MARJORIE LANDERS REPORTS: Bootsie Almost Came Home… My sweet cat, Bootsie, went missing on the evening of Nov. 2. That night I walked the local streets calling her name, knowing that she always came when I called her. Every day since, I’ve walked more streets, hung posters, told the post office, the vets, and SPCA. Many businesses were kind enough to post her picture. The Freeman’s Journal posted on line. I received many leads over the past few weeks and…
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Midstate Executive Appointed Bassett Chief Operating Officer COOPERSTOWN – Andrew R. Manzer, a hospital president/CEO in Schuyler County, has been selected as executive vice president and chief operating officer (COO) of the Bassett Healthcare Network, effective March 1, Bassett President/CEO Vance Brown announced today. As COO, Manzer will be responsible for the operating performance of Bassett Hospital and for leading operational efficiencies and performance across the Bassett Network, including Fox Hospital. He will also be tasked with helping to envision and create models of…
SUNY Oneonta Student Charged With Making Terroristic Threats ONEONTA – A SUNY Oneonta student has been charged with making a terroristic threat after posting that he was going to “shoot up the school” on the popular Yik Yak social media platform. Brandon Matthew Negron, 20, of New Windsor, was arrested by the New York State University Police at SUNY Oneonta on Sunday evening in connection with a post on YikYak that read “I’m going to shoot up the school. Be…
Ommegang Helps Cooperstown Win Livability.com 3rd Ranking COOPERSTOWN – Livability.com’s first “99 Beers In 99 Cities” index – spun off from the idea that “the craft beer movement has coincided with the revitalization of many of the nation’s downtowns – has ranked Cooperstown third in the nation. “Baseball and beer make a nice pair, so it’s only fitting that in Cooperstown, considered the birthplace of baseball, you’ll also find great brews,” the blurb reads. It notes Ommengang is “not too…
SUSPECT HELD IN SUNY THREAT ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta president Nancy Kleniewski announced at 7 p.m. that a suspect in Saturday’s YikYak threat has been taken into custody. “While the investigation will continue, UPD is confident that the message, which was reported to mention shooting tomorrow, does not present a threat,” Kleniewski said. “The last several hours have been tense on our campus, at Hartwick College, in the City of Oneonta, and in the homes of students’ parents near and…
Oneonta’s George Saunders Due On Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Tuesday ONEONTA – George Saunders, the National Book Award finalist and author of the acclaimed “Tenth of December,” who lives somewhere near Oneonta, will make his third appearance with host Stephen Colbert on NBC’s “The Late Show” on Tuesday, Dec. 8. Saunders, a Syracuse University professor, was first a guest on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” in January 2013 and returned for the finale, singing “We’ll Meet Again” with Colbert and other past…
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IN MEMORIAM: Erica Wickham, 31; Oneonta Native Accredited Dietitian ONEONTA – Erica L. Wickham, 31, an Oneonta native and accredited dietitian, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015, at the Bassett Hospital Intensive Care Unit after a courageous fight with a long illness. She was born on May 16, 1984, in Oneonta, a daughter of James and Merry Lou (Fuller) Wickham of Oneonta. Erica graduated from Myrtle Beach (S.C.) High School, and went on to earn a degree in…
‘Yik-Yak’ Message Threatens Violence At SUNY, UPD Says ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta’s University Police Department over the weekend advised the campus community by e-mail that it had opened an investigation in response to reports of a message posted on the social medium YikYak threatening violence on Monday. UPD is working with YikYak, the State Police, the Oneonta Police Department, and Hartwick security to develop information about the origin of the message and the person who wrote it, according to the e-mail. It…
