From Cooperstown to Iraq By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Lieutenant Colonel Sean Hill is a Cooperstown High School graduate who bore the responsibility of being in charge of young men in combat as a member of the Army for 20 years. He is now stationed in Canada but has been all over the world, going wherever his responsibilities as a member of the United States Army took him. “I had no idea what I wanted to do,” Lieutenant…
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2021 Cooperstown Boys Soccer Team Editor’s note: Hot off their exciting state championship win on Sunday, we invited CCS Boys’ Varsity Soccer Coach Frank Miosek to reflect on his team’s brilliant 2021 performance. Here’s what he wrote. By COACH FRANK MIOSEK I have been the CCS boys’ soccer coach since 1988. Every summer I start to plan for the coming fall season. Before this dream job, I had another — I spent thirteen years at Cherry Valley as their first…
Editorial: The other side of Autumn Ah, the autumn colors. Beautiful to view, harbingers of cozy nights indoors, and, let’s face it, quite good for our local economy. And then they start to fall. We could debate all day long about whether it’s right to pick them up or let them be over the winter months, but let’s face it: come next spring, we’ll want our lawns to look good again for the summer to come. We also could debate…
Cooperstown Boys Ride Golden Goal to State Final By Cheryl Clough • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Section 3 champ Cooperstown Hawkeyes boys soccer team traveled to Oneonta Saturday to take on Section 4 champion Greene in a Class C regional game. The undefeated Hawkeyes got into the scoring column first. Regulation ended with the teams tied at 1-1. In sudden death OT Colby Diamond sent a pass to Luca Gardner-Olsen who got in behind the Trojan defense and slid a…
The Old Badger Thoughts on raking First Published October 16, 1985 As I was raking leaves the other day the sun warmed one side of me, but the shadows chilled the other. There was a gentle breeze which soon grew stronger and began to blow leaves away as fast as I could pile them up. I stopped and leaned on the rake and watched the leaves chase each other across the yard. And I inhaled a lot. What great air…
LWV students inside Albany conference The League of Women Voters of New York State Education Foundation invites nominations of students from Cherry Valley, Cooperstown, Edmeston, Laurens, Milford, Richfield Springs, Schenevus, and Worcester high schools for its 22nd annual Students Inside Albany conference, slated for May 22-25, 2022, in Albany, New York.…
Why Buffalo Matters in Otsego County By TED POTRIKUS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com After he lost the primary in June to Democratic Socialist India Walton, four-term incumbent Democrat Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown looked like a goner, relegated to the same political “oops” that befell Congressman Joe Crowley when he lost his can’t-lose primary to the completely unknown Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirstin Gillibrand endorsed Ms. Walton right away, as did the city’s state legislators and a bevy…
New State Police Commander focused on recruitment By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Jeffrey Van Auken, the new Troop C commander for the New York State Police, has come a long way in his career. He is a Navy veteran who was deployed to Iraq and the Middle East at multiple points, the last time as an intelligence officer. Now he’s focusing on recruiting for the State Police. He especially wants to draw from those whose backgrounds encompass the…
CCS Girls’ Varsity Swimmers save their best for last By JOHN HODGSON • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Girls’ Varsity Swimmers closed out a championship 2021 fall season with a stellar weekend competing in state contests in Syracuse, N.Y., on November 5 and 7. Swimmers competed in 11 events during Section 3 sectionals on November 5, with all eight team members posting ‘best times’ for the year.…
Cooperstown holds virtual information session on cannabis By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh and Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk held a virtual meeting on November 8 to present information about marijuana legalization in New York and how it might affect Cooperstown. There was a PowerPoint presentation during the meeting, which was opened up to comments or questions at the end. However, no public comments or questions were made. This meeting was held two days before a…
