Unatego beats Sidney in baseball, 7-4 STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Braedon Johnson struck out 11 batters for the win as Unatego beat host Sidney in a Midstate Athletic Conference baseball game Thursday, June 3. Johnson gave up one run on five hits and four walks and the Spartans built on a 5-1 lead with two runs in the top of the seventh inning. However, Sidney got to reliever Garrett Backus for three runs in the bottom of the…
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Outlaws drop season opener at Saugerties STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Host Saugerties broke open a tie game with 10 runs in the middle innings to top Oneonta in the opening game of the 2021 Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League season, 13-9. Oneonta High graduate Keaton Mark went 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored for the Outlaws, who also got five RBI from catcher Baylor Lobb.…
Iron String Press launches news podcast STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Iron String Press has launched a new form of keeping Otsego County informed Thursday, June 3, with The AllOtsego Report. Listen as Editor Greg Klein and Reporter Kevin Limiti discuss the stories on our website, www.allotsego.com, and in our newspapers, The Freeman’s Journal, the county’s oldest newspaper, dating back to 1808, and Hometown Oneonta, for the first week of June 2021. www.buzzsprout.com/1795198/episodes…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta June 3, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Education company seeks to fill camp void AllOtsego people: Milford graduate helping with pandemic relief in Nepal Cooperstown & Around City of the Hills Tour Time Inside The Paper Student News Sports Outlaws to return for 2021, home opener June 4 From state title to college hoops, Lambert looks for his shot Perspectives The Old Badger: Automobiles led to the last of…
The Old Badger: Automobiles led to the last of the Mohican Editor’s note: This column was first published March 31, 1976. In the summer of ’32, Mrs. Charles Coleman Jr. was running strong in the Cooperstown merchants popularity election, President Herbert Hoover was running scared against Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 27-year-old Mohican was running out of steam. When the Mohican was first launched, automobiles were scarce and unreliable novelties at best. Roads were dusty or muddy depending upon the…
LGBTQ+ Rights are still fragile By MACGUIRE BENTON • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com This June marks 52 years since the Stonewall uprising began. We commemorate the contributions and sacrifices LGBTQ+ community members, activists and pioneers have made in the fight for civil rights. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, a series of demonstrations began in New York City as a result of a violent police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a historic gay club located in Greenwich Village. LGBTQ+…
In Memoriam Joseph S. Harris, 64 Middlefield town supervisor; also cared for Doubleday Field for 33 years. Middlefield – Joseph S. Harris, 64, of Middlefield, passed away unexpectedly Tuesday May 25, 2021. He was born on Sept. 20, 1956 in Oneida, NY, the son of William and Barbara Harris. He graduated from Cooperstown Central School. He worked for the Village of Cooperstown, where he took care of his pride and joy, Doubleday Field, for 33 years before retiring. He also…
City of the Hills Common Council eases mask rules Mayor Gary Herzig relaxed the mask ordinance in downtown Oneonta during the Common Council Tuesday, June 1. Masks will no longer be required on Main Street. Also a motion on a payment to Springbrook to build a walk way connecting Main Street to Water Street and the parking garage was passed unanimously. Springbrook is planning a development on Main Street for professional housing. Otsego Outdoors to offer summer activities challenge Otsego2000,…
From state title to college hoops, Lambert looks for his shot By CHAD WELCH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com When Jack Lambert graduated from Cooperstown Central School, he was second on the boys’ basketball program’s career scoring list and as a senior had led his team to the school’s first-ever Class C state championship in boys basketball, while earning Most Outstanding Player honors after setting several state tournament scoring records. He was also named the NYSPHAA Class C Player of the…
In Memoriam Major Richard (Dick) Bratton, 84 March 12, 1936 to Feb. 18, 2021 COOPERSTOWN – Dick Bratton, retired Air Force civil engineer, legendary hiking trails builder and long-time Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, civic leader died on February 18, 2021, at the age of 84. He was born in Winchester, Kentucky, but spent the majority of his early years in Cooperstown, NY. Dick graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, earning a degree in architecture. After graduation, he enlisted in the USAF…