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National 2016 Celebrates County’s Artistic Talent

National 2016 Celebrates County’s Artistic Talent Cooperstown Art Association Executive Director Janet Erway, in top photo, presents a juror citation to artist Paul Marcellino of Worcester, for “Lesley,” at this evening’s opening reception of the CAA’s juried art show, National 2016, at its 22 Main St. galleries.  Charles Kiefer is at the mike, announcing the prize winners.  At left in top photo, young Valerie Antanavige takes in the scene, escorted by her grandmother, Judith Ellers, who summers in Westford.  In…

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Francis Hart May Jr., 99; Fortune 500 VP, WWII Vet

IN MEMORIAM Francis Hart May Jr., 99; Fortune 500 VP, WWII Vet COOPERSTOWN – Francis Hart May, Jr., 99, a retired Johns-Mansville executive vice president and decorated World War II veteran, died at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home on Wednesday, July 13.  He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren. Francis – better known as “Duck” – was born in 1917 in Dunkirk, Ind. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Business School prior to serving as…

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Foreclosure Stalled On Rapper’s Parcel

Foreclosure Stalled On Rapper’s Parcel Creditor Expects Sale By August’s End COOPERSTOWN – Sixty people – contractors, bankers, realtors and would-be owners of property on Otsego Lake – gathered in the lobby of the Otsego County Office building at 10 this morning, only to be disappointed again. After a 15-minute wait, it was announced that the foreclosure on former rapper Peter Nash’s 1.17-acre lot, home and 200 feet of lakefront at Pegg’s Bay was delayed by a court order. Robert Fraser, who…

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Vigil Brings Together Oneonta, Cooperstown

Vigil Brings Together Oneonta, Cooperstown Standing-Room-Only Crowd Seeks Meaning In Violent Deaths Of 7 Men By LIBBY CUDMORE •  for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – At the end of the Community Candlelight Vigil, the Rev. Cynthia Walton-Leavitt, pastor of Oneonta’s “Red Door” Presbyterian Church, implored those in attendance to acknowledge their neighbors. “In my church, we do what’s called the ‘Passing of the Peace’,” she said. “Let’s do that here today.” Everyone – there was standing room only in the Temple Beth El on…

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CCS Board Accepts Mike Cring Resignation

CCS Board Accepts Mike Cring Resignation COOPERSTOWN – The Cooperstown Central School Board this evening accepted the resignation of Michael Cring, most recently the middle-high school principal, who has accepted the position of athletic director at the Arlington Central School District in LaGrangeville, outside Poughkeepsie.…

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.