AllOTSEGO.spooky She Died In Childbirth, Now Mother’s Soul Rests In Peace In Roseboom, Dousing Ghost-Buster’s Job Is Done By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ROSEBOOM – In the 187 graves behind the Roseboom Historical Society was the spirit of a 39-year-old woman who died in childbirth, ghost hunter Susan Miller of Cherry Valley avers. Until lately, that is. “She wouldn’t move over,” Miller reported at a Thursday, Oct. 17, pre-Halloween presentation to the Historical Society, which occupies the former Baptist…
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HOMETOWN History Oct. 25, 2019 150 Years Ago The cost of a corrupt Congress: A session of Congress costs the country $4,000,000. Each day entails upon us an expense of $33,000. The fortieth Congress used up nearly eleven hundred penknives, costing about three dollars each, and of course, the members did not pay for them. Besides penknives, such necessary articles as snuff, tobacco, pocket scissors, hair brushes and “extra Morocco desks” have been furnished by a grateful nation to its…
AllOTSEGO.spooky At Worcester Inn, Ghostly Flush, More By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com WORCESTER – Dennis Enright loved the Worcester White House Inn. “We were friends a long time,” said owner Jim Buelow. “I thought of him like a brother.” So much so, that Enright still hangs around Room 217, where he was living when he died at age 63 last November, according to his friend. Since, Enright has joined the many ghosts that haunt the famed stopping place.…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Want Franchise Food? Not In Cooperstown; Move To Texas To the Editor: We didn’t move to Cooperstown from Texas to avail ourselves of a Dunkin’ Donut. If we wanted to live in a place with a plethora of fast food restaurants, we could have just stayed in Texas. Lots to choose from, many conveniently located between a gun store (guilty) and a tattoo shop (not guilty). We moved to Cooperstown because it’s a historic village. Keeping…
With New Heart, Life Is Renewed Transplant Gives Cooperstown Woman New Life After Battling Lyme Disease By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In March, after suffering debilitating heart conditions brought on by Lyme Disease six years before, Mary Margaret Sohns had a vision. “I saw a big white box with a ribbon around it,” she said. “And I heard the theme from ‘The Golden Girls’.” Her husband Matt came into the room with the phone in his hand.…
MITT of the FUTURE Under Marucci Wing, Creator Planning Cooperstown Factory By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The secret to the baseball glove of the future, Scott Carpenter discovered, is in looking at the gloves of the past. “I was at an artist’s residency at Blue Mountain Lake and someone invited me to meet with Ted Spencer at the Baseball Hall of Fame,” he said. “I realized that Cooperstown was a great location, not just for my business,…
EDITORIAL Democrats Signal Plans To Republicans Otego-Laurens District 3 Shift Can Take Away GOP’s Majority Friends, the Democrats are coming to get us, and it isn’t going to be pretty. Chad McEvoy, the local party’s brainy director of communications, sent out an email on Oct. 1 that affirms an editorial that appeared here in early summer – the future of party politics in Otsego County will be determined in District 3, where two newcomers, Republican Rick Brockway and Democrat Caitlin…
What’s The ‘Plus’ Of PolioPlus? By MICHAEL JEROME • Cooperstown Rotary PolioPlus Chric Thirty years ago, Rotary International made a promise to the children of the world – we will eradicate polio worldwide. This pledge launched the PolioPlus program, the first global initiative to provide mass vaccinations to children. Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) have made great strides in their sustained effort to end polio forever despite many challenges over the years. Rotary remains…
A FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE She Would Have Loved That Smile Editor’s Note: Jim Atwell penned this column on Aug. 30, 2001, when he and Anne were still living in Fly Creek. By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I can’t do justice in words to an incident last Saturday. It was too rich with meaning. But the moment was so wondrous that I’ll still try to tell you. Read the words, please; then make up for their shortfall from your…
THE McEVOY MEMO County Manager, Certainty; Energy, Pot Still Up In Air Editor’s Note: Chad McEvoy, the Otsego County Democratic Party’s communications director, emailed this memo Oct. 1, alerting county Democrats they are one seat away from winning a majority on the county Board of Representatives, and what it means if that happens. By CHAD McEVOY • OCDC Communications Director In 2019 the political stars are aligning just right to give Democrats the best shot yet at capturing an outright…
