CCS grad’s blood disorder stymies doctors as family perseveres (Editors note: Our January 13 edition included an update on Vincenza Alessi, the 2012 CCS graduate who had a bone marrow transplant that didn’t take. This week, we bring you up to date on her condition and urge you to get tested as a bone marrow transplant participant. See ‘How to Help’ below for specifics.) By Tara Barnwell “We brought Vincenza home to Cooperstown from Columbia Hospital in New York City…
Online home of The Freeman's Journal and Hometown Oneonta
Advertisement
The Freeman's Journal - Page 32
Gallery seeks red dress donations for installation Artist Jaime Black will exhibit her REDress project at Hartwick College’s Foreman Gallery from August 22 – October 20, 2022, and is putting out a call for donations of red dresses to be installed throughout the college and gallery. Gallery and Exhibitions Coordinator Sydney Sheehan said the REDress Project “draws attention to the absence, while evoking the presence, of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.” “Black’s project is an aesthetic response to the staggering…
Cooperstown Lions Club looks to revive the Winter Carnival in 2023 Public interest meeting is April 2 The Cooperstown Lions Club wants to bring back the Winter Carnival in 2023 and is looking for the public’s input on how best to do it. The Club will host a public interest meeting for the Cooperstown Winter Carnival at Upstate Bar and Grill, 5418 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, Saturday, April 2, at 2:00 pm. Club members will discuss the recent history of…
Hoffman’s coming to Oneonta A pair of dilapidated signs is all that remains of Christopher’s Restaurant and Lodge on Oneonta’s busy southside Route 23, but that’s due to change when Hoffman’s Car Wash comes to town. Town of Oneonta Supervisor Randy Mowers told The Freeman’s Journal / Hometown Oneonta he was excited to see the development. “You know what pays the bills? Commerce,” Mr. Mowers said. “We have to take care of the people and give them what they need…
Oberacker, Molinaro, Tague tout gas tax break as small biz economic relief From left to right — Malkit Singh, Tony Singh, Inderjit Singh, Paul Singh, Monty Singh, Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, Gurdev Singh, Assemblyman Chris Tague, Senator Peter Oberacker, Harry Singh and Javin, and Billy Singh. Sen. Peter Oberacker (R-Schenevus) and Assemblyman Chris Tague (R-Schoharie) hosted Congressional candidate Marc Molinaro on a March 18 trip through Otsego County to visit area businesses and discuss plans to relieve rising…
Calculus, chaos, Cuomo An opinion column It was just one month before COVID shut the world down in 2020 and tempers were short in New York’s state Capitol. I don’t remember exactly why the governor and legislature were sniping back and forth, but I do recall sitting down for a mid-February meeting with one of Governor Cuomo’s top policy people. “I know it’s chaos around here,” I said to her, sympathetically. “Thank you for taking the time to meet with…
Time to move on Editorial: March 24, 2022 Cooperstown Junior/Senior High School Principal Karl O’Leary’s March 18 dismissal seems abrupt. New York’s voluminous education law and its attendant rules and regulations, however, abide no impetuous action when it comes to personnel matters. Save for a handful of egregious situations, the Cooperstown Central School Board of Education and its sibling boards across the state are bound by strict legal procedure that demands any allegation of misconduct or malfeasance be addressed with…
O’Leary out as CCS Jr/Sr Principal Cooperstown Central School Junior / Senior High School Principal Karl O’Leary is out seven months into what was his first year at the district, escorted from the building on the afternoon of Friday, March 18. Superintendent of Schools Sarah Spross told The Freeman’s Journal / Hometown Oneonta the mid-year switch was “not a distraction for faculty, staff, or students” as they returned to the classrooms on Monday, March 21. “There is a team of…
… in this week’s edition … This week’s edition of The Freeman’s Journal / Hometown Oneonta includes an update on Cooperstown Central School’s removal of Karl O’Leary as principal of its junior/senior high school … a peek at what’s coming to the lot in Oneonta where Christopher’s once stood … a story on Sen. Peter Oberacker‘s plan to cut the state’s gasoline tax … an update on Vincenza Alessi as she battles a blood disorder … also … coins for…
Cooperstown Central’s ‘Night at the Movies’ band concert is Wednesday evening The Cooperstown Music Department presents “A Night at the Movies,” a district-wide band concert featuring band students in grades 5-12 on Wednesday, March 23rd at 7pm in the Sterling Auditorium at the Cooperstown Junior/Senior High School. All three bands (elementary, junior high, and senior high) will perform, and the concert will culminate with an iconic movie theme performed together by all three bands. The school asks audience members to sit…
