Alomar resigns from Hall of Fame Board of Directors COOPERSTOWN — Jane Forbes Clark, chair of the Board of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, announced that the Board of Directors met Monday, May 3, and have accepted Roberto Alomar’s resignation as a member of the Board. Alomar, who submitted a letter of resignation to the Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors on Saturday, May 1, had been elected to the Board in July 2019. Alomar, a 2011…
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Sherburne man gets three years for sexual assault of minor By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN — A Sherburne man, Thomas Figger, was sentenced to three years in state prison Monday, May 3, on a charge of third degree sexual act with a minor under the age of 15, a class E felony. Figger appeared in Judge John Lambert’s court Monday to receive his sentence and report to prison. Figger pleaded guilty March 22, for an incident that…
Callahan pleads guilty to lesser charge in 2000 death of wife By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Casey Callahan pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the second degree Monday, May 3, in Otsego County Court, ending, for the second time, the criminal proceeding concerning the 2000 death of Callahan’s wife Elizabeth Welsh Callahan. Callahan, 54, admitted Monday that he backed over his wife with his truck in Sayre, Pennsylvania in 2000, killing her. He told Judge John…
Hundreds attend rally to support Otsego’s AAPI community COOPERSTOWN – About 250 people attended a rally Sunday, May 2, at the Otsego County Courthouse, to support the community’s Asian American and Pacific Island residents. The event was organized and run by a group of Cooperstown Central School freshmen, including 15-year-old Cate Bohler. Speakers included the students, as well as local officials, including Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh, Cooperstown Police Chief Frank Cavalieri, Otsego Town Supervisor Meg Kiernan and Otsego County Rep.…
Opening day Coop 7th inning rally tops Oneonta, 11-9 Yellowjackets win earlier game vs rival Norwich By Greg Klein • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Cooperstown scored seven runs in the seventh inning to stage a comeback against the host Yellowjackets at Joe Hughes Field, 11-9, on Saturday, May 1. The Hawkeyes trailed Oneonta, 8-4, going into the seventh, but Oneonta’s pitching staff was weakened in its 14th inning of the day and Cooperstown took advantage. Alex Poulson scored the…
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HOF Roberto Alomar placed on MLB ineligible list over sexual misconduct allegation Hall of Fame: Alomar’s status is unchanged Roberto Alomar, a 2011 National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, was put on Major League Baseball’s ineligible list based on the results of a sexual misconduct investigation stemming from a 2014 incident, the league announced Friday, April 30. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement Friday: “Having reviewed all of the available evidence from the now completed investigation, I have…
‘Master salesman’ David G. Morris, 92, died April 26, 2021 COOPERSTOWN – David G. Morris, loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, died Monday morning, April 26, 2021, at his beloved home, Evergreen, in Cooperstown following a lengthy illness. He was 92. Born November 30, 1928, in Lena, Wisconsin, Dave was a son of Ralph and Ruth (Pelkey) Morris. It was while he was on a hayride in Ohio that he met the love of his life, Emily Moran. They were…
Company to bring ‘riding the rails’ experience to Otsego A company offering a new tourism travel experience announced Thursday, April 29, that it will be opening a Cooperstown-adjacent version of its services. Rail Explorers, featuring custom built pedal-powered rail bikes, will begin operation in their fourth location, in the village of Milford, on Saturday, May 29. Other locations are in Phoenicia, in Las Vegas and in Rhode Island, with another new location opening in Sante Fe, New Mexico, this year.…
Football dreams coming true at UGA for Coop’s Russell By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Cooperstown Central School graduate Jacob Russell said he spent the spring of 2019 on campus at Harvard University pondering his future and realizing he did not want a traditional path. What he really wanted to do, he admited to himself, was coach football. “I was probably the last person in the world someone from Cooperstown thought would end up a football coach,” he said…
