Master Mechanic In Oneonta DAVENPORT – John D. Guntert, 68, a master mechanic at Country Club Automotive for 35 years, passed away at his home on Feb. 16, 2017. He was born Oct. 11, 1948, in Stamford, the son of Ernest and Jean (Wiltsie) Guntert. A Marine, he served in Vietnam. He married Joanna Irwin on June 29, 1991, in Binghamton. They have been friends since the ninth grade.…
IN MEMORIAM: Viola Reed, 87, Oneonta; Ran Daycare Service At Home For 21 Years ONEONTA – Viola M. Reed, 87, who operated a daycare service in her Oneonta home for 21 years while raising her own children, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, at Chestnut Park Rehab. & Nursing Center. She was born Aug. 8, 1929, in Fleischmanns the daughter of the late Harley and Florence (Caniff) Haynes. Viola graduated from Treadwell Central School. On May 7, 1948, Viola married…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, FEB. 20 Remembering Songs Of Civil Rights COMMUNITY SING-A-LONG – 7-9 p.m. An evening of spirituals and other songs of the Civil Rights Movement. Hosted by Intercultural affairs and the Music Department. Celebration Room, Hartwick College. Info, Lee Wright wrightl@hartwick.edu ROLLER DERBY PRACTICE – 6 p.m. Sports team practice. Anyone 18 and older of any skill level are welcome. Interskate 88, 5185 St. Hwy. 23, Oneonta. Info, www.facebook.com/hillcityrollers/…
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3-Decade Trolley Heyday Lures 75 To History Center Greater Oneonta Historical Society Executive Director Bob Brozowski, top photo, left, welcomes a standing-room-only crowd to rail historian Jim Loudon’s “The Otsego Trolley Line” lecture this afternoon at the History Center. Loudon (inset photo) recounted how the Oneonta & Otego Valley Railroad, founded in 1897, expanded to Hartwick, Cooperstown, Richfield Springs and, eventually, Mohawk, in a financially troubled 36-year history before, as the Southern NY Railroad, it finally collapsed in 1933, victim of…
Mercury In Mid ’50s For 230 ‘Polar Bears’ For the first time in a long time, the water was colder than the air at the 21st annual Polar Bear Jump at Goodyear Lake this afternoon. Under the watchful eyes of the state police Troop C Dive Team, over 230 jumpers braved icy water to help raise money to help ten local recipients . Above, event organizer Brenda Waters, Milford, and Jay Murphy, Oneonta, call the jumpers out onto the ice to line up…