FINE FOOD • FUN FOOD Keep It Simple: There’s Nothing Like A Diner – Or Simple Tuna Melt Editor’s Note: These mini restaurant reviews are prepared by the Summer Dreams staff. Nothing beats a good tuna melt. And I mean a GOOD tuna melt! Plaza Diner in Oneonta has just that. The tuna doesn’t have so many fillers that you can’t taste it. It’s got just the right amount of mayo mixed in. Then it’s topped with melty cheese and…
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THINGS TO DO Lots To Do Outside, From Art By The Lake To R-boom Power Days By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The only thing better than art is Art By The Lake! The annual juried art exhibit celebrates the relationship between artists and landscape. Features artist demonstrations, food by Origins Cafe, music, more. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 17, back lawn, The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. (607) 547-1400. The annual Antique Power Days showcases tractors and farm vehicles…
SUMMER DREAMS Hartwick Family’s Blueberry Picking Now In 44th Year By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com HARTWICK SEMINARY – David Ingalls knows the cure for whatever might trouble you: “I get a lot of doctors here from Bassett, and I want to tell them they should write prescriptions for people to come and pick blueberries!” Ingalls owns Ingalls Blueberry Hill on Seminary Road, the only certified organic U-Pick in Otsego County. “That makes all the difference,” he said. “It’s…
STRONGMAN SLIPS, BUT HE’S NOT OUT Oneonta Ninja Eardley Pledges He’ll Be Back By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Anthony Eardley is not one and done. That was the Oneontan’s message after his run on “American Ninja Warrior” ended Monday night, Aug. 10, when he missed making it to the Top 13, the players who now go on compete in Las Vegas. But Oneonta’s ninja is far from out. He will submit his name to ANW again…
JEFF IDELSON OBSERVES: ‘Grassroots’ Clinics Lure Youngsters Back To Baseball By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – During one of his clinics in Chicago, Grassroots Baseball co-founder Jeff Idelson got to see first-hand how baseball can change a life. “We were at the Union League Boys & Girls Club in Chicago and Goose Gossage was playing catch with a young boy,” he said. “This kid had never put a glove on, and afterwards, his older brother came over…
50TH ANNIVERSARY THIS WEEK Woodstock Festgoers Model Citizens Today Stuck In Traffic, Mayor Herzig Didn’t Make It By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Woodstock, baby. “Meg called me one day and asked if I wanted to go to this concert,” said Cooperstown Village Attorney Martin Tillapaugh. That concert? The famous Woodstock festival, held Aug. 15-18, 1969, on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel Woods, 50 years ago this week. “Woodstock was one of the most important cultural and music…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG AOC’s Family Lived In U.S. Since 1898, How About That? To the Editor: I have a problem with Mike Zagata’s last opinion piece. In it he quotes Donald Trump’s tweet, “So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democratic congresswomen who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go…
LETTER from KEVIN GRADY Want To Revive Baseball? Make It Kid-Centric Again To the Editor (and baseball fans everywhere): Kudos to former Baseball Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson for co-founding Grassroots Baseball, an effort to connect young kids to what at one time was our National Pastime. When my generation was growing up, we would race home after school to catch the World Series at about the third inning, creating fond, lifelong memories. My kids didn’t have that opportunity.…
COLUMN VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Life Without Fossil Fuels? Where Would We Start? Do you really want to stop using fossil fuels? Your immediate answer may be a resounding “yes.” However, that could change your life in a way you hadn’t anticipated. That’s because so many of us grew up in cities and have no real tie to the land or to how the things we rely upon in our daily lives come from or how they are made. Do…
COLUMN THE VIEW FROM ALBANY Democrats Bottle Up Bill To Discourage Attacks On Officers By State Sen. JIM SEWARD • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Police, firefighters, and emergency first responders are vital to public safety. The brave men and women who work in these fields put the lives of others first and often risk their own well-being. I am appalled by recent incidents in New York City of individuals hurling buckets of water at on-duty police officers. Video of these abuses…
