I was fortunate to work with Jim again in his role as a founding board member of the Community Foundation of Otsego County. He was an integral part of the CFOC family and always represented us well and with great enthusiasm.…
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Jim was a devoted public servant who would cross the aisle to serve all the municipalities in his jurisdiction, regardless of political party.…
James L. Seward, 72, of Milford, New York passed away on July 27, 2024 after a valiant and years-long fight against cancer. He was born on August 11, 1951 to Wes and Vivian Seward of Cliffside, Maryland, and educated in Oneonta public schools, graduating with the OHS class of 1969.…
Oneonta took the lead in the seventh on a solo home run by Ryan King (Bernardsville, NJ/Rhode Island) that barely cleared the left field fence. The Diamond Dawgs would not say die, though, as in the eighth, Bryce Phelps (Denver, IA/Wagner) scored Luke Nomura (Maplewood, NJ/Seton Hall) on an RBI single that rolled all the way to the left field wall.…
Briefs include a breakfast/auction benefit this Saturday in Hartwick, in support of Marjorie Eldred, and blood drive dates for Otsego and Delaware counties.…
Widely respected and acknowledged as one of the best of his era, and all-time, Leyland won three Manager of the Year awards (1990 and 1992 with the Pittsburgh Pirates and 2006 for the Detroit Tigers), six division titles (1990-1992, with Pittsburgh and 2010-2013, with Detroit), three league pennants (1997 Florida Marlins, 2006 and 2012 in Detroit) and one World Series title with the 1997 Marlins.…
The company’s web-site encourages visitors to “green your routine.” Instead of sending organic waste to the landfill, where it rots and produces methane gas, which warms the planet, people can compost kitchen scraps.…
This sobering incident—which left thousands of airline passengers stranded, caused municipal shutdowns across the world, including here in Otsego County, and disrupted worldwide commerce—has us all wondering what we can do to prevent such a crisis in future or, at the very least, plan for and mitigate the damage.…
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This annual garlic adventure of mine turns out to be a time to wrestle, without having to pin them down, some of the more worrisome problems we now face “in these United States.” It is easy to ignore unpleasantness; even harder to know what to do about it. As I was hanging up the last of the garlic, I was thinking of W.B. Yeats’ great poem, “The Second Coming.”…