PRESIDENTS & Otsego County By JIM KEVLIN FDR IN VAN HORNESVILLE: In 1931, GE President Owen D. Young, then the presumptive nominee for the Democrat nomination for President in 1932, invited New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt to the dedication of the school in Van Hornesville that bears Young’s name. By 1932, FDR had outstripped Young for the Democratic nod, and went on to be elected President four times. STILL NO TRUMP: Another year has gone by, but the current…
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Hometown People: Feb. 14-15, 2019 Voting Now Open For CSO Conductor Contest Al Rubin, president, A&D Taxi, choral director Cindy Donaldson and Libby Cudmore, managing editor of the Hometown Oneonta, The Freeman’s Journal and AllOTSEGO.com, have all been announced as the competitors in this year’s Catskill Symphony Orchestra conductor contest. One dollar equals one vote, and whoever raises the most money in the competition will win a chance to conduct the CSO in “Stars and Stripes Forever” during the Cabaret…
‘New’ Nick’s Diner Evokes Fond Memories, Fond Food By JENNIFER HILL By JENNIFER HILL ONEONTA – Sheena Thorsland has fond memories of Nick’s Diner. “You’d drink, you’d get hungry, and go to Nick’s,” she said. “We’d eat fries with gravy a lot, so we kept that on the menu.” Sheena re-opened the Oneonta eatery with her husband, Rodney, last weekend, and all the old stories came out as diners returned to the scene. “They claimed they never emptied out the…
DiPERNA TESTIFIES IN HOUSE U.S. Companies Seeing Profit In Climate Change Editor’s Note: Paula DiPerna of Cooperstown, a special adviser with CDP-North America (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project), which tracks companies’ environmental performance, testified Wednesday, Feb. 6, before the House Committee on Natural Resources. Here is an excerpt, discussing opportunities for business among Climate Change’s challenges. The withdrawal (from the Paris Agreement) has left the U.S. as the only nation on earth to stand outside the circle of…
Robert (D’Urzo) Ross, 74, Oneonta; Proud Of Family History ONEONTA – Robert Paul (D’Urzo) Ross, 74, a master mechanic who worked in the family paving business with his son and grandsons, passed away peacefully in his home on Jan. 6, 2019, surrounded by his family. Son of John and Elizabeth (D’Urzo) Ross, Robert was born Jan. 23, 1944, in the homestead on Franklin Mountain. Robert was very proud of his Italian heritage. His grandfather, Basilio D’Urzo (Joseph Ross), immigrated from…
5-Year Plan Coming Soon To O-Theatre ONEONTA – The consultants at Webb Management will give their final recommendations for a five-year business plan for the Oneonta Theatre at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19 at Foothills. The performing arts management consultants, who shared their initial findings in December, will report on their study of the local demographics and tourism data for our area and region, and give an overview of their recommendations for a five-year business plan, as well as…
Hometown History – Feb 14-15 2019 150 Years Ago News Items from Elsewhere – The employment of a young colored mechanic in the clock factory at New Haven so hurt the dignity of a dozen Irishmen that they demanded his discharge. They obtained, instead, their own discharges and their places were supplied by more sensible men. Larry Larkin, an Irish boy who worked in the print works at Manchester enlisted in the 10th New Hampshire Regiment, fought bravely, was promoted…
REPAIR IT, ARDENT FAN SAYS 100 Years Later, Monument To Dedicated Lady Declines By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA – On Memorial Day 1922, Mayor C.C. Miller accepted the memorial to Ethel Scatchard, calling upon “all citizens to revere the name of Miss Scatchard and to take a lesson from her spirit of usefulness and service.” Now 100 years after her death in Paris, historian Robert Calendresa wants the city to honor that promise. “The monument, frankly, is deteriorating,” he said during…
Obama Stirred Excitement On Visiting Hall Of Fame In ’14 By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN – The Friday before Thursday, May 22, 2014, then-mayor Jeff Katz was hanging out in the kitchen of his Chestnut Street home with son Robbie, who had just gotten home from SUNY Oswego, when the phone rang. It was Police Chief Mike Covert. With his son just having arrived, the mayor ignored it. The chief called “twice, three times… It had to be important for him…
