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DeLancey-Cooper House On Verge Of Being Sold, Donations Needed

DeLancey-Cooper House On Verge Of Being Sold, Donations Needed COOPERSTOWN – The Friends of the DeLancey-Cooper House in Mamaroneck have only two weeks to raise the final $500,000 of $2.5 million needed to acquire and preserve the property where James Fenimore Cooper was provoked into writing his first novel, “Precaution.” “I’m afraid we don’t have good news,” Carol Akin of Mamaroneck, who summers on Otsego Lake, in an e-mail to people who have supported the drive. She said a major…

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Perlman, Pietraface, Baker Reelected As SUNY College Foundation Leaders

Perlman, Pietraface, Baker Reelected As SUNY College Foundation Leaders ONEONTA – Paul Perlman,’76, of Orchard Park, partner at the Buffalo law firm of Hodgson Russ LLP, was reelected as president of the SUNY Oneonta College Foundation Board of Directors Bill Pietraface, SUNY Oneonta professor emeritus of biology, has been reelected vice president, and Carol Baker,’66, retired chair of the OHS Guidance Department, as secretary.…

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Otsego County’s Broadband Pioneer, Jim Becker, Wins Leadership Award

Jim Becker, Otsego County Broadband Contractor, Wins Leadership Award ALBANY– Jim Becker, president of Middleburgh Telephone Co., which will be installing Otsego County’s new broadband system in 2016, won the Extraordinary Broadband Leadership Award at the third annual New York State Broadband Summit in Albany. The Broadband Summit brought together more than 350 broadband stakeholders from New York and around the country to forge partnerships, discuss policy issues related to broadband deployment and adoption, and to hear best practices from nationally…

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Hartwick Man Waved Knife At Chief, Officer, D.A. Says

Hartwick Man, 71, Waved Knife At Chief, Officer, D.A. Says HARTWICK – A 71-year-old Hartwick man has been arrested for allegedly menacing Cooperstown Police Chief Mike Covert and a village officer with a knife during a 911 call, county District Attorney John M. Muehl announced today. Assisting EMS, Covert and Patrolman Joshua Flint responded to the Schultz home at 155 Greenough Road, Hartwick, on April 27, 2015.  While interviewing Jackson S. Schultz in the kitchen, he allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife out of…

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Michael J. Muehl, 89; Ran Emmons Dairy Farm For 27 Years

IN MEMORIAM:  Michael J. Muehl, 89; Ran Emmons Dairy Farm For 27 Years ONEONTA – Michael Joseph Muehl, who operated a dairy farm in Emmons for 27 years, passed away peacefully on Monday, July 27, 2015.  He was 89. Michael was born on Jan. 18, 1926 in Palesnik, Yugoslavia, the son of the late Jakob and Katherine (Schmall) Muehl.  He was raised in Worcester.  He married Lois Jennings June 8, 1946. From 1952-1979 Mike and Lois operated a dairy farm in…