In Memoriam Elanor J. Cohn Spranger, 81 June 25 1940 – October 21, 2021 Oneonta – Elanor Joyce Cohn Spranger, 81, passed away October 21, 2021 at A.O. Fox Nursing Home, Oneonta. She was born June 25, 1940 in Maryland, NY, the daughter of Alva and Freda (Watson) Cohn. She grew up in Schenevus, where she attended and graduated from Andrew S. Draper Central School. She then attended SUNY Cobleskill College and obtained a degree as a Nursery School Teacher.…
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Otsego Area Rowing to compete in two regional events BY TED POTRIKUS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Four members of Otsego Area Rowing (OAR) will go to Boston, Massachusetts this weekend to race in the world’s biggest two-day rowing event, the Head of the Charles Regatta. Lang Keith, Laura Kilty, Joe Novitski, and OAR founder and coach Andrea Thies, a two-time Olympian, compete with international rowers in mixed-double and single-rower events taking place on the city’s famed Charles River. One week later,…
SUNY lecture looks at ‘The 57 Bus’ incident By MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA — At 18, Sasha Fleischman was lit on fire while riding the bus home from school in Oakland. Fleischmann is gender non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. They fell asleep, and another teen, Richard Thomas, lit their skirt as a prank. Thomas was arrested at school; Fleischmann was hospitalized for weeks with severe third-degree burns. Dashka Slater, a journalist who lives close to the…
New Oneonta police chief ‘humbled’ by role By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Oneonta Police Department has a new chief of police, Christopher Witzenberg, who has a long history of serving in leadership roles. Witzenberg was previously an OPD lieutenant and became acting chief after Doug Brenner retired last winter. “It’s humbling,” Witzenberg said. “I’ve been pretty pensive the last week about the things I’ve done to get here.”…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22 Hyde & Shriek Tour GHOST TOUR – 6 – 7:30 p.m. Take guided lantern tour through 200 year old mansion full of spooky stories and restless souls. Cost, $20/adult. Extended walking and stair climbing is part of the tour. Hyde Hall, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd., Cooperstown 607-547-5098 or visit hydehall.org…
Film Days to go virtual again STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Glimmerglass Film Days, a program of Otsego 2000, will present a virtual film festival, plus five in-person events Nov. 4 to 11. Curated by Artistic Director Margaret Parsons and Programmer Joey Katz, the slate of independent documentaries and narrative features and shorts reflects the theme “Rise.” “Rise” is a word of elastic meanings, and we were first inspired by the term at the start of 2021, hearing Amanda…
Cooperstown junior reaches goal of marathon finish before 16th birthday By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com A Cooperstown Central School junior achieved his goal of running a marathon before his 16th birthday. Fred Hodgson, who turns 16 Friday, Oct. 22, finished the Syracuse Marathon on Sunday, Oct. 17, in 3 hours, 55 minutes and 13 seconds. His time placed Hodgson 58th out of 178 runners. He placed first in his age bracket, but that was expected, he said. “I…
Opinion by Nate Lull Two marathons in a week? One reporter’s crazy running dream I know it sounds cliché but I don’t often like to talk about my personal life. That might seem strange for someone who has a job that is in the public eye, but it has just always felt odd to me to talk about myself. I would much rather write a story about someone else and give them time in the spotlight. Nevertheless, occasionally I’m involved…
Editorial Local owners/local news The Freeman’s Journal, our village’s venerable newspaper of 213 years — and one of the oldest continually published weeklies in the country — has a long and complicated history, both of news and of ownership. It has chronicled the workings of our town and the opinions of our residents through the country’s wars, holidays, prohibitions and depressions, as well as through the state’s droughts, blizzards, elections, floods, tragedies, surprises and celebrations. The Freeman’s Journal is our…
Journalist with local ties details work at southern border By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com RICHFIELD SPRINGS — Jim McKeever, an independent journalist, spoke about his experience volunteering at the southern border to a small group at the Richfield Springs Food Coop on Friday, Oct. 15. McKeever, who went to the border in Texas and Tijuana, among other places, spoke of the Kafkaesque process asylum seekers needed to go through in order to enter the United States. “Asylum is…
