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Wallers’ Granddaughter Kira Joins National Soccer Team COOPERSTOWN – United States Soccer has announced yesterday that Kira Waller, granddaughter of former Mayor Carol Bateman Waller and her husband Bill, has been selected as a member of the Woman’s Under 16 National Soccer Team. This puts Kira, daughter of Cooperstown High School graduate and soccer player Scott Waller, on the road to her participation in U.S. Woman’s National Soccer.…
Retired Teachers Celebrate On Ginger Heitz’s Birthday Retired teachers and friends of Ginger Heitz, herself a retired Cooperstown Central elementary school teacher, surprised her yesterday at her Fly Creek Valley home with honking horns, birthday songs, banners and a blow up birthday cake in her yard. Husband Tom Heitz and daughter Kelly with her husband Peter and daughter Ava were there to celebrate with her. (Judy Steiner-Grim photos)…
For Whom The Bell Tolls Chris Gustafson, top, counts the chimes as Rev. Mark Montfort rings the church bell at First Presbyterian Church in Oneonta this morning. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the passing of Brenda L. Utter, Morris, who was the first COVID related death in Otsego County. In the year since Utter’s passing, 55 residents have died from COVID-19, and this morning members of the congregation took turns ringing the bell in memory of those lost. “This…
INSIGHT ON 2021 CAMPAIGNS Lapin Leaving County Board, But Plans 2025 Bid For Oneonta Mayor Meanwhile, OCCA Planner Founds Blog On Opportunities For Region By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – When Danny Lapin ran for the county Board of Representatives in 2017, “My wife was very supportive.” Lapin, a newcomer to the City of Oneonta, excelled in door-to-door campaigning, and that fall the untested young Democrat, then 28, pulled off what many considered an upset against Len…
AT 3 MILE POINT, ICE-MAKER Wind, Warm Weather Open Up Otsego Lake This week’s wind and temperatures in the low 60s broke up the ice block on Otsego Lake Tuesday, and Wednesday – with the lake open but the coves still iced up – folks, inset, headed down to Cooperstown’s Lakefront Park to take in the Sleeping Lion, considered by some to be among the most famous views in the world. This afternoon, high winds pushed the remaining ice onto…
1ST WOMAN IN MANY ROLES After 19 Years, Bernier To Retire As City Judge ONEONTA – After 18 years as Oneonta City Court judge, Lucy P. Bernier, who broke the glass ceiling in many of the county’s legal roles, will retire from the bench when her term expires at the end of this year. She was the first woman to serve as city judge here. “It has been an honor and privilege to serve the community as judge, and I…
BRINGING HOME A 1ST Cooperstown Son, Dad Establish Adirondack Record By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The first three days on the 142-mile Northville-Placid Trail, “we had a nice crust,” said Henry Horvath, 15. “We made good time snowshoeing, and sometimes didn’t even need snowshoes.” Day Four, “it warmed up. The crust was almost gone. We had two days of post-holing – stepping on snow and going down deep into snow. Even with snow shoes, we’d sink 6-7 inches.”…
The Pandemic Year • First Death On March 23, 2020 All Fall To Egalitarian COVID-19 By MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com On Monday morning, March 23, 2020, Otsego County confirmed its first case of coronavirus at a Fox clinic in Oneonta. Just three days later, the county recorded the first COVID-19 death. Now, one year later, there have been over 3,500 positive cases here; 54 county residents have died from COVID-19 and related complications. At least eight former…
A Year With COVID In 2020-21, Traditions Fell Away, New Ones Emerged Editor’s Note: For the past year, Melissa Marietta, Fly Creek, SUNY Oneonta director of career development, has chronicled her family’s year with COVID-19. This was posted on Facebook March 15, the anniversary of Otsego County’s state of emergency. The sun shines! The temp rises above freezing! I’m here to check in. It’s the anniversary of The Last Friday. We knew something weird and possibly dangerous was coming. With…