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Artist’s Crusade To Recognize Heroes Culminates In 10 Portraits’ Unveiling

Artist’s Crusade To Recognize Heroes Culminates In 10 Portraits’ Unveiling COOPERSTOWN – Artist Janet Wentworth Erickson’s two-year effort to identify and paint portraits of 10 unsung heroes in Otsego and Delaware counties culminated this evening in a presentation at the Louis C. Jones Center and the exhibit’s opening across West Lake Road at The Fenimore Art Museum. Erickson, a SUNY Oneonta art professor, accepted nominations, then selected 10 for portraits. The 10 honorees:  Medal of Honor winner Stephen Doane, Walton;…

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Otsego Chamber VP To Join Corning

Otsego Chamber VP To Join Corning ONEONTA – Today was Shelly Giangrant’s last day at the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce, where she has been a mainstay for the past 15 years. Giangrant, vice president/member services in recent years, will be joining Corning Inc., and teaching horseback riding in Otego. Chamber President Barbara Ann Heegan recognized Giangrant for “providing dedicated service to our members.  We wish her great success in this new opportunity.” Shelly was recognized at the Chamber After Hours…

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2 Oneontans Facing Charges After Raid Finds Alleged Cocaine

2 Oneontans Facing Charges After Raid Finds Alleged Cocaine ONEONTA –  A man and a woman from Oneonta were arrested Wednesday after the OPD Special Response Team and K9s raided Apartment 2A, 195 Main St., at 6 a.m. and seized a substance suspected to be crack cocaine with a street value of $400, according to Oneonta police. The suspects were identified as Nelson J. Canales, 34, and Jamie L. Osborne, 31.…

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Judge Dowd May Rule By Friday On Hartwick Candidate Challenge

Judge Dowd May Rule By Friday On Hartwick Candidate Challenge By DON MATHISEN • for AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – State Supreme Court Judge Kevin Dowd is expected to rule Friday on an effort by Republicans to knock the Democratic candidate for Hartwick supervisor, Juli Sharratt, off the November general election ballot. Sharratt won the Democratic primary, but Republicans claim one of Sharratt’s petitions lack her address. They also allege that not all required documents were filed on time. But Sharratt’s attorney,…

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Cherry Valley Fisherman Catches 40-Inch Muskie

Cherry Valley Fisherman Catches 40-Inch Muskie Garrett Petit, Cherry Valley, landed a 40-inch tiger muskie on Aug. 28 at Canadarago Lake, the DEC announced today. The current state record tiger muskie – 35 pounds, 8 ounces – was caught in 1990 in the Tioughnioga River in the Southern Tier. The tiger muskie is a hybrid fish, a cross between a male northern pike and a female muskellunge. The tiger muskies are stocked when they reach 10 inches at five months…

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Nancy Kiser Feola, 66; Milford Woman Fought Cancer 19 Months

IN MEMORIAM: Nancy Kiser Feola, 66; Milford Woman Fought Cancer 19 Months MILFORD  –  Nancy Feola (nee Kiser) of Milford, who retired from a 30-year career with the Otsego County Attorney’s Office, lost her gallant 19-month struggle with cancer Monday evening Oct. 5, 2015, at Bassett Hospital.  She was 66. Born April 1, 1949, she was the oldest daughter among six children of Arthur Sr. and Helen (Platt) Kiser. She attended the one-room Westville School from 1954 to 1961, then attended…

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.