100 Women Who Care Choose OFO as Recipient Save Save…
100 Women Who Care Choose OFO as Recipient Save Save…
State Homes Commissioner Tours ‘The New Downtown’ Save…
Tourism Benefit To County Keeps Growing, Study Says COOPERSTOWN – With the county Board of Representatives due to vote Wednesday, Aug. 3, on extending a tourism-promotion contract, the state Division of tourism & Tourism Economics has released a survey showing the sector continues to grow in Otsego County. The percentage of state and local taxes generated from the Otsego County tourism industry nearly doubled in 2015, according to Destination Marketing of Otsego County, the privatized tourism-promotion effort.…
IN MEMORIAM: Doris Tiffany, 77; Operated Coachlines With Husband ONEONTA – Doris Marie Tiffany, 77, a partner with her husband in Pathfinder Coachlines, peacefully passed away in her sleep early Sunday morning, July 24, 2016 at the Chase Memorial Nursing Home in New Berlin. She was born on May 8, 1939, in Oneonta, a daughter of the late Ken and Marie (Leonard) Harvey. Doris grew up in Oneonta and attended Oneonta schools. On Dec. 29, 1956, Doris married Jack M.…
Trustees May Form New ‘Entity’ To Confer With Hall On Induction…
IN MEMORIAM: Flo Folensbee, Local Cancer Society Executive UNADILLA – Oneonta native Florence “Flo” Folensbee, 79, local American Cancer Society executive director for many years, passed away Tuesday, July 19, 2016, at home in Unadilla, surrounded by her family. Flo was born June 28, 1937, in Oneonta, the daughter of the late Earl and Nellie M. (Hilsinger) Carr. She married Robert Folensbee in January 1984. In addition to her work for the Cancer Society, she retired in 1999 from…
IN MEMORIAM: Edwin Van Hensbergen, 94; Father, Grandfather Of Local Naples Family ONEONTA – Edwin Van Hensbergen of Castleton, whose survivors include Oneonta’s Jean Naples and her five sons, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Thursday, July 21, just shy of his 95th birthday. He was born on his grandfather Hoffman’s Farm in Castleton-on-the-Hudson on Aug. 1, 1921, and spent the rest of his life there. He graduated from Maple Hill High School where he played basketball. Ed served his country during…
Today’s Induction 2nd Biggest, Baseball Hall Of Fame Asserts COOPERSTOWN – Today’s induction of Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza into the Hall of Fame drew 50,000 people, the Hall of Fame estimated a few minutes ago. That makes today’s crowd the second-largest in history, the Hall said. The Hall didn’t say which was the biggest, but it may have been Cal Ripken Jr.’s in 2007 or Nolan Ryan’s in 1999.…
HALL OF FAME INDUCTION 2016 With Tears Of Joy, Piazza, Griffey In GO THERE WITH INDUCTION SLIDE SHOW…