Cooperstown’s Origins Cafe brings diversity to menu, music [Editor’s note: This feature is a part of this week’s “Summer Dreams” — our weekly guide to fun, food, and the arts throughout Otsego County. Find it inside The Freeman’s Journal / Hometown Oneonta every week, all summer long!] It stands to reason that a summer music calendar at Origins Café would be as eclectic, innovative, and fresh as the food on the menu – and that’s exactly what happens this summer…
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Mental health emergency 988 number coming in July By: Bill Hayes LCSW-R (ret.), NAMI Delaware and Otsego [Editor’s note: Bill Hayes submitted this important column with details about the new ‘988’ telephone number for mental health emergencies.] In mid-July, there will be a new option for getting help with urgent mental health situations. While 911 will continue to be the key number to call for medical and crime emergencies, a different number will connect callers to a specialist in mental…
Bassett Healthcare Network marks hospital’s centennial Dr. Mary Imogene Bassett liked to refer to her brand of compassionate care and rural doctoring as reflecting “a more excellent way” and today, the whole of central New York knows the hospital opened and named in her honor 100 years ago this week as Bassett Medical Center. Philanthropist Edward Severin Clark funded construction of the original Bassett Hospital; the Clark family has continued its stalwart support of the institution throughout the 10 decades…
Editorial: With appreciation for ‘a more excellent way’ Perhaps we take it for granted from time to time, that sprawling campus in Cooperstown. Fox Hospital, too, in Oneonta, and all the clinics and centers and caregiver offices filling the map in Otsego County. In a nation whose rural regions are often challenged by a lack of access to quality health care or relegated to satellite status dozens of miles away from even the nearest emergency clinic, we’re fortunate indeed. Fortunate…
Mayor ‘reboots’ Oneonta’s Housing Commission for more community, expert collaboration Change doesn’t fall into place without a catalyst, and for Oneonta Mayor Mark Drnek’s vision to bring 1,000 new residents to the city during his first term to work, he says he knows he needs to work with the community’s experts to solve the problem of where all those incoming residents will live. At the June 6 meeting of the Oneonta City Council, Mayor Drnek answered questions about his plan…
We saw him standing there Commentary: Ted Potrikus Fair warning: I’m about to go large on the name-dropping thing. My wife, Angie, and I drove to Syracuse last weekend to see Paul McCartney in concert. We’re big Paul fans – our first date, in fact, in London, England, in November 1984 — was to see his not-great movie “Give My Regards To Broad Street” not long after its premier. The guy turns 80 years old in two weeks. Eight-zero. If…
CCS students will rally to stop school gun violence Cooperstown Central School students will lead a protest and rally at the Cooperstown Junior/Senior High School on Wednesday, June 8, to raise money for and bring awareness to the issue of gun violence in schools. The public is invited; the event begins at the school on Linden Avenue in Cooperstown at 5 p.m.…
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Food pantry gets money-management lift from CFOC As the Cooperstown Food Pantry marks 45 years of addressing food insecurity and poverty in the region, a new partnership with the Community Foundation of Otsego County will allow the organization to focus more on its core mission rather than investment management. CFOC Executive Director Jeff Katz said the new Cooperstown Food Pantry Fund “will allow CFOC to help the Pantry with financial oversight, and also create a new way to donate through…
This dog show is the ‘ultimutt’! The Susquehanna SPCA and the Rotary Club of Cooperstown have combined to hold the Ultimutt Dog Show, a family-fun event on Saturday, June 18, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the SQSPCA, 5082 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, across the road from Kevin’s Royal Ford. Friendly, fun-loving dogs can be registered for one or two classes at a cost of $15 for one class or $25 for two. Each participant receives an Ultimutt Dog…