Sorbera Cleans Up Main Street on Sophomore Service Day (Photo provided) ONEONTA—Tanner Sorbera of Burlington Flats was one of nine students from SUNY Oneonta who participated in the college’s first Sophomore Service Day event on Saturday, October 15. From 1-4 p.m., the students washed the outside of nearly every Main Street storefront window, with additional help from three volunteers from the college’s wrestling team. This event was the first service day specifically for sophomores, allowing the participating students to acquaint…
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Opera Streaming Service Off to Good Start at Foothills By CASPAR EWIG Death, both as the tragic end to a love story and as the culmination of a lover’s revenge, marked the start of the 2022-2023 Metropolitan Opera’s “Live in HD” streaming series at the Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center. Ironically, the streaming series narrowly avoided near tragedy itself before it had even begun. The Foothills needed to update its receiving equipment to accommodate a change in the Met’s…
‘Salute to Veterans’ Concert is Sunday The Oneonta Community Concert Band will honor veterans with marches, melodies, and more at the Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center in downtown Oneonta at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13. Conductor Andrew D. Pease will lead the traditional Salute to Veterans concert of patriotic music. The program will feature familiar historic marches and medleys along with newer pieces. You have reached your limit of 3 free articles To Continue Reading SubscribeLogin Our…
‘Luminosity/Luminous Streets’ exhibit marks tenth Glimmerglass Film Days “Zoonomia,” a film by Yeon Jin Kim, is currently on view at The Smithy. (Film still from Zoonomia by Yeon Jin Kim) COOPERSTOWN—Art exhibitions have been a feature of Glimmerglass Film Days for nine of its 10 years, and this year’s exhibition at The Smithy extends to storefronts in the Village of Cooperstown. “Luminosity/Luminous Streets” will run from November 5-19. “Luminosity” is a four-person show at The Smithy featuring light sculptures by…
Area Filmmakers Awarded Top Prize at California Film Festival Mel Vapour (right), executive director of the East Bay Media Center and co-founder of the Berkeley Video Film Festival, presents filmmakers Joseph C. Stillman and Jeri Wachter with the 2022 BVFF “Grand Festival/State of the Nation Award” for their documentary film, “Something in the Water.” (Photo by Maria Farrington) By TED MEBUST Gilbertsville’s own Jeri Wachter and Joseph C. Stillman were proud recipients of the Berkeley Video Film Festival’s “Grand Festival/State…
Former CSC Director Honored By IAN KENYON COOPERSTOWN—For 45 years, Val Paige has been in the center of activity at the Clark Sports Center. Spanning a career that began within the walls of the Alfred Corning Clark Gymnasium—now home to the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s executive offices—and moved in 1986 to the CSC’s current home on Susquehanna Avenue, Paige’s story and that of the sports center are very much intertwined. “What we have in the Clark Sports Center and…
Cooperstown Boys Soccer Bursts into State Final Four By TED MEBUST Cooperstown’s boys soccer program is riding an impressive 11-game win streak into their upcoming state semifinal match against Maple Hill this weekend. Following their second sectional title in two years and a regional win against Spencer-Van Etten, the team is now just two games from a Class C state title. “We’re prepared for this weekend because many of our boys were here last year,” said Head Coach Frank Miosek.…
Editorial Let Us Not Perish From the Earth For those of us old enough to remember when elections—and the American political system itself—were “of the people and by the people and for the people,” it is somewhat difficult to be excited, much less inspired, by the process that will unfold across the nation next Tuesday. In what has arguably become an increasingly nasty and pitiful squabble of the politicians, by the politicians and for the politicians, Americans are now faced…
News from the Noteworthy Funny Hats and Serious Business Mortarboards and tassels have been on my mind (and head). What a wonderful couple of weeks! The City of Oneonta hosted two college inaugurations within 8 days. They were spectacular. There was genuine pageantry. And pomp. They also featured a similar and particular circumstance. Which is this: That in this moment in Oneonta’s history, we’ve been blessed. In the inauguration of these two men, we’ve been gifted with exactly what we…