EDITORIAL Much To Be Proud Of In Response To COVID-19 Despite the chilling toll – 3,483 COVID-19 cases and 54 deaths – Otsego County people, our neighbors, friends and family, have a lot to be proud of as we ended The Year of The Pandemic on Monday, March 15, we found in revisiting the last 52 editions of this newspaper. Throughout, there was worry, dismay and grief in the face of the implacable and mysterious foe, but little panic. In…
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Youth Has Its Day At Village Hall Benton, Now Bergene, Trustees Under Age 30 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Newly elected Village Trustee Hannah Bergene was already sold on Cooperstown. But her first Induction Weekend working for the Chamber of Commerce – in 2015, the Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez year – she got sold all over again. Baseball fans were jammed onto the front steps of Chamber headquarters in that yellow-and-white cottage at 31 Chestnut St., trying…
SUNY Oneonta Students Share Fears, Hopes Diary Of The Plague Year Edited By MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Last March, SUNY Oneonta sent students home. Amidst massive disruption, Adjunct History Professor Ann Trainor was struck by the historic nature of the event. She encouraged her students and others to record diaries of their experiences. Reading through these diary entries a year later feels like time travel, the experiences familiar while the perspectives seem naïve. “I really thought we…
Bassett Hits Home Run Goal Is 120,000 Shots In One Hundred Days State Approves ‘Massive Vaccination Site’ In SUNY Oneonta, To Begin On Thursday By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com In a “vaccine desert,” suddenly there’s an oasis. After weeks of lobbying and some heightened expectation, it’s here: Bassett Healthcare Network announced Tuesday afternoon, March 16, that a COVID-19 “massive vaccination site” would be opening two days later, the 18th, in SUNY Oneonta’s Dewar Field House. The clinic, staffed…
Man Of The World Hugh MacDougall Encountered Adventures Worldwide By HUGH MacDOUGALL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Editor’s Note: Hugh MacDougall, one of Cooperstown’s foremost citizens, spent 28 years in our nation’s diplomat corps. On May 15,2020, he recounted several of his overseas’ adventures in a lecture at The Thanksgiving Home, where he resided from April 2019 until his passing on Saturday, March 6, 2021. In 1958, I joined the United States Foreign Service, where I spent the next 28 years,…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Mar. 11, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Campus Cases Up Principal Departs At CCS Century Old Barn Finds New Home Planning To Retire, Bob Wood Has High Hopes For Southside AllOTSEGO.life From M*A*S*H to Bassett At Warming Station, Needy Are Sheltered EDITORIAL Water Plant Done, Is One Greater Oneonta Inevitable? Hugh MacDougall Encountered Adventures Worldwide FOOD FOR THOUGHT LETTERS CLOSE: Since 1974 D&H Crash, Errors Often Repeated STERNBERG: Neighbors…
BOUND VOLUMES March 11, 2021 185 YEARS AGO In our notice last week, of the result of town elections in this county, we did injustice to the Town of Decatur, by stating that she had elected an opposition man for supervisor, and now make amends by correcting the error and asserting the fact, that Col. Robert C. Lansing, a firm democrat is elected – thus, of the 22 towns, placing Richfield alone in the opposition ranks, and in her case…
LETTER from LYNNE MEBUST Democratic Chair – Vote Bergene, Falk To the Editor: Tuesday, March 16, is Election Day in the Village of Cooperstown, and I encourage all residents to come out to the fire hall on Chestnut Street between noon and 9 p.m. to vote for Cynthia Falk and Hanna Joy Bergene for village trustee. Cindy has served the village for several years as trustee and deputy mayor and is seeking re-election. Her service, experience and record of success…
One Man’s History, Another Man’s Treasure Century Old Barn Finds New Home By JOE TOPPE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com It was 1897, the same year Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” was published and a gold rush lured scores of prospectors to the Klondike. Here in Otsego County, Rick Brockway’s great-great grandfather Jesse was driving the final nails into his West Laurens’ dairy barn. Now, more than 50 years since the family used the barn for farming, only the structure’s frame is worth…
LETTER from MATT HAZZARD Bergene Supported Businesses To the Editor: It is a true honor to write to you today and encourage residents to get out and support Hanna Bergene as trustee for the Village of Cooperstown. I had the distinct privilege to work alongside Hanna during her tenure at the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce. For more than three years, Hanna worked diligently on behalf of both the businesses and residents of our community. On a daily basis her tireless…
