HOMETOWN HISTORY July 8, 2021 Compiled by Tom Heitz/SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library 135 Years Ago Kate Farrell, aged 22, whose home is at Starucca, Pennsylvania, has for a few weeks been visiting her sister, Mrs. Frazee, at Gaylord’s store, West Harpersfield. Kate was addicted to the morphine habit. She obtained as a substitute some hydrate of chloral. Sunday afternoon she visited Agnes Ward of Oneonta, who is caring for her mother, not…
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Art Garage to open new shows over weekend STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Art Garage is opening two shows Saturday, July 10, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. According to a media release, the first show is “Dissonance,” focusing on social and environmental justice, and the other is “Roots,” featuring artists from Roseboom and Cherry Valley, as well as renowned farmer artist, Lavern Kelley. One artist being featured in the “Dissonance” show is Christina Hunt Wood, a multimedia…
A local favorite returns to the Globe mainstage By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Growing up on Long Island, Danielle Henrici said she knew she wanted to be an actor when she saw a performance of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)”. “I loved it so much I went back and I saw it five more times,” she said, “including taking all my girlfriends back at my birthday party.” Flash forward to a decade ago, Henrici — then…
Bound Volumes July 8, 2021 Compiled by Tom Heitz/SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library 210 YEARS AGO Among items of mail remaining at the Post-Office in the Village of Otsego (Cooperstown) are letters addressed to: Samuel Anderson, Nehemiah Burch, Benjamin Bissell, Isaac Childs, Cornelius L. Cary, William Dean, Sumner Ely, Revilo Ford, Micah French, William Griffin, John Jackson, James Johnston, Jonathan Kingsley, William Lindsley, Darius Moon, Patty Miller, Chauncey Newell, Freedom Potter, Sally Potter,…
LETTER from ROGER LANSING A tribute to local journalism, journalists Editor’s Note: This speech was given Friday, June 25, to honor Editor Greg Klein at the 2020-2021 Cooperstown Central School Athletic Awards Banquet. In the fall of 2005, the Cooperstown community lost a piece of its soul with the unexpected passing of Ken Kiser. Kenny was a devoted husband and dad, a man who thought the best of each person he met, enjoying the beauty in life, every minute of…
City of the Hills Concert series to begin Thursday at Neahwa Park A summer concert series will begin Thursday, July 8, in Neahwa Park in Oneonta. The series will feature performances every Thursday between 7 and 8 p.m. The first event will feature the Driftwoods. Common Council accepts grain grant Oneonta’s Common Council passed a motion Tuesday, July 6, to accept a state grant of $180,000 for the Hartwick College Grain Innovation Center. The city’s plan is for the center…
Life Sketches Saying goodbye to Bert, man’s best friend Bert always watched me, even though he didn’t let on. He was an Irish setter and thought his only purpose was to hunt birds. I’d come home from work and peek through the fence to see him lounging upside down in the grass. Then I’d enter the yard and as soon as he’d see me he’d jump to his feet, his old bones grinding and start hunting up the mourning doves…
Gilbertsville’s Lull reports sports news with a passion By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com If you are interested in high school sports in Otsego County, you likely already know who Nate Lull is. From his desk at WCDO in Sidney, where he is the radio stations’s sports director, from high school gyms around three Central New York counties – Chenango, Delaware and Otsego – and from whatever parking lot or McDonald’s offers WiFi after games, Lull has revolutionized how…
The AllOtsego Report, Ep. 6: We are at meetings Episode 6 of The AllOtsego Report looks at the Thursday, July 8, editions of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta, as well as this week’s news on AllOtsego.com. In this week’s episode Editor Greg Klein and Reporter Kevin Limiti discuss: Click here to listen!…
Otsego County opts into youth hunting extension By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MIDDLEFIELD — Otsego County will opt into a pilot state program to allow children ages 12 and 13 to take part in more forms of hunting, including with a firearm. The county’s Board of Representatives approved the trial program at their meeting Wednesday, July 7. The program was approved in the 2021 state budget and offered by the state Department of Environmental Conservation on a county-by-county…