Cherry Valley Board OKs Girl Scouts’ Inclusive Vision By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com CHERRY VALLEY – Girl Scouts, Bailey Thayer and Zola Palmer are making a difference in their community. When brainstorming service project ideas, the fourth and fifth-grade juniors suggested improving the village playground behind the Cherry Valley Community Center – formerly the Cherry Valley School – by adding more equipment. Specifically, Zola is excited to add spinners to the current equipment. “I like to spin,” she…
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Schenevus Alumni Honor Sen. Oberacker, 3 Others SCHENEVUS – The Schenevus Central School Alumni Association and its Alumni of Distinction Committee today announced state Sen. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, will be one of four honorees at the second annual Alumni of Distinction Awards at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, via Zoom. The three other honorees will be: Robert Barnes, county fire coordinator/emergency manager for nine years and Oneonta fire chief and emergency manager for 19 years. William Fredette, attending physician/medical director,…
WATCH ‘LEGACY LIST WITH PAXTON’ TRAILER PBS Show To Help Elevate Famous Sculptor’s Legacy TV Program Will Help Son’s Mission: Make Father’s Works Known To World By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Since his famous sculptor father’s passing in 2013, David Hayes Jr. of Oneonta has been striving to continue elevating the artist’s legacy, organizing exhibits of David Sr.’s massive metal artworks at prestigious museums around the country. The younger Hayes’ mission – his father was also…
STATE FUNDING MAKES DREAM COME TRUE Worcester Man, Paralyzed At 11, Moves Into Dream Home At 31 By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Paralyzed after a farming accident when he was 11, James Scofield, now 31, says he values patience, accessibility and independence above all else. Now, he can enjoy all those things in his new, fully customized and accessible single-wide, set back off Mooney Road, framed by forest trees, courtesy of Otsego Rural Housing Assistance (ORHA). The lifelong…
Maryland Educator CCS Superintendent Millbrook Native Sarah Spross Due March 1 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Sarah Spross, an assistant superintendent in the State of Maryland Department of Education, will become the Cooperstown Central School District’s new superintendent March 1 – or sooner. “We hope sooner,” said school board President Tim Hayes this morning. He said it would give her more time to be introduced to her new responsibilities by the interim superintendent, Romona Wenck. Spross,…
Brzozowski Retires As GOHS President ONEONTA – Bob Brzozowski, who led the Greater Oneonta Historical Society over the past decade as it redeveloped 183 Main St., the oldest surviving downtown block, into the society’s permanent home, the GOHS announced today. The GOHS trustees recently the murals on the Dietz Street side the Brzozowski Oneonta History Wall in Bob’s honor. A community reception for Bob and his wife, Jane Bachman, will be held at the Oneonta History Center when it is…
STEAGALL ZOOMS IN FROM GEORGIA MLK Observance Features Innocence Project Leader Christian Steagall, operations coordinator at the Georgia Innocence Project, keynoted the Martin Luther King Day commemoration organized Monday by Cooperstown’s First Presbyterian Church.…
Chief Brenner Retires At OPD After 4 Years Lieutenant Witzenburg To Fill In Until Replacement Can Be Found By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Police Chief Douglas Brenner, at the helm of Oneonta police for four years, almost to the day, will retire in 30 days, Mayor Gary Herzig said this morning. Until then, Brenner, 56, will be taking left-over vacation time unused due to the demands of a year of COVID-19. “It’s been a hectic year,”…
GOP Elections Commissioner New Republican Chairwoman Lori Lehenbauer Succeeding Vince Casale By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com SCHENEVUS – Lori Lehenbauer of Worcester, the county Republican elections commissioner since 2016, was elected Republican chairwoman when the county committee convened here last evening. She succeeds Vince Casale, Republican chairman for the past seven years, who resigned in December, to devote more time to his political consultancy, The Casale Group, based in Cooperstown but serving candidates statewide. “I’ve been a longstanding…
VILLAGE CAUCUS NEXT THURSDAY Hanna Joy Bergene, 29, Formerly With Chamber, Running For Trustee Seat By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www. AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Hanna Bergene, 29, well-known in Cooperstown affairs from her years as Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce marketing & events director, is running for the Village Board in the March elections. Veteran Trustee Jim Dean, 80, a trustee for the past eight years, said he decided to step aside when he heard of Bergene’s interest. “I met…
