2019 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL For Finding Medallion, Panzarellas Win $500…
2019 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL For Finding Medallion, Panzarellas Win $500…
ONEONTAN DIED CENTURY AGO Historian: Repair Statue Honoring WWI Heroine…
Patrons Past, Present, Flock To ‘New’ Nick’s Diner Open 2 Days to Packed Houses By JENNIFER HILL • Special to AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – A legend has been reborn – and it’s packed. After four years of renovating and rebuilding, Nick’s Diner opened at 6 a.m. last Thursday with little publicity. But word of the diner, beloved from its founding in 1927 to when it closed in 2013 – and sorely missed after it that – spread quickly. “By 7:30 to…
2019 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL Quilts, Crafts, and 10k Won By SUNY Oneonta Counselor Activities are underway all over Cooperstown today as the 2019 Winter Carnival hits its stride. Top, Linda Cunningham, Cooperstown, marvels at the multi-colored quilts at The Fenimore Quilt Club show at the art association at 22 Main., open until 4, and 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Lower left, Shawn Bubany, Delhi, a SUNY Oneonta counselor, won the 47th annual Bob Smullens Run – the oldest 10K in the region…
2019 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL Laughter, Good Spirits Open Annual Seasonal Celebration “Rich McCaffrey told me there are already more people here than there were for Jeff Katz last year,” Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch said amid general hilarity as she officially opened the 2019 Winter Carnival in the warming tent in Pioneer Park a few minutes ago. While this is her first winter carnival as mayor, having succeeded Katz last April 1, she confessed to having been present at the…
Friends Remember Harold Ray, A Man Who Reached for the Stars…
2019 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL Soup R’ Chili Served ’til 2 As Festive Weekend Starts As it has for more than a quarter-century, the Cooperstown Winter Carnival begins when Dick Sliter declares, “Soup’s on!” The carnival’s traditional first event, the Soup R’ Chili luncheon at the First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., is underway until 2 p.m. (and again 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday). Sliter, a retired pastor who came out of retirement in the past year to fill in at the…
BOCES Unveils Plaque In Fallen GI’s Memory Michael Mayne’s Family At Ceremony ONC BOCES Principal Ryan DeMars, top photo, examines the plaque dedicated yesterday at the Milford campus in memory of Army Cpl. Michael L. Mayne of Burlington Flats, who died Feb. 23, 2009, a decade ago, while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. In Corporal Mayne’s memory, BOCES Assistant Superintendent Joe Booan led a candlelight ceremony, which was attended by his parents, Lee and Cathy, inset photo. Mayne, then 21, was…
HAULIN’ ICE AT HANFORD MILLS HARVEST WHELIHAN LAUDED: Lee Whelihan, Cherry Valley, was named to the Dean’s List at the College of Saint Rose for the Fall 2018 semester. TWO ON LIST: Ian and Teagen Bolin, Edmeston, were both named to the Fall 2018 Dean’s List at Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio.…
400 CAST VOTES IN BIGGEST CANO CHILI BOWL EVER Heather Pikul, owner of 221 Bakery in Oneonta, hands bowls of her smoky turkey chili to SUNY Delhi culinary students Carly Yezzo and Jessica Shultis during the annual CANO Chili Bowl at the Wilber Mansion on Sunday, Feb. 3. 400 chili fans cast their votes, finally selecting a Caribbean-inspired dish from SUNY Delhi Escoffier Club as their top favorite. TWO LAUDED: Nicole Harmer and Shane Miller, both of Oneonta, were named…