OUR KILIMANJARO HIKERS Bassett MD May Be Among First Women At Mountain’s Peak By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When Mary Anne Whelan was spending a summer in Tanzania, Africa, her friends came up with a wild idea. Why not scale Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest? “There was a superstition that the Gods would be displeased if a woman climbed the mountain,” she said. “I guess they weren’t, because we did!” Whelan, the retired Bassett physician, in 1961 was…
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Salute To Service As $9.1M Project Begins, Village Thanks Ted Peters Editor’s Note: The guest of honor at the Friday, Aug. 16, groundbreaking on the Village of Cooperstown’s $9.1 million water treatment plant project was Ted Peters, retired Bassett Hospital researcher and longtime chair of the village’s sewer and water boards. A plaque honoring him will be placed on the expanded building. Here are Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch’s words of tribute. By ELLEN TILLAPAUGH KUCH • Mayor of Cooperstown Many…
Oneonta Film Fest To Hail Philo Vance’s Rediscovery By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – This fall, the forgotten detective will come home. “We’re setting up a Philo Vance film series,” said Rev. Kenneth Hunter, rector, St. James Episcopal Church, who found many Philo Vance films are available on amazon.com. A three-film series, each with a speaker and a talk-back following the film are planned Tuesday evenings, Oct. 15, 22 and 29. It’s an extension of a movie group,…
EDITORIAL Otsego Countian In Congress? Nice! General German Reporting For Duty If Adjutant Gen. (ret.) Anthony P. German is elected congressman from New York State’s 19th District, you can bet we will be the only district represented by someone who has an iceberg named after him. (As commander of the state’s Air National Guard, his pilots collaborated with the National Science Foundation’s Antarctica Program.) Also, he would be the first Otsego Countian to represent us in over a century, since…
HOMETOWN History Aug. 23, 2019 150 Years Ago Tell Your Wife – If you are in trouble or quandary, tell your wife – that is, if you have one – all about it at once. Ten to one her intervention will solve your difficulty sooner than all your logic. The wit of woman has been praised, but her instincts are quicker and keener than her reason. Counsel with your wife, or mother, or sister, and be assured light will flash…
FINE FOOD • FUN FOOD Keep It Simple: There’s Nothing Like A Diner – Or Simple Tuna Melt Editor’s Note: These mini restaurant reviews are prepared by the Summer Dreams staff. Nothing beats a good tuna melt. And I mean a GOOD tuna melt! Plaza Diner in Oneonta has just that. The tuna doesn’t have so many fillers that you can’t taste it. It’s got just the right amount of mayo mixed in. Then it’s topped with melty cheese and…
THINGS TO DO Lots To Do Outside, From Art By The Lake To R-boom Power Days By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The only thing better than art is Art By The Lake! The annual juried art exhibit celebrates the relationship between artists and landscape. Features artist demonstrations, food by Origins Cafe, music, more. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 17, back lawn, The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. (607) 547-1400. The annual Antique Power Days showcases tractors and farm vehicles…
SUMMER DREAMS Hartwick Family’s Blueberry Picking Now In 44th Year By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com HARTWICK SEMINARY – David Ingalls knows the cure for whatever might trouble you: “I get a lot of doctors here from Bassett, and I want to tell them they should write prescriptions for people to come and pick blueberries!” Ingalls owns Ingalls Blueberry Hill on Seminary Road, the only certified organic U-Pick in Otsego County. “That makes all the difference,” he said. “It’s…
STRONGMAN SLIPS, BUT HE’S NOT OUT Oneonta Ninja Eardley Pledges He’ll Be Back By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Anthony Eardley is not one and done. That was the Oneontan’s message after his run on “American Ninja Warrior” ended Monday night, Aug. 10, when he missed making it to the Top 13, the players who now go on compete in Las Vegas. But Oneonta’s ninja is far from out. He will submit his name to ANW again…
JEFF IDELSON OBSERVES: ‘Grassroots’ Clinics Lure Youngsters Back To Baseball By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – During one of his clinics in Chicago, Grassroots Baseball co-founder Jeff Idelson got to see first-hand how baseball can change a life. “We were at the Union League Boys & Girls Club in Chicago and Goose Gossage was playing catch with a young boy,” he said. “This kid had never put a glove on, and afterwards, his older brother came over…
