THE GILLIAN GIBBONS CASE 30 Years Later, A Sister Spurns Killer’s Apology By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Thirty years after the murder of her 18-year-old Gillian Gibbons, her sister was not expecting the call she got from the state Office of Victim’s Services on Tuesday, July 2. “Just out the blue I got a call saying they had a letter from David Dart – and did I want to hear it,” said Jennifer Kirkpatrick. “In 30 years,…
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Sal Grigoli Remembers Hard Work, Nice Folks Pizza-Making Legend Ends 41-Year Career By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – “Forty-one years! I haven’t even been alive that long,” Sal Grigoli reports people saying to him these days. That’s the amount of time – age 19 to age 60 – that the founder and owner of the venerable Sal’s Pizzeria has been spinning dough disks at 110 Main St. You’ll still see him there for the next few weeks…
SENIORITY PROFILE: TAMMY MACDONALD For Fulfilling Twilight Years, Start Planning By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERTOWN – Our twilight years can be as fulfilling as our early ones. That is what Tamie MacDonald, Otsego County’s Office for Aging director, wants people of all ages to know, and that her office can help us realize it. “We can change our own story of what aging is,” MacDonald said. “No one wants to be frail or dependent on people. It’s…
Cows, Goats, Pigs, Oh My! At Junior Livestock Show More than 250 kids presented 650 animals as part of The Farmers’ Museum’s 72nd annual Junior Livestock Show‘s Parade of Champions, showcasing the best of the best in livestock at the end of a weekend of trials and judging at the Iroquois Farm Showgrounds in Cooperstown. Above, Gus Mason, 14, holds Gummy Bear’s Grand Champion Jersey award and the Best Jersey Bred and Owned award . The Grand Champion silver plate…
All Welcome For Lunch At Neahwa Park Pavilion…
Herzig Names Schwartz Judge Of Oneonta Court Succeeding McVinney, He Will Serve With Bernier ONEONTA – Mayor Gary Herzig announced a few minutes ago he has appointed Attorney Donald J. Schwartz as part-time city judge, succeeding City Judge Richard McVinney, who retired. Schwartz, who was sworn in this afternoon in City Hall, will preside at the City Court along with Judge Lucy Bernier, who is in her second term as the city’s elected judge.…
HARTWICK COLLEGE ANNOUNCES: Liberty Mutual CEO David Long Leads Trustees ONEONTA – Liberty Mutual Insurance Group President CEO David H. Long, ’83, who received an honorary doctorate in 2014, is the new chair of the Hartwick College Board of Trustees, effective July 1, the college announced today. He succeeds Francis D. Landrey, father of a 2006 graduate, board chair since 2013. Long was a Hartwick trustee in 2002-11, and rejoined the board in 2016. He was elected vice chair in…
HAPPY 100TH, SAM! Birthday Party For Former Mayor Recaps Century Of Many Successes Editor’s Note: Today is former mayor Sam Nader’s 100th birthday, and this is reprinted from this week’s edition of Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal. Further coverage of the celebration of the revered former mayor’s centennial will appear in the upcoming print editions and AllOTSEGO.com on Wednesday afternoon. By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Sam Nader’s life is one great story after another. Here’s a…
HARTWICK COMMEMORATION 3 Founders Return For 50th Anniversary Of Firehouse, Squad…
Thank You, Swart Wilcox Volunteers Tell Supporters The staff of the Swart Wilcox House hosted an open house this afternoon in appreciation to all supporters who helped preserve Oneonta’s oldest surviving house and continue to prosper. Above, volunteers Norma Slawson, Debby Clough, Loraine Tyler, Pat Follett, Ann Schulz, Helen Rees, Richard Tyler, Ginny Pudelka and Len Pudelka pose for a photo on the lawn with a celebratory cake made by Barbara Clark, Otego. All but two items in the house…
