COLUMN THE FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE The Newspaper Roundabout By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I’m at a loss to find a good simile for my Cooperstown newspaper career. It’s been a bit like a ping-pong game, but played like a flow of molasses. OK, forget figures of speech: Way back in the early ’90s, when I first moved north from Maryland, the redoubtable Lidie Mackie retired from her weekly Freeman’s Journal column about Fly Creek. She urged me to…
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ISD Protects Nature From Computers Oneonta Tech Firm Honored With Otsego Chamber Environment Award By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Information Systems Divisions Inc. isn’t just the place to get a new computer or get your company’s IT needs taken care of. It’s also a steward of the environment. “Since 2011, we’ve recycled more than 84,000 pound of electronic waste,” said Roxana Hurlburt, who, with Ron Ranc II, founded the company in 1989. “And we do it…
‘Luckiest People’ Belong To Clark Sports Center Former ACC Gymnasium Honored With Chamber Quality Of Life Award By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Jane Moyer has been exercising at the Clark Sports Center for 70 years, which may explain why she is still going strong at 99. She is one of 36 nonagenarian members – after 90, membership’s free – and they may best exemplify why Otsego County Chamber of Commerce chose the Clark Sports Center its Quality…
ON NORTH SEA RIG Ekofisk Trip Builds Camaraderie Among Phillips Petroleum Directors Editor’s Note: Dolores Wharton of Cooperstown and NYC, the SUNY system’s former First Lady, was the first black woman, as well as the first black, on a number of Fortune 500 boards. In her new memoir, “A Multicultural Life,” she describes Phillips Petroleum directors’ 1990 camaraderie-building trip to a North Sea oil rig, which helped “the old guard (adjust) to us interlopers.” By DOLORES WHARTON • from “A…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Aug. 15-16, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK SPECIAL REPORT DOLORES WHARTON’S “A MULTICULTURED LIFE” FRONT PAGE: From Harlem Aristocracy To Nation’s Heights EDITORIAL: With Determination, Discipline, Whartons Led Way EXCERPT: Ekofisk Trip Built Phillips Petroleum Camaraderie FRONT PAGE OTSEGO COUNTY CHAMBER’S SUMMER SOIREE • Clark Sports Center: ‘Luckiest People’ Have Access • ISD Tech: Firm Sells Computers, Recycles Them Too • Woodstock Memories Still Vivid ‘Grassroots’ Gets Kids To Put On…
DOLORES WHARTON’S ‘MULTICULTURED LIFE’ From Harlem Aristocracy, She Reached Nation’s Heights By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Lee Brathwaite, a rising executive as NYTel evolved into Verizon, found himself in a tough transition – from operations to sales. “It was the most challenging transition of my career,” said Brathwaite, now CEO of Apex Construction, a Harlem-based company building commercial and multiple-unit residential structures and a board member for the Golub Company, which operates Price Chopper. Among other…
EDITORIAL ‘There are no Caucasians present, though it would be difficult to distinguish them from many of those mingling in the mix of multi-hued wedding guests. Without exception, the guests are dressed fashionably, with stylish attire and stunning jewelry. The men are doctors, lawyers and undertakers; the women are school teachers and social workers … (The) waitstaff make their way through the crowd, bearing silver trays laden with chicken and crab croquettes, creamed sweetbreads on toast points, and slices of…
HOMETOWN History Aug. 16, 2019 150 Years Ago The total eclipse of the sun which occurs this week Saturday, will not only be a most imposing spectacle, but also one of the most important of astronomical phenomena. Among barbarian tribes it ever excited apprehension, while among cultivated nations it is recognized from the exactness with which the time of occurrence and the various appearances answer to the prediction, as affording one of the proudest triumphs of astronomy. Although such an…
BOUND VOLUMES Aug. 15, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Agricultural Notice – A meeting of the Agricultural Society of the County of Otsego, will be held at the house of Joseph Munn in Cooperstown, on Thursday, the 26th day of August, inst., for the purpose of organizing the Society, agreeably to the Legislature of this state. Robert Campbell, Rec. Sec. Cooperstown, August 12, 1819. Welch Indians – It seems that a Society in the State of New York has sent out…
LETTER from JIM FRANCIS Brooks Robinson Photo Recalls Best Play Ever To the Editor: Re: Brooks Robinson photo on recent front page: I watched a lot of baseball on TV around 1970. The single best play I ever saw was in the 1969 All-Star Game. Johnny Bench hit a rocket down the third-base line. Brooks dove flat out to glove it and threw the ball to first while airborne. It was high and a bit on the second-base side. Carl…
