‘Pudge’ Rodriguez Inspired By Bench, Clemente Plaques Baseball Hall of Fame 2017 inductee Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez, “widely regarded as the best defensive catcher of all time,” according to Wikipedia, responded to bilingual questioning from a phalanx of reporters in an “availability” now underway at 25 Main St., Cooperstown. Rodriguez said he was particularly inspired by the plaques of fellow catcher Johnny Bench, as well as Roberto Clemente and Nolan Ryan. “The whole museum is great,” he said. All inductees…
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Brian Clancy To Retire April 28 As Village Public Works Chief COOPERSTOWN – Brian Clancy, village public works superintendent, will be retiring April 28 after 31 years with the village. The mayor and trustees accepted his letter of retirement with regret at last night’s Village Board meeting.…
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Constituents To Faso: ‘Don’t Defund ACA!’ Constituents from the area – including Otsego County, above, gather outside the U.S. Rep. John Faso’s office in Delhi this afternoon to encourage the freshman congressman not to vote to defund the Affordable Care Act. This is the second rally outside the State Sen. Charles D. Cook County Office Building. Protesters also were asking Faso to schedule a Town Hall meeting. At right are Oneonta’s Sue Murphy, Peggy Pendrak, Deb Dalton, and Rebeca Byam on Delhi’s…
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3-Decade Trolley Heyday Lures 75 To History Center Greater Oneonta Historical Society Executive Director Bob Brozowski, top photo, left, welcomes a standing-room-only crowd to rail historian Jim Loudon’s “The Otsego Trolley Line” lecture this afternoon at the History Center. Loudon (inset photo) recounted how the Oneonta & Otego Valley Railroad, founded in 1897, expanded to Hartwick, Cooperstown, Richfield Springs and, eventually, Mohawk, in a financially troubled 36-year history before, as the Southern NY Railroad, it finally collapsed in 1933, victim of…
