Glimmerglass Festival increases capacity thanks to new state guidelines STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Glimmerglass Festival will have increased sales for festival squares and tables thanks to new guidance from New York State regarding COVID restrictions, according to a media release. Socially distanced festival squares will be available for people of the same party (between one and four) as well as festival boxes (one to six) and festival tables (one to six). Glimmerglass recommends patrons bring a blanket…
Online home of The Freeman's Journal and Hometown Oneonta
Advertisement
Hometown Oneonta - Page 142
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 20, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Police review leaves behind serious debates Help wanted: Businesses struggle to find workers After year of COVID, SUNY Oneonta bids grads farewell Cooperstown & Around & City of the Hills Inside The Paper Junior firefighters provide big lift to Fly Creek department AllOTSEGO people: Post-rally, Bohler’s life is that of average teen Art Garage to hold open studio, final viewing Sports For…
Junior firefighters provide big lift to Fly Creek department By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com FLY CREEK — The Fly Creek Volunteer Fire Department is creating and nurturing future firefighters with its junior firefighter program and four young men have already reaped the benefits while serving their community. Three junior firefighters including Troy Hight, 18, Wayton Cassell, 14, and Connor Voulo, 17, have all been training as Fly Creek firefighters. “I’m sort of an outcast in school,” Hight said.…
AllOTSEGO people Post-rally, Bohler’s life is that of average teen By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When at least 250 people gathered May 3, on the lawn of the Otsego County Courthouse to show support for the area’s Asian-American population, and then stayed for an hour to listen to speeches during a rainstorm, many of the speakers marveled that the rally was organized by a 15-year Cooperstown Central School freshman, Cate Bohler. They were not alone in…
The return of the Old Badger: ‘The First of the Mohican’ First published in The Freeman’s Journal on March 24, 1976: “If at first you don’t succeed,” must have been mouthed by many Cooperstonians as they left the lakefront without having witnessed the scheduled launching of the Mohican. They did try again, and on the 4th of July, 1905, the good ship Mohican began its long career on Otsego Lake. The following reports from the Freeman’s Journal of that year…
Police review leaves behind serious debates By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Oneonta’s Common Council will likely meet its self-imposed June 1, deadline to review, and change or adopt, the city’s Community Advisory Board’s recommendations for the Oneonta Police Department, Mayor Gary Herzig said Tuesday, May 17. Among the topics being discussed are the status of no-knock raids in Oneonta, making statistics of crime and arrests available to the public and a review board to examine the high number…
LETTER from HARRY LEVINE Foundation stresses needs of community The Community Foundation of Otsego County is up and running and wants you to join us as one of our Founders. We are OF the community, FOR the community, and want to do everything in our power to improve the quality of life for all residents of Otsego County. We also want to live by our values which include taking direction from the community we serve. The concept of forming a…
Concert series to return with Oshima Brothers By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The last time the Oshima Brothers were in Cooperstown, they played as the opening act for Caitlin Canty at the Otesaga Resort Hotel and it was a show they said they will never forget. “It was a beautiful place,” Sean Oshima said during a phone interview the brothers did with Iron String Press on Friday, May 14. “I remember the magnificence of that place. “I remember…
HOMETOWN HISTORY May 20, 2021 Compiled by Tom Heitz/SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library 135 Years Ago Home & Vicinity – A few days since a hard-looking character came to Oneonta, claiming to be a bricklayer. He told an acquaintance that he had fled from Chicago during the recent trouble after hitting a policeman on the head with a club. His description tallied with that of one of the escaped anarchists, and as he…
Life Sketches Pen pal letters brought good news from France For several years my friend Charlie ran an international pen pal business that he had inherited from his father. When I expressed some interest in the many countries people were writing from Charlie asked if I’d like a free subscription for my daughter and I accepted. “You pick out the country and the pen pal,” Charlie said. I’ve always been a Francophile so I chose France and a girl named…
