SUNY Oneonta athletic director announces June retirement Ranieri has been at college since 1991, A.D. since 2007 SUNY Oneonta Athletics Director Tracey Ranieri announced that she is retiring in June, according to a media release by the school Tuesday, April 27. “Ranieri’s 30-year tenure of excellence in collegiate athletics will be one that leaves an indelible mark on the college and the impact she has had on the lives of thousands of student athletes is immeasurable. Her passion for…
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Paul Kellogg, Glimmerglass Artistic Director Emeritus, Dies at 84 Cooperstown – Paul Edward Kellogg came to Cooperstown in 1975 to write, but stayed to develop one of the premiere summer opera and music-theater festivals in the United States. He leaves as a highly respected and well-beloved member of the greater Cooperstown community. Paul Kellogg died in Cooperstown at Bassett Hospital on April 28, 2021, of natural causes. He was 84. Kellogg was born on March 11, 1937, in Hollywood, California,…
Census count leaves New York 89 people short New York will lose one Congressional seat and one vote in the electoral college, as a result of population shifts counted in the 2020 United States Census, according to census data released Monday, April 26. New York’s loss will decrease its representation to 26 from 27. It is unknown at this time how or when the state will redistrict for the 2022 elections, but in 2014 state voters passed a ballot to…
State Fair will reopen for 2021 Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday, April 26, that the New York State Fair will take place in 2021, after being canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Tickets will be sold for each of the outdoor areas, so families can decide which areas they want to visit and plan their day accordingly. To ensure capacity limits and social distancing, attendance at concerts and other live performances will be limited. The New York…
A Week To Remember For Hall, Former Hawkeye, Outlaw By CHAD G. WELCH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com At the beginning of the 2021 baseball season, Coker University senior outfielder Riley Hall had five career collegiate home runs. He matched that total Saturday, April 3, during a doubleheader at the University of Virginia-Wise. Hall, a 2017 graduate of Cooperstown Central School and former Oneonta Outlaw, hit two home runs in the first game and three more in the second game to…
OCCA To Adjust With Virtual Earth Festival By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Earth Festival will again be affected by the coronavirus pandemic, but this year the Otsego County Conservation Assocation is better prepared to replace its annual events with a virtual presentation from Thursday, April 22 to Saturday, April 24. “In March (2020), I think we were all thinking, ‘let’s not cancel, yet,’ it will all blow over,” OCCA Program Director Jeff O’Handley said. “It seems crazy to…
EDITORIAL New Editor Views Media Brands As Community Service I can honestly say this is a column I never thought I would write, my first as editor of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta. I say that for two reasons: one, I spent the past decade in competition with the Iron String Press media team, while working as an editor and reporter for another news organization; two, that stint, with an Alabama-based organization I shall forever more refer to as…
With Another Tourism Season In Doubt Otsego Looks Outdoors By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com With tourism dealt another pandemic-related blow last week, Otsego County’s leaders are increasingly turning to outdoor adventures to lure visitors. “We’re actually in the process right now of trying to launch a massive campaign to tout our outdoor adventure,” said Cassandra Harrington, executive director of Destination Marketing Corporation, which promotes tourism in Otsego and Schoharie counties. Harrington said the tourism news has been mostly…
LETTER from M. A. WEHLAN Trump Supporter’s Challenge Accepted About ‘Election Fraud’ To the Editor: In his recent communication to the readership of the Freeman’s Journal, Mr. Furnari offered to debate anyone on the subject of Mr. Trumps’ 75 million enthusiasts who, he says, were deprived of their right to vote for him. We could also debate his other statements – but first we would have to establish some Rules of Evidence to abide by, as we seem to differ…
LETTER from TAMMY CHRISTMAN Helios Recognizes National Volunteer Appreciation Week To the Editor: Helios Care is celebrating and honoring the valuable and heartfelt commitment of our wonderful volunteers during National Volunteer Appreciation Week. Even when a person is dying, there can be a lot of living to do. Hospice makes it possible by bringing care, compassion, and hope to patients and families facing life-limiting illness. Volunteers are a vital part of this special care: 224 trained volunteers support our local…
