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Deer Crashes Through Door, Rampages At Cooperstown Bat

Deer Crashes Through Door, Rampages At Cooperstown Bat By SAM ALDRIDGE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The Cooperstown Bat Co. usually doesn’t take customers before 9 a.m., a policy that was forcefully circumvented at 7 a.m. Thursday when a fully grown buck smashed through the front door at 118 Main St. “I thought I heard something moving around inside the store,” said Chris Miller, the Bat Company’s graphic designer and engraver. He was the first to reach the store that…

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New Docks Open At Lakefront Park

PROJECT YEARS IN MAKING New Docks Open At Lakefront Park COOPERSTOWN – The new floating docks at the village’s Lakefront Park, under consideration since the Flood of 2011 damaged the traditional fixed docs, are complete, and Village Clerk Teri Barown reports slip renters may begin parking their boats there as soon as they wish. The docks cost $120,000, but Village Trustee Ellen Tillapaugh, who chairs the Parks Committee, said the rates – now $500 a season for village residents; $1,000…

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NY Transgender Task Force

NY Transgender Task Force Plans ‘Open Mic’ In Oneonta ONEONTA – A new statewide task force has scheduled a Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Town Hall meeting Friday evening at the Universalist Unitarian Church at 12 Ford Ave. A meet and greet is 5:30-6 p.m., followed by an event that include an “open mic” portion. “We are on a fact-finding mission to better understand the needs of our communities – spanning from Buffalo to Long Island,” said Task Force member Juli Grey-Owens in…

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Teach Computer Programming

There’s No One To Teach Computer Programming Yelich Raises Issue At Workforce Summit By SAM ALDRIDGE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A glaring gap in the cycle of education-to-employment was laid bare today when Oneonta Superintendent of Schools Joe Yelich pointed out to a workforce-development panel that teachers of STEM subjects, such as computer science, are nowhere to be found. “The shortage (of programmers) starts at grade seven,” Yelich told a panel at the Mohawk Valley Region Small Business/Workforce Development Summit…

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.