Outlaws to return for 2021, home opener June 4 By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com After a one-year hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Oneonta Outlaws will return for a 2021 summer baseball season. The team will again be part of the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League, competing in the Eastern Division. The Outlaws will open the season Thursday, June 3, with a 7 p.m. game at Saugerties. The home opener will be at 7 p.m., Friday June…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, JUNE 3 CCS Thespians present ‘A Little Shop of Horrors’ THEATER – 7 p.m. CCS Thespians present the dark comedy ‘A Little Shop of Horrors,’ about Seymour Krelborn finding love with the help of a talking plant only to discover the downsides of make a deal with a killer plant. Reservations, masks required. Auditorium, Cooperstown Central School. Visit www.cooperstowncs.org/article/469201?org=cooperstown-csd…
Richfield business park gets boost as Otsego County approves loan By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Otsego County’s Board of Representatives approved a $600,000 loan for Otsego Now to cover extending natural gas, water and sewer lines to the nonprofit industrial development agency’s property in the town of Richfield. The Representatives passed the motion unanimously at their meeting Wednesday, June 2. Rep. Keith McCarty, R-Richfield, Springfield, said the decision was a wise one for the county, because state Route…
‘Cooperstown’s Santa Claus,’ Paul Kuhn dies June 2, 2021 STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Family and friends of Paul Kuhn have confirmed Cooperstown’s Santa Claus for decades died Wednesday, June 2, with his wife Mary Margaret by his side. Kuhn, 83, had been suffering from heart failure and pulmonary fibrosis this spring. According to a Community Graduate Program biography of Kuhn, he “was born in Glen Cove, New York in 1938. He grew up in a modest Catholic home…
Cooperstown girls stay undefeated in softball with big win over SV STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Katie Crippen went 3-for-3 and scored four runs and Dani Seamon homered and scored three runs as Cooperstown stayed undefeated in softball with a 12-3 Center State Conference win over visiting Sauquoit Valley on Tuesday, June 1. Marley Lippitt got the win for Cooperstown, giving up two runs on six hits, striking out seven batters. She only got in trouble once in the…
Unatego tops Greene in baseball, 4-1 STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Greene outhit Unatego but the Spartans came away with a Midstate Athletic Conference baseball win, 4-1, Tuesday, June 1, in Otego. Tyler Birdsall and Braedon Johnson had the only two hits of the game for Unatego, but they were RBI singles, producing two of the team’s four runs. Birdsall also scored. Brandon Gregory walked twice and score both times.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2 Remembering Lou Gherig AUTHOR SERIES – 2 p.m. Celebrate first ever Lou Gherig day with Jonathan Eig, author of the award winning ‘Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig.’ Free, registration required. Presented by The Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. 607-547-7200 or visit baseballhall.org/events/virtual-author-series-rico-petrocelli?date=0…
COVID update for Otsego County STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com As of Tuesday, June 1, COVID cases in Otsego County have decreased to a 0.6% positivity rate with 1% of tests coming back positive, according to the Otsego County Health Department. Currently there are 15 active cases with two hospitalizations as a result of COVID. As COVID cases continue to go down, many businesses and towns are seeing an easing of COVID restrictions. A mask ordinance in Cooperstown is…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, JUNE 1 CCS Art Exhibit Opens At Fenimore YOUTH ART EXHIBIT – 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. CCS students present exhibit ‘Young at Art! Inspired by Community’ sharing their experience of community during the pandemic and how art grew their relationships online and at home. On view through June 26. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400 or visit www.cooperstowncs.org…
Late Corp. Michael Mayne from Burlington Flats honored with Veterans’ Hall of Fame induction STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com BURLINGTON FLATS — After a year’s delay because of the coronavirus pandemic, late Corp. Michael Mayne of Burlington Flats was honored as an inductee to a veterans hall of fame. State Sen. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, joined former Sen. James L. Seward to pay tribute Monday, May 31, to the late Corp. Michael Mayne of Burlington Flats, the 2020 inductee to…