County Board contest could be close By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The race for Otsego County Board of Representatives District 3, which covers Laurens and Otego, could stand among the more competitive contests on November 2. Republican incumbent Richard Brockway once again faces off against Democrat Caitlin Ogden in a repeat of their 2019 campaign for the seat.…
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Otsego County General Election Polling Places And Ballot Highlights CHERRY VALLEY Community Center 2 Genesee St, Cherry Valley EDMESTON Municipal Building, 2 West St, Edmeston EXETER Highway Garage 7411 State Hwy 28, Schuyler Lake HARTWICK Town Office Building 103 Town Dr, Hartwick LAURENS Town Building, 37 Brook St, Laurens…
Fire on Main Street yesterday under investigation By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA — The Oneonta Fire Department responded to a fire at the Java Island on Main Street at 5:45 p.m. which closed down the street, Sunday, Oct. 24. Smoke could be seen coming out of a window on the second floor.…
Otsego Area Rowing to compete in two regional events BY TED POTRIKUS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Four members of Otsego Area Rowing (OAR) will go to Boston, Massachusetts this weekend to race in the world’s biggest two-day rowing event, the Head of the Charles Regatta. Lang Keith, Laura Kilty, Joe Novitski, and OAR founder and coach Andrea Thies, a two-time Olympian, compete with international rowers in mixed-double and single-rower events taking place on the city’s famed Charles River. One week later,…
SUNY lecture looks at ‘The 57 Bus’ incident By MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA — At 18, Sasha Fleischman was lit on fire while riding the bus home from school in Oakland. Fleischmann is gender non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. They fell asleep, and another teen, Richard Thomas, lit their skirt as a prank. Thomas was arrested at school; Fleischmann was hospitalized for weeks with severe third-degree burns. Dashka Slater, a journalist who lives close to the…
New Oneonta police chief ‘humbled’ by role By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Oneonta Police Department has a new chief of police, Christopher Witzenberg, who has a long history of serving in leadership roles. Witzenberg was previously an OPD lieutenant and became acting chief after Doug Brenner retired last winter. “It’s humbling,” Witzenberg said. “I’ve been pretty pensive the last week about the things I’ve done to get here.”…
Film Days to go virtual again STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Glimmerglass Film Days, a program of Otsego 2000, will present a virtual film festival, plus five in-person events Nov. 4 to 11. Curated by Artistic Director Margaret Parsons and Programmer Joey Katz, the slate of independent documentaries and narrative features and shorts reflects the theme “Rise.” “Rise” is a word of elastic meanings, and we were first inspired by the term at the start of 2021, hearing Amanda…
Gen. Colin Powell: An American Hero Gen. Colin Powell, former Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and National Security Advisor died Monday, Oct. 18. He had served the United States for more than four decades. He was 84. He truly was an American hero. He died of complications of COVID-19. He had been fully vaccinated and was scheduled to be given a booster last week when he became acutely ill. He was susceptible to COVID even…
Bound Volumes 185 YEARS AGO Among a list of letters remaining in the Post Office at Cooperstown, Otsego County on September 30, 1836 were those addressed to: William Averill, Dr. P. Besancon, Oren Bliss, Harvey Clark, Alfred Clark, Caleb Clark, Morris Cooper, Richard Cooper, Isaac G. Davis, Mrs. C. Holbrook, Ira Ingalls, Miss M. D. Ingalls, Miss C. Kellogg, Peter Olendorf, Elias Parshall, Ticklar Stockwell, Mrs. Sally Smith, Samuel Taber, John G. Wright, Cyrenus Warren, Miss Sabina Wood, Peter Youngs…
Cooperstown junior reaches goal of marathon finish before 16th birthday By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com A Cooperstown Central School junior achieved his goal of running a marathon before his 16th birthday. Fred Hodgson, who turns 16 Friday, Oct. 22, finished the Syracuse Marathon on Sunday, Oct. 17, in 3 hours, 55 minutes and 13 seconds. His time placed Hodgson 58th out of 178 runners. He placed first in his age bracket, but that was expected, he said. “I…
