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Mishap, And Stewart’s Looks Like It’s Winter

FIRE EXTINGUISHERS GO OFF Mishap, And Stewart’s Looks Like It’s Winter Drivers Checked For Inhalation COOPERSTOWN – At this hour, Cooperstown’s Stewart’s Shoppe on Route 28 at the south end of the village looks like an early winter storm hit, as the fire-extinguishing system inside the roof of the gasoline-pump island appears to have been activated. White chemicals, similar to the foam found in hand-held fire extinguishers, were spread from Stewart’s front door right across the street.  Three cars at…

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Bethany Garretson To Climb All 46 High Peaks In 8 Days

Bethany Garretson To Climb All 46 High Peaks In 8 Days CHERRY VALLEY – Bethany Garretson, a 2004 graduate of Cherry Valley-Springfield Central School and now an instructor at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks, is planning to climb all 46 of the Adirondack High Peaks in a span of eight days later this month. Bethany is attempting to become the first woman ever to complete an “unsupported thru-hike” of the High Peaks, which means she will be carrying everything she…

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Painting On City Parking Deck To Close For Rest Of The Week

Painting On City Parking Deck To Close For Rest Of The Week ONEONTA – The top level and south bay of the middle level of the city’s downtown parking deck will be closed to traffic Tuesday and the rest of the week. “Minor” painting work is planned on the down ramp and middle deck.  The up ramp to the top level will be closed at the Chestnut Street extension.…

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Thomas G. O’Neil, 99, Sidney; Lawyer, Mayor, Civic Leader

IN MEMORIAM Thomas G. O’Neil, 99, Sidney; Lawyer, Mayor, Civic Leader SIDNEY – Calling hours are Monday for attorney Thomas G. O’Neil, former Sidney village mayor, Tri-Town Chamber president and president of the Sidney Hospital Board of Directors, who passed away July 29, 2016, at the state Veterans’ Home in Oxford.  He would have been 100 on Oct. 25. A lifelong Sidney resident, he attended Hartwick College, married Gertrude Keeler, earned his law degree at Albany Law School, and served…

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Julia (Judy) Wertenbaker, 80, Cherry Valley, Lifelong Teacher

IN MEMORIAM Julia (Judy) Wertenbaker, 80, Cherry Valley; Lifelong Teacher CHERRY VALLEY – Julia TenEyke Cannon Wertenbaker (who preferred to be called Judy), a lifelong teacher, most recently at Brookwood, passed away on July 27, 2016, at Glensfoot in Cherry Valley, two days after her 80th birthday. Her connection to Otsego County was deep: Glensfoot has been Judy’s family’s home for many generations. As a child, Judy rode horses in the fields around Londonderry farm and Glensfoot farm in the…

Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through July 31st, new or lapsed annual subscribers to the hard copy “Freeman’s Journal” (which also includes unlimited access to AllOtsego.com), or electronically to AllOtsego.com, can also give back to one of their favorite Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.