Life Sketches Bunker lived life like it was an adventure Donald Hill was the first kid I met in Richfield. His family lived in an apartment in back of my aunt’s house on Lake Street. It was in late August of 1950 and my dad had brought me and my cousin Leo up from Brooklyn for a stay in the country. Donald and Leo were about 12- or 13-years old and I was a seven-year old kid who insisted on…
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Fossil fuel, not nuclear, is the real enemy among energy sources Mr. Mellor’s recent opinion piece suggested we are well on our way to meeting state energy goals with wind and solar. Mellor looks at cost and feasibility, but the issues are more complex than he suggests. When solar panels are in full sun — and if the electricity they produce is consumed during that time — the cost of solar is relatively cheap. That’s true. However, solar power is…
B Side to reopen for live music, with Nashville singer, Sheehan, on Sept. 5 By PATRICK DEWEY • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com After being closed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the B Side Ballroom in Oneonta’s Clinton Plaza will offer live music again starting at 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 5. The first show will be by acoustic singer-songwriter Trae Sheehan. Sheehan is touring in support of his new album “Hello from the End of the World,” which will…
St. Louis, Milwaukee catcher fell off writers’ ballot quickly By CHARLIE VASCELLARO • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com One of 19 catchers elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame, Ted Simmons belatedly joins his contemporaries: Johnny Bench (1967 to 1983, inducted 1989); Carlton Fisk (1969 to 1993, inducted 2000); and Gary Carter (1974 to 1992, inducted 2003), all of whom played in a golden age for the position. Largely overlooked by the voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America in…
Helios Care named as finalist for major award By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Oneonta’s Helios Care is a top 25 finalist for a prestigious award for innovative palliative care. The John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge, sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative Care, is a “national competition to catalyze the spread of skills, ideas and solutions that will improve health care delivery for all people living with a serious illness,” according to its website. “We are…
The AllOtsego Report, Ep. 12: Hochul, Helios and healthcare workers Staff Report • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Episode 12 of The AllOtsego Report looks at the Thursday, Aug. 19, editions of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta, as well as this week’s news on AllOtsego.com. Click here to listen! In this week’s episode, Editor Greg Klein and Reporter Kevin Limiti discuss: State and national mandates about healthcare workers getting vaccinated in the midst of the delta variant wave of COVID. Helios…
Common Council discusses COVID, budget, approves new asst. fire chief By Kevin Limiti • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA — The Common Council approved the new Asst. Fire Chief, Timothy Foster to a round of applause Tuesday, Aug. 17, after some discussion about tabling the potential appointment until the situation with the COVID delta variant became more clear. The council was briefed on the situation with the coronavirus variant, a mutation that is steadily causing higher rates of infection City Health Officer…
Induction to include 38 Hall of Famers Staff Report • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Thirty-eight Hall of Fame members are expected to return Wednesday, Sept. 8, to celebrate the induction of the Hall of Fame Class of 2020, according to a media release from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Musuem on Monday, Aug. 6. The class of 2020, which includes the late Marvin Miller along with Derek Jeter, Ted Simmons and Larry Walker, will be inducted at 1:30…
Pathfinder residents get major-league instruction By Greg Klein • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN — About 75 residents of Pathfinder Village got to play on their own field of dreams Sunday, Aug. 15, as they received instruction from former major league players at Doubleday Field. “This is just unbelievable,” said Pathfinder President/CEO Paul Landers. “There’s a lot of happy faces here today, a lot of lifetime memories,” said former MLB player and manager Clint Hurdle, who is an advisor for Baseball…
Kuhn wins Bassett award for ‘clinical excellence’ Staff Report • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Bassett Healthcare Network announced last week that Maureen Kuhn is the 2021 recipient of the Bassett Medical Center’s Advanced Practice Clinical Award of Excellence. Kuhn, a nurse practitioner and the medical director of Cherry Valley Health Center, was honored as “an exceptional caregiver who uses all resources at her disposal to meet patient needs, as a gifted leader and a trusted guide for other leaders, and as…
