Cooperstown’s newest restaurant is a total renovation Not too many businesses opened during the past 18 months thanks, of course, to COVID. But welcome to Natty Bumppo’s, the newest restaurant to open in downtown Cooperstown. Owner and Cooperstown native Ian Porto has been a longtime fixture on Main Street. You may know him as the previous owner of Tin Bin Alley, or perhaps from Northern Eagle Beverage and Cooperstown Brewing Company. Maybe even from Brewery Ommegang. Now you’ll get to…
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Bound Volumes 135 Years Ago Notice: Removal – The hop business of D. Wilber & Son has been removed from Milford to Oneonta. Office room has been secured in rooms opposite Brown’s Hardware on Main Street, where we will be pleased to see our friends. All letters intended for D. Wilber & Son should be addressed to Oneonta instead of Milford, as formerly.…
The Old Badger: A little of Eva First Published September 5, 1984 The following are excerpts from previous badgers pertinent to an event which ended 50 years ago this month. The murder trial stretched out… The defense attorney’s request for a change of venue was turned down by the judge… the newspaper called the request “BOSH”… the defense wanted the body exhumed… Two hundred prospective jurors were named… members of the media crowded into town… More than 70 witnesses would…
Free turkey, ham still on the menu for Rev. Mel Reverend Mel may be retired, but he’s still hard at work. Mel Farmer, 89, a pastor at the River Street Baptist Church in Oneonta, still hosts his radio show and, this time of year, still donates turkeys and hams to those in need through his “Angel of Love” program. “That was a calling from the Lord to become a minister,” he said, reflecting on his 43 years as a pastor.…
CCS grad now a prof Rachael H. Kuch-Cecconi, M.D., a 2007 graduate of Cooperstown High School, was recently appointed to Upstate Medical University’s Department of Psychiatry as a clinical assistant professor. She will be practicing clinically as a child and adolescent psychiatrist through the Psychiatry High-Risk Program. Dr. Kuch-Cecconi received her bachelor of science in biology from RPI in Troy, N.Y. and her doctor of medicine from SUNY Upstate Medical University. After three years in the psychiatry residency at Upstate,…
“Giving Tuesday” a day to focus on community help and engagement By PATRICK DEWEY • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Groups from around the world joined in 2012’s inaugural “Giving Tuesday” on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, encouraging people to step outside the more commerce-driven post-holiday “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday,” and give back to do good in their communities and in the world. Now an annual event, “Giving Tuesday” takes place this year on November 30. For those looking to give back…
Kindness: Upstate New York’s specialty! By TARA BARNWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Picture this: you’re at a local grocery store. In a hurry. You get what you need and run out of the store and it’s pouring rain. You get home and realize you left your purse in the shopping cart in the parking lot. Your stomach tightens as you remember you had your monthly rent, in cash, in a bank envelope in your purse. You feel sick. Not a…
Rescues get all the love at ‘Dog House’ By TARA BARNWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com About a year-and-a-half ago, Liz Keller bought Mossy Creek Kennel in Cherry Valley, changed the name to “El-Liza’s Dog House at Mossy Creek Kennel,” and adopted the motto, “The Bed and Biscuit Getaway.” For someone dedicated to animal rescue, the ‘Dog House’ is a passion project. “We’re so much more than just dog grooming, boarding, and training,” Ms. Keller said. “My background is mostly in…
Otsego County notables fill the screen for “Roadhouse Coup” film By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com What are all these local dignitaries doing in a brothel in Oneonta? Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh, Otsego County District Attorney John Muehl, former New York State Senator James Seward, and even Oneonta Mayor-Elect Mark Drnek are all there — all with roles in a new film about a 1930s brothel-operator-turned-murderer. It’s an enthusiastically local affair. Among many others, Ben Guenther of Five Star…
