HOMETOWN History Aug. 8, 2019 150 Years Ago Humorous – This world is full of music, even as an egg is full of meat, or as my neighbor Jones is full of beer. We see it everywhere – Where’er there’s harmony of sound. All harmony is music. Now, my next door neighbor Mr. Love-a-pet – he keeps only three dogs and just six cats. And they, sweet songsters of the night, do make the peaceful hours of sleep resound with…
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10th Mountain Division Band Plays Free Show For Veterans by LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA Gene Schmidt, the father of Neahwa Park’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, believes you shouldn’t just honor our nation’s defenders on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. “We can’t honor our veterans enough,” he said. “We owe so much of what we have to what they did for us.” So now, Schmidt has arranged for the Army’s 10th Mountain Division Jazz Band to play a free…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Aug. 8-9, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Razing Makes Way For Animal Shelter Mayor: Let Committee Study What Flags To Fly Idelson’s New Mission: Bring Kids To Baseball 10th Mountain Division Band Plays Free Show With Tranquilizers, Rancher Retrieves Herd EDITORIAL Think About Joining Otsego Lake Association COLUMNS KUZMINSKI: Home Rule SO’s Third Principle MORGAN: Forever-And-A-Day Campaigns MOYINIHAN: ‘Traviata’ Parallels Verdi Life LETTERS ON SELLING CONFEDERATE FLAG: CONWAY: Do…
FINE FOOD, FUN FOOD Tomato Cream Sauce? Yum! Mel’s Reuben? Double Yum! Recently, my family went to Bella Michael’s for dinner without me, but my husband promised he would bring me something from there. That something turned out to be Bella Michael’s very appropriately named “Chicken Fantasia,” grilled chicken breast topped with a tomato cream sauce, roasted red peppers and sun-dried tomatoes, all topped with Swiss cheese. It came with sides of spaghetti, salad and dinner roll. I love pretty…
BOUND VOLUMES Aug. 8, 2019 200 YEARS AGO The Progress of the Russian Empire in America – Looking to the east for everything, the people of the United States have contemplated with astonishment the progress of the Russian Empire in Europe and Asia. They have not thought of looking to the west to see this giant power already mounting upon their own backs. Except Mr. Walsh, we do not know an American who has even spoken of the Russian establishments…
Mayor: Let Committee Study What Flags To Fly Editor’s Note: This was reprinted from the current edition of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta, available at local newsstands. By JIM KEVLIN • Special to AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As suggestions expand to hanging banners beyond the Pride Flag on the village’s flagpole, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch is asking Trustee MacGuire Benton to form a committee with two other trustees to develop a policy for all such requests. “We need a policy,…
At Unadilla Drive-In, A Family Tradition By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To AllOTSEGO.com UNADILLA Eric Wilson was not about to see a piece of his childhood leveled. “I was at my men’s group and one of the members was a realtor,” he said. “I saw he had the Unadilla Drive-In listing, and someone said that it might be bought and torn down.” With his wife, Marcia, and his friend Jack George, who owned a successful leather business in New Jersey,…
With Tranquilizer Gun, Wayward Buffalo Retrieved By JENNIFER HILL • Special to AllOTSEGO.com SHARON Brian Grubb is hunting his buffalo – with a tranquilizer gun. Monday, Aug. 5, “I used a tranquilizer on a cow-calf pair and another cow from the 65-member group,” he said. “Then we – three other guys and I – used machinery to lift the cows and manpower to lift the calf onto my trailer. Four others – two cow-calf pairs – followed them onto the…
LIBBY’S BEST BETS What A Weekend Of Festivals, Picnics, Music, Drama, Art! By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Festivals for music, for beer, for Classical music abound this weekend around Otsego County! Start at the first annual Summer Fest as the Red Shed Brewery celebrates good weather, good friends and, most importantly, good beer! Cornhole tournaments, food trucks, karaoke and beer marionette planned. 12 p.m. Friday-Sunday, Aug. 2-4, 709 County Highway 33, Cooperstown. Info, redshedbrewing.com Oneonta is alive as…
FINE FOOD, FUN FOOD Indian Food Back In Oneonta; Plus, Bomber’s Burrito Bar Indian food has finally returned to Oneonta for the first time in nearly 20 years and I cannot be more excited. The thing I love about Indian food is that when you smell it, it’s like a warm hug. When I walk past Noor Indian Restaurant in Oneonta, you can smell the curry in the air wafting out from the kitchen, beckoning you to come in. Recently…
