DA’s Office: No Trial For Callahan ’til 2017 COOPERSTOWN – Casey Callahan, 50, will likely go to trial in 2017 after being arrested in June for the alleged killing of his wife Elizabeth 16 years before in Pennsylvania, according to Investigator Mike Ten Eyck at the county District Attorney’s Office. “There’s not as much of a rush; he’s not sitting in the county jail, he’s already serving a sentence in Attica,” said Ten Eyck, after Callahan was back at the…
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Zephyr Teachout, Congressional Candidate, Weds Over Weekend Zephyr Teachout, the Democratic candidate for Congress for Otsego County, married Nick Juliusburger on Saturday in a small ceremony with family and friends in Dover Plains. Rev. Megan Sanders of the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Pleasant Valley, officiated. The couple released the following statement: “We are thrilled and grateful to share our commitment to each other with those closest to us, and the community we love.”…
IN MEMORIAM: Rochelle Semel; Taught Labor Relations At Cornell HARTWICK – Rochelle Semel, artist, social and labor activist, teacher, and all around lover of life, died peacefully Aug. 27, 2016, after a short, but serious illness. She will be deeply missed by her children Danny and Lani, her daughter-in-law Amelia, and her other family and dear friends. Rochelle was born in 1933 in The Bronx to Joseph and Julia Posner, and after many travels, eventually settled in Hartwick with her…
Accused In Wife’s Death, Suspect Is Back In Court COOPERSTOWN – Casey J. Callahan, 50, who was arrested in June, accused of killing his wife Elizabeth 16 years before in Pennsylvania, is in court for a hearing at this hour. While the case had been handled in Pennsylvania, District Attorney John M. Muehl concluded that, since Callahan, a Unadilla native, originated the plan to kill his wife while they were living in Goodyear Lake, he has jurisdistion. Muehl is alleging…
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IN MEMORIAM: Harry B. Edmonds Jr.; Farmed In Cherry Valley For 45 Years CHERRY VALLEY – Harold B. Edmonds Jr, 78, who farmed for more than 45 years in Cherry Valley, passed away peacefully at his home, surrounded by loved ones, following a long battle with cancer. He was born March 25, 1938, in Malverne, on Long Island, son of the late Catheline and Harold Edmonds Sr. The family moved to Cherry Valley in 1946 and he graduated from Cherry…
Common Council Asked To Join Hartwick Students In ‘Get Scoop’ ONEONTA – Southside Mall manager Luisa Montanti has invited Common Council and City Hall department heads to participate in “Get the Scoop,” an ice-cream social and free movie the mall and Hartwick College are hosting next Sunday, the afternoon of the 4th. At the suggestion of Paul Patterson, Oneonta Public Transit director, the officials have been invited to get on the OPT bus at 3:45 p.m., before it picks up the…
IN MEMORIAM: Veteran Wesley Osborne, 55 MARYLAND – Wesley D. Osborne, 55, an Army veteran most recently employed at Wightman’s Lumber in Portlandville, passed away Aug. 24, 2016, at Fox Hospital. He was born Nov. 25, 1961 in Blossburg, Pa., the son of Harvey Osborne Jr. and Shirley (Scarborough) Osborne.…
Fly Creek Days Bring Throngs To Village, Surrounding Roads Crystal Hurn of Cobleskill, top photo, right, was alerted to the tag sale at the Fly Creek Area Historical Society this morning by her parents, Ed and Judy Thorne, and she brought friend Lori Scorzelli with her to set up a jewelry stand for Fly Creek Days. Tag sales are the order of the day today in the Fly Creek vicinity, as tag sales abound in the downtown and virtually every…
For 18th Year, Garlic Sale On At Dancin’ Veggie Farm Rachel Ainslie, top photo, who operates the Dancin’ Veggie Farm off Fly Creek Valley Road near the Town of Richfield line with husband Warren, answers Oneontan Lara Meyers’ questions during the annual garlic sale, underway until 6 p.m. today for the 18th year. Lara was attending with mom Sharon from Burlington Flats. All the garlic is Elmer’s Top Set, named after a neighbor who provided the Ainslies with their first…