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Iron String Press launches news podcast STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Iron String Press has launched a new form of keeping Otsego County informed Thursday, June 3, with The AllOtsego Report. Listen as Editor Greg Klein and Reporter Kevin Limiti discuss the stories on our website, www.allotsego.com, and in our newspapers, The Freeman’s Journal, the county’s oldest newspaper, dating back to 1808, and Hometown Oneonta, for the first week of June 2021. www.buzzsprout.com/1795198/episodes…
LGBTQ+ Rights are still fragile By MACGUIRE BENTON • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com This June marks 52 years since the Stonewall uprising began. We commemorate the contributions and sacrifices LGBTQ+ community members, activists and pioneers have made in the fight for civil rights. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, a series of demonstrations began in New York City as a result of a violent police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a historic gay club located in Greenwich Village. LGBTQ+…
From state title to college hoops, Lambert looks for his shot By CHAD WELCH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com When Jack Lambert graduated from Cooperstown Central School, he was second on the boys’ basketball program’s career scoring list and as a senior had led his team to the school’s first-ever Class C state championship in boys basketball, while earning Most Outstanding Player honors after setting several state tournament scoring records. He was also named the NYSPHAA Class C Player of the…
Milford graduate helping with pandemic relief in Nepal By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Although COVID is starting to fade in Otsego County with towns such as Cooperstown and Oneonta lifting mask restrictions, the same cannot be said for many countries such as Nepal. Zak Aldridge, who was born in Cooperstown, went to Milford Central School and considers himself an “honorary Oneontan,” said he didn’t intend to stay in Nepal for more than a year, but COVID-19 changed his…
Education company seeks to fill camp void By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com A local education company is planning to fill the gap in camps this summer. ResourceME, an Otsego County company started by Cooperstown Central School special education teacher Stephanie Nelen, will offer summer camps this year. “The thing about this company is we want to be a source to fill a need in Cooperstown for educational enrichment, not to compete with anything we already had,” Nelen said.…
Tri-Valley softball, baseball titles to be decided Thursday, June 3 STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Weather permitting, the Tri-Valley League will determine its 2021 champions in softball and baseball Thursday, June 3.…
West Canada Valley gives Cooperstown first softball loss STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com West Canada Valley’s Hanna Burdick three hit Cooperstown to give the Hawkeyes their first loss of the season, 3-2, in a Center State Conference softball game Thursday, June 2, in Newport. Burdick struck out only five batters, but she got the outs at big times, ending three innings with strikeouts that stranded a total of four Cooperstown baserunners. She walked four and hit one. Burdick also…
The great outdoors is the focus of an ad campaign to tempt tourists STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com A new advertising campaign by www.ThisisCooperstown.com, which is managed by Destination Marketing Corporation, has a focus on outdoor activities with the intention of drawing people to the area post-pandemic. The website, which now has a page called ‘Get Outside’, will have links to trails, playgrounds and boat rentals among other things.…
Oneonta gets comeback win over Owego STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Oneonta fought back from a 7-0 deficit to pull out a 9-7 win at Owego in a Southern Tier Athletic Conference baseball game Thursday, June 2. Trailing 7-3 entering the seventh inning, Oneonta rallied with two outs, scoring six runs. Aidan Gelbsman delivered the big hit with a bases-clearing, opposite-field double to give Oneonta the lead. Tanner Russin picked up the win with five innings of one-hit ball.…