HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 Learn To Preserve Your Baseball Collections ASK THE EXPERT – 2 p.m. Learn how museums preserve the items in their collections, from storage guidelines to documentation, and how you can implement these in your own collection. Q&A as time allows. Free, registration for Zoom conference required. Hosted by The Baseball Hall of Fame. Visit baseballhall.org/events/virtual-ask-the-expert-collections-2?date=0…
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For Tifanne Friend’s Garden Of Good Deeds Keeps Alive Memory Of Vital Life By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – At home, Lorraine Brady gardens for herself. In the Community Garden on Wilcox Avenue in the Sixth Ward, she gardens in honor of her best friend, Tifanne Wells. “She was always trying to help everyone,” she said. “She started First Night and the Hometown Fourth of July. She did so much.” Wells, 44, died in 2015, shot by her…
IN MEMORIAM Bradley Goodyear Smith, 78; Cooperstown Philanthropist COOPERSTOWN – Bradley Goodyear Smith, a native of Mobile and resident of Fairhope, Ala., passed away Aug. 13, 2020, at Cary Mede, the family’s summer home, near Cooperstown. Surrounded by her loving family, she succumbed with remarkable grace after a brave battle with progressive supranuclear palsy. Bradley was born June 16, 1942, in Mobile, where she was raised. Bradley was known for her kindness, humor, strength and Southern charm. She was well-read,…
CLICK HERE FOR SURVEY-MONKEY LINK Parents, Need Daycare Help? 1st Step, Fill Out County Survey COOPERSTOWN – Embattled parents of K-12 stay-at-home youngsters, help is on the way. County Treasurer Allen Ruffles, IT Director Brian Pokorny and others were discussing child-care challenges the county’s workforce is facing, and wondered: What if everyone comes together to look for a solution? The first step, they decided, is to gauge the size of the problem, and they developed a surveymonkey.com survey “to have…
Court Overturns Murder Verdict v. Casey Callahan Husband Had Been Found Guilty 17 Years After Wife Was Run Over By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Casey Callahan’s 2017 conviction for murder in the second degree in the 2000 killing of his wife, Elizabeth Callahan, has been overturned by the Appellate Division, Third Department, according to a decision announced Friday. “Because the evidence of the defendant’s guilt was not overwhelming, there must be a new trial,” the decision…
FIRST SUSPECT PLEADS GUILTY IN DAD’S SLAYING Meridy Pleads To Murder 2nd; Faces 22 Years To Life In Prison By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Nicholas Meridy, one of the four charged in the murder of Kenneth Robinson last October along with Robinson’s son Dylan, this morning pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. “I was there to pick up drugs and money,” Meridy told county Judge John Lambert as part of the plea deal. On Oct. 10, Meridy entered…
Bronx Teen Killed In Walton ATV Crash WALTON – A 15-year-old from The Bronx died Friday afternoon when he lost control of an ATV near here and and crashed into a tree, the Delaware County Sheriff’s Department reports. Responding to a 911 call, deputies and Walton firefighters and EMTs found the teen had lost control of the all-terrain vehicle on Iroquois Trail Road; it ran off the road and he was thrown from the ATV, Sheriff Craig DuMond said today.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, AUGUST 24 Photography Golden Hour At The Farmers’ Museum PHOTO EXCURSION – 6 p.m. Join photographer Kevin Gray for a walk through the historic village during the Golden Hour at sunset, after the museum is closed to take gorgeous photos. Gray will provide tips on composition, lighting, camera techniques, more. Cost, $17/non-member. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1450 or visit www.facebook.com/farmersmuseum/…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 Discussion With Local Artist ARTIST TALK – 2 – 3 p.m. Free Zoom talk with artist Christina Hunt Wood whose works are displayed in the Community Gallery. Presented by The Fenimore Art Museum. 607-547-1400 or visit www.facebook.com/fenimoreartmuseum/ for info.…