Coop/Dragon star, Ford, starts new coaching season as a Judge By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Cooperstown and SUNY Oneonta track champion Lucy Ford took a step up the coaching ladder this school year. Ford, a former state champion in high school in the high jump and a former SUNYAC champion in the high jump and heptathlon, accepted a coaching position at Brandeis University, a Division III school in Waltham, Massachusetts in November. Although the job began in the…
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Corrections and Clarifications Correction Reilly Hall graduated from Cooperstown Central School in 2017. Because of a reporter’s error, the incorrect year of his graduation was given in the April 22, editions of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta. Clarification Hilda Wilcox said her remarks about Fairy Spring Park, in an article in the April 29 edition of The Freeman’s Journal, were miss-characterized. She said she never used the word secret to describe the park.…
In Memoriam Barbara Louise (Gray) Weaver, 97 First Lady of Glimmerglass State Park Barbara Louise (Gray) Weaver, passed away peacefully Sunday, April 25, 2021, in the farmhouse at Gray Gables. Barbara was predeceased by her husband, Herbert R. Weaver, Jr. and her son, Robert Gray Weaver. She was the daughter of Glenn and Edna (Borst) Gray. Barbara is remembered by her daughter, Karen Farney; son, Richard Weaver (Dee); her daughter-in-law and caregiver, Renee Weaver; granddaughters, Kerryanne Schenck (Phil) and Kate…
BOUND VOLUMES May 6, 2021 Compiled by Tom Heitz/SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library 185 YEARS AGO Congress has been between five and six months in session and the general appropriation bill is not yet passed. The consequence is that the salaries due on the first of April have not been paid, to the great inconvenience of those officers of the government who have no other dependence. In the meantime, the members of Congress…
City of the Hills City passes firefighter accord The Oneonta Common Council unanimously passed an agreement between the city of Oneonta and the Professional Oneonta Firefighters, Local 2408, as it pertains to alleged violations of collective bargaining agreements at the council’s meeting Tuesday, May 4. The Common Council also authorizing two three-year contracts with Castella Waste Management of New York. Mental health month helpers May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. User-friendly accurate information on mental illness and helpful resources…
LETTER from DAN BUTTERMANN Reform Marijuana laws on principles, not politics To the Editor: New York is now the 17th state in the union to legalize marijuana. The Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA, Senate Bill S854A; Assembly Bill A1248) passed with only Democratic votes – no Republicans voted for it. The Republicans claim their opposition was because the bill was badly written, and that it will serve as a kind of gateway for marijuana into our state. Marijuana is…
In Tribute Kellogg’s passion for opera, arts brought success to Glimmerglass, Cooperstown, region Editor’s Note: Glimmerglass Opera Artistic Director Emeritus Paul Kellogg died April 28, 2021, at age 84. As a tribute, his friend, our editorial board member, Lin Vincent wrote about what he meant to arts in the region, and to what is now known as The Glimmerglass Festival in Springfield Center By Lin Vincent Soon after Paul Kellogg and his partner, Raymond Han, moved into a potentially elegant…
HOMETOWN HISTORY May 6, 2021 Compiled by Tom Heitz/SHARON STUART, with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library 135 Years Ago The wretches who flaunted the red flag and hurled dynamite with fatal effect in Chicago Tuesday evening are not to be confounded with the honest workingmen there, or anywhere else, who seek to better their condition by agitation within the law. They were anarchists – cranks whose proper place is the lunatic asylum. Your anarchist is against…
Local theater groups to stage production of Williams classic Stuff of Dreams and Bigger Boat Productions announce the production of Tennessee Williams’ classic drama “The Glass Menagerie,” which will stream on May 28, 29 and on June 4, 5 via the ShowTix4U platform. According to a media release, “The play is a tender, and sometimes bitter, memory of the Wingfield family, with matriarch Amanda Wingfield watching over her children, Tom and Laura, and attempting to control their lives. Her one…
LIFE SKETCHES by TERRY BERKSON In search of pigeons just like Marlon Brando’s birds The other night I watched a rerun of “On the Waterfront,” starring Marlin Brando. I had forgotten that the character he played was named Terry, like me. When I was about 13 and saw the movie for the first time, I was so impressed with Brando that I had to own pigeons, like the character he played. His coop was on a flat roof. Mine had…
