HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 Harry Potter Ball For Charity YULE BALL – 8 – 10 p.m. Dress up with your friends for Harry Potter themed ball featuring mocktails, food, games, some vendors. Admission, $5 with proceeds to support charity Reading is Fundamental. Ballroom, Hunt Union, SUNY Oneonta.…
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Postal Service Reopens Davenport Center Office DAVENPORT CENTER – The U.S. Postal Service is reopening the Davenport Center post office, and is planning a ribbon-cutting at 10 a.m. Monday 11892 Route 23, east of Southside Oneonta. Since the office shuttered, Davenport Center customers have been served by the Davenport Post Office. The last day for those customers to pick up mail at Davenport is Saturday. All mail will then move to Davenport Center.…
IN MEMORIAM: Ella Chase, 106; One Of County’s Oldest Residents WORCESTER – Ella M. Chase, 106, one of Otsego County’s oldest residents, passed away Feb. 20, 2020. Ella was born Oct. 7, 1913 in Oneonta, the daughter of Burton and Margarett (Thayer) Miller. She attended Oneonta High School for three years, then graduated from Laurens Central School. Ella was a member of Elm Park United Methodist Church in Oneonta and she worked at Scintilla in Sidney.…
IN MEMORIAM: Doris L. Spearbeck, 89; RN At SUNY Oneonta Clinic For 30 Years ONEONTA – Doris L. Spearbeck, 89, a nurse at SUNY Oneonta’s clinic for 30 years, passed away in Syracuse on Feb. 17, 2020, surrounded by family, following a brief illness. She was born on March 20, 1930, and raised on the Loudon Farm in Walton. As a child she enjoyed skating and tending to the baby piglets. She graduated from Walton High School and Wilson School…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 Fun Programs For Kids Winter Break WINTER PROGRAMS – 1 – 3 p.m. Bring the kids for some learning fun over February break. Choose from programs ‘Forest as a Habitat’ featuring interactive games on how action of animal & humans affect the forest, or ‘New York State Breakout Box’ families try to open the Breakout Box with their knowledge of NYS social studies. Free, open to public. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. 607-432-0960…
IN MEMORIAM: Beverly J. Leneker, 74; CV Native Worked At Canajoharie Bank CHERRY VALLEY – Raised in Cherry Valley, Beverly Jean (Snyder) Leneker, 74, passed peacefully in her sleep Feb. 16, 2020, with her loving and caring husband by her side, after a long battle with dementia. Beverly was born April 21, 1945, to Lawrence C. Snyder Sr. and Elizabeth M. (Bogardus), and spent her childhood in Cherry Valley. Beverly married Raymond V. Leneker on July 25, 1964, and moved…
Candidate Has ‘Experience, Vision’ As Successor, Seward Gets Behind Oberacker ONEONTA – Retiring state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Oneonta, today endorsed Peter Oberacker, the Otsego County representative and independent business owner from Schenevus, to succeed him next year. “I wholeheartedly endorse Peter Oberacker and look forward to calling him my New York State senator,” said the 34-year veteran.…
GRANTS KEY TO DRI SUCCESS City Hall Funding 4 Projects To Install Upstairs Apartments By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – City Hall this afternoon announced funding to renovate the upstairs apartments on four downtown buildings, a key step forward in the $10 million state-funded Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) now entering its fourth year. Apartments will be built above Joseph Grigoli’s Sal’s Pizzeria, 285 Main St.; Peter Clark’s Shops at Ford and Main, 250 Main St., Russ Scimeca’s…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 ‘In The Middle of Nowhere’ Exhibit EXHIBIT RECEPTION – 5 – 6:30 p.m. Celebrate new Project Space Gallery Exhibit ‘In The Middle Of Nowhere’ by Dustin Bartlett. Fine Arts Building, SUNY Oneonta. Visit suny.oneonta.edu/art-department/art-galleries/exhibitions…
Two Honored By City For Emergency Response…